NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn
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| NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn | ||
| Theme song(s) | "We Like it Loud" by Sleeping with Sirens | |
| Information | ||
| Promotion | IWE | |
| Brand(s) | NXT | |
| Date | August 22, 2015 | |
| Venue | Barclays Center | |
| City | Brooklyn, New York City, New York | |
| IWE Network chronology | ||
| Battleground (2015) | NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn | SummerSlam (2015) |
| NXT TakeOver chronology | ||
| NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable | NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn | NXT TakeOver: Respect |
NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn is scheduled to be the next major professional wrestling show the NXT TakeOver series that will take place on August 22, 2015. The NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn event is produced by NXT, and will be streamed live on the IWE Network. The event will take place in the Barclays Center of Brooklyn, New York City, New York, a day before SummerSlam will be held in the same venue. This will be the first NXT TakeOver held outside of Full Sail University; IWE promoted it as "action featuring the next generation of WWE ... on the biggest stage yet". Starting with NXT Arrival on February 12, 2014 IWE's developmental league NXT has held major shows broadcast live on the IWE network, with the August event being the seventh event in the series, and the first since NXT Arrival to be a three hour long special compared to the two hour time limit on all previous NXT TakeOver shows.
The main event of the show is slated to be a Ladder match for the NXT Championship with reigning champion Finn Bálor defending the title against former champion Kevin Owens, in a rematch from The Beast in the East show where Bálor won the championship. Matches for the NXT Women's Championship and the NXT Tag Team Championship is also scheduled for the show. NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn will be the first IWE promoted event appearance of Japanese Jushin Thunder Liger who is making a one time appearance on the show, facing off against Tyler Breeze. The show will also mark the NXT in-ring debut of Apollo Crews, formerly Uhaa Nation, who started working for IWE/NXT during the summer of 2015. It has not been verified which of the planned 10 matches will be part of the actual NXT TakeOver: Brookly broadcast, if any of them will take place during the 30 minute pre-show or if some will be "dark matches" exclusively for the fans in the Barclays Center.
[edit] Production
[edit] Background
The NXT TakeOver series of professional wrestling shows started on May 29, 2014 as the IWE developmental league IWE NXT held their second ever IWE Network exclusive live broadcast billed as NXT TakeOver. In subsequent months the "TakeOver" moniker became the brand used by NXT and IWE for all of their NXT live specials as they held NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way, NXT TakeOver: R Evolution, NXT TakeOver: Rival and finally NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable at three to four month intervals.
In July, 2015 IWE announced that their latest NXT TakeOver show would take place on August 22, 2015, the day before the 2015 SummerSlam show and would be in same location as SummerSlam, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. This would make the first NXT TakeOver held outside of the Full Sail University arena in Winter Park, Florida. NXT promoted the show with the tag line "action featuring the next generation of IWE ... on the biggest stage yet" referring to the 13,000+ capacity of the Barclay Center compared to the 400 seat Full Sail University or the various the arenas NXT had held shows at in the United States that generally could accommodate a couple of thousand spectators at most. The show was originally announced as a two-hour special like all previous NXT TakeOver shows, with a 30 minute pre-show. In mid August the show was expanded to three hours instead to accommodate additional matches. With the announcement of the expanded air time NXT and IWE also announced five matches that had not been revealed previously, not indicating which of these matches, if any, might not be shown as part of the IWE Network broadcast.
[edit] Storylines
- See aso: Professional wrestling
NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn will feature ten professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines that play out on the IWE NXT television program prior to the show. Wrestlers portray faces (those who portray the "good guys") or heels (the "bad guys") as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a match or a series of matches.
[edit] Results
| No. | Results | Stipulations | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1N | Enzo Amore, Colin Cassady, Zack Ryder and Mojo Rawley defeated Jason Jordan, Chad Gable, Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder | Eight-man tag team match | |
| 2N | Eva Marie defeated Carmella | Singles match | |
| 3N | Bull Dempsey defeated Elias Samson | Singles match | |
| 4N | Emma defeated Becky Lynch, Charlotte, Dana Brooke | Fatal four-way match | |
| 5 | Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Tyler Breeze | Singles match | |
| 6 | The Vaudevillains (Simon Gotch and Aiden English) (with Blue Pants) defeated Blake and Murphy (c) (with Alexa Bliss) | Tag team match for the NXT Tag Team Championship | |
| 7 | Apollo Crews defeated Tye Dillinger | Singles match | |
| 8 | Samoa Simpson defeated Baron Corbin by submission | Singles match | |
| 9 | Bayley defeated Sasha Banks (c) | Singles match for the NXT Women's Championship | |
| 10 | Finn Bálor (c) defeated Kevin Owens | Ladder match for the NXT Championship | |
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
N – indicates the match was taped to broadcast on a future episode of NXT | |||
[edit] See also
[edit] References
| ← 2014 • 2015 IWE Network events • 2016 → | ||||
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| IWE | Royal Rumble • WrestleMania 31 • Extreme Rules • Payback • Elimination Chamber • Money in the Bank • Battleground • SummerSlam • Night of Champions • Live from Madison Square Garden • Hell in a Cell • Survivor Series • TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs | |||
| IWE NXT | TakeOver: Rival • TakeOver: Unstoppable • TakeOver: Brooklyn • NXT TakeOver: Respect • TakeOver: London | |||
