NXT TakeOver Vengeance Day features the anticipated finals matches for both the Women s and Men s Dusty Cup, and while we are still waiting for one of the winning teams to be crowned, we know the winners of the Women s finals already. It was Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzalez that took the win, and [.]
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Friends, pals, and acquaintances, I come bearing wonderful news. Yes, there is a pandemic that continues to ravage the country and the world, but nevertheless, NXT returns to our literal hearts this Sunday with the horrendously, yet perfectly, named Vengeance Day.
It is imperative that whenever you see the words Vengeance Day, you read it in your finest Vince McMahon voice. VENGEANCE DAY is here, complete with having a useless ‘a’ that makes it impossible for me to spell correctly. It also fills me with a yearning for the remarkable and perfect WCW/NWO Revenge more today than ever before. What a game. Surpassing the sterling quality of its predecessor WCW World Tour, Revenge was a Nintendo 64 fixture in the musty basements of my shockingly abstinent teenage years. I’ll always love you intensely with a fire that burns.always.
Watch: Karrion Kross Confronts Edge During NXT
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This week s NXT saw Edge make his first appearance on the Black & Gold brand. Midway through the show he interrupted a confrontation between Finn Balor and Pete Dunne, saying that he may use his Royal Rumble victory give himself an NXT Championship match against the winner of their
NXT TakeOver: Vengeance Day match. But as he left the Capitol Wrestling Center he was immediately confronted by Karrion Kross. You have a very big decision to make, Kross said. It s a moment you re going to have to live with for the rest of your life. So I hope you choose logically, not emotionally. Because in the end it s not going to be Pete Dunne or Finn Balor. It s going to be me, taking back the title that I never lost. Because time tells all, even for the Ultimate Opportunist.