- Just to clarify, the majority of this show was promo packages for Takeover: Brooklyn.
- Hideo Itami vs Mustafa Ali-I guess Itami's just going to run through everyone who loses in the Cruiserweight Classic for a bit. Ali takes control at the start with a pop-up dropkick, but Itami quickly comes back with a big knee. Ali is able to avoid Itami's offense and goes to the outside, only to get hit with a big baseball slide. Ali is able to hit a swinging neckbreaker on Itai when he tries to get back in the ring for a near fall, following it up with a kick and a neckbreaker for another near fall. Itami gets fired up, clotheslines Ali to the ground twice, strikes him into the corner and hits the running dropkick in the corner before delivering the running knee for the win.
- In William Regal's office talks about Takeover: Brooklyn when he is interrupted by Billie Kay. She says if Regal wants Brooklyn to be the best it can be then she needs to be on the card. Regal agrees and decides to book her against the debuting Ember Moon.
- Liv Morgan, Nikki Glencross, and Carmella vs Daria Berenato, Mandy Rose, and Alexa Bliss-So we've got a couple of debuts in this match. First up, we've got Nikki Glencross, better known as Nikki Storm. Then there's Daria Berenato, who came in 11th on Tough Enough last year. Finally, we've got Mandy Rose, who was the female runner-up on Tough Enough last year. Corey Graves goes mental on commentary when Mandy comes out the same way he goes mental when Eva Marie comes out. Bliss and Glencross kick off with a back and forth exchange before Glencross hits a crossbody for a near fall. Bliss rolls out of the ring and quickly tags out to Daria before the commercial break. We come back to Morgan working over Daria before she gets taken down with a clothesline by Daria thanks to an Alexa Bliss distraction. The heels work over Morgan. The best part is when Graves completely loses his sh*t when Mandy tags in and goes crazy for every move she does. He promises to get Mandy on the cover of WWE.com every day. Never change, Corey Graves. Never change. Morgan is able to break free off an enziguri to Bliss and makes the tag to Carmella. Carmella runs wild on Mandy to the dismay of Corey Graves, hitting a superkick on Rose, but Bliss breaks up the pin. Everyone gets their spots in before Carmella reverses a jackknife pin into the Code of Silence for the submission win. Fine match, nothing special and really just a way to introduce Glencross, Mandy, Daria, and to an extent Morgan to the crowd.
- Backstage, Samoa Joe, Regal, and Bryon Saxton are setting up for a sit-down interview with Joe & Shinsuke Nakamura with tons of security behind them. Regal warns Joe not to turn this into a free for all, and Joe scoffs at him.
- We get another Ember Moon vignette. Billie Kay is definitely eating an O-Face this Saturday.
- The sit-down with Joe & Nakamura closes the show
- They both talk about how excited they are for Takeover: Brooklyn
- Joe says his major issue with Regal booking this match was that he add to says he had to jump through every hoop just to get a NXT Championship match where Nakamura just got one despite only being in NXT for a few months. He adds the Regal didn't check with Joe about the match like he did with Asuka about her match with Bayley. He also adds that he's starting to think Regal doesn't want him to be NXT Champion.
- Nakamura answers the people who think he isn't taking this seriously by saying that he is taking the match seriously, it's just his style that doesn't seem serious.
- Joe says that Nakamura came to his dojo to train. Nakamura says he doesn't remember that and smiles.
- The two say they respect eachother, with Nakamura taunting him by leaning in and staring him down. This makes Joe fire up and try to stand face to face with him, but security is quick to shut him down. Regal ends the interview and makes Joe leave.
And that's about it. Overall, a pretty boring episode of NXT, but it didn't really need to be great. The point of this show was to hype up Takeover: Brooklyn, and it did a good job of that.
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