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NXT Takeover: London Predictions

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The NXT Takeover series is going over seas for the first time in history with NXT Takeover: London. What started as a little show for wrestlers to develop their skills on TV, NXT has become a must-see show for wrestling fans, featuring some of the best wrestling, storylines, and characters in wrestling today. Now, NXT Takeover is leaving Full Sail University in Florida for the first since Takeover: Brooklyn, and going overseas and setting up at the Wembley Arena in London. With the show this Wednesday, I thought I'd give my predictions for the full card.

Asuka vs Emma

Winner: Asuka

If given enough time, this could be the sleeper match at Takeover. Both Emma and Asuka are fantastic wrestlers, and putting them together should be pure magic. Emma's experienced a kind of career resurgence since coming back to NXT, and her pairing with Dana Brooke has been great (side note: I absolutely love Dana Brooke. She's still got ways to go as a wrestler, but she's got me sold on her as a character). Despite that, she has no chance against Asuka. Asuka been booked like an unstoppable beast since her debut, basically becoming the female Brock Lesnar. I predict she's gonna be challenging for the NXT Women's Championship in the very near future, and as much as I love Emma, I don't see her at that point right now. Expect Asuka to win, probably by knockout.

Apollo Crews vs Baron Corbin

Winner: Apollo Crews

I think that Baron Corbin might be the most improved wrestler of 2015. Ever since he stopped squashing all the Steve Cutlers of NXT quicker than it took you to read that sentence, he's been having programs with some of the company's best workers like Samoa Joe, Finn Balor, and Chad Gable, and it's shown because he's improved leaps and bounds since he debuted. This match with Crews should be very good, as Crews is up there with Balor and Joe as one of the best in NXT. This one is little tough, but I'm going with Crews. I have no doubt in my mind that Crews is a future NXT Champion, and him continuing his undefeated streak against Corbin would be the right way to go.

Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder (c) vs Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady-NXT Tag Team Championships

Winners: Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady

As good as Dawson & Wilder are, they just have "transitional champs" written all over them. Giving the belts to Enzo & Big Cass is LONG overdue. They've been the most over tag team (maybe the most over people period) in NXT for a long time now, and have been consistently entertaining for years. I feel the company missed a huge opportunity by not having the two win the titles at Brooklyn, but giving it to them in London would make up for it. I'm picking the Realest Guys in the Room.

Bayley (c) vs Nia Jax-NXT Women's Championship

Winner: Nia Jax

I'm gonna be completely honest, these last two matches were insanely for me to pick between. This one was actually the hardest to pick. On one hand, you've got Bayley, who's pretty much just began her title reign, and it doesn't really seem like she's being called up anytime soon, which is a strong case to keep the title on her. On the other hand however, you've got Nia Jax, someone who's been booked as an unstoppable monster, who's so much bigger and stronger than everyone else that she can't possibly be beaten, and is unbeaten, so keeping that streak alive is another strong case to put the title on her. Outside of these two, I don't think there are many other women even remotely ready to be champion. Dana Brooke & Alexa Bliss both need work in ring, Peyton Royce & Billie Kay are both still being used as enhancement talent, and Eva Marie...that one's pretty self-explanatory. I don't think anyone else could be champion besides these two. Except one person...Auska. Asuka is probably the only other person who could be champion, and if she's going to be in line for the championship, then I think (and it hurts to write this, because Bayley is my absolute favorite female wrestler in NXT right now) that they're going to give Nia Jax the win.

Finn Balor (c) vs Samoa Joe-NXT Championship

Winner: Samoa Joe

This was another hard pick. Balor and Joe don't seem to be getting called up soon(and from what I've read, Joe might never get called up) so either one of these two winning the belt seems entirely possible. Balor has been great as champion, putting on great matches with Apollo Crews and Kevin Owens, and I would hate to see him lose the belt. But Samoa Joe has been putting in some of his best work in a long time, and putting the belt on him continue that momentum. Joe has yet to be beaten in NXT, and while having Balor end that streak isn't completely out of the question, I think it would be better to keep that streak in tact. It might be weird to predict that every title on the show changes hands, but that's what I'm going with, and I'm picking Samoa Joe over Finn Balor.

That's it for the predictions. This show is going to be very interesting, as the two biggest matches on the card are very unpredictable. I think that's actually better, because I feel like some of the past events haven't exactly had that unpredictability factor come with it. I think everyone knew that Sami Zayn was beating Adrian Neville at R Evolution, Finn Balor was beating Kevin Owens at Beast in the East, and that Bayley was beating Sasha Banks at Brooklyn. Well, that's all, enjoy the show this Wednesday.

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