NXT Takeover: Unstoppable Needs To End With Samoa Joe Debut

There is only one way that NXT Takeover: Unstoppable should end next week and that’s with the debut of Samoa Joe

One week from today WWE will bring us yet another amazing NXT live special when NXT Takeover: Unstoppable airs live on the WWE Network. However, we seem to have a small problem on our hands this time around.

Hideo Itami (Scheduled to be in the No. 1 Contender’s Match): Reportedly out for months with a shoulder injury.

Sami Zayn (Scheduled to face Kevin Owens for the NXT title): Reportedly out for months with a shoulder injury.

That’s right. Two key pieces within the NXT title picture suffered some unfortunate setbacks recently, putting the show in serious jeopardy.

Now, since we learned of both these injuries, the common answer that everyone has been throwing out there is to just have Finn Balor and Tyler Breeze go one-on-one and then face Kevin Owens later on in the night in the main event. From a logical perspective, this makes all the sense in the world…to a point.

There is one hole in this theory, however.

Since his debut, WWE has built up Kevin Owens as this unstoppable force. We know that Breeze and Balor will put on one hell of a match, gassing one another to no end. This is where the logic for the theory ends, because how are we to believe that one of these guys, after pummeling one another for probably about 15 minutes in the same night, can go on to take the belt off a fresh Owens in the main event? They can’t.

So how do we address the issue? Well, we address it by giving the people something that most of them have wanted to see for some time now: Samoa Joe working under the WWE banner.

You go through with the show on Wednesday, and when it hits time for the main event, you have Owens come out and address how Sami isn’t able to compete. Owens turns to the referee in the ring and scolds him to start counting Sami Zayn out, so he can earn his victory and be on his way with the rest of his evening.

1…2…3………9…

[Lights go out]

Lights come back on and there’s Samoa Joe standing in the middle of the ring, in street clothes. The die-hard fans in attendance at Full Sail are going out of their minds. Joe give the throat slash gesture (if Triple H allows it), kicks Owens in the gut and hits the Muscle Buster. The show goes off the air with Samoa Joe standing in the middle of the ring holding the NXT title above Owens’ body.

Now, did we get a match for the main event? No, we did not, and maybe some people will have a problem with that. But, this is a Network that we only pay $9.99 for, PLUS it’s being offered for free this month again. We got amazing wrestling throughout the night, and it all got to end with us seeing a sight we thought we might never see: Samoa Joe standing in the middle of a WWE ring.

This is a fairly easy process. It’s been reported that Joe may not start with NXT until June, and he still even has some independent dates booked for early that month. That’s quite alright; all Triple H has to do is toss a couple extra dollars his way to show up next Wednesday because they’re in this bind, and he can let him still honor the few bookings that he has left on the indie scene. They can tape their TV afterwards, Owens can walk around all pissy looking for Joe, hell, even tape some vignettes to air with Joe taunting Owens until he’s ready to start full-time with the company.

WWE might very well just throw either Breeze or Balor into the main event after they’ve wrestled already. But that’s not the right way to go.

The right way to go is to end things with the “Samoan Submission Machine” Samoa Joe finally getting the spotlight he’s deserved for years.

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