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Expectations were blown out of the water when the WWE NXT Superstars took over the WWE Network the night before the Royal Rumble.
A lot of fans had their doubts heading into Saturday’s NXT TakeOver event live from San Antonio, given that in comparison to many of the previous specials the brand has offered the WWE Network, the build for this one was rather lacking.
Things only recently started to heat up given that December was filled with house show matches and not an obscene amount of story progression, so while the matches on the card were bound to deliver, the lack of hype surrounding the event in recent weeks might have prevented it from really striking home like past events.
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That being said, the low expectations from everyone involved meant that a range of top-drawer match-ups would blow everyone’s preconceptions out of the water.
With two new champions crowned, a reaffirmed faith in the NXT Women’s division going forward and a number of up-and-coming names in NXT getting the chance to increase their stock on a big weekend like this one, there were a lot of people who stood to gain something from NXT TakeOver: San Antonio.
But who stood to gain the most, you might ask? Well, let’s take a look.