WWE NXT Results: Highlights, Analysis, and Grades for August 9

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Follow along with our review of Wednesday night’s episode of WWE NXT.

Wednesday night’s episode of WWE NXT took place at Full Sail University, with an emphasis on the Road to NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III. The show will take place on Saturday, August 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY.

This episode took the fans toward the last show before this TakeOver special. It saw more build between Bobby Roode vs. Drew McIntyre for the NXT Championship, as well as Asuka vs. Ember Moon for the NXT Women’s Championship.

With that in mind, let’s get to the results from the show for August 9:

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The Authors of Pain and SAnitY Brawl

The Authors of Pain and SAnitY are on their way to a NXT Tag Team Championship match at TakeOver: Brooklyn III. It’s a battle of two of WWE NXT’s most dominant teams of the past calendar year, so it should bring some intriguing stakes. This is also a fresh look for the NXT Tag Team Division, which was led by DIY and The Revival for most of the past 18 months, even when they didn’t have the titles.

As for this segment, fans got the chance to see AoP and SAnitY brawl just 10 days before their big encounter in Brooklyn. It was also Akam and Rezar at their lowest, with all four members of this stable going after them and standing tall.

Seeing the current NXT Tag Team Champions look distraught and weak is hardly normal. They’ve been positioned as this dominant duo since NXT TakeOver: The End in June 2016 but, with the numbers against them, it makes the most sense to have thing plays out like this.

With one more WWE NXT episode to go, it’s possible this was the last build toward TakeOver’s NXT Tag Team Championship match. Will The Authors of Pain fall to SAnity?