WWE NXT TakeOver Chicago II Results, Highlights, And Grades

Velveteen Dream vs. Ricochet

Result: Ricochet pins Velveteen Dream

Rating: 5.0 out of 5.0 stars

This is the match that could very well steal the show. Let’s see how these two extraordinarily talented wrestlers follow up one of the best tag matches in NXT history.

Guess who Velveteen Dream entered dressed up as? Hulk Hogan. It was surreal. Oh, and his tights were the Prince Puma tights. Nice way of throwing shade at “The King”, Ricochet. Dream even started lying down on the announce table during Ricochet’s entrance, so you know we’re in for a treat.

The opening exchanges featured some absolutely brilliant technical wrestling. There were a lot of headlocks, but they were wonderfully done. I enjoyed Ricochet’s pin on Velveteen Dream, as he created the pinfall opportunity by pulling down Dream’s hands to generate that leverage.

It didn’t take long for the two to start flying around the ring, with Ricochet countering Dream’s hurricanrana to give Dream his first Nick Young moment of the match.

Between the two of them, Dream was far more aggressive. He slapped Ricochet in the face first before Ricochet retaliated, and Dream wouldn’t stop bashing Ricochet in the corner, even yelling “Do not touch me!” at the official Drake Wuertz. He stole one of Ricochet’s moves for good measure.

Dream wants to prove that he is just as athletic as Ricochet and can pull off the flips just like Ricochet, which is why he’s made it such a huge point to perform tope con hilos and the like on his smaller opponent.

For the most part, Ricochet struggled to get any offense in, as Dream was thoroughly dominating the match. That all changed when Ricochet hit a couple of huge dives to Dream on the outside, turning the crowd and momentum very much in his favor.

The first Holy S**t moment came when Dream hit Ricochet with a rolling DVD off the top rope. That was insane, but Ricochet was able to kick out at two because the move took so much out of Dream that he was unable to cover Ricochet in time. Dream tried to follow this up with a Purple Rainmaker, but Ricochet got to his feet quickly to scout the move out.

And then we had a bigger Holy S**t moment quickly after, as Dream hit Ricochet with a MASSIVE vertical suplex all the way to the floor. Both men barely made it into the ring at “nine”.

Ricochet kicked out of another rolling DVD, as Dream hit him with an opportunistic move after Ricochet missed with a right. Dream clearly was sitting on that move, just waiting to duck after Ricochet threw a punch. After failing to hit more than one vertical suplex due to the damage on his back, Ricochet traded some crazy counters with Dream, who got the better end of the exchange with a big DDT. Ricochet kicked out, though, leading the crowd to go absolutely BONKERS.

Dream started talking crazy amounts of trash to Ricochet, but this arrogance wasted time. Ricochet took the opportunity to hit Dream with his own moves: the rolling DVD and the Purple Rainmaker. But Dream kicked out! Because of this, Ricochet went back up to hit his 630 finisher, but Dream rolled out of the way before Ricochet could even attempt it.

Or did he? Ricochet looked towards the crowd and jumped more than half way across the ring to hit a shooting star press. Dream got the knees up! He then scrambled to pin Ricochet, who kicked out!

THIS MATCH THOUGH.

It was Dream’s turn to make a fatal mistake, as his hubris led him to jump ALL THE WAY ACROSS the ring for a Purple Rainmaker. Dream, of course, missed, and Ricochet hit his finisher. And that’s all she wrote.

What a match. What. A. Match. Hats off to these two. This had everything.