WWE: Every NXT TakeOver of 2019 ranked from worst to best

4. XXV

When NXT took to the Webster Bank Arena in Connecticut for the brand’s 25th TakeOver event ever, it allowed fans the time to think back in retrospect on the history of these events and reflect on not only their impact on the WWE Universe, but on the wrestling world as a whole.

While the show was not so much the blast from the past or history lesson that one may expect from an anniversary show (Tyler Breeze being the only WWE Superstar from the first TakeOver to compete), WWE chose more so to march towards the future than to waste time reminiscing on the past.

What resulted was a show that presented a changing of the guard more than anything else. Velveteen Dream had a pretty torch passed onto him by the aforementioned Breeze in a dream match for the ages. Meanwhile, The Street Profits grabbed the brass ring and the NXT Tag Team Championships attached to them from above a ladder, eventually using that momentum to get promoted to Raw.

And, of course, in what I’d argue to be the best in their trilogy of TakeOver matches and one of my personal favorite matches of the entire year, Adam Cole unseated Johnny Gargano to become the 16th man to hold the NXT Championship.