WWE NXT TakeOver: Portland early match card predictions

What matches will we see when NXT TakeOver heads to the Moda Center on Feb. 16? Based on what’s been booked, here’s what we may get.

With WWE electing to stage their second Worlds Collide show prior to the Royal Rumble on Jan. 25 – a show that will center around a “brand supremacy” theme and likely only exists as a means to get some NXT UK performers stateside for the Jan. 26 pay-per-view – the NXT creative team will have some time to build a full card for February’s NXT TakeOver: Portland. 

We already know that Finn Balor and Johnny Gargano’s contentious rivalry will finally come to a head and that new NXT Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley (or Toni Storm) will defend her title against Bianca Belair on that show. But what other matches will we see make the card?

Who will challenge Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly for their NXT Tag Team Championships? And will Keith Lee, who has a title shot in his back pocket, face Roderick Strong – a man who loves breaking backs almost as much as Bane does – for the NXT North American Championship?

We will get answers to these questions as the weeks go by, but while we wait for Triple H and his crew to unveil the rest of the card (when he isn’t humoring himself with sexist jokes) it doesn’t hurt to predict what it will look like before we get there.