NXT TakeOver: Vengeance Day: Top three moments from the show

1. Raquel Gonzalez’s dominance

If you watched the first few minutes of the Women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Finals and didn’t see any prior episodes of NXT beforehand, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzalez — the heels going into the match — were the babyfaces instead of Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart.

Part of this is thanks to the somewhat backwards psychology at the outset — specifically the missed tag spot where Blackheart and Moon argued with the referee like idiots instead of staying focused on Kai. We even saw Gonzalez get the hot tag and run wild Blackheart and Moon, who, again, ARE THE BABYFACES!

Eventually, these four straightened things out, but even with the correct storytelling, Gonzalez still stood out in a way that would get her cheered in front of a real, paying crowd.

There were far too many spots where Gonzalez fended off Moon and Blackheart by herself for that to not be a possibility, and if that didn’t make her look like a beast, her powerbombing Blackheart into the crowd barriers and pouncing Moon off the stage certainly would’ve.

Given that Gonzalez and Kai’s win granted them a future WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship match against heel champions Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax, some of this was probably by design to draw a distinction between the two. But even if that wasn’t the reason, the NXT crew still succee