NXT TakeOver: Dallas - 5 points to note

Balor and Joe in action 

This wasn’t just any night. This is TakeOver: Dallas. Two of the biggest babyfaces in the WWE and greatest in NXT were set to face two of the greatest performers from Japan. Zayn and Bayley had a lot to deal with and it all paid off for the audience who came to witness these matches.

It was a huge possibility going into this Wrestlemania weekend that NXT will steal the show. And it is still a huge possibility that it already has. Dallas was one stop away from the main show but it seems NXT may rule the day again after Wrestlemania with many predicted call-ups.

Here are the five points to note from this show-

1) King of the night

Nakamura in action against Zayn

We’re going to be grooving to Shinsuke Nakamura’s theme song from now on. This match between NXT veteran Sami Zayn and NXT debutant Nakamura had every bit of that searing anticipation from a packed house in Dallas, every bit of a big match feel.

A match that already had a ‘This Is Awesome’ chant going even before it started. In the first few minutes, the audience had used up all the usual chants of appreciation. And just after two holds between the men, they chanted ‘This is wrestling’.

This match only had crescendos. Something that surged to a standing ovation from the audience after both men kept on punching each other, probably one of the longest punching interactions in WWE history, leading to Nakamura having a bleeding nose and that wasn’t even the only bloody incident on this show.

Nakamura pinned Zayn in a match where the audience wanted them to ‘fight forever’, in between pleading Nakamura not to tap. Both men shook hands and then Zayn bid adieu to the place that he help make this phenomenon. He now walks into his first Wrestlemania to face arch rival Kevin Owens