Top 10 NXT Takeover Entrances of All Time
NXT fans around the world understand that Takeover events are something special. The atmosphere and emotional draw at these arena-sized shows (which happen just five times a year) are pretty much always electric.
While it's easy to credit the excellent matches as the sole reason for the excitement behind these pay-per-view style spectacles, the characters, production and ring entrances are just as important as they create a sense of theatrics that carries out WWE's sports entertainment mission.
Leave it to Triple H, arguably the king of creative entrances, to solidify this idea by working with the NXT production team to craft these special moments in time, which exist in the annals of WWE history right along with all the so-cherished WrestleMania Moments.
As the road to WrestleMania and Takeover: New York loom, it's fitting to take a moment and reflect on some of this legacy. These are the top 10 NXT Takeover entrances of all time.
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#10 Aleister Black (Takeover: Brooklyn III)
The enigmatic Aleister Black, a Dutch martial artist and former indie wrestler who's graced NXT for the past two years, has such an affinity for Black Metal music that WWE hired the band Code Orange and the lead vocalist from Incendiary to perform his theme music, titled "The Root of All Evil", live at the Barclays Center in 2017.
With darkness falling over the arena, lit candles shown scattered around the stage floor and fog permeating the air, the mood in Brooklyn was perfectly set during the middle of the biggest NXT show of the year, and the live performance brought the overall entrance to the next level.
Coming into view on a lifting ramp, then gradually making his way to the ring for a match with Hideo Itami, Black's backup band made him look like a complete star. The hard-hitting Rage Against The Machine-style tune was a great complement to the stoic, emotionless demeanor of the Dutch Destroyer, who slowly walked to the ring as if every step was part of some larger meaning in his own personal wrestling narrative.