WWE NXT Takeover: Philadelphia Results, January 27th, 2018, latest winners & analysis
WWE NXT Takeover: Philadelphia kicked off the Royal Rumble weekend, in style. This was by far one of the best takeovers till date and each match got progressively better. To call it incredible would be an understatement.
Main roster, good luck stepping up to this!
Undisputed Era(c) vs The Authors Of Pain - NXT Tag Team Championship
The Authors Of Pain started the attack on the champions. Rezar started the ground and pound on Kyle O' Reilly before he went out of the ring to re-group.
Akam and Rezar would continue their dominance, with Akam even slamming Bobby Fish face-first onto the barricade. Bobby Fish would go on to tackle him through the ropes to the outside.
The veterans O' Reilly & Fish tried isolating Akam and successfully did so, tweaking his knee. O' Reilly tried submitting Akam at first, but he reached the ropes.
The hot tag to Rezar saw him decimate both members of Era. Fish even jumped on the back of Rezar while he was holding Kyle O' Reilly, but Rezar would end up hitting a fall-away slam, damaging the champions.
Rezar started to wear down when O' Reilly hit his knee to the shoulders. Even so, AoP was getting close to hitting the last chapter, but both members of the Era had holds locked on the former champions. Rezar flung Fish onto O' Reilly, breaking things up.
Akam with the weak leg managed to start landing vicious knees on O Reilly, decaptitating Bobby Fish with a lariat.
AoP went for the supercollider, but only Rezar landed it. O' Reilly managed to escape and sent Akam running into Rezar before getting the roll-up pin on Akam for the win.
The Undisputed Era defeated Authors Of Pain to retain the NXT Tag Team Championship