NXT TAKEOVER CARDIFF!

I had the pleasure this week to attend Wwe’s Nxt Takeover Live Uk event in Cardiff, here are my thoughts. 

Alright first off how you doing?, I arrived at the motorpoint arena which i have spent a lot of time at over the past 5 years and i have seen a lot of bands and shows there. This is the second time i am here watching wrestling. Back in 2010 I was here watching TNA now 5 years later i am watching my first WWE live event. The queue to get in was not too big the doors opened 6:30pm and it was a straight forward walk and check in past the security, walk through the doors and there we are! The merch stand was pretty neat,as ever there was various merchandise available to purchase from the other stands inside the arena to. It was pretty jam packed there crowd wise, although it was not sold out as there was a few seats empty as i could see as i looked around. I joined my 3 friends found our seats sat down and awaited eagerly to be entertained.

We had decent seats and a good view of the night’s proceedings. The crowd were awesome! Very energetic aswell as fun and funny with all the different chants sounding off there was also dancing,clapping and the stamping of feet. I could feel the floor block that i was on completely shake with hundreds of us stamping our feet in support of some wrestlers. The wrestlers and crowd both gave each other a lot of energy. Although about 3 matches were not that good but even so the crowd was just hilarious and let’s just say not all chants were PG (Sorry Vince) haha but it was all in fun and games. The show ran for 3 hours and did have a 15 min break which was nice to stretch the ol’ legs a bit.

It was interesting having a more mature crowd, i mean WWE is seen as basically pg land and aimed towards children quite frankly,the crowd in attendance was mainly full of 20/30 year olds but you know it was still entertaining. I was also surprised there was some production value there with Apollo Crews entrance shooting up smoke and Bayley’s wacking waving inflatable arm tube men ascending from the ground to the ceiling that was something. The titantron also surprised me playing videos while we all waited for the show to begin. I must add how over Bayley is she, is like the face of Nxt honestly she is the biggest merch mover there! Quite a few of her merch went flying off the shelves and appearing then on almost every fan in the arena when she came out! It also was fun and hilarious serenading Bayley with the entire crowd singing for over 10mins! Nxt Cardiff had two mistakes with the titantron displaying “Tag us in your photos with the hashtag #NxtNewcastle” come on guys there is a big difference between welsh and geordie well not that american’s will know. Also one video package was playing and then the audio suddenly went off and so it was switched off but that is pretty much that. HHH appeared in a video package at the start and Regal was no where to be seen or heard as he had to be taken back to hospital to complete his neck surgery of course health comes first but would have been nice to have been told that rather than just wait for him to come out.

Fave Chants: “Gable,Gable,Gable,Gable,Gable,Jordan,Jordan,Jordan” “Heeey,hey Bayley,oh ah,i wanna know oh oh oh if you’d be my girl” “I love you Bayley and and if it’s quite alright,I need you Bayley to warm the lonely nights,I love you Bayley, trust in me when I say” “SEVEN!” “NXT,NXT,NXT,NXT!” 

Worse bit(s): For me i found the matches before the break to be a tad boring but that is it. 

Matches and results are as follow: Enzo & Cass beat Blake & Murphy,Bull Dempsey beat Tye Dillinger, Asuka beat Alexa Bliss,Apollo Crews beat Baron Corbin, Nia Jax beat Carmella, Dash Wilder & Scott Dawson beat Gable & Jordan,Bayley beat Emma and finally the main event Finn Balor beat Sami Zayn and Samoa Joe. 

7/10

If you are a wrestling fan i highly recommend you attend the next NXT UK TOUR. DON’T BE SAWFT!

Photo credits: WWE