The Undisputed Era will go down as one of the best factions of the modern era. They truly defined NXT during some of the brand’s best years, at one point even holding all major championships. However, all good things must come to an end, and Adam Cole made sure The Undisputed Era came to an end.
Since then, Roderick Strong has formed his own faction and Bobby Fish has been released, but Kyle O’Reilly still fights on. They’re one win apiece, and tonight they meet in a two out of three falls match. Fall one is normal rules, fall two is a street fight, and fall three will be a steel cage.
Kyle O’Reilly Claims The First Fall
Both men would get started right out of the gate with Pump Kicks. O’Reilly was able to win out and sent Cole to the floor, where he hit a flying knee to the floor, before driving Cole into the barricade. Cole would try to set up a brainbuster onto the steel steps, before getting hit with a suplex onto the floor from O’Reilly. Back in the ring, O’Reilly got a takedown and applied an ankle lock, but lost control and took a Shining Wizard.
Cole would go for Ushigorshi but had to settle for an enziguri, before O’Reilly bounced back with a spinning lariat. O’Reilly wanted the diving knee drop, but landed right into a superkick from Cole. Cole didn’t go for the cover, instead looking for the Panama Sunrise and got countered into a deep pinfall for a three count! O’Reilly got the first fall, and now this one is a street fight.
A steel chair would be the first instrument of destruction used, with Cole being sat on it with a trash can over his head before taking a diving dropkick. O’Reilly filled the ring with weapons before going up top, and being superkicked down. He was clutching his ribs on the floor, and Cole noticed before driving him into the corner of the announce table. Cole would grab a steel chair and nail the ribs, before grinding the chair down into them.
Adam Cole Evens The Score
O’Reilly tried to make a comeback, but the damage was done and he couldn’t throw a punch. Cole was enjoying seeing O’Reilly in pain, and grabbed a kendo stick to hit an assisted backstabber after teasing the Last Shot. The Lockjaw would be applied, before O’Reilly had a Kendo Stick put into his mouth. He wouldn’t quit, but Cole beat him down with more elbow strikes.
Being told to stay down made the defiant O’Reilly get back to his feet, and nail some big but slow strikes before managing a German Suplex. He’d hit the ropes for a PK, before hitting a kneebreaker onto a chair, and Dragon Screw into it. They’d hit pump kicks at the same time, and Cole rolled to the outside where he grabbed a chain, with O’Reilly doing the same thing.
Punches with chain wrapped hands would follow, but a superkick to O’Reilly was what dropped him. Cole went to the ramp, and suckered O’Reilly in before being locked into a choke and thrown off the stage. He’d get the comeback with a neckbreaker, before getting back into the ring. Cole set the chairs up back to back, but took an ushigoroshi from O’Reilly. He’d set up the knee drop onto the chair, but got thrown onto it and hit with Last Shot to decide the second fall.
Kyle O’Reilly Manages To Make The Comeback
O’Reilly would be checked by the medical staff as the cage closed in around the ring for the final fall. It wouldn’t even get all the way down before Cole kicked O’Reilly out of the ring and hit a powerbomb onto the announce table. O’Reilly was rolled into the ring, and the cage would be fully lowered.
Cole would throw him into the wall of the cage twice, before O’Reilly would finally show some life and send Cole into it. O’Reilly hit some flying forearms as Cole was trapped between the ropes and cage, before a diving knee drop hit the neck of Cole. Going up top for another knee drop, Cole would dodge, go for the Last Shot before O’Reilly dodged and hit one of his own.
A low blow would hit O’Reilly, before Cole would start to climb the cage. O’Reilly met him but was sent to the mat, before a Panama Sunrise was nailed. It’d get a two count before Cole would handcuff O’Reilly to the ropes. Some superkicks would follow, before O’Reilly caught him in a one armed heel hook. Cole was forced to tap, ending this match in surprise fashion.
A suitably brutal end to this feud that was years in the making, and that was no shock given their long history. This was one last Takeover epic for Adam Cole, and it delivered huge. First and third falls could have been longer, but the second one brought the violence in a huge way. Match Rating: 4/5 (****)
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