10 Greatest NXT Matches of All Time

#7 Authors of Pain vs. DIY vs. The Revival (Takeover: Orlando)

Three rival teams, one pair of tag team titles

DIY and The Revival's standard tag team feud contrasted a new generation of top tier indie names coupled together against a traditional, old-school tag team that eschewed flips and dives for conventional brawling and heel ring psychology. This formula worked well and the two teams endured an intense rivalry that was enjoyable enough in and of itself. But then, the Authors of Pain, two brutally destructive monsters managed by wrestling veteran "Precious" Paul Ellering, entered the picture and suddenly DIY and the Revival found themselves with a mutual enemy.

This dynamic would play out in the most spectacular way as DIY and The Revival, bitter rivals, would be forced to team up together in the middle of their triple threat tag team match with AOP and nail their respective finishers using members of the opposite team, forging a brief alliance with their sworn enemies to fend off an even bigger threat in Ellering's team. Although the entire match was an enjoyably brutal affair, it was this small moment of brilliant storytelling that created the biggest crowd response of the night and solidified the match as one of the greatest in the history of NXT.