The 10 Greatest NXT Takeovers of All Time

#6 Takeover: Brooklyn III (Aug. 19, 2017, Barclays Center, a crowd of 15,000+)

A card that was poorly promoted and hardly expected to amount to NXT's normal standard became one of the greatest Takeovers ever, where each successive match seemed to improve over the last.

Johnny Gargano and Andrade "Cien" Almas marked the opening with an intense, high-stakes bout that finally brought the former Mexican lucha libre star out of his losing streak (thanks to his "business partner" Zelina Vega), the SAnitY finally ended the Authors of Pain one year undefeated streak and took the Tag Team Championships (but not before stablemate Nikki Cross was brutally sandwiched between two male wrestlers and a table).

Aleister Black and Hideo Itami put on a hard-hitting affair which at times resembled a Pancrase shoot fight, and Asuka faced evenly-matched rival Ember Moon in one of the greatest women's matches in WWE history.

While the main event of Bobby Roode vs. Drew McIntyre underwhelmed compared to the undercard, it still ended up a solid outing and the surprise debut of Adam Cole forming a then-unnamed stable with Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) was the icing on the cake that made it easy to rank TO: BK3 ahead of the previous years event at the Barclays Center, while not quite surpassing the original Brooklyn Takeover. Rating: 8/10