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This week's NXT was a decent watch as we witnessed many fallouts from an incredible NXT Takeover: Portland. The show started with Jordan Devlin successfully retaining his NXT Cruiserweight Championship against Lio Rush, before a steel cage match was announced between Dakota Kai and Tegan Nox for two weeks from now.
Tommaso Ciampa warned Johnny Gargano after the latter's actions cost The Blackheart dearly in Portland, while Finn Balor vowed to reveal his plans next week. The Broserweights continued their winning run against Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch before Dominik Dijakovic asked Keith Lee for a rematch for the NXT North American Championship.
The main event saw Velveteen Dream defeat Roderick Strong but the Undisputed Era attacked Dream to end the show. Here, we suggest 4 things WWE could have done differently on this week's NXT.
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#4 Where's Johnny Gargano?
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After Johnny Gargano's betrayed his former DIY brother Tommaso Ciampa, we were expecting to see The Heart of NXT explain himself this week. But, unfortunately, Gargano was nowhere to be seen and instead, Ciampa issued a warning to Gargano, as expected.
This left a sour taste, in the end as many were interested to see what the confrontation between Ciampa and Gargano would be like. Nevertheless, this week's ongoings suggest that the former DIY partners might be in for a long grueling feud.
#3 No challenge from Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly
Why didn't the former NXT Tag Team Champions Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish challenge The Broserweights for a rematch?
These two tag teams put on an instant classic at NXT Takeover: Portland and one expects this rivalry to continue at least until the WrestleMania weekend as there aren't many credible tag teams in the NXT division.
Maybe Triple H is looking at The Grizzled Young Veterans as the future challengers but one would have liked to see The Undisputed Era members have another go at the newly crowned NXT Tag Team Champions this week as that would have set-up the feud nicely.
#2 Roderick Strong pinned again
It's been a tough couple of weeks for Undisputed Era's Roderick Strong, who not only lost his beloved NXT North American Championship to Keith Lee but this week, he lost another big bout against his long term rival Velveteen Dream.
The way the show ended, it suggested that Dream and Strong will continue their feud and hence, there was no need to pin Strong clean this week, especially considering the fact that The Messiah of the Backbreaker has lost considerable momentum over the past couple of weeks.
It would have been better if the match would have ended in a DQ but, unfortunately, that didn't happen and Strong will now look like the underdog in his personal feud with Dream.
#1 Another rematch between Keith Lee and Dominik Dijakovic?
After Keith Lee successfully retained the NXT North American Championship at NXT Takeover: Portland, one expected this long-standing feud between Lee and Dominik Dijakovic to finally come to an end but that doesn't seem to be the case, does it?
This week, Lee dismantled Kona Reeves before Dijakovic simply asked for another shot at the NXT North American Championship. Lee told Dijakovic that he doesn't back out of a challenge and told him to get the assent of William Regal.
By the looks of it, we might be set to witness another battle between two Superstars who have wrestled each other more than enough. This is not something many would have liked as after one point, a feud becomes boring and that is what is happening right now. It would have been way better if we would have gotten to see someone new standing up to Lee.
