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NXT Championship Match: Johnny Gargano vs Kyle O'Reilly vs Pete Dunne vs Adam Cole vs Karrion Kross (w/ Scarlett)
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The NXT Champion watched on as his opponents paired off with one another. Kyle O'Reilly took Adam Cole to the floor as Pete Dunne dropped Johnny Gargano in the ring. Dunne's prize? Karrion Kross.
Kross dumped Dunne on his head with an exploder before squaring off with Kyle O'Reilly. Both men traded strikes, with Kross seemingly getting the better of the challenger with a roundhouse. However, O'Reilly caught Kross with a heel hook. It was too early for that to happen, as Kross stood up and German suplexed O'Reilly to the floor.
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Johnny Gargano was next up to take on the NXT Champion, and he was the first to take Kross off his feet, bringing him down with a chop block and hurricanrana. Kross caught him diving in the corner and launched him overhead with another exploder. Adam Cole didn't give Kross much time to recover, catching the big man with a kick to the knee.
Pete Dunne pulled Cole into the apron, with Kross' other three challengers tearing Cole apart. Kross pulled him up and battered him in the corner, leaving Cole in a bad way early. Kross was a one-man wrecking crew, dumping everyone with suplexes and clubbing them with hellacious clotheslines.
O'Reilly managed to be the first to take down the NXT Champion, using his Muay Thai background to do so. O'Reilly locked Adam Cole in an armbar, but Pete Dunne refused to let him synch it in completely.
Gargano tried to break it up, and Dunne managed to catch both he and O'Reilly in a double armbar. Kross broke it up, slamming Dunne on top of his challengers before calling out Adam Cole. "We're not done yet!" said Kross as the former NXT Champion backed up the ramp. At this point, Kross was taken out by Cole, Gargano, and Dunne, with the latter two sending Kross through the NXT TakeOver: In Your House doorway.
That left Cole and O'Reilly in the ring. Cole missed Panama Sunrise, but Gargano caught both men with a pair of enzuigiris. Gargano put O'Reilly in the bottom corner, with Cole in the tree of woe. A running basement dropkick was countered when Dunne caught him with a schoolboy.
Gargano kicked out and launched NXT's Bruiserweight into his other two opponents like a lawn dart.
All four men traded kicks and elbows, leaving them all down on the mat. Cole managed to fall on top of Gargano, just barely missing a three-count. Cole sent Kyle O'Reilly to the ropes, and a reinvigorated Kross tossed him over the barricade. Cole soon followed, and Kross bounced Gargano off the apron with a choke bomb. An exploder sent Dunne over the barricade into Cole and O'Reilly.
Inside the ring, Kross tossed Gargano up with an F-10, but Gargano kicked out. Johnny TakeOver spiked Kross with a DDT and hit O'Reilly with a suicide dive. A diving tornado DDT drove Dunne to the floor, and all that was left was himself and Cole.
Gargano was hit by a few kicks but ducked the Last Shot. The slingshot spear was cut off by a superkick. Gargano denied a Panama Sunrise, hitting a sunset driver for a near fall. Gargano and Cole eliminated Dunne with a superkick/poison rana combination, and Gargano broke up O'Reilly's back suplex pin on Cole.
With all four men standing in their respective corners, Karrion Kross ran in to dish out some damage. The NXT Champion's challengers laid him out with a series of clotheslines, but after they took each other out, Kross decapitated O'Reilly with one of his own.
Karrion Kross dumped O'Reilly, Cole, and Gargano with German suplexes. Dunne landed on his feet, and they ganged up on Kross again, leaving him out on his feet on the apron. Cole and O'Reilly stared each other down, deciding to work together to send Kross into the NXT announcer's desk with a powerbomb.
It was a ring full of the challengers of the NXT Champion once again, with Cole and Gargano rocking each other with superkicks. Dunne trapped Cole in a dragon sleeper, with O'Reilly going for the guillotine on Gargano. They stared one another down, and O'Reilly got the better of a striking trade on Dunne.
The former NXT UK Champion countered a suplex and took O'Reilly down with a triangle choke. O'Reilly stood up just to be taken down with Gargano's slingshot spear. Cole sent Gargano to the floor and hit a brainbuster on O'Reilly for a two-count.
Gargano spiked Cole with one Final Beat, then locked Cole and Dunne in Garga No Escape. O'Reilly broke it up, saving the match up. A brainbuster dropped Gargano, and O'Reilly set up for his diving knee. Cole shoved him off the top, spiking Gargano with the Panama Sunrise. Dunne pulled Cole out and hit a brainbuster on the floor. However, Kross then stood up, to the shock of all of the NXT Champion's contenders.
Kross chased Dunne inside, hitting a German suplex before eating one from Dunne. The Bitter End connected, but Kross kicked out. A triangle choke was locked in as Dunne battered Kross with elbows to the forehead. It seemed Dunne had it, but the other three challengers broke it up.
Kross hit a double Doomsday Saito on Dunne and Cole, with Cole eating a Kross elbow to the back of the head. Dunne was left in the Kross Jacket, but snapped the fingers of the champion. Gargano spiked Dunne with his One Final Beat, only to be trapped in the Kross Jacket.
Cole hit the Last Shot, just to be taken out by O'Reilly, who hit the NXT Champion with his diving knee. Cole hit O'Reilly, Dunne, and Gargano with superkicks, but was trapped in O'Reilly's heel hook. Kross reached over, synching in the Kross Jacket for the win at NXT TakeOver: In Your House.
Results: Karrion Kross defeated Kyle O'Reilly via submission at NXT TakeOver: In Your House.
Grade: A+
Backstage, McKenzie got ahold of NXT GM William Regal, who said that in seven years in this position he'd never seen so much madness. It was time for a change, but what did that mean?
