Setting the Bar High: Ranking Every Match from the NXT TakeOvers before WrestleMania

#3 Asuka vs. Ember Moon (NXT TakeOver: Orlando)

Asuka gets tossed by NXT's only woman capable of hitting as hard as she can (at the time, at least)

One big question preceded this match, that of whether NXT's longest-reigning champion of any kind would eat her first loss, and one big question followed: had that champion fully turned heel?

Asuka had always been a terrifying presence, and had only leaned toward the heel side of the kayfabe karma spectrum because, much like Neville before her, she was just too talented to be defeated. She was a heel simply because fans were desperate to see someone finally rise to her level and take the win, and the Universe's dismay simply came from another challenger falling short.

At NXT TakeOver: Orlando, however, The Empress of Tomorrow had finally seemed to meet her match in the lupine Ember Moon, and Moon seemed poised to put the NXT Women's Championship on a new waist for the first time in a year.

With Ember Moon perched atop the turnbuckle to wow the crowd and stun her foe with her patented Eclipse, Asuka pushed the referee into the ropes, toppling Moon from the top rope and opening her up for a strong-style strike for an Asuka win.

Asuka would still never settle on a heel or face side, and still hasn't, but her underhanded win buoyed support for Ember to the moon.