NXT Champion Finn Balor checks in with a pre-recorded promo. He talks while we see him training at the WWE Performance Center. Balor says he doesn’t gas out and Karrion Kross may try to dictate the pace of their match, but that’s fine because the longer it goes, the better for him. Balor warns Kross that there will be no fairy tale ending at Takeover because he will leave still as champion.

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Kross grabs a mic and says he’s going to destroy Finn Bálor. Bálor walks down to the ring. Bálor stands over Lorcan, who is laid out by the ramp. Bálor steps over Lorcan. Bálor says Kross showed him his weakness last week. Bálor didn’t become who he is today until he cut off his emotions. Kross still fights with emotion. That makes Kross vulnerable. Bálor is going to push Kross to the brink. Bálor thinks that at TakeOver, Kross’ emotions will get the better of him. Bálor is going to drag Kross into the deep water and drown him, with no emotion.

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NXT Championship Match: Finn Bálor (c) vs Adam Cole
Cole and Bálor tear into each other. Bálor traps Cole in a side headlock. Cole escapes and locks in a headlock of his own. Bálor escapes and almost walks into a superkick from Cole. After the break, Bálor rolls through a sunset flip attempt by Cole and nails him with a dropkick. Bálor drops Cole with a dropkick to the knee. Bálor lights Cole up with chop after chop. Bálor hits a knee breaker. Double leg by Bálor. Bálor double stomps Cole. Cole surprises Bálor with an enziguri. Bálor reverses Cole suplex into the final cut. Cole kicks out. After getting tangled up with the referee, Cole boots Bálor in the face. Cole separates the ring steps to drop Bálor on them. Bálor counters yet again and suplexes Cole on the metal ramp. After the break, Cole counters Bálor’s suplex with the Ushigoroshi. Cole misses the Panama Sunrise.

Bálor lands the John Woo dropkick. Cole avoids Bálor’s double stomp. Cole superkicks Bálor. Bálor kicks out. Cole puts Bálor in a crossface. Bálor almost makes it to the ropes but Cole rolls Bálor back to the center of the ring. Bálor almost reverses it into a submission of his own. Cole somehow manages to turn it back into the crossface. Bálor makes it to the ropes. Bálor turns Cole inside out with a lariat. Cole flips out of 1916. Cole superkicks Bálor in the knee. Cole lands the Last Shot. Bálor kicks out. Cole crawls to the corner to set up another Panama Sunrise. Cole hits it. Bálor kicks out! Cole is stunned. Cole tries another Last Shot but Bálor sends Cole out of the ring. Kyle O’Reilly appears in the crowd. While Cole is distracted, Bálor flattens him with a dive over the top. Bálor hits 1916 out on the floor as he stares at O’Reilly. Bálor hits the Coup de grâce for the win.

Winner and STILL NXT Champion, Finn Bálor!

O’Reilly gets in the ring. Cole begs off. O’Reilly rips the Undisputed Era armband off of Cole. O’Reilly beats the crap out of Cole. The referee tries to pull O’Reilly back but O’Reilly sends the referee flying. O’Reilly tries to brainbuster Cole on the ring steps but a bunch of referees make the save. As Bálor is standing in the ring, he says “what took you so long?” Bálor turns around and Karrion Kross is standing there. Kross and Bálor go nose-to-nose as we fade to black.

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In-Ring Segment
Strong demands that Cole come to the ring right now. Cole doesn’t show. Finn Bálor does. Bálor tells Strong that Cole isn’t going to show. Strong says that The Undisputed Era was doing just fine until Bálor showed up. Bálor says he knows how to get Cole out to the ring. Bálor challenges Cole to a title match next week. Bálor says Strong will never be a leader until he gets more selfish. Strong decks Bálor. Referees break up the brawl.

Finn Bálor vs. Roderick Strong
Strong and Bálor trade submission attempts and strikes. Bálor locks in an armbar. Strong almost reverses it into the Stronghold. Bálor escapes. Bálor rolls Strong into a crucifix pin. Strong kicks out. Bálor works over Strong’s arm. After the break, Strong lights Bálor up with chop after chop. Bálor takes Strong down again and focuses his assault on Strong’s shoulder. Strong surprises Bálor with a powerslam. Strong clubs Bálor. Backbreaker by Strong. Strong misses a running knee in the corner. Bálor locks Strong in a modified hammerlock. Strong manages to get to the bottom rope. Strong hits the C4. Strong lands multiple running elbow.

Olympic slam by Strong. Strong powerbombs Bálor. Bálor kicks out. Bálor hits the slingblade. Bálor tries the Woo kick but Strong catches his feet and locks in the Stronghold. Bálor escapes. Strong picks up Bálor for a backbreaker but Bálor shifts in midair and hits a nasty double stomp. Overhead kicks by Strong. Bálor lands the final cut. Strong stumbles to his feet. Bálor hits the Woo Kick. Bálor crushes Strong with Coup de Grâce. Bálor lifts Strong up and hits 1916 for the win.

Winner- Finn Bálor

Adam Cole walks out on the stage. Bálor and Cole stare each other down.

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In-Ring Segment
Cole watches footage from his attack on Finn Bálor and Kyle O’Reilly. Kyle O’Reilly has herniated disks in his back and neck and is not medically cleared to compete. Cole says he came out here to explain what happened to O’Reilly. After watching that footage, Cole feels sick to his stomach. Cole says everyone knows how important the NXT Championship is to him. At first he was pissed off that O’Reilly continued to get opportunity after opportunity at the title and he just kept failing. Cole says he is sorry and he wishes he could be having this conversation face to face.

Cole talks to the camera and says he knows O’Reilly is watching. Cole says he was wrong. Cole made a stupid, stupid mistake. Cole hates himself for it. Cole says he is so, so sorry. He is going to do everything in his power to fix this. Cole is going to do what he can to fix this. Roderick Strong walks out on the stage and says Cole is sorry after 10 days? Strong says Cole shattered their trust. Strong tells Cole that O’Reilly is going to heal and he has no idea what he will be able to do to save Cole from what O’Reilly is going to do to him.

Finn Bálor runs down to the ring and attacks Cole. Strong pulls Bálor off Cole. Bálor and Strong fall out of the ring. Cole pushes Bálor into the barricade. Cole superkicks Bálor. Strong clotheslines Cole in anger. Cole starts to cry and says he is sorry. Strong apologizes to Cole for hitting him. Cole and Strong hug. Cole low blows Strong. Cole tells Strong that he’s dead to him. Cole rips off Strong’s dog tags and superkicks him.

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