The Legend wrote:Yeah, this card should be fantastic. Great build to every match, most every match is really unpredictable. Unfortunately, if I were to pick a match that's a let down it's the Main Event. Black isn't really a guy I can get behind and if I was forced to I couldn't tell you if I really wanted either of these guys to win the match.
I love every Takeover show, and I'm really looking forward to this one, but I agree with you on Black.
There's something there that I'm not seeing that almost everyone else does. People keep talking about him like he's the hottest act on NXT. The guy with the most potential. But I just don't see that in him. He's a talented in-ring worker, but he's not better than the other great wrestlers on that brand. As a talker and a personality, he's well behind most of the other big names on the roster: Gargano, Ciampa, Cole, Young, Dunne, EC3, Velveteen Dream, Ricochet ... even Almas.
I think it's an Undertaker thing. He's a big guy with a dark gimmick and a cool entrance. People are trying to crowbar Black into the Undertaker-shaped hole on the main roster. But I don't think a look and an entrance can get him over as a big star on the main roster. He needs more personality. And there are other guys on NXT that have that kind of personality.
I'm still looking forward to the match, because it should be really good. But it does feel like it should be second or third from the top. I don't see Black as
the guy in NXT yet, or anything close to it.