Dream with a chinlock to hold him on the ground, but Ricochet fights back and sends Dream to the floor. Dream sends him to the floor and follows with a dive, and back in for two. Ricochet goes to the apron for a springboard, but Dream drops him on the top rope to take over and starts working the neck. Dream takes him down with his own headscissors, but Ricochet lands on his feet and we get a gymnastic stalemate. They fight over a lockup and take it to the mat to start, where Ricochet works a headscissors and rolls him over for two. ****1/4ĭream is sporting a rather cheeky red-and-yellow homage tonight. I wasn’t buying the challengers in the least, but they worked incredibly hard and this was a tremendous opener that reminded me of a plucky NWA babyface team taking Tully & Arn to the limit in a Crockett Cup match. And then they all throw down in the middle and that’s pretty awesome, but the Era hits a Total Elimination on Lorcan and Strong pins him to retain at 16:01. So O’Reilly kicks Lorcan in the face, from his own BACK, and breaks up the double submission holds. He rolls through into a half-crab on Strong, but O’Reilly boots him in the face to break it up, only to have Burch take HIM down with a crossface. Blind charge misses, but Lorcan keeps coming and clips Strong, into a powerbomb for two.

Adam Cole (BAY BAY) makes the save and gets sent to the back as a result, and the challengers go for the kill on Kyle, but Strong throws Strong into the table and Kyle reverses into a guillotine on Lorcan until he reverses into a suplex to escape. Burch fights back again and manages to tag Lorcan, and he hits his double blockbuster onto them outside, and this time they hit their Doomsday Device on KOR for two. Strong with a running into the corner on Burch, into a facebuster for two. Into the armbar, but Burch makes the ropes. They set up for a Doomsday Device, but O’Reilly breaks it up, gets rid of Lorcan, and then kicks the hell out of Burch and hits a brainbuster for two. Dive from Lorcan and he hits Strong with an exploder suplex for two, and the Era collides, so Lorcan hits them with a double blockbuster, and a double-team DDT on Strong that gets two. Hot (?) tag Lorcan and the crowd openly turns on them while he’s running wild. Strong comes in with a dropkick for two, but he misses a charge and O’Reilly has to come in and cut off the tag himself. Burch fights back, but Kyle takes him down and works the ground & pound, but can’t lock an armbar. Back in, the Era goes to work with an O’Reilly kneebar while Strong stomps on Burch’s face. Burch hits Strong with kicks in the corner, but he gets distracted by O’Reilly and Strong baseball slides him out of the ring. Oney Lorcan sounds like a terrible indy folk band. Was there something wrong with “Biff Busick”? That at least sounds like a wrestler. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned yet, but “Oney Lorcan” is the most f- stupid wrestling name I’ve ever heard. They work on Burch in the corner and Kyle boots him in the face, but Burch fires back with forearms and Lorcan comes in for a double-team and they clean house.

Oney Lorcan & Danny BurchĮven though the announcers are selling the generic bald white guys as underdog babyfaces, the crowd is pretty clearly Team Undisputed Era. NXT Tag team titles: Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong v. Your hosts are Nigel McGuinness, Vic Joseph & Percy Watson The SmarK Rant for NXT Takeover: Chicago II – 06.16.18Īmazingly, I have managed to avoid all spoilers for the entire week and I’m going into this one without knowing any results.

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