It has already been an eventful night at Full Sail University.<\/p>\n
Two matches have been made official for the next NXT TakeOver at the tapings\u00a0tonight\u00a0in Orlando.\u00a0As expected, the show on August 20th\u00a0at the Barclays Center will be headlined by\u00a0Samoa Joe vs.\u00a0Shinsuke Nakamura and Asuka vs. Bayley.<\/p>\n
Joe and Nakamura have already worked house shows in singles and tags on\u00a0the road and from a star power standpoint is the biggest match currently possible\u00a0for NXT, clearly the top\u00a0heel against clearly the top\u00a0babyface.<\/p>\n
Asuka and Bayley will be the first televised rematch since Asuka won the\u00a0title in Dallas.\u00a0They were holding off the rematch until Brooklyn to\u00a0create the same dynamic as last summer of\u00a0going into the Barclays Center\u00a0with Bayley in the role of the challenger for\u00a0the NXT women’s championship.<\/p>\n
More matches are likely to be official before the end of the tapings.<\/p>\n
Former TNA world heavyweight champion Bobby Roode also made his debut in front of the crowd at Full Sail. Roode’s debut has been teased at the last two TakeOver specials and he has wrestled on several live events, including NXT’s tour of the United Kingdom in June.<\/p>\n
Former IWGP junior heavyweight champion Kota Ibushi also wrestled on the tapings earlier in the night.<\/p>\n
We will have a full report from our NXT reporter JJ Williams later in the night.<\/p>\n
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