It appears that WWE is making a major change to the upcoming Takeover main event. While it was revealed that Johnny Gargano would be the next challenger to Almas’ NXT Championship title at this past week’s NXT tapings, that may no longer be the plan.

WWE taped four matches this week — Trent Seven vs. Killian Dain, Kassius Ohno vs. Johnny Gargano, Roderick Strong vs. Lars Sullivan and Adam Cole vs. Aleister Black. The winners of these matches moved on to compete in a Fatal 4 Way with the winner being the new #1 contender for the NXT Title. Gargano ended up winning the 4 Way and should be moving on to challenge Almas… or so we thought.

#WWENXT GM @RealKingRegal has a huge announcement regarding #NXTChampion @AndradeCienWWE's challenger at #NXTTakeOver: Philadelphia! pic.twitter.com/Vwe6DlcND6

— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) December 1, 2017

When William Regal made the announcement in the video above, there was no mention of the Kassius Ohno vs. Johnny Gargano match. Instead Regal announced Velveteen Dream vs. Ohno instead. This means that WWE will have to tape the Velveteen Dream vs. Ohno match and the Fatal 4 Way match to determine a new #1 contender.

As of this writing, there is no indication as to why the company made this change. We will keep you updated if we receive any other details.

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Ross opens today’s show speaking about this past weekend’s wrestling shows.

He says he really enjoyed NXT: War Games. Many people have asked him why he didn’t call the War Games match, but he informs that he wasn’t asked. He thought Aleister Black and Velveteen Dream had an incredible match, and he’s really high on both those performers. He also really liked the Kassius Ohno/Lars Sullivan bout, and he thinks Sullivan has the ‘It’ factor.

He liked the NXT Championship match between Drew McIntyre and Almas, but he was shocked and saddened that the finish came as sudden as it did due to McIntyre’s injury. He points out that McIntyre has overcome much more than an upper arm injury in the last couple of years, so he’ll return from this stronger than ever.

He thought Ember Moon shined in the Women’s Title match as she should have, but all the women played their parts well. The War Games match was a unique display in Ross’ opinion and while he didn’t dislike it, he admits that he had to adjust to the new rules. He informs that Roderick Strong and Adam Cole are two of his favourite performers in the world right now.

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The following matches have been confirmed for the upcoming NXT Takeover: War Games event:

War Games
The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly, Bobby Fish) vs. Roderick Strong & The Authors of Pain (Akam, Rezar) vs. NXT Tag Team Champions SAnitY (Eric Young, Killian Dain, Alexander Wolfe)

NXT Title Match
Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Andrade “Cien” Almas

Fatal 4 Way for the Vacant NXT Women’s Title
Kairi Sane vs. Ember Moon vs. Peyton Royce vs. Nikki Cross

Aleister Black vs. The Velveteen Dream

Lars Sullivan vs. Kassius Ohno

NXT Takeover: War Games will take place on November 18, 2017, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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WWE is at Full Sail University tonight to tape the September 27th to October 11th episodes of NXT. Here are the spoiler results:

* Dark match: TM61 (Nick Miller & Shane Thorne) over Steve Cutler & Wesley Blake.

* Triple H comes out and thanks everybody for coming down after the Hurricane Irma.

September 27th

* William Regal announces that the vacant NXT Women’s Championship will be filled in a Fatal Four-Way at NXT TakeOver: Houston. Kairi Sane has the first spot. We will find out the other three competitors tonight.

* SAnitY out and calls Undisputed out. They say that the only thing that matters is chaos and he’ll take Adam Cole to the brink of sanity.

* Lars Sullivan defeated Oney Lorcan. After the match, Lars goes to beat Oney down but Danny Burch makes the save.

* Heavy Machinery defeated Demetrius Bronson & ???.

* Liv Morgan defeated Vanessa Borne.

* Kassius Ohno defeated Fabian Aichner.

* Adam Cole defeated Eric Young. Before the match, Cole cuts a promo asking how NXT ever got along without him and his pals and hammering home the idea that they are Undisputed and this is their era.

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Photo: ICW

In a move that seems to further solidify ICW’s relationship with WWE, the promotion announced earlier today that NXT star Kassius Ohno will be challenging ICW World Heavyweight Champion Joe Coffey for the title at the Infamous ICW show on September 17th in Newcastle, England.

ICW issued the following press release on the match:

NXT’s Kassius Ohno to challenge Joe Coffey for ICW World Heavyweight Championship in The UK

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – ICW owner and founder Mark Dallas today announced that Kassius Ohno will be in action at the upcoming “Infamous ICW” show in Newcastle, England, on September 17th.

“The Knockout Artist” will go one on one with ICW World Heavyweight Champion Joe Coffey, with the title at stake.

This event will also feature Legion vs. The Filthy Generation, Moustache Mountain – Tyler Bate & Trent Seven – vs. The Marauders, and Lionheart vs. Johnny Moss.

Coffey and Ohno have met twice before, and have one win a piece. The eyes of the world – and those of the rabid Newcastle ICW fanbase – will be on this rubber match.

Ohno is the second WWE star to work with ICW in recent months. Noam Dar returned to his old stomping grounds for a one-night-only appearance back in June for the promotions’s Shug’s Hoose Party show.

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WWE posted footage of Hideo Itami throwing a tantrum backstage after being defeated by Bobby Roode at Sunday’s NXT Takeover: Chicago event. Kassius Ohno tries to calm him down in the video, but it turns into an altercation between the two.

Here is footage from the incident:

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