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Well, it looks like it wasn’t a work after all. Drew McIntyre was apparently legitimately injured during his match with Andrade Almas tonight at NXT TakeOver: WarGames. In my recap of the show, I noted that it looked like he legit hurt his arm when he went over the top rope in the closing stretch of the match. Also, it seemed like the finish was hurried to end the match rather suddenly.

After the match was over, one of the ringside doctors came into the ring to see about Drew, and he was helped back to the back.

During Triple H’s post-TakeOver Facebook stream, he verified that McIntyre had been injured and that it was probably a separated or torn bicep that would require surgery. Drew is scheduled to undergo a MRI tomorrow to determine the extent of the damage.

This is not good news for McIntyre or NXT. They are losing one of the brand’s top stars, and McIntyre had been on a roll since his return. There have also been rumors of his getting called up to the main roster soon, but this injury puts those plans on hold.

We will keep everyone updated on McIntyre’s status as more information becomes known.

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Triple H held his NXT TakeOver: WarGames media call yesterday, and here are some of the highlights of what he had to say.

• Kurt Angle was in the midst of medical testing when the issues with TLC rolled around. They were rushed and finished up so that Angle could make his return to the ring for WWE at the event.
• He’d love to have another match with Angle now that he’s been cleared.
• There will be no roof on the cage for the WarGames match at TakeOver. According to Triple H, WWE needed to modify the match for the current audience, hopefully making it better in the process.
• He said that the roof is a bit limiting (of course, this means we will be seeing someone or a couple of someones jump off the cage come Saturday).
• There was resistance to bringing the match to WWE, but the creative changes helped with that.
• He was asked about the UK talent and the possibility of finally doing the UK weekly show that has been discussed for almost a year. His answer was vague at best, but he asserted that the UK talent is still working for WWE and that some are at the Performance Center right now.
• NXT will be taping at Center Stage in Atlanta early next year due to scheduling conflicts at Full Sail.

Trips also spoke with NBC Sports to promote the Survivor Series weekend of events, and he elaborated a bit on why the changes were made to the WarGames match.

“It seemed like the perfect time to bring it out, so I dusted it off. Throughout the years, I was aware of Vince’s feelings about it. There were some things about that match that he liked and there were some things about the concept that he didn’t necessarily think worked, especially in today’s world. So I brought it back up to him and we walked through the process and I said here’s the way I think we can make this match work for us and he liked it, agreed with it, thought it worked great for NXT and was real happy to do it. So here we are.

“When you do this, the goal is not to go backwards. My goal isn’t to make people go, ‘oh is this as good as it was back then?’ I want to put a slightly different spin on it, so that it begins again and takes a life of its own because it can’t be what it was. I grew up watching it in the Dusty [Rhodes], [Ric] Flair, Four Horseman vs. the world sort of iteration of it and this cannot be that. It has to be today’s version of it. Hopefully it’ll be something that our fan base really enjoys. I think the NXT fans are going to love it. I know the talent is very excited about it. When we announced the match and word began to spread on the Internet, a bunch of main roster talent came to me and said, ‘oh my God, you’re doing WarGames? Anyway I can do something in that?’

“For me, it’s also a cool nod to Dream [‘The American Dream’ Dusty Rhodes]. It’s cool that his vision is able to continue.”

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WWE NXT Results (11/15/17)

The final NXT before this Saturday’s TakeOver WarGames is in the books, and the stage is set for the big show. On tonight’s show, Ember Moon got a victory over Mercedes Martinez, giving her momentum heading into her NXT Women’s Title match at TakeOver, Drew McIntyre got attacked yet again by the challenger to his NXT Title, Andrade Almas, and Kassius Ohno stared down his TakeOver opponent Lars Sullivan.

WWE NXT Results

The Street Profits defeated Tino Sabbatelli & Riddick Moss.

Lars Sullivan defeated Raul Mendoza.

Ember Moon defeated Mercedes Martinez.

NXT TakeOver: WarGames Final Card

TakeOver: WarGames heads our way Saturday from Houston, and we now know the final card for the show. WWE Hall of Famer Booker T, Sam Roberts, and Charly Caruso will be hosting the kickoff panel on Saturday, beginning at 7:30 pm EST, and the main card will begin on WWE Network at 8:00 pm EST.

WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne will defend his title against Johnny Gargano before TakeOver kicks off, but that match will air on next week’s NXT.

The final card for TakeOver is:

• Kassius Ohno vs Lars Sullivan.
• The Velveteen Dream vs Aleister Black.
• Shawn Michaels vs Johnny Gargano in an Abs Contest.
• Ember Moon vs Kairi Sane vs Peyton Royce vs Nikki Cross for the vacant NXT Women’s Title.
• Drew McIntyre vs Andrade “Cien” Almas for the NXT Title.
• Sanity vs The Undisputed Era vs The Authors Of Pain & Roderick Strong in WarGames.

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The road to NXT TakeOver: Wargames continued last night on NXT, with the contract signing for the NXT Title match between Andrade Almas and Drew McIntyre not going entirely as planned. Plus, William Regal made the WarGames match between Sanity, The Authors of Pain and Roderick Strong and The Undisputed Era official.

NXT Results

Nikki Cross defeated Taynara Conti.

Fabian Aichner defeated Johnny Gargano.

NXT Tag Team Title
Sanity vs The Authors Of Pain ended in a no contest when all hell broke loose.

And, with WarGames now being official, WWE couldn’t just go by the original setup and rules for the match. They had to change things up with new rules and everything.

WarGames Rules

• All three teams will be contained inside separate shark cages by the entranceway, with a member from each team (as chosen by his respective squad) starting the match.
• After five minutes, the remaining members from one team will be released from their shark cage and allowed to enter the match.
• When another three-minute period elapses, the remaining members from a second team are released from their shark cage and enter the match.
• Following another three-minute period, the final team’s members are released from their shark cage and enter the match.
• Once all three teams have entered the WarGames Match, a victory can be attained via pinfall or submission.

And, no. This isn’t WarGames…at least not the WarGames most of us remember so fondly.

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The next TakeOver event finally has a name. NXT TakeOver: WarGames will be hitting Houston during Survivor Series weekend, airing live on WWE Network on November 18th. The name and some matches for the show were announced during tonight’s NXT tapings at Full Sail, and shortly thereafter, Triple H made it official.

For the first time in nearly 20 years…#NXTTakeOver: WarGames

Nov. 18 ONLY on the @WWENetwork
Tickets on sale 10/13 at 10am CT. pic.twitter.com/qt8gJULShi

— Triple H (@TripleH) October 5, 2017

This is the second Dusty Rhodes brainchild that WWE has resurrected over the past several weeks. First came the announcement for Starrcade in Greensboro next month, and now WarGames, which first took place in The Omni in Atlanta during the NWA and Jim Crockett Promotion’s Great American Bash tour in 1987.

For those that don’t know, the original WarGames match consisted of two teams of either four, five, or more men each facing off with each other in staggered entry format. The bout consists of 7 periods. The first one-on-one fight is 5 minutes and all remaining competitors from both teams enter the match at two minute intervals. The setup of the cage consisted of two rings side by side with a giant ring-encompassing rectangular cage that covered both rings, but not the ringside area. Doors were placed at far corners of the rectangular cage so the two teams didn’t come into contact before they were supposed to.

It’ll be interesting to see if WWE and NXT keep the original set-up for WarGames, because they aren’t keeping the original team concept. NXT will have three teams of three men competing in their WarGames bout at TakeOver. The match will feature the NXT Tag Team Champions, but whether WarGames will turn into a title match is unknown at this time.

Also at tonight’s tapings, several matches were announced for the show.

NXT Title
Drew McIntyre vs Andrade “Cien” Almas.

NXT Women’s Title Fatal Four Way
Kairi Sane vs Peyton Royce vs Nikki Cross vs Ember Moon.

WarGames
The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, & Kyle O’Reilly) vs The Authors of Pain & Roderick Strong vs Sanity (Eric Young, Killian Dain, & Alexander Wolfe).

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