"Women's Wrestling!" "This is Wrestling!" "Holy ****" "Better Than RAW!" "This is Awesome!"
Those were some of the chants from tonights NXT Takeover: Respect main event NXT Women's Championship IronMan Match Bayley vs Sasha Banks.
That match was everything I expected it to be: awesome. It was freaking AWESOME!
Going into this match the girls knew they had to put all there hard work into this match. NXT Takeover: Brooklyn when these two co-main evented was amazing. Tonight they main evented NXT Takeover: Respect and they did even more amazing.
The beginning of the match began with the two girls going back and forth trying to get the first 3 second pinfall. Within a couple minutes into the match, it started getting good, really good.
People were getting thrown into steps, into LED boards, into steel posts. This was one of the most physical matches I've ever seen in my 11 years of watching wrestling. They were doing all these moves I've never seen before.
These two put there all into this match. They were exhausted, in pain, waiting for the 30 minutes to be over. For 30 minutes, those two girls put there bodies on the line and showed everyone in the whole world why they are there.
My #1 favorite part of the match was when Sasha threw Bayley into the LED board. Why that was my favorite? Because you don't see women doing that at all in the WWE today. It's more of the men doing that. When that happened, I couldn't help but to smile so big yet be in shock that it happened. When I said that this match got physical, trust me it got physical.
After that throw against the LED board, Bayley couldn't make it back into the ring before the 10 count so Sasha had gotten a win for that which made it 2 to 1. Which eventually Bayley got another pinfall, tying it up 2 to 2.
My #2 favorite part of the match was when Bayley put Sasha in a different type of submission hold that I really fell in love with. This submission hold got Bayley the win within 2 seconds left on the clock.
Bayley is still the NXT Women's Champion! This girl deserves that championship and all the love she gets from the fans. She truly has earned it. I'm so proud of her for all the hard work she has put in to get to where she is today. No one deserves it more than Bayley. No one.
This most likely was Sasha's last match in NXT sadly. But now she's up on the main roster kicking the Divas asses as she always does. But we're all going to miss her in NXT no matter what. She will forever be the BOSS of NXT and will continue to be the BOSS of the WWE. Believe that.
Seeing the NXT roster come out at the end clapping really did warm my heart. I absolutely loved it. We rarely see the roster come out after a HUGE main event like they did when Seth Rollins became the first ever NXT Champion. So it was great and made me so happy to see them do the same for these two lovely ladies who kicked ass tonight.
This night was all about respect and those girls definitely earned it all. If they haven't earned your respect, then you must be crazy because those girls have definitely earned all my respect tonight after this match.
If you didn't watch this match, I suggest you should because it was absolutely amazing. I'm a 17 year old girl and I've wanted to be a wrestler ever since I was 6 years old. I'm starting training next month and this, this match motivates me more to go and live out my dream because it is worth it. They make me want to work my hardest to be where they are.
Those two girls have showed me that dreams do come true only if you believe in yourself and work hard to achieve it.
These two girls are so unique in the ring together, hopefully soon we see these two along with Charlotte and Becky Lynch main eventing WrestleMania together. If that was to happen, it would blow my mind.
Congratulations to Bayley and Sasha Banks for what was in my mind Match Of The Year. You two really made a lot of people proud tonight.
- Nicole Spiker (aka Nikki Adams)
