NXT TakeOver: New York takes place in just a few hours and it is going to be headlined by Johnny Gargano and Adam Cole squaring off in a 2 out of 3 Falls Match for the vacant NXT Championship.
When speaking to CBS Sports, Triple H and Adam Cole spoke about the magnitude of this matchup. Below are some highlights.
Triple H speaks about this match being as monumental as Johnny Gargano vs Tommaso Ciampa:
“The fact that as unbelievable of a year as Johnny Gargano and Tomasso Ciampa have had to tell this story, the fact that as awesome as they are that Ciampa could get injured — and this is no slight to him — and you could pick five guys, put them in a fatal five-way and say any of these five could win this and have people go, ‘Yeah, that would be epic.’
Adam Cole wins it, and by the end of that show, Michael Hayes, Shawn Michaels and I sat in a room in the back and said, ‘Man, this feels as big as it did when we shot the ending of the Gargano-Ciampa story right before he got injured. Already it feels as big as that, and that’s a testament to the talent and how good they are.”
Adam Cole speaks about his in-ring chemistry with Johnny Gargano:
“We had some really, really good and competitive, exciting, entertaining wrestling matches against each other. I would even go as far as to say Johnny is the guy I have the most chemistry with. He’s incredibly talented, no doubt. But to me, the most important thing is that Johnny brings out something in me that not many people can — my intensity, my attitude and where it’s almost an indescribable thing that happens where you are clicking on all cylinders. The stars are aligning, and everything is flowing as perfect as possible. Johnny Gargano is a guy who brings that out in me, and I’d like to think I do the same for him.”
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