{"id":12905,"date":"2018-01-23T18:03:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2018-01-23T18:03:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:03:34","slug":"preview-adam-cole-vs-aleister-black-extreme-rules-match-nxt-takeover-philadelphia-1-27-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/01\/23\/preview-adam-cole-vs-aleister-black-extreme-rules-match-nxt-takeover-philadelphia-1-27-18\/","title":{"rendered":"NXT Takeover Preview: Adam Cole Vs. Aleister Black, Extreme Rules Match (1\/27\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men who have been, in recent years, among the most notable stars outside the main <span class=\"spellver\" title=\"WEE, WE, WWW, EWE, WW, WWI, WOE, AWE, OWE\">WWE<\/span> roster are coming together to have a tremendous match. Their animosity towards one another stems from the <span class=\"spellver\" title=\"NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT\">NXT<\/span>\u00a0Championship tournament, which saw <span class=\"ver\" title=\"Please check. If the subject is singular, you need to change the verb's ending, e.g.: &lt;i&gt;Terry Nadasdi &lt;b&gt;has&lt;\/b&gt; left the building&lt;\/i&gt;.\"><strong>Adam Cole<\/strong> lose<\/span> to <strong><span class=\"spellver\" title=\"Alistair, Lester, Lister, Ulster, Blister, Glister, Cloister, Luster, Ester, Aliased, Alter, Aster, Baluster, Easter, Ageist, Alabaster, Molester, Oldster\">Aleister<\/span> Black<\/strong> after suffering a knockout courtesy of the Black Mass. As a result of that defeat, during the fatal <span class=\"ver\" title=\"If the last word is a noun, it should probably be in the plural, e.g.: &lt;i&gt;many m&lt;b&gt;e&lt;\/b&gt;n&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;several girl&lt;b&gt;s&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;.\">four way<\/span> to determine the number one contender, Cole&#8217;s attack on Black contributed to the latter&#8217;s loss and cost him his chance at the <span class=\"spellver\" title=\"NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT\">NXT<\/span>\u00a0Championship at this Saturday&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong><span class=\"spellver\" title=\"NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT\">NXT<\/span> Takeover: Philadelphia<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aleister Black vs. Adam Cole: WWE NXT, Dec. 13, 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4P6ydyZNDyg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was taken a step further when Black and <strong>Roderick Strong<\/strong> united to face the <strong>Undisputed Era<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>Kyle O&#8217;Reilly<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Bobby Fish<\/strong>) in an impromptu <span class=\"spellver\" title=\"NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT\">NXT<\/span>\u00a0Tag Team Championship match. Once again Cole&#8217;s interference led to Black being distracted and was <span class=\"ver\" title=\"Please check: &lt;i&gt;th&lt;b&gt;u&lt;\/b&gt;s&lt;\/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;th&lt;b&gt;i&lt;\/b&gt;s&lt;\/i&gt;.\">thus<\/span> unable to help his partner in the ring, who took the <span class=\"spellmod\" title=\"pin fall, pin-fall, pinball, pitfall, painfully, painful, infill, rainfall\">pinfall<\/span> for their team. Black attempted to aid his teammate at the end of the match by attacking both Kyle <span class=\"spellver\" title=\"Reilly, Orally, O'Neill, Oriel, Aerially, Eerily, Really, Frilly, Oriole, Orville, Frailly, Ariel, Uriel, Orly, Oily, Oriels, Rely, Rill, Oriel's\">O&#8217;Reilly<\/span> and Bobby Fish, but once again Cole came in and attacked from behind. Black once again was laid out after a systematic <span class=\"spellmod\" title=\"beat down, beat-down, letdown, beaten, baton, Beeton, Benton, betiding, bearding, Barton, beading, beating, betoken, Baden, Breton, betaken, shutdown, Bedouin, Bordon, batten, deaden, Balaton, midtown, Baudouin, Bataan, Burton, Teuton, button\">beatdown<\/span> by all three members of the Undisputed Era. As they walked away from the ring with Black left laying, Undisputed Era was confronted by <strong>William Regal<\/strong>, and a match was made between Cole and Black, and it will be an <span class=\"ver\" title=\"Please check. If the subject is singular, you need to change the verb's ending, e.g.: &lt;i&gt;Terry Nadasdi &lt;b&gt;has&lt;\/b&gt; left the building&lt;\/i&gt;.\">Extreme Rules match<\/span> at <em><span class=\"spellver\" title=\"\">NXT<\/span> Takeover: Philadelphia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12939\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12939\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12939\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/Aleister_bio-05679e453f96d57c3560d52c35e05825-e1516748532380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the surface, it is clear that Black has a physical advantage over Cole. However, Cole has faced men bigger than him before and come out victorious. This time around, however, Cole is faced with someone much lankier, and someone who uses an array of martial arts strikes. One of Cole&#8217;s greatest character aspects is confidence regardless of whom he is in the ring with. While he may at times appear to be weaker than he is, the truth is, he is more than capable of using that as a ploy to lure in his opposition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12938\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12938\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/cole_2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cole also has the advantage of having both <span class=\"spellver\" title=\"Reilly, Orally, O'Neill, Oriel, Aerially, Eerily, Really, Frilly, Oriole, Orville, Frailly, Ariel, Uriel, Orly, Oily, Oriels, Rely, Rill, Oriel's\">O&#8217;Reilly<\/span> and Fish nearby to aid him in the event that the former Ring of Honor World champion is in danger. It is all but certain that the <span class=\"spellver\" title=\"NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT\">NXT<\/span> tag team champions will make themselves not only seen and <span class=\"ver\" title=\"You should use a comma before &lt;i&gt;but&lt;\/i&gt; if it introduces a complete clause, e.g.: &lt;i&gt;I'd like to go, but I can't afford it&lt;\/i&gt;.\">heard but felt<\/span>. This is Cole&#8217;s first real one-on-one feud since joining <span class=\"spellver\" title=\"NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT\">NXT<\/span> last August, and it may prove to be beneficial for him to come out on top. Black is destined for great things, and while a loss to Cole may be considered by some as a setback, considering his on-<span class=\"ver\" title=\"\">ongoing push<\/span> and how he has resonated with the <span class=\"spellver\" title=\"NEXT, NT, EXT, NWT, NAT, NET, NIT, NOT, NUT\">NXT<\/span> <span class=\"spellmod\" title=\"fan base, fan-base, fantasy, fannies, faunas, fans, fan's, fancies, fangs, finesse, freebase, Fabians, wannabes, fang's, fauna's, nabs, fiances, finales, Fanny's, fanny's, NBS, fines, fiance, FNMA's, flab's, Forbes, Nb's, fibs, fobs, fancy's, Fabian's, Feb's, fib's, fob's, Danube's, fine's, Fannie's, Fiona's, FBI's, fiance's, wannabe's, finale's\">fan base<\/span> it shouldn&#8217;t be considered a slight on him at all. A finish of Cole winning clean would certainly hurt Black. However, we are of the belief that Cole will walk away, but do it by the most unscrupulous of means so that Black isn&#8217;t hurt at all in the process. A <span class=\"spellmod\" title=\"\">pinfall<\/span> loss won&#8217;t hurt Black&#8217;s credibility if it&#8217;s done in such a way that fans are left feeling that the master of the Black Mass was indeed robbed of a win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Predicted Winner: Adam Cole<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men who have been, in recent years, among the most notable stars outside the main WWE roster are coming together to have a tremendous match. Their animosity towards one another stems from the NXT\u00a0Championship tournament, which saw Adam Cole lose to Aleister Black after suffering a knockout courtesy of the Black Mass. As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2406,"featured_media":12937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,320],"tags":[84,433,671],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-women","tag-adam-cole","tag-aleister-black","tag-nxt-takeover"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}