 What's good y'all? It's your boy Ross back again with another video. So we're gonna check out how good was Adam Cole's NXT title right from 2019 through 2020 Adam Cole the undisputed era they were holding down NXT For a while that entire year that span they were just holding it down It was it was just cool to see there was so much hype and anticipation for what they could become on the main roster Undisputed era one of the greatest factions that WWE is ever, you know produced and it was cool to maybe see something like that on The main roster consistently had had some great banger of matches It was just fantastic. Just Fantastic so I am been looking forward to checking this video out shout out to super kick studios y'all go subscribe to him I'm already subscribed to him. He'd be having some really great videos that bring you back to you know, you know Good times depending on what? Topic he's talking about but it brings back the the memories and it's crazy to say that 2019 seems so long ago or what not but NXT definitely had some great moments under the Adam Cole and undisputed era Title reign I guess you can say cuz I'm at one point. They had all the gold which was fucking fantastic So we're gonna check this out. Appreciate all love and support. Let's get right into this one, man For many fans the black and gold era of NXT was something near and dear to their heart Just letting people be people not handcuffed by Vince McMahon's flip-flop booking and having their own cast of unique characters Names like Finn Balor, Johnny Gargano, Sami Zayn, Aleister Black, Oscar The list goes on and on but maybe the most important signing in NXT history is Adam Cole It was the summer of 2017 NXT takeover Brooklyn and out of the crowd He came to kick Drew McIntyre flush in the face with Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly by his side and for NXT Nothing was ever the same. The group would go on to be known as the undisputed era Eventually four guys who could do a bit of everything they could cut promos. They could obviously go in the ring They could make you laugh shout out Kyle O'Reilly However the leader of the group was Adam Cole in NXT He became the guy genuinely as good as Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn and Finn were when I think back to the prime of NXT that insane consistent run of weekly television and the amazing takeovers Adam Cole is the guy that comes to mind. He already had a huge following behind him from his independent days with ROH But over the coming four years He would become one of the models of consistency for in-ring work in the WWE and the poster boy for NXT Insane matches with Alistair Black Yeah, Ricochet that curse ladder match at takeover New Orleans Yeah inside of war games and even on the main roster for a little bit So the year was 2019 and by accident and chance Adam Cole got to contend for the NXT title The story goes like this we were headed to take over New York And it was gonna be Gargano versus Champa for the NXT title with Gargano finally getting his moment It was a story that had gone on for the better part of the past two years These guys had started as a tag team broken up only to both become huge Love this stars and kill each other in every way imaginable. This was gonna be the grand finale But Champa got legit injured had to have neck surgery They needed a replacement for him in the main event and that ended up being Adam Cole It was the battle of two of NXT's best in a two out of three falls match for the vacant NXT title Takeover New York was an excellent excellent show the opener with a black and ricochet versus the war Raiders Pete Dunn versus Walter one of my favorite matches of 2019 And then in the main event to these two went on to battle for nearly 40 minutes So with the first fall Gargano with the second and when it came to sudden death These two had everyone on the edge of their seat so fall after near fall false finish after false finish Dave Meltzer creaming his pants in his dungeon looking out 99 stars But at the end of it Adam Cole lost This match received a split reaction and it still splits reaction to this date Some genuinely saying that it was the best match that they had ever seen Some people saying that they way way overdid the false finishes. Nonetheless Gargano had I can I can give I can give some type of Acknowledgement to that criticism. There was plenty of false finishes I think that's kind of been the norm and how a lot of matches are produced even nowadays, you know It's really a false finish central, you know what I'm saying? But at the same time certain false finishes make sense Depending on how you do it and how sparingly it is, but I think these guys are so over and people was just enjoying this Fucking morrow Ronaldo's commentary. I I miss I miss morrow. I miss him. I miss him so much on commentary He the mama me Oh my god and the crowd chanting it. He just sold everything that happened This was just beautiful Oh, but you knew Adam Cole's time was coming. You knew it was going to happen his moment But the quest didn't end for Cole. He wanted a rematch because he beat gargano in the first fall So triple h went. All right. Let's run it back The rematch would take place at the 25th nxt takeover in the lead up What's actually forgotten is they teased the undisputed era breaking up. Cole was eating losses accidentally kicking rodrick strung in the head But that breakup wouldn't be for another two years The story headed into takeover was that Cole just couldn't do it on his own He always needed the undisputed era that brought us to the main event of takeover 25 June 1st 2019 One fall to the finish and in my opinion out of the eventual trilogy that these two would have this was their best match It was well paced the near falls weren't overdone and the crowd was invested 31 minutes and at the end of it Adam Cole was your new nxt champion. He promised that in 2019 Every member of the undisputed era would win championship gold showing everyone video packages of the new nxt intro Which only featured his guys But we weren't done just yet Adam Cole went on what he called the bay bay championship tour going to the uk defending his title there Defending it at live events and even going to cleveland the same place where gargano had brought the nxt title to a wrestling school After he won it and there was a trainee there named twan tucker He let him hold the title and he told him that one day he could do it You know the basic chase your dreams and you'll never fail kids speech Well, when Cole won the title he went to gargano's dad's restaurant Hung up an eight by ten of himself and ordered some pizzas went to that same wrestling school and was basically like yo twan Listen, good luck, buddy Not gonna happen told all the students that they should just quit wrestling training at takeover. Toronto. It was gonna be the finale Bro, if i'm johnny gargano, bro, you're gonna have to see me, bro You ain't about to go to my pop shop and disrespect disrespect my disrespect me and my pops like nah, bro You're going to see me, bro You're just gonna no no no no no we're not waiting to no ring You'll have to see me, bro Don't worry. Don't worry. You got to come into the parking lot. You got to come to the nxt Nxt performance and you got to come into the parking lot. Don't worry. I'm gonna see you, bro I'm gonna see The end of the trilogy one man was gonna walk out the winner and the nxt champion And for lack of a better term This was gonna be a three stages of hell match with each man picking a fall And if they were still tied after that which of course it always is Then regal would pick the last one gargano picked a street fight Cole picked a one-on-one match But before that Cole came out telling everyone that he's gonna defend the nxt title and brought out twan Tucker he brought gargano with a classic nxt arena brawl and that brought us to the six Takeover toronto comes and everyone in the undisputed era could have ended the night as champions But that didn't happen for them. Cole and gargano had a 52 minute match Cole winning the first fall gargano the second and what regal picked was a barbed wire steel cage match Where the only way to win was by pinfall or submission weapons attached to the cage And these guys went all out and all the way to the top of the cage Where nxt started this trend of killing adam Cole at every single takeover Both of them fell from the top of the cage to the demise Cole landed on top made the cover and he was officially done with johnny gargano on the august 28th episode of nxt The undisputed era became three time nxt tag team champions So three fourths of the group all had championship gold Roddy set his sights on velveteen dream and the north american championship However, something big was just a few weeks away nxt was going big time They were no longer going to be on the wwe network They were going head to head with aew in what was coined the wednesday night war The leader of team nxt was none other than adam Cole And here's where he just went insane from an in-ring point of view defended his title against jordan miles Who was going to be big in nxt if that whole t-shirt controversy never happened September 18th was the first nxt on usa But this was when they had to split the shows on the network and on tv On that show rodrick strong won the nxt north american championship and everyone in the group had a championship around their waste Which was just a cool visual everybody had gold I love it. I loved it so much just to see that man Oh undisputed era one of the greatest factions to not ever be really prominently on the main roster, man I don't think nxt will ever see a faction that over again I'm not sure pick off the first true nxt on usa adam Cole and matt riddle just went absolutely Wild in one of the best tv matches you'll ever see I can't show all the sequences in full But there was some insanely fast-paced stretches in this match Cole retained and at the end of it Finn baller returned to nxt after three years away and his sights were set on adam Cole But he wasn't the only one Tommaso Ciampa the man who was supposed to be in that title match against gargano Returned from neck surgery and now Cole had two targets on his back Here began the build for both survivor series and war games 2019 And here's where the guy just became the workhorse of the wwe on the november 1st episode of smackdown nxt invaded wwe I love this was a survivor series I love because when they incorporated nxt, I thought that she was so cool I thought that was cool, man It's crazy how a plane being stalled led to one of the best smackdown episodes that wwe has ever ran backs because everything was a genuine surprise Well on that show adam Cole introduced himself to daniel brian and in the main event for Cole's nxt title These two had a perfectly paced match and it was so so good. I honestly don't know what more I can say Cole took the win against brian in his singles main roster debut the following monday for many It was a dream match between seth rollins and adam Cole in the wwe The crowd was honestly so dead for this match The first ever nxt champion versus the man who had gone to become the longest reigning nxt champion Again for Cole's nxt title This one ended in a dq for Cole another good match regardless on raw and smackdown facing brian and rollins back to back Is a hell of a feat defending the nxt title only makes it rain stronger if that wasn't enough He had a war games advantage match later on in the month which he won too Now we were headed to survivor series and Cole was going to go back to back First in a war games match then he had to defend the nxt title the following night at war games They killed him for the second time in his many takeovers and made him fall from the top of the cage Again, Cole ate the pin here because they were moving towards champa versus Cole at a later takeover But the next night he and pete done went out there and our fans who weren't really familiar with their game They showed everyone just what they could do adam Cole retaining his title and probably the match of the night at survivor series It was I remember that they gave them some time and they showed out That damn there was match of the night. I remember that that was that was good That wasn't enough to kill adam Cole. Yeah, how about we have key The crowd the show right after survivor series come December It was a triple threat match between key flee to maso champa and fin baller The winner getting to face Cole for the title on the final live nxt of the year And the winner of that match ended up being fin baller when gargano returned He was distracted and following a pretty strong match. Cole retained once again So as 2019 came to an end adam Cole just cleaned up the nxt awards nxt male star of the year rivalry of the year match of the year Undisputed era one tag team of the year and the overall competitor of the year went to the king himself Connor Reeves Just kidding. Cole won that too. And with that capped off. Maybe the best nxt year ever the following year Personally, I thought it was gonna be even better. Cole in undisputed era took on imperium at that was so cool too Oh my god That was so cool. Now. I do have to give respect to imperium, you know God give them respect on the nxt uk side of things. They were very dominant So to see these two factions really go at it was was awesome to see man Worlds collide and before that they went to take out imperium on nxt uk Listen to this chop from gunther Well, that was going on champa had Cole's name circled and he was looking to get back what he never lost Worlds collide an undisputed era lost in a really exciting match That probably would have been better if imperium didn't lose one of their guys early on And now all eyes were on the pacific northwest and in my opinion The last true nxt takeover takeover portland the grand finale to what had been years and years of excellence Y'all can't tell me that ain't funny, bro. You just cut to three grown men Fucking catching z's after catching the beats from champ Bro, look at him dog He put them all to sleep. They just He's out all of undisputed era and regal brings out a contract for champa and the match was on That was going to be adam kohl against in many's opinion the greatest nxt champion of all time at takeover portland Champa signed the contract with his blood and as far as nxt matches go This was the biggest one. They could probably put on at this point The undisputed era was hunting down champa and attacking everyone in their path I don't know if you guys remember how much of a fun time this was for wrestling on wednesdays We had both aew and nxt firing on all cylinders There was so much quality content to consume and it was great One week before takeover portland velveteen dream returned and spoiler alert that was going to be kohl's next feud at that show Champa was taking bumps like he didn't just have neck surgery Kohl dying as per always just a fantastic fantastic main event But it ended with kohl winning after gargano attack champa because they were gonna run this story back for the 50 billionth time Kohl was now the only one in undisputed era left with championship gold Roddy had lost his north american title earlier in the year Well, kalo riley and bobby lost earlier in the night at takeover next for him was going to be the velveteen dream at takeover tampa bay Bay that show never happened because of course it's 2020 ui had taken out dream in 2019 apparently throwing him off of a truck Kohl was just chilling at home dodging velveteen sending in video messages But dream had a pinfall victory over kohl in the tag team match when they went ahead with that match This was easily the worst match he had in his title reign He retained and now we were in june of 2020 and he hit one year as nxt champion This was also the time where we had shows from the performance center nxt brought back in your house this time in takeover form kohl versus dream one more time at that show back lob brawl with the step that dream lost He couldn't challenge for the title as long as kohl was champion It actually looked like it was dream's time 23 years old the match was average It wasn't anything too special. Yeah dream though lost this one and kohl's reign continued This is where kohl's reign started to plateau Maybe because of a lack of opponents But it also did look like dream was going to take the title off him at takeover tampa bay Because they'd been setting it up for almost half a year after this few There was this weird period where he was helping roddy face his fear of dexter lumis and car trunks Going to therapy with ui at the same time We had a new act hit nxt and that was carrion cross who was sending messages to adam kohl Telling him that his time was up and that he was going to kill him Shout out to those five guys who post that kohl cross promo on twitter every two weeks Keith lee the north american champion also had his eyes on the nxt title So did johnny gargano and so did fin baller So william regal did the classic regal announcement He always knew it was going to be something big when he showed up He made gargano versus baller versus lee north american championship The winner of that match would go on to face adam kohl for the nxt title At the great american bash in a winner take-all match And this is where nxt started to make just weird decisions. Why are you doing a winner take-all match? You really don't have to of course. They wanted ratings. They wanted to beat aew Regardless, the winner of the first match was keith lee and in a rather anti-climactic way Keith lee beat adam kohl in a fun match to become the first ever holder of the nxt and nxt north american championship After this the title kind of went into limbo for a bit lee held it for just over a month before losing it to cross He vacated a due to injury and then kohl and fin competed for the championship with fin taking the win adam kohl after this Kind of just aimlessly drifted around nxt before things culminated with the undisputed era finally breaking up in 2021 And for a guy that a lot of people thought was going to be big and i mean really big on the main roster He never saw the main roster He said that he had a conversation with vince mcman and he wanted to change his name as well as his Presentation, but when kohl heard this he said that he saw this as a red flag And it was also reported that they wanted to make kohl a manager and have him work with keith lee kohl said that was never the case Following the completion of his feud with kylo riley he left and he went to eat Yeah, no as soon as he's like, yeah, i want to change your name that he's they know him as adam kohl And i you know, i know people like it's not a name change not that big of a deal But for some people it's their identity some people that's what people know you as you know, i mean granite It's kind of worked out for uh goonther aka walter, you know, it's worked out in his favor, especially with the how they've been booking him, but Yeah, i i just i'm glad he did leave now Now if things was you know different and you know Contract situations was different and if triple h was running it I would have been a okay with him going to the main roster because i know triple h But it did everything he could to get him over with the the the more of the casual crowd So but i think he made the right decision in leaving after his feud with kylo riley e w and now it looks like he's destined for big things This tolerate in my opinion is the strongest reign in nxt men's championship history Adam coal was the guy specifically from the summer of 2019 to take over portland He threw his in-ring proficiency carried the brand and there was also a huge level of importance to his segments Cole came to nxt showed up and showed out and triple h utilized him so so well in this video We've only really covered his nxt title reign But from the onset he was the guy who like i said was at the top and he could do anything be put anywhere and always excel His nxt run was really really good and his nxt title reign was the height of that for my money The best nxt champion of all time because no one else really had a run like adam coal No one was able to keep things as fresh for as long as he did have the workload that he did and consistently deliver But as always i want to hear from you guys. Would you guys think of adam coal? You know what? I can't that's that's a fair assessment. That is a fair assessment I Think you can you can you can coin him as probably the best nxt Oh champion of all time You can coin him that I wouldn't I don't I wouldn't have a problem with that. You know, he he had Consistently some great matches. He was part of a great faction. I think that plays into a fart I say fart what the fuck that plays into a part Of how you know the overall package, you know in his delivery and everything man I personally enjoyed when he was nxt champion He's a hill but he loved him because he was cool and everybody in the faction made sense I enjoyed it. I enjoyed this title reign man. So I want to answer that I'll ask you guys that question as well. Do y'all feel that adam coal Is the greatest Champion of all time out of all the nxt champions. Do you feel like he's at the top? Let me know down below. Where would you rank adam coal as nxt champion, man? 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