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WWE NXT TakeOver 36 will be held one night after this year's SummerSlam. The event will host a few major championship matches alongside the Undisputed Finale.
Raquel Gonzalez will put her title on the line against her former best friend, Dakota Kai. Meanwhile, Karrion Kross will meet his match in Samoa Joe.
The Million Dollar Championship will be on the line as LA Knight faces Cameron Grimes once again. And who will come out on top in the third contest between Adam Cole and Kyle O’Reilly on Sunday?
Take a look at the five things that must happen at WWE NXT TakeOver 36.
#5 Cameron Grimes must defeat LA Knight at WWE NXT TakeOver 36
At TakeOver: In Your House, LA Knight became the first Million Dollar Champion in NXT. He also won the services of Cameron Grimes who became his butler.
The two men have had some interesting segments ever since, but Ted DiBiase cannot let the circus go on for any longer. He set a match between Knight and Grimes for the Million Dollar Championship at TakeOver 36.
If Grimes wins, he no longer has to be Knight's butler. But if Knight wins, DiBiase will be forced to become his new butler.
Grimes must get something he truly deserves at TakeOver 36. The Technical Savage must be allowed to win the match with a little help from The Million Dollar Man.
Grimes has been performing well on NXT and deserves to win his first title at the event. The Million Dollar Championship could give him a big push, and it could free up Knight for the NXT North American Championship in the months to come.
#4 Samoa Joe must put Karrion Kross to sleep at NXT TakeOver 36
Samoa Joe was rehired to work as William Regal’s special enforcer on NXT. Joe had a few face-offs with NXT Superstars, but none provoked him the way Karrion Kross did.
The NXT Champion attacked Joe after a match with Johhny Gargano and choked him out. The Samoan Submission Machine resigned from his job position soon after and announced that he would become an active in-ring competitor again.
At TakeOver 36, Joe will take on Kross for the NXT title. Both men are seen as threatening individuals, and the contest will likely get extremely physical.
WWE has already handed Kross his first loss on the main roster against Jeff Hardy, and it will be up to Samoa Joe to do the same on NXT. The Samoan Submission Machine must lock Kross in the Coquina Clutch after a hard-hitting match. Kross should pass out and lose the title to the former United States Champion.
The angle will give NXT a chance to take the title off Kross without denting his credibility too much, and free him up to move to the main roster.
#3 Dakota Kai must win her first singles title at WWE NXT TakeOver 36
Dakota Kai has competed in several NXT Women’s Championship matches during her career, but she has failed to win the title each time.
However, her new attitude has helped her pick several big victories over the past few months. She holds the momentum going into TakeOver 36, whe she challenges her former friend Raquel Gonzalez for the NXT Women’s title.
Gonzalez came into NXT as Kai’s henchwoman, but quickly gained popularity and reached the top. A jealous Kai betrayed her former friend and laid down the challenge for the match.
WWE must allow The Captain of Team Kick to deliver the Kaio Kick and pin Gonzalez to win her first singles title in NXT. She has been an outstanding performer over the past year, but has only held the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship for a short while.
A singles title run will prepare Kai for the main roster where she can prove to be more successful. A victory for Kai would also free up Gonzalez for a possible move to WWE SmackDown.
#2 Ilja Dragunov must pin WALTER at WWE NXT TakeOver 36
WALTER will defend his WWE NXT United Kingdom Championship against Ilja Dragunov at TakeOver 36. The two men have already had one of the best matches in recent memory on NXT UK, and it will be great to see them replicate it.
Dragunov’s first encounter with WALTER was massive. He gave his best but came up short. The match seemed to have changed The Unbesiegbar, who has become even more aggressive since.
WALTER will look to extend his two-year reign as champion. However, Dragunov seems like the perfect man who can defeat The Ring General for the title.
In one of TakeOver 36's surprises, WWE must allow Dragunov to pick up the win after a hard-fought match. NXT UK could do with some change at the top, and a victory for The Unbesiegbar would allow the creative team to book some new rivalries.
Meanwhile, WWE could move WALTER to NXT for some time and have him go up against whoever wins the NXT title.
#1 Kyle O’Reilly and Adam Cole must finish matters inside the steel cage at WWE NXT TakeOver 36
The Undisputed Finale will arguably be the biggest match at NXT TakeOver 36. Adam Cole broke up The Undisputed ERA by attacking Kyle O’Reilly, and things have never been the same since.
KOR picked up the victory when the two men faced off in an Unsanctioned Match on NXT. Cole returned the favor by defeating O’Reilly in their match at The Great American Bash 2021.
The third chapter of their rivalry will be written at TakeOver 36 in a 2-out-of-3 Falls Match. Kool Kyle wants to face Cole in a straight-up wrestling match, while The Panama City Playboy wants to punish his opponent in a Street Fight. If the match spills over to the third fall, then the two men will compete inside a steel cage.
WWE must allow the match to spill inside the steel cage. This will give both men the chance to take each other to the limit before one of them pins the other to end the rivalry for good.
