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While most of us can’t wait for the 2020 Royal Rumble, some of us are all about NXT and the WWE Worlds Collide 2020 event which will be taking place during the Royal Rumble weekend.
Worlds Collide will take place on January 25, 2020, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, and the card seems to reflect something we’ve usually seen at Survivor Series.
Superstars from NXT and NXT UK will go head to head in a battle for supremacy, and we will also watch the Cruiserweight Championship and the NXT Women’s Championship defended at the event.
Apart from the title matches, popular tag teams DIY and Moustache Mountain will be taking on each other in what could be a clash to remember.
The top factions of both the brands will also go head to head during the night to give fans something they might never forget.
In this article, we will look at the five things that must happen at the event to make it an unforgettable one.
#5 A new UK Champion is crowned
Worlds Collide will mostly kick off with a Championship match, as current Cruiserweight Champion Angel Garza will be put to the test when he takes on Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, Travis Banks, and Jordan Devlin.
While Garza recently won the title from Lio Rush and has successfully defended it on NXT and 205 Live, his reign could be cut short by one of his three competitors.
With that in mind, NXT should allow an NXT UK contender to take the title home after this huge Fatal 4-Way match.
Garza has had a good short reign as the Champion, but NXT needs to push it’s UK product out more to the WWE Universe, and they could do this well by crowning either Travis Banks or Jordan Devlin as the new Champion.
Devlin has been an outstanding performer in recent months, and he deserves to be rewarded by the company with a title reign. Therefore, Devlin could walk into Worlds Collide as the favorite heel to take the Championship and leave a mark on the NXT Universe.
#4 DIY and Moustache Mountain give us the match of the month
This is the match that I personally am looking forward to. Not only are these two teams my favorite, but they have some of the strongest stories behind them and are arguably the best in-ring performers today.
Former NXT Tag Team Champions Trent Seven and Tyler Bate will get back together to take on the unforgiving team of Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa in an exciting clash.
We have seen all four men feature in some of the best matches of the year over the past few years, and Gargano, in particular, has proven to be a gem of a performer.
With that in mind, NXT should give these four men the longest time on the card to give fans one of the most iconic tag team matches of the era.
All four men are capable of putting on masterpieces, and Bate recently stole the show at NXT TakeOver: Blackpool II and got a lot of praise for his performance.
While I would personally pick Moustache Mountain to go over in this clash, it doesn’t matter who wins as long as fans get a Match of the Year candidate from these men at Worlds Collide.
#3 Finn Balor squashes Dragunov
Ilja Dragunov is arguably the most unique performer WWE has in its arsenal today. The Russian had a short undefeated streak when he first emerged onto the scene in NXT UK and has since had quite a bit of success and some great matches involving men from Imperium.
Finn Balor, on the other hand, recently returned to NXT and turned heel to give the NXT Universe much more they could’ve ever bargained for.
Balor is currently involved in a bitter rivalry with Johnny Gargano, and the two men will likely write the first chapter of their rivalry at NXT TakeOver: Portland. Since there will be so much on the line at the event, and all eyes will be on these two star-performers, NXT will be looking to allow Balor to go over the roof in his Worlds Collide match.
Balor has already tasted defeat in NXT upon his return, and now the brand needs to build him up to be a strong competitor before he collides with Gargano.
With that in mind, not only should Balor defeat a strong contender like Dragunov who has never backed down from a fight, but squash him in minutes to make a huge statement.
There is no doubt that Dragunov is one of the strongest and hardest hitters in NXT UK, and going over him will help Balor become an instant star once again.
#2 Rhea Ripley retains her Championship
At NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool (2019), Toni Storm rose above the rest of the NXT UK locker room and defeated Rhea Ripley to become the NXT UK Women’s Champion.
Almost exactly a year ago at Worlds Collide (2019), Storm defeated Ripley again in a dark match to retain her title.
Storm held the title for a few months before losing it to Kay Lee Ray at NXT UK TakeOver: Cardiff on Aug 31st, 2019. Since then, we’ve seen Storm compete in far fewer matches, while Ripley has managed to become a huge star on NXT and even defeated Shayna Baszler for the NXT Women’s Championship.
Ripley will once again defend her title against the woman who defeated her for the NXT UK title last year and will try to hold on to it with a good show.
While Storm is a great candidate to take the title away from Ripley again, NXT must book Ripley to retain her Championship as she has only recently become the Champion.
The Nightmare has a lot of fan following at the moment, and she has the ability to transform the entire NXT women’s division by having some great title matches against women like Io Shirai and Candice LeRae.
#1 Undisputed Era reigns supreme
Arguably the biggest Black & Gold brand match we’ll witness all year. NXT’s Undisputed Era will take on NXT UK’s Imperium in a tag team match at the PPV.
While the Undisputed Era have been the undisputed leaders of factions in all of NXT, and possibly the entire WWE, Imperium have arrived to dominate the two brands.
Current NXT United Kingdom Champion WALTER will lead the former NXT Tag Team Champion Alexander Wolfe, along with Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel in the battle against the NXT Champion Adam Cole, NXT Tag Team Champions Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly, and Roderick Strong.
After NXT TakeOver Blackpool II, Undisputed Era left a mark on the NXT UK crowd by attacking Imperium after WALTER retained his NXT UK Championship.
At Worlds Collide, WALTER will be the biggest hurdle in Undisputed Era’s path as they will want to prove that they are the premier faction in all of NXT and WWE.
To prove themselves right, NXT must allow the four men to take out WALTER early and then work on the rest of the Imperium members to pick up a huge victory after a hard-fought match.
This is the perfect time for WWE to display what NXT is made of and allow more fans to get hooked onto the product, and the company must book the more popular team to go over in order to ensure that fans are happy in the end.
