Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn 4 results for August 18, 2018. The annual night-before-SummerSlam NXT event featured Johnny Gargano-Tommaso Ciampa in a Last Man Standing match for the NXT title, two title changes and more. Come back for the complete Best and Worst of NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn 4 column.
WWE NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn 4 Results:
1. NXT Tag Team Championship match: Undisputed Era (c) defeated Moustache Mountain. Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly hit the high-low on Trent Seven for the pinfall. After the match, the War Riders laid out Undisputed Era as the likely next challengers for the titles.
2. Velveteen Dream defeated EC3. Dream hit the elbow drop from the top rope for the pinfall.
— In the crowd, the camera panned to NXT’s newest signee, Matt Riddle.
3. NXT North American Championship: Ricochet defeated Adam Cole (c). Ricochet connected on the 630 for the pinfall.
4. NXT Women’s Championship: Kairi Sane defeated Shayna Baszler (c). Baszler locked in the rear-naked choke and tried to take Sane to the ground, but she rolled backwards with Baszler’s momentum for the pinfall victory. Ronda Rousey, Jessamyn Duke and Marina Shafir were all shown in the crowd during the match.
5. Last Man Standing match for NXT Championship: Tommaso Ciampa (c) defeated Johnny Gargano. Gargano handcuffed Ciampa to a piece of the production set at the corner of the stage. He pulled his knee pad down and hit a running knee on Ciampa, but fell over the set. Ciampa rolled over to his feet at the count of nine, and Gargano never got to his feet. The broadcast team teased Gargano about possibly having a dislocated kneecap before he was helped to the back as the show went off the air.
