Only 2 segments have been announced for NXT tonight, but both play heavily into what will happen at NXT: Takeover Brooklyn III. The next Takeover event takes place August 19th, the night before SummerSlam 2017.
Segments Announced for Tonight
- Bobby Roode will defend the NXT championship against Roderick Strong in the main event.
- Roode made some slide remarks towards Strong and his new family backstage recently, starting the conflict between the two.
- Strong had previously lost a #1 contenders match to Hideo Itami in April.
- Since then he’s defeated Eric Young at a Takeover event and teamed up with Kassius Ohno to defeat members of Sanity.
- Kassius Ohno and Hideo Itami, who have been having their disagreements ever since Itami lost an NXT title match to Bobby Roode, team up tonight as well.
- Ohno and Itami will take on members of Sanity in a tag team match. I’m sure they will get along just fine.
- Last week, Itami tried to tell Ohno to brush off his loss to Aleister Black, but Ohno may not have been as receptive as he would like.