Keith Lee vs Dominik Dijakovic (Dijak) NXT North American Championship - NXT Takeover Portland 2020
Added 2024-08-28 04:09:10 +0000 UTCWatch: https://streamable.com/t84u4o
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It was the last Takeover before the pandemic.
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-12-03 08:40:46 +0000 UTCAh. So fun. Chants included “Ooohhh bask in his glory” and “Keith Lee woop woop” which was a takeoff of the one Tally probably heard before, “too sweet woop woop”, heard mostly in Young Bucks matches.
Big Ell
2024-12-02 18:49:26 +0000 UTCHe was a part of Retribution. I wish he was apart from them. :p I wonder if Dport has ever seen T-Bar in the WWE games.
Big Ell
2024-12-02 18:44:08 +0000 UTCI need Keith Lee to return to WWE and see him fight Gunther.
Noct
2024-09-28 14:38:06 +0000 UTCI must've stopped watching NXT by this point because I don't remember seeing this before - but that match was a helluva lot of fun 😇
aloneinabox
2024-09-01 08:11:10 +0000 UTCYh I tryed but just wasant for him I dont wanna watch summit I disagree with somebody on then we just get into arguments and might fall out with my mates I just stick to wat we both like then no heated arguments happen im fine with a discussion agree to disagree but when we shouting at each other like him saying its so fake he putting it on then im shouting back they get injured it ain't fake they get treated with them injuries the finish is as it a planned fixed result but the bumps ain't then he say why is one them smiling after taking a move onto the annouce table after why no bruises on there face after they get hit I think its all put on and that his opinion so I just don't watch wrestling in front of him or others who don't like it as I get shit for watching it prob as a new fan u not had it yet but when people say to u wrestling fake it annoys us as the wrestlers sacrifice there bodies to entertain us that part ain't fake when there breaking there necks and backs for our entertainment I prefer hearing predetermined or scripted thats fine but the f word us as fans and the wrestlers find it disrespectful to the wrestlers work and it annoys us but some people do diss wrestling it weird they don't diss tv shows and movies but wrestling strange
Ryan Evans
2024-08-29 19:11:25 +0000 UTCIt's not gonna be for everyone.
Dport
2024-08-29 18:58:51 +0000 UTCHey josh I forgot to answer when u ask me in ur youtube I sent about my freind not liking wrestling because he thought was too fake then u said on the video try get him to watch few full shows I did was few raws and nxts he just kept crictising it every min like the punches moves not hitting right bad selling by the wrestlers yh hd don't like watching wrestling he th inks its all put on and thinks there awful actors I just in the end stop watching it in front of him as he wasant enjoying it it ain't for everyone but when we meet we do other stuff he never change his mind on wrestling to him there trying to trick him it real when he thinks it ain't hevrather watch a real fight that ain't scripted but each to ur own he did enjoy the game just not watching it
Ryan Evans
2024-08-29 18:58:03 +0000 UTC10:20 that one chant was “Keith Lee woop woop”
Carlos Pau
2024-08-29 09:44:06 +0000 UTCAnswering your question about Dijak's name: He was Dominik Dijakovic during his first NXT run, got called up in the pandemic in this faction called Retribution infamous for being so bad and his name was changed to "T-BAR" in a certified Vince McMahon moment. Then he went back to NXT finally ditching his Retribution character and becoming Dijak!
Flair
2024-08-29 01:01:45 +0000 UTCCovid really screwed over Keith Lee. He got huge crowd reactions in the Raw vs Smackdown vs NXT Survivor Series match against Roman and against Brock in the Royal Rumble match. When he got called up to the main roster full-time, they were in the pandemic/Thunderdome era, so they were just getting piped in crowd noise rather than natural reactions from a live crowd. Then right before Royal Rumble 2021, he and Mia Yim (his wife) got Covid, getting pulled from the match as a result. He had complications and ended up being out for 5 months. He definitely lost a step after that and both his ring style and momentum never really recovered.
Adam Nelson
2024-08-28 21:29:30 +0000 UTCI’m the opposite. That match had so much potential and I thought they wasted a lot of it. Like spoiler being eliminated first.
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-08-28 14:06:33 +0000 UTCIf he didn’t put Dijak under the stupid mask and make him apart of Retribution he could have got over more.
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-08-28 14:05:52 +0000 UTCI’ll be in the minority of patrons when I say I preferred Dijak way more to Keith Lee. He had a way better look, way better ring gear, a better song and imo was a way better wrestler. Lee got a big push later in 2020 (this match also took place shorty after he was the last man in for Team NXT in the Raw vs SmackDown vs NXT Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination Match and the month after his short stint in the Rumble Match where he faced off with WWE Champion Brock Lesnar) that I think Dijak should have gotten. I don’t understand why Shawn Michaels chose to book guys like Carmelo Hayes and Bron Breakker to win the NXT Title over Dijak. I also don’t understand why they let his contract expire. I watched every NXT Takeover from Orlando in April 2017 until 36 in August 2021 and every episode of the show from its USA debut in October 2019 until the rebrand to NXT 2.0 in September 2021. I absolutely loved this era of NXT and it was the first time since 2013 that I watched the product week to week. I’ve not watched the product week to week since the NXT rebrand nor have I watched any of the NXT PLEs, with the exception of most of (I think) Battleground 2023. My rambling point is, Dijak was one of my favourites in that time. While Andrade, Aleister Black, Tommaso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano and Adam Cole all won the NXT Title (and the North American Title for the latter two), and even Ricochet winning the North American Title, Dijak didn’t get the same chance to win a title. You may have heard of the group Retribution which is universally criticized as one of the worst groups in WWE history. Poor Dijak was stuck in the group as T-Bar. He spent close to two years on the main roster as T-Bar, half of that time he had a terrible mask on, goes back to NXT and does great work again and finally gets called up again just to not have his contract renewed. It sucks. That stupid chant they're doing is “Keith Lee whoop whoop”.
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-08-28 14:04:55 +0000 UTCHopefully we get the Survivor Series 2019 match in November, if not I'll have to tally tier it. Freaking love that match.
Charlie
2024-08-28 09:59:38 +0000 UTCOh my, I miss these two so much. Every match they had against each other was a banger! Best frenemies in the old NXT 😄 Vince you bastard, if you just didn’t try so hard to turn Keith Lee into the Powerhouse maybe we could still watch him in the main roster… 😭
TheBlueOne
2024-08-28 08:26:09 +0000 UTCThis made me really miss Keith Lee. Last I heard he was having some issues with his heart and after Bray Wyatt I don't want him or any wrestler for that matter to mess around with that. But I also hope I can see him in a ring again one day because he was so fun to watch
Drew Or Die
2024-08-28 05:07:19 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite matches from my favorite wrestler. Man I miss Keith Lee. He had an incredible Rumble and Survivor Series appearance, then a horrible Vince rebrand, left for AEW and aside from a tag team run with Swerve, has mostly just been battling injuries for a few years. Hope he heals up soon, he's a presence.
Rooster
2024-08-28 04:54:43 +0000 UTCI’m surprised there hasn’t been more Keith lee matches but we need more
Jakob Micheal
2024-08-28 04:42:46 +0000 UTChttps://discord.gg/mQMk6BpA
Dport
2024-08-28 04:39:04 +0000 UTCCan you send me the Discord invite link? The invite you sent isn’t working on my phone 😭😭😭
Jamie Kennedy
2024-08-28 04:38:26 +0000 UTCThis match here never ceases to amaze me, the power of big men who can move! I’ve shown this match to a friend when I first got him into wrestling and he was blown away. From Sean O’ Haire and Mike Awesome to Keith Lee and Dijak, seeing guys that big will never not be really awesome to watch fly through the air with grace.
Snazzyway
2024-08-28 04:30:27 +0000 UTCOh what a PERFECT match/feud these two had. TBH, neither one ever matched what they did in these NXT matches against each other.
Jamie Kennedy
2024-08-28 04:26:49 +0000 UTCThis was gonna be my next Tally Tier
Wilson Simons
2024-08-28 04:10:19 +0000 UTC
