Johnny Gargano Wins Vacant NXT Championship

I’m writing this just after finishing the match, and I don’t think I’m going to recover for a very, very long time. Johnny Gargano won an absolutely sublime encounter against Adam Cole to finally win the NXT Championship.

Cole picked up the first of three falls with a Last Shot, before Gargano levelled it via submission with a Garga-No Escape.

What followed was some of the best few minutes of wrestling in my memory, and ultimately Gargano overcoming the odds and making Cole tap a second time.

The NXT Championship was vacated by Tommaso Ciampa last month after it was revealed that he required neck surgery that would rule him out of TakeOver: New York and likely many months beyond.

Ciampa would have defended the title against Gargano had he been fit, and did come onto the stage to congratulate his former DIY tag partner after his win.

If you want a celebration done right, you've got to do it yourself.@ProjectCiampa @JohnnyGargano @CandiceLeRae #NXTTakeOver #NXTChampionship pic.twitter.com/1nSQiMG5Sp

— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) April 6, 2019

The win makes Gargano the 15^th NXT Champion, and the first NXT Triple Crown Champion having won the NXT, North American, and NXT Tag Titles.

In full results from NXT TakeOver: New York:

• War Raiders (c) def. Black & Ricochet – NXT Tag Titles
• Velveteen Dream (c) def. Matt Riddle – NXT NA Title
• WALTER def. Pete Dunne (c) – WWE UK Title
• Shayna Baszler (c) def. Bianca Belair, Io Shirai & Kairi Sane – NXT Women’s Title
• Johnny Gargano def. Adam Cole – 2/3 falls – NXT Championship

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