WWE NXT Results: Biggest Winners, Losers, Moments from NXT TakeOver: Toronto

One of the greatest tag team matches in WWE history. A few new champions. The challenge of a veteran returning for one last shot at championship glory.

This was NXT TakeOver: Toronto, an event that altered the course of the brand for the foreseeable future and provided fans with a few unexpected results.

There were definitive winners and one notable loser whose championship reign ended before it ever had a chance to start.

Which stars are riding a wave of momentum coming out of the event, and who is left to wallow in the outcomes of their matches, their growth stunted and legacies tarnished?

Superstar	Winner or Loser?	Why?
Mickie James	Winner	The future Hall of Famer returned to the ring Saturday night looking as good as she ever has. She pushed Asuka to her limit and may have earned herself another run in WWE.
Samoa Joe	Winner	Meaner, nastier and more vicious than ever, this is the Samoa Joe fans have been begging for since the infancy of his days in TNA. As new NXT champion, he has the opportunity to etch his name in the history books as the best the brand has ever seen.
TM61	Loser	A wildly talented team with an exciting and high-flying offensive skill set, TM61 cannot string together enough wins to gain any kind of momentum. Its loss to The Authors of Pain was crushing.
Bobby Roode	Winner	It was a glorious return to Canada for Roode, who earned the biggest pop of the night and scored a big win over Tye Dillinger in a solid opening contest.

Biggest Winners: DIY and The Revival

The best match of the year in WWE occurred Saturday night, as Tommaso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano, Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson delivered an instant classic for the NXT Tag Team Championships.

The match, an exercise in tag team psychology and crowd manipulation, built on previous spots from their Brooklyn encounter and had fans leaping out of their chairs with every near-fall. The timing was impeccable, the sequences were strong and the finish was a thing of beauty.

After dominating the tag team division, their unity responsible for so many of their high-profile victories, Dawson and Wilder tapped out in unison while trapped in crippling submission maneuvers.

Ciampa and Gargano celebrated the match like the tag titles meant something to them, as if they were more than just a prop. To them, the championships were not only a symbol of excellence, but also the holy grail they had spent their individual careers seeking. It was the culmination of a journey that began in high school gyms and ended in front of thousands in Toronto.

For The Revival, the match was its masterpiece.

The old-school ass-kickers had spent a year building their reputation as a throwback to a bygone era. In the process, they delivered show-stealing match after show-stealing match, becoming one of the most consistently great acts in all of WWE.

Win or lose, their performance Saturday night further cemented them as one of the greatest tag teams in wrestling and standard-bearers for every other duo that comes through the door.

Biggest Loser: Shinsuke Nakamura

The NXT champion did not enjoy a single successful title defense in his three months atop the roster, losing the title back to Samoa Joe Saturday night in a finish that left fans speechless. Nakamura had just won the title in grand fashion, defeating Joe in Brooklyn. To see him drop the belt in such short order was something longtime fans of NXT are not accustomed to.

That Nakamura is the biggest star on the roster, its face and lead hero, only created more questions about the change.

Of course, if The King of Strong Style ends up on Raw or SmackDown this week, the finish of the contest becomes more understandable. For now, though, Nakamura is the biggest loser coming out of Toronto, thanks to the brevity of his reign and the definitive fashion in which he was beaten Saturday night.