Beast in the East - The Demon of Ryōgoku Sumo Hall

About this episode

The episode revisits the Beast in the East event featuring Finn Balor and Kevin Owens, along with other notable matches.

We take a break from Takeovers, and follow Finn Balor overseas, as he returns to Japan to face Kevin Owens for the NXT Championship. Chris Jericho and Adrian Neville have a dream match to get us started. And the titular Beast battles Kofi Kingston. Revisit this decade-old special event with us, we watch half hour John Cena matches so you don't have to Welcome to TEN-XT, an officially unofficial WWE:NXT history podcast. Three lifelong friends discuss the episode of NXT that came out ten years ago today. And along the way, the wider world of the time - Including sports, news and of course... wrestling. We are not affiliated with WWE in any way, nor are we pro wrestlers. But we are fans of NXT, that IS true. Just North-East English lads talking wrestling, it's a stereotype at this point, so you know the drill. Music: Hall of the Metal King by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

People in this episode

Host: Lilypad Productions

Topics covered

• NXT Championship
• wrestling history
• Finn Balor
• special events
• sports
• Japan

Keywords

• Finn Balor
• Kevin Owens
• Chris Jericho
• Adrian Neville
• Kofi Kingston
• NXT
• wrestling
• Japan

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WWE

Places: Japan

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