The opening video is shown and we start the show for this week. Tom Phillips welcomes us to the show and says the excitement is high because Takeover: Toronto is this Saturday!!!. Liv Morgan makes her entrance for the first match. On her way to the ring, a recap video from last month is shown of Morgan trying to attack Billie Kaye and Peyton Royce only to be caught by the numbers game. Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are out next.

Match 1: Liv Morgan vs. Peyton Royce (with Billie Kay)

The two women go right after each other swinging rights and lefts until Royce grabs the hair taking Morgan to the canvas. Royce takes control with several hard shots and finishes with a headbutt. Next, Royce ties Morgan up in the ropes and yanks backward breaking at the count of four.

Morgan is brought back in the ring and begins to fire back. She catches Royce with a modified sunset flip for a two count. Morgan presses her momentum with a couple of hard clotheslines and a dropkick. Morgan catches a dazed Royce with a bulldog then just throws her down to the mat. Royce hops on the apron to try to distract Morgan so Liv goes over and pops her one sending her to the floor. Morgan cinches in the guillotine submission and has Royce ready to tap until Kay comes in and causes the disqualification.

Winner: Liv Morgan by disqualification.

Post-Match: Morgan fights hard but the advantage quickly goes to Royce and Kaye and they continue to punish Morgan. The crowd chants for Aliyah and she runs out to help Morgan. She is able to even the odds for a quick second but Royce and Kay soon have the upper hand again. Morgan is tossed to the outside and Aliyah is taken out completely when she is thrown into the apron’s video board.

Royce and Kay turn their attention back to Morgan. They roll her back inside the ring and attempt to do something dastardly to her when Ember Moon comes out to make the save. Moon takes out both Royce and Kay, Morgan is able to recover and help run them from the ring area.

We are welcomed to the show by Tom Phillips and Corey Graves. Phillips says one of the matches to be contested at Takeover: Toronto will be the finals of The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. Phillips verbally recaps the issue that took place in the first round of the tournament when Andrade “Cien” Almas turned on Cedric Alexander after they were defeated in the opening round. A video recap of is shown of the feud between Almas and Alexander setting up the main event for tonight. The Return is coming up next as the show heads to break.

Back from break, Devils Calling by Parkway Drive is featured as a TakeOver theme. The announcers hype the finals of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, including the added stipulation of Paul Ellering suspended in a shark cage above the ring to prevent interference. A highlight video is shown recapping the entire Classic.

In the arena, it is pitch black and Phillips says it must be the Return. A guitar starts to strum and its none other than the Drifter, Elias Samson. As fans chant “Drift Away,” he welcomes us to the Return and sings a song before making his way to the ring. On his way to the squared circle, Phillips reminds us that Samson is returning from a broken ankle. Samson’s opponent is already in the ring.

Match 2: Nathan Cruz vs. “ The Drifter” Elias Samson.

As the bell rings, Samson forces Cruz to the corner and rubs a forearm in his face. Samson locks in a wristlock, picks Cruz up in the air and slams him down. Samson tries the move again but Cruz slips down into a sunset flip. Samson is out at one and Cruz maintains his advantage by grabbing an arm drag. Samson forces Cruz to the ropes, and snaps his arm across the second rope to get free.

Samson opens up on Cruz and slams his head into the ring apron. Samson, with Cruz’s head draped under the bottom rope, takes off and connects with a running knee. Samson drops a huge elbow goes for a cover and picks up Cruz after a two count. Cruz tries to mount a comeback catching Samson with several shots and a boot to the face. Cruz got Samson on his shoulders but couldn’t hold him as Samson gets loose and finishes things with a spinning neckbreaker.

Winner: Elias Samson

We head to the back where Liv Morgan, Aliyah and Ember Moon are being interviewed about Peyton Royce and Billie Kaye. Aliyah says that Royce and Kay are stupid if they thought she would let them run the division on her watch. Moon says that inspiratio works in mysterious ways. She couldn’t sit back and watch the fire that Morgan and Aliyah have die. She says my path became theirs when Royce and Kay got involved. Royce says that Royce looks like Poison Ivy from Batman and Kay looks like Olive Oyle. She says they need to eat their spinach and muscle up because this is a numbers game and they are up. Morgan challenges Kaye and Royce to a six man if they can find a partner. The show heads to break.

We return to hear the hype for the NXT Championship match as well as the tag team title bout, The Revival vs. Team DIY. A video is shown recapping the recent history between Team #DIY and The Revival. The main event is hyped for later in the show.

An official song is profiled, “Hated” by Beartooth. Hype for Takeover: Toronto continues including Mickie James vs. Asuka for the Women’s Championship and Bobby Roode vs. Tye Dillinger. A recap video is shown profiling the Roode, Dillinger match at Takeover.

Phillips teases a preview of Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Samoa Joe will take place later in the show. The main event is next as we go to a commercial break.

We return to hear “ Come Back for More” from Turnstile. An official song of Takeover: Toronto. Andrade “Cien” Almas makes his ring entrance followed by Cedric Alexander.

Match 3: Andrade “Cien” Almas vs. Cedric Alexander

The bell sounds and Alexander gets right in the face of Almas before the referee backs him off. Alexander moves in again but Almas retreats to the safety of the ropes. Andrade, again, begs off in the corner and Alexander slaps Almas across the chest. As the ref is backing him away, Almas aggressively grabs a headlock. The two men trade arm bars then Alexander misses a clothesline when Andrade slides underneath it and does his posing spot on the mat. Alexander goes after him but Almas rolls to the safety of the ropes.

Almas sends Alexander to the corner and charges but Cedric counters with a head scissors flip followed by a dropkick. Alexander mounts Almas and tags him with several fists. Alexander chops Almas in the corner. Andrade tries to return the favor but misses and Alexander tags him with another. Alexander continues with the chops and tries to whip Almas across the ring. Almas slides out under the rope to take a breather but turns his back to his opponent and Alexander connects with a baseball slide to the back. Alexander, with the fans encouragement, slams Almas into the ring steps. Alexander rolls Almas back in, stomps him to the face and goes for a pin but Almas is out at one. Cedric tries to go back with the chops but Almas cuts him off with a good dropkick to the face.

Almas slaps Alexander across the face and Cedric fires back with a forearm to the side of the head. Alexander is able to regain control with repeated shots sending Almas to the corner. Alexander leaps off the top rope but Almas is able to block the move with a dropkick catching Alexander in midair and sending him crashing to the canvas. The show takes a commercial break.

Back from commercial and Almas is still in control. Almas is wildly laying in the shots and connects with a sliding dropkick. He folds Alexander up for the pin attempt but Cedric kicks out at two. Almas lays in a hard chop then chokes Alexander across the bottom rope. Almas sets up Alexander in the corner and nails a Helluva kick. He goes for the pin but Cedric is out at one.

Almas whips Alexander to the ropes but Alexander catches Andrade with a sunset flip for two. This angers Almas who opens up on Alexander with rapid-fire forearms. Almas hits a suplex with a bridge for a pin but Alexander kicks out. Almas grabs an arm bar as the crowd claps for Cedric to make his comeback. Alexander tries to fight free but Almas locks him in the hanging triangle arm bar in the ropes. A pin attempt by Andrade still only gets two but Alexander is in serious pain. Almas drives the arm and shoulder into the turnbuckle and locks in the Fujiwara arm bar for a submission attempt but Alexander is able to get his foot on the bottom rope to break the hold. Almas charges at Alexander but Cedric cuts him down with a drop toehold. He tries to capatalize on the momentum with a running forearm in the corner. Alexander connects with a nice springboard enziguri driving Almas from the ring.

Alexandeer leaps over the ropes and crashes down on Almas. Alexander follows with the flying forearm for the two count. Alexander tried to go for the moonsault off the second rope but Almas rolled out of the way. Almas then connected on a power bomb for a near-fall. Almas was looking to finish things here with the double knees but Alexander cut him off and hit him with the Lumbar Check. Almas saves himself by grabbing the bottom rope. Alexander goes to get him but Almas uses the rope to low blow Cedric then connect with the DDT to pick up the win.

Winner: Andrade “Cien” Almas

The main event for Takeover: Toronto is hyped and profiled with a video of the history between Joe and Nakamura. That ends the show for this week.