NXT Takeover: The Return

NXT Takeover: The Return was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE, featuring their third brand WWE NXT, that took place on November 4, 2020 in Brooklyn, New York at the Barclays Center.

It was a special episode of WWE NXT and the ninth live professional wrestling event streamed online via the WWE Network. It was the first live special to take place since the return of NXT in September 2020.

Background
NXT Takeover: The Return featured professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines that played out on the WWE NXT television program. Wrestlers portrayed faces (heroes) or heels (villains) as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a match or a series of matches.

On the premiere episode of NXT, Shawn Michaels would open the show briefly touching upon Triple H's suspension, before revealing that he had been re-instated by the Board of Directors ― due to Becky Lynch's actions this past week on Raw when she attacked Triple H's wife, Stephanie McMahon; and that he would be on both Raw the following week as well as and next week's episode of NXT to finally be able to make his announcement regarding NXT's return as well as who the NXT General Manager would be.

Michaels would later reveal on behalf of Triple H that the first Takeover event aptly titled NXT TakeOver: The Return would take place on November 4th, 2020. He also revealed that an NXT Champion, NXT Women's Champion and NXT Tag Team Champions would be crowned that night. On the October 28, 2020 episode of NXT, Kane would be about to announce who would compete for both the NXT and NXT Women's Championships when the lights went out Kane had vanished before Sting would come out and reveal that he had been the NXT General Manager all along and would announce that Kay Lee Ray, Anastasia Rossi and Sonya Deville would compete in a Triple Threat Ladder match for the NXT Women's Championship, before then announcing that Mason Wolfe would face Kyle O'Reilly for the NXT Championship before adding Tessa Blanchard to the match and making it also a Triple Threat Ladder match for the NXT Championship.