NXT UK Championship
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The current title holder Walter .
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Title holder | Walter | ||||||||||||||||
since | 5th April 2019 | ||||||||||||||||
owner | WWE | ||||||||||||||||
broadcast | NXT UK | ||||||||||||||||
Introduced | 15th January 2017 | ||||||||||||||||
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The NXT UK Championship is the highest wrestling title that the US promotion WWE awards to male individual wrestlers of the NXT UK rooster. The title was launched on January 15, 2017. The current title holder in his first reign is Walter . As is common in wrestling, the award is based on a previously determined storyline.
history
On December 15, 2016, the WWE announced at a press conference in London that it wanted to create a new title with the WWE United Kingdom Championship . This will be awarded for the first time at a two-day tournament on January 14 and 15, 2017 in Blackpool , which will be broadcast live on the WWE Network .
By winning the first WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament , in which a total of 16 wrestlers took part, Tyler Bate was the first to win the WWE United Kingdom Championship . In the final he defeated it Pete Dunne . Dunne himself became the second title holder on NXT TakeOver: Chicago 125 days later . Only after almost two years of reign was Dunne, who was beaten by Walter in his first title match on NXT, NXT TakeOver: New York . Walter became the first non-British WWE United Kingdom Champion .
List of title holders
# | Title holder | Title change | statistics | annotation | |||
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date | event | place | Number | Days | |||
1 | Tyler Bate | 15th January 2017 | United Kingdom Championship Tournament | Blackpool , England | 1 | 125 | Won a 16-man tournament for the newly created title |
2 | Pete Dunne | 20th May 2017 | TakeOver: Chicago | Chicago , Illinois | 1 | 685 | |
3 | Walter | 5th April 2019 | TakeOver: New York | Brooklyn , New York | 1 | 515+ |
statistics
space | Surname | number | Days in total |
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1 | Pete Dunne | 1 | 685 |
2 | Walter | 1 | 515+ |
3 | Tyler Bate | 1 | 125 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ WWE announces tournament to crown first UK Champion (English). Tweed Daily News, December 16, 2016, accessed February 4, 2017.
- ↑ WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament - Day 2 cagematch.de, accessed on February 4, 2017.
- ↑ Sport1.de: WWE NXT TakeOver before WrestleMania 35: WALTER, Gargano crown themselves. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
Web links
- NXT UK Championship history on wwe.com