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After an extremely well-received inaugural tournament to crown the first ever United Kingdom Champion, there hasn’t been a standalone WWE U.K. division show in the U.K. since last May. There have been tentative plans for a U.K.-centric show, to be taped in the U.K., ever since the division was put together, but those plans have been more or less in limbo without a television deal secured across the Atlantic.
Last we heard, things were finally moving forward (a bit), as WWE reportedly secured a venue for some U.K. division tapings, which is likely welcome news to the “big five” of Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate, Trent Seven, Wolfgang, and Mark Andrews, who have been moved to the WWE Performance Center and have been spending time on and off on both NXT and 205 Live television.
On Friday, WWE.com officially announced that the division will return to the U.K. for another two-night tournament in June.
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Martin Kirby plz
Oh look, it’s not a King of the Ring tournament that you were claiming it was going to be.
You can hardly blame Uproxx for something that was mentioned on WWE television as “coming soon” on the Network.
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Not once did I think they were one of the same. I thought it would have been fairly obvious that they’re two separate tournaments? Especially considering Triple H spoke about the UK tournament a day after the commercial, and a day before the article went up.
I cut them some slack on it, because I was confused as well. Everything else had it’s own slide, so you’d think it might be one and the same. But King of the Ring and UK Tournament were in different colors. At first it was reported, not just by Uproxx but everyone, that King of the Ring was a UK only thing. But then it was reported the UK title tournament was returning. It’s been a little back and forth.
Good God was the WoS reboot bad. It was the most ITV thing ever (not a good thing).
Wasn’t it also a ratings flop?
Hope Zack Gibson is included in this one.
I hope if they ever get this UK division off the ground that one day they’ll have an NXT invasion angle.