WWE UK Tournament - What if WWE Used South West, UK Based Wrestlers

WWE UK Tournament

What if WWE Used South West, UK Based Wrestlers?

I had an idea recently after seeing the announcement of a new WWE UK Tournament by WWE and from listening to the always excellent Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard. Bruce always says What If and I thought what if  WWE did a tournament with Wrestlers from South West of England?

We have so much talent in this area and so many wrestlers that could potentially debut for WWE in the future.

So the idea is to have a 16 Man Tournament and to give an example to see how that tournament could go to show how much great talent is based here and what an excellent thriving scene is here in South West.

First some background.

South West Wrestling Companies 

I don't think South West UK Wrestling gets enough love as it should do. We have amazing companies in this area here are some of the great wrestling companies in the south west.  This isn't a list of all the companies across the South West just a select few that I have been too. There are exceptions that aren't in this list (Pro Wrestling Chaos, CPW to name just two)

CSF Wrestling

Web - www.csfshop.co.uk
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/csfprofessionalwrestling/

CSF established by 1998 have been running for nearly 20 years and presenting live events all over Wiltshire and Somerset with a dedicated and strong fan base. It continues to go from strength to Strength, Their current CSF Champion is Mark Andrews, 

4FW

Web - www.4fw-online.com/
Facebook  -  https://www.facebook.com/Official4FW/

4FW based in Swindon and also cover Bristol, Oxford, Thatcham and surrounding areas that have been running and training wrestlers for over a decade and creating the next generation of wrestling stars, that work not just for them but all over the South West. 

Big League Wrestling

Web - https://www.bigleaguewrestling.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BigLeagueWrestling/

BLW who cover Exeter, Yeovil and surrounding areas, they want to create epic live events, use in depth story lines and storytelling and use new innovative and different production methods and content delivery. 

Strike Wrestling

Web - http://strikewrestling.bigcartel.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/StrikeWrestling/

Strike Wrestling who are based in Bournemouth a company which is creating, nurturing and expanding the wrestling scene in Bournemouth and over the south coast of England, delivering 18+ Bringing High Flying, Hard Hitting, Death-Defying action!

Picking 16 South West Based Wrestlers 

We have so many excellent things happening in our wrestling scene here and so many great wrestlers working in this area that so many people may not know about, as for some reason South West Wrestling does not get as much coverage in mainstream wrestling media as it should. 

To make it interesting I thought I would only use wrestlers I have seen in the south west where I'm from over the last 5 years. This would be fun to see all the great talent we have here and whether WWE could create a UK tournament based solely on Wrestlers based here.  

So here we go, bit first a few rules,

• 16 Wrestlers need to be selected

• I wont be using anybody from WWE

• I will be picking wrestlers who I have seen in the South West Area (Cardiff, Bristol, Swindon, Wiltshire, Somerset and Devon) 

• I am allowed One Wild card Pick if I like which is not from the area but has to be a British talent currently on the independent scene

After a lot of thought I have decided that I would pick the following wrestlers (I have added the company I have seen them wrestle for next to their name)

1, Big Grizzly - CSF Wrestling

2, Dick Riley - CSF Wrestling

3, Eddie Ryan - CSF Wrestling

4, Chris Andrews - Big League Wrestling

5, Josh Bodom - Strike Wrestling

6, Lomax - 4FW

7, Tiger Ali - 4FW

8, Kay Jutler - CSF Wrestling

9,JD Knight - 4FW

10, * (Wildcard) Thomas Latimer - 4FW

11, Eddie Dennis - CSF Wrestling

12, Charlie Sterling - CSF Wrestling

13, Adam Da Silva - Big League Wrestling

14, Jack Starz - CSF Wrestling

15, Kelly Sixx - CPW

16,Josh Knott - Big League Wrestling

The WWE South West UK Tournament

So for the next part of this I used a number generator and whatever numbers came out next to each other (I,e 15,5 that would be Kelly Sixx vs Josh Bodom).

This is obviously all fictitious and all done by the luck of the draw but think it gives a great idea of how something like this would go and I have done this for every stage 16/8/4/2/Winner.

You can see a screen print of the number generator below

Here is the first Tournament bracket for
WWE UK Tournament South West Wrestling

I did a number generator again and these were the results

Once again I did the number generator to get the Semi Final Results 

The final bracket and the winner is..........

In this fiction based Tournament Josh Bodom is the winner!

I think this shows and illustrates just how much talent is here in the South West how lucky we are to have so many talented wrestlers in our area and how these wrestlers here should be exposed to a wider audience.

I hope that the talent that is here does get an opportunity to show what they can do on a larger platform and to show the world what we here in the south wrestling already know, our guys are awesome and could make a huge impact on a bigger stage, I hope to see some of these wrestlers in WWE in the future and watching them excel even further in their careers.


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