WWE NXT UK Announced, New Shows Coming & New Talent signed Consequences for UK Wrestling?

WWE NXT UK Announced, 

New Shows Coming & New Talent signed, Consequences for UK Wrestling? 

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On Monday 18th June 2018 WWE UK General Manager Johnny Saint joined by WWE COO Paul "Triple H" Levesque announced that WWE would be Launching WWE NXT UK, showcasing the best of British Talent.

Triple H announced that as well as a WWE NXT UK Men's Division there would also be a WWE NXT UK Females Division and a WWE UK Tag Team Division. 

WWE also announced that tapings for the New WWE NXT UK will take place in the following statement 

"WWE today announced that tickets will be available next Friday, June 29 for eight live events that will be taped for NXT UK, a new UK series featuring the greatest competitors from the UK and Ireland. The UK Championship title, plus two new Championships - the UK Women's Championship title and UK Tag Team Championship titles - will be on the line at the following NXT UK events"

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WWE also announced the following dates and venues for upcoming WWE NXT UK Tapings

Saturday, July 28, and Sunday, July 29, at the Corn Exchange, Cambridge
Saturday, Aug. 25, and Sunday, Aug. 26, as part of Insomnia, the U.K.’s biggest gaming festival, at NEC Birmingham
Saturday, Oct. 13, and Sunday, Oct. 14, at Plymouth Pavilions
Saturday, Nov. 24, and Sunday, Nov. 25, at Liverpool Olympia

Tickets for the events in Cambridge, Plymouth and Liverpool will be available via www.livenation.co.uk, and tickets for the Birmingham events will be available via www.insomniagamingfestival.com. Further information will be available at www.wwe.com/events.

Check out Triple H Talking to Inside the ropes regarding WWE NX UK its future and more (videos from Inside The Ropes YouTube channel) check them out on twitter too

@Inside_TheRopes 

Triple H on Launch of WWE NXT UK 

So who will you see at these WWE NXT UK tapings? 

 WWE already has a great depth of UK talent at their disposal and I am sure will be looking at add to this. 

The Current WWE UK Roster is

Pete Dunne
Tyler Bate

Trent Severn 

Wolfgang

Mark Andrews

Jordan Devlin

Sam Gradwell

James Drake

Jack Gallagher 

Tucker 

Tyson B Bone

Danny Burch 

Joseph Conners

Roy Johnson

Dan Maloney 

HC Dyer

Saxon Huxley
Wild Boar 

Joe Coffey 

Zack Gibson 

Amir Jordan 

Kenny Williams

El Ligero 

Dave Mastiff

Flash Morgan Webster

Ashton Smith 

Currently WWE NXT UK has a roster of 25 Wrestlers based from the list above.  

New Additions to WWE NXT UK male Roster

I feel that WWE will need to make some additions to their WWE UK Male Roster so originally on twitter I picked a list of 10 these were from the South West of England, where I'm from. 

Wrestlers I have seen week after week month after month, for over 6 years developing and getting better each and every day, I hope these men get an opportunity to show the world what they can do on a WWE Stage. 

@thebig_grizz - Big Grizzly Steve Griffiths
@JoshBodom - Josh Bodom
@realenglishlion - Eddie Ryan
@DickRileyPro - Dick Riley
@JackStarzzz - Jack Starz
@Tiger_Ali_Iran - Tiger Ali
@EddieDennis1986 - Eddie Dennis
@KayJutler - Kay Jutler
@ChrisCJAndrews - Chris Andrews
@Lomaxx88 - Matt Lomax

Referee's 

Chris Roberts

Joel Allen

WWE UK Tag Division 

WWE could use nay number of Talents for this I will use the list above and create 5 Teams as an Example 

Tyler Bate and Trent Severn

Zack Gibson and James Drake

Danny Burch and Oney Lorcen 

El Ligero and Dave Mastiff

Wolfgang and Joe Coffey 

You could also add Tag Teams from WWE NXT itself and expand the division by adding 

War Raiders

Undisputed Era 

Heavy Machinery 

TM61

Moss and Sabbatelli 

Street Profits 

WWE UK tag Division could be a real standout and be the renaissance of Tag Team Wrestling in WWE.  

WWE have not released any details on a female division as of this writing but if I was putting together the female division I would have a mixture of talents they already have signed and new talents here is a list of 15 Female Wrestlers I would use, I think this has a lot of diversity and different styles of female wrestling plus lots of different characters too.

Jinny 

Toni Storm 

Session Moth Martina

Millie Mckenzie 

Sierra Loxton 

Nadia Sapphire

Nixon Newell 

Kay Lee Ray 

Jamie Hayter 

Nikki Cross 

Viper 

Lana Austin

Bea Priestley 

Bobbi Tyler 

Ayesha Raymond 

WWE NXT UK has the potential to become a huge promotion in the UK and a vehicle to give more exposure to the wrestlers who are on it and an opportunity for WWE fans who may not of seen the UK wrestling scene before to watch this show, invest in these characters and see what Great UK Wrestling is all about. 

What does this mean for the UK wrestling independent scene? well things are bound to change, with WWE NXT UK now a touring promotion it means that all independent UK promotions will have to step up their game and maybe change the way they do business but is that a bad thing, in my opinion No, it forces companies to get better, to invest in their product and to move forward.

Also I think this could be a huge plus for UK independent promotions as WWE UK talent can still work for UK independent promotions if they wish, so with all the extra exposure that the talent can gain from being on WWE Network, this could then help drive ticket sales for an independent promotion and in turn help independent promotion get more eyes on them. more people through their doors and make more money at those shows.

There are great  Independent UK wrestling companies in the UK. We all know of companies like Progress and ICW but there are companies like 4FW in Swindon and CSF Wrestling in Wiltshire who are coming up to celebrating their 20th Anniversary. 

CSF a company over those 20 years which many of the WWE UK competitors started out working for names like Mark Andrews,Flash Morgan Webster, Eddie Dennis and more. 

Companies like CSF are so vital as they have had a huge helping hand in Developing wrestlers, giving them opportunities and giving them experience. CSF and Companies like them are the life blood of Pro Wrestling in the UK and I hope that something like WWE NXT UK can help them, keep them thriving as without them we wouldn't have WWE NXT UK now its vital for wrestling, wrestling development and the wrestling industry in the UK in general that independent UK Wrestling Survives.

WWE isn't trying to crush the UK independent scene they don't want to put companies out of business, I feel they want to give it a new perspective and give UK Wrestlers something obtainable from WWE. 

 Without UK independent companies WWE wouldn't have their next batch of talent, wrestlers need somewhere to start out and WWE are aware of that and it is advantageous to them to have companies where this can happen.

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Jonathan Orchard