RAW Deal: Long live NXT UK

FIELDS. In front of their compatriots in London, Trent Seven and Tyler Bate beat Undisputed ERA to become the new Tag Team NXT Champions. Photo of the WWE

LONDON – We heard that this was going to happen for a while, but we never thought the WWE would succeed. The international takeover of the company continues with the announcement of the launch of the British NXT division.

Performed in the midst of this year's UK Championship tournament, NXT UK is, as its name suggests, the UK's regional branch. NXT brand in the United Kingdom. Independent wrestlers will now work freely under a UK division, somewhere halfway between the WWE and the freedom to work in affiliate promotions, if one relies on some wrestlers from The cruiserweight division and the first group of British talents are now being booked.

The biggest implication of this movement is that NXT UK – which I will assume to be a hub for more than the UK, despite its name, including most of Europe Continental – means that there are other regions to get the same treatment. The fact that Adam Cole is the NXT North American champion not an intercontinental champion, and that Pete Dunne is the champion of the UK, implies that they plan to settle all over the world, as much as they can.

At the top of my head, we will probably get Asia NXT, which covers Japan, China, India and Southeast Asia; NXT Middle East, which has its own young but burgeoning scene; NXT Central and South America, which is the largest sphere beyond Mexico and Puerto Rico. The world of professional wrestling is being remodeled in the old days of territory, but with a new twist to the WWE – at least they finally justify the first W in their name.

Return to the British division. This has been an exhausting UK Championship tournament this year, certainly much better than the original bid, but despite the best deals among the WWE pool has clearly stated on which they want to count to build NXT UK. The winner of this year's tournament, Zack Gibson of Liverpool, won his best match against champion Pete Dunne, but he failed.

It can be said that Gibson had the disadvantage of having to participate in this wrestling match. 3 more games than Dunne the day before. But all this successful defense tells me two things: 1) fans should not expect the tournament winner to be automatically the favorite to win, and 2) Triple H has chosen Dunne and Tyler Bate, both of British Strong Style, tournament for a reason.

Dunne and Bate constitute a solid core of young talents for building officials from a British division – and when you add guys who showed up at the Royal Albert Hall during last week, such as Gibson tournament winner, second (and favorite) Travis Banks, Noam Dar return, other names like Trent Seven, Wolfgang Young, Flash Morgan Webster, Coffey Brothers, Toni Storm, the competitor of the NXT Women's Championship, you're

Of course, it's the UK, and they have a rich tradition of professional wrestling. Personally, I can not wait for WWE to do the same for regions like ours and inject the kind of talent and advice that young people need to flourish. Protective and territorial fans may characterize Triple H's recent business decisions as clever and a bit greedy (with the way these developments tend to engulf relatively smaller operations), but this is not the case. is a different way of doing business. *

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