#2 How prestigious is the UK Championship now, after that classic?
Minutes after the United Kingdom Championship match ended, the legendary Stone Cold Steve Austin tweeted his approval along with thousands of wrestling fans all over the internet. This match was special, and in hindsight could maybe have been higher up the card. It must have been such a motivation for these two to go out there on an NXT Takeover show and try to raise the prestige of UK Championship belt as high as they could. The question is, just how high did they raise it?
There’s an old saying in pro wrestling, ‘it’s not the title that makes the man; its the man that makes the title’. Last night in Chicago, both Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne certainly made the title, and with it, their careers. The match was a delight from start to finish.
Both men utilised their different styles expertly well, had a good old fashioned British mat-based technical match-up but weren’t afraid to add in bits and pieces from outside their usual arsenal too. The result felt right as well. Tyler Bate was an excellent choice for being the first ever UK Champion, but it is time for somebody else to try and do more with it. There are high hopes for Pete Dunne amongst UK Wrestling fans, and let’s hope he can take the belt and the WWE UK scene to the next level.
One thing’s already for sure, though, there are going to be plenty of guys around the WWE wanting to get their hands on Pete Dunne to try and replicate, or preferably surpass, some of last night’s magic. This is what you need when you’re trying to introduce a new championship belt, and let’s hope the matches for it continue in the same vein.
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