WWE have basically walked into the thriving garden that is the British pro wrestling scene and have decided to help "cultivate" it by taking down the fences, picking as much produce as they want whenever they feel like it, and dictating when it's okay for the owners of the garden to enjoy their vegetables.

But at the same time, providing a fuck load of fertilizer.

If it means more veg for everyone, is this a bad thing?

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The salt and snark.

Mark Andrews has now been added to the tournament. Not sure who he is replacing.

Didn't know he had left TNA.

Either way, that's three from Attack! Pro Wrestling which will be locally good news.

Mark Andrews really didn't impress me in TNA. A lot of it probably has to do with them not knowing what to do with him. They didn't even know what to call him, came in as Mark Andrews and then they only called him Mandrews before going back to Mark Andrews again. Had just turn heel and was showing a bit more character.

Who do UK wrestling fans have pegged to win this thing? The guys have heard of don't really seem like the guys you'd go with as your top choice for a winner.

According to PWI, the main reason why Zack Sabre Jr wasn't invited to this tournament was due to the WWE being petty he refused to sign a deal with them after the CWC tournament.

I was honestly not that impressed by Zack Sabre, Jr. in the CWC. He's a good looking kid, but he's a bit on the lanky side, which I think does make a difference when you're trying to do that style. His facial expressions were way over the top, which makes me think he would be a better heel that you want to see get the shit beat out of him.

I think the perfect gimmick for him would be a spoiled rich kid who has gotten the best catch-as-catch training money can buy, but he shows up and faces scrubs that are basically paid to humour him and get tied up so "Master Zack" can have his wrestler's lifestyle. He should have a rich butler who does a big hype-up for him. The pop for when one of the "scrubs" gets frustrated and decides to lash back could be huge. And if you ever decided to turn ZSJ babyface, you can have a heel take out the manager which leads to ZSJ finally showing the world he didn't need the easy outings.

I'd say Trent Seven, Pete Dunne or Joseph Conners.

They're stood closest to HHH so he obviously likes them the most.

That is very fair reasoning.

Is What Culture the Youtube site? They make some good stuff about how they would book historical wrestling feuds to make them better.

What is Wrestle Culture? Is that an ERROR?

Yeah. WhatCulture is the pop culture site that produces a lot of wrestling content, including What Culture Pro Wrestling.

I'd narrow it down to Seven and Dunne in seriousness.

Dunne is already Progress champ, was in their CWC "qualifier" against Jack Gallagher, has worked PWG & was in last years BOLA (which Regal is a huge fan of).

Seven is currently main eventing ICW as their top babyface and is a bit of throwback to old style British wrestling. He's very charismatic, not really an amazing promo but better on the mic than Dunne.

They were the only two guys WWE interviewed for youtube channel and I'd expect them both to make the final unless they see big things for somebody else.

I could see Seven vs. Dunne being the finals too. I'd probably go with Seven as the first champ, with him dropping it to Dunne on the WrestleMania Kickoff show. Wolfgang is a guy I'd like to see go a long way in the tournament before getting knocked out by a babyface and starting a feud with them.

Seven vs Dunne seems inevitable as the final.

I think it will be Dunne. He just seems to have that bit about him that has the potential to one day go places. The whole 'bruiserweight' gimmick works well for him as well.

Having seen him live a few times, he can go well in the ring as well. Hopeful this is the start of big things.

Think it will be him vs Mandrews in the semi as well, which given these two have a lot of history should be a good match.

I think Dunne is as good as signed. He's the biggest name they managed to get and he was sitting at the corporate table on the bracket breakdown show.

I think the semi-finals will end up being Tyler Bate vs. Trent Seven and Joseph Conners vs. Pete Dunne. Trent Seven will be in the finals, I'm fairly sure, but I'm honestly not sure who goes against him. I could see it being Conners that takes the whole thing, to be honest.

The belt looks better than the Universal Title and already has about as much history.

Small update in regards to the production side of the tournament. Pretty much going to be handled the same way the CWC was.

Quite enjoying this so far. Danny Burch looked fantastic despite the unfortunate ending to his match. Wouldn't mind him getting another shot in NXT.

:lol:

"Let's go Jesus!"
"Jesus sucks!"

The crowd are absolutely crucifying Huxley out there.

I would be stunned if Pete Dunne didn't get signed.

Was fairly entertaining. A couple of average matches but a couple of pretty good matches too. Expect they will ramp it up a notch tomorrow night.

Am heading up tomorrow and am very much looking forward to it.

I'd rather not all the matches be absolute slammers. It'll help the more exciting matches stand out more.

Watched the first two matches at work but watching it over again now. Guess 3pm start wasn't conducive for a thread.

Pete Dunne is such a great fucking heel.

Are Gladwell and Regal related? Have somewhat similar face and both from Blackpool.

Regal fucked everyone in Blackpool, so probably.

Caught up with Day 1 today. Really impressed with the characters of Tyson T-Bone (needs a new name) and Tyler Bate (albeit similar to Jack Gallagher) who at 19 was really impressive. Trent Seven has a bunch of charisma but I'm not sold on his look. Pete Dunne could be a star in the Cruiserweight Division tomorrow. Jordan Devlin looks like a dwarf (his head is too big).

Pete Dunne is amazing.

Trent Seven looks pretty fat for his weight.

Good wrestler though, and very charismatic.

I actually saw Seven or Bate losing as soon as Cole mentioned the possibility of the tag team partners having to face each other during Seven's entrance. It was almost too much of a giveaway.

Thought Bate was the more likely of the two to lose though since Devlin can properly heel it up. Quite surprised at Seven going out. Fun match.

Did anybody think of the guys who sold their territory to Vince the 80s when they showed the faces of the promoters of all the other companies in the crowd last night?

This Devlin kid has to be related to Finn right? Or did Finn search Bray for a replica to train?

Tyler Bate is fucking great, btw. I've loved Pete Dunne but Bate has blown me away. So much poise for a 19 year old.

Tyler Bate has been my favorite so far. I think the only thing stopping him from being signed will be his age. WWE supposedly have a rule now where they don't sign anybody under 21, although they've brought in younger wrestlers in for tryouts and such.

Might be a better thing for Bate though. It'll give him time to hone his craft in other parts of the world. He'll be WWE bound someday surely.

To anyone watching, how is the #WWEUKCT? I haven't watched it yet b/c I think we have too many titles already and don't need another one.

It's all defended in England so its ok.