{"id":19022,"date":"2018-05-18T18:41:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T22:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=19022"},"modified":"2018-05-18T18:41:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T22:41:18","slug":"wwe-uk-championship-tournament-who-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/05\/18\/wwe-uk-championship-tournament-who-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE UK Championship Tournament: Who To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The WWE is running a second WWE UK Championship tournament to determine a challenger for the current WWE UK Champion “bruiserweight”\u00a0Pete Dunne.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Much like the last tournament,\u00a0this is chock full of talent new to the majority of the WWE audience but UK fans will be familiar with.\u00a0 Who from this group could be the next\u00a0Tyler Bate\u00a0<\/strong>or Pete Dunne?<\/p>\n

Kenny Williams<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kenny Williams is a name synonymous with\u00a0Insane Championship Wrestling’s\u00a0<\/strong>Zero Gravity division.\u00a0 The high flier is good in the ring but even better in the air.\u00a0 He has the look to do really well and really is the full package.\u00a0 Williams has been wrestling for 5 years and in this time is a 3X Zero G champion and was previously in a tag team\u00a0Champagne Superbollox\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0205 Live\u00a0<\/strong>star\u00a0Noam Dar.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>From the moment he first emerged he looked set for big things and with his recent appearance on 205 Live being well received by critics and fans he is set to become a big star after the UK Tournament.<\/p>\n

Joe Coffey<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wrestling’s Iron Man Joe Coffey is another former ICW regular in the tournament.\u00a0 After Drew Galloway<\/strong>\u00a0re-signed\u00a0Coffey became the best wrestler in Scotland right now and has showcased these talents all over the UK.\u00a0 Coffey has a long list of accomplishments as a 2x\u00a0Scottish Heavyweight Champion,\u00a0<\/strong>2x\u00a0ICW World Champion<\/strong>, 2x\u00a0SWA Laird Of The Ring Champion\u00a0<\/strong>and the current\u00a0Y Division Champion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Coffey was also a finalist in the ATLAS tournament in PROGRESS and has set Ireland on fire with his awesome series of matches with\u00a0Michael May\u00a0<\/strong>as well as appearing as I.M Cool in a more comedic role.\u00a0 In Coffey WWEUK is getting one of the best “big men” in wrestling he can work technically, he can slug, he can fly to an extent.\u00a0 The iron man has no weaknesses and will be hard to stop.<\/p>\n

Travis Banks<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Banks arrived in the UK not long ago and immediately made an impression thanks to his tag team work as part of the\u00a0South Pacific Power Trip\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0TK Cooper<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Kiwi Buzzsaw is also a member of\u00a0CCK\u00a0<\/strong>alongside\u00a0Chris Brookes\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Kid Lykos\u00a0<\/strong>who were the hottest act in the UK in 2017.\u00a0 Banks has stood out in both teams as the best wrestler.\u00a0 His variety is where he shines, he kicks hard, can grapple on the ground and can hang with any aerial wrestlers.\u00a0 At one point you could not see a major UK show without Banks he was so good that he was putting on amazing matches night in and night out against all kinds of opponents.\u00a0 Banks also has character when needed, his heel run so far has allowed his personality to shine and it is extremely entertaining.\u00a0 It is this kind of variety that will allow Banks to excel in the WWE as he can wow fans in the ring but when needed he can entertain with his personality.<\/p>\n

These three talents are ones that we see as the standouts of the field that any fan should keep an eye on in this tournament. The full UK tournament line up is<\/p>\n

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  • Travis Banks<\/li>\n
  • Joe Coffey<\/li>\n
  • Joseph Conners<\/li>\n
  • Jordan Devlin<\/li>\n
  • James Drake<\/li>\n
  • Jack Gallagher<\/li>\n
  • Zack Gibson<\/li>\n
  • Drew Gulak<\/li>\n
  • Amir Jordan<\/li>\n
  • El Ligero<\/li>\n
  • Dave Mastif<\/li>\n
  • Ashton Smith<\/li>\n
  • Tyson T-Bone<\/li>\n
  • Flash Morgan Webster<\/li>\n
  • Kenny Williams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The WWE is running a second WWE UK Championship tournament to determine a challenger for the current WWE UK Champion “bruiserweight”\u00a0Pete Dunne.\u00a0\u00a0Much like the last tournament,\u00a0this is chock full of talent new to the majority of the WWE audience but UK fans will be familiar with.\u00a0 Who from this group could be the next\u00a0Tyler Bate\u00a0or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":18931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,452,3],"tags":[768,1688,780,1728],"class_list":["post-19022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wwe-uk","category-wwe-universe","tag-joe-coffey","tag-kenny-williams","tag-travis-banks","tag-wwe-uk"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}