{"id":28043,"date":"2018-10-11T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=28043"},"modified":"2019-06-10T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:40:17","slug":"nxt-uk-set-to-debut-on-wwe-network-october-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/10\/11\/nxt-uk-set-to-debut-on-wwe-network-october-17\/","title":{"rendered":"NXT UK Set To Debut on WWE Network October 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NXT UK<\/strong>, the long awaited UK indie centric series from the WWE featuring top UK, Irish and European stars like<strong> Travis Banks, Toni Storm, Grizzled Young Veterans<\/strong> (Zack Gibson &amp; James Drake) and their already established British stars like<strong> Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate<\/strong> and <strong>Trent Seven<\/strong>, finally makes it&#8217;s long awaited debut on the <strong>WWE Network<\/strong> starting next Wednesday night, airing at 8pm BST (3pm EST in North America). It adds to an already stacked Wednesday night on the Network, which boasts <em><strong>205 Live<\/strong><\/em> at 7pm, NXT at 8pm, and Mae Young Classic at 9pm.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NXTUK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NXTUK<\/a>, a new weekly episodic series featuring the greatest male and female competitors from the UK, will stream on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWENetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WWENetwork<\/a> on Wednesdays beginning 17th October at 8pm BST. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L8wVJquMdF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/L8wVJquMdF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE UK (@WWEUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEUK\/status\/1050372023355146243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From WWE&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/wwenxt\/article\/nxt-uk-to-stream-on-wwe-network\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The one-hour episodes will feature the biggest names from NXT UK, including\u00a0Pete Dunne,\u00a0Mark Andrews, Rhea Ripley, Toni Storm,\u00a0Tyler Bate,\u00a0Trent Seven\u00a0and Wolfgang. Joining the NXT UK broadcasting team as backstage interviewer is British broadcasting personality Radzi Chinyanganya, best known for hosting ITV game show &#8220;Cannonball,&#8221;\u00a0and in his ongoing role as a presenter of the world\u2019s longest-running children\u2019s TV show, the BBC\u2019s &#8220;Blue Peter.&#8221; Calling the action are commentators\u00a0Nigel McGuinness\u00a0and\u00a0Vic Joseph, joined by ring announcer Andy Shepherd and NXT UK General Manager, the legendary Johnny Saint.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cNXT UK\u00a0is the next step in our global localization strategy, and we are proud to do this in a place where WWE has had a special relationship for more than 30 years,\u201d said Paul \u201cTriple H\u201d Levesque, WWE Executive Vice President, Talent, Live Events &amp; Creative.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NXT UK, the long awaited UK indie centric series from the WWE featuring top UK, Irish and European stars like Travis Banks, Toni Storm, Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson &amp; James Drake) and their already established British stars like Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate and Trent Seven, finally makes it&#8217;s long awaited debut on the WWE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":28045,"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":[2,5336,3],"tags":[2868,536,598,301],"class_list":["post-28043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nxt-uk","category-wwe-universe","tag-nxt-uk","tag-pete-dunne","tag-toni-storm","tag-wwe-network"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28043","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}