WWE United Kingdom Championship to be defended at Progress … – Cageside Seats (blog)

Today, on Facebook, Progress Wrestling co-owner Glen Joseph delivered some monumental news about their upcoming internet pay-per-view (iPPV) this Friday. Lets take a look, and then Ill transcribe the most important bit below

From the desk of NXT General Manager William Regal:

Good morning. It's been brought to my attention that there were certain liberties taken by British Strong Style in the Progress Championship match between Mark Andrews and Pete Dunne last Sunday at the Progress fifth anniversary show. Now Trent Seven's conduct is an internal matter for Progress management to deal with, but as WWE UK Champion, Tyler Bate must realize that he represents the WWE UK brand wherever he performs.

Therefore, due to Tyler Bate's interference in Mark Andrews' Progress title match, I deem it only fair that Mark should get an opportunity at Tyler's WWE UK Championship. So, on Friday, March 31st at Progress: Orlando, for the first time in history, a WWE title will be defended on a Progress show, as I'm ruling that Tyler Bate vs. Mark Andrews is now a WWE UK Championship match, and the winner of that match will go on to represent the WWE UK brand as champion at Axxess and beyond.

Kind regards, William Regal

Yes indeed, Mr. Regal has made us some history. Only the second WWE United Kingdom Championship title defense and its happening on independent wrestling soil, live on iPPV!

And, as Glen points out, its the first WWE title defense of any kind to happen in another promotion in over twenty years, the last being Bull Nakano defending her WWE Womens Championship against Kyoko Inoue at AJW Queendom 1995. (At least, if you dont count the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship, which was defended by Shinjiro Ohtani in New Japan as late as 1997, however it was part of the J-Crown at the time and not actually recognized by WWE.)

For convenience and ease of working the time and date in, I also present to you the full card for the show.

Progress is coming to the US for the first time on iPPV through WWNLive, and theyre bringing the WWE UK title with them. Excited?

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