Former “NXT UK” star Eddie Dennis has mentioned why “NXT UK” was a particular time for him and the remainder of the roster.
Dennis, who was a wrestler and supervisor on the model, just lately talked about his WWE journey in an interview with “Irish Wrestling & Leisure.” He said that “NXT UK” felt particular as a result of a lot of the roster got here by way of the professional wrestling enterprise collectively.
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“In that locker room Wild Boar’s in there, Flash Morgan Webster in there, Mark Andrews is in there, Pete Dunne’s in there, Tyler Bate’s in there, Trent Seven is in there — all these individuals who we form of grew up collectively throughout the business and that is form of what was actually particular about ‘NXT UK.’ Earlier to ‘NXT UK,’ clearly if somebody made it from the UK, it was one or two guys,” mentioned Dennis. “With the UK model, it was actually cool as a result of we have been with all of our pals.”
He highlighted how earlier than “NXT UK,” there have been solely a handful of stars from the UK in WWE, naming the likes of Drew McIntyre, Sheamus, Paul Burchill, and British Bulldog because the few that made it to the promotion. However, that modified after the formation of “NXT UK” as many Brits obtained the chance to wrestle in WWE. “NXT UK” lasted for six years, with the present coming to an finish in 2022, and lots of stars transferring to “NXT.”
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Dennis on purpose NXT UK started and died
Many have puzzled why WWE selected to enter the UK/Europe scene, with some alleging that they began it to destroy the UK wrestling scene. Eddie Dennis dismissed these allegations and defined why WWE entered the UK scene.
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“It was a humorous time as a result of clearly, it was very thrilling to be part of one thing that was new and, identical to you touched on, you will get individuals who have opinions on why the WWE came visiting right here. I actually … I am fairly cynical at occasions, you already know, I feel it is a actually, actually cynical factor, like, take, to suppose that they wished to break a scene. I feel they wished to money in. They wished to become profitable on a scene however I do not suppose they wished to, like, harm a scene.”
He defined the potential causes for WWE deciding to close down “NXT UK,” which embody the Talking Out motion and Triple H’s well being points.
“I imply there’s so many issues that occurred on the subject of that, like that pandemic and stuff. And it is not all of the pandemic, clearly, Talking Out occurred as nicely, Triple H had his well being points, the corporate was bought, there was the allegations concerned in Vince — like all of these items are in it.”
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Dennis believes that the model may have continued if the pandemic hadn’t occurred or Triple H hadn’t fallen sick as NXT was a undertaking that he had envisaged. “NXT UK” may return sooner or later, with Triple H revealing final yr that the NXT Europe plans have been placed on maintain on account of WWE’s merger.
