PROGRESS Featured Heavily at WWE UK Tapings, Historic Record Set

The tapings for the new WWE UK Championship show on the WWE Network took place this past weekend and featured a number of top UK Independent stars.

Several of the performers over the two days are regulars for top UK promotion PROGRESS, including WWE UK Champion Tyler Bate, Trent Seven, Mark Andrews, James Drake and PROGRESS Champion Pete Dunne.

The main event of Sunday’s tapings saw Trent Seven face Pete Dunne in a bout to determine the number 1 contender to Tyler Bate’s WWE UK Championship. When Dunne made his entrance he was seen ‘biting’ the PROGRESS Championship (which is part of his persona in the London based company). This sparked a huge reaction from the crowd inside Epic Studios and is possibly the first non-WWE Championship to be held inside a WWE ring since Tazz faced Triple H on Smackdown in April, 2000 with the ECW Championship around his waist.

PROGRESS Co-owner Jim Smallman also appeared in front of the live crowd to add to the surreal nature of these historic tapings.

And then this happened. #ThisIsProgress #WWENorwich #WWEUK pic.twitter.com/5HowB113et

— PROGRESS Wrestling (@ThisIs_Progress) May 7, 2017

2017, eh? #ThisIsProgress #WWENorwich #ProgressTron5000 #SuitedSmallman pic.twitter.com/9zr08pECGB

— PROGRESS Wrestling (@ThisIs_Progress) May 7, 2017