#6 The United Kingdom Championship is good for NXT
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Traditionally, the WWE have always liked to showcase more than one single’s belt on their various shows. The IC and US titles, while not holding quite the same amount of prestige as they used to, are always able to give the mid-card division something to focus on. When you have just the one single’s title, the main event scene comes across as the only thing fans should be interested in, and everyone else below just looks like they’re treading water until they get up there.
This has been a bit of a problem with NXT in recent years. The NXT title is the main prize on the show, but you can normally only have two or three guys involved in trying to capture it, leaving the mid card with not a lot to work towards. Now, given the increase in popularity around the WWE UK Championship after that exceptional match at Takeover Chicago, the opportunity is there to keep the belt on NXT for good.
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In a few weeks, the WWE will be showing its UK Championship weekly special on the WWE Network, but it would be a mistake to move all of the attention over to that show at the expense of Wednesday nights. It’s far from clear whether fans will be interested enough in watching the show, and there are a lot of competitors involved that deserve to be showcased more.
Pete Dunne, for example, is a real promising talent that could definitely thrive on WWE’s main roster. It will do him no good if he is stuck on a WWE Network special that struggles to compete with a popular brand like NXT.
The UK Championship would flesh out the NXT roster a lot more, and provide depth to the Takeover shows. There’s no reason why the belt can’t be defended against non-British wrestlers either. Imagine Pete Dunne going against guys like Johnny Gargano or Cien Almas on NXT’s main stage. The possibilities are there to make this championship an important part of WWE’s developmental show, let’s hope they consider it.
