8 Things You Didn't Know About WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne

7. He Started Training Aged 12

Most kids are content sitting inside playing video games or - for the more active - playing football and hanging out with mates. For Dunne, friends and pro wrestling were one and the same, which is why he started training to become a wrestler aged just 12.

Starting in 2006 at Phoenix Wrestling in Coventry, Dunne would travel an hour or so every week from his home in Birmingham to learn the ropes. Past interviews have revealed that Dunne's early months training were fairly limited, and he didn't start coming into his own until a few years later; by then, Pete had met Mark Andrews. Becoming great friends, both young men flourished by bouncing ideas off of one another and wrestling around the country.

To put Dunne's longevity as a wrestler into perspective, he made his debut in 2007 aged just 13. That means he has been wrestling for a full decade.