6 Ups And 2 Downs From NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool

by Scott Carlson

1. WALTER Arrives

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Even if you don’t know much about WALTER, just seeing him walk out at the very end of the PPV and hearing the crowd’s reaction told you what you needed to know.

During the course of Pete Dunne’s successful title defense against Joe Coffey, Nigel McGuinness ran down the list of men the Bruiserweight has toppled during his 600-plus days holding the WWE United Kingdom Championship. The list ran on and on and on: Tyler Bate, Wolfgang, Johnny Gargano, Zack Gibson, Roderick Strong, Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly, Jack Gallagher, Noam Dar, Danny Burch and Jordan Devlin among them.

So with nearly the entire NXT and NXT UK rosters having fallen to Dunne, we met the man who very likely could stop the Bruiserweight’s reign: WALTER. His imposing presence alone was enough to make you realize that he is going to be Dunne’s toughest challenge yet.

And that is a hell of a way to close out NXT UK’s first TakeOver event.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.