WWE UK Championship: 10 Things We Want To See

6. Avoid National Stereotypes

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Pro-wrestling and Hollywood are very similar when it comes to how they traditionally treat their British employees, in that they almost always cast them as villains. Granted, they are usually intelligent villains, but they still get typecast, and this limits their potential. Some wrestlers, such as William Regal, have excelled in the role, but it never furnishes them with mainstream popularity.

British fans roll their eyes at yet another stereotype and these kinds of characters usually struggle to get over with North American audiences, the people that WWE caters to first and foremost.

WWE almost got it right with Wade Barrett, who was at his best when he was the leader of the Nexus and just allowed to be a heel. He was British too, but this wasn't his defining characteristic. Not that this stopped him getting crushed by John Cena.

Obviously, if the UK Championship is only going to appear at UK-based shows, then this is much less likely to happen. However, if the belt is to appear on regular WWE programming, they need to avoid making the champion and other wrestlers into variants of stereotypical British characters. If the British wrestlers come to WWE television, they need to come as equals, as respected colleagues, not as snobby remnants of a long dead empire. Of course, there will need to be heels and faces, but they don't need to be limited to a narrow group of stereotypes.

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