WWE United Kingdom Championship

NXT United Kingdom Championship
Second champion Pete Dunne, who held the title for 685 days
Details
Promotion	WWE
Date established	15 December 2016
Date retired	4 September 2022 (unified with the NXT Championship)
Other name(s)
WWE United Kingdom Championship (2016–2020) NXT United Kingdom Championship (2020–2022)
Statistics First champion(s) Tyler Bate Final champion(s) Tyler Bate Most reigns Tyler Bate (2 reigns) Longest reign Walter (870 days) Shortest reign Tyler Bate (2nd reign, 59 days)[a] Oldest winner Walter (31 years, 228 days) Youngest winner Tyler Bate (19 years, 314 days) Heaviest champion Walter (297 lb (135 kg)) Lightest champion Tyler Bate (175 lb (79 kg))

The WWE United Kingdom Championship, later known as the NXT United Kingdom Championship from 2020 to 2022, was a professional wrestling title owned by WWE and competed for by the men of NXT UK. It was created on 15 December 2016 and a 16-man tournament with British wrestlers happened on 14 and 15 January 2017 to crown the champion. Tyler Bate beat Pete Dunne in the final to become the first champion.

It was also sometimes defended at NXT events and on independent wrestling shows in the United Kingdom before the COVID-19 pandemic. On 4 September 2022 at Worlds Collide, the title was made into one into the NXT Championship, retiring the title. Tyler Bate, the only man to hold the title more than once, was the final champion.

The base design of the belt was similar to the WWE Championship belt introduced in 2014, with differences.^[1] Instead of a large cut out of the WWE logo, the center plate was designed after the United Kingdom's royal coat of arms, featuring a lion and a horse, with a shield at the center. Above the shield were the crown jewels. When the championship was originally introduced, the shield at the center of the main plate featured the WWE logo, but that was changed to the NXT UK logo on 17 January 2020 when the title was renamed.
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1. ↑ WWE Superstars - WWE.com