WWE.com has a new article up announcing that Roderick Strong will battle Tyler Bate next week on NXT in a #1 Contender’s Match for Pete Dunne’s WWE United Kingdom Championship.
You can find the full article HERE, we have included an excerpt below:
Between Strong’s knife-edge chops and endlessly inventive backbreakers, and Bate’s belting strikes and textbook execution, this first-time matchup is guaranteed to be long on action. That it’s for a crack at The BruiserWeight’s U.K. Title will only heighten the intensity. Despite their many similarities inside the ring — fundamental expertise, a willingness to give and receive ferocious hits, bottomless gas tanks — Bate and Strong are approaching the opportunity from very different perspectives.
Bate gave Dunne the fight of his life last month in a U.K. Title Match but came up short of regaining the championship. A win against Strong would put the English prodigy back on track for another showdown with his familiar foe and potentially a second reign as U.K. Champion.
The veteran Strong, in contrast, is still in search of his first championship since joining WWE. If he were to advance past Bate and dethrone The BruiserWeight, The Messiah of the Backbreaker would not only accomplish that goal, but he would make history as the first American to win the U.K. Title.
NXT Cocoa 3/23
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Photo Courtesy of Tom Gibson
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Photo Courtesy of Tom Gibson
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Photo Courtesy of Tom Gibson
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Photo Courtesy of Tom Gibson
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Photo Courtesy of Tom Gibson
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Photo Courtesy of Tom Gibson
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Photo Courtesy of Tom Gibson
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Photo Courtesy of Tom Gibson
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Photo Courtesy of Tom Gibson
