WWE UK Championship Tournament Day #1 Preview & Discussion Thread; Coverage Begins At 3 PM EST Today

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Day one of the 2018 WWE UK Championship Tournament will take place from the Royal Albert Hall in London, England.

Here are WWE.com’s official Quick Hits preview points for day one of the 2018 WWE UK Championship Tournament:

Who will prevail in the 2018 WWE U.K. Championship Tournament?
WWE U.K. Champion Pete Dunne & Moustache Mountain to clash with Undisputed ERA in Six-Man Tag Team Match
Toni Storm, “Killer” Kelly and Isla Dawn vie for NXT Women’s Title opportunity in Triple Threat Match
Hear from Triple H and U.K. General Manager Johnny Saint

You can find WWE.com’s full preview HERE. We have included some excerpts below.

On who will prevail in the 2018 WWE UK Championship Tournament:

With a title match against WWE United Kingdom Champion Pete Dunne hanging in the balance, the best and brightest of the U.K. wrestling scene will vie for a golden opportunity against The BruiserWeight as the 2018 United Kingdom Championship Tournament reaches its conclusion today at the Royal Albert Hall.

The tournament is now in full swing following a bevy of action at Download Festival in Derby, England. After those fiery bouts, these Quarterfinal Matches are now set:

Zack Gibson vs. Gentleman Jack Gallagher

Flash Morgan Webster vs. Jordan Devlin

Joe Coffey vs. Dave Mastiff

Travis Banks vs. Ashton Smith

From there, the field will narrow until a winner is declared in the Finals tonight. Which surging competitor will prevail and move on to a title match against Dunne tomorrow at the NXT U.K. Championship special at the venerable Royal Albert Hall?

Catch all the action when it streams on the award-winning WWE Network today at 3 p.m. ET/8 p.m. BST.

On Pete Dunne & Mustache Mountain taking on The Undisputed Era:

In addition to the highly anticipated WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament, the first night of WWE’s return to Royal Albert Hall will feature an explosive Six-Man Tag Team Match in which WWE U.K. Champion Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate & Trent Seven will go head-to-head against Undisputed ERA’s NXT North American Champion Adam Cole & NXT Tag Team Champions Roderick Strong & Kyle O’Reilly.

Just when it looked as if Dunne’s heated rivalry with the Undisputed ERA couldn’t grow any more intense, Strong completely shocked the NXT Universe by turning on the British titleholder at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans during their tag team title bout and joined NXT’s most outspoken stable outright.

In the months that followed, Strong, Cole & O’Reilly have openly mocked the very idea of Dunne, Bate & Seven’s British Strong Style movement, going so far as to declare that the entire United Kingdom is overrated and promising to come into the legendary Albert Hall and destroy the hometown trio in their own backyard.

Will Undisputed ERA expose their foes as “pretenders”? Or will the tough-as-nails combination of Dunne & Moustache Mountain finally show them why competitors from the U.K. are considered some of the world’s most elite Superstars?