WWE: Pete Dunne completes one year as United Kingdom champion
Monday 21 May 2018 08:40, UK
Pete Dunne has completed a full year as WWE's United Kingdom champion.
The Bruiserweight beat Tyler Bate for the title in a superb match at NXT TakeOver: Chicago on May 20, 2017 and has made 11 successful defences of it.
His most recent match was against Undisputed Era member Kyle O'Reilly on NXT earlier this month as part of a feud which has emanated from his betrayal by Roderick Strong at NXT TakeOver in New Orleans the night before WrestleMania.
Dunne and Strong were on the verge of winning the NXT tag team titles before the Brit was betrayed by Strong, who set up Adam Cole and O'Reilly for the win before joining their faction.
Dunne, 24, will defend his United Kingdom title on the second night of a two-day event at the Royal Albert Hall in London on June 18-19.
He will face the winner of a 16-man tournament which concludes on the previous evening, following the early rounds at the Download festival.
