On December 15, 2016, at
The O2 Arena,
Triple H announced that the following month,
WWE would crown its inaugural
WWE United Kingdom Champion. A tournament to crown the inaugural champion occurred as the
United Kingdom Championship Tournament event, which took place over two days on 14 and 15 January 2017. The tournament and championship were won by
Tyler Bate, who at the time became the youngest wrestler to hold a WWE singles championship at 19 years old. On May 15, 2017, a follow-up to the UK Championship tournament was announced by WWE, The event was filmed on 7 May and aired on
tape delay on 19 May exclusively on the
WWE Network. It was held at Epic Studios in
Norwich,
Norfolk,
England and featured the participation of the competitors from WWE's
United Kingdom division and the
205 Live programme. == Results ==