Wrestling Entertainment Series postpones UK show, some talent in doubt

The fledgling Wrestling Entertainment Series announced it was postponing its debut UK show until July 9.

Wrestling Entertainment Series (WES) was set to hold its debut show in Nottingham this weekend, headlined by Adam Scherr (WWE’s Braun Strowman) and former UFC heavyweight Alistair Overeem. Now wrestling fans will have to wait a bit longer to see what the new promotion has in store.

WES announced today that it was postponing its first UK show until July 9. The venue will be the same — Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham — and the countdown clock on the official WES site has been reset to reflect the new date.

The issue now will be whether the originally advertised talent, which works across a wide range of wrestling companies, will be able to work the July date. In its reporting on the postponement, Fightful Select said it had talked to “numerous people booked on the card who have said they won’t be heading over there in July,” and that some of the wrestlers were “very upset about the postponement.”

A press release distributed on Tuesday cited The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, also taking place this weekend in the UK, as a cause of the postponement.

It was a huge undertaking to move the event to a completely different continent on three weeks’ notice. Unfortunately, with the Queen’s jubilee celebrations and the impact that is having on the events sector in the UK, and with just three weeks to prepare, it proved to be an impossible task.

WES is the creation of Gzim Selmani and Sunny Dhinsa, known as Rezar and Akam, respectively, when they worked for WWE as the Authors of Pain. They had originally revealed an impressive list of wrestlers for the Nottingham card, including a number of men and women familiar to WWE fans (albeit under different names), as well as Impact stars Deonna Purrazzo and Chelsea Green.

For now, all of that talent remains on the WES website, but it will be an open question for a few weeks as to how many of them remain on the card.

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