Tyler Bate Hasn't Done What?

Shouldn’t that be a guarantee for a champion? Tyler Bate burst onto the wrestling scene back in January by becoming the WWE United Kingdom Championship. Bate’s win set a record as he was the youngest champion in company history at only nineteen years old. While he’s a champion, there’s something special that he hasn’t done yet.

Bate recently appeared on the “Buzzards Wrestling Podcast” and revealed that he hasn’t actually met Vince McMahon, other than passing him in a hall at “Royal Rumble 2017”.

“I walked passed him briefly when I was at the Royal Rumble show but hopefully someday soon, I’ll get to sit down and have a chat with him and get to talk to him properly, because everybody who gets into professional wrestling dreams of meeting Vince McMahon. I’ve had the conversation in my head thousands of times, when I’m lying in bed, thinking ‘What am I going to say when I meet Vince McMahon?’ Because he’s ‘The Man’ in wrestling, he owns wrestling.”

Bate has appeared on two episodes of “NXT” since winning the title but hasn’t been on a main roster show. It isn’t clear when he’ll be with the company full time as he still makes indy appearances around the UK and Europe, as well as a few in America.

Opinion: While I’m sure McMahon is a busy man, you would think that he would meet a champion at some point around the time that the person had won a title. Bate really is impressive given that he’s just started and isn’t even twenty years old yet. That’s not the kind of record you see and I can’t imagine anyone else doing anything like that for a long time.