WWE Superstar Pete Dunne is set to return to the UK for an indie wrestling match.
Fresh off his win against Masashi Takeda at GCW Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XV on April 17, 2026, Dunne showed up on the April 20, 2026, episode of Monday Night RAW as Rayo Americano.
Working on WWE, NXT, and AAA, Dunne is now set for his UK independent return. The 32-year-old is set to compete on ATTACK! Pro Wrestling: CAN YOU FEEL MY HEART event on June 19, 2026. The show will also feature Mark Andrews and Dani Luna.
“Dunne returns to the promotion for the first time since 2018 at the promotion’s upcoming CAN YOU FEEL MY HEART event on Friday 19th June, at The Great Hall, Cardiff Student’s Union, with former WWE & TNA Superstars Mark Andrews and Dani Luna also announced for the event,” wrote Attack! Pro Wrestling.
Set to take place at The Great Hall, Cardiff Student’s Union, doors for the show will open at 6:15 PM, while the event is scheduled to start at 7:00 PM.
The upcoming show will follow ATTACK! Pro Wrestling’s 15th Anniversary event, held in March 2026, which was also the promotion’s largest ever event. ATTACK! Pro Wrestling began in 2011 and has been instrumental in launching the careers of Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate, Mark Andrews, Flash Morgan Webster, Dani Luna, Chris Brooke, and many others.
Promoted as a family-friendly event, tickets for the show are priced at £22 ($29.74) for General Seating, £18 ($24.33) for General Standing, and £75 ($101.39) for a Family Seated Ticket.
PETE DUNNE RETURNS TO ATTACK! PRO
WWE Superstar, 'The Bruiserweight' Pete Dunne returns to ATTACK! for the first time in 8 years!
Don't miss CAN YOU FEEL MY HEART – Friday 19th June at The Great Hall, Cardiff Student's Union
Nixon Newell (former WWE wrestler Tegan Nox) is no longer scheduled for a pair of indie dates this December.
Following her release from WWE, it was announced that Newell would return to Attack! Pro Wrestling for their Under the Mistletour events in Cardiff, Wales on December 14-15. However, the promotion has now announced that she will no longer be appearing. They hope to bring Newell back in 2025.
Newell was released by WWE on November 1. She had been announced for these shows despite indicating on social media that she has a 90-day non-compete clause. In their statement, Attack! Pro Wrestling thanked WWE for its support “over the past several weeks” in trying to make Newell’s appearances a possibility:
We’re sorry to announce that unfortunately Tegan Nox (AKA Nixon Newell) will no longer be appearing at our Under The Mistletour events in December.
We know this news will be disappointing to the ATTACK! community, especially those who have made travel plans for the show. Our fans are the heart of ATTACK! and we’re sorry to let you down.
We’re already looking into suitable replacements for the shows, and hope to bring Nixon back to ATTACK! In 2025. However, refunds are of course available on request.
We’d like to thank WWE for its support over the past several weeks in trying to make these appearances a possibility.
Newell is from Wales and regularly appeared for Attack! Pro Wrestling in the past. She made a post on her Instagram stories reacting to these appearances not happening: “Pissed is an understatement! I’ll be back home soon, don’t you worry!”
Indi Hartwell and Baron Corbin also departed WWE on November 1. Newell and Hartwell were both released by the company, while Corbin’s contract was not renewed.
“Some things are just out of your control and you can only do as much as you can,” Newell tweeted after her release. “Let’s clear one thing up though. I’m ready. Ive been ready. Just have to show people what they’ve missed.”
It’s not clear if Newell was originally booked for these dates before her WWE release or not.
Editor’s note: The results of New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Dominion show are written about in this column.
This week in wrestling, WWE held a PPV with some extreme rules, Impact aired from India, and NJPW Dominion! Here are our favorite wrestlers this week. Who’s yours?
I’m writing this only hours after Dominion went off the air and there’s no way I’ll be able to write anything that does Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega justice.
This will probably be more divisive than their Tokyo Dome match. Understandably, a lot of people aren’t fans of 60-minute draws. I probably liked the rematch more than the original (which I didn’t quite have at a six-star rating despite thinking it was great), but I like draws and believe the degree of difficulty is much greater in them. Okada and Omega put on a classic that is at least at the same level of a match that seemed impossible to equal going into it.
The finish was somewhat disappointing for me at first, then I realized pretty quickly that it was mostly because I was so invested in Omega winning the title. I was also disappointed that Cody Rhodes seems to be getting the shot at Okada’s title in Long Beach, but it was probably unwise to ever think that NJPW wouldn’t complete the trilogy on a show in Japan where it can help boost ticket sales.
There’s more story to tell here. Okada didn’t get the second win that he felt like he needed and Omega still isn’t IWGP Heavyweight Champion. I wouldn’t be that shocked if they managed to top themselves again the next time they meet.
War Machine
By Zach Dominello
My favorite wrestler(s) this week is War Machine. Or should I say Paw Machine? Raymond Rowe and Hanson did an interview on NJPW World, which you can watch for free here, to promote their IWGP tag team title match at NJPW Dominion.
The interview itself is fairly straightforward with Hanson and Rowe discussing their opponents and what it means to wrestle in Japan, but what makes it the best thing ever is that it takes place in what I believe to be a cat cafe in Japan.
I never knew this, but there is nothing better than two massive, bearded pro wrestlers cuddling little kitties. Throughout the interview, cats are walking all over Hanson and Rowe like they run the place, which I guess they do because they’re cats. Watching Hanson hand-feed some kitties is the most adorable thing you will ever see.
And that’s why Paw Machine are my favorite wrestlers this week. Oh, and they’re a pretty dang fantastic tag team too and I’ve loved their work in New Japan. But mainly the kitties.
The entire ATTACK! Pro Wrestling roster
By Alan Boon
Yeah, I realize that’s not a wrestler, per se, rather a whole load of them. But I couldn’t separate any individual from the considerable herd that were responsible for last Friday’s Press 5tart, at the Secret Bingo Hall in Cathays, Cardiff.
Press 5tart is ATTACK!’s yearly tribute to video games, and the roster get to dress up as — and behave like — characters from their favorite games. This year, however, because of a glitch in the system — as a result of, well, explaining it won’t really help so just go with there being a glitch — they did not portray those video game characters but rather each other.
This wasn’t a simple dress-up job — the wrestlers adopted the outfits, movesets, catchphrases, and mannerisms of their peers, and while it was still simple to see who was who — especially when the masked wrestlers kept those masks on regardless of whether they were playing their masked or unmasked counterparts — they did an amazing job of making everything seem like it had gone that little bit weird(er).
I’ve occasionally come across this kind of undertaking in the odd match, but to commit to a whole show — and the music, ring announcer, and ring crew all played along — is admirable in the extreme.
That ATTACK! are in position to do this — their shows routinely sell out 200-300 seat venues without a single match being announced — is a testament to their reputation as one of British (and worldwide) independent wrestling’s best.
Yes, there isn’t a single favorite wrestler this week, there’s 24 of them: Chris Brookes, Kid Lykos, Lloyd Katt, Splits McPins, Danny Jones, Beano, Brendan White, Drew Parker, Elijah Dahl, Chuck Mambo, Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate, Ryan Smile, Kyle Fletcher, Mike Bird, Wild Boar, Mark Andrews, Flash Morgan Webster, Eddie Dennis, Travis Banks, Jim Hunter, Damian Dunne, Super Santos Jr., and Lee Hunter. Thanks guys.
