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They might not look like your average wrestlers but Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster have become WWE's first Welsh champions by winning the NXT UK tag titles.

The pair are quick performers - slimmer and faster than wrestlers we're used to - and after 20 minutes of high-flying action triumphed on Saturday at the second edition of NXT UK's TakeOver event at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff .

The action-packed event was a sell-out and Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster, whose real name is Gavin Watkins, kept the audience on the edge of their seats.

In a five-match card broadcast live via WWE Network, Webster and Andrews prevailed, fighting tooth and nail to defeat Zack Gibson and James Drake and Mark Coffey and Woolfgang and win the match.

Speaking after the event, Cardiff-born Mark Andrews said: "I don't think it's quite hit me yet.

"Fifteen years ago I started professional wrestling at a community centre less than a mile away from here I would have never dreamed to be here working with the WWE and being the first Welsh champion for the WWE.

"This is something I honestly didn't think I would achieve when I was 12 years old and now here we are."

Flash Morgan Webster, originally from Blaenau Gwent , added: "When I first walked into the training centre and I saw this man, if you asked me who would be the first Welsh champion I would have said him [Mark Andrews].

"But the fact I get to stand here next to him, my best friend means the world to me."

Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster speaking before the match:

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Speaking to WalesOnline in August, Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster admit you wouldn't think straight away "there go two wrestlers".

But the pair have worked with legendary tag team Shawn Michaels and Triple H.

Mark started wrestling when he was 13 and trained in Cathays community centre. At first, there were no rings - just mats on the floor.

The 27-year-old said: "There wasn’t really a generation of Welsh wrestlers above us. They hadn’t been on TV or in WWE so it was hard to get the training from the right people.

“The UK scene has really boomed over the last five years with the Welsh scene very hot at the moment. It’s maybe even the hottest in the UK.”

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Gavin - whose character is based in the mod era - explained where his stage name came from.

"When I was getting into wrestling I was looking to find a name and I started wrestling for a Welsh company and they wanted something Welsh," said the 30-year-old.

“I was Flash in the way I wrestled because I’m a high flyer and Morgan is a Welsh surname so I became a Flash Morgan.

“As I became more of a mod character [smart stylish 1960s look] I wanted a name which was typically British. I saw Webster’s dictionary and thought it was good, so I had a Welsh first name and a British second name.”