NXT Star Pete Dunne recently spoke with Mark Andrews on My Love Letter To Wrestling, where he said he nearly missed the birth of his baby daughter due to him competing in a WarGames Match at the 2018 NXT TakeOver: WarGames Event, a match that saw Pete Dunne, Ricochet and the War Raiders (Hanson and Rowe) defeat The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong). Dunne then said that he got on a plane immediately after WarGames and barely make it back to London.
Dunne said, “When I think about it, I don’t know what I was doing, and never, ever would risk it again.” “War Games was the day before the due date of the baby and that was in California. I would’ve been home (in the UK) on the due date and I thought, you know, maybe it’ll all just work out. When I think it about it, it was so crazy. The whole day, I’m just checking my phone over and over again. Did War Games, finish the PPV on top of the cage holding the belt up, come back down, still all good. Fly from California to New York, all good. Fly from New York, (fly) back home.”
Dunne then talked about arriving in London just on time to witness the birth of his baby daughter and to hold her in his arms, but that he would never take that risk again.
Dunne said, “I land in London, I’m pulling my bag off the carousel and I get a phone call saying my girlfriend is in labour. Within about five or six hours I had my daughter in my hand, I hadn’t slept in like four days, it was absolutely brutal!"
“Somehow It all worked out, but never, ever would I risk that again. It didn’t seem like that much of a task to get home, like that risk didn’t seem impossible since I’d been so one thing to the next for years. Since then, everything’s slowed down. WWE have been great, they’re the best place to work especially for things like this, I’ve got to see her grow up, I haven’t missed anything.”
