Moustache Mountain


Moustache Mountain is a British professional wrestling tag team consisting of Trent Seven and Tyler Bate, currently signed to WWE where they perform on the NXT UK brand. Created in 2016, they previously worked for other promotions, most notably Chikara and Progress Wrestling. They also known as part of the three-men stable British Strong Style together with Pete Dunne, also in WWE.
The team debuted on 6 February 2015 in the Chikara promotion. Both Seven and Bate signed with WWE in late 2016 to be a part of the first United Kingdom Championship Tournament, which was won by Bate who became the inaugural WWE United Kingdom Champion. Both wrestlers then joined the NXT brand as singles wrestler, while continuing to team up outside WWE; after Bate lost the title to Dunne in 2017, Moustache Mountain made their debut in WWE the following year, and defeated The Undisputed Era at the NXT U.K. Championship event to win the NXT Tag Team Championship, although they lost it back to The Undisputed Era two days later on NXT. After signing a full-time contract with WWE, the two, together with Dunne, became central figures of NXT UK after its premiere in 2018, unsuccessfully trying to become the inaugural NXT UK Tag Team Champions at.

Career

Chikara (2015-2016)

In early 2015, Bate and Seve, debuted in the American promotion Chikara as part of their tour of the United Kingdom, teaming up to defeat The Hunter Brothers in a dark match on 3 April. and losing to the Devastation Corporation in another dark match on 6 April. In their final dark match on the tour, Seven and Bate teamed with Clint Margera to take on Pete Dunne, Damian Dunne and Jimmy Havoc in a losing effort.
On September 4, 5 and 6, they teamed up with Daniel Moloney to represent the Fight Club: Pro promotion in the 2015 King of Trios tournament; they defeated Bruderschaft des Kreuzes in the first round, and United Nations in the quarterfinals, before losing to Bullet Club in the semi-finals.
In 2016, Seven and Bate began competing more regularly in Chikara, and on 21 August, they defeated The Devastation Corporation, Los Ice Creams and N_R_G in a double elimination tag team match to win the vacant Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas; they were later stripped of the title the following December for unspecified reasons.
In September 2017, Bate, Seven and Pete Dunne, teaming up as House Strong Style, competed in the 2017 King of Trios. They defeated House Whitewolf, House Throwbacks in the quarterfinals, House Rot in the semifinals via forfeit, and House Sendai Girls in the finals to win the tournament.

Progress Wrestling (2016–2019)

Moustache Mountain had their first match in Progress at Chapter 28 on April 6, 2016, losing to Damian and Pete Dunne. At Chapter 33 on July 31, after a loss to Damian Dunne and Pete Dunne, Seven turned heel, attacking Bate and aligning himself with Pete Dunne, thus and forming British Strong Style. This marked the beginning of a feud seeing Bate and Damian Dunne go against Seven and Pete Dunne, until November 27 at Chapter 39, when Bate return to join British Strong Style, making it a trio. On December 16, 2016, Dunne, who was Progress Tag Team Champion with Seven, attempted to pass his half of the tag team titles to Bate; as the result, Progress management vacated the titles. On December 30, Moustache Mountain defeated CCK and London Riots in a three-way tag team match to win the vacant titles. They lost the titles to CCK on June 25, 2017 before regaining them on July 9 in a six-man tag team match in which Dunne was their partner, and Travis Banks was CCK's; they lost the titles back to CCK in a ladder match on September 10.

Other independent promotions (2016-2019)

Moustache Mountain had its first match outside of Chikara or Progress Wrestling on September 15, 2016 at the WhatCulture Pro Wrestling event Loaded #11, losing to Los Perspectiva in a three-way tag team match that also included Johnny Moss and Liam Slater.
Competing in the Revolution Pro Wrestling promotion, the two won the British Tag Team Championship on October 23, 2017 at the RevPro Monday Night Mayhem event by defeating Chris Brookes and Travis Banks of CCK They lost the titles of Minoru Suzuki and Zack Sabre Jr. of Suzuki-gun on January 20, 2018.
Moustache Mountain became the inaugural FCP Tag Team Champions in the Fight Club: Pro promotion on April 1, 2018; they lost the titles to Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos of CCK on July 27, 2018, and won them a second time by defeating Schadenfreude on September 28, 2019.
On the Attack! Pro Wrestling event ATTACK! Sunglasses After Dark on July 22, 2018, they defeated Team White Wolf to win the ATTACK! Tag Team Championship, losing it later the same day to Brookes and Fletcher. The duo also competed in the Canadian promotion International Wrestling Syndicate, where they won the IWS World Tag Team Championship in October 2017.

WWE

UK Championship Tournament and NXT (2017-2018)

On 15 December 2016, it was revealed that Bate, Seven and Dunne would be among of 16 men competing in the upcoming United Kingdom Championship Tournament on 14 and 15 January 2017 to crown the inaugural WWE United Kingdom Champion. Bate defeated Tucker in the first round to advance to the quarter-finals, before defeating Jordan Devlin to advance to the semi-finals. Seven would defeated H.C. Dyer in the first round and loose to Wolfgang in the quarterfinals, while Bate defeated Tucker in the first round, Jordan Devlin in the quarterfinals, Wolfgang in the semifinals, and Dunne in the finals to win the tournament and become the inaugural champion. After the tournament, buth Bate and Seven signed contracts with WWE, which allowed them to continue taking independent bookings with some restrictions. Bate would then compete on the NXT brand, where he defended his title; he eventually lost it to Dunne at, in an acclaimed match which later earn them the NXT Year-End Award for Match of the Year.
During day one of the second annual United Kingdom Championship Tournament event on 18 June, British Strong Style defeated The Undisputed Era in a six-man tag team match. The next day, Moustache Mountain defeated O'Reilly and Strong to capture the NXT Tag Team Championship, but lost the titles back to O'Reilly and Strong on 11 July episode of NXT in a critically acclaimed match which drew five stars from Dave Meltzer. At, they failed to regain the championships.

NXT UK (2018-present)

Both Bate and Seven were part of the original roster of the NXT UK brand upon the debut of the NXT UK show on October 17, 2018; they competed in a four-teams tournament to crown the inaugural NXT Tag Team Champions; they defeated Gallus in the first round on November 24, and lost to James Drake and Zack Gibson in the finals at on January 12. After their loss, Bate and Seven kept on competing mostly as singles wrestler while continuing to team up occasionally; Bate notably unsuccessfully challenged Walter for the WWE United Kingdom Championship at in a highly acclaimed match which earned a 5.25 star rating from Meltzer, making it the third match in WWE history to break the 5 star rating system.

Championships and accomplishments