Preston City Wrestling (2014–2015) Bate debuted in
Preston City Wrestling as "The Iron Master" Tyler Bate at PCW Fright Night III, competing unsuccessfully in a 4-way match also featuring Charlie Garrett,
Rich Swann and
Zack Gibson. Bate returned to hat Shooting Star in January 2015, aligning himself with The Hunter Brothers and Ryan Smile. Bate and his team were then defeated by
Pete Dunne, Damian Dunne,
Morgan Webster and
Mark Andrews.
Chikara (2015–2017) In early 2015, Bate, alongside
Trent Seven, debuted in American promotion
Chikara as part of their tour of the United Kingdom, defeating The Hunter Brothers in a dark match on 3 April and losing to the Devastation Corporation (Max Smashmaster and Blaster McMassive) 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. Bate teamed with Seven and Dan Moloney at that year's King of Trios as Team Fight Club: Pro, making it to the semi-finals before being eliminated by the
Bullet Club (
AJ Styles,
Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson). In 2016, Seven and Bate began competing more regularly in Chikara, and on 21 August, they defeated Los Ice Creams (Hijo Del Ice Cream and Ice Cream Jr.), N_R_G (Hype Rockwell and Race Jaxon) and The Devastation Corporation to win the
Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas. They never returned to Chikara to defend the titles, and were stripped of them for inactivity on 15 December during Chikara's secret season 16. Bate returned to Chikara on 1 September 2017, when he, Trent Seven and Pete Dunne, billed collectively as "House Strong Style", entered the
2017 King of Trios, defeating House Whitewolf (
A-Kid, Adam Chase and Zayas) in their first round match. Over the next two days, House Strong Style defeated House Throwbacks (
Dasher Hatfield,
Mark Angelosetti and
Simon Grimm) in the quarterfinals, House Rot (
Frightmare,
Hallowicked and
Kobald) via forfeit in the semifinals and House Sendai Girls (
Cassandra Miyagi,
Dash Chisako and
Meiko Satomura) in the finals to win the 2017 King of Trios.
Progress Wrestling (2016–2019) Bate debuted in
Progress Wrestling at Chapter 22, losing to William Eaver in a Natural Progression Series quarter final match. His first appearance in Progress alongside Trent Seven as Moustache Mountain was in a loss to Damian and Pete Dunne at Chapter 28. At Chapter 33, Moustache Mountain split after Seven turned
heel, attacking Bate and aligning with Pete Dunne to form
British Strong Style. At Chapter 39, Bate returned to Progress, attacking
Jimmy Havoc during a seven-man elimination match for the vacant
Progress World Championship, turning heel and aligning himself with Seven and Dunne. On 16 December, Seven and Dunne were stripped of the
Progress Tag Team Championship after Dunne attempted to give his half of the shield to Bate. Two weeks later at Chapter 41, Seven and Bate defeated The London Riots and The LDRS of the New School (
Zack Sabre Jr. and
Marty Scurll) in a three-way tag team match to win the vacant title. Bate made it to the finals of the Super Strong Style 16 Tournament, defeating Pastor William Eaver,
Mark Haskins,
Matt Riddle, before losing to
Travis Banks in the final. At Chapter 50, Bate and Seven lost the Tag Team Championships to #CCK (
Chris Brookes and
Kid Lykos). After regaining the title, Bate and Seven lost it again to #CCK in a
ladder match on 10 September 2017.
WWE (2016–present) United Kingdom Champion (2016–2017) . On 15 December 2016, it was revealed that Bate would be one of 16 men competing in a two night
tournament to crown the inaugural
WWE United Kingdom Champion on 14 and 15 January 2017. Bate defeated
Tucker in the first round to advance to the quarter-finals, before defeating
Jordan Devlin to advance to the semi-finals. Bate then defeated
Wolfgang in the semi-finals and
Pete Dunne in the final to win the tournament and become the inaugural champion. Bate was presented with the title belt by
Triple H,
William Regal,
Finn Bálor and
Fit Finlay. At 19 years old, he became the second teenager in WWE history to win a title, and the second (at the time, presently third) youngest champion of all time, after
René Duprée. Bate signed a contract with WWE, which allowed him to continue taking independent bookings with some restrictions. On 1 February episode of
NXT, Tyler Bate made his
NXT debut defeating
Oney Lorcan. On 15 February edition of NXT, Tyler Bate successfully defended his title against fellow UK Tournament and tag team partner Trent Seven in the main event, with the two of them showing sportsmanship in the end. On 4 April, Bate and others who participated in the United Kingdom Championship Tournament appeared on 205 Live. On 26 April episode of
NXT, Bate successfully defended his championship against
Jack Gallagher, a member of the
Raw roster. At
NXT TakeOver: Chicago, Bate would lose his championship to
Pete Dunne, ending his reign at 125 days. The match was named Match of the Year at the
NXT Year-End Awards. On 7 November 2017, Bate would make his
205 Live debut, where he was defeated by
Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Amore. On 20 December episode of
NXT, Bate received his rematch for the WWE United Kingdom Championship, but again lost to Dunne.
Moustache Mountain (2018–2022) in April 2018. On 30 January 2018 episode of
205 Live, Bate would compete in the
WWE Cruiserweight Championship tournament, where he was defeated by
TJP in the first round. On 15 May 2018, Bate defeated TJP,
Kalisto and
Kenny Williams in a fatal four-way match. During day one of the second annual
United Kingdom Championship Tournament on 18 June, Bate, Dunne and Seven (known in Europe as
British Strong Style) defeated
The Undisputed Era (
Adam Cole,
Kyle O'Reilly and
Roderick Strong) in a six-man tag team match. The next day, Bate and Seven 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. At
NXT Takeover: Brooklyn 4, Bate and Seven failed to regain the championships. On the 2 January 2019 episode of
NXT UK, Moustache Mountain defeated Gallus to advance to the finals to become the inaugural
NXT UK Tag Team Champions. At
NXT UK Takeover: Blackpool, Moustache Mountain lost to
Grizzled Young Veterans in the finals. At
NXT UK Takeover: Cardiff, Bate faced
Walter for the
WWE United Kingdom Championship, in which Bate was unsuccessful in regaining the title. At
NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II, Bate defeated to
Jordan Devlin. At
Worlds Collide, Seven and Bate faced
DIY (
Johnny Gargano and
Tommaso Ciampa) in a losing effort. After the match, both teams shook hands and hugged. On the May 20 episode of NXT UK, Bate defeated
A-Kid to win the Heritage Cup Championship. He would retain the title against Jack Starz & Mark Coffey on the July 1 & 15 episodes of NXT UK respectively. On the October 28, 2021 episode of NXT UK, Bate lost the title to
Noam Dar after Trent Seven inadvertently
threw in the towel during an altercation with
Pretty Deadly at ringside. On the 9 December 2021 episode of
NXT UK, Moustache Mountain defeated
Pretty Deadly to win the NXT UK Tag Team Championship, making them the first team to win both the NXT and NXT UK Tag Team Championships. On the 2 June 2022 episode of
NXT UK, they lost the tag titles to
Ashton Smith and
Oliver Carter in a triple threat match that also involved
Die Familie (
Teoman and Rohan Raja). On the 16 June 2022 episode of
NXT UK, Seven attacked Bate by hitting him with a low blow from behind after making a fake retirement speech, thus turning
heel for the first time in his WWE career and disbanding the Moustache Mountain.
Return to NXT (2022–2024) Bate won his second NXT United Kingdom Championship on 7 July, beating
Trent Seven in the finals of a tournament also featuring
Oliver Carter, Charlie Dempsey,
Wolfgang,
Kenny Williams,
Joe Coffey and
Mark Andrews. He also appeared on
NXT Heatwave on 16 August facing off with the NXT Champion
Bron Breakker with the NXT United Kingdom Championship despite his title win not having aired yet. On 23 August episode of
NXT 2.0, Bate was scheduled to a
championship unification match at
Worlds Collide on 4 September, where he lost to Breakker, ending his second reign at 60 days and was recognised as the final NXT United Kingdom Champion. Breakker went forward as the unified NXT Champion.
New Catch Republic; Los Americanos (2024–present) Bate made his main roster debut on 5 January 2024 episode of
SmackDown: New Year's Revolution as the mystery partner of
Butch, taking on
Pretty Deadly, whom they would defeat. On 19 January episode of
SmackDown, Bate teamed with Butch, who returned to his previous ring name Pete Dunne, and the two defeated Pretty Deadly in a rematch. On 23 February episode of
SmackDown, the duo of Bate and Dunne was renamed to New Catch Republic. New Catch Republic won the
Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship Contender Series for an
Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship match at
Elimination Chamber: Perth, but failed to defeat
The Judgment Day (
Finn Bálor and
Damian Priest) for the titles at the event. At Night 1 of
WrestleMania XL, New Catch Republic participated in a
six-pack tag team ladder match for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship, but failed to win any of the tag titles. As part of the
2024 WWE Draft, New Catch Republic were drafted to the
Raw brand. In July, Bate was reportedly sidelined for a torn pectoral muscle after he suffered an injury, putting the team on hiatus. Bate returned on the 31 March 2025, edition of
Raw in
London, England, teaming with Dunne in a losing effort against
The New Day (
Kofi Kingston and
Xavier Woods) On the 4 August 2025 episode of
Raw, during the match between
Dominik Mysterio and
Dragon Lee, a fourth
El Grande Americano debuted and cost Lee the match. On the 22 September episode of
Raw, the three El Grande Americano characters portrayed by
Ludwig Kaiser, Dunne and Bate were referred to as Rayo and Bravo, respectively as part of the Los Americanos stable. ==Professional wrestling style==