New Catch Republic

New Catch Republic
Dunne (left) and Bate (right)
Tag team
MembersPete Dunne
Tyler Bate
Name(s)British Strong Style
House Strong Style[1]
New Catch Republic
Billed heightsDunne: 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Seven: 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[3]
Bate: 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[4]
Combined
billed weight		172 kg (380 lb)[2][3][4]
Billed fromMoustache Mountain
Great Britain
Former
member(s)		Trent Seven
Debut31 July 2016[5]
Years active2016–2022
2024–present

New Catch Republic is an English professional wrestling tag team consisting of Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate. They are currently signed with WWE and appear on the Raw brand. They are currently inactive due to Bate suffering a torn pectoral muscle.

The group was originally a stable known as British Strong Style made up of Dunne, Bate, and Trent Seven, who last worked for WWE in the NXT UK brand, before his release in August 2022. The group took its name from a style of professional wrestling that is a mixture of Japanese strong style and traditional British catch wrestling.[6] The three were a prominent part of the NXT UK roster, and were central figures of the NXT UK programme when it premiered in October 2018. They were nicknamed "the founding fathers of NXT UK" by WWE, due to their crucial part in the creation and growth of the brand.[7]

Dunne and Seven formed the group in the Progress Wrestling (Progress) promotion in July 2016 as a tag team, before adding Bate, who had been Seven's tag team partner as part of Moustache Mountain since April 2015, in November 2016. The group dominated Progress over the following year with Dunne holding the Progress World Championship and Bate and Seven the Progress Tag Team Championship. Though primarily appearing in Progress, the stable has also worked for several other promotions in the United Kingdom, including Chikara, where they won the 2017 King of Trios tournament.

Through a partnership between Progress and WWE, all three members of British Strong Style also appeared for WWE since 2017, with Bate defeating Dunne in the finals of the first United Kingdom Championship Tournament to become the inaugural WWE United Kingdom Champion. Dunne won the title from Bate later that year. During Dunne's UK Championship reign, Seven and Bate were NXT Tag Team Champions for a short time in June 2018, making all three members champions in WWE for a short period. Dunne and Bate would then begin teaming together in early 2024 after Bate was moved to the SmackDown brand, and the team took on the new name of New Catch Republic.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference KoT2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "Pete Dunne". WWE. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Trent Seven". WWE. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Tyler Bate". WWE. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Chapter33 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Meltzer, Dave (29 May 2017). "May 29, 2017 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: WWE weekend show reviews, CMLL drama, plus tons of news". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California. p. 9. ISSN 1083-9593.
  7. ^ "NXT UK results, Jan. 30, 2020: Mastiff comes in conflict with WALTER as Imperium emerge victorious in a Six-Man Tag Team main event". WWE. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.