I meet up with Bate and Seven the next day at a gym in Blackpool ahead of the evening’s NXT UK Takeover show. As a tag team, they are known as Moustache Mountain, due to their perfectly coffered facial hair. Those moustaches, along with their natural charisma and in-ring skills, have made them firm favourites with British crowds and they have been pushed as the face of NXT UK.

Signing with WWE has, as you might expect, been a bit of a culture shock. "We must have done about 150-ish flights last year. The year before, another 100-odd," says Seven. "We’re doing live tours, on the bus with Randy Orton. We don’t really have time to let it sink in, you just have to let it ride.

"It’s not a negative or anything, but the peaks and troughs are a little bit drastic. You go from Wrestlemania, or a Takeover wrestling in front of 15,000 people, then you come home and you’ve still got to take the dogs for a walk. That’s a very important learning curve, psychologically."

Notably, along with Dunne and Womens UK Champ Rhea Ripley, they were the only wrestlers allowed to wear their own clothes at the Performance Centre unveiling. Instead of a standard issue black WWE shirt, Bate strutted about in leather trousers and a floral shirt unbuttoned down to his navel. It was a look.

Bate and Seven are in many ways an odd duo. There is a 16 year age difference between them – Seven in 37, Bate is just 21. Seven is nearly six foot and is best described as 'having a bit of a gut'; Bate is only 5’ 7, but ripped and ridiculously strong. Fans have given Bate the nickname "Big Strong Boi" and during Saturday night’s show he’ll hoist two larger opponents on his shoulders and spin them around like a helicopter.

They are also both vegans. Bate says "there’s quite a lot of vegans on the roster", so there are always options for them on the WWE catering, and the newfound popularity of veganism means it is never hard finding food on the road.

It shows how the new generation of wrestlers have moved on from the hard-partying days of Ric Flair and Andre The Giant. Seven says that it started out as a health choice, but the more he learnt about it, the more he realised it was "a more compassionate way of thinking about your life, and how you consume".

"Eating a healthy plant-based diet, the right way – let’s get that across, because Oreos are vegan - as opposed to eating a healthy mixed or carnivorous diet, is worlds apart health-wise," he adds.

When I ask him about the culture war over veganism that is currently been manufactured by the likes of Piers Morgan, Seven describes it as "clickbait".

"People have such easy access to expression," he says of social media. "But they just go in at the deep end straight away, rather than actually using Twitter for what it is for, which is having topical discussions. If someone comes at me with an opinion, I’m not going to shoot it down, I’m going to go ‘Ok cool, well that’s an interesting opinion, I don’t really agree, why do you think that?'"