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WWE is returning to England for a huge two-day extravaganza featuring its UK and Cruiserweight Division stars.

The company will visit Norwich for the first time to host WWE Presents: UK Championship Live at Epic Studios on Saturday, May 6 and Sunday, May 7.

Fans can see WWE UK Champion Tyler Bate, plus Trent Seven, Pete Dunne, Mark Andrews, Wolfgang, Tyson T-Bone, Sam Gradwell, James Drake, Joseph Conners, Dan Moloney and Saxon Huxley.

Also appearing will be WWE Superstars from the Cruiserweight Division on WWE 205 Live on WWE Network, including Rich Swann, Akira Tozawa, TJ Perkins, The Brian Kendrick and Tony Nese.

Paul 'Triple H' Levesque, WWE's executive vice president for talent, live events and creative, said: "It’s exciting to come to Norwich for the very first time. The passion of our fans in the UK makes every show an incredible, unforgettable experience.”

Tickets for #WWEUKLive go on sale at 1pm today at livenation.co.uk.

The event at the TV studios, from 7pm on May 6 and 5pm on May 7, follows the success of the WWE UK Championship Tournament, broadcast on the WWE Network from Blackpool in January.

There is no official indication yet whether this new event will be shown on the WWE Network, or form part of the company's plans for a weekly WWE UK programme .

The Mirror spoke exclusively to WWE UK talent Trent Seven about WWE Presents: UK Championship Live, main eventing NXT and whether he could be part of WrestleMania 33.

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What does it feel like to be able to perform again under the WWE UK Championship banner?

I watched the tournament back tens of times and I couldn’t be prouder to be a part of it. The production was incredible. Some of the guys have never worked under such pressure, working with a TV crew and being live on the WWE Network, but looking back I’m so, so proud to have been a part of it. I’m really over the moon with the reception we’ve had and now it’s time to get the weekly television show started and show people just how powerful British Strong Style can be.

Are you excited about competing at a new venue for WWE in Norwich?

The goal is to be able to perform in every major city and town that we can and to be able to go to Norwich to perform for WWE is incredible. It’s going to be awesome. The crowd are going to be rabid and we’re going to respond with some good quality wrestling. It’s going to be a wonderful couple of days. I know the fans in East Anglia are absolutely rabid having wrestled there before. Two days in Norwich, it’s going to be a situation where we knock it out of the park. In the words of Alan Partridge: 'Back of the Net.'

Who are you most looking forward to facing in the WWE UK Championship Live matches?

There’s no denying that I would like to get my WWE revenge on Wolfgang for my UKCT exit. Obviously Tyler Bate defeated me at Full Sail University on NXT. Fair play, hands down, I lost to the prodigy that is Tyler. Really I want to get in there with Pete Dunne and I want to have the opportunity to stand toe-to-toe with him. He’s obviously been doing well and I want to put him in his place and prove that I can be the number one contender.

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Are you excited to see the WWE UK fans again after the fantastic double-header at Blackpool's Empress Ballroom on January 14 and 15?

The fans were truly special in Blackpool. It was a weekend I’ll never forget and the fans were a huge part of that. We smashed it out of the park from a wrestling standpoint and fans followed suit. They were wild and made the whole thing feel incredibly special. To be back in front of them is going to be very special indeed.

I was ultra confident going into it, because when you have such a good bunch of lads like that and people who really are going out to make an impression, who really want to work together to A, put ourselves across phenomenally, and B, make sure it was a product that could deliver at the end of the day, and a first class one at that, then you know it will be good. I wouldn't say we over-delivered, but I think we delivered far beyond expectation. Everyone can stand up and give themselves a round of applause. I think the fans who were there in Blackpool and the fans watching on the WWE Network will attest to that. It was something quite magnificent that weekend.

In the opening round of the tournament you defeated HC Dyer. Was he someone you had faced before?

No, that was the first time we had stepped in the ring together. He wrestles mainly in the south and east midlands areas. What a talent he is at 20-years-old. For a lad with the size he has, he has a wonderful future ahead of him. He is very confident at that age, which is a big help.

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As you have already mentioned, in the quarter finals you lost to a man you are very familiar with because of your rivalry in Insane Championship Wrestling, Wolfgang.

Indeed. A man I know all too well.

A month later you did gain a measure of revenge, when you captured his ICW World Heavyweight Championship.

Yes and I couldn't have asked to be in a better position to gain that revenge. A sold-out O2 in Newcastle for ICW's sixth annual Square Go, the main event title match. Good things happen to good people I suppose. Ha ha. The amount of times I've had my proverbial rear end handed to me by Wolfgang, this one meant a lot man. And to walk away the ICW World Heavyweight Champion, once again it's another one of those moments that's going to go down in my personal history as one of the most wonderful days of my career. ICW has been a place where over two years, it's not that long really, they have taken me in as one of their own. I'm so proud and was so honoured to get to do that, in front of such a wonderful crowd, in a cracking city.

Another career-defining moment must have been your clash with Tyler Bate for the WWE UK Championship at the NXT taping in Orlando, Florida on February 1. Did you fly over to America for the Royal Rumble weekend beforehand?

I went out there on the Monday. Wolfie and Tyler went out on the Friday before me and got to do NXT TakeOver: San Antonio. They flew me over on the Monday and I got to go to the WWE Performance Center, which was absolutely amazing. It's everything you can ever dream of as a kid wanting to be a wrestler. You walk in there and it's like an independent wrestler's dream. It's just amazing. There are like six rings, a big weights area, free weights, there is a ring with a crash mat at the base to practise moves off the top, it's just incredible. It was a privilege.

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There are several British coaches involved there now too - legends like William Regal, Robbie Brookside, Norman Smiley...

Johnny Saint is over there now full time too I think. We are being represented very strongly. It's another thing that puts a good pressure on us as far as UK performers, to ensure we are being represented to the best of our abilities.

You had a cracking match with Tyler and drew a great response from the Full Sail University crowd. It must have been a bit surreal to hear US fans chanting "Moustache Mountain" [the name of Seven's tag team with Tyler].

Oh yeah, it was just brilliant. It was almost like the fans changed and thought 'this is an independent British match, we will cheer like they do'. It was very strange, there was a 'one-fall' shout when the announcer came to announce our match and then there were duelling Moustache Mountain chants. It was brilliant. There was such a good reaction. And I felt like we delivered something that was unique and something different to what they normally get - a little taste of the British style. Hopefully we will be back over there soon to continue spreading the good word of the UK and British independent wrestling.

That's a key point. You're aiming to give fans something distinctive, to create a WWE UK brand as a separate entity, which people tune in to watch to see something unique.

Definitely. That's the whole point. The worth ethic here from all of the guys is brilliant, and the promoters and the fans, we've all come together at the right time and are trying to make something special on every level. I suppose the one aspect of it is to make sure it stays a British independent style. It started years ago when it was amazingly successful, with the World of Sport era. Then there was the influx of Japanese wrestlers, independent styles from America, and the British independent style we're now seeing is kind of a little amalgamation of everything. That's my theory on it.

My thing with the British Strong Style is taking the striking from Japan, the work ethic and work rate of the US independent scene and sprinkling in a bit of classic British wrestling as well. I think the future is very bright and I'm so happy to be at the forefront of it and leading the charge for UK and British wrestling all over the world.

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Will you be back in Florida with London's PROGRESS Wrestling over WrestleMania 33 weekend at the start of April?

Yeah I'll be over there with PROGRESS, so I'll be over there for an extended period. Hopefully you know, fingers crossed, we'll see if I can sweet talk with my suave British ways whatever I possibly can and whatever I do get onto, make sure I'm representing as hard as I possibly can.

It would be great to see some familiar faces appear in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal for example.

Yeah, or alternatively me and Tyler versus Kane and The Undertaker! Options.

You and the other WWE UK talents will also be joining select live events during the company's tour of the UK and Ireland, from May 4 to May 12.

Yeah, it's amazing. I'm so happy to be a part of this. What an honour. It shows not only the fact that we obviously made such a good impression with the UKCT but also when we went over to NXT and Full Sail University and the Performance Center. It seems to have been well rewarded by our involvement in this upcoming UK tour. I couldn't be happier.

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Tonight you are appearing at the O2 Academy in Liverpool with ICW. Sadly you won't be facing Drew Galloway as scheduled, because he has had to pull out due to a family situation.

It's a real shame as Drew and I have had three matches advertised and unfortunately we've not done even one, we've never stood eye to eye in the ring. Three times now we've tried to get it done but destiny is calling is us as far as I'm concerned. It will happen and when it does it will be the greatest match of all time! Maybe not of all time. But it is going to be pretty darn good. I hope everything on a personal level is good with Drew and it just builds that anticipation even more for when we do it.

Now you will be facing another WWE UK competitor, Jordan Devlin, instead.

Yeah, from one first time ever match to another first time ever match. The Liverpool crowd should be in for an absolute treat.

All of the performers did well, but he really caught the eye in the WWE UKCT tournament.

He did indeed. By hook or by crook, whether you were cheering for him or you were one of the very large percentage of the crowd booing him, he made an impact and that's what it's all about. When you get these opportunities you have to make the most of them and make a name for yourself and Jordan Devlin made an impression on a lot of people that weekend.

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Another show that has everyone talking is your company Fight Club Pro’s Dream Tag Team Invitational in Wolverhampton on April 14, when you, Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne will face New Japan Pro Wrestling's Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks.

I say a lot that I like to be able to detach myself from what's happening, because it's easy to get caught up in the furore. It's good to be able to jump outside of the box and look at it from an outside perspective. But even when I do that, I'm losing my mind! It's so bizarre sometimes to think a year or two years ago, we were just independent wrestlers doing our thing, going out there and trying to make names for ourselves. And don't get me wrong, this is the time when we need to work harder than we have ever worked before. In no way have we made it and in no way do any of us talk or act like that in any way, shape of form.

But to look at a card and look at a main event with that calibre of performers, which sold out in days, just to be able to look outside of the box and see my face on it and to be part of that card, which is drawing such anticipation from so many fans, that's a feeling I can't really explain. The fan in you... say you watched an NJPW Wrestle Kingdom from a couple of years ago, AJ Styles versus Nakamura, something like that. Those sort of matches, I look at them as a fan and go 'oh my gosh, can you believe that's even happening in the real world? It's so bizarre.' And that's what this one feels like to me, it's like I'm not part of it! As a fan I'm going 'oh my God, three guys from NXT, working three guys from New Japan! What? That's insane! Why would they even do that?' And then I realise I'm actually in it and I've got to get my boots on!

It has the makings of a fabulous match.

Yeah, that's the one true mystique that independent wrestling will always have, that ability to bring wrestlers together from all corners of the globe for one-off, magic moments for both fans and wrestlers. That's the reason the independent scene will always flourish, always be so good and fans will always have its back, because truly anything can happen on the independent scene.

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Two British talents who have 'made it' and who stole the show at WWE Fastlane on Sunday night...

I'm going to have to agree with you there, I know exactly what you're going to say. Brilliant. Just brilliant.

Obviously I'm talking about Neville and Jack Gallagher's match for the Cruiserweight Championship. Was that bout an inspiration to you?

Absolutely. I've wrestled Jack a couple of times but I never got the chance to wrestle Neville before he signed with WWE, so hopefully that happens somewhere down the line. What an incredible match. To see Jack Gallagher - I remember in about 2008 I went to a training seminar and we were both there and we got paired up together - Davey Richards and maybe Kenny Omega were there. Davey Richards was taking the training seminar and this fiery haired lad piped up and said 'can we do strikes?' And I remember thinking 'okay, brilliant, let's practise beating each other up, can we not do that?' So for the next 10 minutes or so he proceeded to beat seven shades of the proverbial out of me! That young lad there was Jack Gallagher and I never forget that and always remind him of it when I see him. Going back to Fastlane, it was incredible and it might not have been called the match of the night, but I think we all know it was. Outstanding. Those two guys absolutely tore it up. Speaking rather selfishly I hope I get the chance to get in there with Jack one more time, hopefully in a WWE ring. He should be very proud of what he's achieved.

It was another example of what we've discussed, that hybrid UK style. There were elements of high flying, classic British grappling and of course Gallagher's fearsome headbutts! It was another example of what makes our talent here so special.

It was. It was truly wonderful to watch. And the crowd got so into it. It was unique, something different compared to their usual cup of tea. I was extraordinarily happy for them, both as a fan and somebody who knows both of them. Especially as it was Jack's debut on pay-per-view as well. Kudos to those guys, it was wonderful.

Finally, do you have a message for WWE fans hoping to come and see you at the WWE UK Championship Live in Norwich?

Prepare to be served up a full portion of British Strong Style.

Tickets for WWE Presents: UK Championship Live go on sale today at 1pm GMT at livenation.co.uk

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