Progress Wrestling

Statistics
First champion(s)	Nathan Cruz
Most reigns	Marty Scurll (2 reigns)
Longest reign	Jimmy Havoc (609 days)
Shortest reign	Mark Andrews (<1 days)
Heaviest champion	Rampage Brown (233 lb (106 kg))
Lightest champion	Mark Andrews (159 lb (72 kg))

Progress World Championship
Progress World Championship
Details
Promotion	Progress Wrestling
Date established	25 March 2012
Current champion(s)	Travis Banks
Date won	10 September 2017
Other name(s)
	Progress Championship
First champion(s)
Statistics
First champion(s)	Nathan Cruz
Most reigns	Marty Scurll (2 reigns)
Longest reign	Jimmy Havoc (609 days)
Shortest reign	Mark Andrews (<1 days)
Heaviest champion	Rampage Brown (233 lb (106 kg))
Lightest champion	Mark Andrews (159 lb (72 kg))

Progress Wrestling
	Progress Wrestling's logo
Founded	2011
Style	Professional wrestling; Sports entertainment
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Founder(s)	Jim Smallman; Jon Briley
Owner(s)	Glen Joseph; Jim Smallman; Jon Briley
Website	ProgressWrestling.com

Progress Wrestling (stylized as PROGRESS) is a British professional wrestling promotion that was established in 2011 by comedian Jim Smallman and events and comedy promoter Jon Briley, later to be joined in management of the company by actor Glen Robinson (professionally known as Glen Joseph).^[1]

History

The company was conceived by Jim Smallman and Jon Briley in 2011, who were both massive wrestling fans. Smallman is a big fan of "strong-style" wrestling, Japanese in particular, and Briley was Smallman's agent.^[2] The pair decided to put on a wrestling show in London, as not many shows were being put on in the capital itself, featuring the type of wrestling that they would both like to watch. The pair then spent seven months putting their first show together. Smallman is also a huge fan of punk music, and the pair decided to emphasize the fact that it would be a London-based promotion with a punk rock vibe. They also were keen not to be import-heavy, like other promotions, but to promote British talent. The pair eventually settled on The Garage in Islington for the venue, because of the size and also having a great reputation as a music venue. The Garage were also very supportive of what Smallman and Briley wanted to do, and the pair ran their first show on 25 March 2012.

After eleven consecutive sell out shows at the Garage, with the later shows drawing 350 fans, the promotion moved to the 700-capacity Electric Ballroom in Camden from Chapter Twelve in March 2014 for their second anniversary show where the sell outs have continued. To date, Progress has sold out all London Chapter shows at The Garage and Electric Ballroom. For Chapter 36 in September 2016, Progress staged their largest ticketed show at the Brixton Academy, to an audience of 2,400 and announced that they would return the following September. Though they have run most of their shows in London, in 2014 Progress held three shows at The Satellite Stage at the Sonisphere Festival, and in 2015 they appeared for five nights at Download Festival.^[3] In December 2015, they began running regular shows at The Ritz in Manchester.^[4] In 2017, Progress will begin to promote shows in Birmingham.

The promotion have been reluctant to use imports (wrestlers for which the UK is not their home or one of their homes). Colt Cabana was the first wrestler to be included on a show as part of the debut show, Chapter One, in a losing effort to Loco Mike Mason. Ricochet has appeared twice for the promotion, losing to El Ligero at Chapter Six and in a triple threat with Mark Haskins and Zack Sabre Jr. at Chapter Eleven. Adam Cole was the first non-European wrestler to register a win in Progress, defeating Mark Haskins at Chapter Ten. Prince Devitt also appeared twice for the promotion, defeating Zack Sabre Jr. at Chapter Thirteen and losing to Jimmy Havoc at the Progress World Cup, his final match in the UK before signing with the WWE. Other talents that have appeared include Samoa Joe, Roderick Strong and Tommaso Ciampa; though Ciampa has established himself as a Progress regular with seven Chapter show appearances.

In 2016 the company began working with other promotions. At Chapter 29 on 24 April in London, Progress hosted two qualifying matches for the WWE Cruiserweight Classic.^[5]

International expansion

In June 2016, the Canada-based SMASH Wrestling had its title defended at a Progress show, ahead of three co-promoted shows between the two in Ontario in September.

January 2017 saw Progress promoting a show for Germany-based wXw in London, with wXw helping with Progress' début German show in Cologne in July.

2017's Wrestlemania Weekend saw Progress travel to the United States for a number of shows; including their own Orlando show, a joint show with WWNLive, and contributing talent - including ring announcer Jim Smallman - to WWE's Wrestlemania Axxess events. Progress returned to the States in August for two shows - one in New York City and one just outside of Boston - as well as announcing they would be running two shows as part of Wrestlemania Weekend 2018 in New Orleans.

Demand Progress

In March 2015^[6] Progress launched Demand Progress, their own video-on-demand service. Demand Progress was launched with several Chapter shows - as well as two ENDVR shows - available to watch. In time the service would grow to include every Chapter held by the promotion as well as nearly every ENDVR show, the Progress World Cup and other events; such as the previously-unreleased Download and Sonisphere Festival match cards.

January 2017 saw the first episode of Freedom's Road^[7], a new series from Progress which would feature matches taped specifically for the show and have a heavy focus on characters and plots.

Events

Training school

In late 2012, Progress launched the Progress Wrestling School - affectionately known as the Projo - which it claimed to be the only full-time wrestling school in London and the South East^{[citation needed]}. The school has classes for beginner and advanced level wrestlers, and has a wrestling ring permanently erected along with another ring-sized matted area. The original head trainer at the school was Jimmy Havoc, but he was replaced in November 2013 by Darrell Allen. Other trainers include Danny Garnell, James Davis, Eddie Dennis, Damon Moser, Chuck Mambo and "Wild Boar" Mike Hitchman. The school has hosted seminars by the likes of Michael Elgin, Scott Levy, Nigel McGuinness and others. In late 2013, Progress announced that the Projo students would be putting on their own shows, which would be called ENDVR. ENDVR shows feature a mix of trainees from the Projo, their trainers, and other professional wrestlers. The first four ENDVR shows were held at The Bedford Arms in Balham, while ENDVR:5 was held as an afternoon show before the Progress World Cup on 29 June 2014 at The Garage in Islington. Starting from ENDVR:8, the trainee shows move to The Garage on a permanent basis. The shows were later moved back to the Bedford - and eventually The Dome in Tufnell Park - and filmed for Freedom's Road, a new regular program for Demand Progress with more of an emphasis on drama and characters.

In August 2017, it was announced^[8] that the school - whilst still operated by Darren Allen - would no longer be affiliated with the promotion, and would now be known as the Knucklelocks Gym.

Jimmy Havoc and Regression

To date, the most significant storyline within the company has been that of Jimmy Havoc's ascent to the championship. Havoc debuted for Progress on Chapter Two in May 2012 and went on to lose six straight matches, though he became very popular with the Progress fans as an underdog babyface. At Chapter Ten in November 2013, Havoc attacked promoter Jim Smallman and aligned himself with The London Riots, turning heel in the process. Havoc would then use an open contract given to him by Smallman to defeat Progress Champion Mark Andrews (who had just wrestled both Paul Robinson and Rampage Brown in consecutive matches) to become champion and pick up his first victory in Progress.

In his first title defence at Chapter Eleven, Havoc defeated Zack Sabre Jr. with the help of his newest associate, Progress trainee "The Omega" Isaac Zercher. Havoc was joined at Chapter Thirteen by Paul Robinson, and the group later christened themselves Regression as a play on the name of the company and to symbolise their hatred of Progress Wrestling.

The group lost its first members at Chapter Fifteen, as the four members of the group (not including Zercher) took on Progress Tag Team champions Eddie Dennis and Mark Andrews, Will Ospreay and Noam Dar in a titles vs. careers match. Ospreay pinned James Davis of The London Riots, meaning that The London Riots were gone from Progress.

Havoc eventually lost the title at Chapter Twenty to Will Ospreay in a no disqualification match. At Chapter Twenty-One, Havoc and Robinson were placed in a number one contenders no disqualification match against each other. After they both failed to convince Zercher to turn on the other, the two engaged in a bloody contest with Robinson emerging victorious, seemingly signalling the end of Regression.

Championships

Progress World Championship

Unlike conventional wrestling championships which are generally represented by a championship belt, the Progress championship was initially represented by a large staff with an eagle head piece. At Chapter Sixteen, the staff was replaced by a more traditional title belt. The title has been defended in the United States at the WrestleCon Supershow in Dallas, Texas, and subsequently defended in Italy on 30 April 2016^[9] and Ireland on 16 July 2016.^[10]

As of 11 July 2024.

Reign	The reign number for the specific champion listed
Location	The city in which the title was won
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title was won
+	Indicates the current reign is changing daily

No.	Champion	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes
1	Nathan Cruz	1	25 March 2012	245	Highbury, London	Chapter One: In The Beginning	Defeated Marty Scurll, El Ligero and Mike Mason in a tournament final to crown the inaugural champion.
2	El Ligero	1	25 November 2012	245	Highbury, London	Chapter Four: The Ballad of El Ligero
3	Rampage Brown	1	28 July 2013	119	Highbury, London	Chapter Eight: The Big Boy's Guide to Strong Style
4	Mark Andrews	1	24 November 2013	<1	Highbury, London	Chapter Ten: Glory Follows Virtue As If It Were Its Shadow	Successfully cashed in his Natural Progression Series title shot.
5	Jimmy Havoc	1	24 November 2013	609	Highbury, London	Chapter Ten: Glory Follows Virtue As If It Were Its Shadow	Used the open contract given to him by Jim Smallman to make an immediate title match.
6	Will Ospreay	1	26 July 2015	182	Camden, London	Chapter Twenty: ThunderBastard: Beyond ThunderBastard
7	Marty Scurll	1	24 January 2016	154	Camden, London	Chapter Twenty-Five: Chat Shit, Get Banged
8	Pastor William Eaver	1	26 June 2016	35	Camden, London	Chapter Thirty-Two: 5000 to 1	Successfully cashed in his Natural Progression Series title shot.
9	Marty Scurll	2	31 July 2016	56	Camden, London	Chapter Thirty-Three: Malice in Wonderland
10	Mark Haskins	1	25 September 2016	35	Brixton, London	Chapter Thirty-Six: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Room Again	This was a triple threat match also involving Tommy End.
—	Vacated	—	30 October 2016	—	Camden, London	Chapter Thirty-Eight: When Men Throw Men At Men	Haskins vacated the title due to injury.
11	Pete Dunne	1	27 November 2016	287	Camden, London	Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Graps of Wrath	Defeated Jimmy Havoc, Matt Riddle, Sebastian, TK Cooper, Travis Banks, and Trent Seven in a seven-way elimination match to crown a new champion.
12	Travis Banks	1	10 September 2017	2,496+	Haringey, London	Chapter 55: Chase The Sun	Successfully cashed in his Super Strong Style 16 shot.

Combined reigns

As of 11 July 2024.

†	Indicates the current champion

Rank	Wrestler	No. of reigns	Combined days
1	Jimmy Havoc	1	609
2	Pete Dunne	1	287
3	Nathan Cruz	1	245
3	El Ligero	1	245
5	Marty Scurll	2	210
6	Will Ospreay	1	182
7	Rampage Brown	1	119
8	Travis Banks †	1	2,496+
9	Pastor William Eaver	1	35
9	Mark Haskins	1	35
11	Mark Andrews	1	<1

Progress Tag Team Championship

File:Progresstag.jpg

The Progress Tag Team belt
(April 2017 — Present)

Details

Promotion

Progress Wrestling

Date established

24 November 2013

Current champion(s)

CCK (Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos)

Date won

10 September 2017

Statistics
First champion(s)	FSU (Mark Andrews and Eddie Dennis)
Most reigns	(as a team) The Origin (Nathan Cruz and El Ligero), British Strong Style (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate), and CCK (Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos) (2 reigns) (as an individual) Trent Seven (3 reigns)
Longest reign	FSU (Mark Andrews and Eddie Dennis) (301 days)
Shortest reign	CCK (Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos) (14 days)

It was announced at Chapter Nine that beginning in November 2013 there would begin a series of matches to determine the first Progress Tag Team champions. The champions were crowned at Chapter Twelve, the second anniversary show, in March 2014. As with the Progress Championship not being a conventional championship belt, the Progress Tag Team Championship was originally represented by a shield with the Progress eagle on the front. The shield splits into two, one for each championship holder. At Chapter Forty Six the Tag Team shields were replaced with traditional strap title belts, with the design on the front plate of each belt representing the defunct Tag shields.

As of 11 July 2024.

Reign	The reign number for the specific champion listed
Location	The city in which the title was won
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title was won
+	Indicates the current reign is changing daily

No.	Champion	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes
1	FSU (Mark Andrews and Eddie Dennis)	1	30 March 2014	301	Camden Town, London	Chapter Twelve: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Room	Defeated Screw Indy Wrestling and Project Ego in a tournament final to crown the inaugural champions.
2	The Faceless/The Origin (Nathan Cruz, El Ligero, Danny Garnell and Damon Moser)	1	25 January 2015	120	Camden Town, London	Chapter Seventeen: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger	Danny Garnell and Damon Moser originally captured the title as The Faceless, before all four unmasked, renaming themselves The Origin on 24 May 2015.
3	The Sumerian Death Squad (Tommy End and Michael Dante)	1	25 May 2015	−3147	Camden Town, London	Chapter Nineteen: Super Strong Style 16: Tournament Edition 2015 (Day 2)	Defeated Nathan Cruz and El Ligero.
4	The Origin (Nathan Cruz and El Ligero)	2	29 November 2015	182	Camden Town, London	Chapter Twenty-Three: What a Time to Be Alive	Won in a three-way match also involving The London Riots.
5	London Riots (Rob Lynch and James Davis)	1	29 May 2016	119	Camden Town, London	Chapter Thirty: Super Strong Style 16 Tournament Edition 2016 (Day 1)
6	British Strong Style (Trent Seven and Pete Dunne)	1	25 September 2016	82	Brixton, London	Chapter Thirty-Six: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Room... Again
—	Vacated	—	16 December 2016	—	—	—	Progress management vacated the title after Pete Dunne attempted to give his half of it to Tyler Bate.
7	British Strong Style (Trent Seven (2) and Tyler Bate)	1	30 December 2016	177	Camden Town, London	Chapter Forty-One: Unboxing Live	Won in a three-way match with The Riots and the LDRS of the New School.
8	CCK (Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos)	1	25 June 2017	14	Camden Town, London	Chapter Fifty: I Give It Six Months
9	British Strong Style (Trent Seven (3) and Tyler Bate (2))	2	9 July 2017	63	Birmingham	Chapter Fifty-One: Screaming for Progress	Won in a six-man match featuring Pete Dunne, Trent Seven and Tyler Bate vs. Travis Banks, Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos.
10	CCK (Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos)	2	10 September 2017	2496+	Haringey, London	Chapter Fifty-Five: Chase The Sun	This was a tag team ladder match.

Combined team reigns

As of 11 July 2024.

†	Indicates the current champion

Rank	Team	No. of reigns	Combined days
1	The Faceless/The Origin (Nathan Cruz, El Ligero, Danny Garnell and Damon Moser)	2	302
2	FSU (Mark Andrews and Eddie Dennis)	1	301
3	British Strong Style (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate)	2	240
4	The Sumerian Death Squad (Tommy End and Michael Dante)	1	188
5	London Riots (Rob Lynch and James Davis)	1	119
6	British Strong Style (Trent Seven and Pete Dunne)	1	82
7	CCK † (Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos)	2	2510+

Combined reigns

As of 11 July 2024.

†	Indicates the current champion

Rank	Wrestler	No. of reigns	Combined days
1	Trent Seven	3	322
2	El Ligero	2	302
2	Nathan Cruz	2	302
4	Mark Andrews	1	301
4	Eddie Dennis	1	301
6	Tyler Bate	2	240
7	Tommy End	1	188
7	Michael Dante	1	188
9	Danny Garnell	1	120
9	Damon Moser	1	120
11	Rob Lynch	1	119
11	James Davis	1	119
13	Pete Dunne	1	82
14	Chris Brookes †	2	2510+
14	Kid Lykos †	2	2510+

Progress Atlas Championship

Details

Promotion

Progress Wrestling

Date established

25 September 2016

Current champion(s)

Walter

Date won

10 September 2017

Statistics
First champion(s)	Rampage Brown
Most reigns	Matt Riddle and Walter (2 reigns)
Longest reign	Matt Riddle (175 days)
Shortest reign	Matt Riddle (29 days)
Heaviest champion	Walter (310 lb (140 kg))
Lightest champion	Matt Riddle (216 lb (98 kg))

The Progress Atlas Championship is exclusively for wrestlers over 205 pounds in weight—the cruiserweight weight limit. Rampage Brown was the first champion after winning a tournament. As of 11 July 2024.

Reign	The reign number for the specific champion listed
Location	The city in which the title was won
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title was won
+	Indicates the current reign is changing daily

No.	Champion	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes
1	Rampage Brown	1	25 September 2016	112	Brixton, London	Chapter Thirty-Six: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Room Again	Tournament final to crown inaugural champion.
2	Matt Riddle	1	15 January 2017	175	Birmingham	Chapter Forty-Two: Life, the Universe and Wrestling
3	Walter	1	9 July 2017	34	Birmingham	Chapter Fifty-One: Screaming for Progress
4	Matt Riddle	2	12 August 2017	29	New York City United States	Progress New York City
5	Walter	2	10 September 2017	2496+	Haringey, London	Progress Chapter Fifty-Five: Chase The Sun	This was a Triple Threat Match, also involving Timothy Thatcher.

Combined reigns

As of 11 July 2024.

†	Indicates the current champion

Rank	Wrestler	No. of reigns	Combined days
1	Matt Riddle	2	204
2	Rampage Brown	1	112
3	Walter †	2	2530+

Progress Women's Championship

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The Progress Women's belt
(May 2017 — Present)

Details

Promotion

Progress Wrestling

Date established

28 May 2017

Current champion(s)

Toni Storm

Date won

28 May 2017

Statistics
First champion(s)	Toni Storm
Most reigns	Toni Storm (1 reign)

It was announced on 24 April 2016, that Natural Progression Series IV would crown the first Progress Women's Champion. The tournament got underway in October 2016, with the champion to be crowned during the Super Strong Style 16 2017 weekend from 27 May 2017, to 29 May 2017. At the conclusion of the tournament at Day Two of the Super Strong Style 16 event, Toni Storm was crowned the first Progress Women's Champion.

No.	Champion	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1	Toni Storm	1	28 May 2017	2601+	Camden, London	Chapter Forty-Nine: Super Strong Style 16 2017 (Day Two)	Tournament final to crown inaugural champion.

Tournaments

Natural Progression Series

Beginning with Chapter Four: The Ballad of El Ligero, Progress launched the Natural Progression Series, with the intention of showcasing up-and-coming British talent. The winner earns a match for the Progress World Championship at any time, the Natural Progression Series trophy and is allowed to install an eliminated wrestler in that year's tournament into the next Natural Progression Series. This last rule did not count for NPSIII as the following tournament was all-female.

Series I

Quarter Finals
(Chapters 4 - 7)

Semi Finals
(Chapters 8 & 9)

Final
(Chapter 10)

Mark Andrews

Will Ospreay

Mark Andrews

Jonathan Windsor

Mike Hitchman

Jonathan Windsor

Mark Andrews

Paul Robinson

MK McKinnan

Paul Robinson

Eddie Dennis

Eddie Dennis

Darrell Allen
Joey Lakeside
Xander Cooper

At the conclusion of the first Natural Progression Series final, the winner Mark Andrews decided to install Will Ospreay into the next tournament.

Series II

Quarter Finals
(Chapters 11 - 14)

Semi Finals
(Chapter 15)

Final
(Chapter 17)

Josh Bodom

Morgan Webster

Pete Dunne

Pete Dunne

Sub

Robbie X

Morgan Webster

Zack Gibson

Will Ospreay

Zack Gibson

Sub

Zack Gibson

Sub

Ali Armstrong

Ali Armstrong

Chuck Mambo
Pastor William Eaver

The winner Morgan Webster decided to install Pastor William Eaver into the next tournament. Morgan Webster lost his championship opportunity to Zack Gibson.

Series III

Quarter Finals
(Chapters 22 - 25)

Semi Finals
(Chapters 27 & 28)

Final
(Chapter 29)

Damian Dunne

Tyler Bate^{[NPS 1]}