While the company hasn’t made an official announcement regarding the same, latest reports suggest that AEW has released three wrestlers from their roster.
According to reports from Wrestling Observer, the promotion has parted ways with three wrestlers including Jimmy Havoc, Bea Priestley, and Sadie Gibbs.
Havoc was last seen on the AEW TV back in May before he was accused of sexual assault as part of the #SpeakingOut movement in June.
The company had responded to these allegations by announcing that the British star will be undergoing treatment for mental health and substance abuse issues. The officials had promised to evaluate Jimmy’s position with the promotion upon the completion of his rehabilitation
Priestley who turned down a WWE contract to sign with AEW was last seen in the promotion in March. It was reported that the female star had trouble getting into the country due to the restrictions put in place after coronavirus outbreak.
Sadie Gibbs, on the other hand, hasn’t been seen on AEW programming this year. Her last match for the company was a tag team bout during AEW Dark.
The company has been removing the names of the released stars from their website one by one and it’s possible that more names will be added to this list in coming times. We’ll keep you posted on any further updates on the matter.
Jimmy Havoc will be entering a rehabilitation program for substance abuse and mental health. AEW announced the news recently on social media. Havoc is one of several wrestlers recently accused of sexual misconduct and/or assault as part of the #SpeakingOut hashtag on Twitter.
AEW released a statement that they will evaluate his status with the company and address it after he has finished his rehabilitation program.
“We wish Jimmy Havoc all the best as he receives treatment and counseling in an effort to overcome the mental health and substance abuse challenges in his life.”
We wish Jimmy Havoc all the best as he receives treatment and counseling in an effort to overcome the mental health and substance abuse challenges in his life. pic.twitter.com/mh0hudsPuW
Shortly after the promotion was announced, Havoc was officially signed to AEW in February of 2019. He is currently part of a tag-team with Kip Sabian. Havoc and Sabian challenged unsuccessfully for the AEW tag team Championships on the May 28th, 2020 show.
The 36-year-old Havoc began his career in 2004. He is a former Progress Champion and once held the promotion’s tag titles along with Mark Haskins as well. Havoc is a former Hardcore champion with Defiant and won CZW’s Tournament of Death 16 back in 2017.
This weekend, Major League Wrestling presented its first episode of Fusion from the Zero Hour tapings held in Dallas earlier this month. The show featured a barbed wire match between Mance Warner and Jimmy Havoc in the main event.
The full show can be viewed in the player below:
MLW Fusion 1/25/20 Quick Results:
Drago & Puma King defeated Jordan Oliver & Kotto Brazil (Injustice) and Low Rider & Taurus (Triple Threat Tag match)
Low-Ki defeated Chandler Hopkins
Barbed Wire Match Mance Warner defeated Jimmy Havoc
Barbed Wire Match Mance Warner defeated Jimmy Havoc
Not since 2003 during its initial run has MLW held a barbed-wire match, but Jimmy Havoc and Mance Warner went to battle in such a fight this week. Warner would come away as the victor after an interference attempt from Priscilla Kelly didn’t go as planned.
Kelly gave Havoc a handful of powder to use but Warner caused the powder to hit Havoc in the face instead. Warner then hit a piledriver for the win.
Warner now leads the head-to-head series in MLW between the two at 3-1:
Bunkhouse Brawl 9/7/19 Mance Warner defeated Jimmy Havoc
Falls Count Anywhere 11/9/19: Mance Warner defeated Jimmy Havoc
Prince of Darkness Match 12/5/19 Jimmy Havoc defeated Mance Warner
Barbed Wire Match 1/11/20 Mance Warner defeated Jimmy Havoc
Warner also won a triple threat against Bestia 666 and Havoc on the SuperFight PPV in November.
Contra Unit Has A Challenge For The Hart Foundation
Last week on Fusion, Davey Boy Smith Jr. won the 2019 Opera Cup. To kick off this week’s episode of Fusion, Contra Unit cut a promo about how what they had started with a fireball (delivered to Teddy Hart) they will finish, referring to the demise of the Hart Foundation. This brought out Davey Boy Smith Jr from the back, however, and Brian Pillman Jr. came from the stands disguised as a fan to run Contra off.
Later in the show, Contra Unit issued a challenge to Smith for a no-holds-barred match with no ring ropes and where the only way the match can end is via knockout or tapout. Smith would later accept the challenge and will face Contra Unit’s Simon Gotch in a match that will air on a later date.
Former MLW World Champion Low-Ki was in single’s competition this week. He was facing local talent Chandler Hopkins who put in a good showing for himself. The commentary team noted Hopkins has been competing in AAA as of late and has impressed Konnan. Low-Ki put the match away by countering a top rope diving attack attempt into a triangle lock. Low-Ki offered Hopkins his respect after the match.
Drago & Puma King defeated Jordan Oliver & Kotto Brazil (Injustice) and Low Rider & Taurus (Triple Threat Tag match)
Drago was able to send a message to the members of Injustice week when he picked up the pin for his team in the opener. The members of Injustice had appeared in a backstage segment with Konnan and said that nobody cares about AAA. Konnan told Myron Reed he’s got to worry about Drago and tonight, the members of Injustice will be in the ring with some top talent from AAA.
In a high-paced action-packed opener, it would be Drago who would pick up the pinfall over Low-Rider.
Maxwell Jacob Friedman was interviewed in the back by Alicia Atout. Pretty much right off the bat, MJF managed to offend Atout and then complain about Grogan’s heavy breathing behind him before talking about his match next week against Marshall Von Erich.
The Von Erichs then issued the following response to MJF, using fruit as an example of what they will do to MJF with the Iron Claw.
AEW has issued a hefty storyline fine to Jimmy Havoc for using a stable gun in the Diamond Dozen battle royal this week on Dynamite. Havoc used the staple gun against multiple wrestlers in the battle royal, including Billy Gunn and Chuck Taylor.
AEW noted that Havoc will be fined $10,000 each and every time he uses a staple gun in a match. It’s not clear if this includes hardcore or lights out matches as well, however.
Jimmy Havoc in All Elite Wrestling
35-year-old Jimmy Havoc has wrestled in 8 matches for AEW thus far.
Did not win the Casino Battle Royale (Adam Page won) – (AEW Double or Nothing).
Adam Page defeated Jimmy Havoc, Jungle Boy, and MJF (Fyter Fest)
Maxwell Jacob Friedman, Sammy Guevara & Shawn Spears defeated Darby Allin, Jimmy Havoc & Joey Janela (Fight for the Fallen).
Jimmy Havoc defeated Darby Allin and Joey Janela (All Out).
Darby Allin defeated Jimmy Havoc (AEW Dynamite #2)
Darby Allin defeated Jimmy Havoc and Jack Evans (AEW Dark #4).
Jimmy Havoc & Joey Janela defeated Marko Stunt & Jungle Boy (AEW Dark #5).
Dynamite Dozen Battle Royal: Adam Page and MJF defeated Billy Gunn and Chuck Taylor and Jimmy Havoc and Joey Janela and Jungle Boy and Kip Sabian and Marko Stunt and Orange Cassidy and Pentagon Jr. and Sonny Kiss (AEW Dynamite #8).
MLW’s Court Bauer recently struck a deal with AEW to allow Tony Shiavone to work for both promotions. Several MLW contracted talents, including Maxwell Jacob Friedman, work for both companies. Bauer appeared on the WINCLY podcast recently and spoke about the future of some of MLW’s roster as AEW’s TV begins in the fall.
“There’s this misnomer that it’s like Cinderella at midnight and things are gonna automatically change when [AEW] go on TV. That’s not the case because we have pre-existing contracts and the guys that are with us are for the duration of those contracts. At that point we’ll have a conversation on if we continue to work with them or they go their separate ways,” Bauer said during the interview.
“But it’s not gonna just happen overnight where October X you’re gonna be only on that show. They have pre-existing contracts with us.”
In addition to MJF, Jimmy Havoc is also with MLW and AEW.
“It’s in everyone’s best interest to find ways to work things out rather than to flex and be all ego-driven,” he continued. “Then it just escalates things and usually it’s a negative outcome. I try to approach things more holistically and pragmatically to try and find a solution where everyone can win.”
The full interview can be listened to in the player below:
United Kingdom based promotion IPW:UK will be heading to New York City for WrestleMania weekend in April. The company will be hosting a show on Friday April 5th from the NYC Arena at 12pm.
Four matches for the show have already been announced. Company veteran and newly signed AEW star Jimmy Havoc will be making one of his final appearances for the company. A farewell UK show was recently held for Havoc but this will be first time that IPW has ventured to the States, so they wanted to take Havoc.
Havoc will be taking part in a ‘No Rules Bar Room Brawl’ against James Storm. The former TNA World Heavyweight Champion has appeared sporadically for the company and now he has the honor of helping the company say farewell to Havoc.
Other confirmed matches for the show are as follows:
AEW has announced that one of their latest signings will be joining the Starrcast 2 celebrations. Former PROGRESS and IPW:UK Champion Jimmy Havoc will be part of the Memorial Day Weekender in Las Vegas.
The former PROGRESS World Champion has been making rounds in the American indie scene with his recent involvement with Major League Wrestling (MLW) and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). This past weekend at MLW Superfight, it was announced that Jimmy Havoc is set to return soon to MLW.
The following stars and on screen personalities are now confirmed for Starrcast 2:
Former WCW and WWE Superstar Sting
Bruce Prichard
Tony Schiavone
Eric Bischoff
Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart
Sean Mooney
Jim Ross
‘The Hurricane’ Shane Helms
Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler
Lita
Scott Hall
Magnum T.A
Kevin Nash
Sean Waltman
Ricky Steamboat
Tommy Dreamer
Arn Anderson
Tully Blanchard
JJ Dillon
Barry Windham
Bill Apter
Joey Ryan
David Arquette
Colt Cabana
Jerry Lynn
Konnan
Terry Funk
The Godfather
Rob Van Dam
Leva Bates
‘Hornswoggle’ Dylan Postl
Brian Pillman Jr
Starrcast II welcomes England’s Most Dangerous Man! Our next Superstarr is Jimmy Havoc, who will be joining us this Memorial Day Weekend in Las Vegas! pic.twitter.com/Q05YVd2cIo
Jimmy Havoc is the latest wrestler confirmed to be joining All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Havoc was featured in the latest episode of AEW’s Road to Double Or Nothing web series, which you can watch below. AEW and Havoc later confirmed the news on social media.
The former PROGRESS World Champion has been making rounds in the American indie scene with his recent involvement with Major League Wrestling (MLW) and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). This past weekend at MLW Superfight, it was announced that Jimmy Havoc is set to return soon to MLW. MLW CEO Court Bauer was asked how Havoc’s involvement with AEW affects his role in MLW.
The second installment of AEW’s Road To Double Or Nothing web series has been released and can be seen below.
At the beginning of the episode, Cody Rhodes, Head of Talent Relations Christopher Daniels and AEW Coordinator Michael Cuellari were seen watching a Havoc promo. After watching the promo, Christopher Daniels mentions how Havoc is technically sound in the ring and is a good talker. Cody agrees, and says that he loves him and that “he’s great, he’s amazing. Absolutely, let’s make that call.”
Here are a few news items for Major League Wrestling:
– Former PROGRESS World Champion Jimmy Havoc returns to MLW soon. Havoc had memorable battles with Sami Callihan, Tom Lawlor, Joey Janela, Shane Strickland and Darby Allen last year.
– Earlier this week, “Filthy” Tom Lawlor was attacked during his first press conference as the new World Heavyweight Champion. No further details are available at this time.
– MLW returns to Philadelphia’s 2300 Arena on Saturday, June 1st. Tickets for this MLW Fusion TV taping go on sale this Friday morning at MLWNOW.com.
– MLW continues to express gratitude for Pentagon Jr. and Rey Fenix. The Lucha Bros. lost the MLW World Tag Team Championships to the Hart Foundation at Superfight. The former champions have agreed to work for All Elite Wrestling (MLW).
Click here for more details on Pentagon & Fenix to AEW.
WWE confirmed on Tuesday that Dean Ambrose will be ending his time with the company in April. WWE’s unprecedented statement reads, “We are grateful and appreciative of all that Dean has given to WWE and our fans. We wish him well and hope that one day Dean will return to WWE.”
Reports seem to indicate that Ambrose is unhappy with his creative direction – so much so that he turned down a long-term multi-million dollar contract.
Prior to joining WWE developmental back in 2011, Ambrose had an impressive run on the independent scene under the name Jon Moxley. Moxley was for his ‘death matches’ in promotions including Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW).
With the news of Ambrose’s imminent departure from WWE, one independent star who is already thinking about the possibilities is none other than Jimmy Havoc.
Havoc is one of the most popular death match wrestlers anywhere. The former PROGRESS World Champion is also a CZW Tournament of Death winner in his own right and could bring it to Ambrose in a hardcore setting.
Havoc vs. Moxley has potential written all over it and would be a draw for any company that could sign this contest.
Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) has announced three of the UK’s top stars for their Fear & Loathing XI. Jimmy Havoc, Mark and Vicky Haskins will be heading to the Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland on December 2nd.
You can check out our exclusive interview with former PROGRESS World Champion Mark Haskins here.
Insane Championship Wrestling has also announced that British Strong Style will be heading to Fear & Loathing XI. This will be first time that the BSS stable has appeared as a unit in ICW. Trent Seven is a former ICW World Champion. More interesting is that Pete Dunne actually defended his WWE United Kingdom Championship in the company previously. British Strong Style are arguably the most popular stars from the thriving UK scene. All three are featured heavily on the WWE UK brands and NXT television.
ICW has also announced a huge Women’s Championship match for their Fear & Loathing XI event. Women’s Champion Viper will be facing challenger Kay Lee Ray. Both stars are considered to be amongst the World’s best and have been a featured part of the weekly WoS programme on ITV/STV.
Fear & Loathing XI will be taking place on December 2nd at the SSE Hydro. If you’re an ICW fan you know that the ‘Loathing event is ICW’s biggest in the calendar year and last year’s iteration featured Rey Mysterio, Kevin Nash and Rob Van Dam amongst the homegrown talent.
Tickets are available to purchase via Ticketmaster now.
So far in 2018, MLW has hosted a 40-person Battle Riot and a 2-ring steel cage War Games match. The promotion has just released plans to bring back the once-famous “Spin The Wheel, Make A Deal” match as well.
Sami Callihan and Jimmy Havoc will spin a giant wheel before their MLW match on October 4th from New York City. Whatever gimmick match the wheel lands on will be the stipulation for their match at MLW’s “Fury Road” event. The show will also serve as a television taping for future episodes of MLW Fusion.
Spin The Wheel, Make A Deal Match: Sami Callihan vs Jimmy Havoc
“What kind of match will it be?” MLW’s event page asks. “Nobody will know until that night when a wheel containing 11 different specialty matches will be spun.”
The following gimmick matches will be on the wheel:
Chain Match
Body Bag Match
Coal Miner’s Glove Match
Barbed Wire Match
1st Blood Match
Prince of Darkness
Spinner’s Choice
Death Match
Cage Match
I Quit Match
Dog Collar Match
The 3rd option of a “Coal Miner’s Glove Match” is what was landed on for the first-ever Spin The Wheel, Make A Deal match between Jake “the Snake” Roberts and Sting. The match took place in WCW at Halloween Havoc 1993. Roberts left the promotion shortly after.
PROGRESS Wrestling has announced the final match for Jimmy Havoc before their Wembley Arena show. The longest reigning Champion in PROGRESS’ history will be taking on his greatest rival, Will Ospreay. The match was actually originally scheduled to happen at the Wembley event in September. Unfortunately plans had to change due to Ospreay’s NJPW contract and a pre-existing date in Los Angeles.
The stakes in this bout are extremely high. Havoc has 2 wins in the ‘3 and In’ series, if he bests Ospreay then he goes into Wembley as Number 1 contender to the PROGRESS World Championship. Ospreay however has different plans and wants to end the man who he refers to now as ‘James,’ claiming that Havoc is a shell of his former self. Ospreay famously ended Havoc’s record title run at the top of PROGRESS at Chapter 20.
To add extra weight and precedence to the bout PROGRESS has announced a special guest referee. Former member of Havoc’s ‘REGRESSION’ stable and Ospreay’s longtime tag partner Paul Robinson will be the man in charge for this No DQ, 2 out of 3 falls match.
The two men that defined PROGRESS and put them on the global stage will be facing for possibly the final time. It. Ends. Here.
Impact Wrestling has announced that their event from Wrestling MediaCon will be streamed live on Twitch. The show is scheduled for September 9th from Manchester.
Impact’s return to Manchester coincides with the launch of Anthem’s Fight Network in the UK, which can now be seen on Sky Channel 455. The show will begin at 5 pm UK time and 12 pm EST.
BIG NEWS: Our @WrestlingMediaC event in Manchester on September 9th will stream LIVE on Twitch!
Impact Wrestling at Wrestling MediaCon September 9th
5 matches have been confirmed thus far for the event, including a match for the Impact Wrestling Tag-Team Championships. Jimmy Havoc will also wrestle for the promotion for the first time since they toured the UK in early 2016.
Impact Wrestling Tag Team Championships
LAX (c) vs Jody Fleisch & Jonny Storm
Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Death Match
Sami Callihan vs Jimmy Havoc
Eli Drake vs Joe Hendry
Su Yung vs Lana Austin
Rich Swann vs Matt Sydal vs Trevor Lee
Moose and Eddie Edwards are also scheduled to appear but have yet to be booked in a match.
Impact Wrestling Twitch
“IMPACT Wrestling’s official Twitch channel features exclusive monthly live events, original weekly live shows such as “Prestigious Tuesdays with Joe Hendry,” an Impact press release reads. The Twitch channel also features a 24/7 stream of classic Impact Wrestling events.
Impact Wrestling returns to television tomorrow night when Sami Callihan and Pentagon Jr. clash in a Mexican Death Match.
DEFIANT Wrestling has announced that a Number 1 contenders’ match to the company’s Tag Team Champions Aussie Open (Mark Davis and Kyle Fletcher). The bout will be taking place at the upcoming Stacked ’18 event from the Bowlers Exhibition Centre in Manchester, England.
Jimmy Havoc and Mark Haskins will be taking on the team of ‘Superbad’ Kip Sabian and Iestyn Rees. Kip and Rees’ debut match as a team occurred during episode 1 of the new World of Sport/WoS reboot on ITV, this will be their first opportunity to get a shot at Championship gold on the UK independent scene.
Havoc & Haskins are two of the most well respected and tenured performers on the UK scene, they have also been extremely successful as a tandem. The team were previously tag team champions in DEFIANT and have also held the PROGRESS Tag Team Champions.
The card for Stacked ’18 is now as follows:
Walter vs Will Ospreay (Internet Championship)
Bea Priestley vs Millie McKenzie (Women’s Championship)
Havoc & Haskins vs Alpha Bad (Tag #1 Contenders)
Chris Brookes vs Chris Ridgeway (Internet #1 Contenders)
Doug Williams vs John ‘Bad Bones’ Klinger
Joe Hendry vs Martin Kirby
Drake vs El Phantasmo
Omari vs Lucky Kid
Gabriel Kidd vs ???
Tickets for the event are available to purchase via Eventbrite.
Making their Defiant debuts and with an immediate big opportunity… Alpha Bad (Kip Sabian and Iestyn Rees) take on Havoc & Haskins at Stacked in Manchester, with the winners going on to face Aussie Open at Refuse To Lose.
IMPACT has announced the first two bouts for their upcoming UK show at the Bowlers Exhibition Centre, Manchester on Sunday 9th September. The show will be part of the Wrestling MediaCon 2018 event featuring panels with the likes of Pat Patterson, Colt Cabana, X-Pac, Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger and more.
The first match sees former CZW Tournament of Death winner and PROGRESS World Champion Jimmy Havoc taking on ‘The Draw’ Sami Callihan. These two Deathmatch style performers will be looking to tear each other to shreds in Manchester so this won’t be a match to miss.
The second confirmed match will see arguably IMPACT’s best tag team LAX taking on two legends of the British Independent Wrestling scene: Jody Fleisch and Jonny Storm. The tandem of Fleisch and Storm will also be performing as part of the upcoming Honor ReUnited tour for Ring of Honor with bouts against The Young Bucks and The Briscoes now confirmed.
The time has come…. Your first two matches for Wrestling Media Con have arrived!
You asked for international dream matches for IMPACT at @WrestlingMediaC in Manchester on Sunday 9th September… so we've given you international dream matches. Two of them!
DEFIANT Wrestling has announced the second match for their upcoming Stacked ’18 event which takes place from the Bowlers Exhibition Centre in Manchester, England on August 26th.
Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos (better known as CCK) will be taking on the team of Mark Haskins and Jimmy Havoc to decide the Number 1 contender to Aussie Open’s Tag Team Championships. Aussie Open defeated Havoc & Haskins at No Regrets 2018 to capture the belts on April 28th.
Jimmy Havoc and Mark Haskins are both scheduled to take part in Ring of Honor’s upcoming Honor ReUnited tour in August and are two of the highest profile performers in the UK who have not signed for the NXT UK or WoS brands. Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos likewise do not appear to have signed for the two ‘warring’ promotions with Brookes outright saying to a Rev Pro crowd earlier this year that he is staying independent for the foreseeable future.
This bout joins the already confirmed Will Ospreay vs WALTER bout…looks like ‘Stacked’ might be the right word for this show and DEFIANT will be adding to the lineup over the coming weeks.
Ticket information can be found via the tweet below:
Joining @WalterAUT vs @WillOspreay on the card at Stacked in Manchester on Sunday, August 26…
CCK take on Havoc & Haskins, #1 contenders match for the Defiant Tag Team Championship!
Ring of Honor has announced that UK star Jimmy Havoc will be taking part in the upcoming International Cup as part of the Honor ReUnited tour of the United Kingdom in August.
Havoc is a former CZW Tournament of Death winner, the longest reigning Champion in PROGRESS Wrestling history and has performed on a consistent basis for the top promotions in the UK including DEFIANT, Rev Pro, XWA:UK, IPW:UK, ICW Fight Club: Pro and the aforementioned PROGRESS.
The tournament is being billed as “United States vs United Kingdom” and ROH issued the following press release for the announcement of Havoc:
“One of the most sadistic and masochistic wrestlers in the world makes his Ring of Honor debut in Edinburgh as part of Ring of Honor’s Inaugural International Cup! Jimmy Havoc has held championships from all around the globe, including the Progress Championship and CZW Tournament of Death 2016, and is the first competitor announced for the inaugural ROH International Cup! Havoc thrives against more physical and violent wrestlers like Masada and Matt Tremont but is known for his victories against Pete Dunne, Tommy End, Will Ospreay, and Matt Riddle! Havoc is most dangerous not because of the violence he can deliver but because of his ability to wrestle his own match within the confines of the rules of the bout.
Havoc has one of the premiere reputations on the independent scene and enters the tournament as not only its first entrant but also its favorite. Havoc will face an American star to be named in the coming weeks as part of the first round in Edinburgh, with the winners of the first four matches of the International Cup meeting in the semifinals in Doncaster, and the winners of the two semifinal matches meeting in the finals in Doncaster. The inaugural winner of the International Cup will face whomever the Ring of Honor World Champion may be on Sunday August 19 in London!“
Welcome back to the UK Match of the Week. Now granted this isn’t quite the technical masterpiece that some of our other highlighted bouts have been but it certainly was a spectacle…we present James Ellsworth vs CZW Tournament of Death winner and arguably the best Deathmatch performer in the world: Jimmy Havoc.
Ever since his departure from WWE Ellsworth has been sporadically appearing on cards across the United States, including in a bout against Matt Riddle for Joey Janela’s Spring Break 2 during WrestleMania weekend this year.
This bout between Havoc and Ellsworth took place at IPW:UK’s ingeniously named ‘Chin Up Son’ event on May 2nd and was the first time that Ellsworth had appeared in the UK outside of WWE. Fans of the rising UK promotion instantly demanded that Havoc take on Ellsworth ever since the master of the ‘No Chin Music’ was announced. Havoc jokingly tweeted that he would “remove one of his hands” playing up Ellsworth’s “any man with two hands has a chance” catchphrase and the resulting bout has to be seen to be believed.
Check out the tweet below to find the match and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
PROGRESS Wrestling presented their Super Strong Style 16 tournament this past weekend and we have a ton of news coming out from the culmination of this historic weekender. Keep up with all of our daily coverage on the UK’s biggest promotion here.
One of the most shocking moments came on Monday night, the longest reigning PROGRESS World Champion Jimmy Havoc had just taken part in a hellacious Deathmatch with US star Joey Janela when his arch nemesis and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay made his return to the company.
Ospreay stated that he had returned to PROGRESS to challenge Havoc, but he wanted the “sadistic, psychotic and twisted” version of the former World Champion at the Wembley Arena Supershow on September 30th and not (as he described) “a bloke called James.” Many fans in Alexandra Palace described this as one of the greatest moments in PROGRESS history and it will be available to view in full on PROGRESS’ On Demand service within a week.
Former WWE Superstar James Ellsworth has been confirmed for a UK bout against one of the premier Deathmatch performers in the world…
The former PROGRESS Wrestling World Champion and CZW Tournament of Death 2017 winner Jimmy Havoc will be taking on Ellsworth as part of IPW:UK’s ‘Chin Up Son’ event which takes place on Wednesday 2nd May from Unit 9 in Milton Keynes, England. Ellsworth has been appearing sporadically on the independent scene since his WWE departure, he faced former UFC star Matt Riddle as part of Joey Janela’s Spring Break 2 event this past weekend in a quick 3 minute match.
This match against Havoc marks his debut in the United Kingdom outside of the WWE…which is quite a way to debut on one of the hottest scenes in the World. Fans of the UK promotion have been quick to ask for a Deathmatch stipulation to be added to the bout but IPW:UK has not yet commented on this, we will update you if this changes, you can see Ellsworth’s reaction to the match via the tweet below.
Top British Deathmatch performer Drew Parker has been announced for Combat Zone Wrestling’s Tournament of Death.
The 2018 iteration will be taking place Saturday June 9th from the ‘Ultraviolent Underground’ 179 Ebenezer Church Road in Townsend, DE. CZW’s TOD is one of the most violent events in the wrestling calendar; light tubes, planes of glass and even barbed wire trampolines are commonplace and blood is always guaranteed to be shed by the bucket load.
Last year saw former PROGRESS World Champion Jimmy Havoc take the crown at the first time of asking…whether Combat Zone intends on giving PROGRESS/ATTACK! star Parker his own opportunity to shine on one of the most violent playgrounds in wrestling remains to be seen.
PROGRESS has announced a huge 3-Way Elimination Tag Team Title bout for this Sunday’s Chapter 65 event ‘Have Some Faith In The Sound.’
Champions James Drake and Zack Gibson (Grizzled Young Veterans) will be defending their belts against Sexy Starr (Jack Sexsmith & David Starr) and Jimmy Havoc/Mark Haskins. All three teams have had their differences over the previous chapter events, the Grizzled Young Veterans took back their belts when they recently pinned an injured Jimmy Havoc and ‘Sexy Starr’ have been in the midst of a vicious feud with the Havoc/Haskins contingent. PROGRESS hope to bring this to a head when the three teams finally share a ring together this Sunday at Chapter 65.
Other matches for this Sunday are:
PROGRESS World Championship Match – Travis Banks (c) vs “Flash” Morgan Webster
Natural Progression Series First Round Match – Danny Duggan vs Danny Jones
DEFIANT Wrestling has announced a huge Tag Team Title match for their upcoming episode of Loaded this Friday. Champions Jimmy Havoc and Primate will be defending against arguably the best emerging team on the UK scene: Aussie Open.
This Friday marks the last Loaded show before DEFIANT’s ‘Lights Out’ pay per view on March 19th, which will be available to view via DEFIANT’s On Demand service. Some of the names already announced for ‘Lights Out’ are Christopher Daniels, Rampage, Jimmy Havoc, Martin Kirby, Joe Hendry, Primate, Mark Haskins, Aussie Open, Kay Lee Ray and Millie Mckenzie.
You can check out DEFIANT’s weekly Loaded show through their dedicated YouTube channel.
Kayfabe Events has announced a two date speaking tour for the longest reigning PROGRESS World Champion in history and the winner of the 2017 Tournament of Death…Jimmy Havoc.
You may have seen our recent post highlighting the 3 PROGRESS Stars That You Need to See in New Orleans this April, if you didn’t here is what we had to say about Havoc:
The longest reigning PROGRESS Champion in history and the winner of CZW’s Tournament of Death 2017…Jimmy Havoc is one of the premier death match performers on the planet, but to simply just refer to the Camden based star as a “deathmatch guy” is almost a disservice, he is a complete all-rounder. Since returning from a career threatening knee injury Havoc has been reinventing his style and can be slotted anywhere on a card with ease, be it in an epic back and forth main event or alongside his Tag Team partner Mark Haskins earlier in the show. Havoc also has a penchant for the humorous (albeit a fairly dark humour) and when he decides to bring that to the forefront in his bouts it kicks up a level and sets him apart from others in the deathmatch field. Again a true veteran on the UK scene and someone not to be missed.
Havoc will be appearing at the Brunswick Cellar Bar in Brighton on May 25th and in Manchester’s Chethams Library on May 26th, tickets for the shows will be available to purchase this Wednesday from 9am GMT.