Rampage Brown b. Joe Coffey – Rampage hit a Piledriver to become the first ever ATLAS Champion
Jinny, Alex Windsor & Dahlia Black b.Pollyanna, Laura DiMatteo & Nixon Newell – Jinny pinned Di Matteo following an X-Factor style Facebuster from the second rope
Pastor William Eaver vs Sebastian – This bout went to a no-contest when Sebastian was legitimately knocked out by a Lariat in the opening seconds of the match. Later in the night it was confirmed that he was on his feet and generally ok.
British Strong Style (Trent Seven & Pete Dunne) b. The London Riots – BSS took the win to become the new PROGRESS Tag Team Champions
Paul Robinson b. Chuck Mambo – In an impromptu bout, Robinson took the win via pinfall
Zack Sabre Jr b. Tomasso Ciampa – In a fantastic 2 out of 3 falls match ZSJ took the third fall and the win via submission, the first two falls occurred simultaneously when both men’s shoulders where on the mat
The Origin b. FSU, Damon Moser & Jack Gallagher – Gallagher took the pinfall in his final performance for the company before joining RAW and the Cruiserweight Division full time, he received a standing ovation from the crowd following the match.
Mark Haskins b. Tommy End & Marty Scurll – Haskins took the submission win over Scurll after Jimmy Havoc interfered to a HUGE reaction from the Brixton crowd, this was also Tommy End’s final independent date and company owner Jim Smallman brought Gallagher and Ciampa out at the end for a curtain call.
The Canadian based SMASH Wrestling promotion will be hosting three supershows on September 16th/17th pitting their talent against the best of UK promotion PROGRESS. The cards for the three nights have been announced and will be as follows:
PROGRESS Vs SMASH “Uncensored” 9/16 in Toronto
Mark Haskins vs Maybach Beta
Mark Andrews vs Brent Banks
Jack Gallagher vs Evil Uno
Sebastian Suave vs Jewells Malone
Hardcore Match: The London Riots vs Façade & Space Monkey
Here are the results from the third and final night of PWG’s annual BOLA Tournament:
BOLA Tournament Quarter Final Matches
Trevor Lee b. Dalton Castle – Trevor Lee took the win via pinfall after hitting a Canadian Destroyer
Ricochet b. John Bennigan – Ricochet hit the 630 splash to advance in the tournament
Marty Scurll b. Cody Rhodes – Scurll hit a low blow and followed with a quick roll up to secure the pinfall victory
Mark Andrews b. Chris Hero – Andrews reversed a cradle attempt to take the victory in a rematch from PROGRESS’ Super Strong Style 16 tournament
Mark Haskins b. Kyle O’Reilly – Haskins took the win via submission
Will Ospreay b. Zack Sabre Jr – Ospreay took the win after reversing a European Clutch into a pinfall
PWG Tag Team Title Match:The Young Bucks (c) b. Pentagon Jr & Fenix
BOLA Tournament Semi-Final Matches
Trevor Lee b. Mark Andrews – Lee took the win after hitting a small package driver
Marty Scurll b. Mark Haskins – Scurll took the submission win after applying the Crossface Chickenwing
Will Ospreay b. Ricochet – Ospreay hit the OsCutter to win via pinfall in this Best of the Super Juniors rematch
10 Man Tag:Jushin Thunder Liger, Chuck Taylor, Jeff Cobb, Tommy End & Cedric Alexander b. Tommaso Ciampa, Sami Callihan, Matt Riddle, Pete Dunne & Brian Kendrick – Liger hit the Brainbuster on Pete Dunne to secure the pinfall win for his team
Marty Scurll b. Will Ospreay & Trevor Lee – Ospreay is the first to be eliminated after a Chickenwing/Stomp combination from both Scurll and Lee. Scurll wins the tournament by making Lee tap to the Chickenwing.
When PROGRESS first announced that they would be returning to the O2 Academy in Brixton for their biggest show of all time they teased a final battle between two of the company’s best performers.
The stipulation has now been made official: Zack Sabre Jr and Tommaso Ciampa will compete in a 2 out of 3 Falls match in what will be Ciampa’s final UK independent date before becoming a full time member of the NXT roster.
Other bouts for the biggest show in PROGRESS’ history are being announced in the following days.
WWE Cruiserweight Classic competitor Zack Sabre Jr. recently spoke with ESPN.com about Daniel Bryan’s influence on his career and the possibility of joining NXT full-time.
Sabre had the chance to wrestle Daniel Bryan back in 2008 in front of about 80 people at a pub in Coventry, England. It was one of the early highlights in the wrestling business. “People started to take notice of me more when I wrestled him. But also, when you’re in ring with someone so natural who understands professional wrestling so well like Daniel Bryan, you can’t help but have some of that rub off on you,” Sabre said.
When he was still new to the sport, Daniel Bryan was somebody he really looked u to. Now, he works with Bryan in the Cruiserweight Classic and picks his brain for advise on how to improve his act.
As one of the standout CWC competitors, Sabre would be a great candidate for NXT or even the RAW brand’s new cruiserweight division. When asked if he sees himself in WWE, ZSJ said the prospect is “definitely appealing.”
“What NXT has become, I could definitely see myself in that environment,” he said. “I would benefit from it. But I do have a personal journey as a professional wrestler that I want to travel.”
“There are a lot of things I want to achieve. There are still some bits and pieces that I’ve got on coming up. I’m very happy doing what I’m doing now. I have other aspirations, so we’ll just see what happens.”
Other topics discussed include working with Kurt Angle and his goals in the business.
Revolution Pro have announced that IWGP Intercontinental Champion ‘Unbreakable’ Michael Elgin will be performing at the two Global Wars events taking place on November 10th/11th, he joins the already announced Jushin Thunder Liger, Tomoaki Honma, Tetsuya Naito, WIll Ospreay and Zack Sabre Jr.
Rob Lias b. Josh Wall – Lias took the win via submission
Jake McCluskey & Kieran Bruce b. Dan McGee & Kurtis Chapman – McCluskey and Bruce took the win via pinfall
Jinny b. Xia Brookside – Jinny took the win via pinfall, Lucas delivered a Dragon Suplex to Jinny after the match
Jeff Cobb (Matanza Cueto) b. Big Damo – Cobb took the win via pinfall, after the match Damo challenged Zack Sabre Jr to put his title on the line against Cobb at Uprising on August 12th if he defeated Trent Seven in the main event
Josh Bodom b. Ryan Smile – Bodom took the win via pinfall
Marty Scurll B. Jay White – Scurll took the win via submission
Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship Match: Zack Sabre Jr b. Trent Seven – ZSJ took the win via submission to retain his championship, he then agreed to defend his title against Cobb at Uprising this Friday
Chapter 34 – ‘Keep it Unreal’ takes place at the O2 Ritz in Manchester on August 14th and the first two matches have been announced.
Arguably two of the most talked about British wrestlers on the planet collide when New Japan Pro Wrestling BOSJ Champion Will Ospreay takes on WWE CWC Competitor Zack Sabre Jr in a potential Match of the Year Candidate.
A Mixed Tag bout has also been announced with PROGRESS Champion Marty Scurll teaming with Jinny to take on Number 1 Contender Mark Haskins and Laura Di Matteo.
Having already announced NJPW talents Jushin Thunder Liger, Honma and Naito for the November 10th/11th Global Wars shows, Revolution Pro have released a promotional poster featuring Will Ospreay and Zack Sabre Jr who have both confirmed via Twitter that they will be appearing at the two night event.
Their opponents are yet to be named however with the event focusing on inter-promotional bouts there are bound to be some one time only unmissable match-ups.
Tickets are still available for the event here: https://www.gigantic.com/revolution-pro-wrestling-york-hall-2016-11-10-18-30
This week’s WWE Cruiserweight Classic saw the following wrestlers advance: Zack Sabre, Jr. (over Tyson Dux), Drew Gulak (over Harv Sihra), Tony Nese (over Anthony Bennett), Brian Kendrick (over Raul Mendoza).
Matches for next week include:
Noam Dar vs. Gurv Sihra
Tommaso Ciampa vs. Johnny Gargano
Rich Swann vs. Jason Lee
Fabian Aichner vs. Jack Gallagher
Second round matches begin airing on 8/10. The following have been confirmed:
Kota Ibushi vs. Cedric Alexander
Drew Gulak vs. ZSJ
Tajiri vs. Gran Metalik
Tony Nese vs. Brian Kendrick
TJ Perkins vs. winner of Gargano vs. Ciampa
Akira Tozawa vs. winner of Richner vs. Gallagher
Lince Dorado vs. winner of Swann vs. Lee
HoHo Lun vs. winner of Dar vs. Sihra
Here are post-match interviews from last week’s show with Gulak, Kendrick, Nese and ZSJ:
PROGRESS have broke the news that Zack Sabre Jr, El Ligero, Mark Andrews and the London Riots will be a part of the co-branded shows with Smash Wrestling this September.
Former Smash Wrestling Champion Jonny Gargano appeared at PROGRESS Chapter 32: ‘5000-1’ and lost his title to Mark Haskins, so expect Mark to also be on one of the 3 shows taking place in Canada.
RPW have announced that the second annual Global Wars events will be taking place on November 10th/11th at the world famous York Hall in Bethnal Green and Walthamstow Assembly Halls respectively.
Although no talents have yet been confirmed last year’s events saw Okada, Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger, Ishii and KUSHIDA perform, Shibata has all but already been confirmed for a rematch against British Champion Zack Sabre Jr.
Tickets will be on sale July 31st to all RPW newsletter subscribers, you can sign up through their website here.
Revolution Pro have announced that Jeff Cobb (Matanza Cueto) and Ricochet (Prince Puma) will be performing at the August 12th ‘Uprising’ event.
Cobb will be taking on the current British Champion and WWE Cruiserweight Classic competitor Zack Sabre Jr, Ricochet will be facing The ‘Brusierweight’ Pete Dunne.
As previously reported on Sescoops the main event of this show sees Will Ospreay taking on Vader in a feud that started on social media over a match between Ospreay and Ricochet at the NJPW BOSJ tournament. With Ricochet booked to appear at Uprising there has been speculation that he may get involved in the main event in some capacity and potentially set up a match between himself and Vader.
With the WWE Cruiserweight Classic set to start tonight on WWE Network, PROGRESS have released full videos of both their qualifying matches from Chapter 29 – ‘Practically Progress in Every Way.’
If you’ve never had the opportunity to check out the production style, the talent and the ‘unique’ British crowds then this is your chance.
The two bouts are Zack Sabre Jr vs ‘Flash’ Morgan Webster and Pete Dunne vs ‘Gentleman’ Jack Gallagher.
Here are the full results from Revolution Pro Wrestling’s Summer Sizzler event that took place at York Hall in Bethnal Green, London.
Joel Redman & Charlie Garrett b. Jonny Storm & Jody Fleisch, Rishi Ghosh & Lord Gideon Grey and The Bruce & Jake McCluskey to retain their Revolution Pro Tag Team Titles
Tomohiro Ishii b. Josh Bodom via pinfall
Sha Samuels b. Moose via pinfall
Will Ospreay b. Pete Dunne to become the NEW Revolution Pro Cruiserweight Champion
‘The Villain’ Marty Scurll b. ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey via submission
Matt Sydal b. Big Damo via pinfall – Damo appeared to be giving a farewell speech to the crowd when he was attacked by Sha Samuels
Zack Sabre Jr b. Katsuyori Shibata via submission to retain his Revolution Pro British Championship
EVOLVE has announced that Cody Rhodes vs. Johnny Gargano has been pulled from the 8/19 EVOLVE 66 event in Joppa, MD due to Gargano having a prior commitment. Cody’s new opponent for that night will be Zack Sabre Jr.
EVOLVE also announced that Cody’s opponent for EVOLVE 67 on 8/20 in Brooklyn will be Chris Hero.
They issued the following today:
July 5th: Johnny Gargano is now unable to attend the August 19th event due to another commitment. We apologize for having to change the scheduled Cody Rhodes vs. Johnny Gargano match. We will push this match back to September. This means that Cody needs a new opponent for his first post-WWE match. We’ve lined up one of the best going today….
July 5th: Cody Rhodes vs. Zack Sabre Jr. is now set for EVOLVE 66 on August 19th in Joppa, MD! This first-time-ever match will be a true test for both athletes.
July 5th: We all saw Cody Rhodes’ list on Twitter. Chris Hero’s name was on it. On August 20th, Cody can cross Hero off the list. It will be Cody Rhodes vs. Chris Hero on August 20th at EVOLVE 67 in Brooklyn, NY. This event has a special 3pm belltime so you can make it a double header with NXT at the Barclays Center that night!
The highly anticipated dream match between Kurt Angle and Zack Sabre Jr is now available to view on demand at rpwondemand.com, other bouts available on the show include:
There has been speculation surrounding the status of Zack Sabre Jr, he recently had to cancel a number of independent dates due to an arm injury sustained in Germany:
Zack recently spoke to the SPLX apparel website and had this to say on his schedule:
“I want to sincerely apologise to everyone for having had to cancel my upcoming dates for the next 3
weeks; to miss my first PWG title defence, debuting in North Carolina for PWX, returning to
CHIKARA as part of their UK tour, debuting for OTT in Dublin, attempting to add the PROGRESS
SSS16 to my tournament accolades, competing in Wales for the first time in years for my good
friends ATTACK, aiming to finally win back the wXw World title and my first singles bout against
Mike Bailey at the wonderfully intimate Cockpit Theatre in London for Rev Pro.”
Rev Pro have already announced the replacement for the Cockpit show on June 5th and it is Josh Bodom:
Josh Bodom's breakout year continues in 2 weeks when he replaces ZSJ to go one on one with Speedball Mike Bailey! pic.twitter.com/QcBRXsaw7I
The scheduled Dream Match bout with Angle on June 12th has now been officially been given the go ahead by Revolution Pro and Sescoops will be at the building to give a full analysis of proceedings:
Zack Sabre Jr. out of Live At The Cockpit 9 but will still be in attendance. Don't panic it's just a precaution SABRE VS ANGLE IS STILL ON
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla announced this afternoon that PWG World Champion Zack Sabre Jr. is injured. As a result, he will be unable to compete at Friday night’s PWG: Prince show from Reseda, California. Sabre will be replaced by Kamaitchi, who will now face Michael Elgin.
Due to an injury, Zack Sabre, Jr. will not be able to wrestle at Prince this Friday.
– Big Cass cut a pre-match promo and then defeated D-Von Dudley at Friday’s WWE house show in Greenville, NC. WWE camera crews were filming Cass during the match and as he went to the back after.
– Luke Harper tweeted the following today, referencing the unofficial reports that he is out with a torn ACL:
What's this ACL thing people keep asking me about?
– Below is a recent documentary from Suplex Apparel on Zack Sabre. He gave these comments on The WWE Cruiserweight Classic to their blog:
“It’s a genuine honor to be apart of a tournament of this kind. The cruiserweight style of wrestling has always had a profound influence on me, so competing alongside such a high standard of international talent is very special and also being able to represent the British Wrestling scene on a scale of this magnitude is huge for me.”
Prior to Saturday’s NXT live event from Tulsa, OK, Finn Balor took part in a live Facebook Q&A session hosted by Tom Phillips. Here are some highlights:
– Balor be interested in wrestling Brock Lesnar. They met in NJPW over 10 years ago but never wrestled each other. He feels much more confident in his abilities now and thinks he can take down the beast.
– Balor named John Cena as his dream opponent. His favorite NXT female star is Eva Marie, and favorite main roster stars are Karl Anderson and Becky Lynch.
– He praises Zack Sabre Jr. and picks him to win the WWE Cruiserweight Classic, saying he should be signed for NXT.
– He said he would already be on the main roster if the decision was his but he’s happy to be in NXT as they are having fun and building one of the best brands in wrestling