STRONG STYLE
/strôNG/ /stīl/
1. ‘... A style of wrestling evolved from Japanese Puroresu (プロレス) and traditional British Catch wrestling that incorporates full contact martial arts kicks and strikes with a strong emphasis placed on submission wrestling ...’
Progress Atlas Champion: ‘The Villain’ MARTY SCURLL
United Kingdom Champion: United States Champion:
JACK SWAGGER JOHNNY GARGANO
Progress Tag Team Champions: WAR MACHINE (HANSON & ROWE)
LOCATION: Atlanta, Georgia
ARENA: Phillips Arena
TV: Fox Sports
ANNOUNCERS: Mauro Renallo & Renee YoungThe Progress theme song ‘BLOW’ by Chris Stapleton, Bruno Mars & Ed Sheeran plays as the pyro erupts .... We go to Mauro Renallo & Renee Young at ringside, who recap last weeks episode and set up what we are going to see tonight .... We get a UWF Glory recap with heavy focus on the main event between Charlotte & Tessa .... also War Machine showing up and getting in the face of Piper & Orndorff as well as Marty Scurll retaining the Junior title over Jushin Liger ....
* * * * OPENING SEGMENT * * * *
Charlotte Flair comes out and addresses the EPIC main event between her and Tessa Blanchard at GLORY .... Charlotte is beat up, with stitches in her head and a black eye .... she says she wears the battle scars of the war she went through with Tessa .... she starts cutting a promo about not getting the job done and maybe it’s time to move on from the world title when she is interrupted by Women’s Evolution champion Shayna Baszler along with Marina Shafir & Jessamyn Duke .... Baszler gets in Charlottes face and runs her down, saying it’s time to step aside .... Baszler says she’s champion but everyone only talks about Charlotte but this is Baszlers locker room now .... Charlotte doesn’t wait for Baszler to attack her and she attacks Baszler instead, which results in a beat down from all 3 women and they leave Charlotte laying ....
*** IN THE BACK ***
Alicia Atout tries to conduct a sit-down interview with ‘The Machine’ Brian Cage .... she questions him about Eli Drake provoking him and his attack on US champion Johnny Gargano .... Cage decides not to talk and takes his mic off and leaves the interview abruptly ....**** 1. Britt Baker def. Candice LeRae .... ****This is match 2 for these ladies .... Candice won the first one, but Baker refused to shake Candice’s hands and instead laid her out .... Baker gets the win in this one to make it 1-1 as she makes Candice tap out to get Lockjaw submission ....*** IN THE BACK ***
Edge cuts a promo saying he intends to go after the Progress Atlas title and make Progress ‘Rated R’ ....**** 2. Roderick Strong def. Ricochet .... ****Redragon interferes, leading to Strong getting the win after a double knee gut buster from the 2nd rope followed by the Strong Hold .... Ricochet has no choice but to tap out ....Progress tag team champions War Machine come out for an in-ring promo .... They talk about how they never lost the UWF world tag titles and Orndorff & Piper are walking around on borrowed time .... they are owed a rematch and they want it because they are going to take back what is theirs .... Redragon comes out and talk trash about beating them in the 6 man tag match on the last show (Thanks to Grizzled Young Vets interference) .... War Machine lay the belts down in the middle of the ring and dare them to cross the line, and Redragon hits the ring and we get a brawl .... Out of the back comes the Grizzled Young Vets to interfere and it’s now 4 on 2! Here come the Street Profits!!!! They even the odds and clear the ring, and JBL comes out on stage to book an 8 man tag for later tonight ....
**** 3. Austin Theory def. Rich Swann .... ****The announcers talk about Theory’s recent rise from performance center recruit to beating Matt Riddle on the last show, albeit from a low blow .... Theory’s star continues to be on the rise here as he pins Swann clean following the Attaxia ....Theory’s post-match celebration is cut short as Matt Riddle’s music hits .... Riddle comes out and says Austin Theory got one over on him last week .... but things aren’t over between them .... Theory says he proved what he’s been saying all along .... he is not a ‘recruit’, he’s a star and he’s the future .... he tells Riddle he was beaten by a better wrestler and Theory doesn’t have anything to learn from a washed up UFC fighter that couldn’t even win TUF7 .... Riddle attacks, but Theory bails and leaves ....
*** IN THE BACK ***
Jay Lethal cuts a promo about the main event .... he hasn’t been here long but he came to make an impact and he’s done that .... he feels that he is the greatest ‘1st generation’ wrestler in the world .... Bobby Lashley and Bill Alphonso interrupt .... Lashley asks if Lethal is afraid, then says he should be .... Lashley is a decorated combat athlete .... he is only after Orton, but if he has to destroy Lethal to get to the Viper then Lethal is just in the wrong place at the wrong time ....Up next, Eli Drake comes out and cuts a promo, saying he is pulling everyone’s strings around here .... E ... LI ... DRAKE is the name on everyone’s lips .... he talks about Johnny Gargano, but as he does Gargano comes out of the crowd and attacks Drake! He locks on the GargaNO Escape and won’t let go!!!! ....
Gargano finally releases the hold, and he grabs a mic and calls out Brian Cage for attacking him 2 weeks ago .... Cages music huts and he comes down the isle, but as he gets to ringside Gargano flies out with a dive that takes out Cage!!!! Cage and Gargano brawl, but Cage quickly recovers and powerbombs Gargano on the apron! He picks him up and does it again! A 3rd time!!!! The crowd is quiet and the situation is uncomfortable As Cage has a crazy look in his eyes again .... he pulls a table from under the ring and is going to powerbomb Gargano through it, but Candice runs out again and just like last time she begs for mercy from Cage .... This time it backfires though, as Cage instead picks Candice up and powerbombs her on top of Gargano, driving both of them through the table!!!! .... Johnny and Candice both have to be carried out of the arena ....
**** 4. Redragon (Fish & O’Reilley) and Grizzled Young Vets (Zack Gibson & James Drake) def. War Machine (Rowe & Hanson) and the Street Profits (Ford & Dawkins) in an 8 man tag team match .... ****Grizzled Young Vets get the win for their team after Ford misses the 7 star frog splash and gets hit with Ticket to Mayhem .... Gibson gets the pin while Redragon and War Machine brawl outside ....POST MATCH - Redragon take out Hanson and then Rowe gets beat down 4 on 1 as the Street Profits have been taken out too .... Redragon & GYV stand tall, but then the Vets turn on Redragon and take Fish out with the Ticket to Mayhem as well ....
*** IN THE BACK ***
We get a promo for Progress: Endgame .... it will take place in December from Miami, Florida ....**** 5. Randy Orton def. Jay Lethal and Bobby Lashley in a 3 way dance .... ****Orton and Lashley keep going at each other with Lethal being like a 3rd wheel to start but as the action picks up Lethal really shines .... Lashley gets the anaconda vice on Orton but Lethal breaks it up with Hail to the King .... Lethal Injection is blocked and Lashley hits a German, but Orton crouches for the RKO .... Lashley avoids it and hits the spear on Orton, but Lethal strikes with the Lethal Injection to take out Lashley! Orton is back up and RKO’s Lethal for the win ....After the match Lashley is back up and attacks Orton .... they brawl into the crowd and Lashley spears Orton through the stage!!!! EMT’s and trainers are out and both men are stretchered out of the arena to end the show ....
