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 ....
* * * * OPENING SEGMENT * * * *
Charlotte Flair comes to the ring to start the show .... She says she still isn’t medically cleared .... but she WILL be medically cleared in time for Endgame, and she’s coming after Shayna Baszler! She challenges Baszler to a match at Endgame for the Evolution women’s title .... Baszler comes out on the stage with Shafir & Duke .... Baszler says she could come down there and tear Charlotte apart right now, but Charlotte is too fragile .... and she won’t do it for free .... She accepts the challenge for Endgame and says she will destroy Charlotte ....
**** 1. Charm City Squad (Rich Swann & Moose) def. The Outliers (Riddick Moss & Dorian Mak) .... ****Nice debut for the Squad, with Moose making his debut with Progress .... they get the win when Moose hits Moss with a spear, followed by a Phoenix Splash from
Swann ....*** IN THE BACK ***
Redragon and the Grizzled Young Vets are arguing in JBL’s office .... Redragon challenges the Vets to a match at Endgame, saying only one of them can face War Machine .... Gibson & Drake offer to make a ‘gentlemen’s bet’ that the loser of their match backs off and let’s the winner challenge War Machine .... they shake hands and agree .... **** 2. Bourne Boujee (Aaliyah & Vanessa Bourne) def. Deonna Purazzo & Rachel Ellering .... ****Aaliyah & Bourne get the win after hitting their double-team Samoan drop + front flip neckbreaker combo ....We see highlights of the main event from last weeks show, where Bobby Lashley speared Randy Orton through the stage and both guys were taken out of the arena on stretchers .... Neither man is cleared to be there this week ....**** 3. Matt Riddle def. Silas Young .... ****Austin Theory comes out on the ramp and watches the match .... Riddle wins with the Bro-Derek (Gotch cradle tombstone) ....POST MATCH: Riddle seed Theory and invites him into the ring but Theory declines .... Hideo Itami’s music hits! Itami makes a surprise appearance and comes out to the ring .... He says he is allowed to pick his opponent for Endgame, and he picks Matt Riddle!
*** IN THE BACK ***
Backstage, Austin Theory is pissed that Itami challenged Riddle and not him .... he’s the guy that beat Riddle and he doesn’t get the respect he deserves .... Keith Lee walks by and tells Theory that he will give him respect if he earns it, but what he will also give him is a chance to Bask in his Glory ....United States champion Johnny Gargano comes out to the ring carrying a chair .... he cuts a promo on Cage and says he is going to pay for putting his hands on Candice LeRae last week .... Gargano lays the US title out in the ring and tells Cage if he wants the US title then come get it .... Cage comes out and tries to get in the ring, but Gargano attacks him with a chair! He knocks Cage out of the ring, but Cage no-sells it and comes back in only for Johnny to take him out again .... Cage gets up again, Johnny smashes him some more with the chair .... Cage finally retreats, and Gargano challenges him to a fight at Endgame ....
*** IN THE BACK ***
Maria Kanellis debuts and hyped up the signing of ‘The Miracle’ Mike Bennett ....**** 4. Keith Lee def. Austin Theory by DQ .... ****Back and forth match .... Lee starts to over-power Theory late in the match, so Theory resorts to hitting a low blow on Lee for the intentional DQ ....POST MATCH: Theory talks shit to the camera about Riddle and Itami .... Lee is back up and Theory turns around right into the Spirit Bomb and Lee stands tall ....
War Machine vs. Orndorff & Piper is announced for Endgame ....**** 5. RINGMASTER CHALLENGE: Ricochet def. Roderick Strong 2 falls to 1 .... ****The 1st fall of the challenge can ONLY end via pinfall .... Strong picks up the victory in that initial fall after hitting the End of Heartache to go up 1-0 .... Strong is in the driver seat now because the 2nd fall, can only be won with a submission .... Ricochet isn’t known as a submission guy .... 1st fall goes about 15 minutes .... Ricochet busts out a surprising submission move and forces Strong to tap out to the Coji Clutch at 25 minutes .... The 3rd and final match of the contest is contested under 15 minute Iron Man rules .... Strong forces Ricochet to tap out to the Strong Hold to take 1 fall to 0, but Ricochet comes back and pins Strong with the Benadryl-er to tie it 1-1 .... The 15 minute iron man period concludes with the score 1-1 .... JBL comes out and restarts the match as ‘sudden death’, and after 40 minutes these guys go at it again .... Ricochet finally picks up the victory with the 630 on Strong to win the challenge 2 falls to 1 ....Show ends with a promo for Endgame with matches announced so far ....
Hideo Itami vs. Matt Riddle
Johnny Gargano puts the United States title on the line against the unstoppable ‘Machine’ Brian Cage ....
Charlotte Flair vs. Shayna Baszler for the Evolution women’s title
War Machine challenges Roddy Piper & Paul Orndorff for the UWF world tag team titles ....
