LOCATION: London, England
ARENA: York Hall @ Bethnal Green
ANNOUNCERS: Matt Striker & Rockstar SpudATLAS CHAMPION: Vacant
UNITED KINGDOM CHAMPION: ‘Bruiserweight’ Pete Dunne
UNITED STATES CHAMPION: The Miz
PROGRESS TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS: Sanity (Eric Young & Alexander Wolfe)
LAST TIME ON PROGRESS ....
- Nigel McGuiness pretended to make peace with Finn Balor, only to attack Balor and lay him out one more time .... Balor and McGuiness will face each other in a rematch of their UNIFIED match tonight ....
- Wade Barrett made his Progress UK debut, helping Pete Dunne attack Drew McIntyre .... After defeating McIntyre in a match, Barrett was laid out by Dunne ....
- FROM SHIMMER: Paige def. Toni Storm to earn the next shot at the Shimmer title
- Sanity successfully defended their Progress tag team titles against Kings of the North (Sheamus & Dain) .... Killian Dain turned on Sheamus after the match and put him through a table with the Ulster Plantation ....* * * * OPENING SEGMENT * * * *
BACKSTAGE -
We start the show with a backstage brawl already in progress between Wade Barrett and Drew McIntyre .... the fight starts backstage and goes all the way out into the parking lot, with McIntyre and Barrett both beating up Progress personnel and security along the way .... eventually police come in and arrest both men ....Back in the ring, Progress tag team champions Sanity come out led by Eric Young .... Young calls out Killian Dain and we see highlights of what Dain did to Sheamus last week .... Young wants to welcome Dain back to Sanity, but Dain comes out and lays out Young and Wolfe before standing tall, showing that he is not rejoining Sanity ....
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Aleister Black (NETHERLANDS)
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Bram (UK)Black wins with the Black Mass ....After the match, a strange looking man (Darby Allin) appears on the ramp watching Black intently .... Black seems to recognize the man, but is puzzled as to why he is here ....
* * * * VIGNETTE * * * *
We get another Tyler Breeze vignette .... he is talking about how popular he is in Europe, and how his theme song is still top 10 on the charts in MTV Europe .... he talks about how he is coming to the UK to make is gorgeous ....* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *UK champion ‘Bruiserweight’ Pete Dunne comes out and says he has some BAD NEWS for Wade Barrett and Drew McIntyre .... They both want to fight him but they can’t stop fighting each other .... so who is he going to fight now?
Out comes Killian Dain and he wants to fight Dunne tonight! After what happened earlier it’s clear Dunne is on his own now .... Dunne doesn’t back down, and he accepts Dain’s challenge for a match ....
* * * * BACKSTAGE * * * *
Nigel McGuiness is interviewed by Aria Blake .... He says Balor may have beaten him at UNIFIED, but tonight he is going to DESTROY Balor .... War Machine (Rowe & Hanson) —— (USA)
- vs -
British Youngbloods (Jake McClusky & The Bruce) —— (UK)This is basically a squash match to continue the dominance of War Machine .... They win with ‘Thors Hammer’ (double team pop up powerslam) ....* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * BACKSTAGE * * * *
Marty Scurll confronts William Regal backstage and wants to know how Killian Dain can just walk in and get a UK title shot .... Regal says Scurll lost to Aleister Black at UNIFIED and now he’s going to go to the back of the line .... Scurll says he’s the one true villain, and that’s something Regal used to know something about but doesn’t anymore .... Regal takes offense to this, but Scurll backs off and says he’s going to ask him one last time for a title shot .... Regal denies him again .... Scurll threatens to wreck the show if he doesn’t get what he wants and Regal will pay for that decision ....Shimmer Champion Taya Valkyrie comes out and talks to Aria Blake .... She has attacked Paige and Toni Storm because neither one of them deserve a shot at her title .... she’s Lucha royalty and she’s the new alpha female in wrestling .... Paige attacks Valkyrie during the interview and they fight all the way out to the ring, where the match begins ....
Shimmer title match:
(champion) Taya Valkyrie (CANADA)
- vs -
Paige (UK)There is a ref bump late in this one, and Valkyrie takes the Shimmer title and KO’s Paige with it .... the ref makes the count, but Toni Storm comes out and pulls the ref out of the ring before the 3 count!!!! Valkyrie goes after Storm, but Storm gets the Shimmer title and KO’s Valkyrie with it .... The ref calls for the bell and gives the match to Taya by DQ .... After the match Paige realizes what has happened and attacks Storm .... they brawl all over the arena before they are separated by Progress personnel ....
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Singles Match:
Matt Riddle (USA)
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Cedric Alexander (USA)This match never even gets started .... as Riddle makes his entrance, we see on the screen that Cedric Alexander has been laid out in the hallway .... As Riddle is watching the footage on the big screen, Marty Scurll comes out of the crowd and attacks Riddle with his umbrella! Scurll locks on the chickenwing using the umbrella and refuses to let go .... Scurll finally lets go of the hold, and Scurll looks right into the camera and tells William Regal that this is his fault .... Regal sends security out to the ring to escort Scurll out of the building ....
* * * * VIDEO PACKAGE * * * *
We get a video package revealing the Atlas title tournament brackets .... The Atlas title tournament begins next week in Miami, Florida .... it will consist of 4 separate tournaments with 9 men each, and all 4 winners meeting in the final match to determine the new Champion .... Singles Match:
Finn Balor (IRELAND)
- vs -
Nigel McGuiness (UK)This match is more brutal than their match at UNIFIED, with the ref letting a lot of stuff go .... Nigel grabs a chair but before he can use it Balor hits him with the shotgun dropkick .... he goes up top for the Coup De Grace, but Nigel shoves the ref into the corner causing Balor to fall and crotch himself .... Nigel grabs the chair and throws it into Balors face and the ref doesn’t see it! From there Nigel hits the Tower of London for the 3 count!* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *United Kingdom title match:
(Champion) ‘Bruiserweight’ Pete Dunne
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‘Beast of Belfast’ Killian Dain (IRELAND)Dunne has no answer for the power of Dain, but he manages to focus his attack on the right arm .... Dain battles back and crushes Dunne with the Divide for a 2 count .... Dain turns the tide in his favor and hits Dunne with the Ulster Plantation! He covers for 1 ... 2 ... THE LIGHTS GO OFF!!!!When they come back on, Marty Scurll is back!!!! Scurll is in the ring with a steel chair and he attacks BOTH Dunne and Dain!!!! Scurll wears both guys out with chairshot after chairshot, so many that he breaks one chair and has to go get another!
More security come out and try to get Scurll to stop the attack, but instead Scurll takes them out with the chair as well! Now William Regal is out! Regal and Scurll have a stand-off, and Regal is so PISSED that he tears off his jacket like he’s about to fight .... there is a tense moment, but then Scurll finally hands over the chair to Regal .... Regal turns to check on all of the people laid out in the ring, and as soon as he does Scurll attacks him as well!!!! Scurll blasts Regal multiple times with the chair and then slaps on the chickenwing!!!! Scurll refuses to release the hold and he keeps the hold locked on for several minutes before Cedric Alexander runs out of the back and chases Scurll away .... The trainers rush in to check on Regal as the show ends ....
