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 ...’
Atlas Champion: AJ STYLES
United Kingdom United States
Champion: TOMASSO CIAMPA Champion: JOHNNY GARGANO
Progress Tag Team Champions: WAR MACHINE (ROWE & HANSON)
LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts
ARENA: Agganis Arena
ANNOUNCERS: Mauro Renallo & Renee YoungPREVIOUSLY IN PROGRESS -
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Mauro Renallo & Renee Young are at the announce desk and they hype tonight’s show .... TONIGHT we will see:
Johnny Gargano defend the United States title against Ricochet ...
Final build toward ALL IN ....Austin Aries and Roderick Strong start off the show by bragging on winning the Tag Team Turmoil match and earning a Progress tag team title shot at ALL IN .... They also talk about how they will be watching AJ Styles’ back in his match against Finn Balor .... The Usos interrupt them and claim they are the real winners of the gauntlet match, and they want a match against Aries & Strong TONIGHT ....
Before the opening match, we get the usual theatrics from Elias as he comes out playing a song and trashing Dalton Castle + the people of Boston .... Castle interrupts his song, and shows off his theatrical and flamboyant entrance for the first time in Progress ....
**** 1. Dalton Castle and Elias Sampson make their Progress in-ring debuts in our first match .... Castle gets the win by DQ after Elias resorts to a low blow right in front of the ref **** Elias gets his guitar after the match and looks like he’s ready to smash Dalton with it but the Boys jump in .... Elias destroys The Boys, but then walks right into the Bangarang from Castle and he stands tall ....
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Shimmer tag team champions The EST (Bianca BelAir & Naomi) come out and they are looking for a fight this week .... they say they will put the Shimmer Tag Team titles against anyone .... Their challenge is accepted by the debuting Lucha Sisters (Mia Yim & Leva Bates) ....
**** 2. In what many consider to be an upset, The Lucha Sisters (Mia Yim & Leva Bates) def. The EST (Bianca BelAir & Naomi) to win the Shimmer Tag Team titles .... Back and forth match that sees the Sisters hit their finisher, the ‘Kick me Goodnight’ (Eat Defeat from Yim + simultaneous Superkick from Bates) on Naomi to get the 3 count **** Tense moment between all 4 ladies after the match, but the EST offer a handshake to the new champs after the match ....
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Progress ‘ROULETTE’ match is added to the card at ALL IN .... briefcases will be hanging from all 4 corners of the ring containing either a Progress tag title shot, an Atlas title shot, a US/ UK title shot, or a pink slip ....
The participants in the match include Kenny King (US), ‘Cowboy’ James Storm (US), Dolph Ziggler (US), ‘Bruiserweight’ Pete Dunne (UK), ‘All-American Alpha’ Jack Swagger (UK) and Matt Riddle (UK) ....**** 3. Austin Aries & Roderick Strong continue to build their momentum toward ALL IN as they face the Usos in tag team action .... Some great tag team wrestling here with the Usos looking more and more impressive, but the heels escaping with the win after Aries pins Jimmy Uso with Roderick Strong holding Jimmys foot from outside the ring **** Aries & Strong celebrate, but War Machines music hits! Rowe and Hanson come out on stage behind them and now Strong & Aries are trapped between the Usos and War Machine! War Machine attack, beating Aries & Strong back to the ring where they hit the Fallout on Aries! The Usos double Superkick Strong, then Jimmy up top and hits the top rope splash! War Machine and the Usos face off in the middle of the ring, but War Machine doesn’t discriminate as they lay out the Usos too and Jey Uso gets hit with the Fallout as well!
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MVP announces an 10-Woman Tag Team match for ALL IN .... It will be Team US (Shayna Baszler, Bianca BelAir, Naomi, Mia Yim & Leva Bates) vs. Team UK (Rhea Ripley, Bea Priestley, Tegan Nox, Millie McKenzie & Santana Garrett .... Women’s Universal Champion Lacey Evans comes out to talk about her match against Shimmer Internet Champion Toni Storm at ALL IN .... Lacey Evans runs down Toni Storm and says a real ‘lady’ doesn’t dress like she does and doesn’t listen to ‘that kind of music’ .... Lacey says she will beat Toni at ALL IN .... This leads to a surprise appearance by the Shimmer Internet Champion Toni Storm! Storm talks about how hard she’s worked and how hard she’s sacrificed to get where she is now .... how she showed up early and stayed late to put up and take down the ring hoping one day she would have a shot to become champion ....
This brings out Shayna Baszler and the Horsewomen .... Baszler is after Evans because Evans hit her with the ‘Woman’s Right’ on the last show .... Evans quickly bails out of the ring .... Storm steps in Baszlers way, and Baszler orders her to move because she’s gonna rip Evans’ arm off .... Toni says she is the one that is going to take out Evans .... Shayna says she will put Toni to sleep and Toni says they can fight right now ....
**** 4. Shayna Baszler and Toni Storm engage in a stiff battle with Lacey Evans looking on at ringside .... Shafir & Duke intimidate Evans and chase her around the ring at one point .... Storm suplexes Baszler from the ring to the floor on top of all of them! Toni tosses Baszler back in, but Evans KO’s Storm with the ‘WOMANS RIGHT’! Toni falls to the floor and can’t answer the 10 count .... **** Lacey puts the boots to Toni, but Baszler goes after Lacey and she runs for it .... Instead, Shayna goes back to the ring and chokes out Toni with the Kirafuda Clutch and leaves her laying ....
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We are shown a video montage of the feud between AJ Styles and Finn Balor over the Atlas title .... It shows the controversial involvement of Austin Aries & Roderick Strong in recent weeks, and the belief that there is collusion between them and AJ .... They face off in a rematch at ALL IN .... **** In the main event, Johnny Gargano and Ricochet fore the house down in a match for the United States title .... Both guys battled for nearly 20 minutes with neither getting a clear advantage, when the Miz interfered and took out Ricochet with the Skull Krushing Finale .... Gargano doesn’t see this, and he drills Ricochet with the slingshot DDT for the 3 count .... Johnny has NO time to celebrate as Miz takes him out with the Skull Krushing Finale too .... Miz then announces himself as the final member of TEAM U.S. for ALL IN ..... **** The show closes with a final video putting over ALL IN
Progress: ALL IN
Live from HISENSE Arena in Melbourne, Australia the night before UWF GLORY
Progress Atlas title: (c) AJ Styles vs. former champion Finn Balor
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5 on 5 - Progress U.S. (Johnny Gargano/ Ricochet/ ‘The Machine’ Brian Cage/ Keith Lee/ The Miz)
vs.
Progress U.K. (Tomasso Ciampa/ Juice Robinson/ Drew McIntyre/ WALTER/ Aleister Black)
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Progress tag team titles: (c) War Machine vs. Austin Aries & Roderick Strong
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U.K. vs USA 8 woman elimination match: Tegan Nox, Bea Priestley, Rhea Ripley, Millie McKenzie & Santana Garrett vs. Shayna Baszler, Bianca BelAir, Naomi, Mia Yim & Leva Bates
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Universal Champion vs. Internet champion: Lacey Evans vs. Toni Storm
