Characters / Progress Wrestling

Male roster

Mark Andrews

• Bash Brothers: Formerly with Eddie Dennis.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: The little guy to Eddie Dennis' big guy.
• Determinator: Gave Jimmy Havoc a damn good match just after he'd already had a match to win the Natural Progression series.
• Evil Former Friend: Eddie Dennis, who's spent a lot of his time trying to ruin Andrews' matches.
• Fun with Acronyms: His tag team with Eddie Dennis was called F.S.U which they stated stood for Friends Stand United, not the more obvious meaning^note 'Fuck shit up' which most people assumed, though the 2019 heel incarnation definitely stood for that.
• Red Baron: "White Lightning".
• Tag Team: with Eddie Dennis as F.S.U.

Travis Banks (Travis Bligh)

Tyler Bate

Chris Brookes

• Animal Motifs: The octopus/squid.
• Bash Brothers: With Kid Lykos as CCK.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: He's the big guy to Lykos' little guy.
• Catchphrase: "Shut up, Lykos."
• Fun with Acronyms: CCK, which stands for Calamari Catch Kings when he teams with either Kid Lykos or Jonathan Gresham, and Commonwealth Catch Kings when teaming with Travis Banks.
• Honor Before Reason: CCK was entered into the Thunderbastard Tag Team Series Match, but Lykos got injured. Rather than withdraw from the competition, Brookes declared that he would enter CCK's matches by himself, rather than ask someone else to substitute for Lykos.
• Power Stable: Schadenfreude (Fight Club: Pro).
• Red Baron: "The Calamari Catch King."
• Spiteful Spit: When a heel, he will spit a lot of water over the fans during his entrance. Averted during his entrance when he'll spit straight upwards.
• Tag Team: With Kid Lykos as CCK.
• Would Hit a Girl: Probably the most defining and infamous rival of his career so far has been Nixon Newell (most notably in Fight Club: Pro), the two of them beat the hell out of each other on a regular basis.

TK Cooper (Tasman Bartlett)

• Arch-Enemy: Jack Sexsmith was his for a time.
• Bash Brothers: With Travis Banks.
• Battle Couple: With Dahlia Black, before she retired. Has since acknowledged that they legitimately broke up sometime after that.
• Catchphrase: "Keep it 100" and variants thereof.
• Combat Pragmatist: Infamous for taking any opportunity to win a match.
• The Dragon: To Travis Banks during Banks' run as champion. Cooper consistently interfered and cheated in Banks' matches to keep the belt on his friend.
• Hard Head: He's Samoan, and therefore completely immune to headbutts.
• Make-Out Kids: He and Dahlia would constantly make out in the ring, in their promos, backstage...
• Power Stable: The South Pacific Power Trip.
• Red Baron: Used "The Monogamous" for a while.
• Tag Team: With Travis Banks as the South Pacific Power Trip.
• Would Hit a Girl: Had absolutely no problem with interfering in Dahlia's matches and punching her opponents to help her win.

Mark Davis

• Awesome Aussie: His gimmick.
• The Big Guy: He's pretty solid, and hits hard.
• The Dreaded: His version of a piledriver, executed by pulling a prone opponent from the floor straight into the sitout piledriver position.
• Made of Iron: He's a hard guy to hurt.
• Red Baron: "Dunkzilla".
• Signature Headgear: Always comes to the ring wearing a pale-pink baseball cap.
• Tag Team: With Kyle Fletcher as Aussie Open.
• Tournament Arc: Winner of the 2018 Natural Progression Series.

Eddie Dennis

• Big Guy, Little Guy: The big guy to Mark Andrews' little guy- Eddie stands at 6'6, while Mark is 5'8.
• Evil Former Friend: To Mark Andrews. He's been doing everything he can to make Mark's life hell since turning on him.
• Red Baron: "The Pride of Wales."
• Power Stable: Is the leader of Nothing to Prove in Attack! Pro Wrestling.
• Tag Team: With Mark Andrews as F.S.U.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Used to wear wrestling gear that prominently featured the dragon from the Welsh flag.

Jordan Devlin

• Red Baron: "Import Killer".

James Drake (James Dowell)

• Power Stable: The Brotherhood (Pro Wrestling Chaos).
• Red Baron: "Mr Mayhem."
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: After Nathan Cruz left Progress, Drake became Gibson's new tag partner in a despised heel team that would hold the championships for some time, defeating several well-liked teams in the process.
• Tag Team: With Zack Gibson as the Grizzled Young Veterans.

Chief Deputy Dunne (Damian McKeown)

• Berserk Button: Anything that can be considered remotely fun. Including the word 'fun'.
• Catchphrase: "No fun-ah!" and "No one has any fun, nobody gets hurt."
• Color Motifs: Black.
• Dirty Cop: As the head of the Anti-Fun Police.
• Fair Cop: He's quite handsome, despite his generally surly demeanour.
• Fun-Hating Villain: His gimmick, as a heel fun-fighting cop who considers ruining other people's fun much more important that everything else. He even leads (as "Chief Deputy" Dunne) a Power Stable called the "Anti-Fun Police", composed of him, the Hunter Brothers (as "Jim Obstruction" and "Leigh Obstruction"), Travis Banks (as "Sergeant Banks"), Dan Moloney and Ryan Smith (as "Los Federales Santos Sr." and "Los Federales Santos Jr.").
• Iconic Item: The Chief never comes to the ring without his megaphone with a blue siren strapped to it.
• Power Stable: Anti-Fun Police.
• Serious Business: Stopping the fun is always this for the Chief.
• Tag Team: As the Anti-Fun Police with Los Federales Santos Jr, and previously with Pete Dunne as the Dunne Brothers.
• Unrelated Brothers: With Pete Dunne as the Dunne Brothers.

Pete Dunne (Peter England)

Pastor/Present William Eaver (Martin Kelly)

• Blackmail: Was on the receiving end of it from Sebastian after Eaver accidentally (and legitimately) knocked him out. Sebastian held the threat of pressing charges for assault over Eaver's head to make him do whatever Sebastian wanted.
• Crowd Chant: 'We believe! We believe!'
• Messianic Archetype: His entire gimmick is that he's basically Jesus. His theme song (excepting when copyright is in action) is even "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode.
• Odd Friendship: With Chuck Mambo. He also teamed up with David Starr once.
• Power Stable: Do Not Resuscitate.
• Punny Name: Bill Eaver.
  • His new gimmick, Present William Eaver, is also this.
• Tag Team: With Chuck Mambo as Sweet Jesus.

Kyle Fletcher

• Awesome Aussie: His gimmick as part of Aussie Open.
• Color Motifs: Green.
• Punny Name: His nickname, the "Aussie Arrow", becomes this when you remember that his last name is Fletcher.
• Red Baron: "The Aussie Arrow".
• Tag Team: With Mark Davis as Aussie Open.

Zack Gibson (Jake Rea)

Mark Haskins

• The Corrupter: After Flash Morgan Webster joined Entropy, Haskins was constantly telling him to act more like a heel and chiding him whenever he did anything nice.
  • This came back to bite him in the ass as Webster turned on him and due to a loophole replaced Haskins in the team with Wild Boar.
• Happily Married: To Vicky Haskins. Their son Jack has also appeared in Progress to shoot a dinosaur.
• Power Stable: Was part of Screw Indy Wrestling, and later became part of Entropy.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Had to give up the Progress Championship due to health issues so severe it was thought he might not be able to wrestle again. (He got better.)
• Yank the Dog's Chain: He finally won the Progress Championship... and immediately had to vacate it due to health problems.

Jimmy Havoc (James Mcahren)

Mike Hitchman

• The Bus Came Back: He had a few matches on the ENDVR shows before disappearing from Progress in 2016. In 2018, he abruptly came back to join Webster.
• Red Baron: "Wild Boar".
• Tag Team: With Flash Morgan Webster as The 198.

"Bodyguy" Roy Johnson

• Audience Participation: Gets the crowd to respond to the opening of his Wasteman Challenges.
• The Big Guy: He's a former powerlifter.
• Catchphrase: "The name's Johnson, big wavy. I eat chicken, with no gravy". There's also the way he starts every Wasteman Challenge.
• Humiliation Conga: Both of the times he held a Wasteman Challenge at SSS 16 ended with the other participants cutting him down with some devastating insults.
• Red Baron: "Bodyguy" and "Big Wavy".

Kid Lykos (Ethan Beach)

• Animal Motifs: Wolves, obviously.
• Bash Brothers: With Chris Brookes.
• Big Damn Heroes: Returned to save Brookes from a beating at the hands of Entropy at Chapter 71.
• Born Unlucky: 3 different serious arm injuries in quick succession of returning from the last one, leaving him on the shelf for most of 2017 and 2018. As he acknowledged on twitter, they weren't even reaggrivations, they were just freak accidents.
• Cool Mask: Wolf-themed, of course.
• Game-Breaking Injury: Suffered two serious arm injuries in 2017, which took him completely out of action until July 2018. Then less than two months later, he broke his collarbone.
• Iconic Item: Carries a baking tray to the ring, usually with #CCK painted on it, which he often used as a weapon.
• Made of Plasticine: Becoming an unfortunate example of this – see Game-Breaking Injury above.
• Meaningful Name: "Lykos" is Greek for 'wolf'.
• Phrase Catcher: "Shut up, Lykos."
• Tag Team: With Chris Brookes as CCK.

Rob Lynch

• Bash Brothers: Formerly with James Davis.
• Iconic Item: The Riots usually brought a cricket bat with them to the ring.
• Power Stable: The Riots were part of Regression, before turning on Havoc and waging war against him.
• Red Baron: "Battle Tested".
• Tag Team: With James Davis as the London Riots.

Chuck Mambo (Gareth Snelling)

• Crowd Chant: "Hey, ho! Mambo! Hey, ho! Mambo!"
• Despair Event Horizon: Hit his after giving his all against Travis Banks in a championship match, but ultimately getting screwed out of the win by TK Cooper, Mambo's friend.
• Hidden Depths: He solved the Eaver/Sebastian situation by going to a library, reading law books and finding evidence that not only was Eaver's supposed assault now outside the statute of limitations, what Sebastian had done in response qualified as blackmail and thus he would be the one getting arrested.
• Odd Friendship: With Pastor William Eaver, of all people, as "Sweet Jesus". He also teamed up with Sexsmith a couple of times as "Sex On The Beach".
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Mambo is almost always upbeat and chill; therefore, if he's solemn or angry, shit's really going down.
• Power Stable: Do Not Resuscitate, with Drew Parker, William Eaver and Spike Trivet.
• Surfer Dude: To the point that beach balls get tossed around during his entrance.
• Tag Team: With Pastor William Eaver as Sweet Jesus.
• Time Travel: In Freedom's Road, he found a time-travelling surfboard which he used to travel through time and back offscreen.
• Took a Level in Badass: Went from a background guy who did comedy matches to putting on a banger of a match with Zack Sabre Jr, and becoming a serious contender for Travis Banks' title.
• Totally Radical: Tends to say 'Gnarly' a lot.

Drew Parker

• Arch-Enemy: Spike Trivet. Getting a champagne bottle smashed over your head does tend to do that.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Turned on Jimmy Havoc after getting fed up of trying to turn him back into his evil side. When they were scheduled to have a match at Chapter 79, Jimmy flattened him before he'd even gotten his jacket off.
• Cool Mask: Wears a creepy-looking one to the ring.
• Kid Hero: Debuted at twenty.
• Power Stable: Nothing to Prove (Attack! Pro Wrestling). In Progress, he's the founder of Do Not Resuscitate.
• Red Baron: "The Urchin Prince".
• Round Hippie Shades: Donned a pair for his Lennon impersonation at Chapter 70.

Cara Noir (Tom Dawkins)

• Agent Peacock: Swan Lake makeup and elaborate entrance, and a mixed martial arts inspired moveset with surprisingly little mid-match theatrics.
• Odd Friendship: Cara and Ilja builtup a massive amount of mutual respect with their series of matches over late 2019. When they met again as the final 2 of a championship elimination match, they hugged before starting to fight.
• Red Baron: "The Black Swan of British wrestling".

Chris Ridgeway (Christopher Wareing)

• Badass Boast: Is billed as 'having a black belt in being hard as fuck.'
• Power Stable: Money vs Everybody (Riptide).
• Red Baron: "Hard As F*ck" and "Smashmouth".

Zack Sabre Jr. (Lucas Eatwell)

Los Federales Santos Jr.

• Berserk Button: Anything that can be considered fun.
• Catchphrase: "No fun, nada!"
• Family-Friendly Firearms: Has been known to threaten opponents with the No-Fun Gun.
• Legacy Character: To his papi Los Federales Santos Sr, who was also part of the Anti-Fun Police before retiring and moving to Florida.
• Power Stable: The Anti-Fun Police.
• Masked Luchador: For a big guy, he really can fly over the top rope.
• Number Two: To Chief Deputy Dunne.
• Tag Team: With Chief Deputy Dunne as the Anti-Fun Police.

Trent Seven (Benjamin Webb)

David Starr (Max Barsky)

• I Have Many Names: His long, long string of nicknames.
• I Shall Taunt You: Loves to make fun of his opponents.
• Official Couple: With Jack Sexsmith.
• Red Baron: He has too many to list.
• Tag Team: With Jack Sexsmith as Sexy Starr.

Spike Trivet

• Arch-Enemy: Drew Parker.
• Catchphrase: For a while, he had "Check my privilege!"
• A Glass of Chianti: Comes to the ring with a bottle of champagne.
• Grievous Bottley Harm: Smashed a bottle of champagne over Drew Parker's head out of rage when Parker beat him.
• Hate Sink: His entire gimmick is designed to make people hate him, and they do.
• It's All About Me: He's perpetually convinced that he's the good guy and everyone else is prejudiced against him for no real reason.
• Kick the Dog: Spike has been known to make rather personal comments about his opponents in his promos. He told Jimmy Havoc that his girlfriend had dumped him because he's a mess, and alluded to Pastor William Eaver's previous time in prison. (He also told Eaver that God doesn't exist, just to be a dick.)
• Man of Wealth and Taste: Wears expensive clothes, even to the ring, and brags about his rich background.
• Power Stable: Is the leader of Money vs Everybody in Riptide. In Progress, it's Do Not Resuscitate.
• Red Baron: "The King of Strong and Stable Style".
• Rich Bitch: His gimmick.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Bribed the ring crew to do suicide dives for him because he didn't want to risk his own body.
• Spiteful Spit: He used to spit champagne over the audience, but stopped after fans complained.
• Too Dumb to Live: Spat wine on Primate, who proceeded to lariat the fuck out of him.

WALTER (Walter Hahn)

"Flash" Morgan Webster (Gavin Watkins)

• Despair Event Horizon: He hit his after beating Banks for the title, but having it reversed via Dusty Finish, prompting him to join Havoc and Haskins, who had been aggressively trying to recruit him.
• Disco Dan: He's a Mod, a subculture that went out of fashion decades before he was born. For bonus points, the Mods were English, and Flash is Welsh.
• Catchphrase: "In Mod we trust".
• I Call It "Vera": He has a helmet he named Arabella.
• Red Baron: "King of the Mods" and "The Modfather".
• Scooter-Riding Mod: His gimmick.
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: Turned on Haskins to rejoin Mike Hitchman as The 198.
• Tag Team: With Wild Boar in The 198.
• The Dog Bites Back: After months of abuse from Mark Haskins, he turned to Wild Boar, kicked Mark Haskins out of the team and has been a thorn in Haskins' side since then.
• Token Good Teammate: In Entropy to start with, but he eventually turned heel.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Used to wear a Union Jack jacket to the ring.

Female roster

Candyfloss (Amy Samardzija)

• Color Motifs: Pastel pink and pastel blue.
• I Shall Taunt You: One of her taunts is to knock an opponent to the floor and then drop down beside them and casually say hello.
• Kid Hero: She hadn't yet turned 20 as of her debut.
• Tag Team: Has teamed with Zoe Lucas as Sugar Rush.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Anything sweet, as one might expect from her name.

Chakara (Chakara Angus)

• Dreadlock Warrior: Hers are bleached blonde.
• Kid Villain: She originally debuted at 16.
• Power Stable: The House of Couture.
• Red Baron: "The Golden Goddess".
• Those Two Guys: With Nina in the House of Couture.
• Shout-Out: She stated in an interview that the 'Golden Goddess' character was modelled off Cleopatra. Her gear prominently features the Eye of Horus, which was associated with royal power and the sun god Ra.

Laura Di Matteo (Laura Mattioli)

• Arch-Enemy: Previously Jinny and the House of Couture; presently, Toni Storm.
• Badass Boast: "My name is Laura Di Matteo, and I am my bitch!"
• Determinator: Nothing will stop her from going after Jinny. She's not even daunted by the House of Couture having four people against her alone.
• The Dog Bites Back: Jinny treated her like a slave and abused her horribly, resulting in Laura breaking away from her and going after her former employer with a vengeance.
• Face–Heel Turn: At Wembley, she turned on Toni Storm and Millie McKenzie to rejoin Jinny.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Started out as Jinny's minion who appeared at ringside and interfered in her employer's matches, but didn't do much else. Then she broke away from Jinny and became one of the most prominent female competitors in Progress.
• Meaningful Rename: Upon finally breaking away from Jinny, she shed her old name, 'Elizabeth', and took back her real name.
• The Resenter: To Toni Storm. Laura revealed in a promo that she turned on Storm out of anger that despite their being on the same level skill-wise, despite Laura putting in a ton of effort and work, and despite Laura having beaten Storm in the past, Storm gets all the accolades and cheers while Laura is an afterthought.

Jordynne Grace (Patricia Parker)

• Amazonian Beauty: Her strength is her most prominent feature.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's 5'3. That's shorter than Millie.
• Red Baron: "Thick Mama Pump".

Vicky Haskins

• Batter Up!: Her weapon of choice is a baseball bat with barbed wire wrapped around it, but she's never actually hit anyone with it.
• Damsel in Distress: She was once taken hostage by Pete Dunne as a way to interfere with Haskins.
• Dark Action Girl: As the manager and leader of Entropy. She hasn't actually wrestled a match, but she did get in the ring against Flash Morgan Webster and beat him up after he clubbed Mark with his helmet.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: She started as Mark Haskins' wife, who occasionally showed up at ringside. She took a bigger role during the short Haskins/Havoc feud, especially when Havoc pushed her aside, infuriating Mark. Then she suddenly emerged as the leader and guiding force of Entropy.
• Happily Married: To Mark Haskins.
• I Call It "Vera": Her bat is apparently named Laurie.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Has been seen smiling widely as Haskins and Havoc do their opponents deliberate damage.
• Official Couple: With Mark Haskins.

Jinny (Jinny Sandhú)

• Alpha Bitch: One part of her gimmick.
• Arch-Enemy: Pollyanna, Dahlia Black and Laura Di Matteo in the past.
• Bad Boss: She was this to Laura Di Matteo. Surprisingly, she hasn't been overly abusive to the House of Couture... but it did come about at Wembley.
• The Fashionista: Loves fashion and couture, and in the past forcibly dressed her opponents in trash bags and smeared lipstick over their faces.
• Loophole Abuse: Tried to invoke this at Chapter 31- Pollyanna and Dahlia Black's match had the stipulation that if anyone interfered, both women would be fired. This was meant to dissuade Jack Sexsmith and TK Cooper, who had been constantly interfering- and it did- but Jinny tried to take advantage to get her two biggest rivals fired, until Jim stepped in to change the stipulation so that if she tried, Jinny would also be fired.
• Power Stable: The House of Couture.
• Rich Bitch: The other part of her gimmick.
• Take Up My Sword: Returned after her trainer Jimmy Havoc's departure wearing his mask, and using the Acid Rainmaker as her finisher.
• Villain Ball: When she called Elizabeth/Laura out at an ENDVR show, she told her that all she wanted was an apology and then everything would be fine, and Elizabeth came out and apologised as requested. Had Jinny simply accepted the apology, everything would have been fine; instead, she decided that it wasn't good enough and demanded that Elizabeth get on her knees and apologise again. This proved to be the final straw for Elizabeth, who snapped and turned on her employer.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: At Wembley, Laura Di Matteo turned on her team to rejoin Jinny. Seconds later, Jordynne Grace appeared and charged the ring. Jinny and Laura shoved the rest of the House of Couture at Jordynne and ran for it, making their escape as Grace laid waste to the ring. On Twitter, Jinny would declare the House of Couture to be over, making Di Matteo her only ally.

Charlie Morgan (Yasmin Lander)

• The Big Guy: Of the House of Couture.
• Identical Stranger: She and Laura Di Matteo look similar enough that when Morgan appeared as an extra on Raw, a number of viewers thought she was Di Matteo.
• Retired Badass: Thanks to a badly damaged ankle in 2019. Returned later once she'd healed up enough.
• Power Stable: The House of Couture.
• Tomboy: A large part of her gimmick.

Millie McKenzie

• Determinator: Gets mocked and pushed around for her small size, but she's never daunted.
• Kid Hero: Like Candyfloss, she'd not yet turned 20 as of her debut.
• Odd Friendship: She and Pete Dunne occasionally team as the Bruisermates.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: 5'6, and not for nothing is she known for her suplexes.
• Red Baron: The 'Suplex Machine'.

Nina Samuels

• The Dog Bites Back: She and Charlie were not amused at Jinny ditching them at Wembley, declaring that they would be coming after her and Laura with a vengeance.
• Improvised Weapon: Tried to attack Jordynne Grace with her stiletto heels. It didn't work.
• Power Stable: The House of Couture.
• Those Two Guys: With Chakara.

Toni Storm (Toni Rossall)

Staff

Jon Briley

• In-Series Nickname: Roy Johnson always calls him 'J-Breezy'.
• The Voiceless: Rarely has major appearances onstage or says anything, just plays the entrance music.

Glen Joseph (Glen Robinson)

• Camp Straight: Very much so.
• Combat Commentator: One of the main ones.

Callum Leslie

• Groin Attack: Pete Dunne kicked him in the nuts twice.

Mark "Paz" Parry

• Red Baron: Always referred to as Paz.
• Running Gag: When he shares the ring with Jim Smallman, expect Jim to make a joke about Paz not being able to count.

Chris Roberts

• Butt-Monkey: He's the ref nobody likes.
• Crowd Chant: "You screwed Dar," because when Noam Dar faced then-PROGRESS Champion Jimmy Havoc, Roberts missed Havoc tapping out while Havoc was pinning Dar.

Jim Smallman

• Beware the Nice Ones: Jim may not be able to physically fight back against the heels, but he has other ways of retaliating, such as booking Fergal Devitt against Jimmy Havoc in a No-DQ title match, or, when Travis Banks demanded a match against 'some young upcoming star', giving him Tyler Bate.
• Big Good: Of Progress. He might not be a wrestler, but he does control the company.
• Catchphrase: "My friends..."
• Create Your Own Villain: It could be argued that he created Jimmy Havoc.
• The Face: As the main ring announcer.
• Happily Married: One of his stand-up comedy shows was all about his wife and daughter. He also often mentions his wife when chatting in the ring.
• The Host: Opens every shows and chats to the crowd between matches, as well as doing the ring announcing.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: He swears considerably.

Former wrestlers

Dahlia Black (Olivia Shaw)

• Arch-Enemy: Pollyanna and Jinny.
• Big Damn Heroes: Stormed the ring and British Strong Style with TK to rescue Travis Banks from probable death.
• Color Motifs: Black, unsurprisingly, from her hair to her ring gear to her lipstick.
• Important Haircut: Grew out her natural light brown hair around the same time the Power Trip turned face. Kept it this way in her behind the scenes role too.
• Made of Iron: Took some amazingly tough bumps during her Progress career, such as being knocked off the ring apron and through a table on the outside, and being kicked full in the face by WALTER.
• Make-Out Kids: With TK, constantly.
• Official Couple: With TK Cooper as the South Pacific Power Couple, broke up in real life in 2018.
• Retired Badass: Stepped down from wrestling in 2018 to become a commentator. Later amicably left Progress to move back home to New Zealand.
• Slut-Shaming: A number of the South Pacific Power Trip's opponents would use their promos to call Dahlia a slut or imply that she was sleeping with Banks behind Cooper's back. Sometimes it was even the faces doing so. This quickly stopped after Olivia made a non-kayfabe complaint about it on her twitter.
• Wrestling Family: Her brother is a wrestler too.

Nathan Cruz (Nathan Irwin)

• Dramatic Unmask: Left the company for a time after Chapter 12 and made his return as the leader of the Faceless, unmasking in the ring in front of a very shocked crowd.
• Hate Sink: As part of the Origin.
• Power Stable: Screw Indy Wrestling and the Origin.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Left Progress after Chapter 50, claiming he was fed up with them not giving him opportunities despite his being with them since day one.

Will Ospreay

Pollyanna (Polly Ann Bryce)

• Arch-Enemy: Jinny and Dahlia Black.
• Cool Sword: Used to carry one to the ring.
• Despair Event Horizon: Hit hers after losing to Jinny in the first round of the women's Natural Progression series, and then losing a match to regain a spot in the competition, after which she retired.
• Ret-Gone: Due to the uncomfortable nature of Polly's retirement, the company tends to skirt around her contributions to building the women's division, instead stating that it was the feud between Jinny and Toni Storm, which didn't happen until a few years later.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The real reason she left was that she'd requested to management that they keep the third Swords of Essex member Scott Wainwright away from her after he raped her, and she saw him backstage at the first Unboxing Live. Since then she's gotten so disillusioned with the business that she asks followers not to tag her in wrestling related things on Twitter unless she started the conversation.
• Shout-Out: Her theme music was a remix of the Game of Thrones theme, and she once used a replica Iron Throne as part of her entrance.
• Warrior Princess: Her gimmick was reminiscent of this trope.

Matt Riddle

Jack Sexsmith (Ryan Comerford)

• Character Development: He started out as a sex maniac, then slowly changed to focus on representing the LGBT community.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Could not stand men who hit women, hence his feud with TK Cooper.
• Color Motifs: Bright pink.
• Determinator: He can and will take one hell of a beating, rather than give up. Hell, he took on Zack Sabre Jr with one working arm.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: 'Mr Cocko', squirting whipped cream into the audience's mouths and kissing them at random, the gimps...
• Official Couple: With David Starr.
• Red Baron: "The Pansexual Phenomenon", and "Sexually Frivolous, Morally Ambiguous".
• Tag Team: With David Starr as Sexy Starr.

Doug Williams (Douglas Durdle)

• Cool Old Guy: Is 46 as of 2018, and can still go.
• Ring Oldies: Retired due to ring wear and tear in 2018 at 46.