History Wrestling / ProgressWrestling

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* LoveableSexManiac: Jack Sexsmith's gimmick. He debuted on the main roster being accompanied to the ring by a gimp and uses a song called "I Touch Myself" as entrance music.

** Wrestling/FinnBalor made a very memorable entrance at a Progress show - dressed as SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker with full facepaint. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG9HdtvUUz0 It was as awesome as it sounds]].

* '''Super Strong Style 16 Winner''' (2019): David Starr

* '''Progress Tag Team Champions''': Scotty Davis and Jordan Devlin

* BadassGrandpa: British wrestling legend Johnny Kidd was 60 when he debuted for Progress and got 'please come back' chants after his match with Jack Gallagher.

* '''Unified Progress World Champion''': Eddie Dennis

* '''Progress Women's Champion''': Meiko Satomura

** One of Nathan Cruz's entrance jackets has a design on the chest and shoulders resembling the Green Ranger's gold shield, this is probably intentional as in an interview he said he was a Main/PowerRangers fan.

* '''Progress Champion And Atlas Champion''': Wrestling/{{WALTER}}
* '''Progress Tag Team Champions''': Aussie Open (Mark Davis and Kyle Fletcher)
* '''Natural Progression Winner''' (Series Five): Mark Davis

* '''Progress Women's Champion''': Jordynne Grace

** Pollyanna’s entrance theme is a dubstep remix of the Series/GameOfThrones title music and at Chapter Twenty-Nine [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs6h3DQA-r8 an Iron Throne was brought out on stage for her to use as part of her entrance]]. She also often wrestles in outfits that seem to be inspired by Main/MortalKombat.

* '''Progress Champion''': Wrestling/{{WALTER}}

* '''Super Strong Style 16 Winner''' (2018): Wrestling/ZackSabreJr
* '''Progress Atlas Champion''': Trent Seven

* '''Progress Tag Team Champions''': The Swords Of Essex (Will Ospreay and Paul Robinson)

* BaldOfEvil: Paul Robinson and Zack Gibson.

** "You Scouse Bastard" for Zack Gibson.

* {{Determinator}}: Mark Andrews, over the course of the 2016 Super Strong Style 16 tournament, [[spoiler: lost his quarterfinal to ChrisHero, who nearly murdered him, won a scramble match to get back into the tournament, got battered by Mikey Whiplash, managed to roll him up, then nearly got his elbow broken by Zack Gibson and finally almost beat [[Wrestling/AleisterBlack Tommy End]] in the final.]] Outside of the quaterfinal, all of that happened on a SINGLE. DAY. That is [[spoiler: four matches]] in a single day. Give the man a round of applause.

** Both Nathan Cruz and Zack Gibson are prone to long, annoying promos.

** At Thunderbastard 2016, Zack Gibson eliminated about 5 faces just by avoiding everyone and locking in his submission move when they were down.

** The Faceless, who after unmasking are currently known as The Origin: Nathan Cruz, El Ligero, Zack Gibson and Dave Mastiff.

** "Liverpool's Number 1" Zack Gibson

** Zack Gibson delivering the exact same promo before each of his matches. Every time, the crowd boo incredibly loudly to try and prevent him from even speaking. Doubles as a [[Funny/ProgressWrestling Crowning Moment of Funny]].

* AnAxeToGrind: Towards the end of his championship run, Jimmy Havoc took to using an axe to threaten people with and he certainly wasn't bluffing. It has become associated with him to the point of a Lego figure of him being given away with a DVD of his matches with an axe as an accessory. There is also at least one promo photo in which he appears with an axe.

* AxCrazy: Jimmy Havoc since his FaceHeelTurn has viciously beaten up company co-owner (and non-wrestler) Jim Smallman, threatened to set Mark Andrews on fire to get a title match, tried to cut Will Ospreay's ear off, seemingly killed and eaten someone and tried to act on a threat to cut Ospreay's head off. As noted above, he also took to actually carrying an axe around with him towards the end of his championship run, even taking a swing at Ospreay during their final match together.

* BadassLongcoat: Jimmy Havoc and Marty Scurll wear these during their entrances.

* BigBad: Jimmy Havoc was this during his 600 day plus reign as champion.

** Oddly enough, the London Riots. Despised heels who were forced to leave Progress after losing a match at Chapter Fifteen, they made their surprise return at Chapter Eighteen as Progress Management’s ‘insurance policy’, attacking Jimmy Havoc and Paul Robinson, finally evening up the odds against Havoc's relentless Regression stable and receiving a huge ovation, naturally turning face in the process.
** And in a smilar way as the Riots, Jimmy Havoc himself, at Chapter 36, saving Jim Smallman from Marty Scurll.

* BookEnds: Jimmy Havoc's title run started with a pinfall counted by Jim Smallman and ended with a pinfall counted by Jim Smallman.
* BreakoutCharacter: Jimmy Havoc. Quite a few other companies started to use him as the top heel after seeing what he was like as one in Progress.

* CountryMatters: The most common chant Jimmy Havoc gets is "Jimmy, you're a cunt. Jimmy, Jimmy, you're a cunt". Paul Robinson also gets this chant, with Robbo replacing Jimmy.

** As mentioned above there's "Jimmy, you're a cunt. Jimmy, Jimmy, you're a cunt" whenever Jimmy Havoc shows up.

* DarkActionGirl: Vicky Haskins, the manager and guiding force behind the team of Mark Haskins, Jimmy Havoc and Flash Morgan Webster.

* DeadpanSnarker: Jimmy Havoc, especially during the Q&A video he took part in.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: A common motivation- Jimmy Havoc practically runs on it when he's a heel, and Do Not Resuscitate formed from a mutual anger at being constantly praised by Progress management, but overlooked when it came to actually getting booked.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The London Riots (Jimmy Havoc's earliest allies when he turned heel) seemed to be trying to pull Jimmy Havoc off of Ospreay when he made it clear he was going to cut Ospreay's ear off.

** Jimmy Havoc to Wrestling/ZackSabreJr.

* FacialMarkings: Jimmy Havoc has had his face painted on more than one occasion.

** Jimmy Havoc did this a lot as well.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Jimmy Havoc started out as a Face who lost almost every match. After a match with his career on the line, he turned heel and became a monster, winning the Progress Championship and having the longest title reign in the company's history.

* GoodIsNotNice: Jimmy Havoc, just because he's a face now doesn't mean he's lost his sadistic edge, in his most recent hardcore matches, he's taking to using barbed wire quite a bit and got quite creative with some of the weapons provided by the fans for his Fans Bring The Weapons match against Will Ospreay, such as slicing the skin in between his fingers with records and squeezing lemon juice into cuts.
* GenreSavvy: Will Ospreay on two occasions has brought protection into matches, first when during a match with Paul Robinson, who had been avoiding having to fight him by getting himself disqualified from matches by kicking him in the groin by wearing a cup for the match. Another time was when he was wrestling Jimmy Havoc in a Fans Bring The Weapons Match, he countered Jimmy's liking for barbed wire by wearing a protective vest underneath his ring gear.

** When he was champion, Jimmy Havoc and his minions were universally loathed.

* ImAHumanitarian: In one promo video, Jimmy Havoc is seen cannibalising a body, in gruesome detail.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Paul Robinson has used credit cards (in an attempt to give Will Ospreay a GlasgowGrin) and a bible (to hit William Eaver with). He also busted Jimmy Havoc open with a frying pan.

* IntendedAudienceReaction: Jimmy Havoc and Travis Banks's reigns as champion have featured intentionally cheap finishes to title defenses against popular faces, in an effort to make the one where they lose all the more satisfying.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Mikey Whiplash was angry that people kept getting title shots before him. He claimed that he deserved a title match because he beat a champion (Jimmy Havoc) in a non title match at a show at Download festival and never got a follow up match, whilst [[Wrestling/AleisterBlack Tommy End]] did when he proved he could beat the champion (Marty Scurll).
* JerkassHasAPoint: Will Ospreay turned heel by attacking the now face Jimmy Havoc after their match at Unboxing Live, and considering everything Jimmy Havoc has done to him and Progress, it is understandable for Ospreay to refuse to forgive him and be angry that Jimmy was pretty much welcomed back with open arms.

* KnightOfCerebus: Jimmy Havoc became this when he turned heel. Before that, most of the heels were just assholes. Havoc was AxCrazy as described before. When he threatened to set Mark Andrews on fire for a title match someone from the crowd shouted out "you're a psychopath".
* LargeHam: The GZRS, Marty Scurll, Jimmy Havoc and Jack Sexsmith.
* LightIsNotGood: Jimmy Havoc often wears white.

* LoserLeavesTown: Wrestling/WillOspreay lost a Fans Bring The Weapons Match to arch enemy Jimmy Havoc at Chapter 46, which Ospreay himself made a Loser Leaves Progress match. Also averted as he then wrestled at Chapter 60, without explanation, and has wrestled for the company since. Fans just decided the explanation was that the agreement was never in writing, both of them just decided it mid match, though Jimmy later called Ospreay out for returning.

* MalevolentMaskedMen: Jimmy Havoc sometimes uses these as part of his entrance. Jimmy himself wears a mask that covers his mouth, resembling a surgeon's mask covered in spikes.

* MetalScream: Part of Jimmy Havoc's current theme, "Psychotic Euphoric".

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jimmy Havoc turning heel could be blamed on Jim Smallman. Smallman made Havoc compete in a hardcore match against James Davis, after Havoc made it clear that he wants no part of that style anymore and had been told by Nigel [=McGuinness=], that "if you can hang with Wrestling/ZackSabreJr you can hang with anyone". To convince Havoc to do the match, Smallman gave him a contract for any match he wanted at any time. Havoc, bitter that someone he considered a friend had in Havoc's own words "shortened my fucking life", he attacked Smallman with a chair at the next show and would eventually challenge the new champion Mark Andrews to a match and get it by threatening to set Andrew on fire. Havoc won the championship and started his two year long reign as champion.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Paul Robinson. There's no getting around the fact that the man is TINY. However, he's also a former kickboxing champion and not only defeated Jimmy Havoc in a BRUTAL hardcore match to become number one contender to the Progress Championship, he dominated champion Wrestling/WillOspreay for a good portion of the subsequent title match and only lost due to a roll-up pin.

* PowerStable: Progress has had a few. The first was Screw Indy Wrestling (Nathan Cruz, Mark Haskins and Rampage Brown originally, later the members were Mark Haskins, Sha Samuels and Martin Stone). Then there was Regression (Jimmy Havoc, James Davis, Rob Lynch, The Omega Isaac Zercher and Paul Robinson), The Faceless, who after unmasking are currently known as The Origin (Nathan Cruz, El Ligero, Zack Gibson and Dave Mastiff).

** Jimmy Havoc's Q & A: let the fans ask a guy they almost universally hate questions, and what do you get? A bunch of references and insults, with the occasional actual question sprinkled in.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Omega Isaac Zercher's reaction to Jimmy Havoc and Paul Robinson trying to get him to side with either of them during the hardcore match between Havoc and Robinson at Chapter Twenty-One. He hasn't been seen in Progress since.

* VillainSong: Jimmy Havoc used 'I Hope You Suffer' by AFI as entrance music (before having to switch because of copyright reasons), and it fits his entire character so well that it might as well have been made for him.

* RivalTurnedEvil: Tommaso Ciampa has become this to Wrestling/ZackSabreJr.

* BadassBeard: Tommy End, Rampage Brown, William Eaver, Damon Moser, Marty Scurll and Dave Mastiff all have one. Doubles as a BeardOfEvil in the case of the latter two.
* BadassBoast: In a promo for a match against The London Riots, Tommy End of The Sumerian Death Squad said "I am the Devil and I've brought hell with me" whilst pointing towards Michael Dante.

** "Tommy, Tommy, Tommy Fucking End" and "You're going to get your fucking head kicked in" for Tommy End.

** The Sumerian Death Squad (Tommy End and Michael Dante) too, as their gimmick is that of an Illuminati hit squad and are presented as faces too.

* {{Determinator}}: Mark Andrews, over the course of the 2016 Super Strong Style 16 tournament, [[spoiler: lost his quarterfinal to [[ChrisHero Chris Hero]], who nearly murdered him, won a scramble match to get back into the tournament, got battered by Mikey Whiplash, managed to roll him up, then nearly got his elbow broken by Zack Gibson and finally almost beat Tommy End in the final.]] Outside of the quaterfinal, all of that happened on a SINGLE. DAY. That is [[spoiler: four matches]] in a single day. Give the man a round of applause.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Mikey Whiplash was angry that people kept getting title shots before him. He claimed that he deserved a title match because he beat a champion (Jimmy Havoc) in a non title match at a show at Download festival and never got a follow up match, whilst Tommy End did when he proved he could beat the champion (Marty Scurll).

** "The Anti-Hero" Tommy End

* RoundhouseKick: A signature move of Tommy End.

In 2016 the company started a working relationship with WWE by holding qualifying matches for the Wrestling/CruiserweightClassic. This grew into an agreement where UK based talent signed to WWE can still work for Progress around their NXT dates, with some restriction[[note]]Presently WWE talent is limited from working with people contracted to competing companies, such as NJPW wrestlers Zack Sabre Jr and Will Ospreay[[note]]. In 2018 WWE launched a developmental offshoot called NXT UK featuring much of the same talent, and presently booked by Progress management.

* '''Progress Champion''': WALTER

** Big Daddy Walter has taken to wearing one that looks like an old fashioned army jacket since Ringkampf have debuted as a team in Progress.

* '''Progress Tag Team Champions''': Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis)

* '''Progress Women's Champion''': Jinny

* '''Progress Tag Team Champions''': Bandido & Flamita

* '''Progress Atlas Champion''': Doug Williams

* '''Progress Tag Team Champions''': CCK (Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos)

* AscendedMeme: Zack Gibson, being from Liverpool[[note]]Which is heavily stereotyped as being entirely made of thieves[[/note]] usually gets "Where's my car stereo?" chanted at him. At Chapter 35, he actually brought a car stereo out from under the ring to use as a weapon.

** Zack Gibson didn't have any appearances between Chapters 1 and 12.

* CheapHeat: Zack Gibson, he's from Liverpool, and Progress mainly do shows in London so his gimmick is that he's a Liverpool FC fan, and he's a huge heat magnet because of it. It comes across as him being a ForeignWrestlingHeel despite living and being born in the same country the promotion is active in.

* '''Progress Tag Team Champions''': CCK (Chris Brooks and Kid Lykos)