After 288 days, the reign of “The Bruiserweight” Pete Dunne has ended in PROGRESS Wrestling, as the former World champion was defeated by Travis Banks at Sunday’s PROGRESS Chapter 55: Chase The Sun event, when Banks cashed in his Super Strong Style 16 title shot.
New PROGRESS World Champion Crowned on Sunday
#AndNew #ChaseTheSun #ThisIsProgress Photo: @POA_wrestler pic.twitter.com/YNDxTQsYWD
— PROGRESS Wrestling (@ThisIs_Progress) September 11, 2017
What an amazing photo @Y2jimbob #KiwiBuzzsaw #Bruiserweight #ThisIsProgress #ChasetheSun #Chapter55 ???? pic.twitter.com/CbWaVXMagy
— Travis Banks (@Travis_BanksPW) September 11, 2017
Both Twitter photos from James Musselwhite of Portrait of a Wrestler.
2017 is pretty rad. #kiwibuzzsaw #ChasetheSun #ThisIsProgress pic.twitter.com/3rTLApPuC3
— Travis Banks (@Travis_BanksPW) September 10, 2017
Although Pete Dunne has lost his World Championship belt in PROGRESS, he still holds three other titles – WWE United Kingdom Championship, ATTACK! 24/7 Championship (from Wales), and Destiny World Wrestling (DWW) Championship (from Toronto, Canada).
Although he’s held the top titles in IPW New Zealand and Lucha Forever (UK), this marks Travis Banks’ first major World title of his 8-year career, that has seen him become a major indie star over the past year alongside CKK (Chris Brooks & Kid Lykos) as well as in singles action. He’s become a top player in PROGRESS, Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW) and WCPW in the past year, as well as appearances with Ring of Honor and for WWE during the PROGRESS Showcase at this year’s WrestleMania Axxess.
Your new @ThisIs_Progress Champion – @Travis_BanksPW pic.twitter.com/LQxdPmnnzX
— Rob Brazier Photo (@RobBrazierPhoto) September 11, 2017
#CCK ??? pic.twitter.com/0iAQgt4FnB
— Travis Banks (@Travis_BanksPW) September 11, 2017
Friends overcoming the harshest of odds. THIS is what wrestling is all about @ThisIs_Progress @OBEYBrookes @Travis_BanksPW @KidLykos pic.twitter.com/9paqxLEUCJ
— James Gordon (@jrg1990) September 11, 2017
