{"id":40140,"date":"2019-03-07T15:24:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=40140"},"modified":"2022-01-15T12:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T17:20:04","slug":"canadian-indie-star-and-defy-champion-artemis-spencer-announced-for-progress-sss16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/03\/07\/canadian-indie-star-and-defy-champion-artemis-spencer-announced-for-progress-sss16\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Indie Star and DEFY Champion Artemis Spencer Announced for PROGRESS SSS16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progress_Wrestling\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PROGRESS Wrestling<\/strong><\/a> announced the next competitor for the <em><strong>PROGRESS Super Strong Style 16<\/strong> <\/em>tournament this year and it&#8217;s a Canadian indie veteran who has become part of the US Pacific Northwest scene, where he&#8217;s the current reigning <strong>DEFY<\/strong> Champion. Today it was announced that <strong>Artemis Spencer<\/strong> was the next entrant in <em>Super Strong Style 16,\u00a0<\/em>joining previously announced <strong>Travis Banks, Ilja Dragunov, Trevor Lee<\/strong>, and <strong>Aerostar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He blew our minds when we came to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Seattle?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Seattle<\/a> in the summer; Now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/defyNW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DefyNW<\/a> Champion and hidden jewel of the North American indies <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtySpence?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ArtySpence<\/a> comes to London and enters <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SSS16?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SSS16<\/a>! 4th-6th May at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yourallypally?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@yourallypally<\/a>, tickets: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Sj1N0WAAP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/4Sj1N0WAAP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThisIsPROGRESS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ThisIsPROGRESS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/prfdkPyD8M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/prfdkPyD8M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PROGRESS Wrestling (@ThisIs_Progress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIs_Progress\/status\/1103734560901222401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A native of Maple Ridge, British Columbia on Canada&#8217;s West Coast, Artemis Spencer debuted in 2002 with Vancouver&#8217;s <strong>Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling (ECCW)<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s spent the bulk of his career. Originally debuting as <strong>Amazing Halo<\/strong>, he won ECCW Tag Team gold in <strong>The Masked Dudes of Doom<\/strong> with another Canadian who has had some success in the UK indies of late, <strong>El Phantasmo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ECCW Dark Match  El Phantasmo vs.  Halo\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a7gCKg55XQY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By the late 2000s, he was emerging as a singles wrestler with huge potential, winning the NWA\/ECCW Canadian Junior Heavyweight Championship twice. He&#8217;s also a former 3x ECCW Canadian Heavyweight Champion and in 2015 captured the ECCW Championship.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Artemis Spencer vs Sammy Guevera\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YZ_hr1NnvcQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, he made the trek south of the border, heading to Washington to work for the likes of <strong>3-2- Battle!,<\/strong> but it was with DEFY Wrestling that he&#8217;s found his greatest success. He made his debut in February of 2018 and by December he had defeated <strong>Shane Strickland<\/strong> to become the new DEFY Champion. Last August, he performed for PROGRESS when the UK company was on their US tour, on the Seattle show in co-production with DEFY. He took part in a Fatal Four Way that also included another DEFY star, <strong>King Khash<\/strong> and PROGRESS stars <strong>Mark Andrews<\/strong> and <strong>Flash Morgan Webster<\/strong>. He joins a list of other Canadians who have ventured into the UK indie scene of late, including <strong>&#8220;All Ego&#8221; Ethan Page<\/strong>, El Phantasmo, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/02\/13\/indie-watch-mike-speedball-bailey\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Mike &#8220;Speedball&#8221; Bailey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/11\/04\/canadian-indie-star-brent-banks-makes-defiant-uk-debut-in-canadian-classic\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Brent Banks<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Allie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daniel Makabe vs. Artemis Spencer - SOLID STEEL Championship - 03\/09\/2018 - 3-2-1 BATTLE!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fPUD8GCVzrk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROGRESS Wrestling announced the next competitor for the PROGRESS Super Strong Style 16 tournament this year and it&#8217;s a Canadian indie veteran who has become part of the US Pacific Northwest scene, where he&#8217;s the current reigning DEFY Champion. Today it was announced that Artemis Spencer was the next entrant in Super Strong Style 16,\u00a0joining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":40142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8072,2,6],"tags":[3690,2129,475,1585],"class_list":["post-40140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-indies","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-artemis-spencer","tag-defy","tag-progress","tag-super-strong-style-16"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}