{"id":53973,"date":"2019-09-11T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=53973"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:19:08","slug":"preview-progress-chapter-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/09\/11\/preview-progress-chapter-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: PROGRESS &#8211; Chapter 95: Still Chasing (9\/15\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PROGRESS returns to Alexandra Palace for it&#8217;s biggest show of the year.\u00a0 The legendary\u00a0<strong>Meiko Satomura\u00a0<\/strong>debuts to take on\u00a0<strong>Jordynne Grace<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/08\/11\/pete-dunne-returning-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Dunne<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>returns and the Limitless Bros make their way back to the UK on a show main evented by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/05\/06\/david-starr-wins-super-strong-style-16-sss16\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Super Stong Style 16 winner David Starr<\/a> challenges PROGRESS World Champion WALTER.\u00a0 PROGRESS Chapter 95 promises to be a great one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The biggest show of the PROGRESS year is just TWO WEEKS AWAY! Don&#39;t miss it! Tickets: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ApY6UIaaaU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ApY6UIaaaU<\/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\/IdtZUgWtmY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/IdtZUgWtmY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PROGRESS Wrestling (@ThisIs_Progress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIs_Progress\/status\/1168146490314960897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><b>Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven &amp; Tyler Bate) vs Limitless Bros (Keith Lee &amp; Matt Riddle)<\/b><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53976\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53976\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Mostache-Mountain-vs-Limitless-Bros.jpg\" alt=\"PROGRESS Chapter 95\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Mostache-Mountain-vs-Limitless-Bros.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Mostache-Mountain-vs-Limitless-Bros-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: PROGRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What better way to celebrate your biggest show of the year than by calling in two former UK scene favourites Keith Lee and Matt Riddle.\u00a0 Riddle had big success in PROGRESS where his feud with WALTER helped make the Atlas title one of the hottest in the company for a short period.\u00a0 Lee didn&#8217;t have as much success but was always a big favourite in the UK before joining NXT.\u00a0 Moustache Mountain was one of the best tag teams in the scene for years before making their way to NXT UK.\u00a0 Two tag teams made up of four elite performers will collide here in a special attraction match.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Proteus Rumble<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53977\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53977\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Proteus-Rumble.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Proteus-Rumble.jpg 484w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Proteus-Rumble-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: PROGRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PROGRESS crowns it&#8217;s first Proteus champion.\u00a0 The holder of the title gets to decide the stipulation for the title matches.\u00a0 There are nineteen confirmed participants<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ilja Dragunov<\/li>\n<li>Connor Mills<\/li>\n<li>Lucky Kid<\/li>\n<li>Charli Evans<\/li>\n<li>Eddie Kingston<\/li>\n<li>Chief Deputy Dunne<\/li>\n<li>Los Federales Santos Jr<\/li>\n<li>Sugar Dunkerton<\/li>\n<li>Millie McKenzie<\/li>\n<li>Do Not Resuscitate<\/li>\n<li>South Pacific Power Trip<\/li>\n<li>Chakara<\/li>\n<li>Paul Robinson<\/li>\n<li>Roy Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Dani Luna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rumble matches are always fun as there are eleven surprises and even if not then this bomb hype video for the title was cool.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/8VX_oPA-vQ8<\/p>\n<h3><strong>PROGRESS Women&#8217;s Championship &#8211; Jordynne Grace (C) vs Meiko Satomura<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53979\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53979\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Greace-vs-Satomura.jpg\" alt=\"PROGRESS Chapter 95\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Greace-vs-Satomura.jpg 550w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Greace-vs-Satomura-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Greace-vs-Satomura-324x235.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: PROGRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grace has been PROGRESS Champion for over 200 days.\u00a0 In this time she has made eight defences and established herself as the top woman in the division by quite a margin.\u00a0 PROGRESS needed a challenger and they have got a legend of the business Meiko Satomura.\u00a0 A 24-year veteran, former Mae Young Classic Semi-Finalist, Former\u00a0<strong>Fight Club: PRO\u00a0<\/strong>champion, Former KO-D Champion, former Wonder Of Starom champion, former\u00a0<strong>Sendai Girls\u00a0<\/strong>world champion and former two-time AAAW champion has had wars with some of the best of all time and has conquered multiple promotions in both Japan and the UK.\u00a0 Grace faces her biggest challenge to date at PROGRESS Chapter 95<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After 200 days on top of the PROGRESS Women&#39;s Division, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordynneGrace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JordynneGrace<\/a> faces her toughest test yet this Sunday when she defends against a genuine legend of pro wrestling &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/satomurameiko?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@satomurameiko<\/a>. <br \/>Don&#39;t miss it: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ApY6UIaaaU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ApY6UIaaaU<\/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\/spZS8wD9EE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/spZS8wD9EE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PROGRESS Wrestling (@ThisIs_Progress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIs_Progress\/status\/1171483475142221824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>PROGRESS Tag Team Championships &#8211; Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson &amp; James Drake) (C) vs Aussie Open (Mark Davis &amp; Kyle Fletcher)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The tag team feud that has defined PROGRESS for the past while continues as GYV take on Aussie Open.\u00a0 The Aussies looked to have taken on all challengers after defeating the Swords Of Essex until GYV arrived back on the scene and<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/07\/29\/grizzled-young-veterans-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> took their titles.<\/a>\u00a0 Now these teams will do battle one more time after Aussie Open won a number one contenders match at Chapter 94.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>PROGRESS World Championship &#8211; WALTER (C) vs David Starr<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53983\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53983\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/WALTER-vs-Starr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/WALTER-vs-Starr.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/WALTER-vs-Starr-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/WALTER-vs-Starr-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/WALTER-vs-Starr-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: PROGRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A few months ago in the build-up to SSS16 David Starr <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/04\/29\/david-starr-vows-to-win-sss16-go-on-to-beat-one-of-your-nxt-boys-to-become-your-progress-world-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released a promo<\/a>.\u00a0 A scathing commentary on the state of PROGRESS and how many people in the company had &#8220;begged for&#8221; contracts.\u00a0 Starr promised to beat the &#8220;NXT boys&#8221; and he did just that when he beat\u00a0<strong>Jordan Devlin\u00a0<\/strong>in the finals of the tournament.\u00a0 Now he has to face not just an NXT boy but the NXT UK Champion WALTER!\u00a0 These two have waged war against one another for years with David Starr yet to get a victory over WALTER in their 25+ matches.\u00a0 Once just a rivalry based around one man trying to beat another this is now INDEPENDENT against a man that joined the machine and represents something that fans consider a plague to the scene that WALTER once represented.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of PROGRESS kayfabe one has to wonder what role universal kayfabe will play here.\u00a0 This is a feud with its roots in <strong>Westside Xtreme Wrestling <\/strong>and the moment David Starr finally beats WALTER should belong to wXw but can PROGRESS really have WALTER beat Starr when David is one of the hottest things in wrestling right now?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dreizehn\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ell6kNHi8IY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 And subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerslam.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Powerslam<\/a>\u00a0to see PROGRESS and thousands of hours of independent wrestling content or go to the event yourself as tickets are still available over at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/progresswrestling\/264267\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ticket Tailor.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROGRESS returns to Alexandra Palace for it&#8217;s biggest show of the year.\u00a0 The legendary\u00a0Meiko Satomura\u00a0debuts to take on\u00a0Jordynne Grace,\u00a0Pete Dunne\u00a0returns and the Limitless Bros make their way back to the UK on a show main evented by Super Stong Style 16 winner David Starr challenges PROGRESS World Champion WALTER.\u00a0 PROGRESS Chapter 95 promises to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":53990,"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":[2,13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-progress"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}