{"id":63772,"date":"2020-02-28T12:55:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=63772"},"modified":"2020-02-28T12:55:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:55:31","slug":"ilja-dragunov-super-strong-style-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/02\/28\/ilja-dragunov-super-strong-style-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilja Dragunov Sixth Name Announced For Super Strong Style 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NXT UK star and former wXw world champion Ilja Dragunov is the sixth name announced for PROGRESS Wrestling&#8217;s Super Strong Style 16 tournament.\u00a0 Dragunov has been a mainstay in PROGRESS for the past couple of months and has been at the top of the card but has yet to get the big win.\u00a0 By winning SSS16 he could give himself enough momentum to propel himself to the PROGRESS World Championship.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your next <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SSS16?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SSS16<\/a> entrant is&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNBESIEGBAR_ZAR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@unbesiegbar_zar<\/a>! <br \/>May 23-25 at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yourallypally?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@yourallypally<\/a> <br \/>Tickets: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t9keeeyiwv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/t9keeeyiwv<\/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\/eydFpN57Uv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/eydFpN57Uv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PROGRESS Wrestling (@ThisIs_Progress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIs_Progress\/status\/1233127162120531968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The NXT UK superstar has made PROGRESS one of his home promotions in recent times and continues to deliver exciting matches regardless of the opponent.\u00a0 His performances on the indies are keeping his momentum and profile high whilst he continues to spend time in the NXT UK midcard.<\/p>\n<p>Ilja Dragunov&#8217;s run in wXw proved that he could be a star of the highest calibre where he won the 16 Carat Gold tournament in 2017 and became one of the most popular champion&#8217;s in company history.\u00a0 A similar run in PROGRESS would be met with a good reception and could catapult him back the talk of European wrestling.\u00a0 Regardless of the opponent, he is sure to deliver and be one of the standouts of the tournament.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Also Announced For Super Strong Style 16<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/01\/20\/jon-gresham-sss16\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jonathan Gresham<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/01\/29\/chris-ridgeway-super-strong-style-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Chris Ridgeway<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/02\/04\/travis-banks-super-strong-style\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travis Banks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/02\/12\/sonico-added-to-progress-sss-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonico<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/02\/18\/rampage-brown-sss16\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rampage Brown<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. 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. And subscribe to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.powerslam.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Powerslam<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to see PROGRESS, Ilja Dragunov, and thousands of hours of independent wrestling content.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NXT UK star and former wXw world champion Ilja Dragunov is the sixth name announced for PROGRESS Wrestling&#8217;s Super Strong Style 16 tournament.\u00a0 Dragunov has been a mainstay in PROGRESS for the past couple of months and has been at the top of the card but has yet to get the big win.\u00a0 By winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":35647,"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":[13,20],"tags":[2514,475,5069,1585],"class_list":["post-63772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-progress","tag-ilja-dragunov","tag-progress","tag-sss16","tag-super-strong-style-16"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63772","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=63772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}