Ringkampf V British Strong Style - Progress Chapter 47
Added 2024-10-19 12:00:10 +0000 UTCWatch: https://streamable.com/t8ijqs
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This might not only be a wrestling thing but a life thing :D
ElSche
2024-10-19 23:25:44 +0000 UTCJust like 90% of my wrestling questions, the answer is "it depends" lol
Dport
2024-10-19 23:22:08 +0000 UTCIn regards to your question if you realize that you have someone special in the indies, I'd say yes and no. I'll give you three examples: Gunther, Ilja and Ludwig kaiser. When i saw Ilja the first time in 2013 I knew immediately that he is destined for greatness, even though he had only wrestled for a year at that point. But his charisma was so unique, his work was above an average rookies, you could tell that he was ging to be a superstar. Now Gunther I saw the first time in 2009 and average big man would be a fitting description. Not bad, not horrible, he was there. A big guy for the upper midcard. And that perception only started to change in between 2012-2014. But after that it was obvious that you had a one of a kind worker, who just got it, the Big man among Big man, a final boss character.. Now Kaiser is one of the trickier cases. In Germany he was a longtime Tag Team Wrestler seeing more singles actions only in his last year or two before WWE got him. His work was really solid and and his gimmciks were entertaining but he never had quite the chance to shine by himself, in his Tag Team phase he was one of two, in Ringkampf he was imo the number three guy (which is no shame behind Walter and Thatcher) I knew he had potential, but to go as far as he did? I wouldn't have bet money on it, but I am also not completly surprised. S sometimes you know immediately, sometimes you now after a while and sometimes you do not know at all :D
ElSche
2024-10-19 23:18:26 +0000 UTCYeah this was Axel's last match in Progress. He'd just recently signed with WWE and went to NXT. Pete, Tyler and Trent were already in WWE, but they were signed to a specific contract that still let them wrestle on indie shows. That was because it took about a year between the innaugural UK championship tournament before the weekly NXT UK show started, and they still obviously needed to work in the meantime. It was confusing though, because in WWE, Trent and Tyler were a babyface tag team, and Pete was a heel who feuded with Tyler, but on the UK indies the three of them were a heel trio.
Charlie
2024-10-19 17:12:09 +0000 UTCNxt uk started July 2018, Imperiam showed up January 2019. Not sure when this show was but it may have been just before Imperiam joined, so it was his last match with the promotion.
Karen
2024-10-19 15:31:32 +0000 UTCTrent did a match or 2 in aew and then signed with that. He is older so wwe may not have wanted to take him on
Karen
2024-10-19 15:08:17 +0000 UTCUp until the pandemic, most of the NXT UK guys could take Indy bookings which is why British strong style was in this while Tyler was NXT UK champ and Trent & Dunne were still in the UK. WALTER wasn't in WWE. Also from when the UK champion was creating which was in 2017, you watched the inaugural title match on the Patreon, until mid 2018, NXT UK didn't have its own show so the title was defended on regular NXT tv and on the UK Indies
Matthew Harvey
2024-10-19 14:38:37 +0000 UTCTimothy Thatcher and Trent Seven worked in NXT and NXT UK respectively for a bit but neither officially made it to the main roster
Carlos Pau
2024-10-19 13:52:24 +0000 UTC
