This is bullshit.
What I ACTUALLY said is we "cannot have another left-wing government. But I'm afraid that Reform has quite a lot of left-wing ideas. They want more benefits. They want nationalisation”
I then said.
On "deals, non-aggression pacts and so on....I'm just saying no. It's just no, no, no, no, no, no, no."
Exclusive: Big Damo and Nikki Cross reveal how they acquired Progress Wrestling.
"Genuinely, this was not on the bingo card for us, either. We have talked about a million different scenarios for a long time. We have been wrestling for 22 years, Nikki has been wrestling for 18 years, so we know there is a time limit. We are going to have to start thinking about what is the future and we thought that was going to be with our little Scottish promotion in Glasgow, but no, it turns out.
"This opportunity came along a few weeks ago. Not long after Nikki had been released, actually. It was only a few days after. I’ll just be honest, I was in Belfast about to jump on a plane going to another show and I had to sit thinking about it on the plane like, ‘This is wild. There's no way this could happen.' Then I come off the plane and we start talking about it seriously. At first we were talking with James Amner, he's been in situ at PROGRESS for a long, long time. He’s one of the hidden gems. He hates credit in every single way but he’s one of the reasons PROGRESS has been ticking over at all for maybe a decade.
"When I broached Nikki with it, she was like, 'What?' So there's been plenty of conversations and, listen, the boys made it very easy. I dealt directly with Martyn Best…and he was very patient with me and we were able to come to the best agreement for both of us. That was one of the most amazing experiences in terms of how easy he made that for me. This could have been very, very difficult and this could have been out of our reach, realistically, because we are living in the United States. That is still our home. Obviously that will change in the next few years but that is our handicap, effectively, in one regard. But now it's putting us in a position where we're starting to think about, ‘Okay, what do we want to do next?’ and PROGRESS Wrestling has answered a lot of those questions very quickly.
"We can now start thinking about long term, and that's something Nikki and I were talking about the other day. Our goal is to make this into the number one independent promotion on the planet."
If @gunnerblog and @TheAthleticFC aren’t doing an article about the person who caught Ødegaard’s sunglasses and their incredible history of supporting Arsenal then I’ll be very disappointed! 😉😉😜😜
The red smoke was a bit much today - stinging eyes and making it hard to breathe. Apart from that, though, it was a fantastic afternoon at the Arsenal parade.
This is an interesting debate. I would very much support this role being paid. As the article highlights, otherwise we will continue to rely on people who are either retired or independently wealthy.
Incredible reaction this evening to the statement from the new owners of @ThisIs_Progress, @nikkistorm08 and @DamoMackle, on my Progress Facebook group.
You can check it out here 👇
https://t.co/g9a2RoUspi
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- Simply repost this to enter
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This is an interesting move. As the person running the large Facebook group supporting the company, it will be interesting to see how fans react. Lee and Martyn regularly engaged with supporters in the group let’s hope @DamoMackle & @nikkistorm08 continue that level of engagement
All wonderful, and I wish I could have been there but why did the club allow this to happen? Was it about money? Is that what drives decisions like this?