soup23 Posted December 3, 2015 Report Share Posted December 3, 2015 Have a day off from work so I decided to check out Progress based on Shoe recommendations and the twitter hype of their latest show. I was going to watch the Strong Style Tourney but decided to abort it after two matches and go straight to the latest show. Big Daddy Walter vs. Rampage Brown I thought this was an odd choice as an opener but it was a good hoss style battle. My favorite moment was when the rope broke on an Irish whip from Walter. This created a neat organic moment that really got over the size of the competitors. The guys improvised well and utilized some spots based off the broken rope. Fun opener. **3/4 Shen Woo vs. Damon Moser vs. Jack SexSmith Generic comedy stuff with the most part with a prolonged spot of Smith having his bare ass on screen and getting a dildo stuck in it. The only clever spot to me was when Moser was in a submission move by Woo and Smith tapped resulting in Woo thinking he had won. The rest was stuff that I didn't enjoy. * Paul Robinson vs. Mark Haskins I really liked this match. THis was my first time seeing Robinson and he is pretty deplorable as a character spitting, rubbing his man region and whiping it on the back of Haskins and doing other dickish stuff on top. I liked the storyline of the match of Haskins going for his tricked out submissions and Robinson having a counter for each. The finish was especially awesome and really played off the storyline beforehand. ***1/2 Tommaso Ciampa vs. Marty Scurll Ciampa doing the Windy City Classic and this show on consecutive days is pretty nuts. I have seen Scurll a few times now and while he is fine, there is something about his whole moniker as the villain that doesn't work for me. He is fine in the role but paled in comparison to someone like Robinson in the match before. This was worked with more of a hard hitting style and felt too drawn out. The finish was a nice bit of work with Scurll utilizing the situation that Ciampa caused and going back to Chicken Wing for the submission victory. **3/4 Sumerian Death Squad vs. The London Riots vs. The Origin The tag "belts" Progress uses is pretty neat and definitely unique. I liked the openings of this with Origin having a sound gameplan of slowing things down and out cardio'ing their opponents. I also liked Tommy End kicking the match in a high gear by calling out their strategy as boring. The brawl and mayhem that resulted afterwards had some stuff that took too long to set up and some stuff that was cool. Origin getting the sneaky win to claim the titles surprised me and the Riots vs. Death Squad feud feels like one that Progress will build around for many months to come. *** Zack Gibson vs. Flash Morgan Webster "Turn the Page" as entrance music two matches in a row? I guess it is the Orgin stable song. This match suffered from card placement as both competitors felt like third rate versions of either spunky highflyers in Webster's case or devious heels in Gibson. Some of the arm work Gibson went for was interesting but it was too inconsistent overall. ** Mark Andrews vs. WIll Ospreay This was certainly a well executed spotfest and the limb work in the opening wasn't too egregious that I was rolling my eyes on that facet in the end. Still, when working this stuff, I didn't feel any connection at all and was more mesmerized that most of these spectacular moves were executed correctly. Was it fun? sure. Do I think some people will really enjoy it? Absolutely. For me, it was a well done spotfest in 2015. ***1/4 Overall this was a good show and I think gave me a good vibe of what Progress can bring to the table overall with their pros/cons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted December 3, 2015 Report Share Posted December 3, 2015 I love Robinson as a character. He seems to get it as in being a heel. Everything he does is unethical or dishonest in a way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotJayTabb Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 In the tag title match, which pairing of the Origin was it? I'm assuming by the cardio comment it was Cruz and Ligero rather than Mastiff. I really need to get round to watching some Progress, the idea of heel Ligero just sounds odd to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted December 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 It was Ligero/Cruz. Mastiff seconded them but got ejected after the early going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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