Wrestling Friends 83 - Progress Wrestling's Jim Smallman

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07/11/18 • 150 min

This week Flash sits down with Ring announcer, Promotor and one third of the owners of PROGRESS Wrestling, Jim Smallman. They talk about Jim falling in love with Wrestling thanks to the wonderful Johnny Saint during the original World of Sport era. Jim chats about falling out of love with wrestling until he saw the Infamous Mankind Hell in a Cell fall. They discuss his journey into comedy and how he met other Progress Owner Jon Briley. And then him and Flash do a full retrospect of the rise of Progress, from the Garage to the Ballroom; from Alexandra palace and Wembley. They Finally they talk about Progress' relationship with WWE and what opportunities that relationship had brought. Its the longest episode so far and its choc full of wonderful Progress goodie.

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