Kid Lykos believes in his best friend.
The Super Strong Style 16 tournament is one of the top tournaments in British Wrestling and is hosted by Progress. In 2023, current Progress World Champion Kid Lykos took home the tournament victory, defeating Mark Haskins in the finals. This year, Lykos believes that his best friend and tag team partner, Kid Lykos II is going to win it.
In an interview with Fightful's Corey Brennan ahead of the 2024 event, Lykos was asked who he predicted to win the tournament and while he noted his work is cut out for him, Lykos hedged his bets on Lykos II.
"The tournament, it's pretty stacked for reasons people maybe don't notice or like there's a lot of dark horses people aren't thinking of but like I'm going to back Lykos II because I believe in him but he's got his work cut out for him. You've obviously got Luke Jacobs who's incredible, tough, resilient, aggressive. You've got Connor Mills who is an exceptional tactician and downright crazy at times. You've got Eddie Dennis, he's got a storied history in Progress. You can't deny those sorts of things for how important that experience in big matches plays a factor. Then you've got Shelton, who's worldwide veteran renowned, been everywhere, been successful everywhere. You've got Santana, who is really, really good and is hungry as hell to show how good he is. Then you've just got the whole rest of that tournament roster, who I'm missing out, and I'm not missing out in a sense of disrespect, I just think it's a really good run of wrestlers like. Ricky Knight Jr. again, the Tate Mayfairs' of the world, like, everyone in the tournament is good, and it makes for a really hard few days of wrestling, especially that second day, because if you want to win the tournament, you're going to do three matches in one day. I did four in three days for my win, and it was destructive on my body, so let alone doing all three in one night. Fair play to them, but I will I will hedge my bets on on Lykos II because I believe in him."
The winner of the Super Strong Style 16 tournament earns a future shot at the Progress World Title and should the two members of Lykos Gym come away successful this weekend, they will meet for the championship.
Elsewhere in Lykos' interview with Fightful, he stated his belief that Mark Haskins likes to revise history ahead of their Progress World Title match this weekend. You can read more about that here.
