Nikki Storm Speaks About Acquiring PROGRESS Wrestling, Wants It To Be Number One Indie Promotion
Big Damo and Nikki Storm acquired PROGRESS Wrestling.
Coming out of Nikki Storm a.k.a. Nikki Cross’ release from WWE in April 2026, she and her husband, fellow wrestler Big Damo, announced the acquisition of PROGRESS Wrestling.
She spoke to Chris Van Vliet and stated that she has a goal in mind for PROGRESS to be the top independent promotion in the world.
“Yes, it’s been a crazy couple of months. It’s been insane the last couple of months. It was just perfect timing. I don’t know if it would have still happened if I was still with WWE, so it just felt like perfect timing, the right place, the right time, the right circumstances with PROGRESS Wrestling. Our goal is to make PROGRESS Wrestling the number one independent promotion in the world, and we’ve got a long way to go. But that’s the mission, that’s the goal, that’s our aim. We want to take young talent and give them opportunities, and push them, and give them a platform. In Europe right now, it’s a hotbed. So the talent is there and just waiting to be tapped into, and that’s what we want to do with PROGRESS Wrestling. We want the style to be aggressive and intense, but we also want the three-ring circus. So we want our stories to be involved. We have such funny, wonderful characters, funny wrestlers at PROGRESS. So we want there to still be space for them, but we really want that three-ring circus and really push that aggressive, intense ring style and become the number one company. Even with the women’s wrestling, it’s such a hotbed right now in Britain, and not only do I get to work with these girls in the ring, I also can’t wait to work with them for PROGRESS and make it a hotbed because it is a hotbed. PROGRESS Wrestling, we want to be at the forefront of that, and we want to work with all the companies we can. We want to cross-promote. We want good relationships worldwide. Whether that be in Japan, America, Canada, Europe, other places in England, in Scotland, in Ireland, like we want it all covered, and if we can do it. We’re excited for this next step.”
Storm was in action for PROGRESS in late July and scored a win over Session Moth Martina.
