Progress Wrestling Unified World Championship
The Progress Unified World Championship is a professional wrestling World championship created and promoted by the British professional wrestling promotion Progress Wrestling.[2] Unlike conventional wrestling championships which are generally represented by a Championship belt, the Progress championship was initially represented by a large staff with an eagle head piece. At Chapter 16, the staff was replaced by a more traditional title belt. The title has been defended in the United States at the WrestleCon Supershow in Dallas, Texas, and subsequently defended in Italy on 30 April 2016[3] and Ireland on 16 July 2016.[4] On 5 May 2019, the World Championship and Atlas Championship were unified by Walter, defeating Trent Seven. The title was henceforth known as the Unified World Championship.[5]
| Progress Unified World Championship | |||||||||||||||||
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 Will Ospreay with the current belt design in July 2015 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Progress Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||
| Date established | March 25, 2012[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Jonathan Gresham | ||||||||||||||||
| Date won | March 20, 2022 | ||||||||||||||||
| Other name(s) | |||||||||||||||||
Progress Championship Progress World Championship | |||||||||||||||||
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Title history
There have been a total of 16 reigns and two vacancies shared between 15 distinctive champions. The current title holder is Jonathan Gresham who is in his first reign. He won the championship at Chapter 130: Dodge, Dip, Duck, Dive, Dodge after defeating Cara Noir in a winner takes all match, where Gresham also defended his ROH World Championship.
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Nathan Cruz | 25 March 2012 | Chapter 1: In the Beginning | Highbury, London | 1 | 245 | 1 | Defeated Marty Scurll, El Ligero, and Mike Mason in a four-way tournament final match to become the inaugural champion. | [6] |
| 2 | El Ligero | 25 November 2012 | Chapter 4: The Ballad of El Ligero | Highbury, London | 1 | 245 | 3 | [7] | |
| 3 | Rampage Brown | 28 July 2013 | Chapter 8: The Big Boy's Guide to Strong Style | Highbury, London | 1 | 119 | 2 | [8] | |
| 4 | Mark Andrews | 24 November 2013 | Chapter 10: Glory Follows Virtue As If It Were Its Shadow | Highbury, London | 1 | <1 | 0 | Successfully cashed in his Natural Progression Series title shot | |
| 5 | Jimmy Havoc | 24 November 2013 | Chapter 10: Glory Follows Virtue As If It Were Its Shadow | Highbury, London | 1 | 609 | 9 | Used the open contract given to him by Jim Smallman to make an immediate title match. | [9] |
| 6 | Will Ospreay | 26 July 2015 | Chapter 20: ThunderBastard: Beyond ThunderBastard | Camden Town, London | 1 | 182 | 4 | Successfully cashed in his Super Strong Style 16 title shot | [10] |
| 7 | Marty Scurll | 24 January 2016 | Chapter 25: Chat Shit, Get Banged | Camden Town, London | 1 | 154 | 7 | [11] | |
| 8 | Pastor William Eaver | 26 June 2016 | Chapter 32: 5000 to 1 | Camden Town, London | 1 | 35 | 1 | Successfully cashed in his Natural Progression Series title shot. | [12] |
| 9 | Marty Scurll | 31 July 2016 | Chapter 33: Malice in Wonderland | Camden Town, London | 2 | 56 | 1 | [13] | |
| 10 | Mark Haskins | 25 September 2016 | Chapter 36: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Room... Again | Brixton, London | 1 | 35 | 1 | This was a triple threat match also involving Tommy End. | [14] |
| — | Vacated | 30 October 2016 | Chapter 38: When Men Throw Men At Men | Camden Town, London | — | — | — | Haskins vacated the title due to injury | |
| 11 | Pete Dunne | 27 November 2016 | Chapter 39: The Graps of Wrath | Camden Town, London | 1 | 287 | 11 | Defeated Jimmy Havoc, Matt Riddle, Sebastian, TK Cooper, Travis Banks, and Trent Seven in a seven-way elimination match to win the vacant title. | [15] |
| 12 | Travis Banks | 10 September 2017 | Chapter 55: Chase the Sun | Haringey, London | 1 | 318 | 17 | Successfully cashed in his Super Strong Style 16 title shot | [16] |
| 13 | Walter | 25 July 2018 | Chapter 74: Mid Week Matters | Camden Town, London | 1 | 417 | 15 | Unified with the Progress Atlas Championship on May 5, 2019 following Walter's win over Trent Seven. | [17] |
| 14 | Eddie Dennis | 15 September 2019 | Chapter 95: Still Chasing | Haringey, London | 1 | 126 | 2 | Successfully cashed in his title opportunity gained by defeating Mark Andrews at Chapter 76. This was a triple threat match also involving David Starr. | [18] |
| — | Vacated | January 19, 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | Dennis vacated the title due to a shoulder injury. | [19] |
| 15 | Cara Noir | 19 January 2020 | Chapter 101: Dalmatians | Camden Town, London | 1 | 791 | 17 | This was a four-way match also involving Ilja Dragunov, Kyle Fletcher and Paul Robinson. | [20][21] |
| 16 | Jonathan Gresham | 20 March 2022 | Chapter 130: Dodge, Dip, Duck, Dive, Dodge | London, England | 1 | 40+ | 0 | This was a winner takes all match, in which Gresham defended the ROH World Championship. | [22] |
Combined reigns
Inaugural champion, Nathan Cruz shown here with a Progress Wrestling crest logo scepter.
As of April 29, 2022.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cara Noir | 1 | 17 | 791 |
| 2 | Jimmy Havoc | 1 | 9 | 609 |
| 3 | Walter | 1 | 15 | 417 |
| 4 | Travis Banks | 1 | 17 | 318 |
| 5 | Pete Dunne | 1 | 11 | 287 |
| 6 | El Ligero | 1 | 3 | 245 |
| Nathan Cruz | 1 | 1 | 245 | |
| 8 | Marty Scurll | 2 | 8 | 210 |
| 9 | Will Ospreay | 1 | 4 | 182 |
| 10 | Eddie Dennis | 1 | 2 | 126 |
| 11 | Rampage Brown | 1 | 2 | 119 |
| 12 | Jonathan Gresham † | 1 | 0 | 40+ |
| 13 | Mark Haskins | 1 | 1 | 35 |
| Pastor William Eaver | 1 | 1 | 35 | |
| 15 | Mark Andrews | 1 | 0 | <1 |
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Booker, Matt (January 20, 2020). "Eddie Dennis Vacates PROGRESS Title / Wrestling News Update, January 19th 2020". twm.news. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
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