In a seismic change to the independent wrestling landscape, progress wrestling and defy wrestling

are under new management. I am pleased to say that new management joins me now in their first

interview together since the announcement went down. It's Damien Mackle, otherwise known as Big Damo, and Nicola Glenn Cross, otherwise known as

Nikki Cross.

Guys, how we doing?

Hello, thank you for having us.

We're so excited.

Thank you so much for having us.

We're doing very well.

We're in different sides of the ocean at the minute.

I'm in Ireland and Nikki's in America.

So she's looking after the pups and I'm looking after the family.

The chihuahuas, demas, the chihuahuas, chihuahuas.

How much of it, before we get into the rigors of running the business and stuff,

how much of this has been your life as of late with

you guys running different schedules and separate lives? One of you been on one side of an

notion and the one beyond the other? Nicky, you take that one. Sure. I'm just happy WhatsApp is a

relatively free service. No, it is free service because we've just been in constant communication and there's, we're really hitting the ground running and we are looking forward to, we're looking forward to taking these next steps and letting the world see, you know, what progress

is going to be about and we're just excited so we've been in constant contact and Demos

been victim of many text messages, WhatsApp, voice messages, voice notes, phone calls randomly.

He even butt dialed me today or there's lots of butt dials between us and we play phone tag a lot so you know I think that we're we're so used to kind of being at the other different sides of the Atlantic so if anything this means we'll be working together way more often so that would be nice

yeah this has been one of the craziest experiences, you know, because we're both Professor Restors, obviously. And, you know, times like Nikki might have been in Japan or, you know, when we were even on different brands into Dubli, you know, there was different times where we might only be seeing each other once a week or whatever. And then obviously, as I've been out in the Indies this last five years,

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