Popular UK name confirms full-time role with PROGRESS Wrestling
Popular UK wrestling name Tom Campbell has confirmed his new full-time role with PROGRESS Wrestling, revealing that he is the new full-time ring announcer for the company going forward.
Campbell, who also works at Cultaholic, NORTH Wrestling and across radio broadcast companies in the United Kingdom (including BBC regionals) wrote the following on Instagram:
“Let’s make this officially official! 🎤 I am very proud to say that I am the new full-time ring announcer for @progresswrestling! Helping PROGRESS out with their Manchester show last month was a wonderful experience…but it turns out it was just the start of it! Catch me, along with incredible PROGRESS wrestling action, every month at the Electric Ballroom in Camden (and all over the country on the Odyssey Tour in September – and WHO KNOWS where else beyond there!) and around the world on @howrestlinguk!”
Who owns PROGRESS Wrestling now?
It was recently revealed that former WWE wrestlers Big Damo and Nikki Cross have taken ownership of PROGRESS Wrestling and co-ownership of DEFY Wrestling.
The official announcement Monday revealed the news as Martyn Best and Lee McAteer are done with the promotion.
“We are delighted to be the new co-owners of PROGRESS. We both started in the UK and Ireland and fully believe this is host to the greatest talent pool on earth and PROGRESS is well positioned to showcase this generation and the next generation,” said Damo.
Our best wishes go out to Tom!
Jake is the Head of Audience at F4WOnline, having previously worked as a Combat Sports, Gaming and Pro Wrestling writer, successful Editor in Chief and Sports Coordinator for NationalWorld. He has more than ten years of experience covering mixed martial arts, pro wrestling, football and gaming across a number of publications, starting at SEScoops in 2012. His work has also been featured on Wrestling Headlines, Wrestlingnewsco, HotNewHipHop and The Hard Times.
Previously, he worked as the Editor in Chief of 24Wrestling, building the site profile with a view to selling the domain, which was accomplished in 2019. Jake was previously the Editor in Chief for FightFans, a combat sports and pro wrestling site that was launched in January 2021 and broke into millions of pageviews within the first two years. He previously worked for Snack Media and their GiveMeSport site, creating Evergreen and Trending content that would deliver pageviews via Google as the UFC and MMA SEO Lead. Jake managed to take an area of GiveMeSport that had zero traction on Organic and push it to audiences across the globe. Jake also has a record of long-term video and written interview content with the likes of the Professional Fighters League, ONE and Cage Warriors, working directly with the brands to promote bouts, fighters and special events.
He previously also worked for PROGRESS Wrestling, as PR Head and Head of Media across the social channels of the company.