Former WWE name confirmed for PROGRESS Wrestling tour
Former WWE main roster name Kay Lee Ray/Alba Fyre has been confirmed for the upcoming PROGRESS Wrestling Odyssey Tour. KLR will be appearing on the Sunday, September 6th show at the O2 Ritz, Saturday, September 12th show at the O2 Academy in Bournemouth and Sunday, September 13th event at the O2 Academy in Birmingham.
Kay Lee Ray to appear at PROGRESS Wrestling
Kay Lee Ray’s contract with WWE lapsed earlier this year, and she confirmed in an interview that she was not released, but chose to leave herself. Therefore, she did not need to adhere to the 90-day no compete that released WWE main roster names generally have to:
“My contract was up. And I knew it was coming up and I had the decision of whether I wanted to stay or not. I know some other people got fired and they have the 90 days clause, but because mines was just contract ending, that means I didn’t have the 90 days and I was able to come and do this [Eve show]. And do it as like kind of a surprise but it wasn’t really a surprise. But, yeah, really glad that it worked out this way.”
PROGRESS will be heading to Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Bournemouth and Birmingham for the Odyssey tour. Talent announcements are ongoing with Kay Lee Ray and former WWE RAW Women’s Champion Nikki Storm confirmed. Storm purchased the company alongside her partner Big Damo around a month or so ago.
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, The Hard Times and Sportskeeda.
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.