September 22, 2025 • 11 mins
From PROGRESS Wrestling, a former champion in TNT and Grand Pro Wrestling, but most importantly, a former boxer, Ryan Paul Davies.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Paid for cure gouty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, be watching there, it's going to be showtime and
tune in to the podcast Pro Wrestling Culture because it's
always showtime there from the Stinger.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
H M.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, a new brand episode of Progressling
Culture podcast. My name Aldodon and this is a new
episode of this brand of this podcast. Here with me
a new special guest, Ladies and Gentlemen, RP David Sirah.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And now will do it all Alo, that's a speech.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Nice to meet you and thank you for being here
on a Progressling Culture podcast. And I want to start
with this interview with one of the last achievement with
your debut in Progress Wrestling. Ah, was important for you
to be a Progress wrestler and be in a match
against the Charlie Sterling, another true talent for the UK
(01:57):
independent scenario.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It was very important. It was very important to me.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Although it's a goal that I've worked at for the
bad part of six years now seven years, I've always
wanted to get as far with this as a camp
and to me to get to a show of the
caliber of Progress really sort of.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Showed the journey I'd been on and hopefully where I'm going.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Tell me more about your time in another company in UK,
the TNT Wrestling.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You're a solid part of the roster and for over
a year you were the Innitian Champion with the title
defenses versus another former NXT UK wrestler, Sam gred Well,
another huge chapter for you.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yeah, I mean TNT I's been a big part of
my of my journey in the wrestling world. It was
the first place that I want to title up. I've
won quite a few since, but that was the first
title that I won, the Mission title, and so for
that reason, that place will always be special to me.
(03:10):
And Jay apt who runs T and T, has always
been so good to me and really let me kind
of creatively do the things that I am interested in
want to do. But is a fantastic company with someone
like you, say, the best wrestlers in the UK scene,
Sam Gradwell, you just mentioned in there literally in my
(03:32):
opinion one, if not the best heavyweight in the entire
country maybe in Europe again, and I genuinely mean that.
But Yeah, just a fantastic place, TNT, and a place
that's been very good to me and I try to
be good to it because of it.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Probably one of the most important place in entire UK,
thelev over twenty years of history I think, and another
company that the history. So I know you about the
week Progress Progress Wrestling, but on Cage Match and other platforms.
(04:11):
I saw your past in the Grand Progress in Manchester.
You were the main champ there and you attracted many
in designs on you with your work there. What do
you think about your time in Grand Progressing.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Grand Pro Wrestling.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah, it is the reason that I am involved in
I started there. I made my debut Grand Blow Wrestling,
a fantastic coup and company at a Wigan let me say,
in Great Manchester and just just so much history over
twenty years. They've been running with some of the best
(04:51):
wrestlers in the world as a Grand Bo Wrestling and
to be part of that roster six six years ago
was a massive you know, it was a massive thing
for me to be allowed to be part of it.
But to slowly then work my way from the bottom
of the car up to the top of the cart
and like you say, we've come champion. It means so
(05:12):
much to me personally that because as I say, Johnny
who runs the company, it was it was he who
got me into professional.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Wrestling, and so I feel by kind.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Of progressing and working hard and everything, I've kind of
proved to him but also kind of proved to myself
as well that I was worth I was worth taking
a bit of a gamble, and that's what Johnny did
with me, and I feel like I've I've made that
payoff for him and for me. So yeah, it's such
(05:44):
a such a special place to me.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Grandpro and about always the best.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
How did your boxing backgrounds affect your wrestling style? What
is a an easier town a transition?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
It was a very hard transitional though, really really hard.
I've been involved in profer well boxing and professional boxing
for twelve well the best part of twenty years before that,
and then I retired from boxing, and that's when the
opportunities become a wrestler came up because I've always been
a huge fan of pro wrestling, and I snapped up
(06:28):
the opportunity because I thought.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What a great what a great thing to do. But
it was so hard.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
It was so hard to learn and to adapt to
a new discipline, and pro wrestling is just as hard
as boxingest in distes in different ways, and so I've
had to dedicate myself one just as much as I
ever did as a boxer to this, and and I
really have.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I really I'm not just saying I really really have.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I've given everything I've got to this ever since I started,
and it's been one of the greatest rewards in my
life to be getting too pro wrestling, genuinely and and
and to succeed in it.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
About Progress Wrestling once again, there is a chance for
you to be a veteran there in your new chapter,
for for your career to be the first probably the yes,
the first former boxer to be a PROGRESS World champion.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But I'd love that.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
I would I would love that, And obviously it's very
early days, you know, Progress.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It was only my debut, and I would have to
work my way among some phenomenal talent, you know, like
you say, world.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Class wrestlers and superstars to to to get to that
sort of position. But what I will say is anyone
who was at that debut in Manchester that day, or
anyone who's watched it on the Progress Plus or the Triller,
they will know and they will see the sort of
(08:15):
reaction I got that day, and it was special, and
I honestly believe that it was special. You know, that
place was completely behind me the second a curtain and
that took me by surprise a little bit because I
wasn't one hundred percent sure that they would fully know
who I was. But they did, and only did they
do that, they never stopped changing for me, And I
(08:37):
just hope that that alone sort of really made an
impact with management and the people, the higher ups in
the progress to see that there is a massive upside
in me continuing a progress and building there and that's
what I aim to do. But I'm just going to
(08:59):
be giving the opportunity. But I've got a feeling. I've
got a feeling that because of how well that Babu
went that you will see me at progress again.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
One last question, what is your main goal for your future,
for your career?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Just continue to get better, continue to get better, continue
to wrestle the best places that I can possibly can.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
One of the big goals for me now because I've
I've done nearly everything, nearly everything I ever wanted to
do in pro wrestling, because at the beginning, my goals
were areadly very small because I didn't know how far
it was going to go, and it's kind of snowballed
and snowballed until now we're we're here now, and like
you said, I'm debuting a progress but a massive goal
(09:48):
of mine is to wrestle abroad. I would love to
wrestle outside of the UK. I would love to do
that for a company outside of the UK, and and
then I could always say that I got to travel
and wrestle somewhere else, you know, another country. That that
is something that is a goal for me now. So
I'm hoping in the next year I can achieve.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
That United States are in the list.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
The United States or Europe or anywhere really, you know.
I'd love to just be able to say that I
jumped on a plane and I went and wrestled and
hopefully captivated a new audience in a different country. I'd
love I'd love to be able to say that, And
that's something I'm going to really work towards now to
(10:33):
try and make happen in the next year.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Here in Italy we have a very hot companies like
Milano Wrestling, Superior Italian Wrestling, Progressing Roma and very very
good wrestlers. But the entire scenario is good. Not good
as the UK, but it's very good. It's very improved
(10:56):
during the last five years. Yes, to have you there.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I would. I would love that. I would love that.
I've been to Italy quite a few times on holiday.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I absolutely love Italy, fantastic country. But I would love
to call over that wrestle. I would, I really would.
So if any of them companies are listening to this podcast,
give me a call.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Absolutely I will share with with their with them your name.
Thank you very much, Ryan, thank you very much for
being here with me, here with our listeners of pro
wrestling culture. And good luck for your career, for your
time in progress, and wish you the best.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Absolutely, thank you. Jeez
Paid for cure gouty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, be watching there, it's going to be showtime and
tune in to the podcast Pro Wrestling Culture because it's
always showtime there from the Stinger.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
H M.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, a new brand episode of Progressling
Culture podcast. My name Aldodon and this is a new
episode of this brand of this podcast. Here with me
a new special guest, Ladies and Gentlemen, RP David Sirah.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And now will do it all Alo, that's a speech.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Nice to meet you and thank you for being here
on a Progressling Culture podcast. And I want to start
with this interview with one of the last achievement with
your debut in Progress Wrestling. Ah, was important for you
to be a Progress wrestler and be in a match
against the Charlie Sterling, another true talent for the UK
(01:57):
independent scenario.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It was very important. It was very important to me.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Although it's a goal that I've worked at for the
bad part of six years now seven years, I've always
wanted to get as far with this as a camp
and to me to get to a show of the
caliber of Progress really sort of.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Showed the journey I'd been on and hopefully where I'm going.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Tell me more about your time in another company in UK,
the TNT Wrestling.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You're a solid part of the roster and for over
a year you were the Innitian Champion with the title
defenses versus another former NXT UK wrestler, Sam gred Well,
another huge chapter for you.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yeah, I mean TNT I's been a big part of
my of my journey in the wrestling world. It was
the first place that I want to title up. I've
won quite a few since, but that was the first
title that I won, the Mission title, and so for
that reason, that place will always be special to me.
(03:10):
And Jay apt who runs T and T, has always
been so good to me and really let me kind
of creatively do the things that I am interested in
want to do. But is a fantastic company with someone
like you, say, the best wrestlers in the UK scene,
Sam Gradwell, you just mentioned in there literally in my
(03:32):
opinion one, if not the best heavyweight in the entire
country maybe in Europe again, and I genuinely mean that.
But Yeah, just a fantastic place, TNT, and a place
that's been very good to me and I try to
be good to it because of it.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Probably one of the most important place in entire UK,
thelev over twenty years of history I think, and another
company that the history. So I know you about the
week Progress Progress Wrestling, but on Cage Match and other platforms.
(04:11):
I saw your past in the Grand Progress in Manchester.
You were the main champ there and you attracted many
in designs on you with your work there. What do
you think about your time in Grand Progressing.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Grand Pro Wrestling.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah, it is the reason that I am involved in
I started there. I made my debut Grand Blow Wrestling,
a fantastic coup and company at a Wigan let me say,
in Great Manchester and just just so much history over
twenty years. They've been running with some of the best
(04:51):
wrestlers in the world as a Grand Bo Wrestling and
to be part of that roster six six years ago
was a massive you know, it was a massive thing
for me to be allowed to be part of it.
But to slowly then work my way from the bottom
of the car up to the top of the cart
and like you say, we've come champion. It means so
(05:12):
much to me personally that because as I say, Johnny
who runs the company, it was it was he who
got me into professional.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Wrestling, and so I feel by kind.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Of progressing and working hard and everything, I've kind of
proved to him but also kind of proved to myself
as well that I was worth I was worth taking
a bit of a gamble, and that's what Johnny did
with me, and I feel like I've I've made that
payoff for him and for me. So yeah, it's such
(05:44):
a such a special place to me.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Grandpro and about always the best.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
How did your boxing backgrounds affect your wrestling style? What
is a an easier town a transition?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
It was a very hard transitional though, really really hard.
I've been involved in profer well boxing and professional boxing
for twelve well the best part of twenty years before that,
and then I retired from boxing, and that's when the
opportunities become a wrestler came up because I've always been
a huge fan of pro wrestling, and I snapped up
(06:28):
the opportunity because I thought.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What a great what a great thing to do. But
it was so hard.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
It was so hard to learn and to adapt to
a new discipline, and pro wrestling is just as hard
as boxingest in distes in different ways, and so I've
had to dedicate myself one just as much as I
ever did as a boxer to this, and and I
really have.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I really I'm not just saying I really really have.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I've given everything I've got to this ever since I started,
and it's been one of the greatest rewards in my
life to be getting too pro wrestling, genuinely and and
and to succeed in it.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
About Progress Wrestling once again, there is a chance for
you to be a veteran there in your new chapter,
for for your career to be the first probably the yes,
the first former boxer to be a PROGRESS World champion.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But I'd love that.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
I would I would love that, And obviously it's very
early days, you know, Progress.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It was only my debut, and I would have to
work my way among some phenomenal talent, you know, like
you say, world.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Class wrestlers and superstars to to to get to that
sort of position. But what I will say is anyone
who was at that debut in Manchester that day, or
anyone who's watched it on the Progress Plus or the Triller,
they will know and they will see the sort of
(08:15):
reaction I got that day, and it was special, and
I honestly believe that it was special. You know, that
place was completely behind me the second a curtain and
that took me by surprise a little bit because I
wasn't one hundred percent sure that they would fully know
who I was. But they did, and only did they
do that, they never stopped changing for me, And I
(08:37):
just hope that that alone sort of really made an
impact with management and the people, the higher ups in
the progress to see that there is a massive upside
in me continuing a progress and building there and that's
what I aim to do. But I'm just going to
(08:59):
be giving the opportunity. But I've got a feeling. I've
got a feeling that because of how well that Babu
went that you will see me at progress again.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
One last question, what is your main goal for your future,
for your career?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Just continue to get better, continue to get better, continue
to wrestle the best places that I can possibly can.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
One of the big goals for me now because I've
I've done nearly everything, nearly everything I ever wanted to
do in pro wrestling, because at the beginning, my goals
were areadly very small because I didn't know how far
it was going to go, and it's kind of snowballed
and snowballed until now we're we're here now, and like
you said, I'm debuting a progress but a massive goal
(09:48):
of mine is to wrestle abroad. I would love to
wrestle outside of the UK. I would love to do
that for a company outside of the UK, and and
then I could always say that I got to travel
and wrestle somewhere else, you know, another country. That that
is something that is a goal for me now. So
I'm hoping in the next year I can achieve.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
That United States are in the list.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
The United States or Europe or anywhere really, you know.
I'd love to just be able to say that I
jumped on a plane and I went and wrestled and
hopefully captivated a new audience in a different country. I'd
love I'd love to be able to say that, And
that's something I'm going to really work towards now to
(10:33):
try and make happen in the next year.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Here in Italy we have a very hot companies like
Milano Wrestling, Superior Italian Wrestling, Progressing Roma and very very
good wrestlers. But the entire scenario is good. Not good
as the UK, but it's very good. It's very improved
(10:56):
during the last five years. Yes, to have you there.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I would. I would love that. I would love that.
I've been to Italy quite a few times on holiday.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I absolutely love Italy, fantastic country. But I would love
to call over that wrestle. I would, I really would.
So if any of them companies are listening to this podcast,
give me a call.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Absolutely I will share with with their with them your name.
Thank you very much, Ryan, thank you very much for
being here with me, here with our listeners of pro
wrestling culture. And good luck for your career, for your
time in progress, and wish you the best.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Absolutely, thank you. Jeez
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