Nikki Storm Discusses Acquiring PROGRESS Wrestling, Lays Out Her Vision for the Promotion

Former WWE Superstar Nikki Storm (formerly Nikki Cross) recently spoke to Insight with Chris Van Vliet to discuss her WWE career, buying PROGRESS Wrestling, their vision for the promotion, and more. Below are some highlights:

Nikki Storm on Buying PROGRESS Wrestling

“Yes, it’s been a crazy couple of months. It’s been insane the last couple of months. It was just perfect timing. I don’t know if it would have still happened if I was still with WWE, so it just felt like perfect timing, the right place, the right time, the right circumstances with Progress Wrestling. Our goal is to make Progress Wrestling the number one independent promotion in the world, and we’ve got a long way to go. But that’s the mission, that’s the goal, that’s our aim. We want to take young talent and give them opportunities, and push them, and give them a platform. In Europe right now, it’s a hotbed. So the talent is there and just waiting to be tapped into, and that’s what we want to do with Progress Wrestling. We want the style to be aggressive and intense, but we also want the three-ring circus.

“So we want our stories to be involved. We have such funny, wonderful characters, funny wrestlers at Progress. So we want there to still be space for them, but we really want that three-ring circus and really push that aggressive, intense ring style and become the number one company. Even with the women’s wrestling, it’s such a hotbed right now in Britain, and not only do I get to work with these girls in the ring. I also can’t wait to work with them for Progress and make it a hotbed because it is a hotbed. Progress Wrestling, we want to be at the forefront of that, and we want to work with all the companies we can. We want to cross-promote. We want good relationships worldwide. Whether that be in Japan, America, Canada, Europe, other places in England, in Scotland, in Ireland, like we want it all covered, and if we can do it. We’re excited for this next step.”

If PROGRESS Will Be the Main Home for Nikki Storm

“You know, I am called the Best in the Galaxy, Nikki Storm, and for me, that’s a mindset. That’s a way of life. That’s how to be. So I want to wrestle everywhere. I want to wrestle all over the world. I want to wrestle all over planet Earth. I don’t want to travel into space, though. I don’t want to go up.”

On If She Plans To Continue Living in Florida or Going Back and Forth

“I think there’ll be a lot of back and forth. We also have our home in Scotland. There’ll be a lot of flights, a lot of miles racked up, and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve been so fortunate in life, and I’m just excited to kind of see the world. I already feel like I saw so much of the world before even joining WWE, and then I was lucky enough to be in WWE and travel the world. I got to go to Australia for the first time. I was able to be lucky enough to travel with some of my best friends, and now I get to see the world through a completely different lens. This isn’t the same 23-year-old girl traveling the world, not quite knowing what’s going on. Now I get to be older and wiser, and get to see places which I never thought I would, and it’s all because of professional wrestling, you know. And I just, I’m so grateful.”

After WWE released her and the rest of the Wyatt Sicks in April, Storm and her husband, Big Damo, acquired PROGRESS and Defy Wrestling in May.