Lee McAteer discusses WWE ID and PROGRESS.
In recent months, WWE have begun the roll out of their WWE ID project, with schools and talent in the United States being named. This has lead to speculation of the project expanding past the US and into Europe and Japan respectively.
While speaking to TheA2TheK in a recent interview, PROGRESS owner Lee McAteer was asked about the promotion becoming a WWE ID promotion, with Lee expressing that he is open to the idea.
"Well, the reality is we have a, great relationship still with WWE. We still continue to talk to them on a fairly regular basis. Sorry to be a kind of like cloak and dagger type answer to it but let's see where the conversations go to. Of course, we've got Meiko, who's going to be coming on to our show in February. Obviously, a former PROGRESS champion and obviously part of WWE. So, of course, I suppose if nothing else, that shows you the kind of relationship that we have and you know, I guess the main thing for us from a progress or a defy perspective is we want to work with everybody. You know, if something's good for business, if something's good for the fans, then we want to be all over it. But of course, it's from a selfish perspective, of course, we're going to think our own particular brands first. But, you know, we'd love to work with as many people as we possibly can and no door is short we've always talked about this forbidden door. But as I said, alongside Martin, when we first took over Progress, we don't want a forbidden door. We want to have welcome mats at every single door from all these different companies, because i'm a great believer that the more you work together, the more we grow the scene, the better it is for everybody. So, you know, I'm excited on a personal level to see where our relationship goes with WWE, but that's not to say that we're not excited in terms of working with AEW, TNA etc."
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