TK Cooper Talks About The Formation Of Sunshine Machine And PROGRESS Wrestling’s New Era

TK Cooper talks about PROGRESS Wrestling’s new era and being one-half of Sunshine Machine.

TK Cooper is one-half the PROGRESS Wrestling tag team, Sunshine Machine. Paired with Chuck Mambo, Cooper says the pairing was a long time coming in a new interview with PWMania.

“It’s great. It’s been a long time coming,” said Cooper. “It wasn’t what it was supposed to be, as the whole formation of Sunshine Machine was really through filming our vlog ETM (Escaping The Midcard). It was a couple of mates on the road, we never intended to become a tag team, it just fell into us when a company asked us to come together as part of a tag team gauntlet match in 2019.

“From there it clicked and we kept it going on different cards until we thought ‘Maybe we should really push this,’” Cooper said. “We carried on through the lockdown tapings and with crowds back now, it’s gone from strength to strength. It’s real fun and I got to say, I think I prefer it to singles wrestling.”

Speaking about the new era of PROGRESS, Cooper says it is going to highlight everything that makes British wrestling so special and the best in the world.

“I thought for the longest time during the Peckham (lockdown tapings) era that if there was a survivor series type match between old and new PROGRESS, the old group would win,” Cooper says. “But since we have been back in the ballroom, back on the road, I see how talented and ambitious a roster we have, both men and women, and think that this new era would come out victorious.

“Everything about this era highlights how much we want to showcase British wrestling as the best in the world,” Cooper adds. “We know there were fans that probably gave up on the product during Speaking Out and the pandemic, and we’ve got to win their trust back, but you can’t understand how much everyone from the owners to the roster and everyone involved in putting the shows together wants this to work and give fans the best shows around.”

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