10 Wrestling Questions With Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly's Sam Duckworth

You’ve mentioned quite a few independent shows, and I know you were at PROGRESS Wrestling’s Hello Wembley show. How was that as an experience? And what is your current favourite brand of independent wrestling?

"It was a big moment, because it’s the biggest English independent wrestling show in decades, but it’s also good because loads of people can’t get tickets for the [ballroom] shows, so it’s good to have an event where you can.

I prefer [PROGRESS] to Ring of Honor, but production-wise it’s not far off, you know? [...] PROGRESS have done an amazing job of filming those chapters and getting the presentation right, and you’ve got to have stories like that to continue sustaining independent wrestling in the UK. It comes into fashion, it comes out of fashion [...] There was a point where it was Doug Williams, Nigel McGuinness, and they were kind of holding tight for Britain, but now you look at it and there’s Tyler Bate, Pete Dunne, Trent Seven, Zack Sabre Jnr, Will Ospreay. Arguably if you made a top twenty list of ‘best wrestlers in the world’, five of them would be from Britain.

When you’re a musician, you play with really good musicians, you want to push yourself as hard as you can all the time [..] A lot of British wrestlers, especially Marty [Scurll], Will Ospreay, Zack Sabre Jnr, going to Japan and just coming back - having absorbed all of this information about timing and match structure - and their styles have evolved, and they’re just getting better and better."