CHIKARA Appreciation Thread

[Standby]

It's far overdue, I think, but this has easily become my favorite promotion. I attended their big King of Trios 2008 shows this past weekend. If you missed out, you missed.....

Glacier.

Yes. Glacier.

Stop. I'm serious. Motherfucking GLACIER.

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v198/219/94/1402168/n1402168_33342859_6063.jpg

I needed to take this picture so I could prove it wasn't a dream. Oh, and Ultramantis Black & The Order of the Neo Solar Temple are the greatest.
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v198/219/94/1402168/n1402168_33342841_322.jpg

Winners of King of Trios: Los Luchadores (El Pantera, Incognito & Lince Dorado)
Best Unfound Talent: The Soul Touchaz of Elite Pro Wrestling (words can not describe how over these guys were)

Oh, and... Larry Sweeney/One Man Gang strut-off..... WIN. No pics of that, I was too busy marking out.

[Kid Brock]

You lucky son of a bitch. I am in for this thread, it will be a nice revive of our Non-RoH Indy thread. Since it was becoming mostly Chikara anyway.

[commish13]

The Hydra almost unwittingly broke my hand.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/the86melon/hydrahandshake.jpg

[Standby]

Yeah but that masked Canadian dude on the far right. I bet he's pretty awesome. Man I wish I got swindled into buying a picture of him.

And you totally stole my bit of getting hurt by Hydra's handshake.

And Crossbones... he's friggin sweet.

[TheICON]

And Crossbones... he's friggin sweet.

And draws some pretty friggen sweet tattoos.

[Turtle]

It's far overdue, I think, but this has easily become my favorite promotion. I attended their big King of Trios 2008 shows this past weekend. If you missed out, you missed.....

Glacier.

Yes. Glacier.

Stop. I'm serious. Motherfucking GLACIER.

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v198/219/94/1402168/n1402168_33342859_6063.jpg

I needed to take this picture so I could prove it wasn't a dream. Oh, and Ultramantis Black & The Order of the Neo Solar Temple are the greatest.
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v198/219/94/1402168/n1402168_33342841_322.jpg

Winners of King of Trios: Los Luchadores (El Pantera, Incognito & Lince Dorado)
Best Unfound Talent: The Soul Touchaz of Elite Pro Wrestling (words can not describe how over these guys were)

Oh, and... Larry Sweeney/One Man Gang strut-off..... WIN. No pics of that, I was too busy marking out.

Opie voice...





Faaaaaaagot





wavey hand smiley face ball busting thing

[Standby]

And draws some pretty friggen sweet tattoos.

Yeah I'm pretty sure there's a guy on chikarafans who got a tattoo of the three Order of the Neo Solar Temple masks, and Crossbones did it... in the mask, too. Awesome.

And Turtle...shut it. :action-sm

[commish13]

Yeah but that masked Canadian dude on the far right. I bet he's pretty awesome. Man I wish I got swindled into buying a picture of him.

And you totally stole my bit of getting hurt by Hydra's handshake.

And Crossbones... he's friggin sweet.

I sold the pain way better, so blow it out your ass, cupcake.

I had an extra 5 just sitting in my pocket, so I got one of his 8x10s. He also offered to stab me with his Sharpie for 2 bucks. Then moments later he raised it to 5 bucks and claimed it was inflation's fault. I actually like Kobra Kai. He has a decently solid showing on Saturday and I liked the angle where he didn't like his partners.

[Turtle]

And Turtle...shut it. :action-sm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19jFKu9IgaI&feature=related

I was a wrasslin fan at one point im my life

[TheICON]

Theres a pretty funny pic on Mantis' myspace of Crossbones giving him a tattoo. Both of them in masks.

Mantis was always awesome enough to have his mask EVERYWHERE we went. The one time he didn't was when we were in Montreal, and we saw dancing Spiderman (supposedly he's pretty famous up there) in the middle of the street. We had to go back the next day with the hoods to take a pic with the guy... When the guy was done for the afternoon, he took off his Spiderman mask, and all you can hear throughout the city was Mantis screaming "NO!! THE GIMMICK! KAYFABE MAN! KAYFABE! THATS YOUR GIMMICK! I DONT WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE!"

[commish13]

I had Mantis cut some liners and do a bit for my show a couple months back, and the entire time I was just talking to him on the phone to set it up, he kept the voice up.

Staying in 'fabe is fun. At the Conclave last Saturday, I stayed in kayfabe the whole time. And I'm just a fan.

[Turtle]

I had Hulk Hogan come to my Bris.

[Standby]

I had Mantis cut some liners and do a bit for my show a couple months back, and the entire time I was just talking to him on the phone to set it up, he kept the voice up.

Staying in 'fabe is fun. At the Conclave last Saturday, I stayed in kayfabe the whole time. And I'm just a fan.

Kayfabe is highly underrated.

And Mantis is fantastic.

[Turtle]

I <3 Abdullah the Butcher

[Steam]

I <3 Abdullah the Butcher

I met him about ten years ago at a show and got a picture with him. It was awesome. He was there all well spoken and in a shirt and tie.

[hybriddriver]

He was there all well spoken and in a shirt and tie.

he could run for president!

[Standby]

he could run for president!

FORKS for everyone!

Okay, back on track... Chikara...

[Steam]

I never watched any CHIKARA before but last night at the ROH show I picked up the $10 Best of DVD they had and put it in. I went to the Kingston/Sweeney match and was shocked that there was like noone there and it looked to be held in the basement of a town hall type building. I realize that that was a few years ago at this point but I would hope that the crowds are a little bigger now and the same goes for the venues.

[commish13]

They still run the small venues, but they also have been running the ECW arena on a regular basis for the past few years as well. The promotion is doing just fine, so don't you worry. I've not been to one of the small shows yet, but everybody I know who has been to one says they love the atmosphere.

Go to Smart Mark Video and get the 20 dollar 3 disc Best of 2007 CHIKARA DVD.

IMMEDIATELY

[Steam]

They still run the small venues, but they also have been running the ECW arena on a regular basis for the past few years as well. The promotion is doing just fine, so don't you worry. I've not been to one of the small shows yet, but everybody I know who has been to one says they love the atmosphere.

Go to Smart Mark Video and get the 20 dollar 3 disc Best of 2007 CHIKARA DVD.

IMMEDIATELY

The atmosphere at that Kingston/Sweeney match seemed deader than Bam Bam Bigelow (get it? he's actually dead, lol).

But I will pick up the DVD and give it a shot. You guys were right on ROH so I'll believe for now.

[commish13]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/the86melon/kotdvds.jpg

[Standby]

Totally ordered mine and KOT 07 today. SMV has a nice little deal for 25% off orders more than 75 bucks. Which means, pick up a fourth dvd with KoT 08 weekend and it's free-like!

[Standby]

Oh and to be a double posting douche.... great little easter egg courtesy of the first issue of the CHIKARA comic book.

Step 1) www.karistchai.com
Step 2) Enter coupon code: V4i8R15a16L (total Lost reference, love these guys....
Step 3) Enter coupon code from the first paragraph: S2A4V
Step 4) Laugh your ass off
And mark out for SHARECROPPER!!!!

[Standby]

Bumping this thread cause I have King of Trios 07 and 08 in my possession.

Ahem...

UGOMAIMEBUIMESUM
UGOMAIMEBUIMESUM
UGOMAIMEBUIMESUM
UNGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

SOUL TOUCHAZ

Bryce: Hey Mantis, what's Soulja Boy's favorite letter of the alphabet?
Mantis: Well I don...
Bryce: U!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kid Brock]

Bumping this thread cause I have King of Trios 07 and 08 in my possession.

Ahem...

UGOMAIMEBUIMESUM
UGOMAIMEBUIMESUM
UGOMAIMEBUIMESUM
UNGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

SOUL TOUCHAZ

Bryce: Hey Mantis, what's Soulja Boy's favorite letter of the alphabet?
Mantis: Well I don...
Bryce: U!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lucky bastard. I need to snag those off the net for myself today for my own wrestling enjoyment.

[TheICON]

Lucky bastard. I need to snag those off the net for myself today for my own wrestling enjoyment.

AHEM! I think you mean order from SmartMarkVideo.com, right? RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT?! =]

[Standby]

AHEM! I think you mean order from SmartMarkVideo.com, right? RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT?! =]

Yes. Yes he does.

Hey ICON, sounds like you've worked before or continue to. Any place we might have seen you in the ring before?

[Kid Brock]

AHEM! I think you mean order from SmartMarkVideo.com, right? RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT?! =]


Sure I did. I just didn't get around to actually getting them yet.

[TheICON]

Yes. Yes he does.

Hey ICON, sounds like you've worked before or continue to. Any place we might have seen you in the ring before?

I was training with Chikara for a while, on and off. But for the most part, I did the production end of things. I hosted the Chikara website on my domain (hpwf.org) for a while. I was doing sound for a long time for both Chikara and CZW. And I was taking pictures for Chikara. In fact, a lot of my photos were used on the DVDs released by SMV. I usually post on CZWFans as "SonicThePhotographer." You can probably see me on all the 2005/2006 and some 2007 shows roaming around the ring taking pictures. And I did a lot of the theme music mixes that were used on the shows.

And I pretty much quit doing stuff in wrestling after the CZW show where Kingston was shoot-fired by Zandig, and me, Sabato, and Jig all left the company. I'm probably going to go back to training after I graduate from college next month, but we'll see where the road takes me. I was absolutely miserable with wrestling in general before that, but I really fucking miss the guys and learning from Quack/Hero/Claudio/etc.

[hybriddriver]

my sister dated quack in HS

i love that guy

[flyerfan116]

CHIKARA Appreciation Thread

Not a big fan of her music but i like it when she shakes her hips

[Standby]

Not a big fan of her music but i like it when she shakes her hips

Hmm... alright. Mark another time I've heard that joke...
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/cga/lowres/cgan1061l.jpg

[Vyce]

my sister dated quack in HS


Did he stick it in her ass?

[sinAtra]

I <3 Abdullah the Butcher

Hell yea! :clap: :clap: :clap:

[commish13]

OOO OOO I made a video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i75UvGMaHI

Also, I'll be at the CHIKARA show tomorrow night. Should be great fun.

[Kid Brock]

Is Bull Pain really on the roster or just working a few shows? Not sure how his squash everybody style works in Chikara, but maybe you East Coasters have a better feel for why they brought him in.

[Standby]

CHIKARA news, less than 2 weeks away from Young Lions Cup VI. The list of 24 is announced, and the great news is that Da Soul Touchaz are all in Hellertown for the weekend, not just Marshe in YLC. Here's the list, and announced matches so far:

YOUNG LIONS CUP VI PARTICIPANTS
"Division 1" James Ross (NWA East)
Lince Dorado (CHIKARA)
Kyle Matthews (NWA Anarchy)
"Diehard" Drake Younger (CZW, et al)

Matches announced so far:
Night 1
1. *YLC First Round* Stupefied (IWS) vs. Jimmy Olsen (CHIKARA)
2. *YLC First Round* Create-A-Wrestler (CHIKARA) vs. Amasis (CHIKARA)
3. *YLC First Round* Pelle Primeau (ROH) vs. Ethan Page (Canada)
4. *YLC First Round* Sami Callihan (Luchacore) vs. Vin Gerard (CHIKARA)
5. *YLC First Round* Pinkie Sanchez (CZW) vs. Alex Sugarfoot Payne (ROH)
6. *YLC First Round*
7. The Colony vs. The Fabulous Three (Sweeney/Ryder/Hawke)
8.
9. *YLC 6-way Second Round Match*

Night 2
1. *YLC First Round* Worker Ant (CHIKARA) vs. Chip Day (NWA Anarchy)
2. *YLC First Round* Shayne Hawke (CHIKARA) vs. Bobby Dempsey (ROH)
3. *YLC First Round* Jason Blade (FIP) vs. Tim Donst (CHIKARA)
4. *YLC First Round* Steve "The Turtle" Weiner (???) vs. Ophidian (CHIKARA)
5. *YLC First Round* Marshe Rockett (Elite Pro) vs. Johnny Gargaon (Luchacore)
6. *YLC First Round*
7. Da Soul Touchaz (Acid Jaz & Willie "Da Bomb" Richardson) vs. Ultramantis Black & Crossbones
8.
9. *YLC 6-way Second Round Match*

Night 3
1. *YLC Finals*
2. Da Soul Touchaz (Acid Jaz & Willie "Da Bomb" Richardson) vs. Mitch Ryder & Larry Sweeney
3. Brodie Lee vs. ??? (eliminated member of the YLC, please oh please Drake Younger)

[Standby]

Post 37 with YLC news, UPDATED!!!!!!

[hybriddriver]

wow, did we get moderated?

[Steam]

I know nothing about Chikara but they are doing a show in MA and then in CT the next day next weekend and was wondering what show would be better to go to.

Here's the show in Mass: http://www.chikarapro.com/framingham.shtml

And in CT: http://www.chikarapro.com/wallingford.shtml

Any help would be appreciated. They both are about an hour and twenty minute drives.

[TheICON]

I know nothing about Chikara but they are doing a show in MA and then in CT the next day next weekend and was wondering what show would be better to go to.

Here's the show in Mass: http://www.chikarapro.com/framingham.shtml

And in CT: http://www.chikarapro.com/wallingford.shtml

Any help would be appreciated. They both are about an hour and twenty minute drives.

The Massachusetts one has one of the most unique matches that Chikara has, the Torneo Cibernetico. Pretty much, the way the match works, there is a batting order. Each team has 9 competitors. Only two men in the ring at the same time (much like a tag match). If someone chooses to tag out, they can ONLY tag the man/woman/farm animal on their team that is NEXT in the batting order. If someone is pinned, they are eliminated, and the spot in the lineup is removed. If one team is eliminated, then the remaining members of the "winning" team must then fight until there is one winner. The last man standing is the Torneo de Cibernetico Cempeone.

If you want to watch a truly unique match, and have a damned good time with it, then the Mass show is for you. The match runs a bit long, historically, but I swear, I didn't even notice the time pass when watching the match live in the past.

Not to mention, Robbie Ellis is tagging with Sweeney against FIST. If you've never seen Robbie Ellis before, you're in for a true treat.

Based on those two things alone, it's worth the price of admission. But Kingston/Claudio in CT does seem like it will be a pretty phenomenal match. They work really well together if you caught the CZW stuff and King's fued with KoW.

[Steam]

The Massachusetts one has one of the most unique matches that Chikara has, the Torneo Cibernetico. Pretty much, the way the match works, there is a batting order. Each team has 9 competitors. Only two men in the ring at the same time (much like a tag match). If someone chooses to tag out, they can ONLY tag the man/woman/farm animal on their team that is NEXT in the batting order. If someone is pinned, they are eliminated, and the spot in the lineup is removed. If one team is eliminated, then the remaining members of the "winning" team must then fight until there is one winner. The last man standing is the Torneo de Cibernetico Cempeone.

If you want to watch a truly unique match, and have a damned good time with it, then the Mass show is for you. The match runs a bit long, historically, but I swear, I didn't even notice the time pass when watching the match live in the past.

Not to mention, Robbie Ellis is tagging with Sweeney against FIST. If you've never seen Robbie Ellis before, you're in for a true treat.

Based on those two things alone, it's worth the price of admission. But Kingston/Claudio in CT does seem like it will be a pretty phenomenal match. They work really well together if you caught the CZW stuff and King's fued with KoW.

Thanks for your input. I have no real "indy" knowledge as I didn't even follow ROH until people on this board kept raving about it so I don't really know any of the Kingston/Claudio backstory.

That batting order match sounds pretty interesting.

If I don't have to appease the psycho chick I'll probably make the trip to the Saturday show and if I like it I might do the full double shot.

Thanks again.

[TheICON]

Thanks for your input. I have no real "indy" knowledge as I didn't even follow ROH until people on this board kept raving about it so I don't really know any of the Kingston/Claudio backstory.

That batting order match sounds pretty interesting.

If I don't have to appease the psycho chick I'll probably make the trip to the Saturday show and if I like it I might do the full double shot.

Thanks again.

Sweet deal man, hope you enjoy. I will mention that Chikara is pretty family friendly, so don't expect to see a whole lot of blood or cursing. The characters might seem off the wall, and if you don't know that going into seeing the show, it's quite off-putting to be blindsided by that. But take it for what it is, and have a great time out there, as both shows should be really good. If it wasn't for me going out to watch Couture/Lesnar, I might've been convinced to take the drive up to see the shows.