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| Big Tuna | Feb 10 2012, 09:56 PM Post #21 |
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CHIKARA Young Lion's Cup Champion: Shane Storm, Since 7/24/2005![]() CHIKARA Little Creatures October 21st, 2005 Reading, PA In the back, Mike Quackenbush talks to Shane Storm. He says it's not just enough to be a good wrestler against the Kings of Wrestling, and he lacks that killer instinct. He says he has it in him though, and he wants it to come out when they're in there tonight. In the back, Larry Sweeney says he requested a Japanese man tonight, so he can beat someone internationally with the ICW-ICWA TexArkana TV Title on the line. In the back, Chris Hero cuts a promo saying he was going to embarrass Milano Collection AT tonight, and he would take im out of the Cibernetico like they did to Reckless Youth last month. Match #1: Darkness Crabtree w/ Dr. Cheung vs. CP Munk Amazing comedy opener for the ending alone. Munk keeps holding up the X and Darkness does his amazing stuff. Crabtree hits a Stunner, but Munk kicks out. Darkness tells Bryce it was three, AND BRYCE BELIEVES HIM AND CALLS FOR THE BELL! AMAZING IDEA! *3/4 Match #2: Crossbones vs. Jervis Cottonbelly Fine 6 minutes. Crossbones does offense and shockingly wins with a series of kicks to the chest on the mat. ** Match #3: Sabian vs. Jay Phoenix Jay is from Scotland, so he's awful by default. He doesn't bring much to this. Sabian is good though, and carries this. Sabian wins with a Flying Double Stomp. ** Match #4: Eddie Kingston vs. Rorschach This was only 2 minutes, but it was a great Kingston squash. Lots of really brutal strikes and throws. He hits several Lariats, yelling out for Cannon, Claudio, and the last one, he yells out is for Hero. That finishes Schach. ** Match #5: Larry Sweeney [c] vs. Chuichiro Arai [ICW-ICWA TexArkana Television Championship] Shockingly good match. Sweeney actually engages in matwork along with his awesome heel schtick. He lucks into Arai hurting his arm, and has some awesome work on the arm, getting brutal at points. The armwork backfires as he takes too long putting on a Cross Armbreaker, and Arai turns it into a pin AND ARAI WINS SWEENEY'S BELT! UPSET CITY, PA! **3/4 Match #6: Hallowicked vs. Lance Steel Another shockingly good match. Not amazing, but better than I expected from a serious Lance singles match. Hallowicked was awesome on offense. Lance tries to go after the Boston Crab too many times and Hallowicked is able to catch him when he tries the takedown and he hits the Graveyard Smash to win. **1/2 Match #7: Chris Hero vs. Milano Collection AT This was somewhat of a letdown, in that it wasn't this blowaway great match. That being said, it's because they held back from going totally balls out due to not wanting to kill the crowd for the main event, and instead, this was mostly matwork. They had a really good balls out epic in IWA-MS on 4/1/2006 on the best wrestling weekend ever (ROH shows, Mania 22, awesome IWA-MS shows). Wonderful matwork, Hero control seg, etc. Good finishing run, and in a great dick move, Hero cuts it off before it becomes truly great with a kick to the dick behind the ref's back and a schoolboy. *** Match #8: Mike Quackenbush/Skayde/Jigsaw/Shane Storm vs. Arik Cannon/Claudio Castagnoli/Team F.I.S.T. Good shit as usual. FIST and Storm have some really heated exchanges, and the explosion of Storm vs. Akuma was a big focus, as Akuma kept going after the mask. Awesome matwork from Claudio/Cannon vs. Quack/Skayde. They did a good job gradually getting faster and more aggressive. FIST have improved enough now to hold their own in matches like these. Dragged a bit at the end due to going 30 minutes in front of a shitty crowd, but Quack vs. Claudio saved it. Storm beats Cannon with That Japanese Move. *** |
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| Big Tuna | Feb 11 2012, 03:01 AM Post #22 |
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CHIKARA Young Lion's Cup Champion: Shane Storm, Since 7/24/2005![]() CHIKARA The Cibernetico Returneth October 22nd, 2005 Hellertown, PA In the back, Chris Hero is with his Cibernetico team of Claudio, Cannon, FIST, Hallowicked, UMB, and Blind Rage. He says he made a deal with the devil to get The Dark Breed on his team and Mantis says they will rise to the top. Icarus and Blind Rage almost fight, due to Blind Rage taking Icarus' mask in 2002 after they split up as a tag team, but Hero and UMB hold their guys back and calm it down, and Hero says they will get along for THE GREATER GOOD, and Quack's team doesn't even have an 8th man yet. In the back, Quackenbush is with his team of Eddie Kingston, Jigsaw, Skayde, Milano Collection AT, Shane Storm, and Sabian. He notes that they don't have an 8th man right now, but he'll be here. He says they don't look as cohesive as the Kings of Wrestling and The Dark Breed on paper, but they have common enemies, and that's all they'll need tonight. Match #1: Cheech w/ Cloudy vs. CP Munk Enjoyable 5 minutes. Cheech played off the comedy well. Cloudy interferes behind the ref's back and Cheech hits an SSP for the win. ** Match #2: Lance Steel vs. Jay Phoenix Phoenix is very much not good at all. This is made for him to show off, so yeah, this was not great as a result. Lance wins with the Boston Crab. *1/2 Match #3: Crossbones/Rorschach vs. Matt Turner/Anthony Franco Really fun tag match, shockingly so. The crowd loves the ROH kids, so they get really into it when Bones beats the shit out of them. Franco has a pretty awesome hot tag and a dive and shockingly, the ROH kids actually beat Rorschach with a Spike Tombstone. **1/4 Match #5: Chuichiro Arai [c] vs. Larry Sweeney [ICW-ICWA Texarkana Television Championship] This was more based on Sweeney bullshit than the first match, and as a result, it was better. Arai had some great headbutt based offense. Sweeney went back to the arm after stalling, and his arm work is better done and better sold than last night. Good dog and pony show at the end with brass knucks, the title, roll ups with the tights, etc. After it all, Sweeney wins with his Rear Naked Choke named the Boa Constrictor for a surprisingly clean win to regain the coveted belt. *** Both squads come out for the match, and the 8th man on Team Quack IS THE RETURNING MR. ZERO! HOLY SHIT! If you recall, ZERO was injured when FIST first turned heel. CIBERNETICO RULES: -There's a batting order of sorts, where each man has drawn a number (example: Quack draws #1 and King is #2, etc. and Storm is #8. Quack is in first, and King has to be the next man in, and so on). Complicated sounding, but it makes sense once you see it -Elimination rules -Only one man can win, so if a team has more than one man surviving, they fight until only one is left Match #5: Mike Quackenbush/Eddie Kingston/Milano Collection AT/Skayde/Jigsaw/Men At Work/Sabian vs. Chris Hero/Claudio Castagnoli/Arik Cannon/Team F.I.S.T./Hallowicked/UltraMantis Black/Blind Rage [TORNEO CIBERNETICO] What they did here is maybe the ballsiest thing in CHIKARA history, probably top 10 ballsiest moves in indy wrestling history. They went 104 minutes. That's one hour, 44 minutes. Sounds impossible and completely ridiculous. It IS completely ridiculous, but for like 98% of this, it fucking works. There's 8 different pairings to begin, and all of them have awesome and unique matwork (Except King vs. Akuma, which is a slugfest), most of which is really hard fought. This is really a match you can only love if you truly enjoy matwork. They progress all the various issues really really well with Hero/Quack, Jig/Wicked, Men At Work/FIST, King/Hero, etc. Hero did an awesome job on the floor shouting advice and talking to guys after they got out. They all got more aggressive after the second rotation, with some dives coming in. Kingston breaking out lucha to mock Hero for calling him a slob was fantastic. They started to develop a theme of the face team's anger at the people they're feuding with costing them. Sabian got taunted about being short, so he stayed in longer than necessary to prove himself. Claudio and Quack have a totally insane sequence. The Kings generally got aggressive first and were more of a cohesive unit than Quack's team, and it allowed them to control much of the 20-45 minute period. Skayde manages to eliminate Blind Rage with one of his crazy cradles at 47 minutes or so. Sabian again stays in too long to try and prove himself and is worked over for the first real control seg. Hero eliminates him with the Hero's Welcome Championship Edition at 55 minutes. Jigsaw gets too caught up in going for a dive, and Hallowicked is able to blindside him, and he hits the Graveyard Smash to eliminate Jigsaw so it's now 7 on 6. The same thing happens to Shane Storm to isolate him. Akuma goes for the mask again. Icarus eliminates ZERO next with the Burning Wings of Icarus to put it at 7 on 5. Quack gets isolated, and Hero now finally gets in against Quack once Quack is worn down. Some more stuff happens and Storm gets UMB with That Japanese Move to eliminate him. They hit a bit of a rough patch here, but it picks up again with Claudio vs. King. Claudio hits a nasty nasty Rolling European Uppercut to put it at 6 vs. 4. Skayde vs. Claudio rules and Claudio gets a funky hold to put it at 6 vs. 3. Oh shit. Quack is isolated next and it's awesome. Hero just gets SO fucking confident now, and it's really fantastic. AT gets in, AND HE MAKES HERO TAP TO THE AT LOCK! HUGE SHOCKER! HE MAKES ICARUS TAP OUT TO IT TOO! 4 VS. 3 NOW! The Kings are thrown off by this, and have trouble adjusting with the same level of teamwork. However, Quack and Storm are both pretty beat up. Quack has a real good hot tag vs. Cannon, but is too worn out and gets shut down. Quack gets a flash backslide on Cannon though and it is even at 3 vs. 3. Soon after, Claudio rolls through a Milano crossbody for the win and it's 3 vs. 2. Storm vs. Akuma is good and Storm wipes out Wicked with a dive. Quack is lying hurt on the apron and Claudio drags him in. He takes too much time, AND QUACK HITS THE SNAP RANA OUT OF NOWHERE AND CLAUDIO IS GONE! UPSET! Quack has this amazing desperate flurry, but Akuma shuts him down with the Yoshi Tonic, and Shane Storm is all that's left. This seems like a mistake since he's probably the worst or second to worst guy on that amazing babyface team, but the crowd still loves him and he steps up in a big way, so it works. Storm eliminates Hallowicked with that Japanese Move and it's Storm/Akuma in the finals. Akuma goes nuts with kicks and mask ripping and it's awesome. He wins with the Super Yoshi Tonic. This had flaws, but for the absurd length and a match where Shane Storm survives this long, there's no way this should have been so fucking great. The highs that they hit here were damn near perfect to make up for the dead parts at points in the middle. ****1/4 Hero and Claudio come out to celebrate with Akuma. Storm gets up and challenges Akuma to a rubber match on 11/13 at the Arena, and challenges him to a Mask vs. Mask match. He shakes his head and blows him off. Hero gets on the mic and accepts on his behalf though. Akuma is mad, but Hero says he's got this. |
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| Big Tuna | Feb 11 2012, 02:42 PM Post #23 |
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CHIKARA Young Lion's Cup Champion: Shane Storm, Since 7/24/2005![]() CHIKARA Running In The Red November 13th, 2005 The New Alhambra Arena Philadelphia, PA In the bathroom earlier today, Larry Sweeney comes out of the stall drinking a Frosty and he says he can afford to let his diet go because his super easy match vs. Retail Dragon has been canceled because that bum injured himself, and best of all, he's still the ICW-ICWA Texarkana Television Champion. Larry Sweeney comes out to the ring and puts over his prestigious title belt. He says that bum Retail Dragon is injured and issues an open challenge, and CZW's Beef Wellington comes out. He wants a title shot, and Sweeney says he can have one in a handicap match and he goes out to get his partner. AND HE COMES BACK OUT WITH THE SHARECROPPER! YES! Beef then challenges him to a normal tag match, and brings out his tag partner, Sexxxy Eddie! The next match has the debut of both Hydra as UMB's apprentice and then the greatest comedy gimmick in CHIKARA history: ![]() FUCKING DRAGON DRAGON! Match #1: Icarus/UltraMantis Black/Hydra/Dr. Cheung vs. Lancelot/Dragon Dragon/Angel del Fuego Hydra is a sea monster who is incredibly skinny and weak but thinks he is a big power wrestler. As a real wrestling match, this wasn't much, but the comedy with Hydra, the Lances, and Dragon Dragon ruled. DRAGON DRAGON DOES A LUCHA SEQUENCE! His head almost falls off a few times and Eddie Kingston freaks out on commentary. Icarus beats one of the Lances with the Burning Wings of Icarus. *3/4 Match #2: Mr. ZERO vs. Rorschach Enjoyable ZERO showcase. Some fun ridiculous and dangerous spots near the end. Zero hits the Last Shaven Unicorn Drop for the win. **1/2 In the back, Turner and Franco cut a promo. They say they can't wait to finally get revenge on their classmates tonight, and say they're looking forward to the 2006 Tag World Grand Prix and hear that the winners will become the first ever CHIKARA Tag Champions. Match #3: Matt Turner/Anthony Franco vs. Davey Andrews/Shane Hagadorn [TWGP Qualifying Match] Fun stuff. Some really brutal brawling from Davey, with Piledrivers on the ramp and throwing the wooden steps at the opponents and what not. Franco gets a Bridging O'Connor Roll on Fagadorn for the win. **1/2 Match #4: Larry Sweeney/The Sharecropper vs. Sexxxy Eddie/Beef Wellington Good bullshit match. Lots of bullshit from the CZW guys and SNSI had a good control segment once more. Eddie beats Sweeney with that Springboard Reverse Moonsault deal of his. **1/4 Chris Hero comes out and says he's heard Reckless Youth is unable to make it to the show tonight, and says he's once again ducking fighting Chris Hero. He issues an open challenge to anyone in the back since Reckless Youth is afraid of him, and Equinox comes out. Match #5: Chris Hero vs. Equinox Really amazing Hero showcase for 5 minutes. Equinox does some lucha and Hero carries him through it before destroying him on the mat and with strikes. Hero shuts him down with the Hero's Welcome: Championship Edition. **1/4 Hero says he's not done tonight and that was pathetic, and he wants a challenge, so Sumie Sakai comes out, and Hero just starts laughing at her, so she hits him and it is on. Match #6: Chris Hero vs. Sumie Sakai This goes about as a main eventer vs. woman (who isn't SDR) match should go, and is awesome. She uses a lot of fast offense and has him caught off guard and Hero's bumping is fantastic. She comes close with nearfalls on roll ups and lucha stuff due to Hero's overconfidence, but he is eventually able to shut her down because of his size and power advantage, and he wins with the Hero's Welcome: Championship Edition. **1/2 Match #7: Jigsaw vs. Hallowicked [Best of Three Falls] Awesome match. Great matwork to begin, etc. Some really cool and inventive matwork and lucha, and Hallowicked wins with the La Magistral Cradle to go up 1-0. Wicked controls, but then Jig gets his own La Magistral to even it up. The final fall is where they go nuts and it gets awesome. The most insane thing was Hallowicked inventing a Moonsault Double Stomp. Jig wins with the Jig n' Tonic. *** Match #8: Eddie Kingston/Sabian vs. Up in Smoke Cheech and Cloudy really have an awesome performance as cowardly heels here. They get killed early on and then cheat to take over on Sabian. King has a real good hot tag and the finishing run is shockingly good. Up in Smoke hold their own in terms of crazy moves. King and Sabian win with a crazy Double Stomp Dominator on Cloudy. *** Match #9: Mike Quackenbush vs. Claudio Castagnoli [Loser Cannot Enter TWGP] Hey, so this was great. Shocking. Absolutely out of nowhere. Not as great as their last match, but still really really awesome. Great matwork, super crisp lucha exchanges, etc. It lacked that frantic feel of the first match, but this is Quack's last match before back surgery, I think, so he's working hurt. The Snap Rana gets countered this time as Claudio rolls through into a sunset flip in the amazing World Liner sequence, and Claudio wins. Quack cannot enter TWGP as a result. *** Match #10: Gran Akuma vs. Shane Storm [MASK VS. MASK] As with other LUCHA DES APUESTAS matches, they each have seconds in their corners and they are Icarus and ZERO. This is good, really good at points, but not quite great. Some rough patches though with Storm being Storm and the crowd being not into it for whatever reason until the end. Akuma had some awesome nasty offense throughout this. There's mask tearing and Akuma bloodies Storm's nose. Big finishing run and Storm wins with That Japanese Move. **3/4 Akuma is unmasked and he is an ugly bald motherfucker. |
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| Big Tuna | Feb 11 2012, 04:39 PM Post #24 |
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CHIKARA Young Lion's Cup Champion: Shane Storm, Since 7/24/2005![]() CHIKARA True Stories November 18th, 2005 Reading, PA Match #1: Lancelot/Dragon Dragon vs. The Prescription Thugs/Punisher The babyface team has some really spectacular comedy based around DD being a real life dragon and the whole clone knight thing. Punisher sucks. DD does a Dragon Screw and uses his tail to trip people. Crabtree taps out to the Boston Crab from one of the Steels. ** Match #2: The Prophet vs. Casanova HEY NO THANKS! In the back, Larry Sweeney cuts a promo about holding the most prestigious title in wrestling and he says tonight might as well be a spot show, because the champ never loses the belt on a spot show! Match #3: Larry Sweeney [c] vs. Sabian [ICW-ICWA Texarkana Television Championship] More really fun Sweeney bullshit happening. Stalling, cheap heel tactics, etc. All really fun stuff. Sweeney uses brass knuckles now, and he hits the Piledriver for the win. **3/4 Match #4: The North Star Express/Equinox/Angel Del Fuego vs. The Dark Breed/Crossbones/Rorschach Really fun 8 man. They do some stuff and comedy. The faces aren't overly great, but Hallowicked and UMB do an awesome job carrying the middle. Shit breaks down, and the NSE hit Mantis with the Cruz Control for the win. **1/2 In the back, The Kings of Wrestling cut a promo. Hero says he and FIST are going to further injure Shane Storm and Mr. ZERO tonight, and criticizes Cannon for not being there last weekend when Akuma lost his mask. Claudio brags about boxing Quackenbush out of TWGP, and they discuss their match. Cannon says he used to idolize Reckless Youth, but they're going to beat he and Quack tonight. Hero says the goal is to take them out, not just to beat them, and tells Cannon to remember that. Match #5: Mike Quackenbush/Reckless Youth vs. Arik Cannon/Claudio Castagnoli Only 10 minutes, so they didn't get to really do a ton, but it was still great. Cannon refuses to cheat with Claudio when they control Reckless. Good finishing run, but the crowd absolutely sucked. Claudio rolls up Reckless with the shorts for the win. *** Claudio keeps attacking post-match, and Hero runs out to help too. He drops Quack with the Hero's Welcome and shoves him out, and they beat down Reckless. Hero gets a chair and he and Claudio hold up Cannon. He throws the chair to Cannon and yells at him to do it, BUT CANNON HITS HERO WITH THE CHAIR! HE HITS CANNON TOO, AND THE KINGS BAIL! Cannon gets a big pop and helps up Reckless and Quack. He tries a handshake, but Quack refuses and says the last 10 seconds don't undo the last 10 months. Match #6: Allison Danger vs. Sumie Sakai This is whatever. Nothing special. Danger wins. *3/4 Match #7: Chris Hero/Team F.I.S.T. vs. Milano Collection AT/Men at Work Good stuff. Hero does a majority of the great stuff here, but he again brings FIST nearly up to his level. Milano is awesome, and Storm and ZERO hold their own. Control seg on ZERO is some good stuff. Milano has good offense and the hot tag, and yeah. Akuma beats Zero with the Yoshi Tonic. **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Feb 11 2012, 04:45 PM Post #25 |
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Wrestler of the Year: Chris Hero (72 Points) Tag Team of the Year: Arik Cannon/Claudio Castagnoli (43 Points) Match of the Year: Team Hero vs. Team Quackenbush, The Cibernetico Returneth (October 22nd) Show of the Year: The Cibernetico Returneth (October 22nd) |
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