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Skinty McEdger posted:I'm trying to come to terms with the knowledge I'm going to a wrestling show with three loving ants on it. Alas, not on the card is the best ant. MISSILE! ASSAULT! ANT!
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There was a time long ago when I was genuinely a massive Chikara fan boy, and not the out and out basher of the company I am now. Even then I hated the ants. I can't explain it, I like all the guys when they aren't wearing those masks, but when they're the ants I just hate them. I'm sure I'll have fun one way or the other.
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Mar 7, 2015 03:53
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Jay 2K Winger posted:Alas, not on the card is the best ant. The best part of National Pro Wrestling Day was all of the children he scared.
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Mar 7, 2015 04:57
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Ants in CHIKARA are like Von Erich boys in WCCW in the 80's. You're gonna get a few of them on the show, but the crowd loves em. And just like WCCW, some of them aren't there cause they're dead.
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Mar 7, 2015 05:19
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DM Punk posted:Ants in CHIKARA are like Von Erich boys in WCCW in the 80's. You're gonna get a few of them on the show, but the crowd loves em. And just like WCCW, some of them aren't there cause they're dead.  But yeah, it's weird that the ants would get to people. I've just sort of accepted the ants as parts of CHIKARA. One of my first memories of CHIKARA was one of the ants (Fire or Green) selling an antennae bite. The Lore Bear fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Mar 7, 2015 |
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Mar 7, 2015 05:30
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Jay 2K Winger posted:Final cards for NC/VA--  And the Trevor Lee match being second up makes me worry it won't have the time to be anything special. Oh, well, I already bought my ticket.
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I really liked the Ants when I first started watching because they seemed to fit the mold of "live action comic book characters" that Chikara seems to strive for. They're definitely not the best part of the show, but they at least put on some fun tag/trios matches. Who would you say the most successful "homegrown" Chikara/Wrestle Factory guy is? I was thinking Cesaro, but he was more of a mainstay than a guy created there.
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Kingston and Sweeney are the only Wrestle Factory guys I can think of that ever actually had good runs outside of Chikara, and that's probably 'cause they were insane and wouldn't take Quacks poo poo
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SpaceWolfPurrp posted:Kingston and Sweeney are the only Wrestle Factory guys I can think of that ever actually had good runs outside of Chikara, and that's probably 'cause they were insane and wouldn't take Quacks poo poo Is Gulak/Soldier Ant a Factory product? He's getting more prominent outside bookings lately.
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Sub Rosa posted:My favorites from last time they came to Gibsonville were Ashley Remington and Shynron, and neither are coming back this time. Be curious to see how well this draws, it's going against Duke/UNC.
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Thauros posted:Is Gulak/Soldier Ant a Factory product? He's getting more prominent outside bookings lately. I believe he's more of a CZW guy, but he came up around when Chikara/CZW had combined schools so I dunno. Silver Ant is doing pretty good for himself as well and I'm pretty sure he's a Wrestle Factory guy
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Thauros posted:Is Gulak/Soldier Ant a Factory product? He's getting more prominent outside bookings lately. Sort of. He was a product of the joint Chikara/CZW wrestle factory, which genuinely produced some great talent. Honestly the talent produced then was some of the best that Quack was involved in training, in no small part because they ended up working a variety of styles.
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 Here's a picture of John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats with Ultramantis Black.
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C. Everett Koop posted:Be curious to see how well this draws, it's going against Duke/UNC. Standing room only, and there were people standing. Weirdest part was the local police had a roadblock checking licenses on the way out of the venue. The matches were not in the advertised order, but I still wish the Trevor Lee match had been a bit longer.
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Results out of NC: 1. 4 Corner Elimination Tag: Crown & Court won and have two points. --1st elimination: The Colony def. The Wrecking Crew --2nd elimination: Crown & Court def. The BDK --3rd elimination: Crown & Court def. The Colony 2. Hallowicked def. Argus 3. COTI Tag: Dasher's Dugout def. Nightmare Warriors 4. Chuck Taylor def. Trevor Lee 5. COTI Atomicos: The United Nations def. The Arcane Horde 6. Dasher Hatfield def. Kevin Condron via disqualification when KC hit Dasher with a wrench. 7. Campeonatos de Parejas, 2/3 Falls: Devastation Corporation def. Osirian Portal 2-1 to retain. --1st fall: Portal wins --2nd fall: Dev Corp wins --3rd fall: Dev Corp wins
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I know he's done some outside tours (in Japan and such) as Green/Silver Ant, but does he have an alter ego that's doing well on other indies? Spoilers and such for those who care, of course. quote:Ultramantis and John Darnielle
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I read that Condron got really sick during his match and puked a couple times. Also, Bakabella caused Oleg to lose his match by running out and yelling that he was still his minion under contract. I wouldn't mind if Challenge of the Immortals' final, winner-defining match was something like Oleg vs. Smashmaster where Oleg wins and UltraMantis goes on to become Grand Champion.
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Gavok posted:I read that Condron got really sick during his match and puked a couple times. Also, Bakabella caused Oleg to lose his match by running out and yelling that he was still his minion under contract. I wouldn't argue with the result at least. How much portal dissension was there? Did Ophidian spit mist at Amasis, or are they actually cool with each other for the Challenge of the Immortals?
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I was there live. The story of the match with Condron, is that he kept trying to fake cheating on Dasher's part by pretending he had been eye gouged or hair pulled, even tossing the wrench to Dasher at one point to go for an Eddie Guerrero DQ win (it didn't work and Dasher got the rollup as Condron was arguing with Bryce.) He definitely spit up something all over the ring edge where it met the entrance platform. I really don't know if it was genuine vomit or if it was all a ruse after drinking from a water bottle, but he spit the misty remains of it into the air, which made me think he had tried to fake illness and was playing it up. He also argued with Bryce that he was ill and concussed, which seemed to be in the spirit of the match. Don't recall anybody actually cleaning it up either, but maybe that was just my vantage point. Also, there was no dissension among the Portal and they left together. After the Osirian Sacrament failed, Ophidian yelled out, "Amasis! Why?!" But if you've been paying attention to his twitter, it sounds like a general "Why?" toward the deities rather than at Amasis himself.
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Jay 2K Winger posted:Results out of NC: OmegaBR posted:He definitely spit up something all over the ring edge where it met the entrance platform. I really don't know if it was genuine vomit or if it was all a ruse after drinking from a water bottle, but he spit the misty remains of it into the air, which made me think he had tried to fake illness and was playing it up. He also argued with Bryce that he was ill and concussed, which seemed to be in the spirit of the match. Don't recall anybody actually cleaning it up either, but maybe that was just my vantage point.
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Sub Rosa posted:That one is wrong as OmegaBR said. Yeah, I was going off of inaccurate results when I posted that, looks like.
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OmegaBR posted:Also, there was no dissension among the Portal and they left together. After the Osirian Sacrament failed, Ophidian yelled out, "Amasis! Why?!" But if you've been paying attention to his twitter, it sounds like a general "Why?" toward the deities rather than at Amasis himself. Makes sense, since the two of them were pretty understanding and respectful about both being captains. Plus, as I've talked about before, the two feuding would be a terrible idea since they already had a lengthy feud, had a big blow-off, and haven't been back together all that long. I'm glad that Hallowicked vs. Argus wasn't part of COTI, only because it would have made Ophidian look like the biggest idiot for agreeing to the match. Speaking of COTI, I updated the OP with some more team images. They still have to put up Gentlemen's Club and Dasher's Dugout. Once they get that done, I'll do a big chart to keep track of the tournament.
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Results out of VA-- 1. COTI Tag: Arcane Horde (Batiri) def. BDK (Jakob & Pinkie) 2. Volgar def. UltraMantis Black with help from Hallowicked. Post-match, Condron came out to try to recruit Volgar, claiming to know what his secret is. 3. 4 Corners Elimination: N_R_G won and now has three points. 4. Grand Championship: Icarus def. Nøkken to retain. 5. COTI: Wrecking Crew def. Crown & Court 6. Hallowicked def. Oleg the Usurper 7. COTI Trios: The Snake Pit (Ophidian, Argus, Shynron) def. Battle Hive (Amasis, Fire Ant, Worker Ant) after Ophidian pins Amasis.
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There's only five matches (of the 90 total) done, but here's a chart to keep track of Challenge of the Immortals. Eh... the team name text looked better before I saved it. I'll make it bigger next time.
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This is kind of a stupid question but...I bought tickets to the Chikara London show. Should I expect actual tickets in the mail or do I just rock up at the venue?
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reality_groove posted:This is kind of a stupid question but...I bought tickets to the Chikara London show. Should I expect actual tickets in the mail or do I just rock up at the venue?
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Yeah, pretty sure they've done away with sending out tickets and now just want you to print them out or whatever.
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I think it's Fight Club Pro that's organising the UK stuff though yeah? Although I'm presuming I'm getting nothing and have my email receipt flagged on my phone like I always do for wrestling shows.
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Gavok posted:Yeah, pretty sure they've done away with sending out tickets and now just want you to print them out or whatever. And yet for the NC show I didn't get an email when I bought mine, and I didn't have a printer. They did have a list of names and mine was on it, though.
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I got tickets in the mail for KoT last year and for a new beginning or whatever their Royal Rumble show was
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I tend to go to the Philly and Easton shows and have gotten physical tickets for each one.
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They used to do that, but I'm pretty sure they said that they aren't doing that for this year's Trios, so I imagine it's the same for the other shows.
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They said that for this year's Trios? I didn't see anything anywhere when I ordered mine. I'll have to make sure to save/print the emails.
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GrimGypsy posted:They said that for this year's Trios? I didn't see anything anywhere when I ordered mine. I'll have to make sure to save/print the emails. I think going forward for all shows, they are just emailing you your "ticket" and telling people to print them out. Not sure how much money they save by not having to print tickets out, but I guess its enough to do it. AIW does the same thing. You get put on a list and never get a ticket. 
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Do they actually need you to print? In a world where 95%+ of the people at their shows has a smartphone? Not making real tickets for costs and logistical reasons is fine, but I'm not dusting off a 10 year old inkjet you morons.
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Thanks for the ticket info guys.
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A wrestler just made his debut in Minnesota Extreme Wrestling the other day named the Estonian Farmerfrog. He happens to look like Thunderfrog in overalls with an Amish beard.
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Gavok posted:A wrestler just made his debut in Minnesota Extreme Wrestling the other day named the Estonian Farmerfrog. He happens to look like Thunderfrog in overalls with an Amish beard. Here's the match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiPzBdi-NbY
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Jervis Cottonbelly just tweeted the match to UltraMantis, saying, "I think it is time I see her. Though I am afraid, I must I face my destiny." Whatever that means.
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Looks like Condron might be adding Oliver Grimsly and Qefka to his group. At the very least they are being really friendly on twitter: https://twitter.com/olivergrimsly/status/575068944156983297 Also Qefka's twitter is largely emojis.
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