CHIKARA is no longer a thing for good reasons in 2020. Sure.

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MorrisBae: Jan 18, 2020; by Athanatos

Quack could have sold the CHIKARA tape library a month ago for way more than whatever they gave Gabe for EVOLVE

Now...they're not touching it

# ¿ Jun 25, 2020 00:29

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 01:58

MorrisBae: Jan 18, 2020; by Athanatos

Here's her story that Bryce is mad about :

https://twitter.com/thecherryfox/status/1275894245312925697

# ¿ Jun 25, 2020 02:39

MorrisBae: Jan 18, 2020; by Athanatos

Something amazing just happened

One of Quack's fabled post-show emails to the CHIKARA roster has leaked - from King of Trios 2009, Night 3

It's courtesy of Mitch Ryder, who quit immediately after because Quack trashed his new ring gear in the email

quote:

Subject: KoT, Nt. 3

Gang,

Today, I made my way through the March 29 KoT finale, and this is what I saw:

Team Uppercut vs. The UnStable: Dave Taylor is a strange man. You can tell he's a hardass, and probably took a lot of poo poo throughout his career. Maybe that's why it's so entertaining to see him having such a good time through this tournament. It's like he can't wipe the smile off his face half the time, even though he wants to act like a badass. And that's great. The crowd clearly picked up on how much Dave and Bryan were enjoying themselves, which made the UnStable great character foils as the spoil-sports of the tournament. Jerry and Tony's new light blue gear looks really good. The UnStable seemed more confident, more aggressive here then they were the previous nights, which is what we needed from them. Jerry's selling has come up a notch or two, maybe because having Colin around, who is outstanding in that department, makes you bring your game up. All the falsies were great. Really enjoyable all around.

F.I.S.T. vs. TFIN: This is how you get babyfaces over. Just watch FIST. I loved how, when Lince tagged in, there were about 20 people who "boo'd" his entry, but by the time his shine with Ron was over, he had turned the crowd on because the material was right, and both guys knew what to do. This match didn't entirely undo the damage of the previous nights, but it came as close as it could within 13 minutes. All the choices made in this match were the right ones. From the turn-around right through to the end, the crowd is electric. This is probably my favorite match of the whole weekend, the only other contender that hit as many correct notes would be FIST vs. F1rst from the night before. That fact convinces me that FIST were the right guys to win this whole thing. Excellent stuff from everyone involved.

Cannon vs. Generico: This match was added basically because I loved last year's Team IWS vs. F1rst match, and it seemed like a waste to have these guys and not pair them up in some way. Kingston and Bryce were excellent calling the action here. I think the crowd had lost a little energy during the hot finish to the last match (they were really nuts during the last 90 seconds of the TFIN/FIST match) and probably needed a little time to recover. This deserved better reactions than it got. Very solid, exciting content. I think Cannon would be better served using his punch once or twice a match rather than 8 - 10 times. Like Jimmy Olsen, his punch is so believable, it should be a false finish. In the end, this was a fine singles match, with good storytelling and believable action that never lost your interest.

Tag Team Gauntlet: This was tiresome in parts, excellent in others, and perhaps, needs to be dropped next year to change things up. I'll try to break this up into pairings.

Incoherence and Team EPIC WAR, when I watched it live, felt like it went 2 moves too many, but on DVD, it did not come across that way at all. Frightmare's new Globetrotter gimmick went well for a first trial run, but it's only about a 6 out of 10 right now. We'll polish it up some more this weekend in Easton. Louden seems to routinely confuse the Shooting Star Press and the Moonsault Press on commentary.

The Sea Donsters came on, and looked like they could barely do their own material. If Lince Dorado came out and was sloppy like this, the marks would burn him in effigy and tear the Arena down brick by brick. But, Philly likes whatever is cool on the boards, and luckily for Hydra, that includes him. When Donst saved Hydra from the suplex, it worked, but when Hydra had to save Donst, he showed up late, and missed it entirely. Hydra almost killed himself doing a pescado plancha. When the Donsters did their double-team on Mantis, Hydra got more Donst than he did Mantis, and it looked terrible. Felt like a slopfest. This was the only appearance by the Donsters all weekend, and as this is probably the most watched CHIKARA event of the year, what a terrible place to be inaccurate and sloppy. Casual fans will watch this 4 - 5 minute segment and wonder "how the hell are those guys over?"

The Neo Solar Temple is really hit or miss. Crossbones comes off like a badass bruiser one minute, then looks like an uncoordinated fat guy the next. When Beef and Turtle came on, it was going to be one end of the spectrum or the other. When you consider the challenges he has to work with, it's amazing what Turtle can do. Too bad they turned on his Phillies line, because that should have been gold. Beef Wellington occasionally looks like he knows what he's doing. This is not one of those times. His offense (watch the dropkick, or when he whips someone) is rookie-level, and his strikes and such aren't the least bit believable. Luckily, this segment was short.

Uno and C-A-W came on, fans did not like that the Order was eliminated. For being such a relatively big guy, Player Uno sure is one rotten base for high-flyers. Don't tell dudes you can base for them when you have no strength in your body. Or, perhaps, hit the gym first. I know it's awkward when someone asks you to help base them for a flying move, and in your head you doubt yourself, but you don't want to turn them down because that sets a bad precedent. But that's the safe, smart thing to do if you aren't strong enough to be a good base. Otherwise, you're going to kill somebody.

Pinkie and Mitch made for an interesting combination. Pinkie has an awesome presence, knows how to use his facial expressions, body language and vocals to get the most out of every spot, which is a lot like Mitch. Pinkie knows when to be explosive, and his offense is fresh and original. He also gets the difference between working face and heel - when Pinkie is trying to be a heel, he sells like a douchebag so the crowd can't sympathize with him. That too is like Mitch, who knows how to get the right reaction. My gripe here is that this segment was given 3 minutes on the sheet, and went just short of 7 minutes. There's no excuse for that. Mitch wore some bargain basement gear that totally robs him of his presence - and there was a time that Mitch Ryder had more heel presence than any guy on our roster. Here, he had almost none. The clothes make the man, they say.

The Soul Touchaz are a great act, and a big part of it is their dancing entrance. But in a situation like this, they probably should have just sprinted to the ring and gone after the heels, rather than allowing them time to recuperate. This segment went 5 solid minutes.

When the Young Bucks came on, it was the shot in the arm the match needed. Marshe is fuckass fantastic, and with his look and size, could really be a major star if presented correctly. If that whole crew lived out here, much like Cannon and his backwoods crew that thinks living in MN is a good career move, I'd put them on every show. The NSX are one of the indies' best kept secrets, and secrets they will remain in Minnesota. But they could all be fulltime players for us. That's how much I like the act. The Bucks know what gets them over, and they deliver.

The Bucks and Cheech & Cloudy really clicked well, and in some ways, they are cut from the same cloth. They can work that non-stop style realistically, and it was fun to watch for the 3.5 minutes it lasted.

Grizzly and Brodie did all the right stuff with Cheech & Cloudy, the only error clearly being the bit where Cheech was allowed to pick up Brodie into a powerbomb position. It ended badly.

The final segment where Jigsaw and I came on was a disappointment. There were good spots ruined by bad timing throughout. They were either rushed, or took a few seconds too long, and neither of those is especially desirable. I am as guilty as any of us for that. Not an impressive way to finish the gauntlet at all.

Colony/NSX vs. Portal/Team DDT: Wow, I'm so over Nakazawa's oil gimmick. It was beyond tiresome here, and worse, at the finish, it made the ants look like the punchline to a stale joke. Not good for babyfaces. The Egyptian Destroyer flip-piledriver should be Ophidian's Tiger Driver '91. Misawa would pull it out once or twice a year as a kill-finish when everything else had failed. That's how this should be. We saw it in January, again in Reading the next month, and again in this match. We shouldn't see it again until the end of the year. This way, it really means something when you see it. I realize that move can't be done with everyone, but that's no excuse to over-expose it. I do a Tiger Driver off the top rope, at most, once a year. I haven't done it since November, 2007. So when it finally comes out again, it's going to mean something as a finish. Anyway, the match. I hate the drooling of oil spot onto Fire Ant. In fact, I'm pretty drat sure it says right on every line-up I write not to do exactly that. Michael not withstanding, the rudos were pretty on point here, and the faces knew what to do. Maybe a minute or two too long, but the crowd really enjoyed this mixture of characters. If not for KUDO's explosive offense, I think Durrell would have been the star of this one. His vocals were great.

Kingston vs. Aries: Like it's not hard enough to keep Kingston heel in Philly. Instead of the babyface Aries I had asked for, I got the guy who does whatever the gently caress he wants. Because, let's be honest, being a TV megastar on HDNet, (available to about 5% of the US, and watched by far less than that,) probably makes him better suited to decide the content of a CHIKARA show than me. Or perhaps, he realized he'd never be brought back, and decided to just go out and be a douche because his game was already over. Take your pick.

Kingston was a machine out there. The Sleepwalker suplex in particular looked great. The finish came out of nowhere, which was a good contrast to the preceding match. Solid, hard-hitting, like you'd expect from a Kingston match.

Player Dos vs. Ibushi: I thought here, more than any other match of his, Ibushi's star presence was really on display. I liked the back-and-forth nature of the first act, since both guys were faces, this seemed like a good idea. Apart from one little slip on the top rope (that Dos covered up very nicely), this was simply awesome, good high-flying fun. A bigger push for Player Dos in the back half of the year is clearly in order. Liked this one a bunch.

FIST vs. Team Uppercut: This told the right story in the right way, and didn't waste time getting to the heart of the matter. This late in the night, especially following Ibushi/Dos, that was a smart move. I had great confidence this would be good. If these 6 guys can't deliver a kickass match, something is wrong with the world. Fear not. All is right. The match was a fitting end to the tournament, and the weekend.

The whole King of Trios weekend was a mixed bag. When it was good, it was stellar. When it was bad, it was simply putrid. As I finish writing this, I looked at SMV's all-time Top 10 bestsellers, and all 3 nights of the tournament are already there. At least for 2009, this is the (non-ROH) indy event more wrestling fans will see than any other, and Night 3 in particular really delivered the goods.

Hopefully the time and effort put into reviewing these discs will be worth it. Even when harsh, I think honest feedback is the key to growth, and by year's end, I think the way we grow is going to go a long way toward closing the gap between us and Ring of Honor, a company that is losing ground every day to us.

MIKE

Mitch Ryder's reply to Quack:

quote:

From: marvmitch1@hotmail.com
To: quackpcw@aol.com;
Subject: RE: KoT, Nt. 3
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:58:43 -0400

after reading this review, it is with my deepest regret that i am quitting chikara. effective, immediatly. i will not be on the flight tomorrow. the reason i am sending this to all of you is that quack decided to involve you all in burying me about my "bargain basement" gear and my presence! mike, you have totally humiliated me! how unprofessional to do to that. if you have a problem with my gear or my work then you discuss it in private. you don't embarass the poo poo out of me and then smile and shake my hand when i walk in to the venue. who the gently caress do you think you are? i wouldn't dream of criticizing one of my seniors in the business like tracy smothers or bull pain! especially in a bulk email! could you imagine me picking bull apart and then having the balls to send it in a bulk email! that is not how things are done in this business. you are way out of line! i have given all to chikara and as i look around my house and watch my daughter pack so she can go to her grandmas while i leave again, it becomes clear that i would be a fool to leave this behind to venture across the country to work for a man that disrespects me! i don't think so. i think of all the delayed and cancelled flights and how my family and i have suffered so greatly for chikara. in return, i get humiliated. i paid $125 for those pants and then went around your locker room showing them off, proud of the fact that i was willing to go to such lengths to modernize my look to try and better fit in with the younger workers. i was proud of those custom made pants and you just talked about me like i am one of your trainees. i don't think so. its been a running joke about how much ego you have in writing those show reviews every month. the whole locker room knows its in bad taste. we laugh at you down here because we have never seen anyone with so much audacity. i always just laughed it off until now. now, you have embarassed me anf killed my credibility with the boys. how are the younger guys suppose to respect and listen to me when you don't respect me. chikaras success has gone to your head. i use to say that mike quackenbush is my favorite person in this business. now, you rank among those that have hurt me most in this business. i thought we were friends. the old mike would never have embarassed mitch ryder in front of the boys. where did you go? i heard you described the other day as "a closet scumbag" and everyone in the locker room that heard that agreed. your an arrogant rear end in a top hat and you have hurt my feelings huge! for those of you reading this let me tell you how it is suppose to go in this business- you honor and respect those that have been practicing this craft longer than you. your not suppose to humiliate them! mike, as far as the money your out, i guess i will use it to get some better gear other than the bargain basement poo poo i wear. i am gonna miss everyone like crazy but i have to make a stand. its not ok what your doing quack!

MorrisBae fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Jun 25, 2020

# ¿ Jun 25, 2020 22:22

MorrisBae: Jan 18, 2020; by Athanatos

KungFu Grip posted:

Quack bitching that a heel Aries decided to play heel is some poo poo lmao. the guy was booked as a big heel everywhere else, why would he suddenly be a baby face for you

I haven't seen it in years, but at Night 1 of KOT 2009 Aries decided to play plucky babyface on his team of heels to piss Quack off

He even did Tatanka's full comeback in the middle of the match

# ¿ Jun 26, 2020 00:30

MorrisBae: Jan 18, 2020; by Athanatos

TV Zombie posted:

Did anyone that was derided in that email continue to work for Chikara?

Hydra lost a Loser Leaves Town match to Tim Donst later that year

Beef Wellington was never used again

Crossbones was a regular until 2012

Super Smash Bros. became regulars until 2010

Mitch Ryder was never used again

Pinkie Sanchez was a semi-regular until 2011

Michael Nakazawa was never used again outside of a joint tour of Japan with BJW in June 2009

Aries was never used again

# ¿ Jun 26, 2020 01:51

MorrisBae: Jan 18, 2020; by Athanatos

I've received confirmation from a bunch of people that

-Quack has been sending out the emails as far back as 2005

-A talent used to leak the emails every month to the mod forum at ChikaraFans circa 2009-2011

I think my new White Whale is the post-show email from the 2007 "Chapter 11" event where Lince Dorado nearly killed himself.

Can't even imagine how Quack would have spun that.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2020 04:21

MorrisBae: Jan 18, 2020; by Athanatos

MassRafTer posted:

Til We Make it is loving weird as hell and how in the gently caress did he think his delivery in these isn't weird as hell.

I mean...it's like Lowtax livestreaming video games levels of sad, but Quack didn't even pull in comparative numbers:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCogwzVlE7VfXFr_LTM_xltA/videos

Still not as sad as Low Ki's motivational videos

# ¿ Jun 26, 2020 04:31

MorrisBae: Jan 18, 2020; by Athanatos

Ganso Bomb posted:

I wanna see this Mitch Ryder gear so I can know just how petty Quack is but I can't find it. Who is hoarding all of the screenshots from that King of Trios show??

2 minutes into this highlight video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5atMXhBGobA

MorrisBae fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jun 26, 2020

# ¿ Jun 26, 2020 04:51

MorrisBae: Jan 18, 2020; by Athanatos

Thanks for sharing!

Can you tell us about your experiences with Bryce Remsburg, good or bad?

# ¿ Jun 26, 2020 06:24

MorrisBae: Jan 18, 2020; by Athanatos

IT'S ALL LEAKING

Quack's post-show email from King of Trios 2008, Night 3:

quote:

Today I watched the final night of the tourney. Some thoughts:

FIST vs. COLONY I liked the way this got going. The first 4 minutes (the shine stuff) was really, really good - some of my favorite stuff from the weekend, with everyone working their roles as perfectly as can be. This also had an advantage built in because most of our fans wanted to see the Colony win, and they hate FIST with a passion, so that adds to the dynamic. I liked the heat, Soldier Ant was effective throughout, and the heels looked good. The spot for the hot tag was good, but shortly after the tag to Worker, it got clunky here, and I'm not sure what happened. Before things got too bad, Fire and Akuma went into some hot poo poo, but things got sloppy again in the dive sequence. Some of the sloppiness hurt the momentum of the finish, but this one had the crowd with it 100%, and they seem to be very forgiving of babyfaces like the Colony. I thought Ron was in his full heel glory here.

LUCHADORES vs. QUACK/JORGE/STORM Jose, let's tuck those tube socks back into the boots. We can't afford to have our cool, young rookie sensation look nerdy. The opening shine had some really rocky parts - like the kind of stuff that should have been practiced at training dozens of times until it was perfect before we saw it on a show. Tony, I think at times you overestimate your strength, and when working as a base for a flyer, that can be dangerous. Just eat some steroids - I have some with my waffles every day. This had its really fun moments, if I do say so myself. You can tell Jorge and Javier weren't overly pleased chaining together, but the crowd ate it up anyway. They went almost 5 minutes by themselves, and it was one of those exchanges that obviously means one thing to fans, but something else to workers. Incognito has the sweetest gear. I just wanted to say that. I think we did a good job of not killing too many false finishes early in the night, and the reaction of the fans at the finish was really a great moment of shock.

JAPANESE vs. BLK OUT People raved about this match, and you can tell why. At least for Kingston and Joker, the Japanese were a perfect foil for them, and this was a true puroresu style match, so having this follow the pure lucha match gave each a distinct flavor. Ruckus felt like the odd man out to me. Our friends at ROH said this was the match that made Gabe see the potential in Kingston, and you could see how perfectly he fit into the dynamic of this style. Since ROH is aped puroresu at the end of the day... write your own joke here. Other than a really wacky Yoshi Tonic, this thing was on the money from start to finish.

INCOHELIOS vs. FAB THREE The crowd was already starting to tire out by the time this one got to the ring. Helios needs black wrestling sneaks in the worst way. The first four matches of the night were each unique in their style, but after three days of non-stop matches, the crowd was getting a little deflated. Hawke is really good in his new role. I thought the guys made the right choice here in not going crazy with false finishes.

TAG GAUNTLET There wasn't a whole lot to this, as the formula really dictated most of it, and only the Chivas were in for more than one turn, and that probably wasn't the smartest choice considering how it went. The Kartel stuff in the crowd was gratuitous, and for the part of the match that I did as a commentator (before leaving to deal with Frank Talent), this was my least favorite part. Then Marcus almost killing himself on a Dragonrana, there was the spitting, and this just turned into one of the lowlights of the gauntlet. When the goats where in, one of them got knocked out, and it went downhill. Shaky stuff abounds. The crowd gave up on this until Sara and Bobby hit the ring, and from this point on, it was all good. The Demolition stuff was great, to the point, and I wouldn't have changed it in hindsight. The middle of the gauntlet really dragged though, and in terms of running time, this year's was half as long as last year's. Incidentally, gents, the name of Demolition's finisher is not the "Demoliton Device," but the "Decapitation." For shame.

INCOHELIOS vs. BLK OUT You'd never know Helios just had his gall bladder out the way he was selling and bumping his rear end off here. A few times, the falsies were hurt by being broken up a second too soon, and it ruined the drama of the false finish (the Shadows Over Hell/SSP break up by Ruckus especially). Joker really brings the intensity. The finish brought good heat to set up the finals, and while it made Bryce a heel for the next hour, when he redeemed himself in the finals, all was right with the world.

LUCHADORES vs. COLONY The crowd really wanted the ants to win this one, and the wind went out of their sails when the luchadores went over. Crowd was dead early, and the most they would give up was polite applause. Sadly, when they would rally behind the ants, there was nothing doing, and if anything, Incognito looked better than everyone else. Lince looked good putting heat on Worker Ant, which is not a role he's usually in. This contained the world's worst double-team, but I don't think it was Pantera's fault, even though it's clear from the sound of the audience that they blamed him. From that point on, the match was always flirting with disaster. The crowd just wanted it to end. The falsies were fine, but the crowd didn't give a poo poo. Fire Ant and Lince looked good together.

4-WAY ELIMINATION By this point, I think the fans had had all the wrestling they needed for the day (or weekend), but what can you do? You can't rush the finals on or the guys don't have time to put it together and they're still tired from the semi-final, tiring crowd that was hard to motivate. By this point in the show, I really felt like ring announcer Nick and the music guy were holding things up by not moving the show along as briskly as possible. The delays on entrances became excruciating by this point in the night. Attention all refs: Check the guys for foreign objects as rapidly as possible from now on. You don't need to check a guy's wrists if he doesn't have anything on them. Too much stalling and standing around in this one for my tastes, and I took a long break between discs to have lunch. Imagine how the fans felt. Vin will need new tights soon, since the shredded pair over the Equinox gear is starting to show wear. Reno and Martin were fine, but the crowd was past the point of no return here.

8-MAN TAG Did I mention the crowd was tired? This was fine, other than one spot where CAW appeared to have no clue what he was doing, and made it worse by just doing a random dropkick that made no sense whatsoever. Luckily, it ended quickly. I wanted this to break up the monotony of the shine-heat-climax format, but really, the crowd didn't need this match as much as the 6 guys in the main did.

FINALS Well, we made it. Crowd was so not into the early going of this match, but by the heat, BLK Out were effective enough in the jerk role that they got 'em going. I'm not sure where Ruckus was on March 2, but his body showed up for our show. Note to Sabian - please don't ever get hurt again. Incognito ruled it big time here. Lince brought his A Game all through the night, and if his performance and push here doesn't make him into a top babyface, I don't have any more tricks up my sleeve. I thought the last 60 seconds were electric, and considering how the heat went, having King tap out wasn't as bad as I thought watching from behind the big screen. After he became the big jerk of the match, the crowd saw him as "having it coming" anyway.

Man, I'm sick of Trios all over again.

MIKE

The full "Quack mails a dead rat to a fan" story. This was her blog post that Quack saw and got mad at following the fan flying to Hellertown for Young Lions Cup in 2008 and not minding kayfabe:

quote:

Monday, June 16, 2008 From Heaven to Hell in One Weekend

Current mood: pissed off

Oh my freaking God wear do I start!

So Last week, plans seemed to be coming together for Young Lions Cup. As anyone of by buddies in Pennsylvania can attest to, I was literally counting don the hours I was so excited!

Didn't get nay sleep Thursday night. It's always like that. When I know I have to get up early, I can never fall asleep. I look at the clock, it's like 4:10. My alarm is set for 4:30. I figure it's pointless, so I got up.

I'm on the 6:00 am bus to O'Hare. Get through security with no problem, have breakfast, sit around for a while and board the plane.

I land in Allentown, PA shortly after noon. My ride was a bit late cause he was setting up the show. I'm not complaining, I'm happy I made it out there at all.

He takes me to my hotel and drops me off, then heads back to the show. I unpack a few things, Lay down for a bit, watch a little TV, wash up, then walk down the street to an Applebee's.

I order a drink, the waitress cards me. She looks at my license. "Oh you're from Indiana. What brings you out here" yadda yadda

I tell her I'm there for the weekend to see a wrestling show, she's like "No kidding! I got another table over there, the guy said he's a wrestler".

I ask her which table it is, thinking if it's someone I'd seen, I'd get a picture.

Too late! She went over and told him I was here for wrestling too.

The guy approaches me, and asked what show I was there for.

I telling him about Young Lions Cup, where it was, that I had friends from Chicago wrestling, but they weren't coming in till the next day.

He asked who's running it. I tell him "Mike Quackenbush"

He all "oh, I know him, I wrestled him. We used to work together in

"Do you have his number?"

Me: "I don't know him, I'm just a fan"

I called one of my buddies who I knew was there setting up the show. Hand the phone to this guy, he goes on like hi and Quack are old buddies, gives his name and number, insisting that Quack will remember him.

Turns out, Quack never heard of him.

So I go back to my hotel room, change, and my ride gets there.

Get to the show. It was great to see everyone again.

The show rock, despite the absence of the Soul Touchaz.

After the show, my hero Anthony tells me, "a bunch of us are going out to eat you want to join us?" I say sure.

We meet at this place. I had a great time hanging with these wrestlers, All very nice guys other than the fact that I didn't know who half of them were, since they didn't have their mask on.

One guy tortured me all night making me guess.

I call Willie. "WILLIE!! WHAT'S UP! I'M HAVING A BLAST HERE, WHEN YOU GUY GETTING HERE TOMORROW!? Hey this guy wants to talk to you"

Other guy: "Hey Willie, this is *masked wrestler's identity protected*" HA now I know who he is!

So, I get dropped back off at the hotel and as I'm waiting for the elevator, who else is there but Quackenbuch and two other workers. By total coincidence, I picked the same hotel the wrestlers were staying at. We're neighbors for the weekend!

The next day Soul Touchaz rocked the show. Before the show: "Are you 'Hug Fairy'?" "yes" "I'm Wiggy" MESSAGE BOARD BUDDIES UNITE!!!

We on the message boards have been plotting for weeks to gang up on Vin Gerard and give him a big group hug.
For those who don't know, Vin Gerard is a very mean, anti social guy who hates everyone. Which is why we wrestling fans feel he needs a hug, like it or not.

She says she tried to hug him, but he actually kicked her.

We get the group together and make sure we got someone running a video camera to get this.

We've been told he's in the lobby, sitting by the windows, which is the far end of the lobby. We decide to go out to the lobby, discreetly split up and go in different directions so we'd be able to corner him and keep him from running.

A group of about seven of us, plus two guys with cameras, start heading towards the lobby. We're caught off guard by the fact that Vin was standing RIGHT IN THE DOORWAY! So we freaked, turned around and ran back in.

After a quick regroup, we head back out. We see him heading down the stairs. We chase the guy, downstairs, outside and around tot he side of the building, where we lost him. Dang it.

Then we see him peek out from behind a truck, and duck back behind it when he saw we were still there.

We wait fro him to come back into the lobby, we start to corner him and he grabs a trash can and starts swigging it at us. This is just freaking awesome!

Wiggy offered him money, asking if he'd whore himself out for a hug. He says for $50, he'll hug us. That better be one heck of a good hug.

Yes, I am aware of the fact that we wrestling fans are nuts!

After the show, Anthony tells me he got in trouble for bringing me to the restaurant the night before. Because I'm a fan. Apparently, Quack is one of those old school guys that's still living in the 80's and can't stand for a fan to see wrestlers out of character.

Anthony was chew out in front of everyone before the show and can to do like a thousand squats.

That news just ruined the whole weekend for me. If it weren't for Anthony, I wouldn't even be there this weekend. He helped me with travel arrangements, paid for my plane ticket, made sure I got picked up at the airport, had a ride to the show. This guy bent over backwards to help me out, expected nothing in return, and he gets punished for it! That's total B.S.

He didn't seem to care about this at all. But I'm really upset about it.

So later that night, I was sitting up in a wrestler's room who was two doors down from me. I'm telling him how horrible I feel for getting Anthony in trouble.. I might not have been so upset if he hadn't done so much to help me out in getting there this weekend.

So this guy just walked in on the end of it. It went something like "the pro wrestling world is in a bubble, fan's can't be allowed to penetrate the bubble"

Sunday, I did not even feel like going to the show. Anthony said if I didn't go, the squats were for nothing, plus my ride showed up before I had a chance to call and say "forget it"

I feel really sorry for the Colony, they put on a good show, but I just wasn't into it. I could not get out of there fast enough.
When I asked Jaz if he wanted a drink, his reply was "that's OK, don't wanna do squats". So not funny.

The guys bends over backwards to help me out. He should not be treated that way!

The next day I get to the airport, the flight's over sold. I'm getting bumped from the 12:20 to the 6:00 pm

OK, at least I get a free round trip ticket for it. Anthony says "great, that means you'll be back". I don't think so.

The 6:00 got delayed until 7:30, then 7:45, then 8:00

When I was told I was switching flights, they took my original boarding pass from me and gave me what I thought was a new one. But I don't know what it was. When I went to board. they told me what I had wasn't what I needed. Well, that's all they gave me. The guy says he'll print me a boarding pass.

Something seems to be wrong with the computer. At this point, everyone else is on the plane. He looks at the chart and sees they're open seats on this flight, tells me to just get on the plane. As they're shutting the door to the jet way I don't argue.

Get to Chicago around 10:00pm. Wait and wait and wait in the baggage claim area. I come to find out by suitcase was taken off the original flight when I got bumped, but apparently, my name was never technically on this flight, so my back never got loaded.

MY STUFF IS STILL IN ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIAIIIII!

After filling out a bunch of paperwork, I barely made the last bus out to Indiana. Got home about an hour ago. Now I have no pajamas. Can't go to bed anyway cause my special cervical pillow, that I need for my fused neck, is in my suitcase. I am without my medication, which means I will more than likely be coughing up blood by morning, along with chunks of stomach lining

So there's my weekend, from having the time of my life to being completely miserable within one weekend.

Thank you Mike Quackenbush for turning me off of wrestling. Here in Chicago, when one helps another person out, they're praised, not punished. I'm so upset and frustrated right now, I'm not even sure I'm a fan anymore.

K.J.

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