Post by mcmahonfan85 on Jul 11, 2013 1:38:35 GMT -5
I had a chance to watch the Eddie Kingston/Archibald Peck match from the next to last Chikara show and had a question. There are some people who seem to be making a huge deal over the fact that Lance Steel and The Swamp Monster were in the balcony and how this might have some sort of importance. However this wasn't even mentioned during the show by the commentary team nor was there a closeup of the two of them in the balcony. In fact, outside of a very small "Swamp Monster" chant, no one even seemed to care that they were up there. My experience with Chikara is VERY limited so I wanted to ask if they were subtle with things in the past that wound up having a huge payoff later on or are people really making a mountain out of a molehill?
Many years ago there was a match between Hydra, who was apart of UltraMantis Black's faction at the time, and Shane Storm. During the match, what looked like an innocent case of interference backfiring cost Hydra the match & gave Storm the win.
Nearly a year later...it was outed that Mantis made a series of deals to get a powerful item known as the Eye of Tyr. One of these series of deals? In exchange for giving Shane Storm a win during a bad slump he was in, Storm would give him secret information about the CHIKARA Special, including it's counter. A submission hold Quackenbush had invented for the babyfaces & had been allowing them to pretty much run roughshod over the heels for some time.
This seemingly random match was the first piece given to what would become the CHIKARA Special Saga, which birthed the Vin Gerard & Eye of Tyr ordeals, the latter of which led to the BDK coming into CHIKARA. Which led to Wink & WMD & co. coming into CHIKARA.
So, yeah, CHIKARA's been known for it's subtlety in the past.
so what you're saying is...UltraMantis Black is the one ultimately responsible for the death of CHIKARA?!