Johnny B. Decent
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jul 15, 2013 13:27:15 GMT -5
The Previous ThreadTo recap: On June 2, at CHIKARA's Anniversario card entitled "Never Compromise", Wink Vavessuer dropped the bomb and CHIKARA as we know it, is gone. However, Icarus, of all people, said that on July 20th, at Easton, Pennsylvania, at the Palmer Center, the date where CHIKARA's next show "All You See Is Mine" was supposed to be held before it was cancelled, he will be there to rally the troops. Is this a futile gesture? Will it succeed in igniting a rebellion of sorts? Who knows, but here we talk about that, our thoughts, memories and theories on CHIKARA, and whatever else related to it.
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Post by Larryhausen on Jul 15, 2013 14:16:48 GMT -5
As I said in the last thread, I love that all it took was the company shutting down to effectively turn Icarus technico.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jul 15, 2013 15:19:22 GMT -5
Also, Anton, the WMD moderator who took over the 101 board has been apparently ousted by LFC who now has control of the fan board once more.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2013 16:50:51 GMT -5
With the 20th only a few days away any prediction on what will go down? I have not a clue myself
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2013 17:01:42 GMT -5
With the 20th only a few days away any prediction on what will go down? I have not a clue myself My guess: fan rally with Icarus and most of the roster that gets broken up by Condor and Wink. |
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Jul 16, 2013 20:16:18 GMT -5
In Chikara related new,Jigsaw is making another TNA appearance this week.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Jul 20, 2013 13:29:54 GMT -5
so what are the odds Icarus actually shows up at the Palmer Center in Easton today?
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Post by Steveweiser on Jul 20, 2013 13:50:33 GMT -5
so what are the odds Icarus actually shows up at the Palmer Center in Easton today? Very good. There's going to be a camera crew there. |
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jul 20, 2013 13:52:59 GMT -5
However, it is not going to be a makeshift wrestling event. That said, this must be the event that gets the gears rolling for this storyline, so whatever happens with be very notable.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2013 18:09:53 GMT -5
btw, there's a Kaiju event going on here in NY. Bryce is confirmed to be there.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Jul 20, 2013 18:21:54 GMT -5
No Icarus yet  |
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Post by Djm Doesn't Find You Funny on Jul 20, 2013 18:22:13 GMT -5
Coming in from Easton.  |
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Jul 20, 2013 18:24:05 GMT -5
@davemuscarella: Icarus just made a speech and gave out I am Chikara shirts and we are signing a petition to save Chikara. t.co/9MRo9iTgbl |
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Jul 20, 2013 18:55:31 GMT -5
Coming in from Easton. He looks like he's going to be giving a lecture, lol. |
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Jul 20, 2013 21:59:38 GMT -5
Apparently Dr.Cube showed up at the Kaiju show with the Eye of tyr.
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From PWPonderings:
This was supposed to be the night of a big show for CHIKARA. Supposed to be. Easton shows in CHIKARA are always good. But, as we know, this show, along with all other CHIKARA shows for the remainder of 2013 are canceled. So, when Icarus tweeted he was going to show up to the Easton Funplex, I was intrigued. Would a bunch of wrestlers show up? Secret show? Rally? Something else? Nobody knew. All I know is I had to be there. And I was.
I showed up at 7 PM sharp. When I went inside, I saw roughly 20-30 others already there. Like me, they wanted answers. We just want something…ANYTHING…to explain what happened to the promotion we all knew and loved. There was also some cookies that someone made too. Blue ones with the CHIKARA logo on them! They were even vegan cookies in case UMB showed up I guess. About the same time I got there, so did Billy Kumohara, along with a camera man. So, we all gathered around some tables and chairs and waited. We waited for Icarus to show up. 7:05 came and he still wasn’t there. We started to tweet him. I played his theme music in hopes he’d appear. Nothing. A couple more minutes passed and someone said he spotted a car pull up. It was Icarus.
We all gathered outside and gave him a standing ovation as he walked up the building. He asked if any other wrestlers showed up. We told them he was the only one. I mentioned that most of the regulars I talked to on Twitter told me they had shows they were booked on tonight. He said “This is more important than other bookings”. He said he didn’t spend the last 12 years working for the promotion he loved for it to end like this. He got a notebook and had us all sign it as a petition to prove we want CHIKARA back. He said, “This isn’t over. I will fight this.”
He then ran back to his car, and came back with a box of shirts. He proceeded to hand them out as a gift to the people who showed up. He told us it meant a lot to him that we came. The shirts were simple black t-shirts that read “I am CHIKARA” on them. Billy said we should wear these shirts to every wrestling show we go to. ANY wrestling show.
And just like that, Icarus hoped in his car, a Kia Soul, and drove off. After that, it started raining pretty heavy so we all went inside again and took a group photo with us all wearing our shirts. We even held up our right hands as a sign of solidarity, or maybe we just thought it looked cool. We all said “DRAGON DRAGON!” as the picture was taken. And then we each took a moment to tell the camera man why we love CHIKARA. Why we came to Easton on this day. What made us love this company. Stuff like that.
I have no idea if any of this footage will be used or who will see it. If I had to say what I got from this whole thing (besides a free shirt), it would one thing:
CHIKARA is not dead. It will be back. Probably not anytime soon, but it’ll be back at some point, 2014 would be my guess. But, this little pep rally with Icarus gave me more hope than I had yesterday. If nothing else, Icarus took the time to get some shirts made up for the fans. He didn’t ask for anything in return other than our names on a petition. So, thanks Icarus.
~ Big thanks to this report from Dave Muscarella/ @davemuscarella
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Post by Classy Lady on Jul 21, 2013 8:04:37 GMT -5
That is Classy's arm in the picture of Icarus.
An adorable little girl signed the petition with her name and I AM 8 I DO NOT HAVE AN EMAIL, PLEASE DON'T DIE.
The rain was pretty crazy. Honestly, it was a bit symbolic. In the video of Icarus you can pretty clearly hear me threaten to punch a "condor guy" in the mouth. I did not realize I was that loud. whoops. :\
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Post by osiris on Jul 21, 2013 9:43:41 GMT -5
Anyone have the kaiju results for last night? Also curious as to how dr cube is alive again.
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Post by Square on Jul 21, 2013 9:48:49 GMT -5
...Icarus should have had that hat slapped off his head
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Post by jdsnelson on Jul 21, 2013 17:49:11 GMT -5
So if you're a member of the shop.wrestlingis website, they have a new video that is called Ashes-Prelude and it says the event date is July 21st 2013. It has Quack talking to someone about using the facility to train wrestlers and that he will call it The Wrestle Factory. Kind of interesting.
Anybody else see this?
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Post by mattyy on Jul 21, 2013 17:55:30 GMT -5
So if you're a member of the shop.wrestlingis website, they have a new video that is called Ashes-Prelude and it says the event date is July 21st 2013. It has Quack talking to someone about using the facility to train wrestlers and that he will call it The Wrestle Factory. Kind of interesting. Anybody else see this? That was actually really awesome. I can't tell if this is a telling of Chikara history, or a reboot or whatever.. but I'm excited. |
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