Chikara Season 16 Thread 2: Post Season discussion

[lildude8218]

Barksdale wins with "Book 'Em"

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

I feel like Chikara's getting WAY too "cute" with these jobber names. Just...call them by their real names or something obviously fake. The little "It's wrestling, GET IT?!" stuff isn't really funny.

[lildude8218]

Barksdale is issuing an open challenge for Chicago

[lildude8218]

Main Event Time: Trios action

[lildude8218]

Mark Angelosetti, Kobald and Obariyon vs. Ophidian, Fire Ant and Oleg the Usurper

[Frizzle Fry]

Nov 13, 2016 16:20:49 GMT -5 2coldMack is even more baffled said:

I feel like Chikara's getting WAY too "cute" with these jobber names. Just...call them by their real names or something obviously fake. The little "It's wrestling, GET IT?!" stuff isn't really funny.

I think they should debut with theyr own gimmicks already, because the roster just keep shrinking

[lildude8218]

It's clear that these masked jobbers are students who aren't completely ready for a debut and thus probably don't have a gimmick. Quack probably wants to get them some experience working in front of a live audience without "wasting" a debut, especially if they were to make a pretty huge mistake during a live show.

[gentlemaniac]

please please please let Moustache Mountain make Dasher's team...

[Frizzle Fry]

Nov 13, 2016 16:29:14 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

It's clear that these masked jobbers are students who aren't completely ready for a debut and thus probably don't have a gimmick. Quack probably wants to get them some experience working in front of a live audience without "wasting" a debut, especially if they were to make a pretty huge mistake during a live show.

If thats the case, i think they should face each other instead of only being used in squash matches

[lildude8218]

Hexed Men win after Kobald distracts Oleg and Angelosetti steals a win.

we have a fight going on after the bell.

[gentlemaniac]

What an odd episode...

[JoDaNa1281]

Nov 13, 2016 16:29:14 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

It's clear that these masked jobbers are students who aren't completely ready for a debut and thus probably don't have a gimmick. Quack probably wants to get them some experience working in front of a live audience without "wasting" a debut, especially if they were to make a pretty huge mistake during a live show.

Yeah, I think some of those guys will debut unmasked next season.

[funakifan88]

Anyone else get a little heartbroken when the DCC unmasked in TNA and nobody knew who Eddie Kingston was?

[The 1Watcher Experience]

Nov 14, 2016 5:54:05 GMT -5 funakifan88 said:

Anyone else get a little heartbroken when the DCC unmasked in TNA and nobody knew who Eddie Kingston was?

It doesn't surprise me. He hasn't had any television exposure and he's not known for working around the Florida independents. I'm happy that he's finally getting on television because he should definitely be seen by a bigger audience. It's long overdue. I'm looking forward to seeing more of him because he can do it all and he deserves the opportunity to show it to the world. 

[Frizzle Fry]

Eddie kingston is the only guy i'm glad to see going away from chikara

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Nov 13, 2016 16:35:43 GMT -5 Frizzle Fry said:

Nov 13, 2016 16:29:14 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

It's clear that these masked jobbers are students who aren't completely ready for a debut and thus probably don't have a gimmick. Quack probably wants to get them some experience working in front of a live audience without "wasting" a debut, especially if they were to make a pretty huge mistake during a live show.

If thats the case, i think they should face each other instead of only being used in squash matches

Two green rookies working against each other doesn't help and just exposes how green the two of them are.

Nov 14, 2016 9:25:17 GMT -5 Frizzle Fry said:

Eddie kingston is the only guy i'm glad to see going away from chikara

If history has taught us anything, He'll be back.

[Frizzle Fry]

Nov 14, 2016 9:44:02 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

Nov 13, 2016 16:35:43 GMT -5 Frizzle Fry said:

If thats the case, i think they should face each other instead of only being used in squash matches

Two green rookies working against each other doesn't help and just exposes how green the two of them are.

Well they wont have much chance to show what they learned so far if they are always being used as sparring for the veterans

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Blog: Mike Quackenbush (11.14.16)
Posted: November 14, 2016

The events of the last few days have been just cause to take a look at the state of professional wrestling. The art form that I love, and have dedicated my entire adult life to, is embarrassingly behind the times. It is beholden to outdated tenets that threaten to render it...obsolete at worst, and a punchline at best.

I know there are others, influential and celebrated, that imagine pro-wrestling to be a bubble in which the social norms from a bygone era are still relevant and valid. At CHIKARA, we rail against them, and those ideals, with everything we make. It is one thing to speak, to voice an opinion. It is one thing to call for change, to wish for change, to imagine how that change might come about. It is another thing to make it. At CHIKARA, we make it happen. It doesn’t matter to us in the least how many people show up to see it, or how many people recognize it for what it is. Our mantra is not about critical acclaim or pats on the back: “We believe pro-wrestling should be fun. That’s why we make it for everyone.”

Effective today, we are terminating our relationship with Joey Styles. Effective today, we are instituting a zero tolerance policy for misogynistic, racist, and/or homophobic speech, written or verbal, whether it’s directed toward our cast, our crew, or our patrons. This is the shape of CHIKARA.

To all that craft and shape pro-wrestling, we must fully understand this: the patrons of our art form demand more of us. It is to them - those that empower us to create the larger-than-life spectacle of professional wrestling - that we are beholden. Not to an archaic sub-culture made up of turn-of-the-last-century carny values.

The time for us to do away with antiquated and insulting vocabulary, like the term “mark,” is right now.

The time for us to relinquish any last vestige of power we’ve given to outmoded wrestling rhetoric is right now.

The time for us to draw a line in the sand, and to say this is where we stand on equality and integration in our art form, is right now.

The patrons of our amazing art form deserve not just our respect, but our thoughtful presence of mind in 2016 and beyond. We owe nothing to “the business.” The people our antecedents called “marks” are not handing us their dollars because they fail to understand what it is we truly make - they support us in spite of it. They come because they know our kind of live entertainment is a viable art form, not some midway hustle. They come for an inclusive experience where they can be bolstered by a passionate community of like-minded fans.

At CHIKARA, we love pro-wrestling every bit as much as our fans do. We love it so much, we want it to change. Let’s take a step toward a world where we need not be subject to any type of hate speech, and that the only violence we witness is of the neatly choreographed variety.

-MQ

chikarapro.com/blog

[Frizzle Fry]

Did joey said someting "nasty" during a show ?

[The 1Watcher Experience]

I can't help but wonder if Styles being terminated from CHIKARA was because both EVOLVE and CHIKARA appear to have a relationship with the WWE now. Seems like a drastic public relations move to look good in the face of that relationship.