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Post by Dave the Dave on Jun 19, 2020 11:04:34 GMT -5
Yeah I went to a show where Chris Hero and Nigel main evented in a cage but the crowd only cared and chanted for Bobby. They should’ve mad him and a Grizzly Redwood a tag team I loved the CHIKARA Roughnecks team of Brodie and Grizz. Just watched the King if Trios where Grizz take the 100 rotation big swing from Claudio. Crazy stuff
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jun 19, 2020 11:19:40 GMT -5
Super Smash Bros and Brodie Lee are of course two examples that are (well, mostly) using the same gimmicks now, or at least, there is a direct through-line for them. I also remember CHIKARA used to do a thing where Icarus would beat you on your last match so in kayfabe they were so humiliated losing to Icarus that they left the promotion. Which is why Cesaro and Sara Del Rey's last matches in CHIKARA (And I think Del Rey's current last match ever in a promotion) were against Icarus, lol. Ahh Icarus, the man with a tattoo so bad it became his gimmick.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 22, 2021 21:44:27 GMT -5
Dirt Bike Kid! There's a name I've not thought of in a while. Such an odd career, not sure if had a bit of money behind him because I think he trained in America and possibly paid his way onto his international tours too. Had some kind of link to Sabu if I remember rightly and even got a couple of shots in ECW. But as you say, it seemed to be all over as quickly as it started, maybe the money ran out. Yeah, he booked Sabu on a show in London in the mid nineties against himself, the match is apparently horrendous. I wondered the same thing about him being a money mark, he booked a few ECW guys for UK shows in the nineties - most notably Mikey Whipwreck and Van Dam - so I reckon he probably had a bit of cash.
I found myself looking him up the other day to see what happened to him, and the man was apparently an absolute dickhead. The stories are amazing, he blamed Jason Cross and Jody Fleisch for his getting beaten up in Japan rather than his own massive ego and bad attitude and claimed credit for getting them on that tour, he upset Doc Dean (apparently known as a very mild-mannered and easy-going bloke) so much that Dean refused to do a job for him on an All-Star show, annoyed Karl Kramer so much that Kramer deliberately blew a high spot and injured him pretty badly, and fell out with the UWA promoters after the first show and was never booked by them again. Rumour has it he stiffed wrestlers on pay too, and got kicked out of the ECW locker room because he was so obnoxious. Supposedly he quit wrestling to be a stuntman initially, but I suspect his retirement was hastened by how many people he had pissed off; he reckoned in an interview done years ago that the only British wrestler he'd never had a problem with (IE who didn't hate him) was Alex Shane.
Pardon the thread bump, but I actually found Dirt Bike Kid vs. Sabu: youtu.be/44AAhKmP3KUThe video quality is horrendous too!
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Sept 24, 2021 2:16:09 GMT -5
Since this thread was bumped and I mentioned a lot of CHIKARA guys... how about the first live CHIKARA event I went to? Young Lions Cup 2010. A lot of names on this list of guys who were at the time (at least billed as) under 25 and from all over the world... quite a few names I never really heard from again or have no clue what happened to them:
- The House of Truth (Josh Raymond and Christian Abel): Apparently this weekend was Josh Raymond's retirement? Looks like it since there's nothing else listed of him. - Brendan Michael-Thomas - Kaio - Josh Pain - Chrisjen Hayme - Eric Ryan - Cameron Skyy - Keita Yano - Dustin Rayz - Skull (A Maryland Wrestler) - Sindarin (Never actually made it to the show)
This weekend also featured very young versions of: Akira Tozawa, Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reily, Johnny Gargano, Mike Sydal, and Lince Dorado
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Sept 24, 2021 2:42:57 GMT -5
Since this thread was bumped and I mentioned a lot of CHIKARA guys... how about the first live CHIKARA event I went to? Young Lions Cup 2010. A lot of names on this list of guys who were at the time (at least billed as) under 25 and from all over the world... quite a few names I never really heard from again or have no clue what happened to them: - The House of Truth (Josh Raymond and Christian Abel): Apparently this weekend was Josh Raymond's retirement? Looks like it since there's nothing else listed of him. well after his short run in ROH ended, Able wrestled sporadically in AAW and smaller indies for the next few years, then he died
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Sept 24, 2021 3:08:33 GMT -5
Since this thread was bumped and I mentioned a lot of CHIKARA guys... how about the first live CHIKARA event I went to? Young Lions Cup 2010. A lot of names on this list of guys who were at the time (at least billed as) under 25 and from all over the world... quite a few names I never really heard from again or have no clue what happened to them: - The House of Truth (Josh Raymond and Christian Abel): Apparently this weekend was Josh Raymond's retirement? Looks like it since there's nothing else listed of him. well after his short run in ROH ended, Able wrestled sporadically in AAW and smaller indies for the next few years, then he died Oh wow... and only 32. That shit is crazy. He was the first CHIKARA match I ever saw live vs Dunkerton. Did his cause of death ever get revealed?
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 24, 2021 3:37:53 GMT -5
For a bit there in 2012 thru 2014 Chrisjen would come down to work Pro Wrestling EGO shows in the Jackson MS area. I heard he got injured and retired. But who knows what happened to him.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Sept 24, 2021 3:45:48 GMT -5
About this one, boy do I have some news!
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Sept 24, 2021 3:48:29 GMT -5
About this one, boy do I have some news! These dudes ruled! Always loved them in CHIKARA too when they showed up. Glad to see they're still around!
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Sept 24, 2021 6:18:16 GMT -5
I'm probably dating myself here, but the indie names I saw the most in the magazines as a kid were Cruel Connection II and Flaming Youth.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Sept 24, 2021 15:52:05 GMT -5
Yeah, he booked Sabu on a show in London in the mid nineties against himself, the match is apparently horrendous. I wondered the same thing about him being a money mark, he booked a few ECW guys for UK shows in the nineties - most notably Mikey Whipwreck and Van Dam - so I reckon he probably had a bit of cash.
I found myself looking him up the other day to see what happened to him, and the man was apparently an absolute dickhead. The stories are amazing, he blamed Jason Cross and Jody Fleisch for his getting beaten up in Japan rather than his own massive ego and bad attitude and claimed credit for getting them on that tour, he upset Doc Dean (apparently known as a very mild-mannered and easy-going bloke) so much that Dean refused to do a job for him on an All-Star show, annoyed Karl Kramer so much that Kramer deliberately blew a high spot and injured him pretty badly, and fell out with the UWA promoters after the first show and was never booked by them again. Rumour has it he stiffed wrestlers on pay too, and got kicked out of the ECW locker room because he was so obnoxious. Supposedly he quit wrestling to be a stuntman initially, but I suspect his retirement was hastened by how many people he had pissed off; he reckoned in an interview done years ago that the only British wrestler he'd never had a problem with (IE who didn't hate him) was Alex Shane.
Pardon the thread bump, but I actually found Dirt Bike Kid vs. Sabu: youtu.be/44AAhKmP3KUThe video quality is horrendous too! I think most of his matches were pretty much like this. He was a miserable worker who could only really do Sabu-style falling off stuff, but he did it without the timing and charisma and character of Sabu.
That was pretty much the quality of EWA's actual video releases too, the semi-legendary St. Valentine's Day Massacre show he promoted in 1998 with Whipwreck and Van Dam is on there (although I don't recommend giving the uploader clicks) and looks basically the same but with commentary and some crap graphics to break the matches up. There are two things I find amusing about the EWA, and I can't work out which I think is funnier: that he crowned himself European Junior Heavyweight champion a la Homer Simpson appointing himself Junior Vice President of Compuglobalhypermeganet, or that afterwards when the UWA and FWA sprung up, he suggested that they were ripping him off by using the initials (blank)WA.
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Post by Mecca on Sept 24, 2021 18:04:48 GMT -5
Human Tornado was a lot of fun in PWG and ROH. Larry Sweeney <3. Alex Koslov was a good mid 00s Russian heel. Loved his work in CMLL. Scott Lost also in PWG. Lacey and Jimmy Jacob's emo music video for her. Very early viral online wrestling video stuff. Before the internet heel turn. I'll never forget when everyone said Human Tornado had aids.
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