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Greetings and salutations once again my fellow Chikaraverse explorers! CHIKARMY Insider is back with a brand new edition that, since features the full results from this weekend’s shows, one of which was renamed once again! Damn you, “Police Squad”! Find out the results of the Torneo Cibernetico, who is under the Vökoder mask, which Bruderschaft wrestler could not make the shows, what surprising team earned themselves a future shot at the Campeonatos de Parejas and the results of the tag title match between the BDK and The Osirian Portal! LEARNING IS PAINFUL!
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~ Preshow: Gavin Loudspeaker announces that, due to a family emergency, Lince Dorado will not be in Easton. That’s unfortunate. A new opponent for Frightmare will be drawn out of The Hat for what I’m assuming will be a non-title match. Also, Fire Ant is apparently on commentary tonight!
1. Off The Disabled List: Dasher Hatfield d. Brodie Lee (8:31). Dasher upsets Lee with a Death Valley Bomb just as his partner Sugar Dunkerton predicted on the Chikara Blog! Despite earning himself a shot at the Young Lions Cup earlier this year, this was Dasher’s first singles match victory since beating Colin Delaney back at Man Makes Plans, and God Laughs in September of last year.
2. Snake vs. Dragon: Ophidian d. Dragon Yuki (7:55). The reigning Rey de Voladores winner picks up the victory, tapping out Yuki with the Death Grip. This was Ophidian’s first non-tournament singles victory in Chikara this year. How’s that for a superfluous gem?
~ In-Ring Segment: They come out to choose Frightmare’s opponent at random from The Hat. His opponent is…not drawn from The Hat! Johnny Gargano is out to cash in the Golden Opportunity he received for winning The Countdown Showdown back at YLCVIII: Night 3!
3. Young Lions Cup: Frightmare© d. Johnny Gargano (11:08). Gargano almost gets the win but Frightmare is able to hang on and make his second successful defense of the Cup, pinning “The Whole Shebang” with the Kneecolepsy! This is Gargano’s first singles loss in Chikara in over two years, last getting pinned by Jimmy Olsen in September of 2008.
4. Chikara Veterans Collide: Vin Gerard d. Cheech Hernandez (9:55). Someone asks about Cheech’s regular tag partner Cloudy, as Hernandez has only made solo appearances in Chikara this year. Cheech’s response? “He’s dead.” Well that’s grim. Gerard taps Cheech with the STF for the dubya.
5. Bonus Tag Match: Obariyon & Kodama d. The Super Smash Brothers (11:32). This was not announced before the show, hence the “bonus” moniker. The green-faced duo pick up their first points in Chikara, beating Players Uno & Dos. Obariyon pinned Dos following a devastating Deep Impact. Player Dos has had an absolutely terrible year: he lost the Young Lions Cup on the first show of the year and has not won a single match he’s been a part of. He was also the first man out of The Countdown Showdown.
6. Torneo Cibernetico: Team Chikara d. Team BDK; Eddie Kingston is the Last Man Standing (35:45). Both Chikara senior official Bryce Remsburg and BDK referee Derek Sabato will be working this match. The Bruderschaft comes out first, followed by a fervent Team Chikara. Icarus & Shane Storm come out in Ichabod Slayne & Shane Storm masks respectively, but they take them off before entering battle. An absolutely HUGE brawl ensues as Vökoder comes out as well! He unmasks! IT’S LARRY SWEENEY! SWEENEY’S BACK! He drops the 12 Large Elbow and eliminates Pinkie Sanchez almost immediately but gets eliminated himself quickly afterwards via Ricola Bomb from Claudio Castagnoli. STIGMA is out next, eliminated by former YLC champion Tim Donst with the Gator Roll. UltraMantis Black eliminates Ares with the Praying Mantis Bomb to even the score between the two teams at around the thirteen minute mark. Tursas takes out Hallowicked with a flying crossbody. Donst eliminates Icarus at a little over twenty minutes with the Inverted Chikara Special. UltraMantis Black eliminates Delirious with the Praying Mantis Bomb, taking care of both master and pet. Donst gets his third elimination, this time over Jigsaw via the Inverted Chikara Special once again. Donst went for a fourth elimination, locking the Inverted Chikara Special on Quackenbush…but Quack reversed it and tapped Donst with The Chikara Special! “You said there wasn’t a counter!” Donst screams in protest. Castagnoli eliminates Quackenbush with a hard lariat and Eddie Kingston goes nuts and eliminates Sara Del Rey & Daizee Haze back-to-back with Backfists! Tursas eliminates UltraMantis with a big splash, leaving Eddie Kingston to fend off Tursas & Castagnoli by himself. Claudio low blows Kingston, but Bryce catches it! Castagnoli is disqualified! KINGSTON KNOCKS DOWN TURSAS! SLIDING D! KINGSTON GETS THE VICTORY! After Kingston’s biggest victory ever in a Chikara ring, he asks for the Chikara theme to be played before he leaves. As the song plays and the crowd chants for Chikara, Kingston’s eyes start to water. He’s known as “The War King”, “God’s Middle Child” and “The Last of a Dying Breed”, but Eddie Kingston can add “2010 Cibernetico Winner” to his long list of nicknames!
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Overall Thoughts
This was the perfect way to get back a lot of the snarky “purists” who jumped off the company bandwagon during this Bruderschaft storyline. Sweeney returns, Icarus & STIGMA briefly return to previous monikers and Eddie Kingston stands tall over Claudio & the BDK in the most easily-digestible Cibernetico match yet. I mean shortest, of course, but I like the way I framed it. They also did a great job of injecting the show with newer guys like Obariyon, Kodama and Johnny Gargano. This season has been very predictable, but for my money, that just means that they are making a lot of right decisions. Kingston winning sounds very emotional and absolutely epic, making this Chikara’s most heated season ever. I’m a little disappointed the way Gargano’s win in The Countdown Showdown was used, but they didn’t have much choice given Dorado’s absence. Still, there isn’t a match here that doesn’t interest me in some way, but I have a feeling that, when this DVD comes in, I’ll be skipping right to the Cibernetico.
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1. Grudge Tag Match #1: Vin Gerard & STIGMA d. The Olsen Twins (8:27). Gerard taps out former stablemate Colin Delaney with the STF, getting his second submission win of the weekend and a point for himself and STIGMA towards a future tag title shot.
2. Ant vs. Dragon: Soldier Ant d. Dragon Yuki (5:36). Dorado missed last night’s Easton show with a family issue and he is forced to miss this show as well. Soldier Ant fills in, picking up the win over Yuki via The Chikara Special. This was the first time Soldier Ant’s gotten the pin or submission victory since tapping out Tim Donst at King of Trios: Night 2.
3. Bonus Tag Match: Sara Del Rey & Daizee Haze d. The Super Smash Brothers (9:38). You might as well call Uno & Dos the Bonus Brothers, as neither of their matches this weekend were revealed prior to the show. Del Rey & Haze get the win with their piledriver / German Suplex combination. This gives Death Haze three points and a future tag title shot! As if Dos’s losing streak wasn’t ugly enough, peep this: it’s been two years since the Smash Brothers have won a straight tag match together in Chikara. TWO. YEARS.
4. Grudge Tag Match #2: Incoherence d. Icarus & Johnny Gargano (13:17). Hallowicked & Frightmare upend F.I.S.T. and earn themselves one point. The finish came when Frightmare took down Icarus with an Assisted Avalanche Ace Crusher, which Incoherence calls “The Headless Horseman”, for the three count. Awesome name.
5. Chikara vs. BDK #1: Pinkie Sanchez & Tursas d. Mike Quackenbush & Jigsaw (14:04). For the second time, a BDK team strips QuackenSaw of two points. Tursas pins Quackenbush with a running crossbody to give he & “Pink Ant” one point. Once again, Quack & Jig must start from scratch in their quest to not only win the Campeonatos de Parejas but take the power out of the hands of the Bruderschaft.
6. Singles Showdown: Grizzly Redwood d. Dasher Hatfield (6:48). A night after he upset Brodie Lee, Dasher Hatfield gets upset by the smaller half of the former Roughnecks tag team with a small package. An extra small package, to be honest. I, uh…didn’t mean it like that. Grizzly has now eliminated Brodie Lee from a Battle Royal and beaten an opponent that Lee lost to on the night before. Perhaps The Grizz was right when he told Brodie it was a mistake to underestimate him.
7. Chikara vs. BDK #2: Eddie Kingston d. Tim Donst (10:43). Go ahead and add “Donst Destroyer” in there with Eddie Kingston’s other nicknames. Kingston dismantles the young lion, ending the match via Backfist to the Future. In three singles contests versus Kingston, Donst is winless.
8. Campeonatos de Parejas: Claudio Castagnoli & Ares© d. The Osirian Portal (14:44). In true Bruderschaft fashion, Claudio & Ares pick up an early fall on Amasis & Ophidian when Castagnoli drills Ophidian with a European Uppercut. A Toblerone Driver on Amasis finishes off The Osirian Portal in two straight falls. The Bruderschaft retain their titles. The BDK have now made four successful defenses of the belts in four different cities, none of which took place in the state of Pennsylvania. They are also one more title defense away from tying the record of five held by Hallowicked & Delirious.
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Overall Thoughts
The quintessential Chikara show here, folks: a top-to-bottom strong card that, in my opinion, is stronger than the show before it. The matches don’t ever go too long and they almost always either feature an outside or they really mean something. I imagine that this booking style, having no matches go over fifteen minutes while still giving everyone enough time to entertain, has helped with the piracy problem that is rampant throughout the independent wrestling scene, or at least I hope it has. Instead of putting on one or two amazing matches with a weak, underdeveloped undercard like Ring of Honor does, Chikara Pro makes sure that you enjoy yourself from beginning to end without feeling like you’re just killing time to get to the good stuff. With Chikara, it’s all good…even if it’s not always great. However, with Donst/Kingston, BDK/QuackenSaw, F.I.S.T./Incoherence & the tag title match all sounding pretty awesome, I have high expectations for this show to deliver.
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– Please leave any comments or questions you might have and I’ll do my best to respond with as much ravenous Portuguese dirty talk as I can conjure. I’d like to do a contest or something cool like that, but I’m not sure how much interest there’d be. Let your voice be heard! Also, let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see in the column, like fantasy booking, treasure hunts, wish-lists, secret handshakes, etc.
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what’s your thoughts about Sweeney beeing Vökoder? I have to admit, I don’t like him as part of the BDK story..
I thought that they were really gearing up for a long Cibernetico this year, especially since last year’s was the shortest, at 53 minutes. Instead, they had one that was almost another 20 minutes shorter. Disappointing, in my view. If they were going to do that, they should have had either longer undercard matches, or more of them.
pauLi: Any way you get Sweeney back in Chikara is a good idea in my eyes. In this case though, it makes a lot of sense. The last time Larry was in Chikara, he was calling out Claudio Castagnoli during a heated feud. He has stated several times that he genuinely hates Pinkie Sanchez. He absolutely loves the Chikara locker room. As long as they keep him out of big Chikara vs. BDK tags and focus on his personal battles with Claudio & Pinkie, I’m cool. I would kill for any combination of Kingston, Castagnoli and Sweeney, including a triple threat match.
Wrsisyphus2: I was perplexed by this as well, but I’m told that they brawled for a good 5-10 minutes before the match even got underway. Also factor in that this is Chikara’s biggest feud ever, so the feeling out process that begins each Cibernetico was probably dropped in favor of guys just throwing bombs. Couple in two critical early eliminations and I think it makes enough sense. I hope this trend doesn’t continue into next year though.
Thanks for the comments!
I did hear that during that pre-match crowd brawl, Kingston and Sweeney stood back to back in the ring fighting guys off together at one point like the world’s weirdest Batman and Robin. My other feelings about the match aside, THAT sounds amazing. And you have a point; a feeling-out process would seem sort of strange for a blood feud. I still hope for an extra-long one next year though. Maybe like that 2005 one.
Looks like a couple of good shows even with the short Cibernetico. Really great for Kingston to get a big win at one of Chikara’s big events. And with Quack and Jig losing again, do you think they’ll finally pull the trigger on a potential reunion of Quack and STIGMA, and the resulting fallout that would have to occur with both Gerard and Jigsaw?
I agree with your points, but I’m a little disapointed with Sweeny comming back as Vökoder. There would be a lot of other cool ways to to handle Vökoder.
Unless QuackenSaw appears in an Elimination Tag Match sometime next month, a Lightning Storm reunion seems like a pretty sure thing. There’s already few things out there that could believably make STIGMA turn, the biggest one involving the Golden Dream 8-Man Tag next month. With Vin & STIGMA already announced, I’d expect Tim Donst to join them. Donst eliminated STIGMA from the Cibernetico and there could still be some lingering ill-will there.
However, I have a funny feeling about this whole UnStable situation. I think that this may be The UnStable’s genius plan to get Gerard & STIGMA three points. Colin tapped out to Vin at “Terror in the Neighborhood”, and if it happens again, I’ll be squarely in the camp that believes that it’s all a scam. Perhaps they’ll get the three points and STIGMA will have to choose who to go after the titles with: his teacher or his only leader.
Thanks for the comment!
Y’know, J, I’d never thought about The Unstable planning something like that. That would be interesting if they went in that direction, especially considering that The Unstable has felt practically irrelevant for two years now. Hell, all the non-BDK rudos have seemed largely irrelevant this year.
I kind of hope that Vokoder and Carpenter Ant show up some time in the future as “themselves”, rather than as someone else’s secret identity, personally. And Vokoder being Sweeney WAS a little bit obvious.
It would be incredible if it was an UnStable master plan. I prefer Jimmy as Equinox and Colin as a cocky heel, and I think Vin Gerard is underrated.
TOP 3 Fav moments from the weekend in no particular order… 1. Sweeney as Vodoker…..2…..Sara Del Ray & Daizee Hayes earning their 3rd point…..3….Obariyon & Kodama PERIOD!