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Gavok posted:Here are the four matches announced so far for the debut show, which will happen a few hours before Royal Rumble: Since I was excited that the season was ending with JFdC facing Dasher (pretty much the most over face still left on the roster) and it made all the sense in the world to put the belt on him, I expect since I absolutely hate NRG that Hype Rockwell is going to win this. Because nothing can save a company like giving the title belt to a guy whose character is "one half of a reference to a jobber tag team from twenty years ago". For that matter, NRG always came off to me as a poor, poor, poor man's version of 2.0/3.0.
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Alastor_the_Stylish posted:Um, they were a direct ripoff of High Energy, Koko B. Ware and Owen Hart. 2.0 had nothing to do with it. syzpid posted:character is "one half of a reference to a jobber tag team from twenty years ago". I was a big fan of High Energy as a kid, and it was nice to see it referenced, maybe for the first month or two? But the team first showed up at the end of 2014. I was saying on top of being based on High Energy, they also felt like a poor man's version of 2.0. I mean the energy drink was a running bit for what felt like a whole season. Ironically enough 2.0 had their issues with Chikara (and personal issues) which caused them to mostly drop out of Chikara at the end of 2014.
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Jan 16, 2018 05:42
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Gavok posted:Tomorrow is National Pro Wrestling Day, which I probably won't be able to watch because I'm in the middle of a move. This year they're raising money for Puerto Rico. Matches are as follows: Mr Bones Wild Ride never ends. Also JFDC will be champion forever. We can't escape.
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Feb 20, 2018 14:46
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Gavok posted:In other news... Reminds me of Dr Steel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCE7hOgXVEM
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Feb 22, 2018 23:29
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DM Punk posted:That Mr Touchdownn vs David Starr match was REALLY good. I don't know why Mr TD isn't getting booked all over, cause he is so good. I think TD just does it as a hobby, almost all of his matches outside of Chikara he's either teaming with Dasher or just working with other Chikara regulars.
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Jul 29, 2018 06:21
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KungFu Grip posted:I guess the last KOT team is Dasher, Boomer, and Mr Touchdown I feel like Dasher has had a really weird King of Trios career. Here's his teams 2017: TD & Simon Grimm 2016: Mustache Mountain 2015: TD & Icarus 2014: TD & Icarus 2012: TD & Colt 2011: Sugar Dunkerton & Colt 2010: Sugar & Colt And how they've done. 2017: 2nd round to House Strong Style (Beat House Attack) 2016: 2nd round to HeXed Men (beat The Batiri) 2015: 1st round to Battleborn (Kevin Condron, Lucas Calhoun & Missile Assault) 2014: Finals to Dev Corp (beat LAX, Spirit Squad and The Flood) 2012: 1st Round to JWP 2011: 1st Round to Osaka Pro 2010: 1st Round to FIST Personally I always liked the Dunkerton version of the Throwbacks. I'm really sad we never got to see Dasher, TD & Dunkerton as a trios. Also sad that the whole Sugar Dunkerton thing ended up being one of those eternal loose strings from the company.
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Aug 1, 2018 03:29
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:Dunkerton still wrestles as Dunkerton, so is him not wrestling with Chikara another weird thing with Quack? I believe he got the "I have nothing for you" treatment from Quack after the whole storyline with FIST played out. But it was also at the time Quack stopped having a lot of the out of towners come in, so that was probably part of it too.
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It would actually be interesting if Touchdown wins the title, Shenanigans happen at Trios between TD and Dasher, leading to a TD/Dasher match for the grand championship. That being said, we're probably stuck with JFDC as Grand Champion till the end of the year. Can't wait for Dasher to win the title and then lose it to someone after 3 months as the payoff to JFDC's eternal run.
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Aug 11, 2018 17:39
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I don't think I've ever been so happy to be wrong.
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Aug 11, 2018 23:58
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DM Punk posted:Dasher is the interim-Grand Champion until Mr Touchdown gets back. So, I guess his injury was legit. I think it's just a good way for them to setup face vs face championship match between them at the end of the year.
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Sep 6, 2018 02:15
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I hated NRG with a passion, but I've come around on Race because him and his stable at least seems interesting. I've hated Hype Rockwell just floating around and being a jobber to the stars even more then his time as a part of NRG. Hype's had 12 matches this year and only has a win over a jobber and in a trios match against Blank's stable. The last time Hype has won a match (not counting a 1 minute DQ, Jobber or Blank/Race) was Aniversario in 2015 which was a 4 way that also had Los Ice Creams, The Batiri and The Colony. He's had a total of 51 matches, is arguably part of the worst tag team to hold the titles, and rarely wins anyway. During a relatively long losing streak he's also gotten a 17 minute match with the grand championship on the line. I had to check, and Sugar Dunkerton had a total of 52 matches for his run in Chikara. Dunkerton was also a lot better at actually connecting with the crowd, wasn't a black hole of charisma and actually had entertaining matches. It feels ridiculous that Dunkerton's not coming back at all because of whatever disagreements (I've also heard that Quack basically said he had nothing for him to do) but Rockwell just keeps coming back.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Sugar also lives in the UK now, I think? Looks like he spent a few months in the UK this year, even so he's done matches in Quebec, NJ, NY, Indiana, Illonis, along with a lot of matches geographically closer to him in the southeast. He also hasn't wrestled for Chikara since 2013, so there's a lot of empty space in between. I realize most likely it's because of money and they couldn't afford to have him travel up here.
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