The latest on CHIKARA

[Crayo]

The following statement was issued to PWInsider.com this morning:
"Some people have been attempting to distract from what happened on Sunday's iPPV by circulating rumors about an affair, a bitter divorce, or a dispute over the ownership of CHIKARA. All of these rumors are absolutely false."
A previous statement issued to PWInsider.com from CHIKARA's promotional end late last night claimed the promotion was liquidating its merchandise and that it would be selling off whatever physical assets (production material, etc.) off.

The idea fronted by the release was that the promotion had been struggling since their Joshimania events did not do well and they had been running in the red since late 2011. The implication was that the "parent company" had pulled the plug - literally, given the end of the show Sunday - on the promotion.

The statement claimed that all agreements with "third party vendors", such as their DVD deal with Smart Mark Video, would be honored through the end of 2013.

The canceled 7/21 date in NYC is now being filled by Kaiju Big Battel. Several of the CHIKARA "Wrestling Is..." sister promotions have already announced other dates that were formerly announced for CHIKARA as well.
As we move further down the rabbit hole, it certainly appears to be a completely massive angle, although what the end game on an angle that shuts down your company and potentially dilutes the brand name by splitting it across seven sister promotions remains to be seen.

 

[Stopspot]

This angle is so damn entertaining and interesting. They have been building for this since roughly 2009 with various angles building into this. Chikara are arguably the best storytellers in American wrestling, though insanely over the top and silly at times.

 

[Fire Ant Loves Cocaine]

I believe Lance Steel has been involved in this fiasco somehow, that involves time travel. So this may have started all the way back in 2005.

There are already lots of theories behind this, including "Wrestling is Killer" and the Eye of Tyr.

 

[Testify]

Brilliant stuff.

 

[Fire Ant Loves Cocaine]

Wrestling is:
Cool
Heart
Intense
K...
Awesome
Respect
Art

In exception to Wrestling is Fun, all of the "Wrestling is..." promotions almost spell out CHIKARA.

Some say that the K stands for Kaiju Big Battel. I believe that the K stands for Wrestling is Fun, going into more time travel foolishness.

 

[Stopspot]

Isn't there a blog about the Titor Conglomerate that has been up since 2006?
And evil Archie was spotted backstage at Anniversario as well.

On a fun side note. When Chikara "died" IWA Mid South returned. It should now be called Wrestling is Hell.

 

[Aids Johnson]

Isn't there a blog about the Titor Conglomerate that has been up since 2006?
And evil Archie was spotted backstage at Anniversario as well.

On a fun side note. When Chikara "died" IWA Mid South returned. It should now be called Wrestling is Hell.

Where can i watch/keep up with this? Let me know when to start watching and ill go back, this looks amazing.

 

[Fire Ant Loves Cocaine]

Isn't there a blog about the Titor Conglomerate that has been up since 2006?

http://noprivatearmy.blogspot.ca/

 

[seabs]

That blog mentions the NWO Hogan is going to chikara brother.

 

[Stopspot]

For those interested. Here is a 60+ page PDF detailing the "death" of Chikara:
http://chikaralives.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/chikara-is-it-really-dead.pdf

These fucking angles man, angles!

 

[Stopspot]

This was posted by Icarus on the CHIKARA message board:

"I've spent the past month reminiscing about CHIKARA and the arc of my life these last 11 years. There is one memory that stands out more than any other: the year CHIKARA ended.

The bureaucrats got the better of us. After a hard fought battle with the Allentown Zoning Board, we were denied our right to run events out of the Wrestle Factory because we lacked adequate parking for the venue. So that was it. The Wrestle Factory moved on and CHIKARA, barely even out of the gate, was put down.

In that down time, the family grew. We should have been scattered, broken apart. But the fight with the zoning board actually brought us together. We hit the road here and there but in the end, we focused on bringing CHIKARA back. We came to understand that when each of us is working tirelessly for the same end goal, together, we can change the world. Even in those dark days, we knew we were at the dawn of something special. So we regrouped. We fought to bring our vision for wrestling to life, we fought for our ideas, and eventually we won.

And now here we are 11 years later, shut down by a group of bureaucrats. And I look at this forum and where are my brothers in arms crying "fight!" like we did back in 2002? I see whimpering posts that seem to be saying "I accept this fate." It makes me sick, and heart-broken. It makes me angry. CHIKARA isn't some shadowy corporate suits pulling the strings behind the scenes. I am CHIKARA. You are CHIKARA. Are you forgetting that?

I was given a family that quite honestly, I can't stand. So I spent my adult life creating and molding a new one. A family that I respect and love. You can shut the doors, liquidate the assets, and slap a "for sale" sign on a company, but not a family. Not my family.

On my calendar July 20th is marked "Easton, PA." That's where my family was supposed to be that day. And I do not accept this fate. If Easton is where CHIKARA was supposed to be, then that's where I'll be. The Palmer Center. 7:00 pm.

I am CHIKARA. Are You?"

The most hated man in wrestling to save the day :yay:

 

[Fire Ant Loves Cocaine]

Irrelevant, but best promos ever: