What went wrong?
What went wrong?
An ass and pussy was too good.
Quackenbush getting divorced and going off the deep end with the booking.
Comedy promotions are always doomed
The last 7 years
They did things backwards and went broke before they got woke...then went even more broke.
The closing angle
Chikara getting raided by WWE of all companies
And people getting tired of working by Quack.
If the company closed and came back with Claudio, Sara, Brodie then they might had a shot. Their other draws in Eddie Kingston and the 2/3 of the Colony just got tired of working in Chikara and left.
So what it was left was a company with Icarus as the top guy, which bless him, it's really not enough to survive in this day and age
Quack is also busted up so he only wrestles in special matches.
Who is left from that? Fire Ant, Ophidian, Hallowicked, Frightmare, Icarus, The Throwbacks and uuuh Chuck Taylor?
They had to survive on midcard/uppermidcard acts who had to be elevated to the main event and a bunch of new guys who are just now becoming maybe something worth watching.
this. And with Quack being an autist, would make talent choose between being in big Chikara stories and accepting other indy bookings.
and now AEW took their ref and important backstage/commentary/booking figure Bryce Remrsburg.
It's tough.
What happened to their Action Arcade Wrestling game?
ive never watched any what is considered the golden age?
2007-2012
But if you want to watch the "DEEPEST LORE" (such as the formation of KOW) then start from 2005
Was there any move more based than the Chikara Special?
Has anyone put Ohno into it while he's been in NXT?
this but if you want to be more exact 2008-2011
You know Chikara is dead by how slow their shows are uploaded on XWT.
The Chikara vs The Flood storyline was pretty based, but they never should have had the main villain lose his mask until the very end. He wasn't as intimidating without it. The goofy tournament they did the next season kind of ruined it for me, although King of Trios is usually pretty solid every year.
I liked the year round tournament desu.
It was The Flood storyline that didn't work for me at all.
Once they killed Archie it was over for me. He was the soul of chikara
I took 8 hour bus trips to see KoT in 2008 and 09 in Philly.
I bought tons of their DVDs from 2007 to 2010.
Then Quack cheated on his wife with Saturyne. Then he got divorced. Then he folded all his assets including Chikara so she wouldn't get anything. And now we're stuck with the shell it is now.
I remember hearing that there was a time that Chikara was trying to pitch the idea of a wrestling show to nickelodean or cartoon network or some where as a sort of Saturday morning cereal type program.. Essentially GI Joe but with wrestlers instead of soldiers. Shame they never got picked up.
Unfortunately like always. A man can’t keep it in his pants and a womeme couldn’t not be a whore ruining the good times for everyone.
A tale as old as time.