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Wednesdays is already a bit of a wrestling cornucopia and you may be wondering, how do I fit all these shows in even without there being more to offer... But Chikara have joined the fray and as a smitten fan I want you to know that it's worth the time!

From Wednesday, July 29, for six weeks Chikara will be bringing their own brand of whacky professional wrestling to the Wednesday Wrestling block. It will stream live on their youtube as well as their own site via Chikaratopia. It will start at 7pm ET time, before NXT/Ring of Honor/Lucha Underground, so you wont be missing anything there.

I'm not asking for everyone to tune in, I appreciate that like most wrestling it will have its fans and some might not be enthused... but as someone who's followed this company around internationally (soon) I can happily tell you, that my bias aside, Journey into Chikara will provide you with high action, entertaining match ups which will aim to astound you and ultimately leave you feeling like that fresh faced youngster who watched the television screens in awe.

I know the costumes and characters look weird...there's a guy with a baseball for a head, wrestling ice cream cones, a group of man-sized ants and the Grand Champion is essentially a brainwashed Pumpkin King swearing devotion to the undead forces of Nazmaldun... but it works. Every single person involved with Chikara is fully invested 100% - they live it, they embrace themselves and it shows.

So what do I ask of you?

I know you can get Wrestling Burnout just trying to keep up with Wednesdays, and why should you add a new show to your already busy schedule?

Well I'm not asking for you to watch religiously, I just hope you check it out. If not just to dip your toe into the wonderful whacky world of Chikara, but to show founder/head booker/owner Mike Quackenbush that the demand is there.

Show him that it's wanted and we can help make Chikara grow. And if you're still unsure about it all, go to their YouTube channel, check out the Podcast-A-Go-Gos, the free matches (espeically the staff picks featuring folks named Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castignoli, Sara Del Rey and Brody Lee that you might recognize)...there's tons of them up there, check them out, see what Chikara is about!

There is a time when I would have been ecstatic at seeing this, but that time feels like it has long passed (and it's only been eight months). I'll still watch, but not with the same enthusiasm I once had.

Big Red Machine wrote:There is a time when I would have been ecstatic at seeing this, but that time feels like it has long passed (and it's only been eight months). I'll still watch, but not with the same enthusiasm I once had.

I'm positive about this, my biggest problem this year has been that it got really hard to follow CHIKARA regardless of what they're doing, so this could put be back into following.

Reports were that this was basically just a Podcast-a-go-go that you can only watch live and had a lot of audio sync issues.

Ain't nobody got time for that.

KILLdozer wrote:Ain't nobody got time for that.

Especially on Wedensday

So apparently this has been "cancelled" after episode 4, with the reasoning being that CHIKARA needs to focus their resources on King of Trios.

Oh Chikara...

I don't think I've ever seen a promotion so many people loved so much drop off so quickly- but that's what happens when you call yourself the storytelling promotion and then fail at telling your epic story.

Big Red Machine wrote:I don't think I've ever seen a promotion so many people loved so much drop off so quickly- but that's what happens when you call yourself the storytelling promotion and then fail at telling your epic story.

this isn't even a storytelling problem, this just sounds like bad resource management.

cero2k wrote:

Big Red Machine wrote:I don't think I've ever seen a promotion so many people loved so much drop off so quickly- but that's what happens when you call yourself the storytelling promotion and then fail at telling your epic story.

this isn't even a storytelling problem, this just sounds like bad resource management.

That's the claim, anyway, but given the fact that they have been announcing teams for months, I can't see how this would be the issue. Are you telling me that Quack doesn't have the tournament booked yet? I'd be surprised if he doesn't have the season finale all booked out yet.
This seems like an excuse because it got either a pathetic number of views or really bad feedback (the not on demand things seems to have bothered a lot of people- especially those of us who were already watching four straight hours of wrestling Wednesday nights).