[-Mystery-]

Originally Posted by Jack Evans 187

For anyone who's ordered a grab bag of DVDs from ROH, what did you get? I'm just curious.

I got Best Ofs, Straight Shootings, FIP shows, and various Indy shows. I've heard that people have gotten ROH shows in the past.

[Jack Evans 187]

Originally Posted by -Mystery-

I got Best Ofs, Straight Shootings, FIP shows, and various Indy shows. I've heard that people have gotten ROH shows in the past.

Hmm. Alright. I was debating on getting one or not. Still don't know if I want to.

[watts63]

CHIKARA Cafe Culture

Rey de Voladores Eliminator
Stupidified vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Incognito vs. Turbo **1/2

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Jorge Rivera **1/2

Gran Akuma & Chuck Taylor vs. Mike Quackenbush & Shane Storm ***3/4

Taylor: "I'm Killing Every Kid Under 10 in This Building!"

UltraMantis Black, Tim Donst, Hydra & Crossbones vs. El Pantera, Worker, Solider & Fire Ant ***

Rey de Voladores Eliminator
Lince Dorado vs. Helios vs. PSYCHO vs. TJ Cannon *3/4

Icarus vs. Pelle Primeau *1/2

Hallowicked vs. Amasis ***

Bobby Dempsey vs. Ophidian **1/2-**3/4

Mitch Ryder & Shayne Hawke vs. Player Uno & Create-A-Wrestler **

Just finished watching the Eddie Kingston Shoot Interview from SMV & it was very entertaining. Probably post the star ratings for the matches tomorrow maybe.

[Hailsabin]

Its funny, some shows(like above & Dueces Wild) haven't looked like the best shows, yet this whole year has been awesome for Chikara. Odd.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Anyone seen this before?

UWA 6 Man Tag Title 4 Way Match
Milano Collection AT, YOSSINO, Condotti Shuji vs. Magnum TOKYO, Susumu Yokosuka, Genki Horiguchi vs. CIMA, SUWA, Don Fujii vs. Masaaki Mochizuki, Dragon Kid, Araken

It's from 2003

Bump, anyone?

[Andy3000]

Is that the one from August? If so, yeah, it's good.

[Sonic_Storm06]

My grab bag I got Best of Roderick Strong, Straight Shootin' with Christopher Daniels, Secrets of the Ring volume 2 with Raven, and FIP Unstoppable.

Originally Posted by RockstarScamp

Shimmer Vol 18 just arrived in my mailbox. I'm a happy mark!

My 17 and 18 just came also. Get to watch Melissa kill Danger and Del Rey.

[-Mystery-]

Lance Storm is singing the praises of Kota/Davey...

I just watched one of the greatest matches I've seen in recent memory. I can not put into words the amount of enjoyment I had watching this match, or how freak'n awesome it was!!

The match was between Davey Richards and Kota Ibushi and is on the ROH DVD Bedlam in Bean Town. The show is from Boston, MA and took place on April 11/2008.

You absolutely have to get a copy of this DVD, it is worth the cost and effort for this match alone. There are several other great matches on the DVD, but believe me when I tell you this match alone is worth the price of admission. Do your self a favour, Go buy this DVD!

[Andy3000]

Watched some more Brody last night:

Bruiser Brody v Terry Funk (11/30/81):
More blood, more awesomeness from the Brody/Funks feud! It's pretty much Brody's crazy, insane brawling against Terry's technical work (since Terry wasn't *as* crazy a brawler yet) and it's just a really awesome styles clash, which degenerates into a huge brawl... with a ton of blood. As awesome as Brody is, Terry is just superb in this, doing the little things perfectly, like selling Brody's knee drop to the leg by standing up before just collapsing in a heap in agony. Another thing I really liked was the way he'd blade before Brody would nail him with "a foreign object under his taped fist, but he'd cover the cut with his arm so it looked like he didn't start bleeding until *after* the blow. Brody is the complete opposite, just walking around and taking multiple swipes at himself which basically everybody can see; he always gets a huge gusher though. Finish is weak, but it's the 80s and I've came to accept it now, and the post match brawling with Dory coming out to help Terry and Jimmy Snuka backing Brody is all kinds of fun which makes up for it. ***3/4-****

Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka v Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta (10/6/81):
Not sure why this isn't put on before the previous 2 matches (since it actually happened first), but whatever. Great 2/3 falls match! Jumbo and Brody are awesome, Baba was breaking down pretty quickly at this point, but he could still go, and Snuak even does his best impressioin at not sucking (in fairness, I always thought Snuka was a million times better in All Japan alongside Brody than in the WWF). One thing you could tell was who was the "WWF guy" as Snuka was just disgustingly juiced (as in steroids) here. His double leap-frog/chop combination was always a cool spot to bust out and it got a really nice reaction from the AJ crowd. Finish, again, isn't clean, but Brody was DQd about as much times as he actually won clean anyway so it's not really a surprise. Jumbo busts out a missile dropkick as well. ***3/4

Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka v Terry & Dory Funk (12/13/81, Real World Tag League Final):
Pretty much the best thing Jimmy Snuka has ever been involved in, and one of my absolute favourite tag matches of all time! This was something like my 5th time seeing this and it's still as awesome as always. It's also hugely important in that it was the All Japan debut of a certain surly big Texan, there to corner Brody and Snuka, that would be one of the company's headliners for over a decade later, and who was also with New Japan only 2 days earlier for their tag league final. The match itself is phenomenal with all of the hate and so forth (Terry throwing a lifeless Snuka into the corner just so he can tag in Brody and both guys can beat the living fuck out of the other is > anything in your fucking life) and Terry hitting a PLACHA on Snuka is just awesome. Snuka looked suitably dead. The Funks then work over Jimmy's leg for the Spinning Toe Hold (while Brody and Terry slaughter each other in the crowd for a couple minutes) before one of my favourite moments in puro takes place - Brody tosses Terry to the floor and that big Texan I was talking about fucking nukes him with a lariat! From there it's Dory all alone and eventually Brody picks up the win for his team with a King Kong Knee Drop, giving him and Snuka the RWTL. Post-match Jumbo and Baba get in there and a huge brawl ensues where the newest All Japan Texan juices for the BABA CHOP, followed by plenty of cursing, "fuck this" and "fuck that" and "son of a bitch" this and that and it's awesome and you should watch this sumbitch and you need this fucking DVD! ****1/2

[watts63]

CHIKARA Passion & Persistence

CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas
Delirious & Hallowicked (c) vs. Gran Akuma & Icarus ***1/2 (Worst Fighting Spirit I Ever Seen)

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brodie Lee ***1/4

El Pantera vs. Sabian *1/4 (The Match Went To Hell When Pantera Accidentally Lost His Mask)

Mike Quackenbush, Shane Storm, Cheech & Cloudy vs. Mitch Ryder, Larry Sweeney, Shayne Hawke & Rob Ellis ***

Helios vs. Amasis **1/4

Tim Donst vs. Ophidian **3/4

Player Uno vs. Jimmy Olsen **1/2

Chuck Taylor vs. Hydra **1/4

Grudge Match
Vin Gerard & Bull Pain vs. Solider & Fire Ant **1/2

Why Don't CHIKARA Have Trios Titles?