[Mattyb2266]

Originally Posted by mobyomen

I have the CZW Cage of Death 14 DVD sitting on my shelf. I'm waiting until tomorrow or Saturday night to watch it with friends, PBR and pizza. Does anyone have it or seen it? Is it enjoyable or a waste of money?

I'd say it's the best Cage of Death since COD11. Such a great show, especially considering it was the first COD since 2001 that hasn't been in the arena, but the place was packed, and the show was just crazy from top to bottom.

[NO!]

I just started going through the "PWG Sells Out 3" compilation and I've seen some great stuff so far that I hadn't seen before.

Mainly PAC vs. Generico and Bryan vs. Hero

Claudio and PAC was also an interesting match-up

[smitlick]

Chikara - Zelda The Great

1. Da Soul Touchaz vs The Batiri
**3/4

2. The Devastation Corporation vs Wayne Campbell & Garth Algar
SQUASH

3. El Generico vs The Shard
***1/4

4. Soldier Ant & deviAnt vs F.I.S.T.
***

5. Mike Quackenbush vs Colt Cabana
***

6. Jigsaw, Fire Ant & assailAnt vs The Bravado Brothers & Jimmy Jacobs
***1/4

7. Gran Akuma vs Tim Donst
**

8. 3.0 vs The Throwbacks vs The Mysterious and Handsome Stranger & Sapphire vs Icarus & Sugar Dunkerton
***1/2

9. The Young Bucks vs The Spectral Envoy
***3/4

[JoeRulz]

1. A Touch of Class
Pinkie Sanchez vs. Green Ant

***


2. A Touch of Class
Die BDK (Claudio Castagnoli, Ares, Tursas & Lince Dorado) vs. Mike Quackenbush, The Future is Now (Jigsaw & Equinox) & Eddie Kingston

***1/2


3. The Mint Condition
Mike Quackenbush & The Future is Now vs. Brodie Lee & The UnStable

***1/2


4. A World of Comforting Illusions
Eddie Kingston vs. Gran Akuma

**1/2


5. Wit, Verve and a Bit o’ Nerve
Lince Dorado vs. Equinox

**1/2


6. Wit, Verve and a Bit o’ Nerve
The Osirian Portal vs. The UnStable (Vin Gerard & STIGMA)

DUD


7. Dead Men Don’t Laugh
Pinkie Sanchez vs. Equinox

***


8. King of Trios 2010: Night 1
Round 1: Team Big Japan vs. Team Frightning

****


9. King of Trios 2010: Night 2
Quarter-Finals: F.I.S.T. vs. Team Osaka Pro

***1/2


10. Aniversario Elf
Campeonatos de Parejas: Claudio Castagnoli & Ares © vs. Incoherence

Amazing.

****1/4


11. We Must Eat Michigan’s Brain
Mike Quackenbush vs. Green Ant

Beautiful.

***1/2


12. We Must Eat Michigan’s Brain
Young Lions Cup: Tim Donst © vs. Frightmare

Tim’s character work was great here, especially in terms of building to the Danielson meeting.

***


13. Faded Scars and Lines
Bryan Danielson vs. Tim Donst

Excellent bout. Danielson did his usual awesome stuff, but Donst made this match great.

****1/4


14. Chikarasaurus Rex: King of Show
The Colony & Frightmare vs. Die BDK (Tim Donst, Tursas, Pinkie Sanchez & Lince Dorado)

***


15. Chikarasaurus Rex: King of Show
World-1 (BxB Hulk & Speed Muscle) vs. QuackSaw & Hallowicked

The finishing stretch was awesome.

***1/2


16. Young Lions Cup VIII: Night 2
Round 1: Adam Cole vs. Kyle O’Reilly

***1/2


17. Young Lions Cup VIII: Night 3
Finals: Frightmare vs. Lince Dorado

Terrific match. One of the best storytelling pieces I’ve seen in a long time. Dorado is a dick. Frightmare is THE perfect underdog. Sabato is a rigged cocksucking ref. Poor Frightmare goes against all odds. The whole match is awesome. Workovers. Comebacks. Screw attempts. Frantic climax. This was amazing. How and why are these guys not all over WWE and TNA is beyond me…

****1/4


18. Eye to Eye
Campeonatos de Parejas: Claudio Castagnoli & Ares © vs. 3.0

***1/2


19. Through Savage Progress Cuts the Jungle Line
The Osirian Portal vs. Daizee Haze & Delirious

***1/2


20. Through Savage Progress Cuts the Jungle Line
Manami Toyota & Mike Quackenbush vs. Sara Del Rey & Claudio Castagnoli

Very good dream match, but some solid botches bothered me, and they almost went into overkill. I can’t go four stars on this, unfortunately. There were few breathtaking transitions and moves, though, awesome stuff.

***3/4


21. The Dark Ciberknetico
TORNEO CIBERNETICO: Die BDK (Claudio Castagnoli, Ares, Sara Del Rey, Tim Donst, Tursas, Pinkie Sanchez, Daizee Haze & Delirious) vs. Team CHIKARA (Eddie Kingston, Larry Sweeney, UltraMantis Black, QuackSaw, Hallowicked, Icarus & STIGMA)

So many backstories and callbacks in this match. Everything was easy to follow, even though I didn’t know all the stories, but the commentators did a tremendous job in calling the action and explaining the history. Damn good match, not a single dull moment.

***1/2


22. Scornucopia
Icarus, Darkness Crabtree, Lance Steel & Rorschach vs. UltraMantis Black, Dragonfly, Mister ZERO & Jolly Roger

**


23. The Germans
FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE: UltraMantis Black vs. Ares

***1/2


24. Reality is Relative
Die BDK (Delirious, Pinkie Sanchez & Lince Dorado) vs. The Osirian Portal & Jonathan Gresham

Impressive trios stuff. Gresham and Lince made this match.

****


25. Reality is Relative
Campeonatos de Parejas: Claudio Castagnoli & Ares © vs. QuackSaw

The main event of the Season Finale. Fantastic tag title match. This is how you book a big blow-off. Excellent storytelling all around: Kingston prevents Delirious to make the pre-match attack on the challengers, the officiating stuff with Bryce and Sabato, great selling from EVERYONE involved, not just from wrestlers, etc. The title change felt huge, the big and evil group of villains is finally conquered, and two babyface heroes are new tag champs. This was almost perfect.

****3/4


Well, this was quite a trip. Great compilation, there’s something for everyone. The big majority of the matches were good, with six of those being fantastic, especially the last one. However, I don’t understand why the matches under 4, 5, 6 and 22 made this compilation. Nothing but three mediocre contests and a DUD. Instead of those, they could’ve put Kingston’s bouts with Danielson and Daniels. There was too much of STIGMA and Equinox. Equinox is borderline terrible. On the other hand, Incoherence, Die BDK and Quack fucking rule.

[Obfuscation]

Which Equinox do you speak of - Vin or Jimmy? I never had a problem with either. Then again, I'm probably Vin Gerard's number one fan if I'm being honest.

Set is stellar going by the matches on it. Never bothered owning it since I'm intent on owning every show from 2010. It was my personal favorite year by Chikara so having to own and be able to relive everything is a must. (BDK angle...ah. the best IMO <3)

why did I have to get a new computer and lose all of those precious downloads. At least I own Chikarasaurus Rex: King of Show. Can relive alllll of that goodness.

[JoeRulz]

Jimmy Olsen. He's bad.

Also, this comp needed more of The Colony.

And Pinkie Sanchez used to RULE. Why can't Gabe book him like that in DGUSA? Smh...

Also, I own Best of 2009 too.

[Obfuscation]

Yeah, that set did lack Colony. Don't know why. They were tag champs heading into the year and did plenty too. Finals vs BDK for example as well as the Claudio/Ares vs Fire/Solider championship change match from Wit, Verve, etc. Why the Unstable vs Portal match from that show made it over that I'll never know. Especially when the wild and awesome Unstable vs Portal match from Chikarasaurus Rex was much better and the blowoff to boot. I guess the complaint is fairly moot. A whole lot could have been on it, imo. Ophidian vs Matt Cross or Ophidian's four way from King of Trios Nights 2 & 3, respectively could have been fun additions too. More Ophidian is what I'm really getting at here, haha. He tore it up with Lince in the semi-finals of YLC -> leading into the GREAT finals as you pimped.

Soooo much goodness from 2010. YES @ the Pinkie Sanchez love. He was the man in BDK. If it wasn't for Donst being there he would have been my favorite. Both of their promos from A Touch of Class were stellar.

Never minded Jimmy much as I said. Wasn't crazy about his push, personally. Always was bigger on Colin though. Not b/c of the great work in WWE either...(lolz) He simply appealed to me more.

2009 eh? Another fine year from Chikara. It seems to be the year I trailed off and on during - have NO idea why - but luckily I caught back up in time to witness the epic BDK formation. All those years of building certainly paid off. Plus, 2009 was the year Danielson finally debuted & The Colony rose to tag team championship glory.

Didn't hurt having a great Claudio vs Hallowicked & Donst vs Hydra loser leaves town match either. Oh, and MASKS VS HAIR between FIST vs Colony.

I love that promotion so damn much.

[JoeRulz]

Also, Tursas rocked. Why the hell did he leave?

Also, did Chikara ever make compilations about certain wrestlers and stables, best YLC matches, best CdP matches, best KOT matches and all that jazz?

[Obfuscation]

Yeah he did. Great monster for the company. I have no idea why he bolted following High Noon. Much like a lot of the roster. He vanished.

Nope. It's only been best of's from the various years. A best of some specific matches that you listed would rock. I know they'd sell too. Maybe not a KOT one since those sell as a whole show, but certainly the Tag Championships or specific workers. SMV seems to take aim at the specific workers more than the Chikara brand does. Del Rey & UltraMantis Black have received one. I can see a Colony one coming sooner rather than later. Tbhayley, I'm shocked a set hasn't been made.

Oh, they made a 12 Large Summit set. It has all of the tournament matches + Finals on it. So, there is that one out there along with the Best of Years.

[flag sabbath]

PWG Holiday Sale package finally came today....

Mystery Vortex
Many Adventures of El Generico
Eight
DDT4 2009
Guerres Sans Frontieres

....shame about the £13 customs charge.