CHIKARA

Back then was cool.

And then being on the Chikara Young Lions Cup five.

That was really cool, too.

And then that's all I ever wanted to do.

So even by today's standards, it was still, it was still solid.

Absolutely.

And you mentioned, you know, you, you, you did Chikara stuff and I feel like you, you are like so perfect for that universe, you know? Yes.

And you've had a whole lot of really great matches with folks from Chikara as well outside of Chikara.

It is not subtle.

If they could call this promotion Chikara, I think they would.

I don't...

Yeah, maybe.

I do.

So Cloudy used to be in a tag team that wrestled for Chikara many years ago.

And so I went to see a Chikara show at the Pocono Mountain West High School in Pennsylvania.

It was one of the rare outside of like Philadelphia like Chikara would tour certain places like Chicago and North Carolina stuff like that, but Stuff like that like it was a it was for charity or something.

So they were at this high school so I show up to the show and I'm super early and They have multiple buildings and they have no signs anywhere.

So you have no idea where the wrestling is happening

Was that when Cloudy and Cheech were tagging together?

Yes.

It rules.

It's like Chikara if it was violent.

Like, they're really, really great stuff.

The tag team chemistry between Spark Rush is unmatched.

Why, why is he not just shooting the largest of his opponents? [laughs]

You ever seen the Chikara match where, uh, Bryce Remsburg got shot?

Uh, I, I ha- I have.

I have seen the Chikara match where Bryce Remsburg got shot.

Uh, I-

It's fucking amazing.

It, it is.

I, I am, like, I am, like, wanting to put my name in the ring for, uh, Chikara's ... paper, uh, like Charles I pay-per-view.

There, there's a little bit of a s- of slow work the way you'd have in the opening of a longer match.

There's one minute of real excitement where Hallowicked and Claudio go full Chikara and trade some neat athletic offense, stuff like arm drag variations.

And then the rest is more middle of the road, middle of a match stuff.

And I did like Hallowicked's running up the corner step-up enzuigiri.

I think that's always a cool move when he does it.

What was interesting for me was to watch this in the context of it being Philly, which was a major Chikara market, where you watch this match and Hallowicked gets a small chant early on, but when he gets control for a brief chunk of the match in the middle of it, the crowd goes pretty quiet actually.

Overall, I thought this was average.

There was, again, a fun minute or two of stuff within this, but feels like a waste because it's the first third or half of a match to me.

And then I was like, I want this.

this was like such a great night because I got to meet Spark Rush and me and Momoto and there was all these great shows and I'm talking to Chris Hero and we're starting talking about like the Chikara work we did and when I wrestled him in the ECW arena for CZW and I'm like, the fact that he remembered that and I was like, this was such a great night.

I'm like, I'm going to text Rob and I was like, I wonder what time it is.

It was 11 a.m. his time.

But, yeah, Chika was probably leading this match because Momo is, what, four, five matches in at this point.

Fine opening basic match.

Chikara.

Chika gets the win over young Momo here.