Seven teams have been announced. One other team featuring two Chikara members and a Wrestling Society X alumnus (The Throwbacks and Colt Cabana? Badd Boyz and Jimmy Jacobs? A trio unknown to everyone except Chikara officials at the moment?), and AIW is conducting a trios tournament where the winner gains a berth. That being said, there are still a whole bunch of spots in Chikara's King of Trios tournament that are open and begging to be filled like your mom's box. This week's six pack is my personal wishlist of teams I want to see in it. There's only one, maybe two teams that are actually realistic from this list, but that's why they call it a wishlist. Here goes:
1. Team DGUSA
CIMA, Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino
There will most likely be a Dragon Gate USA team. Who will be on that team, no one knows. BxB Hulk, YAMATO, Shingo Takagi, Dragon Kid, Susumu Yokosuka, Ryo Saito and Genki Horiguchi have all made their marks in America, but if you ask me, the team I want to see is the elder statesmen and their most talented pairing. Yeah, I know, CIMA is part of WARRIORS-5 and Speed Muscle (as Doi and Yoshino are collectively known) are part of WORLD-1, but you can't tell me that you wouldn't mark for that teaming if you knew anything of what DG or DGUSA was about. Of course, the consolation prize wouldn't be bad, like say, a WARRIORS-5 team of CIMA, Dragon Kid and Juventud Guerrera (!?!?!), but like I said, this is a wishlist.
2. The Sisterhood of the Cross
Sara del Rey, Daizee Haze and Pinkie "Pink Ant" Sanchez
The BDK will no doubt get another team in this tournament in addition to the current trio of Claudio Castagnoli, Tursas and Ares. There are several different combinations, but this would be one full of the most win, the ladies of the Brüderschaft (literally for the first two, and well Pinkie's gay). It wouldn't be a bad team in-ring either. As I suspected, Team DeathHaze looked way better against the Osirian Portal than against any other female opponents that I've seen them work against in either Chikara or ROH (I don't get to watch a whole lot of SHIMMER, unfortunately).
3. Britain Through the Years
Johnny Saint, Dave Taylor and Jody Fleisch
Saint and Taylor were both at KoT last year on different teams. Saint palled around with Skayde and Mike Quackenbush on the Masters of 1000 Holds. That isn't happening this year, as Quack is on Team FrightNing with Hallowicked and Frightmare. Taylor was on Team Uppercut with the erstwhile Castagnoli and the now-WWE contracted
4. Team Future Endeavored
Ken Doane, U-Gene and Paul London
The team name would be lulz-inducing, and they'd be three faces familiar to first-timers looking to find guys to latch onto, as well as foils for Colin Delaney and the UnStable in a potential first round match. Doane has inroads to this tournament as he's signed with EVOLVE. London and U-Gene might be harder to get, but the payoff would be pretty sweet if they could. If only they could...
5. Team KILLYOUINTHEFACE
Eddie Kingston, Arik Cannon and Rasche Brown
Yes, it's a randomly thrown together team. Yes, I know Cannon will probably be here again with the North Star Express. Yes, I know Kingston is a lone wolf type now that he's dumped the Roughnecks. But this team would be awesome if just for the stiffness, the strikes and the intensity.
6. The Zoo
Chiva IV, Yellow Dog and Grizzly Redwood
Finally, a silly mishmash of two animalian type wrestlers and a midget lumberjack with an animal in his name. Yellow Dog was a scream when I saw him at the Young Lions Cup, as was Chiva IV, the Mexican soccer playing goat luchador. Grizz is always a favorite of mine as well. This would be a fun first round team to use as fodder without seeming like roadkill.
Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein - Please visit his site to view the plentiful amounts of pictures he's taken for DGUSA, ROH and other indie feds: Get Lost Photography
