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- Before the show on Saturday in Easton got underway, Chikara held an open challenge for prospective students to their Wrestle Factory, with the winner getting a free tuition to the school. The name of the guy who won is Jordan, and according to referee extraordinaire and all around man of all seasons Bryce Remsburg, he's from Minnesota and was planning on moving out here anyway to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler. I wish him the best of luck and look forward to seeing him in a Chikara ring in a year or two.
- As if you didn't have ENOUGH Chikara on your plate, this week will be Chikara Week! on TWB. Most of our features will be Chikara-related, as well as the analysis blogs concerning Chikara. It won't be all Chikara, all the time, but it'll be quite close to that.
- Oh yeah, the WWE held a PPV last night, the third in the last 6 weeks, although from the sounds of it, it was worth buying outside of the two title matches. As I had expected, Dolph Ziggler and Daniel Bryan tore the house down, eliciting a "This is awesome!" chant from the raucous Minneapolis crowd, which according to reports was loud and rowdy most of the night. Bryan got his third straight tapout win on PPV, which can only mean the WWE likes him, they really, really like him. Goldust and Ted DiBiase also had a standout match. No singles titles changed hands. Layla defeated Nattie Neidhart with an assist from Mrs. McTaker. Kane defeated Undertaker in a (ugh) Buried Alive match with an assist from Nexus, and Wade Barrett defeated Randy Orton via DQ when John Cena gave Barrett an Attitude Adjustment. Way to blow months of storytelling in a couple of weeks, guys. Seriously, either the bookers have ADD, or they think that the crowds do, because there's no reason for any of this to be happening yet. Oh yeah, Cena and David Otunga are the new Tag Team Champions, doing what they couldn't do back when Otunga guest hosted RAW. They beat Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre. Shame, because there's a lot of mileage in that pairing, and knowing the WWE, they're probably going to split them up with no fanfare. Ugh. In the actual Bragging Rights match, Smackdown won for the second straight year, with Rey Mysterio and Edge surviving for the team.
- Speaking of Undertaker, who's rumored to be going on the shelf with shoulder surgery, he was in the crowd at the big UFC card Saturday night, where Cain Velasquez knocked Brock Lesnar the fuck out. This wouldn't be important - wrestlers go to these things all the time and Taker is a huge MMA fan - except that there was a confrontation between Taker and Lesnar after the fight while Taker was being interviewed by AOL Fanhouse's Ariel Helwani. Here's the video:
Now, why would Taker have beef with Lesnar? Well, if you believe Dave Meltzer, it's not a legit beef and Vince McMahon has reached out to Lesnar to wrestle Taker at WrestleMania. Yep, Vince wants Lesnar to come back to job to Undertaker at WrestleMania. Not.Gonna.Happen. I'll have more on this later today, but yeah, no.
- Hurricane Shane Helms made his JAPW debut at Halloween Hell this past Saturday, and Jerry Lawler defeated Nick Gage in Jersey City. Also on the card's main event, Dan Maff defeated Brodie Lee. I'm not sure which belt (Maff is the JAPW Champ, Lee the NJ State Champ) if any was on the line, but I gotta give props to Brodie for double dipping both Chikara and JAPW even though he was jobbing on both cards.
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
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