Friday, December 31, 2010

Episode 5 - The Second Annual Golden Rantables Awards!

Well, another year has come and gone, and it's time to give out awards for the most (and least) deserving people in the crazy little world of pro wrestling. Even though this is only the fifth post on this blog, I did have the First Annual Golden Rantables Awards on my previous blog on Wordpress, and since one of my friends suggested I upload them to this site and backlog them, you'll likely get a chance to read those as well. I'd like to think that these awards are vaguely entertaining and a little unique compared to the thousands of other bloggers out there. I hope that's the case, anyway. So, without further ado, let's give out the first Rantie!

The Most Inexplicable Face/Heel or Heel/Face Turn of the Year goes to...Ezekiel Jackson's face turn! BWAH? When did that happen? Some people remember Jackson as the last ECW Champion. I choose not to remember that moment and consider Christian the last ECW Champion. Anyway, he showed up on Smackdown for about a minute, got injured, and was moved to Raw, where he ended up on Raw's Bragging Rights team, seemingly still a heel. Yet after that, I guess he turned face for no reason whatsoever. Or, at least, that's what I'm guessing happened, since during the King of the Ring tournament, which he was a part of, were he considered a heel (which I still thought he was) there would have been a disproportionate number of heels to faces (5 to 3, for those keeping score). Not that it mattered anyway. Yet Jackson started high-fiving fans when walking down to the ring and generally smiling and seeming to be nice. For no reason at all. And he's back on Smackdown, which says to me that (hopefully) his time on WWE television is short-lived. The guy reminds me so much of Ahmed Johnson it's sad.

Okay, I've got to keep this moving, as I've got a ton of awards to give out.

The Most Blatant Ass-Covering Award goes to...The Stand Up for WWE Campaign! If you couldn't tell, this entire campaign was created merely to cover WWE's ass so Linda McMahon would have a snowball's chance in hell of winning a US Senate seat. It didn't work, obviously, since she was running as a Republican in Connecticut. Bad move, Linda. I was absolutely disgusted with how Vince and Co. tried to pass this off as a positive, trying to show how wholesome WWE can be, all the whole having a storyline where two brothers basically tried to kill each other. Great job, guys. Please stop trying to muscle your way into other areas of life and concentrate on entertaining the fans.

The "Cursed Finisher" Award goes to...Pay Dirt! Remember when Shelton Benjamin used this as a finisher? Then he got future endeavored? Then MVP adopted it? Then HE got fired? And now Heath Slater is using it? And how he'll probably get fired? People need to stop using this as a finisher. Do what Dolph Ziggler did: reverse the move and you'll get a major storyline on Smackdown and a long run as the Intercontinental Champion.

And since we're on the topic of finishing maneuvers...

The Greatest Miscarriage of Justice in Relation to a Finishing Maneuver Award goes to...Tyler Reks' NOT Burning Hammer. Goddamnit, Matt Striker, I thought you knew better. First off, if ANYONE used the Burning Hammer as a finisher, Tyler Reks is the last guy I would consider worthy of using it. Second, IT ISN'T THE DAMN BURNING HAMMER! Reks uses an Inverted Death Valley Driver. With the Burning Hammer, the opponent lands very high on his shoulders with his back to the mat. With Reks' finisher, the opponent lands face-down on the mat, having made a 180 degree rotation in the air. The Burning Hammer is a legitimately very dangerous finisher, which is why it's only been used a few times in the history of wrestling. So please, for the sake of all the smarks out there, DON'T CALL IT A BURNING HAMMER! Yeesh...

Best Finisher - This award will be given to two separate people, since I only really watched two promotions this year: WWE and CHIKARA, and I feel that both deserve a Best Finisher Award.

WWE - Kaval's Warrior's Way. Yes, Vince has finally let the Shooting Star Press and the 450 Splash back in (thanks to finally allowing more agile wrestlers work in roles other than bottom-dwelling jobber), but nothing looks quite as awesome as the Warrior's Way. I mean, Kaval jumps off the top rope and stomps both feet directly into the chest of his opponent! If he did that for real, there would be a trail of corpses behind him. It's just epic. Too bad he's gone from WWE.

CHIKARA - I'm not sure I can give this to one person. UltraMantis Black's Praying Mantis Bomb, Mike Quackenbush's Quackendriver 3, Eddie Kingston's Backfist to the Future, Frightmare's Kneecolepsy, Pinkie Sanchez's Burning Snicklefritz (a REAL Burning Hammer), Brodie Lee's Big Boot...I think it's safe to say that CHIKARA wrestlers know how to create an awesome finishing maneuver.

The "I've Got Big Plans For You" Award goes to...Husky Harris! Harris is a unique competitor. He's a 300-pounder, but he isn't a bodybuilder. Yet despite the fact that he looks more like me than someone Vince thinks we should like, he's very agile and deceptively fast. I think that if Creative gets off their asses and realizes what they've got in him, he could be a World Champion within a couple of years. Or bring his brother up from developmental and form a tag team. Lord knows the tag division is utterly pathetic right now. Speaking of tag teams...

The "They Were Here a Minute Ago..." Award goes to...The Usos! Unless they've been on Superstars the past few weeks, I've not heard anything about them since Tamina basically abandoned them to become Santino's girlfriend. Weird, I know. But I believe the Usos got a raw deal. Just a few months back, they were in a high-profile feud with the Hart Dynasty, right up until the abhorrently awful team of Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre took the tag titles from the Dynasty, effectively ending any chance the Usos might have had at winning the titles. Now, they're gone. These two were very talented and showed a lot of promise. Hell, had Creative actually done what I said and kept the Hart/Usos program going for a year or two, it could have finally brought some prestige to the tag division, which, as you may know, has never had prestige in any company owned by one Vince McMahon. Anyway, I think taking any Samoan wrestler off the air is idiotic, and not having any on television leaves a huge (pun intended) hole on the roster.

The Zack Ryder "How is He Still Employed?" Award goes to...we have a tie! The Award goes to: Darren Young, The Great Khali, Yoshi Tatsu, Joey Mercury, Tyler Reks, and, of course, Zack Ryder! Young hasn't shown any improvement since being kicked out of Nexus, having a couple of matches with William Regal, and disappearing from TV, Khali's been gone for months, Tatsu hasn't had a storyline since he left ECW (which is a shame), Mercury's been off TV since the Straight Edge Society collapsed months ago, Reks is just god-awful, and Ryder is merely an embarassment to the business in general. Oh, and about half the women on the WWE roster. Congratulations, everyone! You'd be better off cutting meat at your local supermarket's deli! Well, some of you, anyway. A couple of you could probably make a living in the indies.

The Eric Young "Most Face/Heel/Face/Heel/ad infinitum Turns" Award goes to...Edge! Last year, when Edge injured his Achilles tendon, he was a major heel, and a tag team champion with Chris Jericho. Edge returns early this year, as a face, and takes on Jericho. Jericho then outs Edge as a fake, and Edge turns heel again. Then, he turns face AGAIN when he returns to Smackdown after a brief stint on Raw, and (to me, at least) essentially turns heel once again during his horrible feud with Kane at the end of the year. That's FOUR turns in one year. I know that four turns is below average when you take TNA into account, but it's a ridiculous number in any other promotion on earth. And it's made for a weak character that I don't believe deserves a World Heavyweight Championship reign at this point.

The Most Extremely Cute Wrestler of the Year goes to...Colin Delaney Olsen! If you don't get this, you probably haven't seen a CHIKARA show. Go do that now.

Biggest Acquisition(s) of the Year:

WWE - Tyler Black, Consequences Creed, and AMAZING KONG. Tyler Black is a former ROH Champion, Creed was a real up-and-comer in TNA before being disposed of for no reason at all, and Kong is Kong. I'm shocked WWE signed Kong, but I think she could really invigorate the woeful women's division. Yes, only three or four women could hang with her, but maybe that's for the best. Have her destroy Alicia Fox, Kelly Kelly, and all the skinny models who can't string two moves together, and have the women's division be about competition. Who wouldn't want to see Nattie Neidhart face Amazing Kong? I sure as hell would.

CHIKARA - Sinn Bodhi/Kizarny. If you haven't seen the season finale, Reality is Realtive, but are planning to, stop reading now. Though I did just give something away by mentioning his name. Anyway...remember when UltraMantis Black was fighting off the BDK during his match with Ares at The Germans, and he called for his anonymous bodyguards, who turned out to be Obariyon and Kodama, only to have Obariyon and Kodama be summoned away by a mysterious figure cloaked in black? Yeah, that was Sinn Bodhi. Effing A, man. This is setting up a metric assload of story for the next season, one that I am eagerly anticipating.

Biggest Loss(es):

WWE - MVP and Kaval. Well, not so much MVP, as he'd been languishing in lower mid-card status for over a year, and probably (thanks to Creative) wasn't going to move up the ladder any time soon. It's a real shame, as back in 2007 and early 2008, he was the hottest commodity they had, and many people pegged him as a future World Champion. But Creative dropped the ball by dropping his push faster than I drop $20 on a CHIKARA DVD, and he never made it to the main event. Kaval, on the other hand, was never going to move up, since I think Vince hated him from the start. He was a massive fan favorite (not just the internet geeks, Mr. Cole) and had all the talent in the world to go to the top of any other promotion on the planet. But he was saddled with LayCool at the start, and won, what, one match during his run on Smackdown? What a crying shame. Had Vince actually been willing to push Kaval the same way he pushed Rey Mysterio, we (the fans) might actually sing the praises of Vince for finally changing his tune. But we should have known better than to think that Vince would change his tune after keeping it the same for 30 years. It's a damn shame.

Still reading? Just checking. We've still got a ways to go, so go grab a sandwich or something.

Okay? Let's continue.

The "FINALLY!" Award goes to...John Morrison FINALLY getting a WWE Title shot. Yes, it's next week on Raw, and no, there's no way in hell he's going to win a Falls Count Anywhere match with Miz having Alex Riley in his employ and Michael Cole in his back pocket, but it's taken a year and a half for Morrison to get a world title shot. And he gets it on Raw? LAME. I was really hoping they'd square off at the Royal Rumble, but apparently Creative loves to speed up everything to the point where if you miss one week, a half dozen storylines have advanced too far for you to recognize what's gone on when you tune in the next week. It's awful! Creative, here's a tip for you:



Okay? Let your storylines evolve naturally. Don't force them to move faster than they need to move.

The Moment That Brought Me Closest to Orgasm Award goes to...Bastista's retirement! I know, you may have a funny look on your face right now similar to when you smell a really nasty fart that you know came from the guy sitting next to you but he's acting like nothing happened, but hear me out! Dave Batista was a cancer on this business, and removing him from television was such a wonderful relief that I nearly needed to change my pants afterward. And the way he retired was absolutely priceless: sitting in a wheelchair, left arm in a sling, wearing his douchy Kanye West sunglasses, with a whine in his voice that could not sound any sweeter to my ears. Don't believe me? Watch this (skip to maybe 2 minutes)



Oh, it was such an awesome moment. Too bad they almost immediately replaced him with Sheamus. I was hoping that spot would go to someone who actually deserved a main event spot. And speaking of Sheamus...

The Most Overrated Wrestler of the Year Award goes to...SHEAMUS! Honorable mentions go to Drew McIntyre, Jack Swagger, and The Miz. But why did Sheamus pass by all of these other very qualified nominees? Simple: he's been showered with more titles than the others, and has essentially been a main event-level guy for the entire year despite not showing one reason why he should be there. Sure, he's had a couple of good matches, but he was carried like a mofo through those matches. McIntyre is clearly the worst of the four in terms of actual talent (or complete lack thereof), but he's only been an Intercontinental and Tag Team Champion, Swagger had one (terrible) World Heavyweight Championship reign, and Miz I'm only letting off the hook because he's worked for four years to get to the top. Sheamus is a two-time WWE Champion and the reigning King of the Ring. For a guy with less talent than Dave Batista, he's sure getting an awful lot of titles tossed his way. Is it because he's Irish? Probably. Is it because Vince can use his porcelain skin as a mirror? Quite likely. It it because of his exceptional in-ring talent? Dear god no. Plus, the guy always looks like he's a combination of confused, scared, and a little bit like he has the runs. He doesn't deserve all the titles Vince has been giving him this past year.

The Best Right Hand In the Biz Award goes to...Jimmy "Don't Call Me Equinox" Olsen! Yes, Big Show is twice as big as Jimmy, but when Jimmy throws hands, it looks like it hurts. A lot of that comes from his opponents selling the Knockout Punch, but Jimmy sells it wonderfully as well. I was going to offer video evidence, but I can't find any. Dang. You'll have to take it on faith. Or go find proof yourself. You won't be disappointed.

Alright, we're getting down to the really important awards now. So I'd like to provide a brief intermission.



Okay, we're back. And now it's time for the really big awards!

Most Craziest Ridiculousest Spot of the Year - Sorry, WWE fans, but this one's going to CHIKARA. In a year filled with amazing moves and crazy multi-man chains (including an absolutely insane four-man German suplex at King of Trios 2010 and a seven-man chain of side headlocks at Scornucopia), I have to give this award to referee Bryce Remsburg for his unreal senton off the top rope into a sea of wrestlers during the main event of Scornucopia. For those who don't know, Bryce is probably the ref who ends up doing more spots with wrestlers than anyone else in the history of pro wrestling. He usually "gets caught up in the moment" and does the final spot in a chain of repetitive spots, like this



or this



It's all in good fun, which is why...wait, this is an award I'll be giving out last. Safe to Say Bryce is awesome.

The Best Gimmick Award goes to...The entirety of CHIKARA! From supreme badasses (Eddie Kingston) to insects (The Colony, UltraMantis Black) to Delicious Ice Cream Cones (Los Ice Creams) to video game characters (The Super Smash Brothers) to...whatever the hell Obariyon and Kodama are...CHIKARA is filled with awesome, memorable gimmicks that make for supremely entertaining shows.

The Worst Gimmick Award goes to...we have another tie! The award goes to LayCool and Michael Cole. Go read my post on Cole to understand why he "wins" this award. And if you somehow have forgotten, LayCool's gimmick is pretty much that of two bitches being incredibly annoying all the time and having grade-school-level humor. Sure, I participate in grade-school-level humor too, but I also enjoy satire, parody, irony, and humor that doesn't involve the words "Your Mom" or "That's what she said." Calling Mickie James "Piggie James" and making fun of her for her weight even though she's actually a normal-sized woman (and afterward associating themselves with Vickie Guerrero), calling Kelly Kelly "Smelly Kelly" and photoshopping Jim Neidart's beard onto Nattie Neidhart's face reeks of bad taste. The fact that both of their voices are intolerably annoying (though Layla gets a partial pass because her accent is hot) doesn't help them at all. It was an abhorrent year for the women's division, since LayCool dominated it the entire time when more deserving women were left in the shadows. For shame.

Best Feud of the Year:

WWE - John Cena vs. Nexus. Say what you will, but Cena basically set ten guys up for success in the industry in the future. Some will find more success than others, but still, putting ten guys over in less than a year is really impressive. Also, while I wasn't a fan of this feud to begin with, as it gained steam, I began to enjoy it more, and with Wade Barrett being crushed under a pile of steel chairs, it appeared that John Cena had finally won. But, as M. Night Shamalamadingdong would say (or at least his Robot Chicken counterpart would say), "What a twist!" last week as CM Punk became the new leader of Nexus, setting up the feud for the next few months. Some of these guys are bound to have long careers, and I'm happy for them, because they probably wouldn't have gotten the chance they were given were it not for this feud.

CHIKARA - CHIKARA vs. the BDK. Think Cena vs. Nexus, only spanning an entire company, better paced, and better booking, and you've got CHIKARA vs. the BDK. And this feud really took its time. It's lasted a year and it doesn't appear to be ending just yet. Even though Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw finally took the Campeones de Parejas from Ares and Claudio Castagnoli at Reality is Relative, the BDK is not done yet. I would imagine that they will meet their demise soon, though, as the Sinn Bodhi/UltraMantis Black feud picks up steam. This is another reason why CHIKARA is better than WWE: their storylines have a natural progression. I think it helps that CHIKARA has a feel more akin to a comic book than a soap opera. An awesome feud from beginning (or at least from when I started watching the product at King of Trios) to end.

Worst Feud of the Year: Sorry, folks, this one is WWE-exclusive. And the award goes to...Kane vs. Edge! Creative didn't even wait a couple of weeks after Linda McMahon's failed US Senate bid before starting a feud with kidnapping and death involved. Jeez, Vince, I would think you'd cool off the felonies in your feuds for a few months at least. But no, we're subjected to weeks of Edge torturing Paul Bearer, Kane being the world's biggest dumbass, and climaxing with Kane pushing Paul off a strangely placed platform on top of a ladder down two stories and apparently killing Bearer. It was awful and tasteless, and I wish I could wash the memories of this feud from my mind. Ugh.

Best Announcer:

WWE - Jim Ross/CM Punk. Hey, JR called one match, so he's eligible. Plus, he actually DID HIS JOB, unlike other Raw announcers who shall indeed be named, MICHAEL COLE. And JR smacked Cole with his (JR's) hat after the match was over, which nearly made me pee with joy. And CM Punk receives this award because he was essentially tossed out to the announce table because Creative wanted him on screen even though he was rehabbing an injury at the time. Creative finally truly realized what a commodity Punk is to them. Punk went in blind, but became a better announcer in just a short few weeks than everyone else. He even made Matt Striker look incompetent. I have to give all the props in the world to Punk, who made Raw tolerable to watch while Michael Cole made an ass of himself throughout. And we now know that once Punk's in-ring career is over, we can look forward to his work at the commentation station.

CHIKARA - Really, just about everyone at the commentation station was awesome. Though I didn't terribly enjoy Steven "The Turtle" Weiner's work, and Gavin Loudspeaker, true to his name, did sometimes get a little too loud. But every guy who called a match was excellent. Bryce Remsburg gets a special nod for his amazing reactions to the really crazy spots, like the four-man German suplex at King of Trios:



Can you say, "Holy poop?"

Worst Announcer of the Year: Michael Cole. Do I really need to explain this?

Most Improved Wrestler of the Year:

WWE - Eve Torres. Now before you go laughing out of the building, think about it. Eve has gone from being entirely nothing more than eye candy in 2007 to a legitimately talented performer. She's extremely athletic, and is the only woman (besides Gail Kim) who seems comfortable on toe top rope. Her moonsault is fantastic, and she's damn easy on the eyes. Had AJ Lee not appeared on Season 3 of NXT, I would consider Eve to have the most positive qualities that I look for in a woman. But AJ showed up and I had a nerdgasm. Still, Eve has shown a ton of promise and, if Amazing Kong actually ends up on WWE TV, Eve could possibly be one of the few women who could go toe to toe with her.

CHIKARA - Vin Gerard. Gerard seemed like nothing more than some dumpy, miserable malcontent at the beginning of the year. But he's really gotten a lot better as the months have passed, and he's now a very talented performer. He's still a miserable malcontent, but he's a miserable malcontent who can pull off some crazy maneuvers. Honorable mention goes to Shane Matthews of 3.0, who can rattle off a half dozen headscissors takedowns in a row, which is awesome and hilarious at the same time.

Rookie of the Year:

WWE - The "Rookie" of the Year goes to Daniel Bryan Danielson! Come on, do you honestly think it would have gone to anyone else? The only person even vaguely close to DBD would be Alberto Del Rio, but Del Rio has yet to win a title and DBD has held the United States Championship for several months now. Plus, he's now winning a majority of his matches, which took long enough. Also, DBD has Ride of the Valkyries as his theme song. I can't argue with that. Here's hoping that there are many more successes for Daniel Bryan Danielson. Can you say DBD vs. Miz for the WWE Championship?

CHIKARA - Obariyon. This freakish-face-painted, tattooed brick of a...I guess man...burst onto the scene at the Young Lion's Cup, nearly killing Dustin Rayz on Night 2 but failing to qualify for the finals (since Lince Dorado was also in that semifinal match). But Obariyon has continued to impress me, with a surprising array of moves and holds, a very varied style, and an absolutely sick finisher, wherein he leaps off the top rope , grabs the head of his opponent (who is standing in the ring) and performs a DDT. It's nuts. And now that he's involved in what may be the major plotline of the next season of CHIKARA, it will do wonders for him. The sky is the limit for this guy, and I look forward to his matches in the future.

Tag Team of the Year - This is a CHIKARA-exclusive award, since Vince and WWE don't seem to give two shits about tag teams. The award goes to...Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw! I almost gave this award to Claudio Castagnoli and Ares, since they held the Campeones de Parejas for nearly the entire year, but they kept their titles through dirty tactics and a crooked referee, and no one earned their titles this year like Quack and Jig did. These two teams had one hell of a match to end the year, and because of their victory, Quack and Jig earn the honors as Tag Team of the Year.

Show of the Year - Again, this is a CHIKARA exclusive. I can't pick just one. The best overall weekend goes to King of Trios 2010. Nine hours of extremely high-quality wrestling made this a must-watch for any wrestling fan, and it's the show that got me hooked to CHIKARA, likely forever. If we're talking single shows, It'd have to go to Chikarasaurus Rex. When you've got as stacked a card as Chikarasaurus Rex had, it's bound to be good. The main event, featuring Mike Quackenbush, Jigsaw, and Hallowicked teaming up to face Masato Yoshino, Naruki Doi and BxB Hulk. I'm sure any smarks out there are reaching for a towel after seeing that lineup. But the show was overall of extremely high quality, and deserves a spot in your DVD collection.

Only three awards left. Are your butts tired? Mine sure is. I've had to type this whole thing.

Let's get the "worst" award out of the way first so I can end this humongous post on a positive note.

The Worst Wrestler of the Year Award goes to...Sheamus! Sorry. He just doesn't deserve his current spot on the Raw roster, nor did he deserve his two WWE Title runs or his King of the Ring victory. Besides, everyone already knows that the King of the Ring victory is merely a means to rekindle the Sheamus vs. HHH feud from earlier this year. It's pathetic. You know who SHOULD have won King of the Ring? Alberto Del Rio. Or John Morrison. Or Kofi Kingston. Any one of those three men could have benefited tremendously from wearing the crown and carrying the sceptre to the ring. Instead we get the shamrock milkshake wandering to the ring with his ridiculous crown and walking stick. LAME. Please, let someone who actually deserves a main event spot move into Sheamus' place on the Raw roster. Know who would be great in that spot? Evan Bourne. Well, whenever he returns from his injury.

And now, it's time for the Wrestler of the Year Award. I debated whether to give separate awards for WWE and CHIKARA, but after reviewing all the evidence, really, there is no comparison. This is a CHIKARA award through and through, and only one man is truly deserving of the title.

The 2010 Wrestler of the Year Award goes to...EDDIE KINGSTON! When I first saw Eddie Kingston at Night 3 of King of Trios, I thought he was just some fat guy that the Philadelphia fans cheered because he looked like them. He went on to shatter my expectations and defeat Christopher Daniels that night. Now, let's take a look at his matches from then until the end of the year. He and Tommy Dreamer beat the shit out of each other at Anniversario Elf before being interrupted by the BDK. He fought Bryan Danielson for 15 minutes before losing at We Must Eat Michigan's Brains. He pummeled Delirious at Faded Scars and Lines. He teamed with Tommy Dreamer to face off against Claudio and Ares at Chikarasaurus Rex, albeit in a losing effort. He eliminated four people in the Countdown to Showdown match at Night 3 of the Young Lions Cup before being unfairly eliminated by Claudio Castagnoli. He beat the crap out of Pinkie Sanchez at Eye to Eye. He lost to Ares after interference from Claudio at Through Savage Progress Cuts the Jungle Line. He won the Cibernetico by taking Tursas off his feet for the first time in his (Tursas') career. He pummeled Tim Donst to a pulp at Terror in the Neighborhood. He had a knock-down, drag-out brawl with Homicide at The Germans. And he took Tursas off his feet again and pinned him at Reality is Relative. When you look at the quality of his opponents and how many awesome matches he's had this year, there's really no one who compares. I now understand why everyone cheers for Eddie Kingston. He is the toughest man on the CHIKARA roster, and he leaves everything in the ring for every match. No one else I've seen gives as much in the ring as Eddie, and no one else is as good at telling a story in the ring as Eddie (except maybe The Undertaker). He has my utmost respect, and is my favorite wrestler in the world. If I could even consider having the slightest chance of ever possibly getting in the ring, I'd consider him the top guy I'd want to work with. For anyone who hasn't seen his work, you may think I'm overhyping him. You'd be wrong. He is that damn good.

And now, it's time for the final award. Promotion of the Year. Since I only watched two promotions, it was a fairly easy pick. Still, it has to be said.

The Best Promotion in the World for the Year 2010 is...CHIKARA! Memorable characters, fantastic wrestling, engaging storylines, and variety that puts all other promotions to shame, there really was no question. If you want to see everything in one night, watch a CHIKARA show. It doesn't really even matter which one, because they all have enormous variety. You want comedy? Watch a 3.0 match. You want a phenomenal badass? Watch any Eddie Kingston match. You want to see the best overall in-ring wrestler in the world? Watch a Mike Quackenbush match. They are everything I've been looking for in a wrestling promotion, and I doubt any other promotions I see in the future will top them. Congratulations, CHIKARA, on being ludicrously awesome!

Well, that does it for the Second Annual Golden Rantable Awards. I hope you've enjoyed this epic novel of a post, and I'll be back with more regular content soon!

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