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The Batiri
The Batiri are a professional wrestling Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Stable, alliance who perform on the independent circuit. They are best known for their time in the now-defunct Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara promotion. The team includes Kodama and Obariyon, who work under Body painting#Face painting, face paint with the Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Gimmick, wrestling characters of demons, and Kobald, who performs under a goblin Wrestling mask, mask. Both Kodama's and Obariyon's ring names come from Japanese folklore from the characters of and , while Kobald is named after the German language, German word for goblin. All three men were trained at Chikara's Wrestle Factory by then head trainers Claudio Castagnoli and Mike Quackenbush. They have also made appearances for promotions like Beyond Wrestling, Collective League of Adrenaline Strength and Honor (CLASH), STAR Pro-Wrestling, Wrestling is Fun! (WiF!), and Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chikara (professional Wrestling)
Chikara (stylized in all capital letters and sometimes referred to as Chikara Pro) was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company took both its name and logo from . It was founded in 2002 by professional wrestlers Mike Quackenbush and Reckless Youth, who also served as trainers and in-ring performers. The promotion held multiple House show, live events per month, with the majority taking place at the #Chikara Wrestle Factory, Chikara Wrestle Factory school. Two of their major events, September's King of Trios, the promotion's premiere event, and April's Tag World Grand Prix were centered on tag team and ''Six-man tag team match, trios'' matches. Their other major events included Aniversario, held in May, and the Chikara Young Lions Cup, Young Lions Cup tournament, held between June and August. In 2011, Chikara introduced the Chikara Grand Championship, Grand Championship, the promotion's primary singles championship. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obariyon Debut
The following is a list of Akuma (demons), Yūrei (ghosts), Yōkai (spirits), Kami and other legendary creatures that are notable in Japanese folklore and mythology. A B C D E F G H I J K A Kesaran Pasaran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ares (wrestler)
Marco Jaggi (born January 12, 1980) is a Swiss Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and wrestling trainer, known by his ring name Ares (or Are$), who primarily competes in European and United States, American independent promotions. For much of his career, Jaggi teamed with Antonio Cesaro, Claudio Castagnoli and Marc Roudin as part of Swiss Money Holding. One of the top tag teams in Europe during the 2000s, the trio won titles in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and their native Switzerland. Under the Freebird Rule, Jaggi held the IPW:UK Tag Team Championship with Castagnoli and Roudin for a record 12 months. They eventually toured the United States in 2003, appearing for IWA Mid-South and Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara, and took part in the Tag World Grand Prix#2003, 2003 Tag World Grand Prix. After returning to Europe, Castagnoli decided to return to the United States to regularly compete for Chikara. Jaggi then brought in Marc Roudin to fill in for Castag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Wrestling Match Types
Many types of wrestling matches, sometimes called " gimmick matches" in the jargon of the business, are performed in professional wrestling. Some gimmick matches are more common than others and are often used to advance or conclude a storyline. Throughout professional wrestling's decades-long history, some gimmick matches have spawned many variations of the core concept. Singles match The singles match is the most common of all professional wrestling matches, which involves only two competitors competing for one fall. A victory is obtained by pinfall, submission, knockout, countout, or disqualification. One of the most common variations on the singles match is to restrict the possible means for victory. Blindfold match In a blindfold match, the two participants must wear a blindfold over their eyes for the entire duration of the match. A well-known example of this match is the WrestleMania VII match between Jake "The Snake" Roberts and Rick Martel. No count-out match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UltraMantis Black
UltraMantis Black (born July 17, 1975) is a Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and musician, who performed primarily in the Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara professional wrestling promotion. He is a former one-time Chikara Grand Champion and winner of the 2012 King of Trios tournament. Throughout his career he has also worked for promotions such as Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Combat Zone Wrestling, Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South and Jersey All Pro Wrestling. As part of his Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Gimmick, gimmick, he wears a mantis mask. As UltraMantis, his original red and green attire was based on the Kamen Rider 1, main protagonist from the Kamen Rider series, while his ring name was derived from another Japanese television program, Ultraman. In May 2004 he renamed himself UltraMantis Black and adopted a new mask and a red and black attire, while also beginning to express Communism, communist views. In June 2006 he formed his own st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stupefied
Marc Dionne (born January 25, 1989), better known by the ring name Stu Grayson, is a Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. Formerly known as Stupefied or Player Dos, he regularly tag team, teamed with Evil Uno, Player Uno as the Super Smash Brothers (professional wrestling), Super Smash Brothers for various Independent circuit, independent promotions across North America, including Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). Together, they are former one-time Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas, Chikara Campeones de Parejas, List of PWG World Tag Team Champions, one-time PWG World Tag Team Championship, PWG World Tag Team Champions and winners of PWG's ''List of Pro Wrestling Guerrilla tournaments#DDT4 (2012), 2012 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament''. As Grayson, they began to work with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) in 2019 as part of the stable The Dark Order. Grayson parted ways with AEW in May 2022, although he rejoined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Player Uno
Nicolas Dansereau (born July 20, 1987), better known by the ring name Evil Uno, is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is the co-founder of Mystery Wrestling. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of The Dark Order. Formerly known as Player Uno, he regularly teamed with Stu Grayson as the Super Smash Brothers for various independent promotions across North America, including Alpha-1 Wrestling, Capital City Championship Combat (C*4), Inter Species Wrestling (ISW), and California-based Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). Together, they are former one-time Chikara Campeones de Parejas, one-time PWG World Tag Team Champions and winners of PWG's '' 2012 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament''. Career Early career Dansereau first began wrestling at the age of 14. At the time, he went under the name "El PoPo". On an episode of Colt Cabana's podcast, ''The Art of Wrestling'', he explained that the decision to change his name came, when El Generico want ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chikara Campeonatos De Parejas
The Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas (''Chikara Tag Team championship'') was a professional wrestling Tag team (professional wrestling), tag team championship (professional wrestling), championship contested for in the Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based promotion Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara. History The Campeonatos de Parejas was introduced in February 2006. The creation of the title was the foundation of that year's Tag World Grand Prix#2006, Tag World Grand Prix tag team tournament, scheduled to be the final TWGP for the promotion. The title was to be awarded to the winning team of the tournament. The eventual winners were the team of Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli, The Kings of Wrestling, who defeated Milano Collection A.T. and Skayde (Team DragonDoor) in the finals of the tournament to be crowned the first Campeones de Parejas. The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli) were the first champion in the title's history, having won the ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Osirian Portal
The Osirian Portal is a professional wrestling tag team, consisting of Amasis and Ophidian (wrestler), Ophidian. The team mainly competed in Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara, where they held the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas, Campeonatos de Parejas, and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). They have also made appearances in Ring of Honor (ROH) and several other Independent circuit, independent promotions based in the north eastern part of the United States. The tag team eventually expanded into a Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Stable, stable with the additions of Escorpion Egipcio and Hieracon. Amasis was forced to retire from professional wrestling in June 2011 as a result of a non-wrestling accident, which led to the official dissolution of the team in September. Amasis returned to the ring in early 2013, starting a rivalry between the two former tag team partners. The team reunited in mid-2013. History Both Amasis and Ophidian trained at the Chikara wrestling school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ophidian (wrestler)
Ophidian is a retired professional wrestler best known for performing with Chikara. He was previously a member of The Osirian Portal stable along with his former partners Amasis and Hieracon. His gimmick is an anthropomorphic Egyptian cobra, which is reflected in his in-ring gear and cobra head mask as well as his mannerisms and speech. Ophidian served as an assistant trainer at The Wrestle Factory, operated by Chikara founder Mike Quackenbush. Professional wrestling career Ophidian trained at the Chikara Wrestle Factory wrestling school. Upon graduation he began teaming with Amasis and the pair adopted their gimmick and their masks to become The Osirian Portal, a team inspired by ancient Egyptian culture. Ophidian became an anthropomorphic King Cobra while Amasis became a break dancing pharaoh. Part of their gimmick involved hypnosis, wherein Amasis would hold Ophidian in a wheelbarrow hold, while the latter places his hands together and waves them in front of their oppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keita Yano
is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist currently working for Professional Wrestling Wallabee. He started his career with Battlarts in February 2007 and remained with the promotion for four years, winning the B-Rule Tournament in 2009. During his tenure, Yano also represented Battlarts in major Japanese promotions such as New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Pro Wrestling Zero1 and American promotion Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara, where he took part in the Chikara Young Lions Cup, Young Lions Cup VIII tournament in August 2010. After the folding of Battlarts, Yano began working for DDT Pro-Wrestling, where, as a representative of the Crying Wolf Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Stable, stable, he became a one-time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion, before parting ways with the promotion in July 2012. Professional wrestling career Battlarts (2006–2011) Yano began training professional wrestling with Battlarts in 2006, when the promotion a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Cole
Austin Kirk Jenkins (born July 5, 1989), known by the ring name Adam Cole, is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of The Paragon (professional wrestling), The Paragon and is the reigning AEW TNT Championship, AEW TNT Champion in his List of AEW TNT Champions, first reign. He is also known for his tenures with WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH). Cole began his eight-year tenure with ROH in 2009 and went on to become the first-ever List of ROH World Champions, three-time ROH World Championship, ROH World Champion. In addition, he is a List of ROH World Television Champions, one-time ROH World Television Championship, ROH World Television Champion, and the winner of the 2014 ROH Survival of the Fittest tournament. Cole has also wrestled for several Independent circuit, independent Professional wrestling promotion, promotions, including Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
