History Trivia / Chikara

* {{Fan Community Nickname|s}}: [[https://twitter.com/chikarmy Chikarmy]] during the "Ashes" angle.

** In an interview, Vin Gerard claimed he was an indy wrestling fan and Reckless Youth mark, and had watched the first ever CHIKARA show as a fan in 2002. Then in 2005 he enrolled in the Chikara Wrestle Factory...

** Ophidian's stint undercover as the impostor 17 in The Flood. He has since acknowledged The Furies as a complete and utter failure.

* ColbertBump: It is likely that Jervis gained more popularity after appearing on a stream with WebVideo/newLEGACYinc, a comedic group of wrestling fans. Some said that one guy bought a large amount of Jervis Cottonbelly merchandising.

* BigNameFan: To the surprise of everyone, including Mike Quackenbush and Reckless Youth, Wrestling/ManamiToyota had a foot out of the pro wrestling business until she was inspired to keep at it after spending sometime in Chikara.

** Chris Hero: ** Ralph [=Cardall=]'s "It's A Bird, It's A Plane", Music/StoneTemplePilots' "Dead and Bloated", Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero"

** Cloudy: Music/GwenStefani's "[=Hollaback=] Girl," The Audition's "Oh How Cliché"

** Skayde used Music/LilKim's "Magic Stick," Music/RageAgainstTheMachine's "Guerilla Radio" and Music/{{Shakira}}'s "Music/HipsDontLie."
** STIGMA used Music/GunsNRoses' "Welcome To The Jungle."

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Before the Chikara101 forums, there were the [=ChikaraFans=] forums. However, the moderators and a few of the most prominent users developed egos and started posting abusively and berating new users over pretty much everything - essentially falling afoul of the [[{{GIFT}} Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory]]. When Leonard F. Chikarason told them to cool off, the owners responded by turning violently against CHIKARA itself, deleting their archives and turning their main forum into a venue to bash the promotion. The Chikara101 forums are as good if not better than the [=ChikaraFans=] forums, but the archives are still missed.

** Hallowicked: Music/{{Laibach}}'s "God Is God", Music/CypressHill's "Insane in the Membrane"

** Ultramantis Black: Music/ManOrAstroMan's "Mermaid Love"

** Eddie Kingston: Music/{{Jay Z}}'s "Blueprint2", KanyeWest's "Diamonds from Sierra Leone", [=T.I.=]'s "What You Know About That", "Money Making Blueprint" by DJ Sonic

** Mitch Ryder: Music/RodStewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?", {{Mew}}'s "Saviours Of Jazz Ballet (Fear Me, December)"

** Max Smashmaster outlasted his teammates (Blaster McMassive and Flex Rumblecrunch) in The Devastation Corporation. If you extend that to the entirety of Bakabella's Wrecking Crew, count Oleg the Usurper among the Breakouts and Jaka among the Jannettys.

** Prakash Sabar and Officer Bruno Meloni were played by the same wrestler who otherwise appears to have been a legitimate new rookie trained by Chikara.

* ActingForTwo: Chikara is a strange animal in this regard compared to other wrestling companies, where they often like to train new wrestlers and bring in other wrestlers and sometimes remake them into a new gimmick. But over the years many of the more OutOfFocus masked wrestlers have been played by more significant wrestlers on the card either as well or all along. Given there's no out of story documentation how many people actually have trained at the Wrestlefactory in some of these cases it's unknown how all the examples actually play out. It's entirely possible some characters have no one regular performer. It's also possible some started out as legitimate new rookies that couldn't make it in the business and thus they just kept the character alive without them. It's also possible some of them can only work indy wrestling part time and such sometimes are played by a regular performer but have someone on the roster fill in if they just can't make it.

* ActingForTwo: Chikara is a strange animal in this regard compared to other wrestling companies, where they often like to train new wrestlers and bring in other wrestlers and sometimes remake them into a new gimmick. But over the years many of the more OutOfFocus masked wrestlers have been played by more significant wrestlers on the card either as well or all along. Given there's no out of story documentation how many people actually have trained at the Wrestlefactory in some of these cases it's unknown if some of these characters have always been played as throw in or if they are part timers who sometimes get substituted, or just rookies who flopped and they just kept the character alive.
** Los Ice Creams being perennial favorites have been this at times if not always. It is believed Quackenbush and Hallowicked have been under the Ice Cream masks before, but for the record most people who have been believed to have played the Ice Creams have been in the ring at the same time as the Ice Creams.

** Chuck Taylor is sourced on Wikipedia as being Mr. Azerbaijan but it is also believed others have filled in and not much belief there ever was an original rookie.

* OneOfUs: It doesn't take much to figure out that Player Uno and Player Dos are huge video game geeks.

** DJ Skittlez: Music/{{Nelly}}'s "#1"

** Chuck Taylor is sourced on Wikipedia as being Mr Azerbaijan but it is also believed others have filled in and not much belief there ever was an original rookie.
** Jervis Cottonbelly was originally played by a wrestler TJ Cain until he disappeared OutOfFocus for years. While the character had a more recent comeback people noticed that Kevin Condron's leave and Jervis's absence being around the same time has heavily implied to have been Jervis Cottonbelly from at least 2015 onward.
** The biggest example though being for years it was rumored Solider Ant and Drew Gulak were the same guy. Especially given how often wherever Gulak went in the states Solider Ant popped up too. In late 2016 Soldier Ant suffered a "career ending injury" on the same show that Drew Gulak left due to being signed full time by WWE. Naturally, noone was fooled.

* ActingForTwo: Many of the more OutOfFocus masked wrestlers have been played by more significant wrestlers on the card. Both Quackenbush and Hallowicked have been under the Ice Cream masks before, and Chuck Taylor is sourced on Wikipedia as being Mr Azerbaijan (though probably not being the only one). Kevin Condron has been heavily implied to have been Jervis Cottonbelly from at least 2015 onward.
** In late 2016 Soldier Ant suffered a "career ending injury" on the same show that Drew Gulak left due to being signed full time by WWE. Naturally, noone was fooled.