Well! We take a couple of days off after the exhausting New England weekend, and the CHIKARA offices don’t cut us any slack. This update alone will hype up two new matches, a blog, a new Podcast and some more little nuggets of info. Let’s not waste time; here come the updates!

First off – new champs! The Colony have won the Campeonatos de Parejas in Nashua on Sunday, defeating the Osirian Portal in two straight falls. Wasting no time, their first defense has been signed and it’s the main event of Easton’s “An Optimistic View of a Pessimistic World” as Fire Ant and Soldier Ant square off against the only currently healthy duo with three points, The Roughnecks of Brodie Lee and Grizzly Redwood. While the Roughnecks have likely been preparing for three falls with the Portal, the ants are looking to prove that they’re not going to be one-and-done like the last tecnico team to hold the belts, the Super Smash Bros. Rumor is that, by the time you read this, the Roughnecks will have some words for the Colony in a Podcast Special Update. We’ll have that video for you here tomorrow!

While Brodie and the Grizz are going to be prepping for three falls of action in Easton, their fellow Roughneck Eddie Kingston is getting himself ready for the following night, where he’ll be taking on Big Japan’s newest rookie sensation Ryuichi Kawakami! Making his debut in December of 2008, Kawakami, a trainee of current Big Japan tag champ (and CHIKARA alum) Daisuke Sekimoto, brings a lot to the table despite being relatively new to the ring. A hype video displaying his sheer power and strength is right on the other side of this link – check it out now.

Sara del Rey has written a very interesting blog here, voicing her recent frustrations with the competition she’s been given recently. Daizee Haze recently voiced similar complaints, so perhaps something is in store for these two down the road.

The latest edition of the Podcast-a-Go-Go, featuring King of Trios 2009 action such as the Soul Touchaz vs. the UnStable and the F1RST Family vs. F.I.S.T., can be seen here

See you tomorrow with more on the latest in CHIKARA!

- CHIKARA “An Optimistic View of a Pessimistic World”
October 17, 2009 ~ Palmer Community Center, Easton, PA
1. CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas ~ V1: Fire Ant & Soldier Ant [The Colony] (c) vs. Brodie Lee & Grizzly Redwood [The Roughnecks]
2. Gran Akuma vs. Jigsaw

- CHIKARA “Cibernetico Incredible”
October 18, 2009 ~ The Arena, Philadelphia, PA
1. Torneo Cibernetico: Tag teams will be split into two squads of 8!
2. Eddie Kingston vs. Ryuichi Kawakami

Announced on the Big Japan Pro-Wrestling website and confirmed by PuroLove.com, CHIKARA wrestlers will be participating on a small BJW show prior to the main CHIKARA/BJW shows. The show will take place on June 9th with a full match listing below. The Colony, Chuck Taylor and UltraMantis Black will all be in action. Mantis will be in singles action against Daisuke Masaoka, a young and impressive wrestler who came out of Daiwa Entertainment Pro Wrestling and has gone on to work for ZERO-1 as well as in numerous MEN’s Club offer matches. Fire and Soldier will be in a tag team match against Global Gauntlet competitor Shinya Ishikawa (known for his forearms of doom!) and Shinobu, a high-flying wrestler who has wrestled in numerous independents all across Japan as well as Dragon Gate. Finally, Chuck Taylor will have a singles match with Yuji Okabayashi, who competed in the Global Gauntlet last year.

A few site updates have been made over the last few days. If you check the profiles you should notice more and more moves pictures being added. Also being archived are blogs from the CHIKARA website.

- BJW “DAINICHI DASH”
June 9, 2009 ~ Yokohama Nigiwaiza
1. Masashi Takeda vs. Atsushi Ohashi
2. UltraMantis Black vs. Daisuke Masaoka
3. Fire Ant & Soldier Ant [The Colony] vs. Shinobu & Shinya Ishikawa
4. Chuck Taylor vs. Yuji Okabayashi
5. Daisuke Sekimoto & Yoshihito Sasaki vs. Ryuichi Kawakami & Daisuke Sasaki