ROH & CHIKARA Present: "Synergy" - Cards & Results

"Hot Off the Griddle" - April 28, 2012
Chicago Ridge, IL
Frontier Fieldhouse 1:30PM


CHIKARA vs. ROH Interpromotional Showdown!

CHIKARA Grand Champion Eddie Kingston vs. "Wrestling's Worst Nightmare" Kevin Steen

A War of Four on Four!

The Colony & Jigsaw vs. The Swarm & The Shard

Against Insurmountable Odds!

Gran Akuma vs. Team F.I.S.T

First Time Ever!

Sara Del Rey vs. "The Generic Luchador" El Generico

Points in Play!

The Throwbacks vs. The Batiri

Relevos Atomicos!

3.0 & The Spectral Envoy vs. The Bravado Brothers and Jakob Hammermeier & Tim Donst

Tag Team Explosion!

Arik Cannon & Darin Corbin vs. The Young Bucks

Singles Showdown!

Archibald Peck vs. Kobald




"Unity" - April 28, 2012
Chicago Ridge, IL
Frontier Fieldhouse 7:30PM


ROH World Tag Team Championship
The Briscoes defend vs. Jigsaw & Hallowicked

Tag Team Grudge Match

"Zombie Princess" Jimmy Jacobs & "Wrestling's Worst Nightmare" Kevin Steen vs. "The Generic Luchador" El Generico & BJ Whitmer

Tag Team Challenge

Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team vs. ROH World Champion "American Wolf" Davey Richards & Kyle O'Reilly

First Time Ever Tag Team Match

ROH World TV Champion Roderick Strong & "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin with Truth Martini vs. The All Night Express

ROH vs CHIKARA Trios Match - Lucha Libre Rules

"Technical Lightning" TJ Perkins, Adam Cole & Jay Lethal vs The Colony

The Bandwagon Returns

The Bravado Brothers vs. The Young Bucks

Signed to appear:
- "The Prodigy" Mike Bennett with Maria Kanellis

I think it's just a case of putting over the opposition so that, when the Briscoe probably overcome Jig and Wicked, that ROH looks good by having their tag team champions beat said stalwarts of Chikara. Basically, it's just putting over Chikara so that any newcomers to ROH don't look at the two masked wrestlers and think to themselves "These masked freaks ain't nuthin' compared to Dem Boys," or something like that. Right now ROH probably has much more exposure to many more wrestling fans than they have before thanks to Sinclair Broadcasting, but the last thing they want to do is even suggest disenfranchising Chikara fans by not treating Chikara like a fairly big deal.

I, personally, would LOVE to see some cross-promotion between the two companies...maybe even a Chikara vs ROH cibernetico. Not only does it give a bit of variety to ROH that they quite frankly lack, but it boosts Chikara's profile as not just any other indy.

...Or it could be that Quack wants them to promote the hell out of Chikara because he's secretly a prick, but that's neither here nor there.

Do you remember how much ROH put over CHIKARA when the CHIKARA guys first started to come in around 2007?

I wouldn't be surprised if they're unofficially trying to help each other out. In the last few years, CHIKARA has really broke out as a major player in the indies. Meanwhile, ROH have separated themselves from the rest of the indy world. You no longer have the ROH/FIP relationship. ROH and Gabe's promotions were at odds. The NOAH and Dragon Gate guys have stopped coming in. ROH could really benefit from having another relationship with a fellow company again. Let's face it, there's a reason why the ROH/CZW feud is looked back on so fondly. It wouldn't have worked as well if the CZW guys were just random ROH wrestlers now in a faction.

Originally Posted by D-Pop

I wonder why this thread hasn't been there when Claudio Castagnoli led the "Bruderschaft des Kreuzes" to greatness while being one half of the ROH Tag Team Champions. As I said in another thread, none of these Indy promotions "own" a talent year-round exclusively because they could never afford it. Not even TNA pays their talents year-round, but they pay for a number of dates. There might be exclusivity for PPVs, but surely not for the whole year. That being said, ROH talent can of course join CHIKARA for a few non-PPV shots and vice versa.

Purely talentwise, I don't see it making much sense for ROH at all. The undercard still has plenty of matchups that haven't been seen, and no CHIKARA talent except for Quack has enough value and credibility to hang with the ROH uppercard. And I don't really expect Quack to work for anything else but his own promotion anymore.

Because Claudio was using a slightly different character and was in ROH for as long as anybody else bar a few, AND it wasn't a deal with Chikara to use him?

Originally Posted by KTK

Because Claudio was using a slightly different character and was in ROH for as long as anybody else bar a few, AND it wasn't a deal with Chikara to use him?

Not to mention that at the time, Claudio was a trainer at Chikara's Wrestle Factory.