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| What will he do? Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein |
Perhaps the most intriguing event this weekend may not even be a wrestling show. All You See Is Mine was the name of the Chikara show that was to happen Saturday before Wink Vavasseur and the Titor Conglomerate went and cancelled every show in the foreseeable future. Most of the wrestlers have moved on, but Icarus is not like most wrestlers. A guy who spent most, if not all, his career as a member of a tag team or a stable, he found himself alone after FIST disintegrated at WrestleCon. From those ashes though, he found a new family, the extended Chikarmy.
Well, to quote free-spirited songstress of the 1960s, Joni Mitchell, "Don't it alway seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." Chikara was the paradise, and Condor Security paved it up and put in a goddamn parking lot. Icarus, who spent most of his career tormenting, trolling, and wallowing in the laughs of the crowd at large, found a family, and he wasn't about to let that go. So he's going to show up at the Palmer Center in Easton and let the chips fall where they may.
But what is his endgame? Is he going just to say goodbye one last time, to let go? Is he going to stage a sit in? Will there be a guerrilla wrestling show, even if he claimed that there'll be no ring and no matches there? Is he trying to draw out Condor and Titor into a protest-turned-confrontation? Or is he just doing this as his way to segue into a new side-career as a Zumba instructor? I honestly don't know at this point.
I was planning on going myself, but I have my reasons why I can't be there on Saturday. However, I don't doubt something special is going to be happening up there. Some say it's the end. I think it might just be the beginning. Either way, as Bryce Remsburg so hauntingly stated on Episode 106 of the Podcast, if Icarus says he's going to be somewhere, he's going to be somewhere.
I've come a long way from my first day as a Chikara fan. I haven't been on the ship as long as some fans have been, but my roots have gone in deep. Whatever happens will happen. But for those who fear the worst, I think a little faith is in order, because if Icarus' dedication to trolling the fans as a rudo was dogged, then that can only mean his resolve to fight for them as a tecnico is just as solid in the inverse.
Well, to quote free-spirited songstress of the 1960s, Joni Mitchell, "Don't it alway seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." Chikara was the paradise, and Condor Security paved it up and put in a goddamn parking lot. Icarus, who spent most of his career tormenting, trolling, and wallowing in the laughs of the crowd at large, found a family, and he wasn't about to let that go. So he's going to show up at the Palmer Center in Easton and let the chips fall where they may.
But what is his endgame? Is he going just to say goodbye one last time, to let go? Is he going to stage a sit in? Will there be a guerrilla wrestling show, even if he claimed that there'll be no ring and no matches there? Is he trying to draw out Condor and Titor into a protest-turned-confrontation? Or is he just doing this as his way to segue into a new side-career as a Zumba instructor? I honestly don't know at this point.
I was planning on going myself, but I have my reasons why I can't be there on Saturday. However, I don't doubt something special is going to be happening up there. Some say it's the end. I think it might just be the beginning. Either way, as Bryce Remsburg so hauntingly stated on Episode 106 of the Podcast, if Icarus says he's going to be somewhere, he's going to be somewhere.
I've come a long way from my first day as a Chikara fan. I haven't been on the ship as long as some fans have been, but my roots have gone in deep. Whatever happens will happen. But for those who fear the worst, I think a little faith is in order, because if Icarus' dedication to trolling the fans as a rudo was dogged, then that can only mean his resolve to fight for them as a tecnico is just as solid in the inverse.