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Was Coronado's title reign a positive or negative for Chikara? Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein Welcome to the beginning of the YEAR-END BLOWOUT, where The Wrestling Blog takes a look back at the previous year and ahead to 2018. Usually, I do a comprehensive year end review for several promotions, but this year, I fell pretty much behind following anyone except WWE adjacent companies, and let me tell you, even that was rough. I won't get into the reasons, but still, wrestling is hard to totally ignore. So I'm going to take a cursory look at some of the promotions I think were worth checking out last year and may make some waves in the coming year, starting with, you guessed it, Chikara. The year 2017 was tumultuous for Chikara to say the least. It experienced a lot of roster turnover, exported King of Trios not only outside of Eastern Pennsylvania for the first time, but out of the United States altogether, and it crammed two seasons into one year, including a secretly-taped...

Max Smashmaster will be looking to end Mike Quackenbush, once and for all Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein It's the weekend, baby! You know what that means, time to drink precisely one beer and dial 911  wrestling is happening, and it's happening all around this great world. I'm going to highlight three shows which I think will be of most interest. Of course, I'm only one person. You can check out which shows are coming up possibly in your area via Cagematch . Anyway, go to, if you can, these great shows that may be happening in your area, on television/YouTube/streaming, or for later consumption via VOD, DVD, or whatever other means one uses to consume wrestling at a later date: Chikara Silence in the Library, Dark Water, and Kill the Moon Tonight, Tomorrow, and Sunday (11/17-19), Kennebunk Elementary School, Kennebunk, ME (Friday, 7:30 PM local), Pentucket Lake School, Haverhill, MA (Saturday, 3 PM local), and the Old Country Banquet Hall, Enfield, CT (Sunday, 2 PM lo...