Promotions To Watch: Chikara
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...