OCTOBER 22nd @ The American Legion Hall
(Pittston, PA)
1. Cheech beat CP Munk after the Shooting Star Press.
2. Lance Steel made Jay Phoenix tap out to the Boston Crab.
3. Anthony Franco & Matt Turner defeated Crossbones & Rorschach.
4. Larry Sweeney regained his Tex-Arkana TV title by pinning Chuichiro Arai.
5. Gran Akuma won the 2nd annual Torneo Cibernetico in 104 minutes,
last pinning Shane Storm
The eliminations were as follows: Skayde pinned Blind Rage. Chris Hero pinned Sabian. Hallowicked pinned Jigsaw. Shane Storm eliminated UltraMantis Black. Icarus made Mister ZERO tap out. Claudio Castagnoli pinned Eddie Kingston. Claudio Castagnoli made Skayde tap out. Milano Collection AT made Chris Hero tap out. Milano Collection AT made Icarus tap out. Mike Quackenbush pinned Arik Cannon. Claudio Castagnoli pinned Milano Collection AT. Mike Quackenbush pinned Claudio Castagnoli. Gran Akuma pinned Mike Quackenbush. Shane Storm pinned Hallowicked. Gran Akuma used his Yoshi Tonic from the middle turnbuckle to pin Shane Storm to win the Cibernetico. Afterwards, a bloody Shane Storm challenged Akuma to a mask vs. mask match for November 13 at the ECW Arena, which Chris Hero accepted to the shock of an exhausted Akuma.

What is this? And how awesome is that?

And they have a guy named CP Munk. awesome.

I read 107, but either way, fucking nuts. Pick this DVD up when it comes out.

Wow, that sounds like a hell of a match.

Waitaminut...there's a rassler named "Rorshach"? How the fuck he is not teaming up with someone named "Nite Owl" is blasphemy. Can't wait until he busts open a toilet bowl and electrocutes his opponents with a light socket.

I REALLY need to get off my ass and pick up some Chikara.

You guys do realize that "incredibly long" doesn't neccessarily equal "incredibly good", right?

When it involves HHH then the above statement is true.

With 16 wrestlers the quality of those guys, yes it does.

There are MAYBE 4-5 guys in that match that I would be interested in seeing, and I wouldn't eve want to see those guys try to go an hour.

I have no interest in any match that goes for 104 minutes.

Steamboat '89 vs. Dynamite '82?

Even then I would doubt it. There's no credible way, IMO, for a match to go that long. Even when the wrestlers would be as gifted as Steamboat and Dynamite it would still end up starting to suck after the hour mark.

What if they had a naked chick intermission at the 52 minute mark?

Nah. I just think wrestling is best not going past 60 minutes. Past that is needless.

Eh, true. And I can only think of two or three 60 minute matches that I like.

Flair/Steamboat 2/3 Falls - though it's a few minutes shy of 60.

I would put some of the Triple Crown Title defenses but 60 minute draws piss me off more than anything. I notice after about the 45 minute mark for most matches that my enjoyment level starts to decrease rapidly.

I can see your points (I too am not a fan of long matches for the sake of being long matches), but there's 16 people in the match, not just two. I could see how a singles match that went this long would be boring, but there's TONS of different match-ups in this match, so many combinations. Plus you add in all the backstory (if you follow CHIKARA, that is) with great matwork and crisp highflying (which by judging by reports, this match is all about), and you could have one hell of a match. I'll post my thoughts when I get the DVD.

Probably not something I'll watch more than once in one sitting, though, obviously.

At least it wasn't a one-on-one match that lasted 104 minutes.

...104 minutes?! 1 hour and 44 minutes?!? Jesus fucking Christ. I'd probably want to hang myself. 1 hour? Sure. 70 minutes? Pushing it... but 104?! I don't give a shit if there was 50 men, that's too fucking long for one god damn match!

Even the Royal Rumble only lasts about an hour, and that's with 30 wrestlers. Although that's an over-the-top-rope battle royal, and not an elimination match by regular one fall rules.

I'd definitely like to see it, just to see if a 104 minute match can indeed be done. And I've never heard of this promotion either

You seriously need to get on that.......