SPOILER ALERT, CHIKARA FANS
But this is a great interview with the new Grand Champion of Chikara, KimberLee!
I’m gonna watch the event (Top Banana – http://chikarapro.com/events/season-15/12-05-2015_top-banana) this weekend, but I’ve heard it was great – and my twitter BLEW UP with this news, which was also great.
It was after the fact, when one of my trainers, Drew Gulak, pointed out to me that there has never been a woman champion of a wrestling company that’s not a women’s company – ever. Once he said that, I was stunned. I hadn’t thought that big. There’s a lot of weight that comes with it. I have to prove that I deserve to be that first woman and that I deserve to be a woman that represents a whole company: women, men, ants and ice cream cones alike.
Like all things, Chikara doesn’t always go the direction I’d like to see, but I do think that overall they’re still one of the most progressive companies in professional wrestling in a lot of ways, and this means a lot!
Seriously, it’s an amazing event, all around. It’s Chikara at their best, doing what they do best. I think it might be my fave Chikara event of all, and one of the best wrestling events of all, as well.
The article is really interesting and I enjoyed the insight into her experiences.