2006-2018 Chikara Trading Cards (Chikara Pro Wrestling)
___ 1 Shanesaw
___ 2 Crossbones
___ 3 Delirious
___ 4 Claudio Castagnoli
___ 5 Larry Sweeney
___ 6 Hallowicked
___ 7 Equinox
___ 8 Chris Hero
___ 9 Los Ice Creams
___ 10 Gran Akuma
___ 11 Mike Quackenbush
___ 12 Chuck Taylor
___ 13 Hydra
___ 14 The Colony
___ 15 Icarus
___ 16 Ultramantis Black
___ 17 Lince Dorado
___ 18 Eddie Kingston
___ 19 El Pantera
___ 20 Shayne Hawke
___ 21 Tim Donst
___ 22 The Osician Portal
___ 23 Mitch Rider
___ 24 Cheech Hernandez
___ 25 Super Smash Brothers
___ 26 Brodie Lee
___ 27 Frightmare
___ 28 Dasher Hatfield
___ 29 The Batiri
___ 30 Mark Angelosetti
___ 31 Juan Francisco De Coronado
___ 32 Razerhawk
___ 33 Hermit Crab
___ 34 Cornelius Crummels
___ 35 Merlock
___ 36 Travis Huckabee
___ 37 Solo Darling
___ 38 The Proletariat Boar Of Moldova
Bonus Card
___ 0 Manami Toyota
RELEASE INFORMATION:
– The Toyota chase card was released in July 2006 with an additional new card released nearly every month. New cards were released at Chikara Pro Wrestling events.
– Traditional trading card size.
– Several of these cards were pulled from the set and inserted into ‘The Best Of Chikara’ DVD’s.
– Cards are numbered on the back and contain bio information.
– Cards were designed to spotlight the indie promotion Chikara Pro Wrestling (Chikara) in Philadelphia, PA.
– Cards #31 – #38 were released in 2018. They were released in the Chikara wrestling subscription crates (“The Parcel Of Power”) at 2 per month starting in April of that year.
– Cards with the dark blue, almost indigo borders, were made between 2006 and 2010. The ones that are lighter blue are the latter cards, which were 2016 – 2018 (Merlok, Solo Darling, etc.) The cards where the image is centered and the cut of the card is very even, are from the start of the runs. By the end of some boxes, the colors had shifted visibly, and the borders are not as neat. The more “mint” the card looks, the earlier in the production run it is from. There were some cards where, by the end of the run, they were being rejected for quality reasons. Some of the cards Chikara should have hundreds of in their inventory, but because they were too far outside of what promoter considered acceptable, they were rejected at delivery. This has also impacted some of the card’s availability since, just as an example, over a hundred of the Eddie Kingston cards were refused due to wild color variations. Rather than reprint the balance, the printer just refunded the balance, leaving Chikara with short runs on several cards.