1) Mask
2) Robe
3) Skull staff dealy
4) Neck adornment
5) Pants/Tights
6) Shoes/Boots
These are arranged roughly in order of their importance to the ensemble as a whole. Obviously then, we must start at the mask:
That is the sort of baseline prototype, but he has worn many variations:
Just to show a few. Now, as is often the case in such a personality-driven industry as pro wrestling, there is often merchandise of every conceivable kind produced in support of the wrestlers to bring in extra revenue. In CHIKARA's case, I understand that while the promotion handles most of this itself, certain wrestlers, such as UMB (and Delirious also, I believe) can and do create and sell their own merch. UMB has a personal website which had, at one point, many dozens of shirt designs available and, yes, masks. But the guy is so damn popular that these things always sell out fast. Case in point, last week he announced a restocking of masks, and as I frantically tried to get a paypal account set up, the entire run sold out.
Yet all is not lost!
I will be attending my first ever CHIKARA show, "Chikarasaurus Rex: King of Show" at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia on Sunday, July 25. UMB has announced that masks will be on sale there. Anticipating similar demand as on his website, I will treat the event like Black Friday and camp out beginning the previous Wednesday.
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