On that long-winded and serious note, let's lighten the mood a little bit by diving into UltraMantis Black's moldy yellowed scrapbook for something out of his formative years. This video comes from the DVD of CHIKARA's "Two Eyebrows Are Better Than One", held in January 2008 in Hellertown, PA, right down the road from where I grew up.
This promo is billed as a "flashback". It features The Dark Breed, which was the tag team of UMB and Hallowicked, who were together through 2004 and part of 2005. It is introduced with haughty verve by the Very European Claudio Castagnoli, currently one of the top heels in the hated BDK faction, demanding that we get a life and watch TV. Dig especially the garage tour at 2:39 and the general annoyedness with Eddie Kingston.
Comparing it with more recent promos and commentaries, you can really see how he's progressed from a youthfully exuberant Skeletor-on-meth (also on display in his Create-A-Wrestler Vote Promo) to more of a...I don't know, maybe a Sheriff-of-Nottingham type thing?
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