CHIKARA is billed as a family-friendly wrestling promotion. In addition to being staffed and booked like a Marvel comics series, the action itself seeks to impress through technical mat mastery and high-flying lucha shenanigans. Not counting intentional slams into ringposts and rails, it is very rare that foreign objects are ever used--I only stop short of saying "never" because I watched Drake Younger put Vin Gerard in a garbage can at Chikarasaurus Rex (he might have also hit him with it, I'll have to go back and check).
This is the environment within which UltraMantis Black operates, but all that means is that he is easily underestimated. Oh, you don't think UMB can play that CZW nonsense when he has to?
Here's a highlights clip from a deathmatch he wrestled for some indy promotion called FTW (heh) in Tennessee, I'm guessing in about 2007, with two guys who both appear to be discarded jobbers from 1999 WCW. Neither of them are fit to lace UMB's boots, so my guess is that the match was part of some Neo-Solar flagellant obligation. All the highlights are worth watching, but if you're pressed for time, just skip to the Death Valley Bomb through a barbed-wire table (0:57) and the match-ending spot (1:41).
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