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Aniversario: Never Compromise was a professional wrestling internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event produced by the Chikara promotion, that took place on June 2, 2013, at the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event marked Chikara's fourth iPPV, third to take place at the Trocadero Theatre and the promotion's only event to take place in Philadelphia in 2013.〔 Much like the previous iPPV, Under the Hood, Aniversario: Never Compromise also aired through Smart Mark Video.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Chikara June 2, 2013 live iPPV "Aniversario: Never Compromise" - Philadelphia, PA )〕 Aniversario: Never Compromise celebrated Chikara's eleventh anniversary and was the first anniversary event to take place on iPPV; in the past, the promotion had celebrated its anniversaries with weekends of two shows. The event saw all three Chikara championships being defended with one title change, where Pieces of Hate (Jigsaw and The Shard) defeated 3.0 (Scott Parker and Shane Matthews) for the Campeonatos de Parejas. Another major match during the event saw former Campeones de Parejas, Amasis and Ophidian, end their nineteen-month storyline rivalry in a Sarcophagus match. The event concluded with a major storyline development, where Chikara's authority figure Wink Vavasseur ended the event and shut down the promotion, while the main event was still going on in the ring, leading to the promotion going inactive for a full year. ==Background== Aniversario: Never Compromise and its pre-show featured eight professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on Chikara's monthly house shows and on blog entries written on the promotion's official website. Wrestlers portray villains (''rudos'' in Chikara) or heroes (''tecnicos'' in Chikara) as they follow a series of events that build tension, and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Chikara follows ''lucha libre'' traditions and is known for its colorful characters and gimmicks and family-friendly content. The main storyline heading into Aniversario: Never Compromise involved Chikara's Director of Fun Wink Vavasseur's struggle to remain in control of a promotion, which had begun to unravel around him. In storyline, Chikara was on January 3, 2011, bought by Worldwide Media Development (WMD) Corporation, who installed Vavasseur as the promotion's Director of Fun or main authority figure.〔〔 WMD itself was owned by The Titor Conglomerate,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Portfolio )〕 an investment company, where Vavasseur's father, W. Conrad Vavasseur, who made his Chikara debut at the end of Under the Hood telling his son to "stop screwing up",〔 worked as the Executive Vice President of Acquisitions.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Team )〕 The group was named after John Titor, a supposed time traveler.〔 Time travel was also part of the Chikara universe with Archibald Peck claiming that he had been sent both backwards and forwards in time as a result of his matches.〔 The Titor Conglomerate also supposedly owned other groups, including the Condor Security, a paramilitary force who worked as Vavasseur's personal security force at Chikara events.〔〔 As part of the storyline, Chikara set up websites for both The Titor Conglomerate and a group opposing them, named "No Private Army" (NPA).〔 NPA remained largely outside of Chikara, trying to expose The Titor Conglomerate's and Condor Security's dark secrets on its blog. However, a supposed member of the group made an appearance at Chikara's April 6, 2013, event, when he handed the promotion's founder Mike Quackenbush an envelope following his match.〔〔 Shortly afterwards, Quackenbush was in storyline kicked out of his own promotion.〔〔 As a Director of Fun, Wink Vavasseur was portrayed as incompetent, not knowing the basics of professional wrestling or even the names of Chikara wrestlers.〔 He also introduced his own "Chikarabermetrics" system, where he assigned wrestlers points and then grouped them together by them. This led to him removing Soldier Ant from Chikara's top ''tecnico'' stable The Colony and inserting ''tecnico'' Sugar Dunkerton into ''rudo'' stable F.I.S.T.〔 Vavasseur and his system were regularly criticized by Chikara employees, most notably The Colony member Green Ant, Sugar Dunkerton, and former referee Derek Sabato. The first match announced for the pay-per-view saw former Osirian Portal tag team partners and Campeones de Parejas, Amasis and Ophidian, face each other in a grudge match.〔 The rivalry dated back to Chikara's first internet pay-per-view, High Noon, on November 13, 2011, where Ophidian turned on his longtime partner, after he had announced his retirement from professional wrestling due to an out-of-the-ring accident. Amasis returned to Chikara on December 2, 2012, at Under the Hood, appearing in the crowd and distracting Ophidian during his match. Amasis kept confronting Ophidian at events in early 2013, which led to Chikara announcing the first match between the two former partners for April 6. The match was ruled a no contest, when Amasis was attacked by Ophidian's allies, Kobald, Kodama and Obariyon of The Batiri, before the opening bell.〔〔 In a blog entry on Chikara's official website, Ophidian claimed that he was ready to face Amasis, but only after healing his previously injured leg. Amasis replied, giving his former partner the right to choose when and where the two would finally meet. On April 12, Chikara announced a rematch between the two for Aniversario: Never Compromise.〔 On May 17, Chikara announced that the match would take place under "Sarcophagus match" rules.〔 On April 26, Chikara announced the second match for Aniversario: Never Compromise, which would see Icarus challenge for the Chikara Grand Championship.〔 On March 14, 2013, Chikara's Director of Fun Wink Vavasseur announced that instead of stripping Eddie Kingston of the Chikara Grand Championship for his failure to attend an event, where he was scheduled to defend the title against Green Ant, he was going to be forcing him to put the title on the line at every subsequent event held by Chikara. When the title match was announced, Kingston was scheduled to defend the title three more times, before the iPPV. During the weekend of May 3 and 4, Kingston got past the first two of these defenses, successfully defending the title first against Green Ant and then against Mark Angelosetti. On May 18, Kingston defeated Archibald Peck to ensure that he would enter Aniversario: Never Compromise as the defending Chikara Grand Champion.〔〔 In the months prior to Aniversario: Never Compromise, Kingston's popularity among Chikara fans had started to decrease,〔 while Icarus, for years referred to as one of the most hated wrestlers in Chikara,〔 began showing signs of a ''tecnico'' turn,〔 which eventually led to the implosion of his longtime F.I.S.T. stable with both Johnny Gargano and Sugar Dunkerton quitting the stable over his actions.〔〔 With no more allies, Icarus reached out to his childhood idol Marty Jannetty, requesting that he would be by his side at Aniversario: Never Compromise.〔 On May 30, Jannetty accepted Icarus' request, remembering how Icarus had shown him respect following an eight-man tag team match on April 6.〔〔 On May 7, Chikara announced the third match for the Aniversario: Never Compromise, where Saturyne would challenge Mark Angelosetti for the Chikara Young Lions Cup.〔 This marked the second time Chikara's only female wrestler would challenge for Angelosetti's title; the original title match between the two took place February 10, 2013, and saw Angelosetti retain the title.〔 Smart Mark Video later announced that the match would take place on the "Freeview A-Go-Go" pre-show and not the pay-per-view itself.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Chikara June 2, 2013 free live "Freeview A-Go-Go" )〕 The fourth match announced for the iPPV saw The Colony: Xtreme Force (Arctic Rescue Ant, Missile Assault Ant and Orbit Adventure Ant) take on The Spectral Envoy (Frightmare, Hallowicked and UltraMantis Black).〔 After Under the Hood, where Soldier Ant was left outside both The Colony and Gekido, he was given the opportunity to be a leader, when Chikara's Director of Fun Wink Vavasseur presented him with three new partners; Arctic Rescue Ant, Missile Assault Ant and Orbit Adventure Ant of The Colony: Xtreme Force, who made their debuts on March 8, 2013. Vavasseur was ultimately so enamored by his new creation that he stripped Fire Ant, Green Ant and Soldier Ant of their 2011 King of Trios win and awarded it to The Colony: Xtreme Force.〔〔 On April 6, The Colony: Xtreme Force defeated The Colony members assailAnt, Fire Ant and Green Ant and Spectral Envoy member Frightmare in an eight-man tag team match, when Missile Assault Ant unmasked Frightmare and then pinned him for the win as he was covering his face. Following the event, Soldier Ant, who had had problems getting along with his new ''rudo'' partners, handed in his resignation to Vavasseur and left Chikara, continuing a recent trend of Chikara wrestlers being unhappy with decisions made by the Director of Fun.〔 Soldier Ant's resignation led to former Gekido member deviAnt taking over the leadership of The Colony: Xtreme Force.〔 On April 17, UltraMantis Black, the leader of The Spectral Envoy, declared war on The Colony: Xtreme Force, claiming that "those who cross one of us, cross us all".〔 On May 4, UltraMantis Black led Spectral Envoy partners Frightmare and Hallowicked along with Green Ant to face The Colony: Xtreme Force in an eight-man tag team match. The Colony: Xtreme Force ended up winning the match, when Missile Assault Ant unmasked himself and then handed the mask to UltraMantis Black, drawing a disqualification from the referee, who thought UltraMantis Black had unmasked his opponent.〔〔〔 On May 10, Chikara announced a "Battle for Trios Supremacy" between The Colony: Xtreme Force, the supposed 2011 King of Trios, and The Spectral Envoy, the 2012 King of Trios, for Aniversario: Never Compromise.〔 Before the pay-per-view, The Spectral Envoy and The Colony: Xtreme Force faced off in the first round of the 2013 Tag World Grand Prix on May 18, with Frightmare and Hallowicked taking on deviAnt and Orbit Adventure Ant. During the match, Frightmare was once again unmasked, but this time the referee caught the unmasking and disqualified The Colony: Xtreme Force.〔〔 On May 17, Chikara announced the fifth match for the event, which would see commentator and ring announcer Gavin Loudspeaker take on Tim Donst.〔 Following Under the Hood, where he failed to capture the Chikara Grand Championship from Eddie Kingston, Donst continued a storyline mental collapse that had started in June 2012, when he lost his hair at Chikarasaurus Rex: How to Hatch a Dinosaur, ultimately revealing that his "grand plan" was still in effect and did not involve him winning the Grand Championship, but instead unhinging Kingston and turning him into the "destroyer of Chikara" so that he himself could "rise up as the martyr of pro-wrestling". In the start of 2013, Donst adopted Steve "The Turtle" Weiner and Veronica as his new followers, while also retaining Jakob Hammermeier as a follower.〔 The rivalry between Donst and Loudspeaker began following Chikara's first shows of 2013, when Donst took exception to Loudspeaker's claim that he was "not main event material". Loudspeaker's outrage at Donst was fueled by his abusive treatment of his followers, especially Steve Weiner.〔 Several verbal exchanges between the two eventually led to Donst attacking Loudspeaker first on April 6, after losing to Archibald Peck, and again on May 4, following a loss against Saturyne, both times cutting off a lock of his hair.〔〔〔 Being a non-wrestler, Loudspeaker requested Chikara's Director of Fun Wink Vavasseur for an opportunity to manage one of his friends to take on Donst at Aniversario: Never Compromise. However, Vavasseur turned down the request, remembering how Loudspeaker had questioned his abilities and capabilities in the past, and instead booked a match between Loudspeaker and Donst for the event, calling it a "character-building exercise".〔 In a blog entry on Chikara's official website, Loudspeaker announced that he had started training at The Wrestle Factory under the likes of Green Ant and Hallowicked, while also making a plea for Donst's longtime associate Jakob Hammermeier to come to his senses and realize that Donst was not his friend.〔 On May 24, Chikara announced an added stipulation for the match, where the loser would have his hair shaved off.〔 The third title match for Aniversario: Never Compromise was announced on May 18 and saw Pieces of Hate (Jigsaw and The Shard) challenge 3.0 (Scott Parker and Shane Matthews) for the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas.〔 Following Under the Hood, the ''rudo'' stable Gekido was effectively dissolved, with assailAnt and Soldier Ant moving onto the Colony: Xtreme Force storyline, while Jigsaw and The Shard became a full-time tag team, dubbing themselves "Pieces of Hate". For the first four months of 2013, Jigsaw and The Shard continued their rivalry with Mike Quackenbush from 2012, culminating in a main event tag team match on April 6, where they were defeated by Quackenbush and his surprise tag team partner, Jushin Thunder Liger.〔〔 Now with zero points, Jigsaw and The Shard began their climb back up towards a shot at the Campeonatos de Parejas by defeating assailAnt and Fire Ant of The Colony on May 4.〔 In Chikara, teams need three points, or three back-to-back wins, in order to be eligible to challenge for the promotion's tag team championship, the Campeonatos de Parejas.〔 On May 18, Pieces of Hate took part in the 2013 Tag World Grand Prix, defeating Da Soul Touchaz (Acid Jaz and Marshe Rockett) in the opening round, AC/DC (Arik Cannon and Darin Corbin) in the second round and, after receiving a bye in the semifinals, The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) in the finals to win the tournament, racking up four points in the process.〔 Following the win, Jigsaw announced that they were cashing in their points and challenging the defending Campeones de Parejas, 3.0, for the title at Aniversario: Never Compromise.〔〔 The match was made official three days later. As with all matches for the Campeonatos de Parejas, the match would take place under two out of three falls rules.〔 The Tag World Grand Prix also led to the seventh match announced for the event, when The Colony (Fire Ant and Green Ant) and the Devastation Corporation (Blaster McMassive and Max Smashmaster) eliminated each other from the tournament after their match ended in a no contest (which resulted in Pieces of Hate getting their bye in the semifinals).〔〔 On May 22, Chikara announced a six-man tag team match for Aniversario: Never Compromise, where assailAnt, Fire Ant and Green Ant take on McMassive, Smashmaster and Flex Rumblecrunch, the newest member of the Devastation Corporation, who made an appearance at Under the Hood, but was not named until the Tag World Grand Prix.〔 On May 29, Chikara announced the eighth and final match for the event, a grudge match between Dasher Hatfield and Delirious.〔 This was a rematch from the season opener on February 9, 2013, when Hatfield defeated Delirious in less than a minute, after which he was assaulted by both Delirious and Kobald.〔 Afterwards, Hatfield was sidelined for two months with a rib injury, while Delirious made no appearances for Chikara prior to Aniversario: Never Compromise.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aniversario: Never Compromise」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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