#power pro lucha

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One more Power Pro Lucha sketch. Razerhawk about to hit Poisynhawk with a Gotch style piledriver. I was yelling so loud!!!

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A couple sketches of my favorite ants! Electro Ant on the left and Ultimo Ant on the right.

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I did a couple sketches of UltraMantis Black in his Philly street fight gear from last week's Power Pro Lucha show. The first one was drawn directly in ink, so it has a lot of life to it but some weird proportions. The second one has a pencil sketch under it, so the proportions are a lot better but the lines are much stiffer. I'm still working on getting the right balance there.

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Had a wonderful time at Power Pro Lucha last night! And my faves won their match!

It had been way too long since I'd been to a live pro wrestling show!

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Went to my first indy wrestling show in a long-ass time last night and had an amazing time! I missed going to Chikara shows so much, and when we heard about Power Pro Lucha and saw it had a lot of guys from the old guard (the ones who aren't in AEW or retired lol) including Ultramantic Black and Gran Akuma, we knew we had to check it out.

It was like coming home. The exact vibe I've missed and adore in pro wrestling! Comedy, acrobatics, great technical stuff, big meaty men slapping meat, and even some garbage wrestling thanks to Nemesis and Joey Janela (ft a plastic Buster Sword and several doors and steel chairs lol). My throat hurt so much from screaming by the end of the night, and I'm still so jazzed from it. We went to grab food afterward and just talked about the show and about our old days going to Chikara shows. PPL really is an amazing spiritual successor without that shitbird Quackenbush anywhere near it lmao.

And as a longtime FIST fan it was really cool seeing the new generation of the team and how much they keep the proper vibe of hypercompetent asskickers who also wheedle and pester the ref and banter rudely with the crowd back and forth and are generally hilarious. You can tell Gran Akuma has guided them well. <3

In fact, I wore my old FIST shirt (which is old enough to vote oof) and got a lot of compliments from people! I had a lovely convo with a guy who used to go to Chikara when he was a kid, and now he's there at PPL with *his* kids, and oh man that's so sweet. My shirt also got recognized by a lovely older couple sitting in front of us, who then talked about the old days, asked if I remembered Icarus (a former FIST member who iirc has since retired, and was an amazing hateable heel with bonkers acrobatic skill), and commiserated a bit, only for us to learn they're the parents of current FIST member Travis Huckabee! :D It was so nice! When I hit the merch table after the show all three members saw my shirt and were like YOOOOOOOOOOO how old is that shirt?! XD It was really cool. I bought Huckabee's shirt and he gave me a pin with it, too.

Suffice to say, I'm glad I decided to wear that shirt. :3

Also Max Smashmaster was there (his match with Big Callux was an excellent big man match, generally something I find a little boring but those two really showed what that style can do) and was selling little 3D printed figures of himself! He said he modeled them himself, which I was hype about. I complimented his very cool mask he wears for his entrance (really excellent eva foamcraft) and he said he got it on etsy lol. Complimented his match and he said thanks but he's covered in red marks and bruises including on his face and he was like "I'm going to Hersheypark tomorrow like this! D:" and it was adorable. (Ngl dude is HANDSOME up close!)

Genuinely a wonderful time, and I'm sad we can't go to the July show because it's on larp weekend, but we'll probably buy the IPPV to stream since it's Sunday night after the game'll be over. Their Attack on Trios tourney (the successor to Chikara's King of Trios) is in September, so we're gonna try to go to that. <3 I'm hooked, and I can't wait to see more!