CHIKARA/History

CHIKARA Wrestle Factory was founded as a wrestling school in Allentown, Pennsylvania by Mike Quackenbush & Reckless Youth. After five months, the school started CHIKARA.

In 2004, Chris Hero became a co-trainer at CHIKARA Wrestle Factory. In 2005, Jorge Rivera joined as the third trainer. In March 2005, the school moved from Allentown to the New Alhambra Arena, in Philadelphia. They then took over the training for Combat Zone Wrestling, leading to the school's new name of CZW/CHIKARA Wrestle Factory. The schools split in 2007. The training center is once again simply known as CHIKARA Wrestle Factory. In 2007, Claudio Castagnoli took over Chris Hero's training duties.

The company's catalog of events (on both VHS & DVD) are available through Smart Mark Video.

CHIKARA drew their biggest crowd ever of over 550 at the New Alhambra Arena in Philadelphia to see the finals of the King Of Trios event on March 2, 2008.

CHIKARA also makes Internet Pay-Per-Views by the name of Pod-Per-View. CHIKARA also have a weekly Internet show by the name of Podcast-A-Go-Go which contains CHIKARA matches and interviews.