History Wrestling / TheKingsOfWrestling

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[[caption-width-right:250:Wrestling/ChrisHero and Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli as [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-t.html CHIKARA Campeones de Parejas]]]]

* DarkChick: "The Queen of Wrestling", Wrestling/SaraDelRey, in ROH.

The Kings of Wrestling were a ProfessionalWrestling TagTeam[=/=]PowerStable that started in Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} in 2005 and which found success there, in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Wrestling/{{CZW}} and elsewhere for some five years. It started when Wrestling/ChrisHero [[FaceHeelTurn turned heel]] on Mike Quackenbush during the [=SuperFriends=]-Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli[=/=]Arik Cannon final at ''CHIKARA Tag World Grand Prix 2005 Night III'', February 20, 2005. A year later, Hero and Castagnoli won the 2006 TWGP and became the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-t.html CHIKARA Campeones de Parejas]]. Over the course of the group's existence, Hero and Castagnoli would win the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-t.html ROH World Tag Team Titles]] twice, the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/czw/czw-t.html CZW World Tag Team Titles]] twice, the [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=754 JCW (Juggalo Championship Wrestling) Tag Team Titles]] once, and KOW members Maxime Boyer and Wrestling/ChuckTaylor would both hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-yl.html CHIKARA Young Lions Cup]], and, in 2010, ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' named Hero and Castagnoli "Tag Team of the Year."

As usual, you can find the basics at Wikipedia.

The Kings of Wrestling were a ProfessionalWrestling TagTeam[=/=]PowerStable that started in Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} in 2005 and which found success there, in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Wrestling/{{CZW}} and elsewhere for some five years. It started when Wrestling/ChrisHero [[FaceHeelTurn turned heel]] on Wrestling/MikeQuackenbush during the [=SuperFriends=]-Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli[=/=]Wrestling/ArikCannon final at ''CHIKARA Tag World Grand Prix 2005 Night III'', February 20, 2005. A year later, Hero and Castagnoli won the 2006 TWGP and became the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-t.html CHIKARA Campeones de Parejas]]. Over the course of the group's existence, Hero and Castagnoli would win the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-t.html ROH World Tag Team Titles]] twice, the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/czw/czw-t.html CZW World Tag Team Titles]] twice, the [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=754 JCW (Juggalo Championship Wrestling) Tag Team Titles]] once, and KOW members Maxime Boyer and Wrestling/ChuckTaylor would both hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-yl.html CHIKARA Young Lions Cup]], and, in 2010, ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' named Hero and Castagnoli "Tag Team of the Year."

* BaldOfEvil: Claudio, Wrestling/GranAkuma

* HeelFaceTurn: At ''CHIKARA Brick'' on November 17, 2006, F.I.S.T. (Wrestling/{{Icarus|Wrestling}} and Gran Akuma) d. Hero and Claudio for the CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas. (Claudio was supposed to go to Wrestling/{{WWE}}, though he didn't get there until 2011.) Hero told Claudio that he had brought him into CHIKARA and it was time to take him out. Hero and F.I.S.T. all attacked Claudio. At ''Cibernetico and Robin'' on September 22, 2007, the Kings of Wrestling insisted that they all get something they want in exchange for signing new contracts. Claudio didn't say what he wanted. After the Kings won the match, via Claudio pinning Mitch Ryder (the entire other team had been eliminated, but the Torneo Cibernetico rules insist ThereCanBeOnlyOne, and thus Claudio had to defeat Hero and Ryder to win the match), Claudio said that what he wanted was freedom from the Kings. This led to Claudio eventually defeating Hero at ''Stephen Colbert > Bill O'Reilly'' on December 9th (a special, free show due to how the intended SeasonFinale ''Chapter 11'' on November 18th had ended early because of Lince Dorado's injury in his match with Ryder.)

The Kings of Wrestling were a ProfessionalWrestling TagTeam[=/=]PowerStable that started in Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} in 2005 and which found success there, in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Wrestling/{{CZW}} and elsewhere for some five years. It started when Wrestling/ChrisHero [[FaceHeelTurn turned heel]] on Wrestling/MikeQuackenbush during the [=SuperFriends=]-Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli[=/=]Arik Cannon final at ''CHIKARA Tag World Grand Prix 2005 Night III'', February 20, 2005. A year later, Hero and Castagnoli won the 2006 TWGP and became the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-t.html CHIKARA Campeones de Parejas]]. Over the course of the group's existence, Hero and Castagnoli would win the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-t.html ROH World Tag Team Titles]] twice, the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/czw/czw-t.html CZW World Tag Team Titles]] twice, the [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=754 JCW (Juggalo Championship Wrestling) Tag Team Titles]] once, and KOW members Maxime Boyer and Wrestling/ChuckTaylor would both hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-yl.html CHIKARA Young Lions Cup]], and, in 2010, ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' named Hero and Castagnoli "Tag Team of the Year."

* SpiritualSuccessor: Die Bruderschaft des Kreuzes, who were the most dominant rudos since the KOW.

* HeelFaceTurn: At ''CHIKARA Brick'' on November 17, 2006, F.I.S.T. (Wrestling/{{Icarus}} and Gran Akuma) d. Hero and Claudio for the CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas. (Claudio was supposed to go to Wrestling/{{WWE}}, though he didn't get there until 2011.) Hero told Claudio that he had brought him into CHIKARA and it was time to take him out. Hero and F.I.S.T. all attacked Claudio. At ''Cibernetico and Robin'' on September 22, 2007, the Kings of Wrestling insisted that they all get something they want in exchange for signing new contracts. Claudio didn't say what he wanted. After the Kings won the match, via Claudio pinning Mitch Ryder (the entire other team had been eliminated, but the Torneo Cibernetico rules insist ThereCanBeOnlyOne, and thus Claudio had to defeat Hero and Ryder to win the match), Claudio said that what he wanted was freedom from the Kings. This led to Claudio eventually defeating Hero at ''Stephen Colbert > Bill O'Reilly'' on December 9th (a special, free show due to how the intended SeasonFinale ''Chapter 11'' on November 18th had ended early because of Lince Dorado's injury in his match with Ryder.)

* HeelFaceTurn: At ''CHIKARA Brick'' on November 17, 2006, F.I.S.T. (Icarus and Gran Akuma) d. Hero and Claudio for the CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas. (Claudio was supposed to go to Wrestling/{{WWE}}, though he didn't get there until 2011.) Hero told Claudio that he had brought him into CHIKARA and it was time to take him out. Hero and F.I.S.T. all attacked Claudio. At ''Cibernetico and Robin'' on September 22, 2007, the Kings of Wrestling insisted that they all get something they want in exchange for signing new contracts. Claudio didn't say what he wanted. After the Kings won the match, via Claudio pinning Mitch Ryder (the entire other team had been eliminated, but the Torneo Cibernetico rules insist ThereCanBeOnlyOne, and thus Claudio had to defeat Hero and Ryder to win the match), Claudio said that what he wanted was freedom from the Kings. This led to Claudio eventually defeating Hero at ''Stephen Colbert > Bill O'Reilly'' on December 9th (a special, free show due to how the intended SeasonFinale ''Chapter 11'' on November 18th had ended early because of Lince Dorado's injury in his match with Ryder.)

The Kings of Wrestling were a ProfessionalWrestling TagTeam[=/=]PowerStable that started in Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} in 2005 and which found success there, in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Wrestling/{{CZW}} and elsewhere for some five years. It started when Wrestling/ChrisHero [[FaceHeelTurn turned heel]] on Wrestling/MikeQuackenbush during the [=SuperFriends=]-Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli[=/=]Arik Cannon final at ''CHIKARA Tag World Grand Prix 2005 Night III'', February 20, 2005. A year later, Hero and Castagnoli won the 2006 TWGP and became the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-t.html CHIKARA Campeones de Parejas]]. Over the course of the group's existence, Hero and Castagnoli would win the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-t.html ROH World Tag Team Titles]] twice, the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/czw/czw-t.html CZW World Tag Team Titles]] twice, the [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=754 JCW (Juggalo Championship Wrestling) Tag Team Titles]] once, and KOW members Maxime Boyer and Chuck Taylor would both hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-yl.html CHIKARA Young Lions Cup]], and, in 2010, ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' named Hero and Castagnoli "Tag Team of the Year."

* BaldOfEvil: Claudio, Gran Akuma

* LoopholeAbuse[=/=]Exact Words: In the [=SuperFriends=]' promos at TWGP 2005, Hero insisted that he and Quack would be going to the finals. He never said that they were going to win, just that they would be going to the finals, leading to a MotiveRant. Immediately after Castagnoli and Cannon won the match, Hero cut a promo about his history with Quack, dating back to before CHIKARA debuted, how Quack had defeated him on Night I of the ''IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2004'', how Quack had always wanted to make it to the finals of a tournament, and how Hero took it all away from him.

* LightningBruiser: Hero, Claudio, Sara Del Rey

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Briscoe Brothers gave Sara Del Rey the J-Driller after interrupting the KOW-Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) ROH World Tag Team Title match at ''ROH [=Supercard=] of Honor V'', May 8, 2010. Claudio did [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTSHZLwi1Q NOT]] take it well.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/EddieKingston, Mike Quackenbush, Reckless Youth, Generation Next, the Briscoes (Jay and Mark)...

* BraggingThemeTune: (In ROH): Cody B. Ware's "K.O.W. (Kings)".
** Viro the Virus' "Chris Is Awesome" qualifies as well.

* HesBack: Hero and Claudio reformed the team in ROH at Final Battle 2009, December 19th, 2009, adding Sara as "The Queen of Wrestling". (Less than a month after the formation of the BDK in CHIKARA).

* [[TheBadGuyWins The Bad Guys Win]]: Their trademark. Hero and Claudio were the inaugural Campeones de Parejas, and the KOW won three straight Torneo Ciberneticos (2005-2007.)

* [[DarkChick The Dark Chick]]: [[Wrestling/SaraDelRey "The Queen of Wrestling" Sara Del Rey]], in ROH.

* [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]]: "Sweet 'n' Sour" Larry Sweeney, of the ROH version.

* [[HesBack They're Back]]: Hero and Claudio reformed the team in ROH at Final Battle 2009, December 19th, 2009, adding Sara as "The Queen of Wrestling". (Less than a month after the formation of the BDK in CHIKARA).

* TheXOfY: Obviously

* RockPaperScissors: On the July 26, 2010 (taped May 22nd) episode of ROH on HDNet, Hero, Claudio and Shane Hagadorn made their way out to the ring with Hagadorn announcing that he had picked three teams for the Kings to showcase their skills against. They squashed Ice Jackson and Josh Emanuel in the first match, and Adam Cole and Nick Westgate in the second. (The Briscoes defeated them in the third match.) Before each of the first two matches, Hero and Claudio used this method to decide who would start.

* TheyreBack: Hero and Claudio reformed the team in ROH at Final Battle 2009, December 19th, 2009, adding Sara as "The Queen of Wrestling". (Less than a month after the formation of the BDK in CHIKARA).