Post by rawlin67 on Aug 5, 2006 6:53:05 GMT -5
September 01, 2006
(This is starting after Hard Justice, and although it hasn’t happened yet, were just going to assume it has and that no titles were changed during the event.)
All my years of hard work finally paid off yesterday. All my life, i had been into one thing, and one thing only: wrestling. When I was young, I was in love with Sting, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, any star with enough charisma to get me excited about their match, I would be into. As I grew older, I grew a bit more critical, and enjoyed less matches than I used to. I got tired of the guys like Hogan and Flair still constantly being used in the companies like WWE, and I got tired of real talent guys like Lance Storm just never getting the push they deserved. But still, i continued on, watching faithfully, letting Vince McMahon and his company take my entire life right out from under my nose. The older I got, the more interested I became in the story writing of wrestling, how the feuds were worked, how matches were set up and how they were to be carried out. I became mystified by all the processing just one show took, and how companies had to do it week after week with no stopping. It wasn't like a show on television that would go for 12 weeks and then take a hiatus, finishing off their season. These promotions went on and on and on, and i wanted to be a part of it.
Was I ever able to become a part of it? You bet your ass. When you were so in love with something like I was with wrestling, God sets it up and all you have to do is open the door. Which is what I did. But not for WWE, which was my first love. When I was at the age of 25, fresh out of college, and writing a column about sports in a local newspaper, I wrote an article about the new company of TNA, and I wrote reviews about their superstars, their show, and basically promoting it, calling it "the show WWE doesn't want you watching." This is when it happened. I was called the very next day, and apparently Dixie Carter had read the article, and she was very pleased with my good words, and liked my incite into her product. She asked if I wanted to write for the official TNA magazine, and I accepted. But I couldn't stop there. I had to get to my dream.
I was now 27, and I had been writing a column in the TNA magazine for a year and a half. I had been working hard, and constantly pitching ideas to Dixie about future storylines. This is when I got my shot. I was called by her on June 1st, 2006. She explained that she recently was met with some problems of the head booker and writer of the company, and she was forced to fire him. She said she could easily replace him with another writer, but she has been watching my progress for some time now and she was extremely impressed with how confidant I was with everything that I did and suggested to management. She told me that although I might just be a little too young for the job, she was going to give me a shot at taking control of the company, and making me the head writer and booker of everything that went on at TNA. Basically, I was the one in control. I was the one who called the shots, with very few people that I myself would have to bend down to. I have spent at least 22 years with the dream of running a company, and now it has all come to me so fast. But I couldn't get too excited.........things needed to be done.
(bear with me, i just wanted to get into the backstory, and everything will start with the next post.)
(This is starting after Hard Justice, and although it hasn’t happened yet, were just going to assume it has and that no titles were changed during the event.)
All my years of hard work finally paid off yesterday. All my life, i had been into one thing, and one thing only: wrestling. When I was young, I was in love with Sting, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, any star with enough charisma to get me excited about their match, I would be into. As I grew older, I grew a bit more critical, and enjoyed less matches than I used to. I got tired of the guys like Hogan and Flair still constantly being used in the companies like WWE, and I got tired of real talent guys like Lance Storm just never getting the push they deserved. But still, i continued on, watching faithfully, letting Vince McMahon and his company take my entire life right out from under my nose. The older I got, the more interested I became in the story writing of wrestling, how the feuds were worked, how matches were set up and how they were to be carried out. I became mystified by all the processing just one show took, and how companies had to do it week after week with no stopping. It wasn't like a show on television that would go for 12 weeks and then take a hiatus, finishing off their season. These promotions went on and on and on, and i wanted to be a part of it.
Was I ever able to become a part of it? You bet your ass. When you were so in love with something like I was with wrestling, God sets it up and all you have to do is open the door. Which is what I did. But not for WWE, which was my first love. When I was at the age of 25, fresh out of college, and writing a column about sports in a local newspaper, I wrote an article about the new company of TNA, and I wrote reviews about their superstars, their show, and basically promoting it, calling it "the show WWE doesn't want you watching." This is when it happened. I was called the very next day, and apparently Dixie Carter had read the article, and she was very pleased with my good words, and liked my incite into her product. She asked if I wanted to write for the official TNA magazine, and I accepted. But I couldn't stop there. I had to get to my dream.
I was now 27, and I had been writing a column in the TNA magazine for a year and a half. I had been working hard, and constantly pitching ideas to Dixie about future storylines. This is when I got my shot. I was called by her on June 1st, 2006. She explained that she recently was met with some problems of the head booker and writer of the company, and she was forced to fire him. She said she could easily replace him with another writer, but she has been watching my progress for some time now and she was extremely impressed with how confidant I was with everything that I did and suggested to management. She told me that although I might just be a little too young for the job, she was going to give me a shot at taking control of the company, and making me the head writer and booker of everything that went on at TNA. Basically, I was the one in control. I was the one who called the shots, with very few people that I myself would have to bend down to. I have spent at least 22 years with the dream of running a company, and now it has all come to me so fast. But I couldn't get too excited.........things needed to be done.
(bear with me, i just wanted to get into the backstory, and everything will start with the next post.)
am I supposed to do until then, just hang around and act like I am happy?
