Post by Markw on Feb 21, 2014 10:40:44 GMT -5
Revolution - The New Regime
I lost to Jayson Garrett.
And I never thought I'd have to say that. But the man beat me, fair and square. Now I'm in the gutter, looked down on by everyone associated with this promotion. A guy who had a chance to step up, but blew it, and now, I've become a guy that can't even beat the latest in a long line of arrogant brats who think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread.
If the majority are right about me, then I'll slip away, remembered briefly for Battleground and a few runs with the National Champion. But soon enough, I'll just be known as that guy who Reverend Shadow beat to become a Grand Slam Champion. And then, soon enough, everyone will have forgotten about Joe Bishop.
I can't help but look at where I am right now, where I was when Battleground came to a close and think 'How the did this happen'?
How did I get to being the biggest talking point in professional wrestling to being completely insignificant in the space of a month?
Deep down, I know the answer to that question.
I stopped caring.
For as long as I can remember wrestling has been my passion, it has been everything to me, the only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning. The only thing that makes me want to face the world day in day out.
That passion, that has consumed my life, has gone. It wasn't even gradual, one day wrestling was the most important thing in my life and the next, I just don't care about it.
I want to, I want to care. I don't want the first quarter of my life to have been completely wasted. I don't want to be forgotten. Who does?
But I can't force myself to care.
I can't just say 'I love professional wrestling' and expect it to be true, just because I said it.
My focus has drifted from wrestling to my 'real life' which is all I've ever really wanted. It's all I've ever asked for.
And it ing sucks.
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Dex, you're young, you're weird and you're interesting. There's not a lot to dislike about you.
But you're never going to be much more than a novelty act.
I don't mean any disrespect when I say that, I do like you, but you're not like me. You're not like Crow. You're not really capable, of leading this promotion.
Right now, I think you're aiming too high. You don't belong in a battle for the International Championship. That time will come, but it's not just yet. You don't belong in the ring with me and Crow yet. Heck, much as it pains me to say it, you don't really belong in the ring with Yukio yet.
But as I say, I like you and I want to help you. But I can't let you try to win this.
So my advice is this. Learn from the beating you're going to be on the receiving end of at Revolution. Take everything you can from this experience and come back stronger. If you keep working then your time will come and maybe, you can make a decent career in the WFWF. But it's not going to happen right now. I don't mean to sound arrogant, I'm just telling you the truth. The best thing that can happen to you is that you come back ten times stronger from this defeat.
I hope you do it.
I really do.
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Yukio, I genuinely believe that you are the perfect example of everything that's wrong with the WFWF.
You've been clinging to and sucking the life out of the WFWF for years. You've cared more about politics than wrestling and, sadly, you've been able to keep yourself above so many great young talents who've come into this promotion. So many guys who are quite clearly better wrestlers than you, but who don't know how to 'play the game' like you do.
It sickens me.
And it's people like you, like Shawn Malakai, like Reverend Shadow, like Trace Demon, that manipulate the WFWF to make sure that they keep themselves on top, who are ruining this once great promotion.
It's people like you who are taking away from the WFWF everything that made me love it in the first place.
You've had your time, your time has passed and you need to pack up your things, go home and to let this place adapt naturally.
You need to let people like me, Dex, Crow re-shape the WFWF. You need to let us make it better.
You need to do what Alex Sean, Destroyer, Slayer, Johnny Michaels did. What so many who came before you did.
You need to let it go.
You can't keep yourself on top of the ladder for ever and all you're doing by trying, is destroying the promotion that you helped build.
You're making guys like me, the future of the WFWF, become disillusioned with Professional Wrestling.
The time for passing the torch came and went so long ago Blaze, but you didn't do it. And you know that you should have. Now please, for the sake of the people who looked up to you and those like you all those years ago, slip away without a song and a dance. Let the WFWF breath again. This goes for all of the men who helped to build this promotion, stop choking the life out of your creation. Stop holding back young guys like us, just to feed your own ego.
Because realistically you've got two options. You can do that, or you can go down with the ship.
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A year ago, I took on the International Champion Trace Demon. And I lost to the better man.
The next week, I beat two opponents to earn a shot at Demon's belt, I took him on in the United Kingdom. I gave everything I had, got so close, and once again, lost.
The last year of my life has been spent pursuing the International Championship, but it has always been just out of my reach. Time and time again I've got close, it has been within touching distance, and it's been yanked away from me.
Crow, I need you to understand why I intend to do everything in my power to become the International Champion. I need you to understand why, I'm going to be doing everything I can to end your International Championship reign.
In two weeks time, with my help, you're going to beat Trace Demon and become the WFWF World Champion on the biggest stage in professional wrestling, SuperBrawl. I have no doubt about that. We both know, that you don't need that belt. You've got bigger fish to fry.
Me?
I'm at rock bottom right now. I'm going nowhere fast. I need that International Championship and I'm going to give everything I have to take it from you.
But I don't want to have to try and take you down, because I think that with you as the WFWF World Champion and me the WFWF International Champion, we can rule this promotion. We can realise your... our dream. We can build a WFWF where the best wrestlers rise to the top regardless of their 'Name Value' or 'Look' while the people who are in the WFWF long past there sell-buy-date, are wiped from this promotion.
I don't want to take the International Championship from you Crow, nor do I want to be given it. I want to pin Yukio Blaze or Dex to become the new International Champion, and then I want the two of us to stand tall, side by side, one man a current champion, one about to become the king of this promotion.
Let me beat Yukio or Dex, win this belt, and give it the attention it deserves. The attention that you're not going to be able to give it once you've climbed to the top of the ladder at SuperBrawl.
This night doesn't have to be the night where the Nest fractures, it can be the night where the bond is made even stronger. The night when the established order begins to crumble and the misfits rise. This night, when I become International Champion and Solomon Crow sets his sights on Trace Demon, can be... No. Will be one of the most talked about nights not just in the history of professional wrestling, but in the history of the world. If... you see fit to let it happen. If you prove that you can be the selfless leader this company needs to take it into a golden age.
Crow, the Nest has to sit at a round table, or it just isn't going to work.
The decision you make may seem unimportant to the majority, the people who think I've lost my touch, the people who think Battleground was just a flash in the pan. But they're wrong, this decision is the biggest in the history of the WFWF. What you do at Revolution, is going to decide whether the new era is just a new dictatorship with a new corrupt king, or a WFWF that the people can be proud of.
And maybe, just maybe, in a WFWF like that. A WFWF that I can love. I can find that spark. I can love professional wrestling again. Please Crow, let that happen.
OOC: Monologues, Monologues, MONOLOGUES!
Yeah, been back at Uni for a while and my Dad has been in hospital and is now recovering after having an operation. Hence my no-show last week and a general deterioration in the quality of my work. I can't see that changing before I've left to be honest. So yeah, I can write a monologue fairly quickly without too much effort, just decided to do that nice and early to make sure I got something up.