Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2018 22:11:50 GMT -5
I’m not used to introducing myself anymore, but I like to think we all need to humble ourselves from time to time, so here we go.
My name is Cleo Camacho and some years ago I write a book called ‘Born from Sinn: Inside The CTN’, where I looked in on Alicia Sinn and her tremendous rise in the corporate world. It was…popular, to say the least. Alicia Sinn and her connection to the eccentric and mysterious Damian Knight and the world of professional wrestling are well documented, and it made for some very interesting reading, or so I’ve been told. It was in this manner that my role expanded while under the service Alicia, as she enjoyed my writings and just how honest I’d been from the beginning about the whole ordeal. And so, after several offers she finally managed to hook me to be the new writer for CTN Insider.
I like to give my opinion and thoughts on any and everything, as most journalists do, but I was asked, for this first outing, to focus on a particular subject and then give my god’s honest thoughts. And since I love professional wrestling, coupled with my inability to say no to a good story, diving head first into this was as easy as breathing. This time, however, the subject wasn’t some mysterious person with a background shrouded in darkness. The more I looked in on her, the more I thought I was being pranked.
For all intents and purposes, Reina Kenshin grew up relatively normal, save for her overt tomboyish nature and desire to compete ‘with the boys’ in all manners, including sports. She has no devastating backstory that would make her stand out as a survivor among her equals, no struggle outside the norm, nothing that would really make her jump out to someone like Alicia Sinn, who was the first one to take interest in Reina Kenshin. Why? Why would such a prominent figure latch onto an essential nobody from a barely midtime federation like New Japan Alliance?
Then I focused on those two years.
It was a transformation akin to a movie, or some kind of anime or cartoon. She became a completely different person, with different mannerisms and a fighting style that bordered on cruel. The person that stepped in that ring was not the person that stepped out, or the person you saw walking down the street. It was a metamorphosis I’ve seen before, among the more dangerous minds of wrestling, those able to separate the reality of the ring and the reality of the home to such a degree that it’s almost as if that one person were actually two. They, those few that are able to separate their realities in such a manner, are so dangerous because the personality that steps in the ring is not the person you were just talking to. The person in that ring is now feral, and the only thing they need to do is fight.
What’s so interesting about Reina’s fights is the amount of control she exerts while in the squared circle. After watching every single one of her matches I’ve come to the conclusion that the entity that exists in the ring doesn’t exist outside of it, and will do what it can to extend the fight as much as possible to stay in control that much longer. As her matches progressed in the NJA I began to pay attention to her body language, to see just how much of a different person she was, to see just how deep this all ran. Did Reina herself know? Did she keep track of just how vicious she’d gotten since her first match to her last? Her style evolved with her, her strikes harder and her impact moves spiking that much harder. There was less style and more fight, no flash and all substance. Reina is a fighter and it would be silly to ask if she knew she was evolving; fighters always believe they’re evolving. But did she know how she was evolving? In what direction? And most of all…did she care?
This reporter doesn’t think so, but next time we’ll look more into Reina Kenshin, and all other goings on within the CTN.
Until next time folks, stay real.
My name is Cleo Camacho and some years ago I write a book called ‘Born from Sinn: Inside The CTN’, where I looked in on Alicia Sinn and her tremendous rise in the corporate world. It was…popular, to say the least. Alicia Sinn and her connection to the eccentric and mysterious Damian Knight and the world of professional wrestling are well documented, and it made for some very interesting reading, or so I’ve been told. It was in this manner that my role expanded while under the service Alicia, as she enjoyed my writings and just how honest I’d been from the beginning about the whole ordeal. And so, after several offers she finally managed to hook me to be the new writer for CTN Insider.
I like to give my opinion and thoughts on any and everything, as most journalists do, but I was asked, for this first outing, to focus on a particular subject and then give my god’s honest thoughts. And since I love professional wrestling, coupled with my inability to say no to a good story, diving head first into this was as easy as breathing. This time, however, the subject wasn’t some mysterious person with a background shrouded in darkness. The more I looked in on her, the more I thought I was being pranked.
For all intents and purposes, Reina Kenshin grew up relatively normal, save for her overt tomboyish nature and desire to compete ‘with the boys’ in all manners, including sports. She has no devastating backstory that would make her stand out as a survivor among her equals, no struggle outside the norm, nothing that would really make her jump out to someone like Alicia Sinn, who was the first one to take interest in Reina Kenshin. Why? Why would such a prominent figure latch onto an essential nobody from a barely midtime federation like New Japan Alliance?
Then I focused on those two years.
It was a transformation akin to a movie, or some kind of anime or cartoon. She became a completely different person, with different mannerisms and a fighting style that bordered on cruel. The person that stepped in that ring was not the person that stepped out, or the person you saw walking down the street. It was a metamorphosis I’ve seen before, among the more dangerous minds of wrestling, those able to separate the reality of the ring and the reality of the home to such a degree that it’s almost as if that one person were actually two. They, those few that are able to separate their realities in such a manner, are so dangerous because the personality that steps in the ring is not the person you were just talking to. The person in that ring is now feral, and the only thing they need to do is fight.
What’s so interesting about Reina’s fights is the amount of control she exerts while in the squared circle. After watching every single one of her matches I’ve come to the conclusion that the entity that exists in the ring doesn’t exist outside of it, and will do what it can to extend the fight as much as possible to stay in control that much longer. As her matches progressed in the NJA I began to pay attention to her body language, to see just how much of a different person she was, to see just how deep this all ran. Did Reina herself know? Did she keep track of just how vicious she’d gotten since her first match to her last? Her style evolved with her, her strikes harder and her impact moves spiking that much harder. There was less style and more fight, no flash and all substance. Reina is a fighter and it would be silly to ask if she knew she was evolving; fighters always believe they’re evolving. But did she know how she was evolving? In what direction? And most of all…did she care?
This reporter doesn’t think so, but next time we’ll look more into Reina Kenshin, and all other goings on within the CTN.
Until next time folks, stay real.