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Off Camera
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One could
say that I made my debut in Supreme Championship Wrestling like a house fire
and it would be quite an appropriate description considering my fireball damn
near took out the entire roster in the Taking Hold of the Flame rumble match. From there my brother and I went on to
compete in the Scaffold Scramble at Rise To Greatness. Neither time did I manage to pick up a
victory, but both times we made an impact on Supreme Championship Wrestling and
we made sure that they knew we were there and we were serious.
Then the
very next Breakdown after Rise To Greatness I defeated Angelica Jones. I beat her one on one all on my own and that
victory earned me the right to challenge Ravyn Taylor for the SCW Television
Championship. And despite her very best
efforts, Ravyn Taylor could not pin me and she could not make me submit. She has the outside interference of her other
enemies to thank for her walking out that night with her SCW Television
Championship.
With this
kind of debut, and considering the physical limits I took Ravyn to, at the very
least I should’ve been granted an immediate rematch. Yet what did SCW management do with the
greatest tactician, strategist, and wrestling talent to arrive in their company
in years?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I was left to do nothing while I watched The
Sisterhood, whom I already conquered shortly after Rise To Greatness, go on to
sadly fail in their attempt to revive their pathetic career in losing efforts
to Kennedy Street and Amy Chastaine and then again at Under Attack in the five
on five tag.
Where was I
at Apocalypse? Where was I at Under
Attack? I had to watch it all from home.
Nevertheless,
it appears as if I will have the opportunity to make SCW see the error of their
ways. It has always been drilled into my
head since my beginnings at the Braddock Wrestling School that in order to get
noticed you have to make an impact. You
have to make the management sit up and take notice. And in Berlin, Germany I will make SCW sit up
and take notice by eliminating Christy Matthews, Andrew Raynes, and Konrad Raab
on my way to earning myself another shot at the SCW Television Championship.
Still,
knowing that my chance has arrived does not help ease the frustration and my
frustration is quite evident as I storm into my brother’s living room on the
outskirts of Belfast, Northern Ireland…
“MARK!
Where are you?!”
I scan the
rather filthy, un-kept room. Then I turn
to the sound of the television. I find
my idiotic sibling seated on the living room sofa, a comfortable black leather
design, in front of the flat screen television set. Mark has his feet propped up on the coffee
table and a slice of pepperoni pizza in his hand. I glare angrily at him.
“Mark!
What the hell are you doing?!”
“This shit is awesome!” He takes a bite
of his pizza and then uses it to point at the television set. “Look at Angelica and Kayla! They’re kicking
ass!”
He’s
watching the replay of Under Attack, specifically the five on five tag team
match. I can’t handle much more of this…
“Give me that!”
I grab hold
of the remote control that sits next to Mark’s left hand. I quickly switch the television off and he
turns around and looks at me incredulously.
“Hey!
I was watching that!”
“You are NOT watching it any longer!” I
throw the remote to the side so that Mark won’t be tempted. “We have to make plans.”
“Not again…” Mark says, his whiny voice
trailing off as he points to the remaining pizza in the box on the coffee table
“…can’t you see I’m eating?”
“Does it look like I care?” I walk over
the front of the sofa. First I snatch
the pizza box off of the coffee table and throw it to the side. Mark looks at his fallen food prize
incredulously as it falls to the floor.
“My pizza!
You ruined it!”
“Oh bloody hell,” I roll my eyes as I
sit down next to my idiotic brother “your
priorities and focus are rather lacking, dear brother. You should notice that this place of yours is
already a dump!”
“Well…” his voice trails off as he scans
the room, looking at all of the garbage everywhere and then he shrugs his
shoulders “…I like it…”
“Of course YOU would, but how does your
wife, Ashley, deal with it?”
“Practice?”
“Damn it, Mark…” I smack my forehead.
“Sorry.”
“Look,” I begin as I try to maintain my
composure “just try and follow me, ok?”
“Follow you where? Where are going?”
“Not literally!” I smack him in the back
of his head. “Try to follow my
logic. We came to Supreme Championship
Wrestling to accomplish two things, the first was to get our revenge against
Angelica Jones and her sister Kayla.”
“Yeah, and you did beat Angelica.”
“That’s right.” I nod my head. “But as good as that win was…and it did feel
real good…we still have not accomplished our other goal.”
I pat him on
the chest. “We’ve been made to look like
fools, Mark. You know this, right? We couldn’t do anything at Taking Hold of the
Flame. We couldn’t do anything at Rise
To Greatness. And thanks to outside
interference I couldn’t become SCW Television Champion.”
“Yeah, that did kinda suck.”
“It sucked?” I roll my eyes. “It was far worse than that. I hope you realize that. I could have been the SCW Television
Champion.”
I turn and
bang my fists on the coffee table.
“Then they ignored me! They forgot about me!” Rage flashes in my
eyes as I glare at Mark. “No one forgets
about me!”
“Whoa, calm down, sis.” Mark says in a
vain attempt to calm me down. “You just
need to be patient, y’know?”
He points to
the pizza on the ground. “Have a slice of
pizza. It’ll help.”
“Pizza?!
Are you nuts…” just then a thought hits me. It is almost like a light bulb went off in my
head. A grin spreads across my face.
“…actually, Mark, you may have a good idea.”
“I do?”
“Yes, quite a brilliant idea, actually.”
Mark nods
his head. “Well, like I said, a slice of
pizza will help you calm down.”
“Not the pizza!” I sigh, shaking my head
with frustration. “I mean your idea of
being patient.”
“Oh…well yeah, that too…”
“Yes, you can have a good idea every once in
a while,” a low chuckle escapes my lips “even
if it is by complete accident.”
“Thanks…I think…”
“Now that being said, it is time to make my
return to Supreme Championship Wrestling and make them pay for ignoring me.”
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On Camera
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Sun Tzu
says, “One who is prepared and waits for
the unprepared will be victorious”
My last
match in Supreme Championship Wrestling was a Television Championship match
against Ravyn Taylor. I pushed the
champion to her limit and while she did escape with the title still in her
possession, she never did pin me and she never did make me submit. Ravyn Taylor could not beat me. To put it as simply as I can for you
simple-minded fools, I am the absolute best pure wrestler in this company. Ravyn knows that she has met her match in
terms of wrestling ability and in terms of strategy and intelligence when it
comes to Sophie O’Brian.
And if that
weren’t enough to make a believer out of you, then take this into
consideration: I defeated Angelica Jones to earn that Television Championship
Match, one half of the former two time SCW World Tag Team Champions. But what happened since then?
I have been
off SCW television. I wasn’t a part of
Apocalypse. I wasn’t a part of Under
Attack. It was as if I had been a
distant memory. It was as if I was
forgotten. But while SCW may have forgotten about me, I had not forgotten about
Supreme Championship Wrestling.
They say
patience is a virtue and while it was unfortunate that I could not be a part of
the action to advance my agenda, I used the opportunity to prepare myself for
the time that I would return, to prepare for the opportunity to push myself
forward and turn SCW into my own personal playground. Do you have any idea how many times I thought
about facing Ravyn Taylor just one more time?
She could
not beat me. Her very best was not good
enough to take me down. My only mistake
was not finishing the job when I had the chance. All I need is one more chance, one
opportunity, and I will finish the job.
I will become SCW Television Champion.
Ah but there
is the beauty of being a sociopath. I
have tremendous patience and I can afford to wait. And my waiting has damn sure paid off…I have
another chance against Ravyn Taylor. I
have my chance at redemption and my chance to finally finish the job.
It’s just a
matter of when.
I can afford
to wait. In fact, waiting is what I
would prefer. I have waited this long, I
may as well wait just a little longer. I
want to prepare myself, prepare my offenses and defenses, so that there is no
way she can stop me. I want to be the
one to control my own destiny.
Christy
Matthews, Andrew Raynes, and Konrad Raab are standing in my way of controlling
my own destiny.
Sun Tzu
says, “Know thy self, know thy enemy. A
thousand battles, a thousand victories.”
None of you
know me; not very well, at least. But I know
you because I have studied you. Raynes
and Matthews are the only two I actually have any semblance of respect
for. You two know what must be done and
you will do it. Whatever it takes to
achieve the end goal, correct?
Machiavelli
said that it is better to be feared than to be loved. Matthews, Raynes, and I seem to have learned
that lesson. We know that we can be
greats in this business, we can be champions even, or we can make the people
love us…
…I do not
give a damn about the love of the people.
That is why I consider Matthews and Raynes kindred spirits. But make no mistake about it, they are still
standing in my way and I cannot allow that to happen. I will not let them stop me.
Then there’s
Konrad Raab.
You are a
pathetic fool. You are truly the “man-baby”
that Jason Helms says you are. Your
whiny immaturity should relegate you to wrestling bears for the rest of your
damn career as a punishment for the stain you’ve been on this great sport.
This sport
isn’t about entertaining the mass of humanity in the crowd, far from it. If you want to know what this sport really is
about then pay attention to this other quote, a quote from a great man, a man
who happened to train me as a professional wrestler; the great Glenn Braddock…
Glenn
Braddock said, “A professional wrestler
is, him or herself, a lethal weapon. Know this and use this knowledge and
ability you have wisely.”
This means
that, as professional wrestlers, Christy Matthews and Andrew Raynes, you, and I
have all been given all of the necessary tools.
We can use those tools, those weapons if you will, to get whatever we
want in this sport.
Fame.
Power.
Glory.
Or in this
case, the SCW Television Championship.
But you,
Konrad? You get in needless, endless twitter
wars, because Jason Helms hurt your feelings and you constantly whine about how
to handle your anger issues or about how you hate violence...
…I don’t
have such issues, my friend. I am
completely and utterly disconnected from human emotion. I will do whatever it takes to get what I
want regardless of how it affects those around me. That means you, Christy, Andrew, and anyone
else who dares stand in my way will get burned to the ground. No one will stop me from becoming the SCW
Television Champion.
No one.
