Post by The Ace on Jun 24, 2011 9:51:29 GMT -6
Three years ago, I was reborn as a married man...
Two years ago, I was reborn as a man who took down a legend from another place and time...
One year ago, I was reborn in another place and time...
This year, I am reborn all over again...
*Suddenly the scene bursts into life with the unmistakably adrenalin pumping aggression of Static X's hit track 'Black and White' from their 'Machine' album...and like a machine we see black leather fists rocking a white punching bag with equal speed, intensity and accuracy as if each blow was being inspired by the pounding riff blaring somewhere off camera....*
As the lyrics numbed my senses to everything else around me, my focus narrowed, it wasn't often that I allowed myself to become lost in my own world, but something about all that had transpired in the last couple of weeks burned deep within me. I had heard thev rumours started by Jayson Matthews in the back, he never missed a beat in telling all the boys in the back - most of whom hated me on a personal level - that I was 'basically retired'.
Since when did Matthews take it upon himself to become my personal agent? What business was it of his anyway? The clown accomplished nothing here in nCw ever anyway besides being Steve Awesome's lackey, and now that Steve Awesome is too busy being a lackey himself, Jayson has no one to turn to, no one to keep him relevant, not even Johnny Rotten.
So he decided to do what they all do when they can't get Steve Awesome on board, they come to me, the other half of The Smokin' Aces, the inferior half if you ask some of the propaganda merchants around here. How quickly they forget that if it wasn't for me lighting a fire under a young Steve Bates' ass in another place, there would be no Steve Awesome today. Without me, there would be no Smokin' Aces, there would be no Steve Awesome.
As monumental as my own ego is, I am not above putting younger guys in the spotlight, so long as they know not to bite the hand that feeds, I did it for Steve because I saw something great in that kid, something beyond those chiselled good looks and fabulous abs, I saw real, raw talent. Something which needed to be moulded, shaped and encouraged. I knew it would be good for the business if I had a hand in creating 'the next big thing' in this industry, but did he ever thank me? No. Why? Ego.
It really is that mind-numblingly simple. Do you think Steve will ever stop and look back on his career and realise that you can't be The Face Of The Franchise without having an Ace in there somewhere? I doubt it, for all his talent as Steve Awesome, Steve Bates just isn't that smart - and I say that as one of his closest friends in the business.
I made Steve Awesome a household name out of choice.
Flip the coin, turn the card and the other side you have Jayson Matthews, a man I see nothing of any value in at at all, no talent, no real ambition, no real drive, nothing for me to motivate or even care about - JayMat is just another punk kid who thinks its still cool to be from the ghetto even though he has no earthly idea what that means. These racially confused white kids come a dime a dozen, a trip to any schoolyard or playground anywhere in the western world will prove that. There's nothing even remotely special about Matthews and that's why nobody really cares about him like he wants them to. Not the fans, not Steve Awesome, probably not even his sister Mandi if what she told my wife last week is anything to go by.
Jayson just isn't cut out to survive in this business long-term anymore than say that other Jason who at least has the good sense to not put unnecessary letters in the middle of his own name. Then again, that's Jayson right down to a T isn't it?
Entirely unnecessary.
Everything he does is entirely unnecessary. He didn't need to come out there two weeks ago and try to take the spotlight from me again, but he did it. He didn't need to try and beat me down last week to once again get himself noticed, but he did it. He diddn't need to bring up anything from a company most of us would like to forget, but he did it. What is done is done and now he's just in way over his head. Just like that other place's incompetence, Jayson's own knows no bounds. If the internet rumours are true, shortly after that place closed, management somehow managed to lose all their records and tapes aswell - so nobody has any real evidence of anything that happened there.
It doesn't surprise me, in fact its probably better that they lost eveything, until now I didn't realise that losing everything by their standards included their talent's minds, that said I must have lost mine when I worked out a contract in any company proud to be associated with Davey Boone. Jayson is just another casualty of that place, and now he truly has lost his mind if he thinks facing me on Sunday will be a walk in the proverbial park. I know what Matthews is thinking, he's thinking if he can somehow repeat history and do what he did over there over here, he'll be the big star again just like was over there for a couple of weeks.
Unfortunately Jayson needs to learn, and learn real quick that it's just not that black and white over here, it never has been, beating me will not put him on the map this time because over here there are no corrupt nameless general managers running the show, and over here the general policy isn't if you're name isn't Mac Bane or Buddy Drifter, you are just a glorified workhound. In nCw titles aren't given out on a whim, they're earned, they're hard earned, just like everything else, because here everything actually means something to everybody.
If Jayson beats me on Sunday, I will give him his kudos, but right now the gap between the ifs and the whens is wide open, just like Jayson's mouth two weeks ago when this all needlessly began.
Throughout all of this, I've been asking myself why? Why is Matthews so intent on using my name and my reputation to get himself to the top? I think I finally have the answer - it is precisely because he sees me as a Steve Awesome substitute, he's hoping against hope that where his association with Steve failed to get him noticed by anybody, his association with me will succeed. I'm not stupid, I know he doesn't always want to be known as the brother of somebody Steve Awesome had sex with, I'd bet there's actually many brothers out there who have that distinction. Jayson is at best, desperate for attention, that's why his entire personality and demeanor is stuck at least a decade behind the rest of us.
I won't lie, it burns me up inside that thanks to Jayson, the internet is buzzing with rumours of my impending retirement, people are already speculating that I'm only back in nCw to have one last run, some are even saying this will be my last match, and that I wanted to go out performing infront of my home crowd. What these people fail to realise is that any crowd I have the priviledge of performing for is like my home crowd - this week just happens to be that much more special.
*The Ace is now shown in a montage, lifting dumbells, bench pressing, jogging and generally rigorously preparing himself for his first nCw match in over a year as Static X continue to drive him on...*
I've already made the mistake of underestimating Jayson once and it cost me a World Championship, I will not make that mistake again. Jayson just couldn't let me have my moment back then, just like he couldn't let me have my moment two weeks ago and just like he couldn't let me have my moment last week.
For all you internet fans who think I'm too old for this, that youth has the advantage and that I'm in the twilight of my career, let me remind you that for every man I have made inside that ring, I have broken a dozen more, I'm not done yet, I'm not Brad Kane, for me retirement isn't a buzzword that motivates me, Jayson may have undeservingly taken a title from me, but I will not allow him to undeservingly end my career...
And that is something you can damn sure bet on.
Two years ago, I was reborn as a man who took down a legend from another place and time...
One year ago, I was reborn in another place and time...
This year, I am reborn all over again...
*Suddenly the scene bursts into life with the unmistakably adrenalin pumping aggression of Static X's hit track 'Black and White' from their 'Machine' album...and like a machine we see black leather fists rocking a white punching bag with equal speed, intensity and accuracy as if each blow was being inspired by the pounding riff blaring somewhere off camera....*
Lost in my own World
Lost in my own World
Lost in my
Lost in my own World
Lost in my own World
Lost in my
Lost in my own World
Lost in my
Lost in my own World
Lost in my own World
Lost in my
As the lyrics numbed my senses to everything else around me, my focus narrowed, it wasn't often that I allowed myself to become lost in my own world, but something about all that had transpired in the last couple of weeks burned deep within me. I had heard thev rumours started by Jayson Matthews in the back, he never missed a beat in telling all the boys in the back - most of whom hated me on a personal level - that I was 'basically retired'.
Since when did Matthews take it upon himself to become my personal agent? What business was it of his anyway? The clown accomplished nothing here in nCw ever anyway besides being Steve Awesome's lackey, and now that Steve Awesome is too busy being a lackey himself, Jayson has no one to turn to, no one to keep him relevant, not even Johnny Rotten.
So he decided to do what they all do when they can't get Steve Awesome on board, they come to me, the other half of The Smokin' Aces, the inferior half if you ask some of the propaganda merchants around here. How quickly they forget that if it wasn't for me lighting a fire under a young Steve Bates' ass in another place, there would be no Steve Awesome today. Without me, there would be no Smokin' Aces, there would be no Steve Awesome.
As monumental as my own ego is, I am not above putting younger guys in the spotlight, so long as they know not to bite the hand that feeds, I did it for Steve because I saw something great in that kid, something beyond those chiselled good looks and fabulous abs, I saw real, raw talent. Something which needed to be moulded, shaped and encouraged. I knew it would be good for the business if I had a hand in creating 'the next big thing' in this industry, but did he ever thank me? No. Why? Ego.
It really is that mind-numblingly simple. Do you think Steve will ever stop and look back on his career and realise that you can't be The Face Of The Franchise without having an Ace in there somewhere? I doubt it, for all his talent as Steve Awesome, Steve Bates just isn't that smart - and I say that as one of his closest friends in the business.
I made Steve Awesome a household name out of choice.
Getting to the right
Getting to the wrong
Getting mine
Getting to the right
Getting to the wrong
Getting high
Getting to the wrong
Getting mine
Getting to the right
Getting to the wrong
Getting high
Flip the coin, turn the card and the other side you have Jayson Matthews, a man I see nothing of any value in at at all, no talent, no real ambition, no real drive, nothing for me to motivate or even care about - JayMat is just another punk kid who thinks its still cool to be from the ghetto even though he has no earthly idea what that means. These racially confused white kids come a dime a dozen, a trip to any schoolyard or playground anywhere in the western world will prove that. There's nothing even remotely special about Matthews and that's why nobody really cares about him like he wants them to. Not the fans, not Steve Awesome, probably not even his sister Mandi if what she told my wife last week is anything to go by.
Jayson just isn't cut out to survive in this business long-term anymore than say that other Jason who at least has the good sense to not put unnecessary letters in the middle of his own name. Then again, that's Jayson right down to a T isn't it?
Entirely unnecessary.
Everything he does is entirely unnecessary. He didn't need to come out there two weeks ago and try to take the spotlight from me again, but he did it. He didn't need to try and beat me down last week to once again get himself noticed, but he did it. He diddn't need to bring up anything from a company most of us would like to forget, but he did it. What is done is done and now he's just in way over his head. Just like that other place's incompetence, Jayson's own knows no bounds. If the internet rumours are true, shortly after that place closed, management somehow managed to lose all their records and tapes aswell - so nobody has any real evidence of anything that happened there.
Losing your mind
Losing your mind
It's bluring
It's fading
Your soul's on fire
It's black and white
Losing your mind
It's bluring
It's fading
Your soul's on fire
It's black and white
It doesn't surprise me, in fact its probably better that they lost eveything, until now I didn't realise that losing everything by their standards included their talent's minds, that said I must have lost mine when I worked out a contract in any company proud to be associated with Davey Boone. Jayson is just another casualty of that place, and now he truly has lost his mind if he thinks facing me on Sunday will be a walk in the proverbial park. I know what Matthews is thinking, he's thinking if he can somehow repeat history and do what he did over there over here, he'll be the big star again just like was over there for a couple of weeks.
Unfortunately Jayson needs to learn, and learn real quick that it's just not that black and white over here, it never has been, beating me will not put him on the map this time because over here there are no corrupt nameless general managers running the show, and over here the general policy isn't if you're name isn't Mac Bane or Buddy Drifter, you are just a glorified workhound. In nCw titles aren't given out on a whim, they're earned, they're hard earned, just like everything else, because here everything actually means something to everybody.
If Jayson beats me on Sunday, I will give him his kudos, but right now the gap between the ifs and the whens is wide open, just like Jayson's mouth two weeks ago when this all needlessly began.
Burning inside
Burning inside
Burning into white
Burning inside
Burning inside
Burning into night
Burning inside
Burning into white
Burning inside
Burning inside
Burning into night
Throughout all of this, I've been asking myself why? Why is Matthews so intent on using my name and my reputation to get himself to the top? I think I finally have the answer - it is precisely because he sees me as a Steve Awesome substitute, he's hoping against hope that where his association with Steve failed to get him noticed by anybody, his association with me will succeed. I'm not stupid, I know he doesn't always want to be known as the brother of somebody Steve Awesome had sex with, I'd bet there's actually many brothers out there who have that distinction. Jayson is at best, desperate for attention, that's why his entire personality and demeanor is stuck at least a decade behind the rest of us.
I won't lie, it burns me up inside that thanks to Jayson, the internet is buzzing with rumours of my impending retirement, people are already speculating that I'm only back in nCw to have one last run, some are even saying this will be my last match, and that I wanted to go out performing infront of my home crowd. What these people fail to realise is that any crowd I have the priviledge of performing for is like my home crowd - this week just happens to be that much more special.
*The Ace is now shown in a montage, lifting dumbells, bench pressing, jogging and generally rigorously preparing himself for his first nCw match in over a year as Static X continue to drive him on...*
Yourself collides
Yourself collides
Yourself into mine
Yourself collides
Yourself collides
Yourself splinters like
Yourself collides
Yourself into mine
Yourself collides
Yourself collides
Yourself splinters like
I've already made the mistake of underestimating Jayson once and it cost me a World Championship, I will not make that mistake again. Jayson just couldn't let me have my moment back then, just like he couldn't let me have my moment two weeks ago and just like he couldn't let me have my moment last week.
For all you internet fans who think I'm too old for this, that youth has the advantage and that I'm in the twilight of my career, let me remind you that for every man I have made inside that ring, I have broken a dozen more, I'm not done yet, I'm not Brad Kane, for me retirement isn't a buzzword that motivates me, Jayson may have undeservingly taken a title from me, but I will not allow him to undeservingly end my career...
And that is something you can damn sure bet on.