Post by Spike Kane on Jul 30, 2011 17:37:08 GMT -6
”Mike! - He doesn't need his name up in lights
He just wants to be heard whether it's the beat or the mic
He feels so unlike everybody else, alone
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him”
A lot of people make fun of my life. They take pot shots in their promo's wether I am around or not, just because they think it is funny that so much bad sh#t can happen to one guy and he seems to just power through it.
Well let me make one thing f*cking clear for you all.....
I AM NOT JIMMY ZANE!
I have fought harder than any of you out there have fought. I have had to fight just to live a single mother f*cking day in this world and instead of commending me, instead of acknowledging it you simply mock me from afar. You simply laugh at the drama unfolding around me. My life sucks, I'm not new to this news....my life has sucked since birth. Before my Dad faked his death, before my mother killed herself, before I was sent to a foreign country to live in an orphanage, before I lost my son.....before I tried to kill myself........and before I cracked and gave in.
Drama follows me around because I attract disaster. It's no secret, if you hang around with Spike Kane too much, you know damn well something is going to go down. Whether it's something right out of an episode of days of our lives, or something over the top like Die Hard. Something always happens......which, in a round about kind of way....means to you people.
My life is interesting.
You people mock me....yet you tune in every week. My life, my living disaster is entertainment to you. So when you stand there and make snide comments about my promo's and how things in my life are open to the public....what gives you the damn right to judge me? What gives you the right to mock my life like your life is so much better?
I'm a fighter. I have been since day one, and I fight harder and stronger than any single one of you.....
There is a reason why I reach the top. There is a reason why my name is remembered worldwide.....and there is a reason why the people who fill our shows every single night respect me. I am honest....I have never hidden anything from them, my intentions have always been plain for all to see and I have always worn my heart on my sleeve.
I am a broken man.....I have been for a long time....and the realisation of this makes me want to fight harder to prove that I'm not, but you know it. Every single one of you that will see this promo this week will know that I have always been at a disadvantage, that I have always let me emotions control me....and that people have preyed on that fact because they know I will respond. Well....I'm not going to say it will never happen again because it will, and we all know it. I am a very emotional person because I have a very emotional life....
I have fought since day one....
...and no matter what you people say.
No matter how much you mock me.
No matter how much you ridicule my life.
I...will NEVER....f*cking quit.
~~~
He just wants to be heard whether it's the beat or the mic
He feels so unlike everybody else, alone
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him”
A lot of people make fun of my life. They take pot shots in their promo's wether I am around or not, just because they think it is funny that so much bad sh#t can happen to one guy and he seems to just power through it.
Well let me make one thing f*cking clear for you all.....
I AM NOT JIMMY ZANE!
I have fought harder than any of you out there have fought. I have had to fight just to live a single mother f*cking day in this world and instead of commending me, instead of acknowledging it you simply mock me from afar. You simply laugh at the drama unfolding around me. My life sucks, I'm not new to this news....my life has sucked since birth. Before my Dad faked his death, before my mother killed herself, before I was sent to a foreign country to live in an orphanage, before I lost my son.....before I tried to kill myself........and before I cracked and gave in.
Drama follows me around because I attract disaster. It's no secret, if you hang around with Spike Kane too much, you know damn well something is going to go down. Whether it's something right out of an episode of days of our lives, or something over the top like Die Hard. Something always happens......which, in a round about kind of way....means to you people.
My life is interesting.
You people mock me....yet you tune in every week. My life, my living disaster is entertainment to you. So when you stand there and make snide comments about my promo's and how things in my life are open to the public....what gives you the damn right to judge me? What gives you the right to mock my life like your life is so much better?
I'm a fighter. I have been since day one, and I fight harder and stronger than any single one of you.....
There is a reason why I reach the top. There is a reason why my name is remembered worldwide.....and there is a reason why the people who fill our shows every single night respect me. I am honest....I have never hidden anything from them, my intentions have always been plain for all to see and I have always worn my heart on my sleeve.
I am a broken man.....I have been for a long time....and the realisation of this makes me want to fight harder to prove that I'm not, but you know it. Every single one of you that will see this promo this week will know that I have always been at a disadvantage, that I have always let me emotions control me....and that people have preyed on that fact because they know I will respond. Well....I'm not going to say it will never happen again because it will, and we all know it. I am a very emotional person because I have a very emotional life....
I have fought since day one....
...and no matter what you people say.
No matter how much you mock me.
No matter how much you ridicule my life.
I...will NEVER....f*cking quit.
~~~
We open up on the room that we saw in the last Spike Kane promo. Instead of Spike Kane sitting staring at the wall like a lunatic, he is pacing back and forth occasionally scratching at his arms. He is clearly agitated.
“Come on, you're taking the piss!”
He slams a fist into the wall and ignores the pain as he tries to keep himself calm, for some reason his Irish accent seems to be creeping into his voice instead of his usual aclimatized semi-american accent. The process of going through the withdrawal symptoms seems to be effecting him. He clenches both fits and puts them against his temples rocking his head backwards and forwards.
“You're just doing this to annoy me. I know how this works! I know you have to ween me off this, you can't just cut me off!”
He sits down on the end of the simple bed and rocks back and forth, his hands now moving to brush his short hair backwards and we can see that his teeth are gritted. We slowly fade out through the small mirror into another room where we can see two doctors, one with a clipboard, assessing Spike's behaviour. Standing with them and looking almost like an emotional wreck, is Alysson Gardner. She tries to talk with a cracked voice, trying to stop herself from crying. Obviously upset at seeing the man she knows to be so tough, so strong, and so violent as a completely different human being.
Alysson: Why is he acting like this?
One of the doctors places a hand on her shoulder in an effort to try and comfort her. Spike starts pacing the room again and slams a flat kick right into the door shouting out in anger as he does so.
Doctor: Most patients go through withdrawal if they're source of intoxication is cut off, the more they have in their system the worst it is for them, which is why most people do not go cold turkey as they say but undergo a more progressive form of treatment.
Alysson: Then why isn't he doing that? Why has he been cut off like that?
The doctor coughs, obviously feeling a little embarrassed for Alysson obviously not having all the details been explained to her.
Doctor: Miss Gardner....this form of treatment, this...procedure is the method Mr Kane's employers demanded he go through. I'm afraid he agreed to it...
Spike starts to shout out random noises of aggression now, clearly getting more and more agitated as this goes on. He starts to slam his hands on the door in his room. Once, twice....harder and harder.
Alysson: ….it seems like you are torturing him!
Doctor: We assure you Miss Gardner, we are only doing what is best for Mr Kane in the long term.
Spike now is becoming more animated, moving around a lot more. He approaches the mirror glaring into it as he looks into the mirror. His eyes glaze over as if he is seeing something in the mirror that isn't real, that his mind is telling him is there but in reality all that is there is his reflection, Spike smirks before he arches backwards and slams his head into the mirror.
Doctor: Oh my god!
Alysson: Mike, what are you doing!?
Doctor #2: [over the radio] We need security in room seven right now! Sedate and restrain immediately!
Behind the almost broken through two way mirror Spike is snarling like some kind of animal as blood trickles down his forward, Alysson is sobbing to herself as the door bursts open into Spike's room. An orderly charges in and Spike arm drags him across the room before turning and punching a second orderly right in the nose, blood exploding everywhere. Spike is laughing maniacally as a third and fourth orderly come in and with their numbers advantage manage to stick the needle in Spike's neck and drag him onto the bed. The tie the restrains around his wrists and ankles and leave as quick as they came, the one of them who's nose just got broken being helped out by the others. Alysson has her face in her hands and she can visibly be seen shaking as she sobs. The doctor grabs her by the arm and leads her away talking softly to her.
Doctor: Miss Gardner, I'm so sorry you had to see that. We had no idea he was a violent patien-
Alysson: Well they should have told you! They know exactly what he's like, he's been there for almost four years!
Doctor: We know....we know....we promise you, we will do everything within our power to ensure he gets better.
Alysson: I know you will. Thank you....
Alysson turns away from the doctor, tears streaming down her face as she walks out of the room. The doctor goes back to the window and looks through at Spike, slowly drifting off but still defiant, grunts can be heard through his gritted teeth but his body doesn't move.
Doctor: This one is trouble....ensure the restraints are kept on at all times.
And we fade.
~~~
You know what Jake? There's something I have never told you, something about you that I have always held in the best of regards. Something that has made you stand out amongst all my friends and all my enemies, whether we were on the same side fighting against the likes of Lance Ryan and Phillip Burns....or whether we were tearing each other apart in the Dragon's Den and other extremely over the top matches.
You have always been honest.
I know a lot of people will scoff at the idea, and some will see this as some pathetic attempt at kissing and making up, but it's not. Honesty in this business is worth it's weight in gold. You see, countless people will come out here and flap off the gums about how they are better than you at this, and better than you at that, and they beat you there, or you lost to someone that they beat last week and blah blah blah blah blah.
Whereas you're not completly exempt from the generic promo selection from time to time....you have always kept yourself the way you started. You've never changed to fit somebody else's style, you have never copied somebody else because what they did was cool, or it won some fans over. If people were getting too big headed, to ahead of themselves you'd tell them straight, and if they were too down on themselves you would put them back on the right track.
So when you stand across from me and you tell me that my time is done....
I take it in my stride and think about it properly for once. I take the words in and what they actually mean and think about the consequences and what it would mean if I were to truly act upon your words as if they were the law. As if they were spoken down to us from God himself, if he....or she....(come on we've all seen and love Dogma).....whatever, exists. Of course, though....then I realise who I am and I take you're words and say right back to you that I will do what I always do to people who doubt me.
Prove you wrong.
You see Jake, you should know that I thrive off people looking at me in a negative light. Yeah, I'm a lot older than when I brought you into this thing that we love so much. Yeah, I've got a lot more battle scars and wounds....but there is something that you forgot. I used to always be the underdog. I was always the guy people would bet against....you remember, right?
“He's just a hardcore wrestler”
“What a spot monkey”
“He'll never be world champion”
“The hardcore division is lower than the womens division!”
Words spoken to, or shouted at me as I battled through my career. Always being looked down upon because I had a thing for creating violence in my matches. It was what they paid me to do and I excelled at it....so I took it further and proved to them that I could out wrestle the best they had and created my own genre....my own era....of Xtreme. I brought hardcore wrestling to the main stream. You see the ignorant among this business thing Xtreme is just chair swinging and barbed wire scraping but it is not....it is about taking every single little thing to the extreme, further than your opponent can take it and to soar above the roster whilst you do it.
This is why I always rise to the top. This is why Davey Ortega recruited me to the Empire, this is why Lance Ryan fell and my name was forever etched into the record books and history of New Championship wrestling.
But you already know that, don't you Jake?
You learned first hand. A student of Xtreme if you will, the unwilling protogé of Spike Kane. You often shun the more “hardcore” side of things claiming to be a straight up wrestler with an “Xtreme edge” but it seems that my work with you still isn't done Jake, because you're still so narrow minded. You are so close to realising your full potential to open your mind completley and become the thing you envy so much that you obsess over it more than it is really healthy to....before you can attempt to take your rightful place as my heir to become....The God of Xtreme.
I'm not done Jake. I'm not a shell of my former self, I'm just more aware of the things I have done and the things I am very, very capable of doing. I have carved a brutal, bloody legacy for myself in my fourteen years of wrestling and I am not ready to give up when I am at the bottom of the mountain whilst people leech off of my past success and push me down because they are worried if I get back up they might not be able to catch up.
I adapt, just like I always do Jake. Like a chameleon I change my colours and become a better person, a better wrestler, a better performer.
You still cling to the past transgressions and secretly hope for revenge. Revenge that will never come, because I'm not going to quit Jake. I would rather die in that ring than leave nCw ever again. This company has given so much to me and I am here to repay that debt, whether you believe the hype, whether you believe in the man behind the name or not.
Spike Kane will live on.
And Spike Kane will once again walk out of Picture Perfect with his hand raised in victory.
I'm looking forward to putting on a masterclass this Sunday “old friend” but do not think for one second that I am going to lightly on you at Picture Perfect. You've said your piece and I respect your opinion but trust me on this Jake, whatever your ego tells you, whatever your sense of pride whispers into your ears.
Do not count me out just yet.
~Fin
”Forget Mike - Nobody really knows how or why he works so hard
It seems like he's never got time
Because he writes every note and he writes every line
And I've seen him at work when that light goes on in his mind
It's like a design is written in his head every time”
It seems like he's never got time
Because he writes every note and he writes every line
And I've seen him at work when that light goes on in his mind
It's like a design is written in his head every time”