Post by Rob Diamond on Jul 31, 2011 5:57:10 GMT -6
{ I'm so damn sexy I don't even need a scene description. }
"Steve Awesome... My best friend... My partner in Infamous... My opponent this Sunday night is looking for his happy ending..."
{ What a sweet story... Sounds just a tad familiar though. }
"Well I'm sorry Steve but I'm not the Vietnamese whore your looking for."
{ Oh that's right he pulls out that speech every world title shot. }
"Don't get me wrong man, i want you to be happy. We're bros, hell, don't play like we didn't Chinese finger trap that goat in the back of your Lexus..."
{ Don't lie Steve. }
"But your happiness isn't going to come at my expense partner. I don't ****ing care how many times you give me the "their ain't no stopping me NOOOOOOW!!!!" speech the fact still remains buddy...."
{ And this is important so listen. }
"I will do whatever I have to do to keep this belt."
{ A point I thought i drove home with that wicked ball shot. }
"See, while the big bad sandbagger himself, Steve Awesome questions whether he was ever good enough to begin with... I KNOW! And I'm not afraid to prove it Steve. I mean let's be real. You want this belt, right? You want to prove to the whole entire world that your everything you've said you were over the last four years, right?"
{ Makes for such a cute story too. }
"Here's the thing vato. I don't have a goddam thing to prove to you or anyone else. This whole entire company knows Rob Diamond is the best damn wrestler here so when I step in that ring there is no pressure to perform, no anxiety about the match. I could give a rats ass if it's Steve Awesome or mama Diamond across the ring from me when the world title is on the line. Once that bell rings..."
{ Ding ding. }
"Someone is getting ****ed up."
{ I'm looking at you. }
"You worked your ass off to be here Steve? You think your the only one who had a hard road? You think simply because you made the hard ass journey back to the top that this belt is rightfully yours?"
{ Wrong. }
"Think again Steve. As you like to point out I damn near killed myself for ncw. "
{ It's not a joke. }
"So unless your willing to finish the job then sit the **** down because there will not be a happy ending for you."
{ Suck it suck it five dolla. }
{ So because it's all the rage to inner monologue your deepest darkest feelings again I decided to give it a shot. Besides, I gotta do something to top that oh so high damn larious sandbagging- I mean Jetsons parody Steve threw my way.
Leonard Fox, perhaps the most arrogant son of a bitch on the planet outside of yours truly, sat rather poignantly behind his lavish desk with that cute little smirk of his that accents the dimple on his right cheek... moving on. Big Z and I stood rather rigidly across from him, my sexy little minks gripping a crumpled up contract in her right fist. I held her left hand, half in support and half in an effort to stop a possible homicide... }
"This is bull****!"
"On the contrary Ms Knite, I think it's a rather fair offer."
"Fair!?"
{ She tried to tug her hand free but let's be real, her manly man is just a wee bit stronger. }
"What the hell is fair about it!?"
{ Leo grins at her rather smugly... I hope I can be as rich of an asshole as he is someday. I bet his mommy is proud. }
"What's fair is you get everything you asked for. A raise, ten percent more in merchandise and ticket sales, a lighter schedule and a guarantee paid maternity leave..."
{ He smirked... I'd have to check but I'm pretty sure that thing is trade marked. }
"And I get what I want from you."
{ Zee's face went a shade or two redder than I thought possible as she leaned forward to get right into Leo's smug face. }
"And what you want you sick perverted old man is for me to finally do the nude photo shoot!?"
"Precisely Ms Knite."
"That's bull****."
"That is the price of doing business. You get what you want, I get what I want. Sign or don't sign Ms Knite. It's up to you."
"So to wrestle for the company I love, the company I have dreamed about performing for, the company I poured my heart into I have to sell out? I have to forsake everything I stood for and become another one of your stooges?"
{ His grin boarders on disturbing. }
"Exactly."
{ Zelda looks at me and nods. I know what she is thinking, we discussed it, it was our back up plan all along... I was just hoping it could of waited two more days... }
"Then you can kiss our collective ass and your world titles goodbye!"
{ Zee blew him her signature kiss, I just shrugged at him because, well, sucks to be you. }
"And what about you Mr Diamond, will you be taking your ball and going home as well?"
{ I can't help but grin as we enter the second half of our little **** slinging contest. }
"Steve... For the record."
{ This is kinda hard for me to say but it has to be said... }
"I did not have sexual relations with that goat."
{ Wink-Wink. Like my man Clinton says, blow jobs do not count. }
"But all joking aside Steve, I know what this match means to you,after all I modeled my whole persona after you..."
{ Lolz. }
"But I don't think you understand what this match means to me Steve."
{ Not even remotely. }
"See, while you sit back making all your cute little jokes trying to find a way to get under my skin so I over react and lose focus like Trent Helms or Andrew Jacobsen... I'm solely focused on one thing."
{ Presenting the ncw world title. }
"This belt, this championship, its not just some trinket for me to rub in the faces of all the little assholes who said I'd never make it. This belt, Steve, is everything i have spent my entire life fighting for."
{ Shouldn't surprise anyone. }
"I grew up watching my brother dominate the wrestling world in the late nineties. I watched from the front row as he won world championships as he defeated unstoppable foes as he surpassed the term wrestler and became something legendary."
"Scoff away Steve, you didn't face my brother when he was in his prime, he used to tear through men like you as a warm up before a world title defense. That's the bar for me, Steve, that's where I want to be. Forget about heel of the year or match of the night. I want to be the best damn world champion this company has ever seen and to date I have not let a single damn thing get in my way. I have fought through heart ache and insurmountable odds to be standing here today, to hold this belt today and I'll be damned if your going to take it away."
{ **** your dreams. }
"I'm glad that you really really want to win the belt Steve. I'm glad you finally decided to step up your game and make a run at me. I'm ****ing ecstatic that I am the champion you've decided to measure yourself against..."
{ Your really making me proud. Even brought a tear to my eye. }
"But there is one problem with your plan Steve... I'm not going to lay the **** down. This belt is the justification you've been fighting so hard to achieve? Good for you Steve, your just like every other douche bag with nothing new to say. This belt to me...It's the key to my legend."
{ Shrugs. }
"Game over."
"So Mr Diamond, is Zelda Knite really worth sacrificing everything you ever fought for?"
{ Fox smirks at me like he already knows the answer. }
"Is she really worth cutting short the Legend of Rob Diamond?"
{ His grin gets a little wider as he leans forward. }
"Or are you ready to become the New Face of ncw?"
{ I swallow hard and look at Zelda, she grips my shoulder and just nods. I turn back to Fox. }
"You know Leo..."
{ I'm going to enjoy wiping that smirk off his ****ing face. }
"You better pray to god Steve Awesome kills me Sunday night..."
{ His grin quickly turns to a scowl. }
"Otherwise YOUR titles and OUR legend will continue somewhere else."
{ Now he just sneers. }
"Suck it."
"I'm only gonna say this once because I'm not Jimmy Zane and it really doesn't bother me."
{ Wink. }
"I didn't try and kill myself because of wrestling."
{ True story, look up the promo if you don't believe me. }
"I was in love with someone, her name was Jenny and she meant the world to me."
{ Yes Steve, the same Jenny from the infamous Goat promo you love to joke about over and over and over and over and over and over and over again like it's still funny even though only you and Adam even remember it. Way to be original by the way. }
"I loved her man, I loved her more than life itself."
{ Not a joke. }
"But something happened... Something I can't really explain. See, back in the day I was pretty good, X-Division champion and all that. I was blazing my own path but I just wasn't... I wasn't you, Steve."
{ Is this the heart warming moment we've all been waiting for? }
"I wasn't the World Champion with all the girls and all the fans and all the glitz and glamor you surrounded yourself with. So I made a change up, I literally copied everything about you right down to the wrestling style and I took the mid card by storm."
{ Killed him some Xavier Williams. }
"And with the gimmick infringement in full effect I tossed Jenny to the side. I told her to get the **** out of my face before she ends up hurt."
{ Rob actually chokes up a little right here. }
"And she killed herself."
{ He stops, just to collect himself before continuing. }
"She killed herself because she couldn't have me. She saw me on TV every week picking up random women, banging that 40 something lesbian Rayne, macking on Ayla, hitting up pre wrestling Roxxxie and totally nailing Freya Kane despite what Brad or her husband who I like to refer to as the black Brad Kane, tells himself. She killed herself because she couldn't have me."
{ He just slumps his shoulders in a light shrug. }
"It broke me, Steve. It broke me good. I was like a loaded gun ready to go off and I pointed myself at the biggest target I could, which was Falcon... My only friend at the time... And yeah, like you like to point out because you have nothing else worth talking about, I failed to beat him and then..."
{ Rob looks away, not actually wanting to talk about this but Steve is a douchebag who likes to rewrite history even when he's knee deep in repeating it... }
"And then it all was just too much man. The depression I felt, the remorse, the regret, the crushing weight of knowing someone loved me so much that their life was worth ending because I wouldn't be with them... It killed me inside so I took a knife and slashed the holy hell out of my wrist."
{ Rob holds up his left arm with the tattoo now covering the scar on his inside forearm. }
"Ha-****ing-Ha."
{ Then lowers it. }
"But I didn't die, Steve. Shelly was the first to find me, she called the ambulance and they were able to stop the bleeding. Falcon who I waged my little war against, was among the first men to come see me and when he did... He brought her..."
{ Again, check the promo. }
"Zelda walked into that room, into my life and she asked me a similar question to you. She asked me 'why'?"
{ He leans back against the wall and crosses his arms. }
"You want to know why I fight Steve? I know damn well I fight for the same reasons you do."
{ He raises the world title. }
"Not to try and step on your toes, I know no one besides you is allowed to be an arrogant self serving prick who wants to be the world champion and occasionally breaks the fourth wall but you..."
{ ... }
"But I fight to be the best."
{ Which is why I'm 30 points ahead of whichever ass clown is #2 in the rankings... OH LOOK IT'S NOT STEVE! }
"I tried to take my life because I lost who I was in trying to be someone I'm not... Zelda brought me back. She grounded me. She showed me how to be a better person inside and outside of that ring. I know you like to tell yourself I'm just copying you because you've run out of relevant things to say, but Steve, honestly man, I'm just being me. I stopped giving a damn what other people thought of me and just walked out there and gave this world the Rob Mother Loving Diamond you all love to hate. I'm being the man Zelda loves. The man I never let out before because I didn't think he was good enough to be here. Zelda made me realize that not only amd I good enough... I'm better and if you don't like it you can suck it."
{ Moderate crotch chop. }
"So the real question isn't what do I fight for, it isn't how am I going to end this little three promo story to try and earn brownie points, and it definitely isn't am I ready for you..."
{ No sir. }
"The real question Steve... What happens when you realize as good as you are you just aren't good enough to beat me?"
{ Another tragically predictable heel turn? }
"Because that is the reality you are faced with."
{ Rob and Zelda walk out of Leo's office hand in hand as he just sneers in their general direction. Zelda isn't her usually giddy self, she isn't biting her lip, she's furious, frustrated, she wants to be here, she wants to wrestle for nCw but most of all she wants to be with Rob... The man who basically just told Leo to take this job, a job he literally loves more than life itself (My suicide jokes better) and shove it. As they walk down the hall way she looks up at her man. }
"Rob... I know we talked about this... But if you don't want to-"
"Zee..."
{ He stops her. }
"I've dreamed about being the World Champion my whole entire life."
"I know and-"
"But honestly, there are other World titles out there... There's only one you."
{ Now she bites her lip. }
"And if Leo won't play ball then we will find someone who will..."
{ The Rob smirks. }
"But somehow I think when he sees BOTH of his World Champions walking out the door he'll change his mind."
{ Zee laughs a little and pulls herself close to Rob. }
"Either way I end up with you."
"You really are the best."
{ He smiles as he wraps his arms around her. }
"I'd do anything for you Zee. I love you."
{ She buries her head in his chest as he just holds her. The power couple of nCw... For at least the next couple of hours... Fade. }
I don't need to tell myself every single day what I fight for.
I don't need to convince myself that I'm better than you.
I have nothing left to prove Steve.
And nothing to lose.
"Steve Awesome... My best friend... My partner in Infamous... My opponent this Sunday night is looking for his happy ending..."
{ What a sweet story... Sounds just a tad familiar though. }
"Well I'm sorry Steve but I'm not the Vietnamese whore your looking for."
{ Oh that's right he pulls out that speech every world title shot. }
"Don't get me wrong man, i want you to be happy. We're bros, hell, don't play like we didn't Chinese finger trap that goat in the back of your Lexus..."
{ Don't lie Steve. }
"But your happiness isn't going to come at my expense partner. I don't ****ing care how many times you give me the "their ain't no stopping me NOOOOOOW!!!!" speech the fact still remains buddy...."
{ And this is important so listen. }
"I will do whatever I have to do to keep this belt."
{ A point I thought i drove home with that wicked ball shot. }
"See, while the big bad sandbagger himself, Steve Awesome questions whether he was ever good enough to begin with... I KNOW! And I'm not afraid to prove it Steve. I mean let's be real. You want this belt, right? You want to prove to the whole entire world that your everything you've said you were over the last four years, right?"
{ Makes for such a cute story too. }
"Here's the thing vato. I don't have a goddam thing to prove to you or anyone else. This whole entire company knows Rob Diamond is the best damn wrestler here so when I step in that ring there is no pressure to perform, no anxiety about the match. I could give a rats ass if it's Steve Awesome or mama Diamond across the ring from me when the world title is on the line. Once that bell rings..."
{ Ding ding. }
"Someone is getting ****ed up."
{ I'm looking at you. }
"You worked your ass off to be here Steve? You think your the only one who had a hard road? You think simply because you made the hard ass journey back to the top that this belt is rightfully yours?"
{ Wrong. }
"Think again Steve. As you like to point out I damn near killed myself for ncw. "
{ It's not a joke. }
"So unless your willing to finish the job then sit the **** down because there will not be a happy ending for you."
{ Suck it suck it five dolla. }
{ So because it's all the rage to inner monologue your deepest darkest feelings again I decided to give it a shot. Besides, I gotta do something to top that oh so high damn larious sandbagging- I mean Jetsons parody Steve threw my way.
Leonard Fox, perhaps the most arrogant son of a bitch on the planet outside of yours truly, sat rather poignantly behind his lavish desk with that cute little smirk of his that accents the dimple on his right cheek... moving on. Big Z and I stood rather rigidly across from him, my sexy little minks gripping a crumpled up contract in her right fist. I held her left hand, half in support and half in an effort to stop a possible homicide... }
"This is bull****!"
"On the contrary Ms Knite, I think it's a rather fair offer."
"Fair!?"
{ She tried to tug her hand free but let's be real, her manly man is just a wee bit stronger. }
"What the hell is fair about it!?"
{ Leo grins at her rather smugly... I hope I can be as rich of an asshole as he is someday. I bet his mommy is proud. }
"What's fair is you get everything you asked for. A raise, ten percent more in merchandise and ticket sales, a lighter schedule and a guarantee paid maternity leave..."
{ He smirked... I'd have to check but I'm pretty sure that thing is trade marked. }
"And I get what I want from you."
{ Zee's face went a shade or two redder than I thought possible as she leaned forward to get right into Leo's smug face. }
"And what you want you sick perverted old man is for me to finally do the nude photo shoot!?"
"Precisely Ms Knite."
"That's bull****."
"That is the price of doing business. You get what you want, I get what I want. Sign or don't sign Ms Knite. It's up to you."
"So to wrestle for the company I love, the company I have dreamed about performing for, the company I poured my heart into I have to sell out? I have to forsake everything I stood for and become another one of your stooges?"
{ His grin boarders on disturbing. }
"Exactly."
{ Zelda looks at me and nods. I know what she is thinking, we discussed it, it was our back up plan all along... I was just hoping it could of waited two more days... }
"Then you can kiss our collective ass and your world titles goodbye!"
{ Zee blew him her signature kiss, I just shrugged at him because, well, sucks to be you. }
"And what about you Mr Diamond, will you be taking your ball and going home as well?"
{ I can't help but grin as we enter the second half of our little **** slinging contest. }
"Steve... For the record."
{ This is kinda hard for me to say but it has to be said... }
"I did not have sexual relations with that goat."
{ Wink-Wink. Like my man Clinton says, blow jobs do not count. }
"But all joking aside Steve, I know what this match means to you,after all I modeled my whole persona after you..."
{ Lolz. }
"But I don't think you understand what this match means to me Steve."
{ Not even remotely. }
"See, while you sit back making all your cute little jokes trying to find a way to get under my skin so I over react and lose focus like Trent Helms or Andrew Jacobsen... I'm solely focused on one thing."
{ Presenting the ncw world title. }
"This belt, this championship, its not just some trinket for me to rub in the faces of all the little assholes who said I'd never make it. This belt, Steve, is everything i have spent my entire life fighting for."
{ Shouldn't surprise anyone. }
"I grew up watching my brother dominate the wrestling world in the late nineties. I watched from the front row as he won world championships as he defeated unstoppable foes as he surpassed the term wrestler and became something legendary."
"Scoff away Steve, you didn't face my brother when he was in his prime, he used to tear through men like you as a warm up before a world title defense. That's the bar for me, Steve, that's where I want to be. Forget about heel of the year or match of the night. I want to be the best damn world champion this company has ever seen and to date I have not let a single damn thing get in my way. I have fought through heart ache and insurmountable odds to be standing here today, to hold this belt today and I'll be damned if your going to take it away."
{ **** your dreams. }
"I'm glad that you really really want to win the belt Steve. I'm glad you finally decided to step up your game and make a run at me. I'm ****ing ecstatic that I am the champion you've decided to measure yourself against..."
{ Your really making me proud. Even brought a tear to my eye. }
"But there is one problem with your plan Steve... I'm not going to lay the **** down. This belt is the justification you've been fighting so hard to achieve? Good for you Steve, your just like every other douche bag with nothing new to say. This belt to me...It's the key to my legend."
{ Shrugs. }
"Game over."
"So Mr Diamond, is Zelda Knite really worth sacrificing everything you ever fought for?"
{ Fox smirks at me like he already knows the answer. }
"Is she really worth cutting short the Legend of Rob Diamond?"
{ His grin gets a little wider as he leans forward. }
"Or are you ready to become the New Face of ncw?"
{ I swallow hard and look at Zelda, she grips my shoulder and just nods. I turn back to Fox. }
"You know Leo..."
{ I'm going to enjoy wiping that smirk off his ****ing face. }
"You better pray to god Steve Awesome kills me Sunday night..."
{ His grin quickly turns to a scowl. }
"Otherwise YOUR titles and OUR legend will continue somewhere else."
{ Now he just sneers. }
"Suck it."
"I'm only gonna say this once because I'm not Jimmy Zane and it really doesn't bother me."
{ Wink. }
"I didn't try and kill myself because of wrestling."
{ True story, look up the promo if you don't believe me. }
"I was in love with someone, her name was Jenny and she meant the world to me."
{ Yes Steve, the same Jenny from the infamous Goat promo you love to joke about over and over and over and over and over and over and over again like it's still funny even though only you and Adam even remember it. Way to be original by the way. }
"I loved her man, I loved her more than life itself."
{ Not a joke. }
"But something happened... Something I can't really explain. See, back in the day I was pretty good, X-Division champion and all that. I was blazing my own path but I just wasn't... I wasn't you, Steve."
{ Is this the heart warming moment we've all been waiting for? }
"I wasn't the World Champion with all the girls and all the fans and all the glitz and glamor you surrounded yourself with. So I made a change up, I literally copied everything about you right down to the wrestling style and I took the mid card by storm."
{ Killed him some Xavier Williams. }
"And with the gimmick infringement in full effect I tossed Jenny to the side. I told her to get the **** out of my face before she ends up hurt."
{ Rob actually chokes up a little right here. }
"And she killed herself."
{ He stops, just to collect himself before continuing. }
"She killed herself because she couldn't have me. She saw me on TV every week picking up random women, banging that 40 something lesbian Rayne, macking on Ayla, hitting up pre wrestling Roxxxie and totally nailing Freya Kane despite what Brad or her husband who I like to refer to as the black Brad Kane, tells himself. She killed herself because she couldn't have me."
{ He just slumps his shoulders in a light shrug. }
"It broke me, Steve. It broke me good. I was like a loaded gun ready to go off and I pointed myself at the biggest target I could, which was Falcon... My only friend at the time... And yeah, like you like to point out because you have nothing else worth talking about, I failed to beat him and then..."
{ Rob looks away, not actually wanting to talk about this but Steve is a douchebag who likes to rewrite history even when he's knee deep in repeating it... }
"And then it all was just too much man. The depression I felt, the remorse, the regret, the crushing weight of knowing someone loved me so much that their life was worth ending because I wouldn't be with them... It killed me inside so I took a knife and slashed the holy hell out of my wrist."
{ Rob holds up his left arm with the tattoo now covering the scar on his inside forearm. }
"Ha-****ing-Ha."
{ Then lowers it. }
"But I didn't die, Steve. Shelly was the first to find me, she called the ambulance and they were able to stop the bleeding. Falcon who I waged my little war against, was among the first men to come see me and when he did... He brought her..."
{ Again, check the promo. }
"Zelda walked into that room, into my life and she asked me a similar question to you. She asked me 'why'?"
{ He leans back against the wall and crosses his arms. }
"You want to know why I fight Steve? I know damn well I fight for the same reasons you do."
{ He raises the world title. }
"Not to try and step on your toes, I know no one besides you is allowed to be an arrogant self serving prick who wants to be the world champion and occasionally breaks the fourth wall but you..."
{ ... }
"But I fight to be the best."
{ Which is why I'm 30 points ahead of whichever ass clown is #2 in the rankings... OH LOOK IT'S NOT STEVE! }
"I tried to take my life because I lost who I was in trying to be someone I'm not... Zelda brought me back. She grounded me. She showed me how to be a better person inside and outside of that ring. I know you like to tell yourself I'm just copying you because you've run out of relevant things to say, but Steve, honestly man, I'm just being me. I stopped giving a damn what other people thought of me and just walked out there and gave this world the Rob Mother Loving Diamond you all love to hate. I'm being the man Zelda loves. The man I never let out before because I didn't think he was good enough to be here. Zelda made me realize that not only amd I good enough... I'm better and if you don't like it you can suck it."
{ Moderate crotch chop. }
"So the real question isn't what do I fight for, it isn't how am I going to end this little three promo story to try and earn brownie points, and it definitely isn't am I ready for you..."
{ No sir. }
"The real question Steve... What happens when you realize as good as you are you just aren't good enough to beat me?"
{ Another tragically predictable heel turn? }
"Because that is the reality you are faced with."
{ Rob and Zelda walk out of Leo's office hand in hand as he just sneers in their general direction. Zelda isn't her usually giddy self, she isn't biting her lip, she's furious, frustrated, she wants to be here, she wants to wrestle for nCw but most of all she wants to be with Rob... The man who basically just told Leo to take this job, a job he literally loves more than life itself (My suicide jokes better) and shove it. As they walk down the hall way she looks up at her man. }
"Rob... I know we talked about this... But if you don't want to-"
"Zee..."
{ He stops her. }
"I've dreamed about being the World Champion my whole entire life."
"I know and-"
"But honestly, there are other World titles out there... There's only one you."
{ Now she bites her lip. }
"And if Leo won't play ball then we will find someone who will..."
{ The Rob smirks. }
"But somehow I think when he sees BOTH of his World Champions walking out the door he'll change his mind."
{ Zee laughs a little and pulls herself close to Rob. }
"Either way I end up with you."
"You really are the best."
{ He smiles as he wraps his arms around her. }
"I'd do anything for you Zee. I love you."
{ She buries her head in his chest as he just holds her. The power couple of nCw... For at least the next couple of hours... Fade. }
I don't need to tell myself every single day what I fight for.
I don't need to convince myself that I'm better than you.
I have nothing left to prove Steve.
And nothing to lose.