Post by Kathleen Conway on Sept 24, 2011 20:04:01 GMT -6
The scene opens with Kathleen Conway once again studying the wrestling tapes of her opponents on Sunday, BWA and trying to see if there was any weakness in the cohesiveness of the team that she could exploit.
Resting his head in her lap, looking remarkably relaxed for a man who also had a match on Sunday was her husband, Jake and on his stomach sat the comfortable weight of his youngest daughter, Domino. He gently bounced her up and down, and generally made silly faces to entertain her, whilst Kathy sat, her eyes fixed on the television, running fingers through her husband's hair in an effort to relax herself.
On the floor sat Solitaire rolling a ball back and forth between herself and the Conway family pet - a black cat called Casino.
So I guess last week didn't go exactly as I thought it would. I gave Kelly Knite too much credit and Megan Kane not enough. I dismissed Megan as the weak link in her team, and yet when it mattered and when she saw her opportunity, Megan stepped up and got the pinfall over Mercy V.
I have to respect her for that. Megan earned a little bit of respect from me last Saturday Night, and in doing so she's made me reassess everything I thought I knew about weak links within a team. Last week, Megan referred to me as a robot and this week I wish I were because if I were, I wouldn't have all these doubts and fears about the battle I've picked this Sunday running through my mind right now...
Since you were good enough to offer me an apology Rayne, I can only return the favour...
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry you feel I haven't been listening to you and Ayla from day one, when I can tell you that I have. I've listened to your every word, and listened intently, and yes I'll admit that in the beginning you and Ayla did show me some respect, and believe it or not I did appreciate it, so much so infact that I was more on your side than the Starlets. What I did not appreciate however is when on the flip of a dime, that respect you had for me went right out the window.
You and Ayla tagged me as something I never saw myself as, you and Ayla labelled me as some sort of Starlet defender when I clearly had no interest in being one, you thrust upon me a responsibility I neither wanted or even asked for - you made me responsible for a whole division - a division that no longer even cares about the war you're waging. None of the girls in the back care about BWA or the Tag Titles really, Aly and Shelly aren't fighting for a division, they're fighting simply for the top belt in it.
They don't care what happens in our match and what the potential fallout might be, none of the Starlets do, to them as long as BWA are busy with myself and Mercy, they're safe and the longer you and Ayla are a team and are bound by those belts, they know they ay least have a shot at the only title that means anything to them and it isn't your tag titles, it's a singles title - the Starlets World Championship.
So you see Bitches, like it ot not, by being such a cohesive team, by being such brilliant wrestlers that you won those titles from us on your first opportunity last month, you have failed in your mission statement, regardless of however much you've tweaked it over the last few months. You two want so desperately to be the measuring sticks of female wrestling around here, and therein lies the very essence of your first failing. You're a team, possibly the best team in the history of all of female wrestling, and nobody can take that away from you - but still there are two of you, and this is a very selfish business.
It only respects and expects there to be one, one measuring stick, one absolute best, one Champion, the pinnacle of glory in this business can not be shared by two people unless they are a power couple who just so happen to hold both World Championships simultaneously, so what I'm saying Rayne is if you and Ayla want to instigate change so badly in the division, and in this company as a whole, you're not going to do it by being a team - even if it is the best team in nCw today - you're going to have to do it as individuals.
If you want change, you have to change.
Now don't get it twisted BWA, this isn't some lame attempt to split you guys up, this is just my understanding of the nature of the beast as it is and has been for as long as I have been here. Wrestling isn't like most other sports where the team effort counts, everybody is here to be number one in every sense of the word. You don't have to believe me or accept me as a pioneer in any of this, I just figured what with your two decades in this business, you'd know that already Sandy. What do you think gave Alysson that extra push against Ayla in that Riot?
Nobody wants either one of you to be the one at the top.
Now me, I've got no problem holding the tag title and being considered number two, three, four or five. I know I'm not perfect and I don't strive to be - what I am is simply human. I'm sorry I can't play the big bad dtone-faced wrestler, that just isn't me. I still feel, I still fear and I still know when I'm in over my head. I was afraid of Kelly last week, and this week I'm not afraid to admit my apprehension at facing the two of you. You may consider that a great weakness, I consider it a great strength. See, you and Ayla have got me figured all wrong, I don't have a problem with giving out respect, I just have a problem with giving it you guys, two bullies who dspite all their obvious talent and ability in that ring still feel the need to engage in blind sided attacks and schoolyard bullying of the management to get their way. How can anybody respect somebody like that?
Mercy and I felt we deserved a rematch, so we asked for it and earned it by doing the very thing you claim to want from us as a division, wrestling another team for it - and for us it didn't matter if it was POP across the ring from us, because like you once were so fond of telling Amy Marshall, EVERY match matters, no matter where it is on the card or who it is against. The point is we didn't threaten, bully or intimidate Nikki to get this rematch, we simply did good business and were rewarded for it with our right to choose. You drew the battle lines...
We chose the Battlegrounds.
We chose to face you in the purest definition of wrestling there is, submission wrestling, just so we can prove that we can and will wrestle and so we don't have to listen to your rampant paranoia about auddenly being booked in bra and panties matches or pudding bowl matches despite the fact that nobody in management has ever even suggested that - at least not to me. The fact is I believe a woman can be sexy and powerful, not simply one or the other. You might want to be considered men's equal, but frankly I don't see your point...especially when it's obvious that we are stronger than any man could ever hope to be, not by being wrestlers but simply by being women...
We endure childbirth when they can't even endure a cold.
We have the power to reduce them to nervous wrecks because they're threatened by our emotional control and the fact that we are not simply creatures of lust, and most of all they know that if they want to get in here...
Kathy points between her legs.
They first have to get in here...
Kathy lays a hand across her heart.
Just ask Kyle about the power we as women have. We are superior in strength, or at least I think so, maybe that's why I don't have the same compulsion to be considered an equal to men as you two do, but I digress. What you need to understand is this, Mercy and I didn't clock you over the head with those titles months ago as some sort of Starlet salvation, we did it simply to show you that we - that is Mercy and I - refuse to be pushed around by two high strung lapdogs with inferiority complexes. I know you two think Mercy is the weak link in all this, but as I learned from Megan Kane this past week...
Never underestimate even the weakest of links.
Resting his head in her lap, looking remarkably relaxed for a man who also had a match on Sunday was her husband, Jake and on his stomach sat the comfortable weight of his youngest daughter, Domino. He gently bounced her up and down, and generally made silly faces to entertain her, whilst Kathy sat, her eyes fixed on the television, running fingers through her husband's hair in an effort to relax herself.
On the floor sat Solitaire rolling a ball back and forth between herself and the Conway family pet - a black cat called Casino.
So I guess last week didn't go exactly as I thought it would. I gave Kelly Knite too much credit and Megan Kane not enough. I dismissed Megan as the weak link in her team, and yet when it mattered and when she saw her opportunity, Megan stepped up and got the pinfall over Mercy V.
I have to respect her for that. Megan earned a little bit of respect from me last Saturday Night, and in doing so she's made me reassess everything I thought I knew about weak links within a team. Last week, Megan referred to me as a robot and this week I wish I were because if I were, I wouldn't have all these doubts and fears about the battle I've picked this Sunday running through my mind right now...
Since you were good enough to offer me an apology Rayne, I can only return the favour...
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry you feel I haven't been listening to you and Ayla from day one, when I can tell you that I have. I've listened to your every word, and listened intently, and yes I'll admit that in the beginning you and Ayla did show me some respect, and believe it or not I did appreciate it, so much so infact that I was more on your side than the Starlets. What I did not appreciate however is when on the flip of a dime, that respect you had for me went right out the window.
You and Ayla tagged me as something I never saw myself as, you and Ayla labelled me as some sort of Starlet defender when I clearly had no interest in being one, you thrust upon me a responsibility I neither wanted or even asked for - you made me responsible for a whole division - a division that no longer even cares about the war you're waging. None of the girls in the back care about BWA or the Tag Titles really, Aly and Shelly aren't fighting for a division, they're fighting simply for the top belt in it.
They don't care what happens in our match and what the potential fallout might be, none of the Starlets do, to them as long as BWA are busy with myself and Mercy, they're safe and the longer you and Ayla are a team and are bound by those belts, they know they ay least have a shot at the only title that means anything to them and it isn't your tag titles, it's a singles title - the Starlets World Championship.
So you see Bitches, like it ot not, by being such a cohesive team, by being such brilliant wrestlers that you won those titles from us on your first opportunity last month, you have failed in your mission statement, regardless of however much you've tweaked it over the last few months. You two want so desperately to be the measuring sticks of female wrestling around here, and therein lies the very essence of your first failing. You're a team, possibly the best team in the history of all of female wrestling, and nobody can take that away from you - but still there are two of you, and this is a very selfish business.
It only respects and expects there to be one, one measuring stick, one absolute best, one Champion, the pinnacle of glory in this business can not be shared by two people unless they are a power couple who just so happen to hold both World Championships simultaneously, so what I'm saying Rayne is if you and Ayla want to instigate change so badly in the division, and in this company as a whole, you're not going to do it by being a team - even if it is the best team in nCw today - you're going to have to do it as individuals.
If you want change, you have to change.
Now don't get it twisted BWA, this isn't some lame attempt to split you guys up, this is just my understanding of the nature of the beast as it is and has been for as long as I have been here. Wrestling isn't like most other sports where the team effort counts, everybody is here to be number one in every sense of the word. You don't have to believe me or accept me as a pioneer in any of this, I just figured what with your two decades in this business, you'd know that already Sandy. What do you think gave Alysson that extra push against Ayla in that Riot?
Nobody wants either one of you to be the one at the top.
Now me, I've got no problem holding the tag title and being considered number two, three, four or five. I know I'm not perfect and I don't strive to be - what I am is simply human. I'm sorry I can't play the big bad dtone-faced wrestler, that just isn't me. I still feel, I still fear and I still know when I'm in over my head. I was afraid of Kelly last week, and this week I'm not afraid to admit my apprehension at facing the two of you. You may consider that a great weakness, I consider it a great strength. See, you and Ayla have got me figured all wrong, I don't have a problem with giving out respect, I just have a problem with giving it you guys, two bullies who dspite all their obvious talent and ability in that ring still feel the need to engage in blind sided attacks and schoolyard bullying of the management to get their way. How can anybody respect somebody like that?
Mercy and I felt we deserved a rematch, so we asked for it and earned it by doing the very thing you claim to want from us as a division, wrestling another team for it - and for us it didn't matter if it was POP across the ring from us, because like you once were so fond of telling Amy Marshall, EVERY match matters, no matter where it is on the card or who it is against. The point is we didn't threaten, bully or intimidate Nikki to get this rematch, we simply did good business and were rewarded for it with our right to choose. You drew the battle lines...
We chose the Battlegrounds.
We chose to face you in the purest definition of wrestling there is, submission wrestling, just so we can prove that we can and will wrestle and so we don't have to listen to your rampant paranoia about auddenly being booked in bra and panties matches or pudding bowl matches despite the fact that nobody in management has ever even suggested that - at least not to me. The fact is I believe a woman can be sexy and powerful, not simply one or the other. You might want to be considered men's equal, but frankly I don't see your point...especially when it's obvious that we are stronger than any man could ever hope to be, not by being wrestlers but simply by being women...
We endure childbirth when they can't even endure a cold.
We have the power to reduce them to nervous wrecks because they're threatened by our emotional control and the fact that we are not simply creatures of lust, and most of all they know that if they want to get in here...
Kathy points between her legs.
They first have to get in here...
Kathy lays a hand across her heart.
Just ask Kyle about the power we as women have. We are superior in strength, or at least I think so, maybe that's why I don't have the same compulsion to be considered an equal to men as you two do, but I digress. What you need to understand is this, Mercy and I didn't clock you over the head with those titles months ago as some sort of Starlet salvation, we did it simply to show you that we - that is Mercy and I - refuse to be pushed around by two high strung lapdogs with inferiority complexes. I know you two think Mercy is the weak link in all this, but as I learned from Megan Kane this past week...
Never underestimate even the weakest of links.