Post by Kathleen Conway on Nov 25, 2011 19:17:36 GMT -6
A montage of Kelly Knite hitting the Any Given Moment on various opponents is shown.
Voiceover: Over time, some things become expected...
A montage of Kelly pinning Kathy in their various battles throughout the years here in nCw is shown.
Voiceover: Over time, some things become tradition...
Eric Hardy: Kelly has done it! Kelly wins!
Shots of Kelly Knite's victory celebrations are shown.
Voiceover: Some people will do anything to keep the old traditions...
Shots of Kelly Knite with the Road to The Gold trophy and World Championship raised above her head are shown.
Eric Hardy: Kelly Knite has done it! Kelly Knite is the 2011 Road To The Gold Champion, and new nCw Starlets World Champion...
Voiceover: Whilst others will do anything....to break away....
Shots of Kathleen Conway brutalising Mercedes Vargas and putting her and Mercedes Lewis down with the Kat Nap are shown.
Voiceover: Two women...two very different Roads to the Gold...
One took the traditional road to the top, the other took the road less travelled....
Now what will happen when an old rivalry is renewed and its all on the line?
nCw Presents: Breaking Away, Live This Sunday, November 27th, Only On Pay Per View.
The scene opens on Kathleen Conway, she has her husband's 2008 Road To The Gold trophy and also a replica of the nCw Starlets World Championship with a blank name plate placed on a small wooden table in front of her. She picks up the trophy first and begins to talk.
Two thousand and eight. It was a very good year for my family, some might even say it was the year my husband truly hit his prime here in nCw and that its been downhill ever since. My husband won the Road To The Gold that year, and to this day he holds it as one of the proudest moments of his career, second only to actually winning the nCw World Heavweight Championship.
A lot of things happened in 2008 that ended up redefining him, not only as a legitimate superstar in that ring, but also as a man. It was the year we got married and were reunited as a family...but as good as that year was to our family, it was the following year...2009, that really changed everything. Sure, the year started off well enough as Jake managed to realise every wrestler's ultimate dream and actually become the nCw World Champion.
A fact that surprisingly few people can claim here in nCw, yet everybody seems to discard when it comes to my hisband's ability in that ring. Rather than acknowledge it, they mock it with infantile jokes that frankly were never funny in the first place...and I bet you think you already know where I'm going with this Kelly. You probably think I'm going to go into this match with a chip on my shoulder about how it was the love of your life who made the love of my life miserable, so miserable in fact that eventually at his lowest point, he left this company for a year. Is that what you think?
Is that really what you think Kelly? It is what ninety percent of the fans out there think, they think its going to be the same old story between us, they think Kelly Knite is going to beat Kathleen Conway again, just like she always does...but I don't necessarily care about what they think. I do however care about what you think Kelly.
Do you think I'm going to be petty and hold a grudge? Do you think I'm going to go out there this Sunday and fight the war my husband lost against yours all over again? Tell me what you think Kelly, tell me...because your opinions have always fascinated me, and since you're apparently too busy juggling being a World Champion and World Class Mother to voice them in your Knitelife column anymore, I'm giving you the only other public forum you have. Step infront of a camera and tell me the story, Kelly. Tell me the story of this match and why you think it will be no different than any other. Tell me you share everybody else's opinion of me as a second rate, not quite good enough Starlet.
It won't offend me so long as you give me a reason, give me a reason that validates your opinion of me Kelly, most Starlets around here have something to say about me and my family, but often times no real reason to say it. You've always been very vocal Kelly, the sort of lay it on the line kind of girl I respect, and for you, it didn't matter if you were at the commentary booth, behind the internet column or just straight up in front of a camera, you've always told it exactly the way you saw it, and whilst I normally don't have a reason to question your opinions, there is one opinion I've never quite understood, and since well this is just between us, I figured I'd finally settle my own curiousity and just come right out and ask you, woman to woman:
What the hell do you have against my husband?
I mean I recall you once saying in your Knitelife that if there was one moment in nCw history you could rewrite differently, it would be when he won the Road To The Gold. Not only that, but when my husband finally managed to silence all the naysayers and do the impossible and actually win the top prize in the company, you went out of your way to ensure Adam Knite got his name on the title a whole month before he won it. My husband was a legitimate World Champion and he never even got to see his name on the damn belt, despite busting his ass for it.
As much as I respect you Kelly, I don't think you've ever really respected me or my family for paying the dues we have in this company, like it or not, my husband and I may not have very many accolades but those we do have, we've earned. Now, it would be all too easy for me to segue into some rant about how you've never really earned anything because you're just daddy's little girl and got everything handed to you on a silver platter, but since neither of us are Amy Marshall or Stephanie Sanderson - we both know that would be Grade A horsecrap....so tell me Kelly, tell me the respect is mutual. Tell me the respect you have for me can survive one more match, even a match as great as this where for the first time the one thing on the line is the very thing neither of us have ever needed to go out there and put on a five star performance.
I need to know that the title is just a prop and that you don't think any less of me as your opponent purely because I was your first real opponent all those years ago when this all started, then I was your first step on your Road To The Gold and now I'm your first title defense. Will I also be the first to defeat you for it? Will I be the first to actually defeat someone who doesn't have a single title defense to their name? I know that kind of victory would be that much sweeter for my husband. It would be poetry to him. It's no secret that he still wants one more match against Adam, one more chance to show the world he is not broken and that Adam will not break him...
Do I fight for him?
Do I fight for his retribution?
Or do I fight for myself?
I can't honestly say what is I'm fighting for Kelly. Why did I put my sister down? Why did I break that bond? Why did I put another human being on the shelf for this? All of these are worthy questions. Questions I do not have the answers to. When I ask myself these questions, the only answer I have is that I didn't do any of this for your Starlets World Championship. As far as I'm concerned, the belt is irrelevant to this equation...
Kathy puts the replica belt over her shoulder.
Nothing more than a simple prop, that might aswell not have either of our names on it, simply a means to bolster the story we tell the World on Sunday, the story of two pioneers in this company who started it all with nothing, and now rather fittingly will end it all with everything. Everything I do in between those ropes I do to prove I am so much more than just The Ace's wife, and everything you do is to prove that you're so much more than just Leonard Fox's daughter...so you see Kelly, you and I aren't breaking away from the stigmas in our careers...
They're already broken.
The only thing left of us to do this Sunday is to break away from the stigmas of as typical title match, break away from the same old story of bitter rivals, of heroes and villains, of challenger and champions...and tell a whole new story that's never been told before inside that ring...
As only we - Kathy Conway and Kelly Knite - can.
