Post by Nathan Webb on Feb 5, 2012 1:36:49 GMT -6
Friday, February 4th, 2012
Arlington, Texas
Interview with Carly Robbins
I was at a bar, sitting on a patio down the street from Jerry World. The temple to Jerry Jones, the place where the Dallas Cowboys played, and on Sunday where I would be wrestling possibly in front of 100,00 fans in the most grueling match of my career against Jake Conway.
Right at that very moment I was sitting there enjoying the relatively mild weather and nursing a beer waiting on Carly Robbins to show to give an interview that I was “volun-told” to participate in. Normally I didn’t like interviews, since I seemed to get the most obvious of questions but being that I had no choice in this I swallowed this bitter pill and waited. I was just hoping this beer would make it easier to bear.
At around noon Carly showed up, right on time.
“Morning.” I said politely as Carly took her seat right in front of me.
“Good Morning,” she said equally as polite, “long time no see.”
I shrugged my shoulders. “I suppose you know better than anyone in this business, that stuff happens.”
Carly giggled. “Of course, never a dull day in this business. Everyone is going to be angry at another person for whatever reason.” Carly paused as she pulled out her tape recorder. “Seeing that you are a man that likes to get down to business, do you want to begin?”
I nodded taking another drink out of my beer.
Carly: So Nate, even with the things that have happened this past month how are you doing?
Nate: Surprisingly well, I think anyone who knows anything about NCW knows the fact I have been dealing with Jake Conway in my head. Since that message he sent after my match with Lex Sense to his brutal attack on Rose, I can honestly say it has been a trying time for me. In the end though I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, in fact I can see the forest clearly in that light, and on Sunday I hope to move forward without Jake, and I hope I will be a better man for that.
Carly: Now I know you want to win, and you have said that you will win, but what happens if you don’t win…what happens if The Ace beats you, what do you think will happen to you?
Nate: Frankly I don’t know.
Carly: Any ideas?
Nate: I am not a psychic and honestly I will cross that bridge when it comes.
Carly: Okay, now earlier this week there was mentioned that you needed to change the questions. Any idea what that means?
Nate: It means I need to flip the script. This whole month I have been playing on Jake Conway’s turf. He has taken the lead and I have had no choice but to play his game. Even with my challenge for this Natural Selection Match, I just played into his hands. So now I have to do things that will take Jake out of his comfort zone and force him to play my game.
Carly: So any idea what these questions are?
Nate: These “questions” are the fact that instead of trying to playing the thinking wrestler it is going to be the doing wrestler. It will be the wrestler that goes in there with a head of steam that forces Jake Conway out of his comfort zone. It will be to force the game into my hand. Basically I will be going hard or going home, leaving all the cards on the table. No pun intended of course.
Carly: Nothing taken. So if you don’t mind me moving on to the war of words between you and the Ace, what do you make of what he said when he said that this match was simply a device to move you up in the ranks?
Nate: I hate to do this but I have to start by going off tangent on this one. Well to be honest I am not putting much credence into what he says. Everything he says when directed at another wrestler, and especially one he is competing against is meant to be some sort of head game. Any prop that he can use, any word that he can say, any weakness he may smell he will use. It may be in bad taste to the majority of the people but in his head if he has to use it, he will.
Carly: So, this doesn’t really affect you?
Nate: No it doesn’t. That particular statement was pretty much the case of the pot calling the kettle black. When he took up the bounty set up by Leonard Fox, did he not use that as a platform to move up in his good graces, and possibly elevate his own name. I would like to think so and I am sure the majority of the viewing audience believes that as well.
Carly: So do you think this will have a positive effect on your career?
Nate: Of course especially if I win. But you know what? The biggest reason I laid out this challenge, the biggest reason I wanted to fight Jake Conway was not because of what it could do for my career but what that man did to me, and leading up to this match what he did to Rose. So yes I could look at a major windfall from all of this but in the end, taking Jake Conway out is priority number one.
Carly: So with all that has been said, what do you make of the personality of Jake Conway? Do you think is real, or do you think there is a lot of showmanship behind it?
Nate: Who knows? I am sure Jake will say one thing but in fact be the other. To be honest I had given up on trying to determine truth from lie as far as things coming from his mouth long ago. But in terms of this persona he has worked up for us I think there are two components to all of this. There is his God Complex, where everything he says and everything he does is always correct, and has a purpose. Anyone who says otherwise is ignorant. Then there is the victim card, where he rails on the people who did him wrong. In this case me taking him on in this match. Apparently I am such a bad person not because I issued this challenge to even up a personal score, but in his mind I was simply doing this to climb my own personal ladder. I guess frankly what he does is dependent on the time of the month.
Carly: Indeed. Ok if there is one last question that is stemming from this whole thing is the status of Rose in all of this. According to the Ace Rose had no right in being a part of this entire thing. He went so far as to say that you cannot blame anyone for yourself if Rose gets hurt in this industry. Would you care to talk about that?
Nate: When Rose was checked out of the mental hospital down in Alabama, she made it her point to tell me that she wanted to be a part of this business in a wrestling capacity. As a kind of big brother to her I was hesitant but I also realized something that she was a grown woman and very capable of making her own decisions. Believe me I have had to learn that lesson the hard way from time to time. Either way I respected her wishes and while I will still have a kind of overprotective streak in me, I will still allow this woman to live out her dream. Can something bad happen to her? Absolutely. But it can also happen to anyone else who participates in this business, but in the end we all knew the risks when we signed up for this and Rose is no exception to that rule. So as much as Jake may decry me for allowing her to be a part of this business, frankly I think NCW needs Rose Acantha as much as she needs it and I am proud to see her be a part of it. If Jake has a problem with that then he can kiss my ass because I don’t see it changing anytime soon.
Carly: So last question, what do you think will bring you victory tomorrow?
Nate: It will be the fact that Jake Conway has started a fire inside of me, a fire that he has only been pouring fuel on this past month. I may be a hero, I may even be a dying hero, but I don’t think that Jake knows the monster that he has unleashed on Sunday. So in the end if anything, this hatred, this vitriol, this anger is going to be carrying me to victory.
(With that Carly clicks off her tape recorder and wishes me a good day. I just sit there staring at Cowboys Stadium, drinking my beer, envisioning how glorious it will be competing in that very stadium Sunday night.)
Arlington, Texas
Interview with Carly Robbins
I was at a bar, sitting on a patio down the street from Jerry World. The temple to Jerry Jones, the place where the Dallas Cowboys played, and on Sunday where I would be wrestling possibly in front of 100,00 fans in the most grueling match of my career against Jake Conway.
Right at that very moment I was sitting there enjoying the relatively mild weather and nursing a beer waiting on Carly Robbins to show to give an interview that I was “volun-told” to participate in. Normally I didn’t like interviews, since I seemed to get the most obvious of questions but being that I had no choice in this I swallowed this bitter pill and waited. I was just hoping this beer would make it easier to bear.
At around noon Carly showed up, right on time.
“Morning.” I said politely as Carly took her seat right in front of me.
“Good Morning,” she said equally as polite, “long time no see.”
I shrugged my shoulders. “I suppose you know better than anyone in this business, that stuff happens.”
Carly giggled. “Of course, never a dull day in this business. Everyone is going to be angry at another person for whatever reason.” Carly paused as she pulled out her tape recorder. “Seeing that you are a man that likes to get down to business, do you want to begin?”
I nodded taking another drink out of my beer.
Carly: So Nate, even with the things that have happened this past month how are you doing?
Nate: Surprisingly well, I think anyone who knows anything about NCW knows the fact I have been dealing with Jake Conway in my head. Since that message he sent after my match with Lex Sense to his brutal attack on Rose, I can honestly say it has been a trying time for me. In the end though I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, in fact I can see the forest clearly in that light, and on Sunday I hope to move forward without Jake, and I hope I will be a better man for that.
Carly: Now I know you want to win, and you have said that you will win, but what happens if you don’t win…what happens if The Ace beats you, what do you think will happen to you?
Nate: Frankly I don’t know.
Carly: Any ideas?
Nate: I am not a psychic and honestly I will cross that bridge when it comes.
Carly: Okay, now earlier this week there was mentioned that you needed to change the questions. Any idea what that means?
Nate: It means I need to flip the script. This whole month I have been playing on Jake Conway’s turf. He has taken the lead and I have had no choice but to play his game. Even with my challenge for this Natural Selection Match, I just played into his hands. So now I have to do things that will take Jake out of his comfort zone and force him to play my game.
Carly: So any idea what these questions are?
Nate: These “questions” are the fact that instead of trying to playing the thinking wrestler it is going to be the doing wrestler. It will be the wrestler that goes in there with a head of steam that forces Jake Conway out of his comfort zone. It will be to force the game into my hand. Basically I will be going hard or going home, leaving all the cards on the table. No pun intended of course.
Carly: Nothing taken. So if you don’t mind me moving on to the war of words between you and the Ace, what do you make of what he said when he said that this match was simply a device to move you up in the ranks?
Nate: I hate to do this but I have to start by going off tangent on this one. Well to be honest I am not putting much credence into what he says. Everything he says when directed at another wrestler, and especially one he is competing against is meant to be some sort of head game. Any prop that he can use, any word that he can say, any weakness he may smell he will use. It may be in bad taste to the majority of the people but in his head if he has to use it, he will.
Carly: So, this doesn’t really affect you?
Nate: No it doesn’t. That particular statement was pretty much the case of the pot calling the kettle black. When he took up the bounty set up by Leonard Fox, did he not use that as a platform to move up in his good graces, and possibly elevate his own name. I would like to think so and I am sure the majority of the viewing audience believes that as well.
Carly: So do you think this will have a positive effect on your career?
Nate: Of course especially if I win. But you know what? The biggest reason I laid out this challenge, the biggest reason I wanted to fight Jake Conway was not because of what it could do for my career but what that man did to me, and leading up to this match what he did to Rose. So yes I could look at a major windfall from all of this but in the end, taking Jake Conway out is priority number one.
Carly: So with all that has been said, what do you make of the personality of Jake Conway? Do you think is real, or do you think there is a lot of showmanship behind it?
Nate: Who knows? I am sure Jake will say one thing but in fact be the other. To be honest I had given up on trying to determine truth from lie as far as things coming from his mouth long ago. But in terms of this persona he has worked up for us I think there are two components to all of this. There is his God Complex, where everything he says and everything he does is always correct, and has a purpose. Anyone who says otherwise is ignorant. Then there is the victim card, where he rails on the people who did him wrong. In this case me taking him on in this match. Apparently I am such a bad person not because I issued this challenge to even up a personal score, but in his mind I was simply doing this to climb my own personal ladder. I guess frankly what he does is dependent on the time of the month.
Carly: Indeed. Ok if there is one last question that is stemming from this whole thing is the status of Rose in all of this. According to the Ace Rose had no right in being a part of this entire thing. He went so far as to say that you cannot blame anyone for yourself if Rose gets hurt in this industry. Would you care to talk about that?
Nate: When Rose was checked out of the mental hospital down in Alabama, she made it her point to tell me that she wanted to be a part of this business in a wrestling capacity. As a kind of big brother to her I was hesitant but I also realized something that she was a grown woman and very capable of making her own decisions. Believe me I have had to learn that lesson the hard way from time to time. Either way I respected her wishes and while I will still have a kind of overprotective streak in me, I will still allow this woman to live out her dream. Can something bad happen to her? Absolutely. But it can also happen to anyone else who participates in this business, but in the end we all knew the risks when we signed up for this and Rose is no exception to that rule. So as much as Jake may decry me for allowing her to be a part of this business, frankly I think NCW needs Rose Acantha as much as she needs it and I am proud to see her be a part of it. If Jake has a problem with that then he can kiss my ass because I don’t see it changing anytime soon.
Carly: So last question, what do you think will bring you victory tomorrow?
Nate: It will be the fact that Jake Conway has started a fire inside of me, a fire that he has only been pouring fuel on this past month. I may be a hero, I may even be a dying hero, but I don’t think that Jake knows the monster that he has unleashed on Sunday. So in the end if anything, this hatred, this vitriol, this anger is going to be carrying me to victory.
(With that Carly clicks off her tape recorder and wishes me a good day. I just sit there staring at Cowboys Stadium, drinking my beer, envisioning how glorious it will be competing in that very stadium Sunday night.)
