Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2012 14:45:06 GMT -6
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January 16th 27 B.C.
Gaius Octavius Thurinus, great-nephew of Julius Caesar, ascends to Imperial throne of the Roman Empire.
Despite publically declaring his intention to fulfil his moral obligations to the Senate of Rome, those who were trusted to uphold democracy bowed to his whims.
The greatest Pan-European Empire began to tighten its grip around the Mediterranean.
As nations fell one after another nobody predicted that these days of glory would end.
Rome’s power, they said, would last forever.
Forever.
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January 16th 27 B.C.
Gaius Octavius Thurinus, great-nephew of Julius Caesar, ascends to Imperial throne of the Roman Empire.
Despite publically declaring his intention to fulfil his moral obligations to the Senate of Rome, those who were trusted to uphold democracy bowed to his whims.
The greatest Pan-European Empire began to tighten its grip around the Mediterranean.
As nations fell one after another nobody predicted that these days of glory would end.
Rome’s power, they said, would last forever.
Forever.
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The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
At least, amongst the circles that Adam Knite dwells. Then, who can blame him?
After all there is a quaint irony to the idea that you have somehow “trumped me” in bringing about change in New Championship Wrestling. Thus far, Adam, all that the Hierarchy have achieved is an aesthetic revolution in the leadership of this company. Instead of a wrinkly old toad we have a perky attractive young blonde at the helm of this behemoth of professional wrestling.
Until she is able to make her own mark, there has been little change inside this company. The drapes may be a different colour, but the fittings from which they hang have yet to be replaced.
For some reason Adam you are fixated on this idea that somehow you have “got there before me”, that all I ever wanted was to see Leonard Fox removed from the head of NCW and by gang banging his face into his desk you have somehow alleviated this federation’s need for me.
You couldn’t be more wrong, Adam.
Leonard Fox was merely the figurehead of the corrupt hegemony that eroded the very core of this business, his removal has solved absolutely nothing, and in fact all you and you friends have done is painted over the cracks. The Board of Directors that bowed to his every whim for the sake of a few more zeros on their pay packet still hold sway over the livelihoods of men and women who live and breathe this business, deciding their fate and severing the thread that holds the sword of Damocles over their dreams at whim. The men who allowed this business to prioritise income over entertainment and profits over performer safety still hold their positions of power and no matter how much Leonard Fox did to ruin this business, he was propped up by the vermin who facilitated his decisions.
Let’s not play dumb, we both know that simply putting Kelly on Daddy’s big chair will not change a damn thing in this company, even if she opens her ears and listens to a message beyond what you and pals are presenting in the interest of your own prosperity. Getting her to open her eyes to your intentions is merely the first step, she alone cannot force through the change that is required to gut out the corruption in NCW. It’s cute that you hold so much faith in her ability to run roughshod over this company, but we all know that if Kelly is going to achieve anything she is going to need support.
And that is where you come in, isn’t it Adam?
You’re going to make sure that what Kelly wants, she gets.
But along the way you’re going to make sure that what she wants line up with your ideals, heaven forbid if she ever made an independent decision.
After all, the moment another man got anywhere near here with a conflicting opinion to your own self-interests you quite literally threw your toys out of the pram. Ever since I walked down to that ring and told Kelly that she doesn’t have to do as she is told you’ve had your panties in a twist and my word, we reached a climax on Sunday.
You can argue all you want about the referee’s competence Adam, we’ve all been screwed by bad decisions via human error from time to time, but you just couldn’t dust yourself down and get over it. Instead you had to stamp your feet, cry like an infant and then go bellowing orders to your wife who sat there like a whipped bitch at ringside whilst you got a second chance to lose to Joe Everyman on one night.
Good job there by the way.
You see, whilst Xander likes to trot out how virtuous you all are, you pissed all over his parade and revealed the wolf underneath all that sheepskin. When you didn’t get your way, instead of dealing with it, you ran to your wife like a bitch and cried until she restarted a match because your ego couldn’t cope with failure.
Remind me, why should I fear a man who needs his wife to fight his battles for him?
You might as well march Kelly down to the ring and have her take your place because any semblance of respect anybody in the back had for you evaporated when you handed your balls over for a pair of ovaries.
You can stomp your feet and tell the world that have usurped my position and rendered me meaningless, but the only thing you’ve taken away from me is any semblance of respect I had for you. I never liked you Adam, you fought your way to the top but then married your way into a permanent spot in the main event but I always used to respect the ability that took you there. Now all I see is an empty shell of a legend who is determined to starve the rest of us from enjoying the same moments of glory that made you the man you are today in the eyes of so many rookies in this business.
This “Hierarchy” is nothing more than a method of maintaining your top at the spot because deep down you know that your time in the sun has long since passed. Ever since I walked into this joint there has been a power shift from the old guard to the new, as much as Xander has betrayed his potential he is at least a refreshing change to the snore inducing title reigns of men like Steve Awesome and this weekend he will face another rookie come good in Lex Sense.
Like it or not, your time at the top is over, at least when we base it on merit.
You can put your career on artificial life support as you live vicariously through Xander and your wife if you like Adam, but this week you’re going to have do the fighting yourself and we both know that no matter how much you tell yourself that I am just another rookie with lofty ideals, the chances of you leaving this weekend as a winner are slim to none.
The world has moved on from the years you dominated this federation Adam, a new breed has risen and you just do not have it in you to succeed on the same level anymore. You strutted down to that ring to face Everyman safe in the contentment of familiarity but you let your tongue get ahead of your brain when you called me out.
This weekend, at Crossroads, you’ll soon realise that in 2012 your no longer top dog, you’re just another beaten down old antique of a bygone era.
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September 4th 476 A.D.
Ravenna falls to the armies of Odoacer, leader of the Germanic foederati of Italy.
The greatest Empire of the ancient world collapsed in on itself, burning in the fires of civil discord and Barbarian’s malcontent.
Torn apart from within by its own servants.
Even the strongest structure can collapse if its internal elements begin to conflict.
Even the bonds between friends and brothers can be broken.
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September 4th 476 A.D.
Ravenna falls to the armies of Odoacer, leader of the Germanic foederati of Italy.
The greatest Empire of the ancient world collapsed in on itself, burning in the fires of civil discord and Barbarian’s malcontent.
Torn apart from within by its own servants.
Even the strongest structure can collapse if its internal elements begin to conflict.
Even the bonds between friends and brothers can be broken.
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So, I am a rebel without a cause, huh Adam?
I suppose that’s the easiest accusation to level my way, but then I aren’t so eager to swallow the bull**** pill you and your friends have been peddling to everybody willing to listen. If we work on the assumption that the Hierarchy is indeed here to usher in a new age of equality and fairness, then sure, my work here is done and perhaps I can ride off into the sunset with a smug sense of self-satisfaction and resign myself to the annals of the companies lengthy history.
Unfortunately we live in the real world.
Even if your words really weren’t laced in venomous platitudes designed to trick and deceive and you genuinely were in this for the benefit of everybody else, what makes you think that I am going anywhere? I didn’t enter this company to usher in a momentary power shift and then leave Adam, I came to make a long term impact and no matter how much confidence you have in the foundations on which you built your little empire there are vultures waiting in the wings to pick it apart at the drop of a hat. I came to ensure the longevity of the just cause I pursue, not to just up and leave once I’ve basked in the glory of victory, whether it is mine or others.
You can sit there making comic book references all day long Knite but the fact remains, my job is far from done.
You’ve done absolutely nothing to prove me wrong, in fact since you assumed “control” you’ve done more to prove to me that your promises of fulfilling my purpose are nothing more than empty quotes for public digestion designed to rally support for your cause.
I’m looking to bring about change to benefit everybody, you’re openly looking to make your wife happy. You’re playing with this company like it is some cheap diamond necklace you bought her so she’d suck your dick and make you breakfast.
Kelly’s happiness is not my concern, nor anybody else’s for that matter and if you think making her the leader constitutes fulfilling my manifest destiny and thus rendering me useless then you’re more deluded than you accuse me of being.
I care about whether those who’ve worked their asses off are happy. I’ve given Kelly the chance to prove to me that she is cut from a different cloth to the rancid filth of her father and if she proves to be a better human being than that cancerous old letch then fantastic, I will personally buy her a big thank you card and a box of chocolates on behalf of the entire roster.
Until she proves herself, however, forgive me for not giving a crap about her happiness.
Kelly has the opportunity to prove to us all that she truly is what is best for New Championship Wrestling and, lo and behold, I’ve given her that chance, but she needs to prove it on her own, without toxic conspirators like you pouring venom in her ear.
If you had such faith in your wife, as you like to claim, you wouldn’t need this stable of power hungry ego maniacs on a superiority trip to prop her up and sustain their own interests, you’d take a step back and support her decisions instead of influence them.
This little tough guy act you’ve pulled on me isn’t about protecting her from malicious council from me, it is about making sure that she isn’t truly in charge of this company. You’re not stopping me from unjustly influencing her decisions, you’re just trying to make sure that the puppet strings remain tied around your manipulative fingers.
Maybe it is because you feel she can’t make these decisions on her own and she needs her loving husbands assistance, but then maybe it is because you know that if you left her to her own accord she’d start making decisions that would force you to start breaking a sweat again.
The saddest thing about all this Adam is you have so little faith in your wife’s ability to lead this company and, despite everything you’ve accomplished in your career, you have no faith in your own ability to stay at the top without her corporate backing.
If you really have done all this to usher in an era of just and fair rulings and an open playing field based on merit and if you really had faith in your wife, you wouldn’t be doing everything in your power to manipulate her and silence me. If all I am is a loud mouthed little malcontent who has served his purpose, the crowds will soon grow tired of my message, the guys in the back will begin to ignore me and I will slip away into insignificance naturally.
But maybe none of this is even about proving me wrong Adam, maybe all of this bravado is about proving to yourself that you can still hang with the very best in this company.
We both know I have zero interest in the contents of you wife’s panties, so you’re hardly chivalrously protecting her honour and if I really was as irrelevant as you claimed you’d not be wasting your time shutting me up, you’d let nature take its course.
So if we can cut through all of this macho bull**** and get past the propaganda you and your cronies are going to keep pushing on the rest of us as you try to paint me as insignificant…..
Just what are you trying to prove, champ?
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May 29th 1453 A.D.
Constantinople falls to the armies of Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire.
The last remnants of a once great Empire which stretched from Caledonia to Mesopotamia burned as scholars fled to Italy and beyond.
The last Roman Emperor lay dead amongst his own men and in death he was their equal.
The light of the Empire that would never fall was put out.
All good things come to an end.
Nothing lasts.
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May 29th 1453 A.D.
Constantinople falls to the armies of Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire.
The last remnants of a once great Empire which stretched from Caledonia to Mesopotamia burned as scholars fled to Italy and beyond.
The last Roman Emperor lay dead amongst his own men and in death he was their equal.
The light of the Empire that would never fall was put out.
All good things come to an end.
Nothing lasts.
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