Post by recklessjack on Sept 11, 2007 19:58:25 GMT -6
(OOC Note: Since you said developmental RPs will be counted for this show I think... I'm doing a two part interview in order for you people to know my history.)
We open up to see a huge nCw banner in the background with an easy chair in front of it... looks comfortable. Lights are high as we can everything this small room has to offer, including that of Chad Lights, the nCw interviewer. He is dressed in a sharp black suit with his hair slicked back. He goes and takes a seat off camera before the lights dim down a little bit. Into the room walks The Self Revolution, Reckless Jack. He has a PWA hoodie on, supporting the product along with camo cargo shorts on with a Killswitch Engage skull cap on. He sits down in the easy chair that we can see on camera. From there, we hear Chad Lights' voice from off camera.
Chad Lights: Welcome to nCw Straight Shooting. I am your host this evening, Chad Lights. Our guest at this time is "The Self Revolution" Reckless Jack. Good evening sir.
Reckless Jack: Thank you Chad.
Chad Lights: For those of you who don't know what a shoot interview is, I'll ask Reckless Jack various questions about his wrestling career and experiences outside of the ring.
Reckless Jack: Let's do the damn thing.
Chad Lights: Alright... first question, what got you into wrestling of course?
Reckless Jack: It was a combination of things. Growing up, we never had much money. So I wasn't able to get a bike, wasn't able to go outside and ride it along with the other kids in the neighborhood. One thing we did have though was TV. We used to pick up these wrestling shows with our bunny ear antennas. About every week I'd sit down and catch the old WWF stuff with Hulk Hogan and those guys. I'm pretty much a life long fan of wrestling as I did grow up with it.
After that, when I got into my teenage years, we joined the hype of backyard wrestling. Me and some buddies of mine were "Yard Tards" to put it bluntly although we never did any of that hardcore crap you see on the net with barbed wire flaming tables and crap. We mainly did the whole chain wrestling thing along with some submission holds and worked on Moonsaults. So when I got old enough and graduated from high school, I wanted to go to a wrestling school but I never had the money for it. I'd try to save for it but something would always come up. Like when my ex girlfriend got pregnant, that pretty much put the axe on it completely. Thankfully, I was able to predominantly able to teach myself everything I needed to do except run the ropes and that sort of thing. So once I got hired by Wrestling Championship Federation, I was able to learn to run the ropes when no one else was around. If they only knew that they got a kid who taught himself instead of a well trained individual.
Chad Lights: Who was your first opponent in a real wrestling match, not the back yard stuff you mentioned.
Reckless Jack: My first opponent was a guy named Eric Willson and it was over the rights for a move actually. I guess I had choosen the same finishing move that this guy had, the top rope Ace Crusher. So the owner, Seth Lerch, made it for this finisher. I would have won it wasn't for Creeping Death, you know him, pretty big moron. Anyways, he hit me with a kendo stick and that allowed Eric Willson to beat me after hitting the move. I lost my first match in professional wrestling, go figure.
Chad Lights: Wasn't your first angle with Creeping Death right as you debuted?
Reckless Jack: Yeah it was. He had come up with a fake angle that we had wrestled each other before in Japan and all this bulls*** that I really didn't comprehend because it's either about him or basically you can go **** yourself in his eyes. But I went along with it, just happy to be on television at that point. So I had debuted on TV a week before my first real match. I hit a Springboard Bulldog on Creeping Death to kick off our angle. Keep in mind this was after he beat the "WCF Legend" Logan in one of their matches. Now that the whole thing had started, CD decided to kinda make hardly any apperances. The feud continued through tag team matches but whatever. The whole thing ended at their first edition of One when I beat him in his own match to become the first WCF Cruiserweight Champion. Needless to say I think his whole idea backfired on him. I gained from it and I'll leave it at that.
Chad Lights: What happened after you lost the title and WCF closed?
Reckless Jack: Nothing much to say the least. I pretty much floated around for a while until I get this email or phone call, I can't remember which it was. But it was this guy named Red Fusion who had just opened his own promotion called Xtreme Championship Wrestling. I joined and pretty much did nothing for a month or so. Then things really took off as far they are concerned. I was given a run in a tag team that was going nowhere so I asked him if I could turn heel on this guy I was tagging with. The next thing I know I won the Tag Team Titles with Red Fusion. Then basically as soon as we won them, we lost them like two weeks later. I got beat down and turned face again. This would signal the start of a very up and down relationship with Red Fusion, on camera and off camera.
Chad Lights: Like what?
Reckless Jack: Just ideas basically. I'd want to go one direction with the character and he'd want to go the other way. It made for a lot of clashes and a lot of walk outs on my part. I lost count of the times I left Xtreme Championship Wrestling in 2004. Seemed like every other week. But life went on as I knew this guy from a s***hole promotion, Jon Michaels. I got him to join up with Xtreme Championship Wrestling and he had good success. He comes into play later on though. At the same time though, Xtreme Championship Wrestling allowed me to meet so many people I still know today. Guys like JW McCammon if you've heard of him. Well, just him basically but him and another guy started up their own federation in about August/September of 2004 called Southern Wrestling Federation. So I went on a long hiatus from XCW to go and wrestle there almost exclusively as I recall.
Chad Lights: How was it there?
Reckless Jack: It was fun. It was a small federation but it was fun. I was their first ever Xtreme Champion I think. From there I went to feud with a violent man named Razor. This son of a bitch was flat out crazy. He came up with this Tables, Ladders, Chairs and Glass Towers match. I lost the match but it was one of the most brutal matches I have been apart of along with the Barbed Wire Brick match we had at that point. Razor was a pretty good guy though. I got along with him out side of the ring fairly well when we would plan angles. No idea what happened to the guy but jesus was he crazy.
Chad Lights: What happened after that Tables, Ladders, etc. match in SWF?
Reckless Jack: Nothing really. The place was already starting to fall apart and I stuck it out till the end but they had to close up ship. Once that happened, I went back to XCW again. That lasted two weeks basically. WCF had reopened and I was pumped to go back there. So I took Jon Michaels with me to WCF. I had success a bit in that edition of WCF, he didn't. I remember I spent the whole time in WCF that edition feuding Nate Nytro. Think of Rob Van Dam vs. Jerry Lynn and that's what our matches were. Balls out, never give up. Fun time in my career to say the least doing that angle with him. The drive behind this angle was he couldn't beat me. Not in a War Games, not in a hardcore match, not a singles match, not even in an Elimination Chamber match. At the second edition of One, we faced off in a three stages of hell match. Street Fight, Texas Death Match, and then it ended with a TLC match. I won the first fall and he came back with the second two to beat me. I was happy with the way the match turned out. Like I said, it was a fun angle because our styles were similiar at that time.
Chad Lights: You went back to Xtreme Championship Wrestling during this time in Wrestling Championship Federation from what I heard... any truth to that?
Reckless Jack: Yeah, a lot of it. I went back in Feburary I think to clean up an angle with Red Fusion. I came back as "50% Owner" of XCW and that's how the whole angle got restarted. Interestingly enough, it lead to a "Reckless Jack Surprise Match" at their biggest PPV of the year, Xtreme Mania. And for those wondering, we did not main event that show. He and I may have had some ego problems at that time but we knew that the World Title match had to go on last. But as far as the whole Reckless Jack Surprise Match went, it was a First Blood Match, followed by a Street Fight, followed by a Hell in a Cell match with a twist. We placed a ladder in there and made it a Ladder Match inside the Cell. Vince Russo would be proud of the gimmicks on top of the gimmicks. But yeah, I went over and became the 100% on screen owner of Xtreme Championship Wrestling. From there, I gave myself a title shot and gave the power back to him.
So then I went to feud the champion, Dark Prophet, who had just beaten Jon Michaels in the main event of Xtreme Mania. We never had much of an angle going as he needed time off pretty badly and I was just there. I pretty much won the World Title by default and that was it. I was Xtreme Champion Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion for over a year dispite that the company was on hiatus for over a year but whatever. However, during this time as XCW Champion, I started to have problems with Jon Michaels. We were booked in for a thirty minute broadway which meant a thirty minute time limit draw. He felt he should have gone over me and I feel like the draw was the right call. We never were able to have a rematch as XCW closed down a couple of weeks later. He accused me of ducking him and I thought he was full of s***.
Chad Lights: Why did Xtreme Championship Wrestling close down?
Reckless Jack: A lack of committed wrestlers. Had there been a bigger base of active talent, we could have gone another four months I think but the whole inactivity was just horrible and Red Fusion closed it. End of story.
Chad Lights: Alright. What happened after XCW closed?
Reckless Jack: Well, in April of 2005, I had gotten word of an NWA federation from guys like McCammon and Razor. So I went and thought the place was well ran. I was there for about a month or two before I get asked if I wanted to jump ship to a brand new federation that was being opened by key members of the NWA staff. World Internet Wrestling. We pretty much appealed to the internet fans hence the name of the federation. WIW was the place where I meet people like JJ Biggs, Lance Ryan, etc. Despite running for about a month and a half, WIW was a very fun time in my career. They had devised a program with me and this guy, Allan Cooper. We had decided to run a shoot style angle where he would kidnap what was my real son. It was a very controversial angle because religion played a huge part. Allan Cooper played this evil priest/pastor who wanted to mold my son into a person of good standing with God. I played the, well, not atheist so much but just the guy who had thought that God had basically screwed him over in life.
Chad Lights: I heard through the grape vine that something happened during their only PPV.
Reckless Jack: Yeah... I was... crucified basically. No other way to put it. I had won Chris back over from Cooper and we become father and son again after the match we had, which was a killer Barbed Wire TLC match. But yeah, it was probably something we shouldn't have done looking back on it. It made for great TV and everything but after that happened, the ratings started to fall like we had taken it too far. WIW was a sinking ship, in my eyes, so basically two/three weeks after the PPV, WIW was done and I was back out of work and headed towards a huge breakdown...
Chad Lights: Breakdown?
Reckless Jack: I was worn down. Life was getting to me and I basically had a nervous breakdown. I was out of wrestling for about four to six months because of this breakdown. It was hard on me because I loved being on the road and wrestling in front of people that I knew gave a s*** about what I was doing. But in hindsight, the whole WIW angle probably didn't help but that's life. It's part of what happened to me and I feel like I gained from it in the respect of I knew not to go all out every night. I still gave a damn and everything but yeah... I needed to slow down. Which is why I think that Reckless Jack vs. Nate Nytro wouldn't stack up to the past matches that we had in the past.
Chad Lights: What happened after you came back from the breakdown?
Reckless Jack: I honestly don't remember much of it. Nate Nytro and Seth Lerch co ran a federation for all of two weeks before s*** hit the fan and nothing worked out. So soonly after that I had gotten a phone call from Lance Ryan saying that he was opening up his own version of NWA called NWA Reborn. We left out the reborn part for the titles but it was a fun place to work. I rengaged with the angle with Allan Cooper and had it ran out like we had planned before WIW closed. It led to the only See You In Hell match which was probably wasn't as great as I thought it was but I was told it was pretty damn good. Then I was put into a main event feud, for real this time. It was myself, Lance Ryan and JJ Biggs all in this program that was pretty amazing. I had started out as a face in NWA Reborn but a couple of weeks after my match with Cooper, I was placed into a NWA Title match against Lance Ryan with Biggs as the ref. I had the match won two times before it was restarted. That was fuel enough to get a heel turn on JJ and side with Lance going into this Triple Chairshot Challenge which was another fun match. How that match ended though...
Chad Lights: I'm going to have to cut you off there as we are out of time right now. In a couple of days, we'll have part two of shoot interview ready. Until then this is Chad Lights saying good night and God Bless.
The lights go out as we fade away.
We open up to see a huge nCw banner in the background with an easy chair in front of it... looks comfortable. Lights are high as we can everything this small room has to offer, including that of Chad Lights, the nCw interviewer. He is dressed in a sharp black suit with his hair slicked back. He goes and takes a seat off camera before the lights dim down a little bit. Into the room walks The Self Revolution, Reckless Jack. He has a PWA hoodie on, supporting the product along with camo cargo shorts on with a Killswitch Engage skull cap on. He sits down in the easy chair that we can see on camera. From there, we hear Chad Lights' voice from off camera.
Chad Lights: Welcome to nCw Straight Shooting. I am your host this evening, Chad Lights. Our guest at this time is "The Self Revolution" Reckless Jack. Good evening sir.
Reckless Jack: Thank you Chad.
Chad Lights: For those of you who don't know what a shoot interview is, I'll ask Reckless Jack various questions about his wrestling career and experiences outside of the ring.
Reckless Jack: Let's do the damn thing.
Chad Lights: Alright... first question, what got you into wrestling of course?
Reckless Jack: It was a combination of things. Growing up, we never had much money. So I wasn't able to get a bike, wasn't able to go outside and ride it along with the other kids in the neighborhood. One thing we did have though was TV. We used to pick up these wrestling shows with our bunny ear antennas. About every week I'd sit down and catch the old WWF stuff with Hulk Hogan and those guys. I'm pretty much a life long fan of wrestling as I did grow up with it.
After that, when I got into my teenage years, we joined the hype of backyard wrestling. Me and some buddies of mine were "Yard Tards" to put it bluntly although we never did any of that hardcore crap you see on the net with barbed wire flaming tables and crap. We mainly did the whole chain wrestling thing along with some submission holds and worked on Moonsaults. So when I got old enough and graduated from high school, I wanted to go to a wrestling school but I never had the money for it. I'd try to save for it but something would always come up. Like when my ex girlfriend got pregnant, that pretty much put the axe on it completely. Thankfully, I was able to predominantly able to teach myself everything I needed to do except run the ropes and that sort of thing. So once I got hired by Wrestling Championship Federation, I was able to learn to run the ropes when no one else was around. If they only knew that they got a kid who taught himself instead of a well trained individual.
Chad Lights: Who was your first opponent in a real wrestling match, not the back yard stuff you mentioned.
Reckless Jack: My first opponent was a guy named Eric Willson and it was over the rights for a move actually. I guess I had choosen the same finishing move that this guy had, the top rope Ace Crusher. So the owner, Seth Lerch, made it for this finisher. I would have won it wasn't for Creeping Death, you know him, pretty big moron. Anyways, he hit me with a kendo stick and that allowed Eric Willson to beat me after hitting the move. I lost my first match in professional wrestling, go figure.
Chad Lights: Wasn't your first angle with Creeping Death right as you debuted?
Reckless Jack: Yeah it was. He had come up with a fake angle that we had wrestled each other before in Japan and all this bulls*** that I really didn't comprehend because it's either about him or basically you can go **** yourself in his eyes. But I went along with it, just happy to be on television at that point. So I had debuted on TV a week before my first real match. I hit a Springboard Bulldog on Creeping Death to kick off our angle. Keep in mind this was after he beat the "WCF Legend" Logan in one of their matches. Now that the whole thing had started, CD decided to kinda make hardly any apperances. The feud continued through tag team matches but whatever. The whole thing ended at their first edition of One when I beat him in his own match to become the first WCF Cruiserweight Champion. Needless to say I think his whole idea backfired on him. I gained from it and I'll leave it at that.
Chad Lights: What happened after you lost the title and WCF closed?
Reckless Jack: Nothing much to say the least. I pretty much floated around for a while until I get this email or phone call, I can't remember which it was. But it was this guy named Red Fusion who had just opened his own promotion called Xtreme Championship Wrestling. I joined and pretty much did nothing for a month or so. Then things really took off as far they are concerned. I was given a run in a tag team that was going nowhere so I asked him if I could turn heel on this guy I was tagging with. The next thing I know I won the Tag Team Titles with Red Fusion. Then basically as soon as we won them, we lost them like two weeks later. I got beat down and turned face again. This would signal the start of a very up and down relationship with Red Fusion, on camera and off camera.
Chad Lights: Like what?
Reckless Jack: Just ideas basically. I'd want to go one direction with the character and he'd want to go the other way. It made for a lot of clashes and a lot of walk outs on my part. I lost count of the times I left Xtreme Championship Wrestling in 2004. Seemed like every other week. But life went on as I knew this guy from a s***hole promotion, Jon Michaels. I got him to join up with Xtreme Championship Wrestling and he had good success. He comes into play later on though. At the same time though, Xtreme Championship Wrestling allowed me to meet so many people I still know today. Guys like JW McCammon if you've heard of him. Well, just him basically but him and another guy started up their own federation in about August/September of 2004 called Southern Wrestling Federation. So I went on a long hiatus from XCW to go and wrestle there almost exclusively as I recall.
Chad Lights: How was it there?
Reckless Jack: It was fun. It was a small federation but it was fun. I was their first ever Xtreme Champion I think. From there I went to feud with a violent man named Razor. This son of a bitch was flat out crazy. He came up with this Tables, Ladders, Chairs and Glass Towers match. I lost the match but it was one of the most brutal matches I have been apart of along with the Barbed Wire Brick match we had at that point. Razor was a pretty good guy though. I got along with him out side of the ring fairly well when we would plan angles. No idea what happened to the guy but jesus was he crazy.
Chad Lights: What happened after that Tables, Ladders, etc. match in SWF?
Reckless Jack: Nothing really. The place was already starting to fall apart and I stuck it out till the end but they had to close up ship. Once that happened, I went back to XCW again. That lasted two weeks basically. WCF had reopened and I was pumped to go back there. So I took Jon Michaels with me to WCF. I had success a bit in that edition of WCF, he didn't. I remember I spent the whole time in WCF that edition feuding Nate Nytro. Think of Rob Van Dam vs. Jerry Lynn and that's what our matches were. Balls out, never give up. Fun time in my career to say the least doing that angle with him. The drive behind this angle was he couldn't beat me. Not in a War Games, not in a hardcore match, not a singles match, not even in an Elimination Chamber match. At the second edition of One, we faced off in a three stages of hell match. Street Fight, Texas Death Match, and then it ended with a TLC match. I won the first fall and he came back with the second two to beat me. I was happy with the way the match turned out. Like I said, it was a fun angle because our styles were similiar at that time.
Chad Lights: You went back to Xtreme Championship Wrestling during this time in Wrestling Championship Federation from what I heard... any truth to that?
Reckless Jack: Yeah, a lot of it. I went back in Feburary I think to clean up an angle with Red Fusion. I came back as "50% Owner" of XCW and that's how the whole angle got restarted. Interestingly enough, it lead to a "Reckless Jack Surprise Match" at their biggest PPV of the year, Xtreme Mania. And for those wondering, we did not main event that show. He and I may have had some ego problems at that time but we knew that the World Title match had to go on last. But as far as the whole Reckless Jack Surprise Match went, it was a First Blood Match, followed by a Street Fight, followed by a Hell in a Cell match with a twist. We placed a ladder in there and made it a Ladder Match inside the Cell. Vince Russo would be proud of the gimmicks on top of the gimmicks. But yeah, I went over and became the 100% on screen owner of Xtreme Championship Wrestling. From there, I gave myself a title shot and gave the power back to him.
So then I went to feud the champion, Dark Prophet, who had just beaten Jon Michaels in the main event of Xtreme Mania. We never had much of an angle going as he needed time off pretty badly and I was just there. I pretty much won the World Title by default and that was it. I was Xtreme Champion Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion for over a year dispite that the company was on hiatus for over a year but whatever. However, during this time as XCW Champion, I started to have problems with Jon Michaels. We were booked in for a thirty minute broadway which meant a thirty minute time limit draw. He felt he should have gone over me and I feel like the draw was the right call. We never were able to have a rematch as XCW closed down a couple of weeks later. He accused me of ducking him and I thought he was full of s***.
Chad Lights: Why did Xtreme Championship Wrestling close down?
Reckless Jack: A lack of committed wrestlers. Had there been a bigger base of active talent, we could have gone another four months I think but the whole inactivity was just horrible and Red Fusion closed it. End of story.
Chad Lights: Alright. What happened after XCW closed?
Reckless Jack: Well, in April of 2005, I had gotten word of an NWA federation from guys like McCammon and Razor. So I went and thought the place was well ran. I was there for about a month or two before I get asked if I wanted to jump ship to a brand new federation that was being opened by key members of the NWA staff. World Internet Wrestling. We pretty much appealed to the internet fans hence the name of the federation. WIW was the place where I meet people like JJ Biggs, Lance Ryan, etc. Despite running for about a month and a half, WIW was a very fun time in my career. They had devised a program with me and this guy, Allan Cooper. We had decided to run a shoot style angle where he would kidnap what was my real son. It was a very controversial angle because religion played a huge part. Allan Cooper played this evil priest/pastor who wanted to mold my son into a person of good standing with God. I played the, well, not atheist so much but just the guy who had thought that God had basically screwed him over in life.
Chad Lights: I heard through the grape vine that something happened during their only PPV.
Reckless Jack: Yeah... I was... crucified basically. No other way to put it. I had won Chris back over from Cooper and we become father and son again after the match we had, which was a killer Barbed Wire TLC match. But yeah, it was probably something we shouldn't have done looking back on it. It made for great TV and everything but after that happened, the ratings started to fall like we had taken it too far. WIW was a sinking ship, in my eyes, so basically two/three weeks after the PPV, WIW was done and I was back out of work and headed towards a huge breakdown...
Chad Lights: Breakdown?
Reckless Jack: I was worn down. Life was getting to me and I basically had a nervous breakdown. I was out of wrestling for about four to six months because of this breakdown. It was hard on me because I loved being on the road and wrestling in front of people that I knew gave a s*** about what I was doing. But in hindsight, the whole WIW angle probably didn't help but that's life. It's part of what happened to me and I feel like I gained from it in the respect of I knew not to go all out every night. I still gave a damn and everything but yeah... I needed to slow down. Which is why I think that Reckless Jack vs. Nate Nytro wouldn't stack up to the past matches that we had in the past.
Chad Lights: What happened after you came back from the breakdown?
Reckless Jack: I honestly don't remember much of it. Nate Nytro and Seth Lerch co ran a federation for all of two weeks before s*** hit the fan and nothing worked out. So soonly after that I had gotten a phone call from Lance Ryan saying that he was opening up his own version of NWA called NWA Reborn. We left out the reborn part for the titles but it was a fun place to work. I rengaged with the angle with Allan Cooper and had it ran out like we had planned before WIW closed. It led to the only See You In Hell match which was probably wasn't as great as I thought it was but I was told it was pretty damn good. Then I was put into a main event feud, for real this time. It was myself, Lance Ryan and JJ Biggs all in this program that was pretty amazing. I had started out as a face in NWA Reborn but a couple of weeks after my match with Cooper, I was placed into a NWA Title match against Lance Ryan with Biggs as the ref. I had the match won two times before it was restarted. That was fuel enough to get a heel turn on JJ and side with Lance going into this Triple Chairshot Challenge which was another fun match. How that match ended though...
Chad Lights: I'm going to have to cut you off there as we are out of time right now. In a couple of days, we'll have part two of shoot interview ready. Until then this is Chad Lights saying good night and God Bless.
The lights go out as we fade away.