Post by Alex Jones on Jun 15, 2012 2:43:49 GMT -6
“Do you think it’s possible for someone to hold a grudge for three years?”
I sit cross legged on the floor, a brand new black “vengeance” t-shirt and baggy shorts on.
“Do you even understand why I’m so angry Adam?. Do you understand why it burned me so deeply?. Do you get why that for the last three years atleast twice a week I’ve woken up in a cold sweat in anger because of dreams? Do you understand the frustration Adam?. It’s not just you, it’s not just Zelda, it’s not just that you both decided to take something I earned away from me, it’s not just because as you said my last world title reign was for a pathetic piss in the ground company......”
“In fact I have said time and time again, while I am proud of being a former champion in that other company, the NCW world title does mean more and the fact that I have been one of the best wrestlers in the world and I’ve had to watch men I know I’m better than hold that world title while I got screwed sickens me. It makes me physically ill Adam, it makes me vomit up in my mouth because quite frankly I am the best and I deserve to be champion....”
“Day in and day out I bleed for this business and this company. For the last few weeks I’ve stayed in the ring facing whoever NCW has thrown at me, meanwhile you’ve been sitting on your ass doing nothing except arguing with your sycophant wife who seems to believe people give a damn that she runs this company. You’re an employee of NCW, she owns and runs NCW therfor you should collect a pay cheque, but your egotistical mind can’t get around the business side of it.....you’ll take the perks of being her husband but you won’t take the money you earn?.....does it emasculate you Adam?......”
I raise an eyebrow questioningly
“I sat there and watched your little argument with Kelly and all that went through my head was “what a douchebag”. But your thoughts of marital inferiority aside my problems still stand. Look at the record books, names who have won the NCW world title when I haven’t. Look at the men Adam, who were able to fluke world title wins who never deserved it, meanwhile I fought with blood, sweat and tears with the heart of a champion only to be robbed....ROBBED...”
“I fight with honor, I fight with my own pride on the line only to have it taken away. Meanwhile Xavier Williams, Jack Hammond, The Ace, Curtis Kanyon, Philip Burns, all these men somehow have been world champions when I haven’t. A handful of these men I’ve beaten in the last few months, the rest I have beaten throughout my career and have proven that I am the better man yet they have been champion. They have had title shots one on one without the usual bull****....”
“But me Adam, I got robbed. It wasn’t about me proving myself, I already have proved myself time and time again Adam. This was never about me proving to anyone how good I am, I’ve already done that. This is about me getting what is owed. I’ve had to sit here and watch as men like Todd Williams and Ricky Johnson got ahead of me. Hell I beat Todd when he was the world champion, shouldn’t I have gotten a shot at Todd while he held the belt since I beat him?...wouldn’t that have made sense?....”
I lean back and scoff in disbelief.
“And Ricky Johnson?. I walked into a triple threat match for the National title and walked out with that belt leaving Ricky with nothing. I’ve beaten Ricky Johnson before and I’ve been the better man yet somehow he gets infinite ***damn title shots and when he does eventually win the title he gets to pack it in and walk away?. He gets to retire while still champion?. So either we get Verona being world champion or Johnson gets to walk away with the belt a month after FINALLY winning it?. It’s bull**** Adam. I’ve sat here for the last three years scratching my head wondering why exactly I get screwed while lesser men get to realise dreams they shouldn’t have.....”
“And to make it worse I have to listen to you justify your actions. But when it comes down to it the record book says I won after you low blowed me and you kept your title. You tell me it was to toy with my emotions but I know it was because you were a desperate man who was going to lose his belt and you did everything you could to keep it. You want to compare what you did to me with my matches with Jacobsen?. I beat Jacobsen, I went out there and beat him in fair matches where I let him have every shot at winning......”
“You Adam, you fought with no honor or pride, you’re a coward and while you can try and justify it, the truth is you’re the worst kind. Cause you are that good Adam, you are the king of NCW, you are a man who is wel travelled and a legend in this business and you don’t NEED those cheap shot short cuts, yet you used them anyway. You had Angel come down and screw me out of one match, you screwed me out of another and then your over-rated dumb**** sister screwed me out of my other title....”
I laugh and shake my head.
“But the fact remains that you seem to take some kind of pride in what you did. You refer to it as “Just a Sunday” for you in your career where as for me it was some kind of big shining moment etched into my memory. And you know what, I can accept that. You’ve had all these huge moments here and in other companies, you’re big bad Adam Knite, King of NCW, which makes it even more pathetic that when I was in the ring with you, when you did low blow me, I saw piss running down your leg when you realised I was going to beat you and take the world title from you....”
“You act as if I’m so beneath you, like I’m just little Alex Jones running around trying to be a big deal. Honestly Adam, I’m sick of being looked at as the most talented guy to never be champ. I’m sick and tired of watching men who don’t deserve it hold that title. I’m sick of watching guys get infinite title shots month after month. This month you and I step into that ring again. In my NCW career Adam I’ve beaten you, I’ve been screwed over by you and you’ve beaten me....”
“An interesting rivalry, and one that I’m going to be honest in saying that for the most part you have been the better man. But I don’t hjave to prove myself to you Adam. I already know in my head I am just as good as you. And truth is that you don’t want that National title and I would hold it with respect because any NCW title deserves it.....”
I smile and nod.
“But more than that I do get a chance to avenge an injustice from three years ago. I get to prove I can be the better man. Unless you decide to kick me in the nuts again Adam. But truth is if you do decide to be a little bitch again, all it will do is validate everything I’ve ever said, that you do fear me.....”
“You fear what I’m capable of, you fear who I could be, you fear what I represent Adam. I destroyed the pale imitation of the young guns, I destroyed the revolution, and over the last few months I’ve been one of the most consistant performers in NCW. I’ve beaten hall of famers, world champions, legends. I’ve been at the top of my game and with all due respect to a man who has seen and done it all, the momentum I have coming into this is ridiculous....”
“A few months ago, I believed I was ready. I believed I could beat you. But I failed. I walked out of that match knowing I failed and you were the better man. I walked out of that knowing while the fight I put up was valiant, it just wasn’t good enough. But the path to being the best is littered with challengers and you need to learn from them and I will learn from my mistakes to become a better man, a better wrestler, a better warrior.....”
I smile to myself.
“The National title Adam, it’s a belt that I would be honoured to hold, a belt I’d defend proudly. But you are right Adam, this match isn’t about that belt, this match isn’t about a title I’ve already held before. This match isn’t about me just being “good enough”. This is about me getting a 265 pound monkey off my back. This is about me beating you one on one with no outside interference and no bull****. I win, I become National champion, I get to bury a memory and I get to reclaim my nights sleep, I get to stop the haunting nightmares of failure that I live through....”
“If I lose, those memories stay with me. I fail again and I have to go back to square one. I live with this anger, this frustration, this feeling that while I am good enough to be champion I’ll never get a fair shot. But Adam you ask if I’m good enough to dethrone you, you ask if I’m going to reach out and take that belt. On Sunday, I kick a king off his throne, I take a gold belt over my shoulder...and I reclaim the honor and pride I lost the day you kicked a field goal using my nuts as a ball....”
“At reborn, Alex Jones reignites his career. And for the last few months I started those wheels in motion, they started turning. Wars with Spike Kane, matches against Steve Awesome, The Ace, Todd Williams, a match against you, against your former tag team partner, Curtis. Matches against some of the best newcomers in NCW like Mike Laszlo. I beat them all, I stood tall even in my losses like ones to you and Spike, I learned, I grew and I have become the man I should have been....”
I smile again and stand up.
“I accept how good you are Adam, I accept that you are a former world champion and hall of famer. But I urge you not to take me lightly. I want the best Adam Knite, I want the King, I want the guy who went to war against Gib, I want the guy who everyone feared in the revolution. I want that Adam Knite because to stop the nightmares, I need to beatr the best Adam Knite available....”
“Part of me believes I will get that Adam Knite no matter what. You can say you don’t want the belt, you can say it’s me who needs to beat you, but I know you Adam, deep down, you’re a warrior, deep down you never want to lose. Your pride won’t let you.”
“Adam, let’s dance you and I. Lets go to war, lay it all on the line and give the fans and our peers in NCW something to remember.....”
I sit cross legged on the floor, a brand new black “vengeance” t-shirt and baggy shorts on.
“Do you even understand why I’m so angry Adam?. Do you understand why it burned me so deeply?. Do you get why that for the last three years atleast twice a week I’ve woken up in a cold sweat in anger because of dreams? Do you understand the frustration Adam?. It’s not just you, it’s not just Zelda, it’s not just that you both decided to take something I earned away from me, it’s not just because as you said my last world title reign was for a pathetic piss in the ground company......”
“In fact I have said time and time again, while I am proud of being a former champion in that other company, the NCW world title does mean more and the fact that I have been one of the best wrestlers in the world and I’ve had to watch men I know I’m better than hold that world title while I got screwed sickens me. It makes me physically ill Adam, it makes me vomit up in my mouth because quite frankly I am the best and I deserve to be champion....”
“Day in and day out I bleed for this business and this company. For the last few weeks I’ve stayed in the ring facing whoever NCW has thrown at me, meanwhile you’ve been sitting on your ass doing nothing except arguing with your sycophant wife who seems to believe people give a damn that she runs this company. You’re an employee of NCW, she owns and runs NCW therfor you should collect a pay cheque, but your egotistical mind can’t get around the business side of it.....you’ll take the perks of being her husband but you won’t take the money you earn?.....does it emasculate you Adam?......”
I raise an eyebrow questioningly
“I sat there and watched your little argument with Kelly and all that went through my head was “what a douchebag”. But your thoughts of marital inferiority aside my problems still stand. Look at the record books, names who have won the NCW world title when I haven’t. Look at the men Adam, who were able to fluke world title wins who never deserved it, meanwhile I fought with blood, sweat and tears with the heart of a champion only to be robbed....ROBBED...”
“I fight with honor, I fight with my own pride on the line only to have it taken away. Meanwhile Xavier Williams, Jack Hammond, The Ace, Curtis Kanyon, Philip Burns, all these men somehow have been world champions when I haven’t. A handful of these men I’ve beaten in the last few months, the rest I have beaten throughout my career and have proven that I am the better man yet they have been champion. They have had title shots one on one without the usual bull****....”
“But me Adam, I got robbed. It wasn’t about me proving myself, I already have proved myself time and time again Adam. This was never about me proving to anyone how good I am, I’ve already done that. This is about me getting what is owed. I’ve had to sit here and watch as men like Todd Williams and Ricky Johnson got ahead of me. Hell I beat Todd when he was the world champion, shouldn’t I have gotten a shot at Todd while he held the belt since I beat him?...wouldn’t that have made sense?....”
I lean back and scoff in disbelief.
“And Ricky Johnson?. I walked into a triple threat match for the National title and walked out with that belt leaving Ricky with nothing. I’ve beaten Ricky Johnson before and I’ve been the better man yet somehow he gets infinite ***damn title shots and when he does eventually win the title he gets to pack it in and walk away?. He gets to retire while still champion?. So either we get Verona being world champion or Johnson gets to walk away with the belt a month after FINALLY winning it?. It’s bull**** Adam. I’ve sat here for the last three years scratching my head wondering why exactly I get screwed while lesser men get to realise dreams they shouldn’t have.....”
“And to make it worse I have to listen to you justify your actions. But when it comes down to it the record book says I won after you low blowed me and you kept your title. You tell me it was to toy with my emotions but I know it was because you were a desperate man who was going to lose his belt and you did everything you could to keep it. You want to compare what you did to me with my matches with Jacobsen?. I beat Jacobsen, I went out there and beat him in fair matches where I let him have every shot at winning......”
“You Adam, you fought with no honor or pride, you’re a coward and while you can try and justify it, the truth is you’re the worst kind. Cause you are that good Adam, you are the king of NCW, you are a man who is wel travelled and a legend in this business and you don’t NEED those cheap shot short cuts, yet you used them anyway. You had Angel come down and screw me out of one match, you screwed me out of another and then your over-rated dumb**** sister screwed me out of my other title....”
I laugh and shake my head.
“But the fact remains that you seem to take some kind of pride in what you did. You refer to it as “Just a Sunday” for you in your career where as for me it was some kind of big shining moment etched into my memory. And you know what, I can accept that. You’ve had all these huge moments here and in other companies, you’re big bad Adam Knite, King of NCW, which makes it even more pathetic that when I was in the ring with you, when you did low blow me, I saw piss running down your leg when you realised I was going to beat you and take the world title from you....”
“You act as if I’m so beneath you, like I’m just little Alex Jones running around trying to be a big deal. Honestly Adam, I’m sick of being looked at as the most talented guy to never be champ. I’m sick and tired of watching men who don’t deserve it hold that title. I’m sick of watching guys get infinite title shots month after month. This month you and I step into that ring again. In my NCW career Adam I’ve beaten you, I’ve been screwed over by you and you’ve beaten me....”
“An interesting rivalry, and one that I’m going to be honest in saying that for the most part you have been the better man. But I don’t hjave to prove myself to you Adam. I already know in my head I am just as good as you. And truth is that you don’t want that National title and I would hold it with respect because any NCW title deserves it.....”
I smile and nod.
“But more than that I do get a chance to avenge an injustice from three years ago. I get to prove I can be the better man. Unless you decide to kick me in the nuts again Adam. But truth is if you do decide to be a little bitch again, all it will do is validate everything I’ve ever said, that you do fear me.....”
“You fear what I’m capable of, you fear who I could be, you fear what I represent Adam. I destroyed the pale imitation of the young guns, I destroyed the revolution, and over the last few months I’ve been one of the most consistant performers in NCW. I’ve beaten hall of famers, world champions, legends. I’ve been at the top of my game and with all due respect to a man who has seen and done it all, the momentum I have coming into this is ridiculous....”
“A few months ago, I believed I was ready. I believed I could beat you. But I failed. I walked out of that match knowing I failed and you were the better man. I walked out of that knowing while the fight I put up was valiant, it just wasn’t good enough. But the path to being the best is littered with challengers and you need to learn from them and I will learn from my mistakes to become a better man, a better wrestler, a better warrior.....”
I smile to myself.
“The National title Adam, it’s a belt that I would be honoured to hold, a belt I’d defend proudly. But you are right Adam, this match isn’t about that belt, this match isn’t about a title I’ve already held before. This match isn’t about me just being “good enough”. This is about me getting a 265 pound monkey off my back. This is about me beating you one on one with no outside interference and no bull****. I win, I become National champion, I get to bury a memory and I get to reclaim my nights sleep, I get to stop the haunting nightmares of failure that I live through....”
“If I lose, those memories stay with me. I fail again and I have to go back to square one. I live with this anger, this frustration, this feeling that while I am good enough to be champion I’ll never get a fair shot. But Adam you ask if I’m good enough to dethrone you, you ask if I’m going to reach out and take that belt. On Sunday, I kick a king off his throne, I take a gold belt over my shoulder...and I reclaim the honor and pride I lost the day you kicked a field goal using my nuts as a ball....”
“At reborn, Alex Jones reignites his career. And for the last few months I started those wheels in motion, they started turning. Wars with Spike Kane, matches against Steve Awesome, The Ace, Todd Williams, a match against you, against your former tag team partner, Curtis. Matches against some of the best newcomers in NCW like Mike Laszlo. I beat them all, I stood tall even in my losses like ones to you and Spike, I learned, I grew and I have become the man I should have been....”
I smile again and stand up.
“I accept how good you are Adam, I accept that you are a former world champion and hall of famer. But I urge you not to take me lightly. I want the best Adam Knite, I want the King, I want the guy who went to war against Gib, I want the guy who everyone feared in the revolution. I want that Adam Knite because to stop the nightmares, I need to beatr the best Adam Knite available....”
“Part of me believes I will get that Adam Knite no matter what. You can say you don’t want the belt, you can say it’s me who needs to beat you, but I know you Adam, deep down, you’re a warrior, deep down you never want to lose. Your pride won’t let you.”
“Adam, let’s dance you and I. Lets go to war, lay it all on the line and give the fans and our peers in NCW something to remember.....”
