Post by Xander Famularo on Mar 22, 2013 11:46:41 GMT -6
Wow look, another match against Will Washington, another month with a repeat performer getting another shot at the world title. I love how the front offices think, they see that the champion can beat someone so they line that guy up over, and over and over again until the champion looks like some big super tough guy. Oh and there is the fact that I soften the competitors up for weeks leading to that match.
Perhaps I am bored, perhaps I am sick and tired of being hands down the best wrestler on this roster and still not having a spot or any role, Roberto said that joining by his side would give me motivation and guidance but slowly and surely I have viewed the error of my ways, slowly and surely I have come to realize that Roberto cares not about my career, he cares not about what movements I make.
He cares about protecting his title.
And honestly, I am the only real threat to the title. I am the only person who offers a threat to him and I spend months being booked against whoever he is currently embroiled in a feud with, he sits on his throne watching me tear his opponents apart piece by piece. Then he swoops in and finished them off.
Well Roberto, I for one am sick of it. I put a hurting on Laslow for months, I have been at war with Will Washington and for what? What advancement in this place have I had? Am I closer to any accolade? Am I closer to the national title? Am I closer to the X Title?
The answer to all these and many other questions is of course no, it is no. I have been, since my second title run stuck in a period of stasis, no one wants to match up with me and I don’t blame them, they don’t want to match up with me because I am the man who won the Road to the Gold and the Coliseum in the same year, I am the man who held the world title twice by the age of 23. I am the man who went for an entire year here and didn’t lose a single one on one match.
Yet… I stand on the sidelines, I stand in a period of nothingness but this weekend that changes with you Will, this weekend I don’t fight you for Roberto, to soften you up and tear you apart. This weekend I fight you for myself I fight you to prove that I am still the best pure wrestler here, I fight you to show you that I am still the most dangerous man here.
I fight you to prove to the world that I am still relevant, to stake my claim at the only prize that presents itself to me, the one that hangs over my head like a mirage so close but just out of reach. I fight you to turn this federation upside-down and to shake things up.
After this weekend, a remembered combatant will emerge, and just like Spartacus was to the Roman Legion I will be a thorn in the side of those that have attempted to hold me down, those that made my father and his partner attend counseling, those that have had them physically assaulted.
Those that I put in power through my sheer will. I declare war on Kelly Fox, I declare war on Adam Knite, I declare war on Roberto Verona and his faction of goons and I put my head down, rushing forward.
And Will, I like you; you are a great wrestler and a great man. But like a hurricane I hold no control over the path I take, there is only one. And you are standing smack dab in the middle of it. You are standing in ground zero
And there is no veering from the path of this storm.
{Scene opens, Gib walks on a treadmill in his basement. Xander walks up to him and speaks to him with a sense of urgency}
Xander: Dad, I am really sorry.
{Gib looks down at him puzzled}
Gib: You didn’t bang my girlfriend did you?
Xander: No, what, never mind. I am sorry I didn’t back you up against Roberto. I was doing what I thought was best for my career, and well, obviously that didn’t work.
Gib: Well Jesus Christ, I told you that a long time ago….
Xander: I know, I know. Sometimes, I just don’t listen.
Gib: We all have to find our own path man; we make mistakes and learn from them. Or, we don’t learn from them and make them several more times. I mean, I knew you were being a total and complete douche, but you had to figure that out and now I bet you are a better person in the future. Maybe, you will even start making better decisions, unlikely but possible.
Xander: Sage advice.
Gib: What did you call me?
Xander: Nothing. Look, I am done walking with Verona; I am done being his errand boy. I am heading straight to the top and leaving nothing in my wake. What I did in 2011 is going to seem like nothing compared to what I am going to do this year.
Gib: It is good to see some motivation from you, I was about to start calling you Joe Everyman.
Xander: You really are the biggest douche in all the land.
Gib: At least I am not the biggest pussy in all the land.
Xander: You are what you eat.
Gib: Then I must recant my previous statement and tell you that you are a giant, hairy, vein covered penis.
Xander: Wow, your intellectually charged insults really cut me deeply.
Gib: And your emo, pussification make my unhappy to call you a son.
{Xander laughs, still unable to one up his father, being that his father has no understanding of logic and absolutely the lowest level of shame in his life}
So here I am on the verge of a monumental drive, at the beginning of another journey. I am not sure what trials and tribulations I will have to face, I am unsure what hurdles I will have to go over or what obstacles I will have to circumvent but I know where this all ends, it ends with me being the first person ever to hoist the NCW title for the third time.
I have done so much Will, I have accomplished things that people only dream of, and I have done it at an age that gives me so many opportunities to solidify my status, to be remembered for being something truly different.
It is pretentious for me to say I am on a different level because you cannot, in any world make comparisons to me and anyone else. Being on this level, being elite has, for a long time made it difficult to go anywhere, people don’t want to face me, people don’t want to step up to the plate because they know the change of them defeating me is slim.
But you Will, you aren’t like the others, you have faced war before, you have stood on the front line and battled for something you believe in, and perhaps on the right day, in the right arena at the right moment you could win that world title from Verona.
But I can’t put my stock in that. And I can’t bear to see Verona hold that title for much longer, someone has to defeat him. He now has lost his front line of protection, he has lost the man who would defend him and make his opponents weak and ready to be finished. Will, I am going to challenge you now, if you are able to make it past me, and make it past me with a decisive victory, then you are going to have Verona on the ropes, then you are going to have him running scared. The thing that people don’t understand about wrestling is something my dad always taught me…
Momentum is key, you need to build it up, if your momentum is going strong enough, then you can crash through any obstacle, you can break through any barrier and you can be successful. But, you must start early, you must get moving as quickly as possible. That is why I was so dominant because this sport is mental. People, when I was running through 2011 were defeated before they got into the ring with me, they saw what I was doing and they couldn’t compete with it. That year was a year that will never be forgotten, and it is something I will always hold close.
Against any other person, any other week I would take you Will, but this week you aren’t facing just another Joe, you are facing me. I am no longer apathetic, I am no longer wading in the middle on infamy, I am so focused on something right now that it hurts inside, and that pain is what drives me, it is what motivates me.
And Roberto is the cause of that pain.
I hope you are watching Roberto, I hope you are paying attention. All you had to do was keep me happy and everything would be all right, all you had to do was focus me and point me in the right direction and things could have been different.
But you didn’t. And now… I am coming for you.
Perhaps I am bored, perhaps I am sick and tired of being hands down the best wrestler on this roster and still not having a spot or any role, Roberto said that joining by his side would give me motivation and guidance but slowly and surely I have viewed the error of my ways, slowly and surely I have come to realize that Roberto cares not about my career, he cares not about what movements I make.
He cares about protecting his title.
And honestly, I am the only real threat to the title. I am the only person who offers a threat to him and I spend months being booked against whoever he is currently embroiled in a feud with, he sits on his throne watching me tear his opponents apart piece by piece. Then he swoops in and finished them off.
Well Roberto, I for one am sick of it. I put a hurting on Laslow for months, I have been at war with Will Washington and for what? What advancement in this place have I had? Am I closer to any accolade? Am I closer to the national title? Am I closer to the X Title?
The answer to all these and many other questions is of course no, it is no. I have been, since my second title run stuck in a period of stasis, no one wants to match up with me and I don’t blame them, they don’t want to match up with me because I am the man who won the Road to the Gold and the Coliseum in the same year, I am the man who held the world title twice by the age of 23. I am the man who went for an entire year here and didn’t lose a single one on one match.
Yet… I stand on the sidelines, I stand in a period of nothingness but this weekend that changes with you Will, this weekend I don’t fight you for Roberto, to soften you up and tear you apart. This weekend I fight you for myself I fight you to prove that I am still the best pure wrestler here, I fight you to show you that I am still the most dangerous man here.
I fight you to prove to the world that I am still relevant, to stake my claim at the only prize that presents itself to me, the one that hangs over my head like a mirage so close but just out of reach. I fight you to turn this federation upside-down and to shake things up.
After this weekend, a remembered combatant will emerge, and just like Spartacus was to the Roman Legion I will be a thorn in the side of those that have attempted to hold me down, those that made my father and his partner attend counseling, those that have had them physically assaulted.
Those that I put in power through my sheer will. I declare war on Kelly Fox, I declare war on Adam Knite, I declare war on Roberto Verona and his faction of goons and I put my head down, rushing forward.
And Will, I like you; you are a great wrestler and a great man. But like a hurricane I hold no control over the path I take, there is only one. And you are standing smack dab in the middle of it. You are standing in ground zero
And there is no veering from the path of this storm.
{Scene opens, Gib walks on a treadmill in his basement. Xander walks up to him and speaks to him with a sense of urgency}
Xander: Dad, I am really sorry.
{Gib looks down at him puzzled}
Gib: You didn’t bang my girlfriend did you?
Xander: No, what, never mind. I am sorry I didn’t back you up against Roberto. I was doing what I thought was best for my career, and well, obviously that didn’t work.
Gib: Well Jesus Christ, I told you that a long time ago….
Xander: I know, I know. Sometimes, I just don’t listen.
Gib: We all have to find our own path man; we make mistakes and learn from them. Or, we don’t learn from them and make them several more times. I mean, I knew you were being a total and complete douche, but you had to figure that out and now I bet you are a better person in the future. Maybe, you will even start making better decisions, unlikely but possible.
Xander: Sage advice.
Gib: What did you call me?
Xander: Nothing. Look, I am done walking with Verona; I am done being his errand boy. I am heading straight to the top and leaving nothing in my wake. What I did in 2011 is going to seem like nothing compared to what I am going to do this year.
Gib: It is good to see some motivation from you, I was about to start calling you Joe Everyman.
Xander: You really are the biggest douche in all the land.
Gib: At least I am not the biggest pussy in all the land.
Xander: You are what you eat.
Gib: Then I must recant my previous statement and tell you that you are a giant, hairy, vein covered penis.
Xander: Wow, your intellectually charged insults really cut me deeply.
Gib: And your emo, pussification make my unhappy to call you a son.
{Xander laughs, still unable to one up his father, being that his father has no understanding of logic and absolutely the lowest level of shame in his life}
So here I am on the verge of a monumental drive, at the beginning of another journey. I am not sure what trials and tribulations I will have to face, I am unsure what hurdles I will have to go over or what obstacles I will have to circumvent but I know where this all ends, it ends with me being the first person ever to hoist the NCW title for the third time.
I have done so much Will, I have accomplished things that people only dream of, and I have done it at an age that gives me so many opportunities to solidify my status, to be remembered for being something truly different.
It is pretentious for me to say I am on a different level because you cannot, in any world make comparisons to me and anyone else. Being on this level, being elite has, for a long time made it difficult to go anywhere, people don’t want to face me, people don’t want to step up to the plate because they know the change of them defeating me is slim.
But you Will, you aren’t like the others, you have faced war before, you have stood on the front line and battled for something you believe in, and perhaps on the right day, in the right arena at the right moment you could win that world title from Verona.
But I can’t put my stock in that. And I can’t bear to see Verona hold that title for much longer, someone has to defeat him. He now has lost his front line of protection, he has lost the man who would defend him and make his opponents weak and ready to be finished. Will, I am going to challenge you now, if you are able to make it past me, and make it past me with a decisive victory, then you are going to have Verona on the ropes, then you are going to have him running scared. The thing that people don’t understand about wrestling is something my dad always taught me…
Momentum is key, you need to build it up, if your momentum is going strong enough, then you can crash through any obstacle, you can break through any barrier and you can be successful. But, you must start early, you must get moving as quickly as possible. That is why I was so dominant because this sport is mental. People, when I was running through 2011 were defeated before they got into the ring with me, they saw what I was doing and they couldn’t compete with it. That year was a year that will never be forgotten, and it is something I will always hold close.
Against any other person, any other week I would take you Will, but this week you aren’t facing just another Joe, you are facing me. I am no longer apathetic, I am no longer wading in the middle on infamy, I am so focused on something right now that it hurts inside, and that pain is what drives me, it is what motivates me.
And Roberto is the cause of that pain.
I hope you are watching Roberto, I hope you are paying attention. All you had to do was keep me happy and everything would be all right, all you had to do was focus me and point me in the right direction and things could have been different.
But you didn’t. And now… I am coming for you.