Post by Adam Knite on Apr 25, 2009 14:20:03 GMT -6
Just don’t call me Russell Crowe.
..::What is a gladiator? I fierce combatant enslaved to fight man and best in a brutal battle to the death. They fought for the amusement of the masses that surrounded them, the people would cheer for their pain, they would cheer for their maiming and for what price? Gladiator’s fought so they could live, it was the only way. I didn’t matter if a tiger stood across from them, it didn’t matter if a lion had their huge jaws open, or if a fellow gladiator had their weapon raised for attack… there was only one curse of action… survive.
Now in modern times, we.. the wrestlers are the new age gladiators. We may not be property of the aristocrats forced to die by their bidding, but we are still enslaved. Enslaved to this sport where the fans jump off their feet when we’re set on fire, thrown through tables, and leap off ladders putting our well being on the line. In this sport it’s about what you can do to entertain the masses about what pain your willing to endure just to get a rise out of the crowd, and even then… giving 110% it still may not be enough. What the fans want, is what they get, and if you out live your usefulness you are thrown to the curb, so you always have to be at the top of your game.
And here I stand as nCw’s Gladiator, the things I’ve done to get to this point, the people I’ve fought and the hardships I’ve endured have all come to together at this one point in time, for this one moment. I’ve fought through the coliseum and I’ve seen the faces of my victims as I stood above them in victory. I’ve defeated some of the greatest wrestlers nCw has ever seen, I’ve defeated my friends and enemies, and now here I am, standing on the top of the world waiting for the biggest match of my life……
Will the moment of triumph feel as good as I imagined? Will the taste of victory be as sweet as I’m told? I’ve been PWW champion, I’ve been old school nCw champion, and I’ve been "Another Fed" champion…. But this is different… this feels like something I worked harder for, something way more meaningful::..
{{The scene opens to Adam sitting quitly alone in his locker room, mere minutes before his huge main event match at A Night to Remember. Adam has his elbows on his knees and his head in the palms of his hands. He stares blankly out in front of him as he waits, not moving… not talking…. Just content in his own little world.}}
Adam Knite: **sigh**
{{A knock echoes throughout the room as Adam just keeps staring into the nothingness. After several seconds the door swings open and there is Chad Lights. Chad doesn’t have a camera man with him or even a microphone. He walks in and sits down next to Adam.}}
Chad Lights: It’s been a long time since you’ve had this chance hasn’t it?
Adam Knite: Yeap.
Chad Lights: Adam, I just wanted to wish you luck tonight. I know despite what you say, that you really want this and I hope you win.
{{Adam turns and looks at Chad with a confused expression.}}
Chad Lights: Don’t give me that look. You know for a fact you gave me my big break when you brought me in as your personal interviewer back in the XWA, and you just deserve this, ok?
Adam Knite: **laughs softly** Are you about to get all emotional on me Chad?
Chad Lights: I might.
Adam Knite: **laughs again** Any other reason you’re here?
Chad Light: Can’t I come in here and talk to one of my oldest friend without having another motive?
Adam Knite: You?.... no.
Chad Lights: Well… now that you mention it….
{Chad claps his hands as a camera man peaks around the corner of Adam’s locker room door. Adam rolls his eyes as he knew all along what Chad had wanted. Lights smiles as Adam stares at him.}
Adam Knite: Fine… but just remember if this would have been anybody else.. I would have kicked them out the door.
Chad Lights: I know I know, thanks man.
{{The camera man comes in and gets into position after handing Chad his microphone. Chad holds it up as the camera focuses in on him and Adam.}}
Chad Lights: I’m here with Adam Knite, nCw’s 2009 Gladiator, and the man who in a few short hours will challenge Ace for the nCw World Champoinship. Adam first… what does this match mean to you?
Adam Knite: I’ve been waiting for this match, for a long time now. There was a point in time where I thought, “Adam you’re never going to be in the spotlight again” I had given up on myself. I had written myself off, because of my neck injury. It took me a long time to get that fire back, to feel the passion to keep going, and even as I was working my way back up to my old self I continued to doubt what I could do, I kept telling myself, there was no chance in hell that I was going to regain that glory I once had.
But I kept trying, I kept working at it to get back. I had to fight my own self doubt the entire way up the ladder, but I finally made it. So this match… I means a lot to me. Not because of who my opponent is, not because of the event, but because for so long I thought that I would never get another chance at being the nCw champion again. Now that moment is finally here, the belt already has my named engraved in it, the only technicality is that I have to wrestle the match.
So, I’d be a damn dirty liar if I told you this match didn’t men anything to me. It does mean a lot. It represents everything I’ve worked for, everything that I’ve dreamt about for so long. The road I’ve taken to get to this point, I wouldn’t wish that on anybody else, it wasn’t always fun, it felt like I was fighting and clawing for nothing at times, but if I can win this match, it will justify all that work and all those struggles. So I want to win this match, I want it bad, no just because the world title is on the line, but because this is what my career since the neck injury has been about…. This moment.
Chad Lights; And what of the match between your Revolution and Leonard Fox's team, that will determine who will take control over nCw?
Adam Knite: The only regret I have is that I won't be involved inside that ring. Me and Lance saw a vision a vision of a better nCw and we went through with our plans and brought together this group of guys who shared our dream. Now everything we worked for, everything we've wanted falls on the shoulders of those four men. Like I told Ace, and he repeated back at me... it doesn't matter who wins, we were prepared either way, if we lose this match and we are hanged from a tree for our actions... then so be it, from the beginning we knew the consequences.
This is the moment of truth for the Age of the Revolution Chad.... the time we actually fulfill our destiny.
Chad Lights: Now what do you think about… nCw World Champion… The Ace
Adam Knite: What about him?
Chad Lights: Just what are your general thoughts, impressions of him?
Adam Knite: You mean the man who can’t decide who he is from one week to the next? The man who uses other people’s catch phrases, mannerisms, and even speech patters depending on who he’s wrestling that week?
Chad Lights: I suppose that’s the same Ace.
Adam Knite: Oh well then.. it’s fairly obvious that the man has been wound up too tight at some point. One minute he’s sitting there getting drunk in a bar because he’s so depressed over me calling him a sissy, then he’s cheating on his wife, then he’s claiming he didn’t… that’s the man who is nCw champion? Ha… he’s just some guy who happened to luck into a victory and is now carrying around my belt. First he claims we’re a like, then when that blows up in his face he claims we’re different, and now… nobody knows what the hell he’s talking about because he can’t put two coherent sentences together, unless of course he’s just parroting what I say.
He’s a sad individual who just needs to go away. Everybody here… we’ve all grown tired of his shtick. He’s proven his complete ineptitude to say anything original or compelling. There are some simple truths, like I’ve already pointed out. He doesn’t care about nCw, he never has and he never will, all he focuses on is winning and how to cheat if he can’t win fairly. Hell, he even said as much, yet he keeps trying to pimp himself as some hero for the fans, as some light in the darkness.
Chad Lights: Finally, my last question. Do you have anything left to say to Ace, any final words?
Adam Knite: Sure... Ace.. if you can pull yourself away from the bottle for just a few minutes. I just want to tell you one thing.... good luck. We have a history, there is no denying that and I know you would love nothing more than to finally beat me in the biggest match of our lives, so I'm just telling you “good luck”. If you would have any other opponent for this match, I might be pulling for you, I might be hoping that you finally got what you wanted, but the way fate works, it's I that has been put in this position, put in a spot to crush your dreams once again. I don't take pleasure in hurting you Ace, but you make things so hard, so hard for me to feel an once of pity for you.... the way you think parroting everything I say is so witty, the way you think using my catch phrases and maims against me makes you look smart. The way you say one thing, and then go and act completely different as if your a standing breathing walking paradox. You wonder why people hate you? You wonder why nobody respects you? That's why.
You're the most despised person in nCw, because you fail to realize your own shortcomings, you think you crap gold bricks the way you act around these halls. Anybody else... and I would feeel sorry for what I'm about to do, I'd feel guilty for taking another title away from you, but with you standing on the opposite side of the ring? I just can't bring myself to care. You're meaningless Ace, and nCw needs a real world champion. Ncw needs Adam Knite to talk that belt away from you, you, just remember when you're once again laying on the ground looking up at me standing above you holding my title... I said “good luck”..... not in this match... but good luck with the pain and torment that will follow you afterwards... when again you see just why I'm so superior.
Remember the Knite, Ace. The Knite who took your title. Remember the Knite, the Knite who crushed your dreams and the Knite when yet again... you failed.
Chad Lights: Ok Adam... thanks again man....
Adam Knite: No problem Chad...
{{With that our scene fades away.}}
..::It feels like it was just yesterday that I was laying in that hospital bed, unable to move my legs. I made a mistake… I had underestimated my opponent and now I was laying in this God forsaken bed, unable to stand up with the fear that I may never walk, let alone wrestle again. Even when I did manage to get myself back up, to bring myself back to the ring I wasn’t the same, I didn’t have the same fire, I didn’t have any intensity… I was just trying to make sure I didn’t get hurt again.
It feels like yesterday I was sitting on my couch at home when Kelly dropped the news that she was pregnant with my child. And it feels like yesterday that I walked out her, telling her I couldn’t handle being a dad….. then she went into her premature labor and my little daughter was lost…
It feels like yesterday, when I got my life in wrestling back thanks to one of my close friends telling me that I could keep going, Trent Helms forced me to get off my arse, to work and to revive my career, he brought me from the edge of the abyss and revitalized me, he told me I still had something left in the tank. He brought me up and I was forced to stab him in the back because of my new found views.
I’ve been through so much in this career of mine, I started out at the bottom rung of the ladder, doing crazy stunts because Davey Boone said that’s what the audience wanted to see, to where I am at now. I once thought my career… no my life was over because of “the accident”, yet here I am. Even though Kelly stood by me while I was bound to that wheel chair, the second I found out she was expecting… I hid like a coward, and I still blame myself for her going into early labor, even though she has washed my hands.
Despite what has happened, despite what may happen, I keep on going, I keep on fighting. I give everything that’s inside of me when I’m in that ring and I hear roar of the fans as they chant my name as they scream in excitement over the match, that is something I can never get enough of. I have a reason to live again, and I have Kelly by my side…
… that’s why I’m happy to be a gladiator...
And you can never take that away from me::…
..::What is a gladiator? I fierce combatant enslaved to fight man and best in a brutal battle to the death. They fought for the amusement of the masses that surrounded them, the people would cheer for their pain, they would cheer for their maiming and for what price? Gladiator’s fought so they could live, it was the only way. I didn’t matter if a tiger stood across from them, it didn’t matter if a lion had their huge jaws open, or if a fellow gladiator had their weapon raised for attack… there was only one curse of action… survive.
Now in modern times, we.. the wrestlers are the new age gladiators. We may not be property of the aristocrats forced to die by their bidding, but we are still enslaved. Enslaved to this sport where the fans jump off their feet when we’re set on fire, thrown through tables, and leap off ladders putting our well being on the line. In this sport it’s about what you can do to entertain the masses about what pain your willing to endure just to get a rise out of the crowd, and even then… giving 110% it still may not be enough. What the fans want, is what they get, and if you out live your usefulness you are thrown to the curb, so you always have to be at the top of your game.
And here I stand as nCw’s Gladiator, the things I’ve done to get to this point, the people I’ve fought and the hardships I’ve endured have all come to together at this one point in time, for this one moment. I’ve fought through the coliseum and I’ve seen the faces of my victims as I stood above them in victory. I’ve defeated some of the greatest wrestlers nCw has ever seen, I’ve defeated my friends and enemies, and now here I am, standing on the top of the world waiting for the biggest match of my life……
Will the moment of triumph feel as good as I imagined? Will the taste of victory be as sweet as I’m told? I’ve been PWW champion, I’ve been old school nCw champion, and I’ve been "Another Fed" champion…. But this is different… this feels like something I worked harder for, something way more meaningful::..
{{The scene opens to Adam sitting quitly alone in his locker room, mere minutes before his huge main event match at A Night to Remember. Adam has his elbows on his knees and his head in the palms of his hands. He stares blankly out in front of him as he waits, not moving… not talking…. Just content in his own little world.}}
Adam Knite: **sigh**
{{A knock echoes throughout the room as Adam just keeps staring into the nothingness. After several seconds the door swings open and there is Chad Lights. Chad doesn’t have a camera man with him or even a microphone. He walks in and sits down next to Adam.}}
Chad Lights: It’s been a long time since you’ve had this chance hasn’t it?
Adam Knite: Yeap.
Chad Lights: Adam, I just wanted to wish you luck tonight. I know despite what you say, that you really want this and I hope you win.
{{Adam turns and looks at Chad with a confused expression.}}
Chad Lights: Don’t give me that look. You know for a fact you gave me my big break when you brought me in as your personal interviewer back in the XWA, and you just deserve this, ok?
Adam Knite: **laughs softly** Are you about to get all emotional on me Chad?
Chad Lights: I might.
Adam Knite: **laughs again** Any other reason you’re here?
Chad Light: Can’t I come in here and talk to one of my oldest friend without having another motive?
Adam Knite: You?.... no.
Chad Lights: Well… now that you mention it….
{Chad claps his hands as a camera man peaks around the corner of Adam’s locker room door. Adam rolls his eyes as he knew all along what Chad had wanted. Lights smiles as Adam stares at him.}
Adam Knite: Fine… but just remember if this would have been anybody else.. I would have kicked them out the door.
Chad Lights: I know I know, thanks man.
{{The camera man comes in and gets into position after handing Chad his microphone. Chad holds it up as the camera focuses in on him and Adam.}}
Chad Lights: I’m here with Adam Knite, nCw’s 2009 Gladiator, and the man who in a few short hours will challenge Ace for the nCw World Champoinship. Adam first… what does this match mean to you?
Adam Knite: I’ve been waiting for this match, for a long time now. There was a point in time where I thought, “Adam you’re never going to be in the spotlight again” I had given up on myself. I had written myself off, because of my neck injury. It took me a long time to get that fire back, to feel the passion to keep going, and even as I was working my way back up to my old self I continued to doubt what I could do, I kept telling myself, there was no chance in hell that I was going to regain that glory I once had.
But I kept trying, I kept working at it to get back. I had to fight my own self doubt the entire way up the ladder, but I finally made it. So this match… I means a lot to me. Not because of who my opponent is, not because of the event, but because for so long I thought that I would never get another chance at being the nCw champion again. Now that moment is finally here, the belt already has my named engraved in it, the only technicality is that I have to wrestle the match.
So, I’d be a damn dirty liar if I told you this match didn’t men anything to me. It does mean a lot. It represents everything I’ve worked for, everything that I’ve dreamt about for so long. The road I’ve taken to get to this point, I wouldn’t wish that on anybody else, it wasn’t always fun, it felt like I was fighting and clawing for nothing at times, but if I can win this match, it will justify all that work and all those struggles. So I want to win this match, I want it bad, no just because the world title is on the line, but because this is what my career since the neck injury has been about…. This moment.
Chad Lights; And what of the match between your Revolution and Leonard Fox's team, that will determine who will take control over nCw?
Adam Knite: The only regret I have is that I won't be involved inside that ring. Me and Lance saw a vision a vision of a better nCw and we went through with our plans and brought together this group of guys who shared our dream. Now everything we worked for, everything we've wanted falls on the shoulders of those four men. Like I told Ace, and he repeated back at me... it doesn't matter who wins, we were prepared either way, if we lose this match and we are hanged from a tree for our actions... then so be it, from the beginning we knew the consequences.
This is the moment of truth for the Age of the Revolution Chad.... the time we actually fulfill our destiny.
Chad Lights: Now what do you think about… nCw World Champion… The Ace
Adam Knite: What about him?
Chad Lights: Just what are your general thoughts, impressions of him?
Adam Knite: You mean the man who can’t decide who he is from one week to the next? The man who uses other people’s catch phrases, mannerisms, and even speech patters depending on who he’s wrestling that week?
Chad Lights: I suppose that’s the same Ace.
Adam Knite: Oh well then.. it’s fairly obvious that the man has been wound up too tight at some point. One minute he’s sitting there getting drunk in a bar because he’s so depressed over me calling him a sissy, then he’s cheating on his wife, then he’s claiming he didn’t… that’s the man who is nCw champion? Ha… he’s just some guy who happened to luck into a victory and is now carrying around my belt. First he claims we’re a like, then when that blows up in his face he claims we’re different, and now… nobody knows what the hell he’s talking about because he can’t put two coherent sentences together, unless of course he’s just parroting what I say.
He’s a sad individual who just needs to go away. Everybody here… we’ve all grown tired of his shtick. He’s proven his complete ineptitude to say anything original or compelling. There are some simple truths, like I’ve already pointed out. He doesn’t care about nCw, he never has and he never will, all he focuses on is winning and how to cheat if he can’t win fairly. Hell, he even said as much, yet he keeps trying to pimp himself as some hero for the fans, as some light in the darkness.
Chad Lights: Finally, my last question. Do you have anything left to say to Ace, any final words?
Adam Knite: Sure... Ace.. if you can pull yourself away from the bottle for just a few minutes. I just want to tell you one thing.... good luck. We have a history, there is no denying that and I know you would love nothing more than to finally beat me in the biggest match of our lives, so I'm just telling you “good luck”. If you would have any other opponent for this match, I might be pulling for you, I might be hoping that you finally got what you wanted, but the way fate works, it's I that has been put in this position, put in a spot to crush your dreams once again. I don't take pleasure in hurting you Ace, but you make things so hard, so hard for me to feel an once of pity for you.... the way you think parroting everything I say is so witty, the way you think using my catch phrases and maims against me makes you look smart. The way you say one thing, and then go and act completely different as if your a standing breathing walking paradox. You wonder why people hate you? You wonder why nobody respects you? That's why.
You're the most despised person in nCw, because you fail to realize your own shortcomings, you think you crap gold bricks the way you act around these halls. Anybody else... and I would feeel sorry for what I'm about to do, I'd feel guilty for taking another title away from you, but with you standing on the opposite side of the ring? I just can't bring myself to care. You're meaningless Ace, and nCw needs a real world champion. Ncw needs Adam Knite to talk that belt away from you, you, just remember when you're once again laying on the ground looking up at me standing above you holding my title... I said “good luck”..... not in this match... but good luck with the pain and torment that will follow you afterwards... when again you see just why I'm so superior.
Remember the Knite, Ace. The Knite who took your title. Remember the Knite, the Knite who crushed your dreams and the Knite when yet again... you failed.
Chad Lights: Ok Adam... thanks again man....
Adam Knite: No problem Chad...
{{With that our scene fades away.}}
..::It feels like it was just yesterday that I was laying in that hospital bed, unable to move my legs. I made a mistake… I had underestimated my opponent and now I was laying in this God forsaken bed, unable to stand up with the fear that I may never walk, let alone wrestle again. Even when I did manage to get myself back up, to bring myself back to the ring I wasn’t the same, I didn’t have the same fire, I didn’t have any intensity… I was just trying to make sure I didn’t get hurt again.
It feels like yesterday I was sitting on my couch at home when Kelly dropped the news that she was pregnant with my child. And it feels like yesterday that I walked out her, telling her I couldn’t handle being a dad….. then she went into her premature labor and my little daughter was lost…
It feels like yesterday, when I got my life in wrestling back thanks to one of my close friends telling me that I could keep going, Trent Helms forced me to get off my arse, to work and to revive my career, he brought me from the edge of the abyss and revitalized me, he told me I still had something left in the tank. He brought me up and I was forced to stab him in the back because of my new found views.
I’ve been through so much in this career of mine, I started out at the bottom rung of the ladder, doing crazy stunts because Davey Boone said that’s what the audience wanted to see, to where I am at now. I once thought my career… no my life was over because of “the accident”, yet here I am. Even though Kelly stood by me while I was bound to that wheel chair, the second I found out she was expecting… I hid like a coward, and I still blame myself for her going into early labor, even though she has washed my hands.
Despite what has happened, despite what may happen, I keep on going, I keep on fighting. I give everything that’s inside of me when I’m in that ring and I hear roar of the fans as they chant my name as they scream in excitement over the match, that is something I can never get enough of. I have a reason to live again, and I have Kelly by my side…
… that’s why I’m happy to be a gladiator...
And you can never take that away from me::…