Post by Markw on Jan 30, 2013 14:25:30 GMT -5
WFWF Revolution – Smoke and Mirrors
Former:
WFWF World Champion
WFWF Tag Team Champion
WFWF National Champion
WFWF Hardcore X Champion
Current WFWF International Champion
2009 Survival of the Fittest Winner
It’s quite an impressive list isn’t it? Makes this match look like something of a no contest on paper doesn’t it?
But don’t be fooled by it, don’t be deceived by the ‘Trace Demon Myth’, because that’s all it is. You’ve got to give Trace Demon some credit, he’s done a masterful job of creating this façade. He’s found a way of building this image of being an almost undefeatable creature when he’s riled up, he’s made it look like he’s fought non-stop, gallantly battling all comers to defend the belts that, credit where it’s due, he’s racked up over the years.
But perhaps the greatest part of this web of lies, the greatest deception, is this suggestion that Trace Demon is the victim of Xavier Pearce’s wrath.
Trace, unlike you, I’m an honest man. So I’m not going to pretend that I’ve been following this ‘feud’ from the moment you and Mr. Pearce crossed paths. Frankly I don’t care about how it arose. But what I have done, is observed what’s been going on for the last couple of weeks and what you’ve been saying about this man who ‘despises’ you. I’ve got to admit, I’m not all that convinced.
One of your complaints seems to be that Xavier Pearce has been forcing you to face guys who don’t deserve to be in the ring with you, so I thought I’d take a closer look. You were stepping into the ring with guys like Tommy Staxx and Cameron Stone. Well Trace you might not know who those guys are, but I sure as hell do. You know how I know who they are? Because I beat both to keep hold of what was my National Championship. See that intrigues me, why would a man who hates your guts, who loathes you to the core, be putting you up against the National Championship discard pile?
Doesn’t make sense does it?
So I thought, Mr. Pearce must be putting in some pretty lop sided stipulations if he truly does hate you as much as we’re led to believe. But over the last few shows you’ve had tag matches, non-title match, weeks off. Well while you were doing that I was defending my National Championship. Which brings me on to the problem I have with that list of belts you’ve accumulated.
They say that winning the Championship’s easy, but defending it week in week out, that’s the challenge. Well my match with the new co-owner of the WFWF highlights my problem with Trace Demon perfectly. You see when I step into that ring with Trace Demon, I’ll be competing against the WFWF International Champion. But I can’t walk out of Louisiana ‘your new WFWF International Champion’.
I may only have two National Championship reigns to my name, and one may have ended in pretty embarrassing circumstances last week. But unlike Trace Demon I had to fight to keep that reign alive, to remain WFWF National Champion for one hundred and twenty nine days. Week in, week out I put my belt on the line, and sure it caught up with me eventually. But I put that belt on the line every week and I gave everything I had to keep the belt for a third of a year.
Trace Demon isn’t like me, he may be just as good as me, heck he might be better. But he isn’t an honest man, and unlike me he’s never been a champion, not in the true sense of the word anyway.
Joe Bishop is perched on a small brick wall, plastered in graffiti that runs through the streets of Wimbledon. Cigarette in hand and a beaming smile stretched out across his face, one would be forgiven for thinking that Bishop is a man on top of the world right now, but the truth is quite different.
Until last week Joseph Bishop was the reigning National Champion, for over a hundred days he had been walking down to the ring as the National Champion and walking back still the National Champion. But Revolution was something of a wakeup call, whether he’d publicly acknowledge it or not, it was a shock to the system. Carter Contra, a nothing, a nobody, a joke, stepped into the ring with the Champion and a shield shot later a new champion was crowned.
Trace I’m aware that you’re one hell of a competitor, I’m not trying to take that away from you. But I also think that you’re a liar and a coward. No offense.
But your strengths, your talents, well if I’ve still got anything about me, they’re irrelevant. Because I’m motivated for this match, I want to win more than I have for a long, long time. I want to right the wrongs. You might be talented, you might fight with unmatched fury, but I promise you, you don’t want to win this nearly as much as I do.
That drive to win, that’s what makes someone a champion. A desire to prove that you’re everything you say you are. Right now there’s no way that you’ve got that, not like I have.
Joe exhales a cloud of smoke, before throwing the stub onto the ground and crushing it under his foot. He runs his fingers through his greasy, matted hair as he jumps up from where he’s standing.
I’ve been humiliated, I’ve had my belt stripped away from me by a comedian and his buckler. I’ve been targeted by an old age pensioner whose greatest claim to fame is winning the gateway to opportunity match, beating a bunch of guys they wouldn’t let on national television and he hasn’t bettered that since. Now I face the man who I guess is technically my boss, kind of, a man who has built this myth that he is some high and mighty king of the squared circle.
It was pretty funny listening to his interview the other day, I quote… ‘my WFWF is going to be one where you own what you get, and you do that my going out, winning matches and messing people up’, leaving aside his humorous slip up, in his first interview as the co-owner of the WFWF…
Joe begins to laugh before composing himself again.
It seems that Mr. Demon thinks that people need to go out and prove that they deserve something before you get a shot at it. Well it’s no secret that Trace, like pretty much everyone in this promotion, wants to be the WFWF Champion. So I think I’ve got every right that the first match that Mr. Demon put himself in is against me. Trace seems to think that I’ll be a good opportunity for him to ‘prove’ that he ‘deserves’ more than the International Championship. At least that’s how I see it.
Well I’m not going to be a stepping stone for you Trace, like it seems I have been for Carter Contra of all people, Scarlett Quinn and Cam Nitta. I’m not being another no name opponent to add to the list of rejects you have to go through before you can politic your way into a World Championship match. Because let’s face it we all know that, that’s exactly what you’re doing.
If you want to walk out of Revolution and prove that I’m wrong to call you a coward, that I’m wrong to suggest you’re a liar, that I’m wrong to think that really you’re just a fraud… then it’s going to take everything you say you’ve got. If you want to beat me at Revolution then being a former World Champion isn’t going to be enough, being the new co-owner of the WFWF isn’t going to be enough. You’re going to be in a real fight, a bloody brawl with a man who wants to… who needs to beat you, a whole lot more than you need it. I’m not accepting anything less than a 100% Trace. I don’t know if you really care, but if you do want to prove yourself to me, then you’re going to need everything you’ve got when we meet in that ring.
Good luck.
OOC: I've got to admit I've been leaving my roleplays to the last minute and rushing it on deadline day a lot more frequently than I would have liked to recently, this was no different but mainly just because I didn't even look at the card until today
, luckily I did remember and hopefully I'll be able to dedicate a little more time to it next time around.
