Post by Cameron Stone on Aug 19, 2014 11:54:06 GMT -5
I never dreamed that I would be here. Not once in all of my years on this earth did I think I'd ever walk through the doors of Madison Square Garden, knowing I'd be performing my craft in the middle of that arena. And in all honesty, I never thought it would matter. I didn't believe that I would even care. Do you know how many opportunities I have had to go the professional route in my career? I could have joined the big leagues twenty years ago if I had been so inclined. But I laid down some roots, and I liked my small time status. Just working hard and honest and going to work every day, and enjoying every minute of it, keeping the stress to the minimum. Some have accused me in the past of purposely avoiding the major promotions. He likes being a big fish in a tiny pond over being lost in the ocean they've said. Perhaps they are right. I've never been a big fan of the bright lights and the big cities. I live just outside of a town of three thousand people in the middle of Missouri for crying out loud, those are legitimate preferences. I like the smaller focus. I don't believe it's a case that I'm afraid of being a failure. I know I could have succeeded big time even a decade ago. Now? I'm not so sure. But that isn't why I'm here, to establish some kind of dynasty level career in the WFWF. I'm here to say I made it here, even being on the wrong side of forty years old. I came here to experience this side of the fence for once. And while I didn't know it until now, I came here to wrestle in Madison Square Garden. Like I said, ask me a week ago if this was a big deal, I'd have said no. But when you land into New York, and you see the building, and you walk through those doors, something inside of you changes. A realization hits you. I'm about to wrestle in the Garden. In only my second match in the WFWF, I'm doing what almost every young individual who gets into this industry aspires to do. This is the crown jewel. Forget championships, not everyone will ever win one, but just walking through the curtain to the ring in this building is going to be awe inspiring. But what did I really do to deserve this opportunity over someone else? Me, who has turned down countless chances at this accomplishment already, now just decides he's going to take someones spot? So I need to take this thing seriously, in regards to both the in ring implications, and my life outside of wrestling. I wanted to being my daughter Katie out to New York for the show, and make a vacation out of it, but April, my ex wife wouldn't have it. She said that she wasn't cool with me taking her on a trip so far away for so long. That broke my heart, as Katie surprisingly is a pretty big fan of wrestling, and I wanted her to be able to see her Dad in the WFWF live, in Madison Square Garden no less. But hopefully, I'll be able to get her out to one of the shows I work here, so she can she her father, and I can look on her out in the crowd. I will be thinking of her in the garden though. And that's the most important thing to me.