Post by Markw on Sept 9, 2014 3:33:45 GMT -5
WFWF Grudge – Down The River
There's this automatic assumption, that I'm being used.
That I will be used by Trace Demon until I'm no longer useful to him, and then I'll be cast aside.
That's the view of anyone, who wishes to be taken seriously. Joe Bishop is a pawn, a lackey, the man who will get his hands dirty so Trace Demon doesn't have to.
I hope that my embarrassment at Battle At The Garden, my humiliating defeat to Dave Demento, has at the very least quashed that way of thinking. Because if anything, I proved in front of thousands of fans, in front of the WFWF locker room, in front of millions of people watching their televisions, that I am nothing but a hindrance to Trace Demon.
I had one job, defend the International Championship, against a man who has been defeated time and time again in the WFWF, a man who's record going into our match was truly laughable. And I f***ed it up.
Why, why, would Trace Demon use me to achieve his ends, when I am so far from the finished article? Why would a WFWF Hall Of Famer enlist me to do his dirty work when I am quite clearly incapable of doing it.
He wouldn't.
People can bang on and on about Trace Demon and Jason Anders using me, to get the World Championship, and to regain their power.
But that quite clearly isn't the case.
What I am is a wrestler, who loves wrestling. And I genuinely believe, from the bottom of my heart, that Lila Sleater is bad for the WFWF. And bad for professional wrestling as a whole. While I may not be capable of doing what Trace Demon does, while I may not be capable of standing toe to toe with the bigger names in the WFWF, I'm not going to stop. I am not going to stop throwing myself into the battle until Lila Sleater is removed from the promotion I love. I believe in the Final Revolution, I believe in what we're fighting for as much as Trace Demon does.
Now Trace, in my experience at least, is fairy guarded. I couldn't tell you with any great conviction, exactly why he wants me to be part of his army. I can unequivocally tell you that it isn't to do his dirty work. But I can't be entirely sure why it is.
My own assumption, is that Trace Demon knows how much I believe in what he's fighting for, and I think he knows just how much I want to be the best. How much I crave success.
Personally, I think that makes us obvious allies. We have a common enemy, a common goal, a common drive, I don't think it's any surprise that Trace Demon is willing to help me.
But I am sick and tired of hearing, that it's about making his life easier, because it's not. Try as I might, I am not making things easier for Trace Demon.
Battle At The Garden should have been a monumental night for The Final Revolution. Finally, the title was ripped away from the fraud that is Dex. And yes it went to Drakz, but the important thing is, a vital piece that was holding Lila's empire apart, was gone. Without that, without a champion, her empire would crumble. I don't know the ins and outs of what happened in that Main Event, but I do know, that if Drakz was on Lila Sleater's side, Trace Demon would not have allowed him to walk out of Madison Square Garden with the WFWF World Championship. It wouldn't have happened.
So it should have been a night of celebration, the first major blow to Lila Sleater, the tipping point in this war.
And it would have been. Had I not gifted the International Championship, to the man she hand picked to take it from me, Dave Demento. By surrendering that title, I have made The Final Revolution's job all the more difficult, I have made the task so much greater. I have given Sleater and her troops a victory to cling on to. A lesser man would have kicked me to the curb there and then, if I was really just being used to make Trace Demon's life easier, I wouldn't still be part of the Revolution.
So no, I'm not being used, I'm being helped and boy do I need it.
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Dave you bested me, and I think that was largely down to me expecting a walk over. The same mistake lost me the National Championship, during that second reign with that belt, when Carter Contra of all people managed to defeat me.
I swore at that point, that I would never let myself take an opponent lightly. That anybody who wanted to beat me was going to have to earn it.
But I didn't.
You withstood an enormous amount of punishment, you threw everything at me, and I didn't expect. And you rightly, took that title from me.
It was humiliating, but you deserved it.
If you're looking for answers, 'Why did Joe Bishop attack Dave Demento after Battle At The Garden went off the air', you're going to have to wait a little longer.
But leaving aside our dispute, I do want to give you a little warning.
At Battle At The Garden you proved to everyone, myself included, that you have got something about you. That right now you deserve to be the International Champion. Believe it or not, I'm not necessarily disappointed to see you raise your game like that.
The more young, hungry stars there are, desperate to prove themselves, the better it is for the WFWF. That's exactly what this promotion needs.
But you are making a big mistake, if you think lining up alongside people like Lila Sleater, or Penny Shannon, is what's best for your career.
You're better than them, you showed that at Battle At The Garden.
Lila is a power hungry, greedy cow who cares only about making money. Penny is a back stabbing b**** who has achieved nothing of note on her own. You don't need them, to get where you want to be, and they are going to drag you down.
Why am I trying to help you?
I don't know really. I still want your title, I want to be the International Champion. And I'm not going to stop until I've reclaimed that and made up for the shame you caused me. But you aren't what I personally, am fighting. You are misguided, sure, but you're not the root of the problem. And while I will do it, I gain no satisfaction in taking on people like you and Dex, who aren't actually the problem. You're as much a victim as me, Trace, Anders, it's a shame you can't see it, and probably won't until it's too late.
And if you don't learn your lesson quick, then I'm going to have to find a way to end you.
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I used to envy you Penny, honestly I did.
There was time when you had everything I craved.
The respect I had for you going into that Battleground match, where we won Trace Demon control of this company, cannot be overstated. You were the person, perhaps more than any other, I looked up to.
That probably sounds slightly strange, I mean you'd never been the World Champion, and that was what I've always said I want.
But at that point in time the World Championship wasn't the thing I craved most of all.
That War Games match was one of the most brutal of my career, it was sick. And that was no surprise, we all went into that match knowing the risks, knowing that we were risking our careers for one reason or another.
I did it for personal gain. I did it because I wanted Trace Demon's International Champion. I wanted that third encounter with the man who I had villainized. It wasn't a particularly noble cause, I risked everything because I wanted a belt.
But you, you were going into that vicious structure, simply because, you had an incredible bond with Scarlett Quinn. You were willing to risk your career, your livelihood, just to protect your friend or so it seemed. I made no secret, at the time, of the fact that I envied that. Because I didn't have, I've never had that sort of connection with another human being. I have never been willing to risk everything, to protect someone else.
That to me, was incredible. It was amazing to see someone do that, baffling even. But at the same time, I couldn't have been more jealous.
So in some ways, it almost hurt, to see you stab her in the back at Scars & Stripes. I don't really care about Scarlett Quinn, in fact I don't care at all about her. But the bond you had with Scarlett, in some ways it gave me a bit of hope. As an outsider looking in, someone who had never had that sort of connection with someone, it showed me that it's possible. And Scars and Stripes destroyed that.
It's no wonder you have to pump yourself full of drugs to get through a single day, because I don't think a sober person could live with themselves after doing that.
Myself, Jason Anders, Trace Demon, we all believe in this cause. And despite my failure at Battle At The Garden, Trace Demon isn't going to turn his back on me. Even though, in many ways, it would make his life easier. Because I've let him down and there's nothing to say I won't do it again. He has chosen to stand by me, and so I can be confident that he's not going to turn his back on me.
The question I'd ask Dave Demento is this. When you stand shoulder to shoulder with Penny Shannon, can you ever feel that confident?
Can you ever look across to that woman who sold out her best friend, and think, 'I can trust her'?
I don't see how you can.
This is a woman who will throw you aside the minute doing so gives her an advantage, a mercenary who will jump from side to side whenever it suits her.
Penny, I envied you. But now?
You for me, epitomise everything that is wrong with professional wrestling. And with the species as a whole.
Because you don't care about what's right. You care about what's best for Penny Shannon, and what's best for Penny Shannon alone.
So this match for me, is not about beating one of Dave Demento's new 'allies'. It's not about my recent squabbles with the new International Champion. It is a bit personal.
It's not going to be about sending a message to Dave, it's going to be about beating the crap out of a human being who doesn't care about the state of the WFWF. Who doesn't care about Dave Demento. Who doesn't care about or believe in what she's fighting for.
As far as I'm concerned, like Lila or Garrett or Dex or Malakai, you're one of the people who threatens everything this company should stand for. You like Lila and Malakai, are corrupting wrestlers, who could be so much more without your meddling. Who could make something of themselves, if they weren't being used to propel your career.
You make it look, like you're going into this match with me, to get revenge for Dave Demento. To protect him. Some will be suckered in by that. But I've been here too long for that Penny. I know you, I know what drives, and it's not protecting Dave Demento that's on your mind. It's, 'what's best for Penny Shannon?'.
I don't want to stand by and watch you do it again. Even though I don't like Demento, even he doesn't deserve you.
Maybe I'll be good enough to stop you, maybe I won't, but I'm going to try. If I don't, people like you are going to help Lila Sleater kill this company.
I couldn't look myself in the mirror, if I stood by and let it happen.
OOC: A pretty horrid migraine has stopped me getting much work done on the scenes I had planned, I'd hoped it would have gone by now but it hasn't. I could possibly get one of them finished today but not to the quality I'd like and looking at a computer screen all day isn't exactly helping. But it's something I can save for a later date so I'm going to do that. So yeah, here are the monologues I got done before that, sorry Mike.