Post by Alex Cross on Feb 6, 2015 23:54:10 GMT -6
A quiet wrestling ring sits in the center of the empty GZW2k1 Coliseum. Sitting quietly in the center of the ring Indian style dressed in blue jeans and a plain green hoodie is the current GZW2k1 IC Champion Alex Cross. The champion says nothing as he looks out at the rows and rows of empty chairs, chairs that have been empty since Aftermatch went off the air just over a month ago.
So quiet. So quiet it's kind of nice. No cheers, no boos, nothing but silence. It's almost perfect.
The young globalstar looks at the long entrance ramp where he had come down just a few moments earlier. His eyes focus on the giant GZW2k1 logo that hangs above the entrance at the top of the stage.
Anyone who's anyone in this business dreams of one day walking through that curtain and down that ramp in order to compete in the greatest wrestling company around. But not everyone that walks down that aisle can be first round draft picks. No, unfortunately you have those who come in and deliver right off the bat and live up to the hype they brought with them. They prove they're the real deal the second they step foot in this ring. Then you have those who are the sleeper picks. The ones you hope surprise you though you expect little from them. The ones who deliver night after night and prove all the naysayers wrong! But then you have those who come in and prove everyone right. The ones you come in claiming to be a God or that claim to be everything anyone could desire and yet end up being frauds or nothing anyone wants, much like the clap.
The champion turns to look at the camera.
Leon you're right about one thing and yet wrong at the same time. This, Ian fellow is far from the best in the business. But while we may agree on that, where we differ is with your thinking that you are the best. Why? Because you hold that World Title? Because you're a lord and Ring of Honor Icon? Winning those titles, awards, and honors may make you elite but they don't make you the best. No Leon, as I stated earlier you're good and in a league of your own but when it comes to the best in the business you're looking at him.
Alex rises to his feet and unzips his hoodie showing his bare chest with the IC Title wrapped around his waist.
No one in this business is better in the ring than me. When it comes to going in this ring NO ONE can go like me. NO ONE can perform like me. You may have beaten me on more than one occasion Leon but that doesn't mean you're the best, it just means you've got the experience. The one thing that can't be taught. The one thing that separates everyone in this business. The only thing that you have to learn the hard way and trust me when I say I've been learning that the hard way and I'm damn proud of that fact.
I've put everything I have into this business the short amount of time I've been here and will continue to put my all into it until the day I retire which is a long time from now. I've been battered, beaten, and bloodied for the sake of this business and I don't regret a moment of it. But I will not sit back and be discredited by the likes of you, someone who I don't look at as a superior but as someone who's inferior. I don't give a shit how many times we tangle and how many times you might come out on top. I'M the measuring stick in this business not you. What you have on me in experience I have on you in pure talent and athleticism. I didn't make you my enemy Leon, you made me yours and I'll make you pay for that mistake in spades and you can bank on it.
Though your time isn't now, instead it's your lovely wife's. A woman I respect but a woman that will be put down just for the sake of delivering a message. As a matter of fact, why don't you come down to the ring and get a good long look at what happens to your wife and let it be known that what awaits you will be far worse. While I may respect the hell out of her I will not allow that to blind me. I will break her in the middle of that ring and I will smile while doing so. You can talk all you want about how the beating I threw you at the end of our match was nothing and you're right. It's nothing compared to the beating I'll throw you the next time we face off Leon or the beating I'll be throwing Eva at Crimson. Mark my words.
Without another word he turns and climbs out of the ring before making his way up the long ramp towards the back.
So quiet. So quiet it's kind of nice. No cheers, no boos, nothing but silence. It's almost perfect.
The young globalstar looks at the long entrance ramp where he had come down just a few moments earlier. His eyes focus on the giant GZW2k1 logo that hangs above the entrance at the top of the stage.
Anyone who's anyone in this business dreams of one day walking through that curtain and down that ramp in order to compete in the greatest wrestling company around. But not everyone that walks down that aisle can be first round draft picks. No, unfortunately you have those who come in and deliver right off the bat and live up to the hype they brought with them. They prove they're the real deal the second they step foot in this ring. Then you have those who are the sleeper picks. The ones you hope surprise you though you expect little from them. The ones who deliver night after night and prove all the naysayers wrong! But then you have those who come in and prove everyone right. The ones you come in claiming to be a God or that claim to be everything anyone could desire and yet end up being frauds or nothing anyone wants, much like the clap.
The champion turns to look at the camera.
Leon you're right about one thing and yet wrong at the same time. This, Ian fellow is far from the best in the business. But while we may agree on that, where we differ is with your thinking that you are the best. Why? Because you hold that World Title? Because you're a lord and Ring of Honor Icon? Winning those titles, awards, and honors may make you elite but they don't make you the best. No Leon, as I stated earlier you're good and in a league of your own but when it comes to the best in the business you're looking at him.
Alex rises to his feet and unzips his hoodie showing his bare chest with the IC Title wrapped around his waist.
No one in this business is better in the ring than me. When it comes to going in this ring NO ONE can go like me. NO ONE can perform like me. You may have beaten me on more than one occasion Leon but that doesn't mean you're the best, it just means you've got the experience. The one thing that can't be taught. The one thing that separates everyone in this business. The only thing that you have to learn the hard way and trust me when I say I've been learning that the hard way and I'm damn proud of that fact.
I've put everything I have into this business the short amount of time I've been here and will continue to put my all into it until the day I retire which is a long time from now. I've been battered, beaten, and bloodied for the sake of this business and I don't regret a moment of it. But I will not sit back and be discredited by the likes of you, someone who I don't look at as a superior but as someone who's inferior. I don't give a shit how many times we tangle and how many times you might come out on top. I'M the measuring stick in this business not you. What you have on me in experience I have on you in pure talent and athleticism. I didn't make you my enemy Leon, you made me yours and I'll make you pay for that mistake in spades and you can bank on it.
Though your time isn't now, instead it's your lovely wife's. A woman I respect but a woman that will be put down just for the sake of delivering a message. As a matter of fact, why don't you come down to the ring and get a good long look at what happens to your wife and let it be known that what awaits you will be far worse. While I may respect the hell out of her I will not allow that to blind me. I will break her in the middle of that ring and I will smile while doing so. You can talk all you want about how the beating I threw you at the end of our match was nothing and you're right. It's nothing compared to the beating I'll throw you the next time we face off Leon or the beating I'll be throwing Eva at Crimson. Mark my words.
Without another word he turns and climbs out of the ring before making his way up the long ramp towards the back.
