Post by Julianna DiMaria on Jun 9, 2017 12:11:22 GMT -5
Trust
Date: June 2017
Location: GOL Chapter Once
Event: Super Falcon Cup Quarterfinals
Julianna DiMaria is backstage at the show, thinking about what’s been going on with her as of late as well as what is coming up in front of her. Sitting down on a steel chair, the young San Diego native is certainly deep in thought. She is trying her very best to remain calm, cool and collective but her slumped shoulders indicate that she is bothered by something.
Julianna: You got to trust who you’re working with, Julianna…
Julianna sounds annoyed as she begins to talk to herself.
Julianna: You got to trust yourself and everything you’re capable of. God, my parents try so hard to be anecdotal.
Julianna pauses and rolls her eyes, obviously recalling a recent conversation she had with her parents before she came back to Mexico for the second round of the Super Falcon Cup. She’s said her piece regarding her match against Jack Tillman, who she knew wasn’t going to be an easy opponent especially considering that he’s a former title holder in Redemption Wrestling. And yet, with the way she’s clawing her nails into her neon yellow, long wrestling tights, she’s showing a clear indication that there is something bothering her. She lets out an angry sigh, trying to do the best to pull through her anger.
Julianna: I have NEVER heard anyone in my LIFE disrespect me like that.
Julianna pauses and shakes her head.
Julianna: It’s like all the bastard did was look at me and just… rush to judgement. Oh because I’m some blonde from San Diego automatically means that I don’t belong in a wrestling ring? I can’t believe all those awful stereotypes he threw in there. Hell, where do I start? If labelling me as someone that doesn’t deserve to call myself a professional wrestler wasn’t bad enough, being labelled a sports entertainer was damn insulting. Or it would be if he didn’t call me a “model” right after that…..
Julianna raises her hands to her face and cups them over her nose while she squints her eyes shut, trying to let out some anger that she’s feeling going into that match with Jack Tillman. She doesn’t take long to lower them back to her lap and then let out another angry sigh.
Julianna: Yeah, I did SOME of that to cover my expenses… but REALLY? I’m in this god damn industry because I WANTED to be in it! I made that choice! ME! Not my parents! ME and he wants to just sit there and… and… GOD, I can’t even think straight because I’m that pissed! To be labelled as something like THAT? To have me branded as someone who doesn’t give a damn about this? JUST because of the way I look? It’s asinine… it’s absolutely asinine…
Julianna stands up and paces the floor of the locker room, again, trying her very best to keep calm.
Julianna: From the first day I arrived in WCG, all everyone’s ever done is overlook me. I seem to be the underdog in every god damn match I fight. I’ve had an up and down run so far, I’ve had a roller coaster ride. I’ve had to do more “on the job learning” than I thought it would. This has not been easy. And idiots like HIM don’t help my mood. I swear, I think of those words he threw at me and god, it makes me want to cry.
This sentiment allows her to calm down some as she leans against a wall and eventually slides down to sit on the floor. She seals her eyes shut, as Jack’s words, more hurtful than she could ever care to admit, ring through her conscience.
Julianna: Nobody is giving me a chance to win this match. Nobody believes in me. Nobody trusts in me. Well… I guess the only person that is going to trust in me and believe in me is myself because really, that’s the way I’m going to get by in this business. I got nothing to lose and everything to gain against Jack Tillman. If I lose, that’s what they all expected anyway. If I win, it’s the one win that could potentially catapult my confidence because God knows I need that in light of these two losses to Ryan Keys. I just need to trust myself. I see what everyone’s saying now. All I got to do is give it my best shot!
Julianna manages to stand back up again and take a deep breath. With this, she’s completely composed again and ready to compete against Redemption’s Jack Tillman in the quarterfinals of the Super Falcon Cup tournament in GOL.
Julianna: Time to see how far “trust” can actually take me…
Julianna walks out of the locker room, trying to maintain as much confidence as she can knowing that she’s definitely facing the toughest opponent of her career to date. She may not be the odds on favorite to defeat Jack Tillman on this night, but the one thing she does know at this point is that she’s worked as hard as she could to get to this point and regardless of the stereotypes that Jack wants to label her, in the moments right before that Super Falcon Cup match, Julianna began to realize that not even he could take away anything from her regardless of what that outcome was.
Julianna (voice over): In the weeks and days since the previous Hype, I went back to my parents’ training facility and it was a bit awkward knowing that all of my parents hated me and not loved me as I once delusionally believed which I suppose was the point my parents were trying to make to me because I wrestled so many practice tag team matches with them as a way to build up the “trust” that I lacked in other people and most damningly, myself. With my tag team match with Scotty Latimer looming, I knew that I had to learn how to trust others especially since I might turn out to be a lone wolf in the WCG locker room with most people, even Jessica Hardy, up Ryan Keys’s ass! Awkward as it was, I pulled through that. I got to Mexico knowing I was in there with someone that had zero respect for me. It was another big match situation for me and there was initial pressure knowing that more often than not, I hadn’t pulled through in them. And yet, once I got in that ring with Jack Tillman and looked into his eyes, I knew I was going to win. I knew not only that the pressure was all on him, but that I was trusting myself more than he was trusting himself.
The ingredients were ripe for the picking and with all the faith and trust in my own abilities…
...I pulled off the upset…
A short while later…
Julianna is back in that same locker room after her match with Jack Tillman came and went and the mood in the air is completely different. Julianna is looking like a great weight has been lifted off of her shoulders as the joy on her face is hard to contain. She puts her hands on top of her head, almost as if she can’t believe it herself, before she slides them down her neck and to her shoulders before letting them fall to her waist. She takes a seat and has a bit of a laugh to herself as she begins to unwrap the tape from her wrists.
Julianna: WOW….
Julianna takes a breath to collect herself, at last soaking in what just happened. She knows that she’s in the semifinals of the Super Falcon Cup and in reality, she wouldn’t be all TOO surprised, but with much of what she’s been through in recent weeks and months, she can’t contain her deepest of inner excitements.
Julianna: I suppose “trust” is a valuable thing after all…
Voice: So… are you in a better mood tonight?
Julianna acts annoyed, as a quick roll of the eyes would indicate as she looks up and sees WCG interviewer Mia Bala.
Julianna: I was, until you showed up.
Mia: Okay, well, you don’t need to be so mean. Can we talk?
Julianna’s eyes narrow slightly.
Mia: ...off the record?
Julianna: Yeah. Off the record is fine.
Julianna, despite some of the exhaustion she’s feeling, meets the WCG interviewer in the eye when she stands up.
Mia: Do you realize the impact of what you just did out there?
Julianna: Uh… YEAH! I just beat someone on Redemption’s main roster. Even if he WAS representing another company but… I don’t care. If they want to call it a fluke, they can. But in a few years, when they look back on this, you know what they are going to call this? They are going to call this the beginning of something glorious for years to come! I mean, you DID hear all the crap Jack Tillman said about me, right?
Mia: Yeah…
Julianna: And… woman to woman, be honest with me, since we ARE off the record and all, you’d consider that disrespectful, right?
Mia: You do make a fair point.
Julianna: Come on Mia! If that was you in my spot, you’d be pretty upset too!
Mia: Fine. You’re right. Since we’re off the record, I’ll admit that he blatantly disrespected you. I wouldn’t blame you for being upset. But, you know, that’s wrestling for you. You did go out there and silence him, so you have that going for you. At least you’re in a much better mood NOW than when you were after you won your first round match. Remember that? You weren’t even happy about that win because you were moping about losing the ladder match to crown the first ever WCG West Coast Champion and then the very next Hype you…
Julianna raises a finger up to Mia’s mouth in a quite condescending fashion before she even gets to mention her loss to Ryan Keys.
Julianna: Say no more. I don’t need to hear about the past.
Mia: I’m just saying, it must feel good to win one of these after you’ve been up and down and even choked away a couple of big opportunities.
Julianna: Excuse me?
Mia: Origins, Hype, the road show tournament. The fact that it’s Rachel Redding that represented WCG at WrestleForce and not you. I’m not trying to disrespect you. I suppose my point is that you were due for one and you got one tonight. I just want to know, personally, what you did differently to finally change your fortunes around, you know?
Julianna: I trusted myself better, that’s what. I went into that ladder match “knowing” I was going to win, but there was a piece of me that didn’t really believe that. Hype #2? There was no way I had a trust in any of my abilities. I was shaken up by Origins and then THAT happened. Maybe that’s why I didn’t win the Road Show tournament either? Who knows. I at least beat Ryan Keys along the way and god, can you imagine how confident I am going to be for that NOW after all of this? This might be the one, Mia, where I start being more consistent or maybe even, dare I say… dominant! I know the value of “trust” now. And believe me, I’ve got so much trust in Scotty Latimer for the upcoming Hype. After what I pulled off tonight, with the massive amount of confidence this is going to give me, not only do I HAVE to win at Hype, not only do I HAVE to win at Rise… I WILL win against the Messiahs… and I WILL become the WCG West Coast Champion. What I pulled off just now erases all doubt that it’s my destiny to conquer WCG and make it a world of my own! Nice chat, Mia.
Mia raises her eyebrows, acting a bit surprised, but she calmly nods before turning around and departing. Julianna smiles as the confidence within her begins to grow even more.
Julianna (voice over): Winning this second round match against all odds… this HAS to be the turning point. If anyone doubts me now in light of this, they’re officially disrespecting me at this juncture. So begins the RISE… the Rise of my dominance… the Rise of my dynasty…
I’m coming around now! After the biggest win of my infant career so far, there’s no turning back! There’s no reason to be down in the dumps or to be hard on myself. From now on, I take shit from NOBODY! It’s only a matter of time before Ryan Keys’ reign collapses in all its glory and all of his little friends can cry about it all they want, but in the end, they can’t stop the destined rise of the DiMaria Dynasty!
Date: June 2017
Location: GOL Chapter Once
Event: Super Falcon Cup Quarterfinals
Julianna DiMaria is backstage at the show, thinking about what’s been going on with her as of late as well as what is coming up in front of her. Sitting down on a steel chair, the young San Diego native is certainly deep in thought. She is trying her very best to remain calm, cool and collective but her slumped shoulders indicate that she is bothered by something.
Julianna: You got to trust who you’re working with, Julianna…
Julianna sounds annoyed as she begins to talk to herself.
Julianna: You got to trust yourself and everything you’re capable of. God, my parents try so hard to be anecdotal.
Julianna pauses and rolls her eyes, obviously recalling a recent conversation she had with her parents before she came back to Mexico for the second round of the Super Falcon Cup. She’s said her piece regarding her match against Jack Tillman, who she knew wasn’t going to be an easy opponent especially considering that he’s a former title holder in Redemption Wrestling. And yet, with the way she’s clawing her nails into her neon yellow, long wrestling tights, she’s showing a clear indication that there is something bothering her. She lets out an angry sigh, trying to do the best to pull through her anger.
Julianna: I have NEVER heard anyone in my LIFE disrespect me like that.
Julianna pauses and shakes her head.
Julianna: It’s like all the bastard did was look at me and just… rush to judgement. Oh because I’m some blonde from San Diego automatically means that I don’t belong in a wrestling ring? I can’t believe all those awful stereotypes he threw in there. Hell, where do I start? If labelling me as someone that doesn’t deserve to call myself a professional wrestler wasn’t bad enough, being labelled a sports entertainer was damn insulting. Or it would be if he didn’t call me a “model” right after that…..
Julianna raises her hands to her face and cups them over her nose while she squints her eyes shut, trying to let out some anger that she’s feeling going into that match with Jack Tillman. She doesn’t take long to lower them back to her lap and then let out another angry sigh.
Julianna: Yeah, I did SOME of that to cover my expenses… but REALLY? I’m in this god damn industry because I WANTED to be in it! I made that choice! ME! Not my parents! ME and he wants to just sit there and… and… GOD, I can’t even think straight because I’m that pissed! To be labelled as something like THAT? To have me branded as someone who doesn’t give a damn about this? JUST because of the way I look? It’s asinine… it’s absolutely asinine…
Julianna stands up and paces the floor of the locker room, again, trying her very best to keep calm.
Julianna: From the first day I arrived in WCG, all everyone’s ever done is overlook me. I seem to be the underdog in every god damn match I fight. I’ve had an up and down run so far, I’ve had a roller coaster ride. I’ve had to do more “on the job learning” than I thought it would. This has not been easy. And idiots like HIM don’t help my mood. I swear, I think of those words he threw at me and god, it makes me want to cry.
This sentiment allows her to calm down some as she leans against a wall and eventually slides down to sit on the floor. She seals her eyes shut, as Jack’s words, more hurtful than she could ever care to admit, ring through her conscience.
Julianna: Nobody is giving me a chance to win this match. Nobody believes in me. Nobody trusts in me. Well… I guess the only person that is going to trust in me and believe in me is myself because really, that’s the way I’m going to get by in this business. I got nothing to lose and everything to gain against Jack Tillman. If I lose, that’s what they all expected anyway. If I win, it’s the one win that could potentially catapult my confidence because God knows I need that in light of these two losses to Ryan Keys. I just need to trust myself. I see what everyone’s saying now. All I got to do is give it my best shot!
Julianna manages to stand back up again and take a deep breath. With this, she’s completely composed again and ready to compete against Redemption’s Jack Tillman in the quarterfinals of the Super Falcon Cup tournament in GOL.
Julianna: Time to see how far “trust” can actually take me…
Julianna walks out of the locker room, trying to maintain as much confidence as she can knowing that she’s definitely facing the toughest opponent of her career to date. She may not be the odds on favorite to defeat Jack Tillman on this night, but the one thing she does know at this point is that she’s worked as hard as she could to get to this point and regardless of the stereotypes that Jack wants to label her, in the moments right before that Super Falcon Cup match, Julianna began to realize that not even he could take away anything from her regardless of what that outcome was.
Julianna (voice over): In the weeks and days since the previous Hype, I went back to my parents’ training facility and it was a bit awkward knowing that all of my parents hated me and not loved me as I once delusionally believed which I suppose was the point my parents were trying to make to me because I wrestled so many practice tag team matches with them as a way to build up the “trust” that I lacked in other people and most damningly, myself. With my tag team match with Scotty Latimer looming, I knew that I had to learn how to trust others especially since I might turn out to be a lone wolf in the WCG locker room with most people, even Jessica Hardy, up Ryan Keys’s ass! Awkward as it was, I pulled through that. I got to Mexico knowing I was in there with someone that had zero respect for me. It was another big match situation for me and there was initial pressure knowing that more often than not, I hadn’t pulled through in them. And yet, once I got in that ring with Jack Tillman and looked into his eyes, I knew I was going to win. I knew not only that the pressure was all on him, but that I was trusting myself more than he was trusting himself.
The ingredients were ripe for the picking and with all the faith and trust in my own abilities…
...I pulled off the upset…
A short while later…
Julianna is back in that same locker room after her match with Jack Tillman came and went and the mood in the air is completely different. Julianna is looking like a great weight has been lifted off of her shoulders as the joy on her face is hard to contain. She puts her hands on top of her head, almost as if she can’t believe it herself, before she slides them down her neck and to her shoulders before letting them fall to her waist. She takes a seat and has a bit of a laugh to herself as she begins to unwrap the tape from her wrists.
Julianna: WOW….
Julianna takes a breath to collect herself, at last soaking in what just happened. She knows that she’s in the semifinals of the Super Falcon Cup and in reality, she wouldn’t be all TOO surprised, but with much of what she’s been through in recent weeks and months, she can’t contain her deepest of inner excitements.
Julianna: I suppose “trust” is a valuable thing after all…
Voice: So… are you in a better mood tonight?
Julianna acts annoyed, as a quick roll of the eyes would indicate as she looks up and sees WCG interviewer Mia Bala.
Julianna: I was, until you showed up.
Mia: Okay, well, you don’t need to be so mean. Can we talk?
Julianna’s eyes narrow slightly.
Mia: ...off the record?
Julianna: Yeah. Off the record is fine.
Julianna, despite some of the exhaustion she’s feeling, meets the WCG interviewer in the eye when she stands up.
Mia: Do you realize the impact of what you just did out there?
Julianna: Uh… YEAH! I just beat someone on Redemption’s main roster. Even if he WAS representing another company but… I don’t care. If they want to call it a fluke, they can. But in a few years, when they look back on this, you know what they are going to call this? They are going to call this the beginning of something glorious for years to come! I mean, you DID hear all the crap Jack Tillman said about me, right?
Mia: Yeah…
Julianna: And… woman to woman, be honest with me, since we ARE off the record and all, you’d consider that disrespectful, right?
Mia: You do make a fair point.
Julianna: Come on Mia! If that was you in my spot, you’d be pretty upset too!
Mia: Fine. You’re right. Since we’re off the record, I’ll admit that he blatantly disrespected you. I wouldn’t blame you for being upset. But, you know, that’s wrestling for you. You did go out there and silence him, so you have that going for you. At least you’re in a much better mood NOW than when you were after you won your first round match. Remember that? You weren’t even happy about that win because you were moping about losing the ladder match to crown the first ever WCG West Coast Champion and then the very next Hype you…
Julianna raises a finger up to Mia’s mouth in a quite condescending fashion before she even gets to mention her loss to Ryan Keys.
Julianna: Say no more. I don’t need to hear about the past.
Mia: I’m just saying, it must feel good to win one of these after you’ve been up and down and even choked away a couple of big opportunities.
Julianna: Excuse me?
Mia: Origins, Hype, the road show tournament. The fact that it’s Rachel Redding that represented WCG at WrestleForce and not you. I’m not trying to disrespect you. I suppose my point is that you were due for one and you got one tonight. I just want to know, personally, what you did differently to finally change your fortunes around, you know?
Julianna: I trusted myself better, that’s what. I went into that ladder match “knowing” I was going to win, but there was a piece of me that didn’t really believe that. Hype #2? There was no way I had a trust in any of my abilities. I was shaken up by Origins and then THAT happened. Maybe that’s why I didn’t win the Road Show tournament either? Who knows. I at least beat Ryan Keys along the way and god, can you imagine how confident I am going to be for that NOW after all of this? This might be the one, Mia, where I start being more consistent or maybe even, dare I say… dominant! I know the value of “trust” now. And believe me, I’ve got so much trust in Scotty Latimer for the upcoming Hype. After what I pulled off tonight, with the massive amount of confidence this is going to give me, not only do I HAVE to win at Hype, not only do I HAVE to win at Rise… I WILL win against the Messiahs… and I WILL become the WCG West Coast Champion. What I pulled off just now erases all doubt that it’s my destiny to conquer WCG and make it a world of my own! Nice chat, Mia.
Mia raises her eyebrows, acting a bit surprised, but she calmly nods before turning around and departing. Julianna smiles as the confidence within her begins to grow even more.
Julianna (voice over): Winning this second round match against all odds… this HAS to be the turning point. If anyone doubts me now in light of this, they’re officially disrespecting me at this juncture. So begins the RISE… the Rise of my dominance… the Rise of my dynasty…
I’m coming around now! After the biggest win of my infant career so far, there’s no turning back! There’s no reason to be down in the dumps or to be hard on myself. From now on, I take shit from NOBODY! It’s only a matter of time before Ryan Keys’ reign collapses in all its glory and all of his little friends can cry about it all they want, but in the end, they can’t stop the destined rise of the DiMaria Dynasty!