Post by Jazmyn Rain on Aug 18, 2017 15:30:17 GMT -5
Into The Fire
Date: August 17, 2017
Jazmyn Rain finds herself sitting down on a park bench in the Houston, Texas area relaxing after a long walk and run. She’s still in good spirits, smiling her way through her exhaustion, as some thoughts begin to run through her head. She’s thinking about the upcoming episode of Glory, knowing that she’s not going to have it easy. Then again, thus far in her young Redemption career, she really hasn’t had it easy at all. This doesn’t bother Jazmyn as she continues to think about her upcoming match with Caroline O’Hara Burchill. She knows in her mind that she’s faced plenty of wrestlers in her career that are quite similar to Caroline, but she also knows that typecasting her won’t do her much favors. With much of her thoughts in focus, Jazmyn takes a deep breath and begins to express her mind.
Jazmyn Rain: Even though it was just the opening match on One Night Only and even though it was a tag team match with Trixie, I want to reiterate that I’m thrilled beyond words to have my first Redemption victory on the board. I admit, I did need that a little bit considering what happened in my hometown, but that is an example of bouncing back from adversity knocking you down. Of course you can knock adversity down as many times as you’d like, but it’s always going to get right back up and challenge you and that’s precisely what’s going to happen this weekend in Louisville when I take on New Generation Champion… or should I say FORMER New Generation Champion…. Caroline O’Hara Burchill. Now, I’m going to get to her in a little bit, but I want to express my mind on something real quick. I saw what happened with the New Generation Championship at One Night Only. It’s as plain as day what happened. Caroline defeated Betsy, who was seeking revenge for what took place in the All-Female Invitational and then Jew Blazer shocked the world by cashing in his Rags to Riches contract and becoming the New Generation Champion. Now, don’t get me wrong, I DO like the guy. Great wrestler as I can personally attest to now! But I’m very conflicted about the whole situation. I get the concept of “turnabout is fair play” considering the way Caroline cheated to defeat him before. But would I have done what Jew Blazer did?
Absolutely not!
I say this with all due respect to the new champion, but there’s no way. I can’t condone it in good conscience and I speak from my own experience here. Over in GCW, when I was robbed of the Global Championship that I had in the cruelest of fashions, I didn’t use my rematch clause and to this day, I still haven’t. I chose to do it the hard way, to earn my way back into it and even then, I took a break from the title scene to focus on rebuilding myself into the woman and the wrestler that I am today. Once I started having designs for regaining the title, I STILL didn’t use the rematch clause even though I could have. No, I wanted to EARN the shot and that’s exactly what I did. In that situation, I would have challenged Caroline the next show because that’s a show of faith in my OWN abilities to beat her without having to do such a thing. Again, all respect in the world for Jew Blazer, but I can’t condone how he did it. But, I suppose this match here is how the hypothetical scenario I just painted would have worked itself out? Maybe. I can’t say for sure. For all her whims, egocentric viewpoints and borderline unbearable narcissism, Caroline is a hell of a wrestler between those ropes and that’s what I am ultimately going to try to keep my focus on at the end of the day. I’ve expressed some nervousness, yes, but that’s something that’s going to be gone by the time we meet in that ring. Right now, I’ve been thrown into the fire, so to speak, since I came to Redemption. I mean really, I had a pretty damn tough draw for my debut a month ago and now this? I can’t complain. It’s definitely a show of faith from the company if they’ve giving me matches as tough as Caroline so soon into my Redemption career and I definitely appreciate that they’re not overlooking me. There’s a clear sign that they see me as a potential New Generation championship contender but at the end of the day, I have to take advantage of these opportunities. I didn’t against Jew Blazer and I’ll be the first to admit, and this is just my own opinion mind you, that Caroline on paper is better than Blazer largely because she has more experience in the singles ranks than he does.
Not to mention that I may have had a target focused on me by the Destroyers after I expressed my support for Adrian Cochrane two weeks ago when I tried to prevent him from going out there all by himself, but that’s another story.
As far as this match is concerned though, would I consider myself the favorite against Caroline? Absolutely not. But that doesn’t mean I won’t go out there and give it my best shot to prove to the masses out there that yes, I am more than worthy of being a contender for the New Generation Championship that I initially came out of the box talking about how I wanted to save the championship and the division from her tyrannical, egocentric ways. Blazer beat me to it, even though he did so in a way that I would never condone myself, and I know Caroline is driven and determined to win back that championship no matter what lows she has to stoop to in order to do so. The thing of it is, when you have a wrestler with a similar attitude call themselves a king or a queen with that level of narcissism, it typically doesn’t end well and believe me, people that behave in a similar fashion as Caroline, for better or worse, have ALWAYS bothered the crap out of me. I can’t stand it when you have people that want to make every iota about this business all about themselves which to a degree, that’s precisely what Caroline is. It is my sworn duty to defend the honor and sanctity of this business against people like her and this weekend in Louisville, that’s exactly what I am going to do, no question about that. There are definitely people counting on me to find a way to win this match against an especially tough opponent like her and while I might be going into this challenge a little nervous, I’m definitely not afraid. There’s very little I’m afraid of after I went through my life-altering experience nearly a year ago that has since led me to this positive point in my career.
She wants to go around and portray the mega-narcissistic evil queen? Great. Of course, I hope she’s smart enough to realize that people that have gone this route always collapse and stumble eventually, I’m sure if you ask KING Matt Shields all about that, he’ll blow a gasket and not even answer your question. Caroline is going to suffer that fate at some point. I’m not saying I’m going to be the one to bring her to that fate, but I can guess where her mental state could very well be coming into this match. She’s desperate considering what she had to go through. I would fathom to guess that the woman could be damn near close to losing her mind after she had something that meant so much to her “robbed” from her and I use that term from her perspective and not mine, mind you. I guess in some ways, I can have SOME empathy for her, but definitely not sympathy. While I don’t condone what Blazer did, considering the way she acts and carries herself and the way she is willing to allow her attitude and her nonsense to overshadow her actual wrestling abilities, it’s very hard for ANYONE to feel sorry for her and hell, I’ll admit that I don’t feel sorry for her at all. Maybe it’s because I’ve been through worse situations in my career, maybe because in GCW I’ve been dealing with this self-important martyr of a Global Champion that has made things more of an annoyance than anything really, or maybe it’s because in my heart, it’s impossible for me to have sympathy for people like Caroline… but that sympathy just can’t be there. She’s got two choices: she can let this bring her down and let this all fall on top of her and she can ultimately lose her mind, or she can own up to what she’s done and finally allow her wrestling abilities to shine through.
Okay, for her, that’s what I would WANT because I feel she’d be better off for it, but I’ve got to live in reality. She’s not going to own up to anything and that’s just fine, that’s her choice but this weekend, I’ll be there to teach her that for every choice, there’s a consequence. Putting people like her in her place is not only something that I am committed to doing every now and then, but also is something that I take a great deal of pride in whenever it happens because I know that at least for the moment, things in this business are all the better for it. I’m expecting her to come out of the gate desperate after what took place at One Night Only. I’m not going to run down every possible feeling or action she’s going to come to Glory with and I’m not going to speculate and predict how she’s going to be when that bell rings, but I’ll tell you this much. I’ll be ready! I’ll take on the adversity in front of me. The adversity I’m dealing with of course, is meeting the fire head on so soon in my Redemption career, personified by Caroline. I’ll make my statement. I’ll overcome those odds. I’ll cement myself as a definite contender to the New Generation Championship when it’s all said and done because I know deep in my heart, what I’m capable of now. There was a point in my career where I would always be skittish and nervous when matches like this would come up, but that Jazmyn left the building a long time ago! This weekend, I’ll pull through! She may not believe I am capable of beating her, but I know I am and at the end of the day, that’s all that matters!
Time to meet adversity in the eye… and knock it down once again!
Jazmyn smirks briefly, exuding some of her confidence that she has grown and developed over the last year of her career. She takes a deep breath before she stands up and continues her walk as the cameras fade out.
Date: August 17, 2017
Jazmyn Rain finds herself sitting down on a park bench in the Houston, Texas area relaxing after a long walk and run. She’s still in good spirits, smiling her way through her exhaustion, as some thoughts begin to run through her head. She’s thinking about the upcoming episode of Glory, knowing that she’s not going to have it easy. Then again, thus far in her young Redemption career, she really hasn’t had it easy at all. This doesn’t bother Jazmyn as she continues to think about her upcoming match with Caroline O’Hara Burchill. She knows in her mind that she’s faced plenty of wrestlers in her career that are quite similar to Caroline, but she also knows that typecasting her won’t do her much favors. With much of her thoughts in focus, Jazmyn takes a deep breath and begins to express her mind.
Jazmyn Rain: Even though it was just the opening match on One Night Only and even though it was a tag team match with Trixie, I want to reiterate that I’m thrilled beyond words to have my first Redemption victory on the board. I admit, I did need that a little bit considering what happened in my hometown, but that is an example of bouncing back from adversity knocking you down. Of course you can knock adversity down as many times as you’d like, but it’s always going to get right back up and challenge you and that’s precisely what’s going to happen this weekend in Louisville when I take on New Generation Champion… or should I say FORMER New Generation Champion…. Caroline O’Hara Burchill. Now, I’m going to get to her in a little bit, but I want to express my mind on something real quick. I saw what happened with the New Generation Championship at One Night Only. It’s as plain as day what happened. Caroline defeated Betsy, who was seeking revenge for what took place in the All-Female Invitational and then Jew Blazer shocked the world by cashing in his Rags to Riches contract and becoming the New Generation Champion. Now, don’t get me wrong, I DO like the guy. Great wrestler as I can personally attest to now! But I’m very conflicted about the whole situation. I get the concept of “turnabout is fair play” considering the way Caroline cheated to defeat him before. But would I have done what Jew Blazer did?
Absolutely not!
I say this with all due respect to the new champion, but there’s no way. I can’t condone it in good conscience and I speak from my own experience here. Over in GCW, when I was robbed of the Global Championship that I had in the cruelest of fashions, I didn’t use my rematch clause and to this day, I still haven’t. I chose to do it the hard way, to earn my way back into it and even then, I took a break from the title scene to focus on rebuilding myself into the woman and the wrestler that I am today. Once I started having designs for regaining the title, I STILL didn’t use the rematch clause even though I could have. No, I wanted to EARN the shot and that’s exactly what I did. In that situation, I would have challenged Caroline the next show because that’s a show of faith in my OWN abilities to beat her without having to do such a thing. Again, all respect in the world for Jew Blazer, but I can’t condone how he did it. But, I suppose this match here is how the hypothetical scenario I just painted would have worked itself out? Maybe. I can’t say for sure. For all her whims, egocentric viewpoints and borderline unbearable narcissism, Caroline is a hell of a wrestler between those ropes and that’s what I am ultimately going to try to keep my focus on at the end of the day. I’ve expressed some nervousness, yes, but that’s something that’s going to be gone by the time we meet in that ring. Right now, I’ve been thrown into the fire, so to speak, since I came to Redemption. I mean really, I had a pretty damn tough draw for my debut a month ago and now this? I can’t complain. It’s definitely a show of faith from the company if they’ve giving me matches as tough as Caroline so soon into my Redemption career and I definitely appreciate that they’re not overlooking me. There’s a clear sign that they see me as a potential New Generation championship contender but at the end of the day, I have to take advantage of these opportunities. I didn’t against Jew Blazer and I’ll be the first to admit, and this is just my own opinion mind you, that Caroline on paper is better than Blazer largely because she has more experience in the singles ranks than he does.
Not to mention that I may have had a target focused on me by the Destroyers after I expressed my support for Adrian Cochrane two weeks ago when I tried to prevent him from going out there all by himself, but that’s another story.
As far as this match is concerned though, would I consider myself the favorite against Caroline? Absolutely not. But that doesn’t mean I won’t go out there and give it my best shot to prove to the masses out there that yes, I am more than worthy of being a contender for the New Generation Championship that I initially came out of the box talking about how I wanted to save the championship and the division from her tyrannical, egocentric ways. Blazer beat me to it, even though he did so in a way that I would never condone myself, and I know Caroline is driven and determined to win back that championship no matter what lows she has to stoop to in order to do so. The thing of it is, when you have a wrestler with a similar attitude call themselves a king or a queen with that level of narcissism, it typically doesn’t end well and believe me, people that behave in a similar fashion as Caroline, for better or worse, have ALWAYS bothered the crap out of me. I can’t stand it when you have people that want to make every iota about this business all about themselves which to a degree, that’s precisely what Caroline is. It is my sworn duty to defend the honor and sanctity of this business against people like her and this weekend in Louisville, that’s exactly what I am going to do, no question about that. There are definitely people counting on me to find a way to win this match against an especially tough opponent like her and while I might be going into this challenge a little nervous, I’m definitely not afraid. There’s very little I’m afraid of after I went through my life-altering experience nearly a year ago that has since led me to this positive point in my career.
She wants to go around and portray the mega-narcissistic evil queen? Great. Of course, I hope she’s smart enough to realize that people that have gone this route always collapse and stumble eventually, I’m sure if you ask KING Matt Shields all about that, he’ll blow a gasket and not even answer your question. Caroline is going to suffer that fate at some point. I’m not saying I’m going to be the one to bring her to that fate, but I can guess where her mental state could very well be coming into this match. She’s desperate considering what she had to go through. I would fathom to guess that the woman could be damn near close to losing her mind after she had something that meant so much to her “robbed” from her and I use that term from her perspective and not mine, mind you. I guess in some ways, I can have SOME empathy for her, but definitely not sympathy. While I don’t condone what Blazer did, considering the way she acts and carries herself and the way she is willing to allow her attitude and her nonsense to overshadow her actual wrestling abilities, it’s very hard for ANYONE to feel sorry for her and hell, I’ll admit that I don’t feel sorry for her at all. Maybe it’s because I’ve been through worse situations in my career, maybe because in GCW I’ve been dealing with this self-important martyr of a Global Champion that has made things more of an annoyance than anything really, or maybe it’s because in my heart, it’s impossible for me to have sympathy for people like Caroline… but that sympathy just can’t be there. She’s got two choices: she can let this bring her down and let this all fall on top of her and she can ultimately lose her mind, or she can own up to what she’s done and finally allow her wrestling abilities to shine through.
Okay, for her, that’s what I would WANT because I feel she’d be better off for it, but I’ve got to live in reality. She’s not going to own up to anything and that’s just fine, that’s her choice but this weekend, I’ll be there to teach her that for every choice, there’s a consequence. Putting people like her in her place is not only something that I am committed to doing every now and then, but also is something that I take a great deal of pride in whenever it happens because I know that at least for the moment, things in this business are all the better for it. I’m expecting her to come out of the gate desperate after what took place at One Night Only. I’m not going to run down every possible feeling or action she’s going to come to Glory with and I’m not going to speculate and predict how she’s going to be when that bell rings, but I’ll tell you this much. I’ll be ready! I’ll take on the adversity in front of me. The adversity I’m dealing with of course, is meeting the fire head on so soon in my Redemption career, personified by Caroline. I’ll make my statement. I’ll overcome those odds. I’ll cement myself as a definite contender to the New Generation Championship when it’s all said and done because I know deep in my heart, what I’m capable of now. There was a point in my career where I would always be skittish and nervous when matches like this would come up, but that Jazmyn left the building a long time ago! This weekend, I’ll pull through! She may not believe I am capable of beating her, but I know I am and at the end of the day, that’s all that matters!
Time to meet adversity in the eye… and knock it down once again!
Jazmyn smirks briefly, exuding some of her confidence that she has grown and developed over the last year of her career. She takes a deep breath before she stands up and continues her walk as the cameras fade out.
