Post by Alex Jones on Sept 17, 2017 5:44:24 GMT -5
Alex steps onto screen pacing back and forth, his long hair tied back as his arms fold across his chest.
“You know since signing my Redemption contract I've wondered just what is my place in this company? In others I knew where I stood, I knew the plan, the path, the ladder. I have been content with starting at the bottom. Content with proving myself. And for the most part I have. I did it in Honors first run despite what people believe, I did it in WWH and clawed and pulled my way to the mountaintop.And in Redemption I was ready to do the same. But an issue with Matt Shields and Devlin's business savvy pushed me to the main events sooner than even I expected.”
“Part of me smiled and revelled in it. I loved facing the “best” right away. It continued with other matches and I was confident in my position.so you can imagine my surprise as matches were announced for convergence in Brooklyn and my name was absent. I didn't want a title match or main event spot. All I asked for was a chance to go out there and perform, to do what I do better than almost anyone.”
“So the opportunity arose for me to do something special.”
“Something surprising, unconventional.”
“An open challenge. A night where I will go to the arena and face anyone in the back, anyone signed to a contract. Anyone who wants to face me one on one.”
Alex smiles and shrugs sliding his hands in his pockets.
“See there seems to be a few people out there who believe that I will walk away from challenges, truth is I will always step up to anyone and anything. I always have. I don’t care how big someone is, I don’t care about their reputation which is why I decided on an open challenge. Anyone who’s been in Redemption could come out, it could be someone new, or someone well known.”
“It could be a former world champion, a young up and coming star or even a call up from West Coast Genesis. The door is open and it’s just a matter of who is going to walk through it. And that’s the beauty of it. Whoever decides to accept it, to come out and face me gets time to research and prepare. It could be an old foe or a fresh face. I have no idea and this forces me to stay on my toes. This forces me to pay attention and stay frosty.”
“It’s a chance to challenge myself and others. See the problems in this business arise when you become complacent and comfortable. I don’t want to be comfortable. The minute that happens, the minute you can exhale calmly and appreciate your surroundings is when your guard comes down, where you relax….and you get beaten….”
“It’s the moment where you feel like the world is yours and you have nothing more to learn and in this business. What we do, the vart of professional wrestling there is always something new to learn, a new level to reach, a new glass ceiling to smash through. I hear some of my contemporaries talk about retirement and talk about how there is nothing left for them to accomplish. The truth is the wrestling business is like then wild west."
Alex raises an eyebrow and laughs to himself.
“I’m not going to say I’m a cowboy cause let’s face it, most cowboys in pro wrestling are semi literate morons who can’t find a braincell between them. But if I had to make a comparison I’m like an older gunslinger. I’m still relevant, I’m still a champion and still in my prime. See I want to know when the age of 32 became “old” I want to know when these moronic little douchebags running around at 21 and 22 decided they knew it all and they were somehow the be all end all of pro wrestling. When I was 21 and 22 I was a snot nosed arrogant punk but I was smart enough to know my best years were ahead of me. These new crop of arrogant little pricks are going to come in, win a title too fast, thing they’re hot shit then run into someone way better and not know how to pick themselves up, dust themselves off and become better…”
“See I...well I was always known as the guy who had potential.”
“I had world title runs when I was younger and it almost ruined me, cause when I did get beaten by a veteran who was better and knew how to play the game...it was heartbreaking. It took so much to pick myself up from the ground over and over again, to fight back. To push past everything I went through from becoming a joke in the wrestling world to becoming the Honor champion, the WWH champion and arriving in Redemption. And truth is alot of it was my own doing. Putting my heart and faith into someone that in the end was a lar who broke every single piece of who I was and left it in a pile in the corner….”
“Someone who turned me into everything I hated and despised in this world and who’s influence has ramifications today as some people refuse REFUSE to let the past die and somehow can’t see past their own fucking bullshit…”
“Sometimes, we all need to wake up and grow up and maybe someday these childish idiots will, but I doubt it. So instead I go about my business. I don’t go around claiming nto be unbeatable. On the contrary when I have been beaten I have celebrated the win over me. It should be a big deal when you beat someone like me and when it happens I will shake that persons hand and thank them for the lesson that I have learned. Cause unlike some people I know I can learn new tricks, I know I can look at myself in the mirror and be better than I was yesterday. Be a better man a better wrestler, a better husband and father.”
“That is why I’ll go out there and open the doors, that’s why I continue to challenge myself and seek the best. That’s why people like Jack Tillman and Matt Shields break my fucking heart cause they are kindred spirits. They love the sport of professional wrestling and the code of the warrior but they have become so blinded and jaded about protecting their image and being “unbeatable” that they fail to see the beauty in loss. If you win it’s a great feeling and the pain of a loss should only be subsided by the feeling of education and staying humble. I have never said I was immortal or unbeatable or a god or a king. You people know who and what I am?...”
“A damn good professional wrestler...nothing more...nothing less….and at convergence I look forward to someone...anyone..walking down to that ring and helping me prove it….”
