Post by Jazmyn Rain on Oct 15, 2017 21:56:18 GMT -5
Primed To Inspire
Date: October 15, 2017
Jazmyn Rain is deep in thought as she has a moment to herself in the vicinity of Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. There’s no question that she is taking the mountain that she has to climb tonight very seriously, just like she has always done so in her entire career whenever an opportunity like this comes up. She’s not quite tasting what the feeling of being the NGW Five Lakes Champion is like just yet, but deep down, although she isn’t expressing it at this point, she already knows how much it means to her. Taking a small breath, the Charlotte native gathers her final thoughts before she expresses her mind once more about the challenge she has to face at Dissension.
Jazmyn Rain: Once more, it’s time for a little bit of a story. Actually, I’m going to tell two stories. I’m telling these stories because the one that I’m about to be part of tonight is giving me some very familiar feelings. So, here’s story number one. Almost six years ago, I was making the transition from a tag team competitor to a singles competitor. I admit, I was a bit of a goofball back then that didn’t take things too seriously and I will even be the first to admit to you that I was taking things for granted. After all, it WAS my rookie year at the time and I was just happy to make it in the mainstream wrestling business at that point. But what woke me up was facing a secondary championship holder one on one. In a non-title match, the champion wasn’t taking me seriously. He figured that I was just a joke because of my lack of singles experience and my then propensity to have an overreliance of others. I beat him, and weeks later, I had to face him again, this time with the title on the line, and this time, in a triple threat match with someone who had brought me a lot of pain and frustration in the proceeding months. Going back to my previous theme of “answering critics”, I can tell you the five things that they said about me going into that match.
“How can anyone take her seriously when she’s never had to rely on herself?”
“She barely has any singles experience on top of being a 27-year-old rookie.”
“Her win over the champion was a fluke that has no business happening again”
“Everyone in the locker room thinks she’s a joke.”
“She’s about to be exposed as the joke that she really is.”
So I went into that triple threat, odds against me all things considered, and I went into that triple threat title match with the one thing in my mind being… and I’m quoting myself from that time here… “I’m going to take all this criticism and I’m going to shove it up their asses”. And… well… that’s what I did!
Jazmyn pauses to smile and chuckle for a bit before she continues.
Jazmyn Rain: I won my first singles championship on that night and holy crap, the feeling was amazing. Fast forward to November 25, 2015. Denver, Colorado. A nice little pay-per-view fittingly called Survival of the Fittest. I had a chance at the GCW Global Championship against two fantastic wrestlers but there were so many problems going into that match, as far as I’m concerned. The champion? She had my number. She choked me out a few months prior and made an example out of me, robbing me of so much of my pride. The other challenger? Not only was he the former champion, but he was also my roadblock. He was ALWAYS in my way of getting what I desire and he had already been a three-time Global Champion by that point? We’re having fun with these lists right? So sod it, what’s one more? The five criticisms that came my way going into that Global title match on November 25, 2015?
“She doesn’t deserve this championship match because in all of her GCW main event opportunities to date, she has never come up clutch and there’s no reason to think she will this time.”
“She’s had seven world championship matches in her career up to this point, and she’s failed in every single one of them”
“She’s only getting the title shot because she got involved in business she didn’t belong in”
“Jazmyn needs to accept the fact that she’s just one of those wrestlers that will hoard a bunch of second-tier championships but will ultimately never win the big one.”
“Jazmyn is not a star. Only stars win world championships and she just doesn’t have “it” to be the face of an organization”
Okay, you all know where this is going. Ultimately, I proved all of that criticism DEAD WRONG and on that night, I won my first and only world championship to date. There’s no need for me to go over those five criticisms from my makeshift list again as it pertains to Dissension like I did the last time I spoke. But I’ll say this much. Trixie and Blazer aren’t above criticism. I’m not saying I am going to sit here and criticize them. They are both great athletes with much to their names and all. I’m just saying that I feel all the criticism and scrutiny is on me. Yes, I am quite the emotional person, I admit that and I also know that at times, it can present itself to be a weakness that costs me the occasional match. But what about Trixie? Have you all heard what has come out of her mouth since she came up with the whole “list”?
Sorry Trixie, you’re awesome and all, but I’ve never sugar coated anything and I am not going to start now.
The fact is girl, you’ve got an anger problem. Hearing your words from before, the first thing you say is that you blamed Jack Tillman for getting in the way… which resulted in you not winning the Five Lakes Championship at Convergence. Pop quiz, hot shot. Does a true champion at heart put blame on other people for their shortcomings? Listen Trixie, I get that you were upset about Convergence, but you’re better than that and you know it. I didn’t blame anyone else when I lost in my debut, nor did I make excuses with the last Dissension when Adrien and I didn’t win the tag team match. Heck, you couldn’t even take full responsibility for coming up short at Convergence. “I lost because of Caroline.” No Trixie, you lost because it wasn’t your night, pure and simple. In that situation, the best wrestler wins and sorry Trixie, you weren’t the best that night. That was Blazer… as much as a piece of me isn’t a fan of admitting it because I can’t get over the fact that he won the title the way he did, but that’s something I’ll likely touch on again later.
But all in all, full props to you for being able to buckle up that seat belt again and getting that victory over Caroline O’Hara Burchill, crossing her name off of that list like you so desperately wanted her to. I completely understand how you feel about being impatient, wanting to complete that mission of being Five Lakes Champion. How long have I been waiting to regain a world championship in another company that was cruelly robbed from me in St. Louis? Yeah, exactly. I get how maddening it can be, but I have never, not once, blamed anyone else. Even losing a recent Global title challenge in August due to a referee error didn’t push me to that point. So say that I beat you, or you beat me and Blazer beats you. Who are you going to blame? Are you going to put the blame on me for “taking it away from you”? Or are you going to blame me for “taking so much out of you” that you weren’t in prime shame to beat Blazer? Responsibility… Trixie… is one intangible of a champion. Time for you, as great of a wrestler as you are, to take that responsibility and hold yourself accountable, win or lose.
But… I’m afraid Trixie isn’t the only one showing a lack of self-accountability. That goes to…
Jazmyn pauses to sigh.
Jazmyn Rain: Jew Blazer… piggy backing a little off of what Trixie is saying, she’s right to a degree. You don’t necessarily promote the title, though you have had a couple of solid defenses, I will give you that. But, to add on to it, I don’t like your social media antics at all. I honestly didn’t find your “Jew Generation Champion” joke to be funny when that title was still the Redemption New Generation championship. It really makes me question your heart and desire when you make jokes like that because… maybe I’m reading too much into things, I admit I have a tendency to do that on occasion… it just seems to me that sometimes, you take that title for granted. Maybe it’s because your brand of humor isn’t necessarily my cup of tea. Maybe it’s because our wrestling backgrounds are so different. Whatever the case may be, as much as I respect you as a wrestler, I doubt we could be friends because our personalities clash so much. Yeah, you probably think that I’m someone that needs to get over herself, don’t you?
I know I know, I’ve beaten the way you won the title to death that way, but you honestly have the nerve to sit there and say that I will never be put into the same position that you were in when you did what you did? Hold on a second… why are you STILL defending what you did? You know it was wrong. I think you’ve even shamelessly admitted it on an occasion or two. Yeah, your title defenses at least sully things a little, but that’s not going to take away that fact. And secondly, I HAVE been in that position before, MANY times. I got a world championship that meant the world from me basically STOLEN because someone I had romantic feelings for at the time decided to betray me and sell himself out to my arch enemy for a night. How could I not know what it feels like to lose a title match in nefarious fashion? Six months later, I faced the son of a bitch again a month after he had lost the title himself. Did I challenge him to a match right after such an ego-bruising moment? No. I did it the old fashioned way. I challenged him to a match face to face, two weeks later, we did battle, and in my first match as the Guardian Angel, I overcame my demon, slayed the dragon and got my revenge… WITHOUT resorting to any of that.
In other words, not only HAVE I been in that same position, I handled it BETTER than how you handled yours.
Yes, you’ve defended it with honor and pride, which only makes your actions when you won the title even MORE nefarious because as I’ve said before, there was no reason for it. Giving Caroline a taste of her own medicine makes you little or no better than her. But hey, stretch my feelings a little and make it seem like I’m the one portraying you as a bad person. I really DON’T think you’re a bad person. I just think that what you did was wrong. One wrong thing doesn’t make a person bad. But gosh… I think I’m starting to get a headache. Clearly, you’re going to continue to be unapologetic. Fine. I can sympathize with being criticised as a charity case, and not once did I ever intend to imply that you were one. I’ll give it to you. You HAVE worked hard to get to where you are. I just wish you didn’t take a shortcut at the final step, but that’s okay. After tonight, it’s not going to matter. I’m going to climb that mountain and I’m going to give NGW a Five Lakes Champion to be proud of… not that you aren’t… or that you can’t be… I think your defenses have proven the contrary… but my journey to the top of the mountain is yet another example of me getting there without taking such a shortcut.
Two wins in one night? Great. Let’s do this!
Let’s make history and overcome those odds one last time!
One more inspiration… for the fans that inspire me! I’m primed to become the NGW Five Lakes Champion!
Jazmyn takes one final deep breath, before she shuts off the camera to focus on her huge night ahead.
Date: October 15, 2017
Jazmyn Rain is deep in thought as she has a moment to herself in the vicinity of Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. There’s no question that she is taking the mountain that she has to climb tonight very seriously, just like she has always done so in her entire career whenever an opportunity like this comes up. She’s not quite tasting what the feeling of being the NGW Five Lakes Champion is like just yet, but deep down, although she isn’t expressing it at this point, she already knows how much it means to her. Taking a small breath, the Charlotte native gathers her final thoughts before she expresses her mind once more about the challenge she has to face at Dissension.
Jazmyn Rain: Once more, it’s time for a little bit of a story. Actually, I’m going to tell two stories. I’m telling these stories because the one that I’m about to be part of tonight is giving me some very familiar feelings. So, here’s story number one. Almost six years ago, I was making the transition from a tag team competitor to a singles competitor. I admit, I was a bit of a goofball back then that didn’t take things too seriously and I will even be the first to admit to you that I was taking things for granted. After all, it WAS my rookie year at the time and I was just happy to make it in the mainstream wrestling business at that point. But what woke me up was facing a secondary championship holder one on one. In a non-title match, the champion wasn’t taking me seriously. He figured that I was just a joke because of my lack of singles experience and my then propensity to have an overreliance of others. I beat him, and weeks later, I had to face him again, this time with the title on the line, and this time, in a triple threat match with someone who had brought me a lot of pain and frustration in the proceeding months. Going back to my previous theme of “answering critics”, I can tell you the five things that they said about me going into that match.
“How can anyone take her seriously when she’s never had to rely on herself?”
“She barely has any singles experience on top of being a 27-year-old rookie.”
“Her win over the champion was a fluke that has no business happening again”
“Everyone in the locker room thinks she’s a joke.”
“She’s about to be exposed as the joke that she really is.”
So I went into that triple threat, odds against me all things considered, and I went into that triple threat title match with the one thing in my mind being… and I’m quoting myself from that time here… “I’m going to take all this criticism and I’m going to shove it up their asses”. And… well… that’s what I did!
Jazmyn pauses to smile and chuckle for a bit before she continues.
Jazmyn Rain: I won my first singles championship on that night and holy crap, the feeling was amazing. Fast forward to November 25, 2015. Denver, Colorado. A nice little pay-per-view fittingly called Survival of the Fittest. I had a chance at the GCW Global Championship against two fantastic wrestlers but there were so many problems going into that match, as far as I’m concerned. The champion? She had my number. She choked me out a few months prior and made an example out of me, robbing me of so much of my pride. The other challenger? Not only was he the former champion, but he was also my roadblock. He was ALWAYS in my way of getting what I desire and he had already been a three-time Global Champion by that point? We’re having fun with these lists right? So sod it, what’s one more? The five criticisms that came my way going into that Global title match on November 25, 2015?
“She doesn’t deserve this championship match because in all of her GCW main event opportunities to date, she has never come up clutch and there’s no reason to think she will this time.”
“She’s had seven world championship matches in her career up to this point, and she’s failed in every single one of them”
“She’s only getting the title shot because she got involved in business she didn’t belong in”
“Jazmyn needs to accept the fact that she’s just one of those wrestlers that will hoard a bunch of second-tier championships but will ultimately never win the big one.”
“Jazmyn is not a star. Only stars win world championships and she just doesn’t have “it” to be the face of an organization”
Okay, you all know where this is going. Ultimately, I proved all of that criticism DEAD WRONG and on that night, I won my first and only world championship to date. There’s no need for me to go over those five criticisms from my makeshift list again as it pertains to Dissension like I did the last time I spoke. But I’ll say this much. Trixie and Blazer aren’t above criticism. I’m not saying I am going to sit here and criticize them. They are both great athletes with much to their names and all. I’m just saying that I feel all the criticism and scrutiny is on me. Yes, I am quite the emotional person, I admit that and I also know that at times, it can present itself to be a weakness that costs me the occasional match. But what about Trixie? Have you all heard what has come out of her mouth since she came up with the whole “list”?
Sorry Trixie, you’re awesome and all, but I’ve never sugar coated anything and I am not going to start now.
The fact is girl, you’ve got an anger problem. Hearing your words from before, the first thing you say is that you blamed Jack Tillman for getting in the way… which resulted in you not winning the Five Lakes Championship at Convergence. Pop quiz, hot shot. Does a true champion at heart put blame on other people for their shortcomings? Listen Trixie, I get that you were upset about Convergence, but you’re better than that and you know it. I didn’t blame anyone else when I lost in my debut, nor did I make excuses with the last Dissension when Adrien and I didn’t win the tag team match. Heck, you couldn’t even take full responsibility for coming up short at Convergence. “I lost because of Caroline.” No Trixie, you lost because it wasn’t your night, pure and simple. In that situation, the best wrestler wins and sorry Trixie, you weren’t the best that night. That was Blazer… as much as a piece of me isn’t a fan of admitting it because I can’t get over the fact that he won the title the way he did, but that’s something I’ll likely touch on again later.
But all in all, full props to you for being able to buckle up that seat belt again and getting that victory over Caroline O’Hara Burchill, crossing her name off of that list like you so desperately wanted her to. I completely understand how you feel about being impatient, wanting to complete that mission of being Five Lakes Champion. How long have I been waiting to regain a world championship in another company that was cruelly robbed from me in St. Louis? Yeah, exactly. I get how maddening it can be, but I have never, not once, blamed anyone else. Even losing a recent Global title challenge in August due to a referee error didn’t push me to that point. So say that I beat you, or you beat me and Blazer beats you. Who are you going to blame? Are you going to put the blame on me for “taking it away from you”? Or are you going to blame me for “taking so much out of you” that you weren’t in prime shame to beat Blazer? Responsibility… Trixie… is one intangible of a champion. Time for you, as great of a wrestler as you are, to take that responsibility and hold yourself accountable, win or lose.
But… I’m afraid Trixie isn’t the only one showing a lack of self-accountability. That goes to…
Jazmyn pauses to sigh.
Jazmyn Rain: Jew Blazer… piggy backing a little off of what Trixie is saying, she’s right to a degree. You don’t necessarily promote the title, though you have had a couple of solid defenses, I will give you that. But, to add on to it, I don’t like your social media antics at all. I honestly didn’t find your “Jew Generation Champion” joke to be funny when that title was still the Redemption New Generation championship. It really makes me question your heart and desire when you make jokes like that because… maybe I’m reading too much into things, I admit I have a tendency to do that on occasion… it just seems to me that sometimes, you take that title for granted. Maybe it’s because your brand of humor isn’t necessarily my cup of tea. Maybe it’s because our wrestling backgrounds are so different. Whatever the case may be, as much as I respect you as a wrestler, I doubt we could be friends because our personalities clash so much. Yeah, you probably think that I’m someone that needs to get over herself, don’t you?
I know I know, I’ve beaten the way you won the title to death that way, but you honestly have the nerve to sit there and say that I will never be put into the same position that you were in when you did what you did? Hold on a second… why are you STILL defending what you did? You know it was wrong. I think you’ve even shamelessly admitted it on an occasion or two. Yeah, your title defenses at least sully things a little, but that’s not going to take away that fact. And secondly, I HAVE been in that position before, MANY times. I got a world championship that meant the world from me basically STOLEN because someone I had romantic feelings for at the time decided to betray me and sell himself out to my arch enemy for a night. How could I not know what it feels like to lose a title match in nefarious fashion? Six months later, I faced the son of a bitch again a month after he had lost the title himself. Did I challenge him to a match right after such an ego-bruising moment? No. I did it the old fashioned way. I challenged him to a match face to face, two weeks later, we did battle, and in my first match as the Guardian Angel, I overcame my demon, slayed the dragon and got my revenge… WITHOUT resorting to any of that.
In other words, not only HAVE I been in that same position, I handled it BETTER than how you handled yours.
Yes, you’ve defended it with honor and pride, which only makes your actions when you won the title even MORE nefarious because as I’ve said before, there was no reason for it. Giving Caroline a taste of her own medicine makes you little or no better than her. But hey, stretch my feelings a little and make it seem like I’m the one portraying you as a bad person. I really DON’T think you’re a bad person. I just think that what you did was wrong. One wrong thing doesn’t make a person bad. But gosh… I think I’m starting to get a headache. Clearly, you’re going to continue to be unapologetic. Fine. I can sympathize with being criticised as a charity case, and not once did I ever intend to imply that you were one. I’ll give it to you. You HAVE worked hard to get to where you are. I just wish you didn’t take a shortcut at the final step, but that’s okay. After tonight, it’s not going to matter. I’m going to climb that mountain and I’m going to give NGW a Five Lakes Champion to be proud of… not that you aren’t… or that you can’t be… I think your defenses have proven the contrary… but my journey to the top of the mountain is yet another example of me getting there without taking such a shortcut.
Two wins in one night? Great. Let’s do this!
Let’s make history and overcome those odds one last time!
One more inspiration… for the fans that inspire me! I’m primed to become the NGW Five Lakes Champion!
Jazmyn takes one final deep breath, before she shuts off the camera to focus on her huge night ahead.
