Post by Jazmyn Rain on Nov 10, 2017 15:28:52 GMT -5
“Purpose”
Date: November 10, 2017
On the eve of her huge GCW match, and two days before her clash in New Orleans with Matt Shields, Jazmyn Rain finds herself in Los Angeles, deeper in thought as the weekend ahead of her creeps closer and closer. She’s still in a good mood after her win over Ruby Lance in Chicago, but she’s not necessarily thinking about it anymore knowing that she has to move forward to her next challenge and Matt Shields, without a shadow of a doubt, represents that challenge. Sitting alone in the balcony of her hotel room, Jazmyn takes some deep breaths and gathers her final thoughts before she begins to express her mind about the match ahead.
Jazmyn Rain: In life and in this business, every single person, and in essence, every single wrestler, has a purpose for being here. I admit, that for much of my life, I had difficulties finding mine. I didn’t live the greatest childhood in the world, but I was able to survive it. My early adulthood saw some struggles, but it hit me like a ton of bricks when I realized that in this life, wrestling was my purpose. It was tough for my closest family members and friends to come to terms with at first, but knowing what I did then, which pales in comparison to what I know now, all I had was some hunch that this was what I was meant to do. So, I broke into this business at a late bloomer age for a professional wrestler and it took me a LONG time to find my purpose in the BUSINESS. I didn’t know what I was supposed to be. Was I just going to be some understudy protege of the person that trained me that was going to amount to little more than the other half of a tag team? Was I going to be someone that was going to make a splash here and there, but never a wave? Hell, I admit that there was a time, at the rock bottom of my career, where I honestly did think my purpose in wrestling was to be a proverbial failure, but I overcame that phase of my career. When I came back, I still had struggles with my own confidence. At first, I thought I was destined to be one of those wrestlers that would win championships, but never “the big one”... and then two years ago, I did…
...when I won the GCW Global Championship…
Jazmyn pauses to smile as she remembers that moment that she proved so many people wrong. But that smile only lasts for a split second, when the realities of her lone world title reign to date set in and that smile gives away to a slightly guilty pout on her face.
Jazmyn Rain: Unfortunately, that run didn’t go as great as I was hoping it would and I was criticized for being a “charity case champion” and it all got to me the day that I was robbed of that title. “Maybe my purpose is just to be a stepping stone for other people” I even thought to myself. So, I went on a journey… one that included a three minute brush with death and taking on my own personal demons… and when that brush with death happened, when that cardiac arrest had me clinically dead for those three minutes, that could have been it for me, but it wasn’t. I was revived, I survived and I overcame some incredible odds to recover. Then that’s when it hit me. My purpose in this business was to take on the evils and tyrants of this business, something which I have prided myself in doing ever since then and I hate to brag, but that’s something that I have done very, very well.
And Matt Shields… people like YOU are exactly part of that purpose…
Jazmyn takes a minute to think about Shields and everything that she knows about him and a look of serious anger begins to form on her face. She takes a deep breath to keep herself calm and collected before she addresses him directly.
Jazmyn Rain: People like YOU, Matt, bring people like me to NGW and by the way, it’s NGW now. I know you hate the whole name change deal, but GET OVER IT and most importantly, get over yourself. You think you’re something special because why? You were the first Redemption World Champion and the longest run at that? Because you went so long before someone beat you for that title? I’m not going to downplay those accomplishments. You’ve always been born and bred to have such dominance in your career. But the way you carried yourself during that reign is what makes me sick. I don’t have an issue with Matthew Shields, the wrestler. But Matthew Shields, the human being? It’s that kind of EVIL that doesn’t belong in this business. You, Matt, during your world title run, were a TYRANT, one that I have taken on so many times before. You think you’re so special just because you’re the longest reigning Redemption champion? You may be great at what you do, Matt, but you’re a dime a dozen to me. How many people in this business go around calling themselves “kings” and “queens” and act like the entire world has to revolve around them? What makes you so different from any of them? From what I observed before I came here, I didn’t notice anything that different aside from what you bring to the table inside the ring.
But seeing you from a distance, while I was doing my part in bringing down a faction named Utopia in GCW, I realized I had to be in NGW, not because of your title, but because the roster was full of people like you and clearly, you have joined up with the worst of the worst of them. For god knows what reason, this company has to be YOUR world and EVERYTHING has to revolve around YOU. Fat chance! I’m not accepting that and neither is anyone else I’m associated. Why do you think I’m not afraid of you? Because I’ve beaten so many LIKE you. “But nobody compares to me, I’m nothing like you’ve faced before”, you’ll say. Why don’t you take some time and learn about my GCW career being the “Guardian Angel” over there? Why don’t you learn about the “Utopia” faction I brought down to end their tyrannical reign over GCW? Why don’t you learn about the Global Champion that’s been a pain in the ass the last few months trying to be a “benevolent queen” that has put my friends in GCW through the ground? My goodness, you two are so much alike, it’s like I’m facing a mirror image of her only with a set of balls instead… well… then again… someone like you could never have a set…
You know why, Matt? Because you’re the biggest coward this company has. You have so many insecurities that you refuse to face, among them being the inability to accept ANYONE other than you being champion. Don’t think I haven’t noticed your recent social media talk about Kayla and the title know. You’d be willing to destroy her, hell maybe even sacrifice her, in order to get that title back. Yet, for all your ability, you have to run away from your weaknesses. For everything you’re capable of, you have to hide behind Kayla, hide behind Jack and treat Coda in the fashion that you do. If you had any true faith in your own abilities, you wouldn’t be such a petulant, selfish jackass like you are. Why should I be afraid of someone who is afraid of himself and his own weaknesses? Now, I admit, there was a point in my life and in my career where I was that way, but the moment that I managed to confront and overcome them, I became an even better wrestler and a person and I’m still growing in both aspects to this day. People like you are right up my ally on whom I protect this business from. The “guardian angel” isn’t just some fancy nickname and you best learn that quick because believe me, if you underestimate me, even for one iota, for whatever reason… your pride and your ego is going to be torn to shreds…
Jazmyn pauses to snap her fingers.
Jazmyn Rain: ...like THAT!
Don’t believe me? Go ahead and find any opponent that has ever underestimated me and hear their story about how they did what I KNOW you’re going to do and how they ended up paying the price for it. Find Caroline O’Hara Burchill, wherever the hell she’s at these days, and ask her about the time she underestimated me to the point where she refused to even acknowledge me by name leading up to the match and where that ended up taking her. Yeah, right out of NGW am I right? You really think that you have every idea in the world who you’re going up against just because you did a little research on me, but you don’t know the whole story. There’s no way you could without having been there for every single second of it. It’s not just wrestling where I’ve dealt with the likes of you, it’s been my entire life also and before, I admit, people like you used to overwhelm me on the regular, but the era of my life where that was the case has long come and gone. I may not win every battle against people like you, even now, but it all makes me stronger and better, even at my “advanced age” of 33.
Our match this Sunday, Shields… it fulfills my very purpose in this business: putting the likes of YOU in their places. You can save your shit talk about how you’re nothing like what I’ve faced before, because that’s the most obvious rebuttal you can ever give me, you can try to label me as a sheep being “lead by an egotistical bastard like Adrien” or however it is you repetitively criticize him when you talk about “his big ego” which by the way, is hilarious considering there’s no bigger ego than yours. But at the end of the day, Sunday, I know I am getting the biggest challenge I’ve faced to date in NGW. Despite what I’ve said, despite my lack of fear of you, I can’t be ignorant of that fact. But is that going to stop me, Matt? If death itself couldn’t, if my harshest critics couldn’t, if the worst enemies I’ve ever made couldn’t, what makes you think you will? Even if you beat me, I have a hunch this is just our first encounter of many going forward. We’ll see each other again after Sunday. You beat me, it’s “expected”, no big deal. But if I beat you? Imagine that… your ego… shattered! One way or another, Sunday night, regardless of how this turns out, you’re not breaking my spirit and you’re not going to stop me from reaching the pinnacle I want to reach in this business!
See you on Sunday, asshole!
Jazmyn winks, showing further bravery and moxie against the biggest challenge of her NGW career to date. She continues to look over the balcony of her hotel room and ruminate about her huge weekend ahead in NGW & GCW both before the camera is shut off for the time being.
Date: November 10, 2017
On the eve of her huge GCW match, and two days before her clash in New Orleans with Matt Shields, Jazmyn Rain finds herself in Los Angeles, deeper in thought as the weekend ahead of her creeps closer and closer. She’s still in a good mood after her win over Ruby Lance in Chicago, but she’s not necessarily thinking about it anymore knowing that she has to move forward to her next challenge and Matt Shields, without a shadow of a doubt, represents that challenge. Sitting alone in the balcony of her hotel room, Jazmyn takes some deep breaths and gathers her final thoughts before she begins to express her mind about the match ahead.
Jazmyn Rain: In life and in this business, every single person, and in essence, every single wrestler, has a purpose for being here. I admit, that for much of my life, I had difficulties finding mine. I didn’t live the greatest childhood in the world, but I was able to survive it. My early adulthood saw some struggles, but it hit me like a ton of bricks when I realized that in this life, wrestling was my purpose. It was tough for my closest family members and friends to come to terms with at first, but knowing what I did then, which pales in comparison to what I know now, all I had was some hunch that this was what I was meant to do. So, I broke into this business at a late bloomer age for a professional wrestler and it took me a LONG time to find my purpose in the BUSINESS. I didn’t know what I was supposed to be. Was I just going to be some understudy protege of the person that trained me that was going to amount to little more than the other half of a tag team? Was I going to be someone that was going to make a splash here and there, but never a wave? Hell, I admit that there was a time, at the rock bottom of my career, where I honestly did think my purpose in wrestling was to be a proverbial failure, but I overcame that phase of my career. When I came back, I still had struggles with my own confidence. At first, I thought I was destined to be one of those wrestlers that would win championships, but never “the big one”... and then two years ago, I did…
...when I won the GCW Global Championship…
Jazmyn pauses to smile as she remembers that moment that she proved so many people wrong. But that smile only lasts for a split second, when the realities of her lone world title reign to date set in and that smile gives away to a slightly guilty pout on her face.
Jazmyn Rain: Unfortunately, that run didn’t go as great as I was hoping it would and I was criticized for being a “charity case champion” and it all got to me the day that I was robbed of that title. “Maybe my purpose is just to be a stepping stone for other people” I even thought to myself. So, I went on a journey… one that included a three minute brush with death and taking on my own personal demons… and when that brush with death happened, when that cardiac arrest had me clinically dead for those three minutes, that could have been it for me, but it wasn’t. I was revived, I survived and I overcame some incredible odds to recover. Then that’s when it hit me. My purpose in this business was to take on the evils and tyrants of this business, something which I have prided myself in doing ever since then and I hate to brag, but that’s something that I have done very, very well.
And Matt Shields… people like YOU are exactly part of that purpose…
Jazmyn takes a minute to think about Shields and everything that she knows about him and a look of serious anger begins to form on her face. She takes a deep breath to keep herself calm and collected before she addresses him directly.
Jazmyn Rain: People like YOU, Matt, bring people like me to NGW and by the way, it’s NGW now. I know you hate the whole name change deal, but GET OVER IT and most importantly, get over yourself. You think you’re something special because why? You were the first Redemption World Champion and the longest run at that? Because you went so long before someone beat you for that title? I’m not going to downplay those accomplishments. You’ve always been born and bred to have such dominance in your career. But the way you carried yourself during that reign is what makes me sick. I don’t have an issue with Matthew Shields, the wrestler. But Matthew Shields, the human being? It’s that kind of EVIL that doesn’t belong in this business. You, Matt, during your world title run, were a TYRANT, one that I have taken on so many times before. You think you’re so special just because you’re the longest reigning Redemption champion? You may be great at what you do, Matt, but you’re a dime a dozen to me. How many people in this business go around calling themselves “kings” and “queens” and act like the entire world has to revolve around them? What makes you so different from any of them? From what I observed before I came here, I didn’t notice anything that different aside from what you bring to the table inside the ring.
But seeing you from a distance, while I was doing my part in bringing down a faction named Utopia in GCW, I realized I had to be in NGW, not because of your title, but because the roster was full of people like you and clearly, you have joined up with the worst of the worst of them. For god knows what reason, this company has to be YOUR world and EVERYTHING has to revolve around YOU. Fat chance! I’m not accepting that and neither is anyone else I’m associated. Why do you think I’m not afraid of you? Because I’ve beaten so many LIKE you. “But nobody compares to me, I’m nothing like you’ve faced before”, you’ll say. Why don’t you take some time and learn about my GCW career being the “Guardian Angel” over there? Why don’t you learn about the “Utopia” faction I brought down to end their tyrannical reign over GCW? Why don’t you learn about the Global Champion that’s been a pain in the ass the last few months trying to be a “benevolent queen” that has put my friends in GCW through the ground? My goodness, you two are so much alike, it’s like I’m facing a mirror image of her only with a set of balls instead… well… then again… someone like you could never have a set…
You know why, Matt? Because you’re the biggest coward this company has. You have so many insecurities that you refuse to face, among them being the inability to accept ANYONE other than you being champion. Don’t think I haven’t noticed your recent social media talk about Kayla and the title know. You’d be willing to destroy her, hell maybe even sacrifice her, in order to get that title back. Yet, for all your ability, you have to run away from your weaknesses. For everything you’re capable of, you have to hide behind Kayla, hide behind Jack and treat Coda in the fashion that you do. If you had any true faith in your own abilities, you wouldn’t be such a petulant, selfish jackass like you are. Why should I be afraid of someone who is afraid of himself and his own weaknesses? Now, I admit, there was a point in my life and in my career where I was that way, but the moment that I managed to confront and overcome them, I became an even better wrestler and a person and I’m still growing in both aspects to this day. People like you are right up my ally on whom I protect this business from. The “guardian angel” isn’t just some fancy nickname and you best learn that quick because believe me, if you underestimate me, even for one iota, for whatever reason… your pride and your ego is going to be torn to shreds…
Jazmyn pauses to snap her fingers.
Jazmyn Rain: ...like THAT!
Don’t believe me? Go ahead and find any opponent that has ever underestimated me and hear their story about how they did what I KNOW you’re going to do and how they ended up paying the price for it. Find Caroline O’Hara Burchill, wherever the hell she’s at these days, and ask her about the time she underestimated me to the point where she refused to even acknowledge me by name leading up to the match and where that ended up taking her. Yeah, right out of NGW am I right? You really think that you have every idea in the world who you’re going up against just because you did a little research on me, but you don’t know the whole story. There’s no way you could without having been there for every single second of it. It’s not just wrestling where I’ve dealt with the likes of you, it’s been my entire life also and before, I admit, people like you used to overwhelm me on the regular, but the era of my life where that was the case has long come and gone. I may not win every battle against people like you, even now, but it all makes me stronger and better, even at my “advanced age” of 33.
Our match this Sunday, Shields… it fulfills my very purpose in this business: putting the likes of YOU in their places. You can save your shit talk about how you’re nothing like what I’ve faced before, because that’s the most obvious rebuttal you can ever give me, you can try to label me as a sheep being “lead by an egotistical bastard like Adrien” or however it is you repetitively criticize him when you talk about “his big ego” which by the way, is hilarious considering there’s no bigger ego than yours. But at the end of the day, Sunday, I know I am getting the biggest challenge I’ve faced to date in NGW. Despite what I’ve said, despite my lack of fear of you, I can’t be ignorant of that fact. But is that going to stop me, Matt? If death itself couldn’t, if my harshest critics couldn’t, if the worst enemies I’ve ever made couldn’t, what makes you think you will? Even if you beat me, I have a hunch this is just our first encounter of many going forward. We’ll see each other again after Sunday. You beat me, it’s “expected”, no big deal. But if I beat you? Imagine that… your ego… shattered! One way or another, Sunday night, regardless of how this turns out, you’re not breaking my spirit and you’re not going to stop me from reaching the pinnacle I want to reach in this business!
See you on Sunday, asshole!
Jazmyn winks, showing further bravery and moxie against the biggest challenge of her NGW career to date. She continues to look over the balcony of her hotel room and ruminate about her huge weekend ahead in NGW & GCW both before the camera is shut off for the time being.
