Post by Jazmyn Rain on Dec 24, 2017 19:50:16 GMT -5
“Looking Back…”
Date: December 23, 2017
Jazmyn Rain is in Orlando, florida and once more, she is in a reflective mood as the year comes right back to her mind. She definitely has a lot to smile about considering that she has definitely had a successful year, but the 33-year-old also realizes that there is still work to be done in 2018. Granted, she’s not looking ahead just yet knowing that there’s still one more match to be fought in 2017 in NGW and another in GCW. Reflecting on how the year has gone, the two-time GCW Global Champion takes a deep, yet confident, breath as she begins to speak her mind.
Jazmyn Rain: I look back on this year with quite a bit of fondness. Holy crap, did I learn so much as the year went along or what? My friends, my family and my fans taught me so much and I have to admit that I wouldn’t have come as far as I did without any of them. When I came into this year, I was driven to once again be the GCW Global Champion to finally rectify a wrong that took place in March of 2016. I didn’t have any designs of the journey going down the way it did, nor did I have any designs of coming to NGW, or Redemption Wrestling as it was known at the time. But, I’ve placed the pieces of the puzzle together and I’ve come to realize that this was the way it was meant to be the entire time. I had to learn, not just from myself. Not just from my fans who always loved me and stood behind me no matter how difficult the obstacle became, not just from my family who has been through a lot over the years because of some of the worst I’ve ever had to suffer as a professional wrestler, and not just from my friends in NGW and GCW, but when I really thought about it… I realized I learned just as much from my ENEMIES as I did anyone else.
Jazmyn pauses and smiles, knowing that such a statement might come as a surprise to other people.
Jazmyn Rain: You have to go back to the start of this year in GCW, a full eight months before I had my first match in an NGW ring. I began the year with a sick, psychopath named Sophie O’Brien doing everything in her power to try to return me to a dark place not just with playing mind games with me, but also HURTING people that were close to me. I was pushed to my limits. I thought my demons and my dark past was going to overwhelm me and haunt me and there was even a brief moment when I lost faith in myself thinking that maybe I just didn’t have what it took to fulfill my purpose in this business and in this life. But what I learned, from dealing with her, is two things: one, you can’t run away from the past, you have to face up to it and two, the opinions of other people don’t matter. How YOU feel about YOU is what matters the most. So taking those two lessons, I overcame her and I can safely say that without those lessons, my 2017 could have fallen off the rails before it even began. My next enemy in GCW was the Utopia faction led by Myra Lynwood. Myra didn’t necessarily hate me, but she wanted to keep me down.
That woman had nothing but jealousy within her. I stopped her from cheating to win the Global title she had just lost two weeks prior and in kind, she stopped my dream of winning the title at Resurrection dead in its tracks. So, I rallied the troops and made the effort to finally get mine and to finally rid GCW of her gang. And that’s precisely what happened. Myra and I had one more match where I finally made her respect me after I submitted her in the center of the ring and that experience taught me that there is no obstacle that will ever be too big to overcome. Considering what she put me through and her role in the title being robbed from me at the start of this whole thing, destiny essentially told me that I wasn’t going to get that title back without going through HER first. Yet, my learning still doesn’t end there. Now my focus was the Global Championship and Aphrodite Noel and that was a trip and a half.
Jazmyn pauses for a few seconds as she begins to reflect on her feud with Aphrodite, a feud that she knows in her heart got extremely personal rather quickly. She sighs, knowing that she’s about to reveal some feelings about the war that she had contained within herself until this point.
Jazmyn Rain: Aphrodite was and is a hell of a wrestler. That’s something I never took away from her. With the way she treated my friends, I was already irked with her and I felt that the best way to win justice for the friends that she put down along the way was to take the title from her. Now I had a different purpose alongside my own redemption to regain the gold. I admit that I’ve done and said some wrong things. I’ve never pretended to be perfect. With her, I had to adjust my way of thinking a little which is what anyone does against any opponent, but my goodness, the HATE… the absolute HATE in her heart that she had for me was unreal. It reached a point where she was talking about how my existence bothered her and yes, I admit that some of her words hurt. The way she wanted to shun me and send me to the back of the line just to get it over with hurt but then I realized that it’s the nature of the beast. She wasn’t the first, nor will she be the last, wrestler to have such a disdain for me. So from dealing with all that, I not only learned how harsh critics can be, but also how to overcome them too.
Put all of those experiences together, and it all led to me regaining that GCW Global Championship, FINALLY, six months ago and it’s these lessons that I need to start applying to my GCW career.
I’ve been on the wrong end of what Matthew Shields has had to say again and again. The way he tries to spin things, the way he tries to martyr himself… it’s all, unfortunately, far too familiar to me. I’ve dealt with crap like that ENOUGH over in GCW, but I guess people that do that sort of crap are prevalent in this business no matter where you go. The Destroyers want to focus 90 percent of their attention on Adrien and shun the rest of us which totally SUCKS, I admit, but ignorance has always been the fall of the enemy. Ask those in GCW that I mentioned and if you’re lucky, they’ll be stand up and actually admit that is true. I sense a jealousy within them, not just toward us in the Guardians, but an even DEEPER jealousy within themselves. But what they have to say, what their ignorance has to say, does it matter? No it doesn’t. They have been quite harsh toward me, both in that ring, and away from it when they focus all of their attention on Adrien. Daisy and her “just there” comment admittedly got to me for a while also considering in a way, that’s what the Destroyers have been saying about me too.
So that being said, I go into this last match in NGW this year against Travis Blake. I don’t know what angle he is going to come at me from with this match. I don’t know if he’s going to take me seriously or if he’s just going to be ignorant and cast me aside like they have, but at the end of the day, I can’t focus on all of that negative. I need to take my lessons I learned throughout this year and in two companies and I need to apply that to this match. I’m fighting this match to gain some momentum heading toward Homecoming and my Five Lakes Championship challenge against Jack Tillman and that is my mission. It’s been a hell of a pleasure introducing myself to the NGW audience this year. But believe me, the best is yet to come. I’ve only just started to fly. Everything I learned this year has made me one heck of a professional wrestler and nobody… from my GCW enemies to the Destroyers and Travis Blake… will ever be able to take that away from me.
Jazmyn takes a deep breath and sighs with confidence as she stands up and shuts off the camera. Once she does so, she continues to reflect on all that she was able to learn in what was an incredible 2017 across the board for her.
Date: December 23, 2017
Jazmyn Rain is in Orlando, florida and once more, she is in a reflective mood as the year comes right back to her mind. She definitely has a lot to smile about considering that she has definitely had a successful year, but the 33-year-old also realizes that there is still work to be done in 2018. Granted, she’s not looking ahead just yet knowing that there’s still one more match to be fought in 2017 in NGW and another in GCW. Reflecting on how the year has gone, the two-time GCW Global Champion takes a deep, yet confident, breath as she begins to speak her mind.
Jazmyn Rain: I look back on this year with quite a bit of fondness. Holy crap, did I learn so much as the year went along or what? My friends, my family and my fans taught me so much and I have to admit that I wouldn’t have come as far as I did without any of them. When I came into this year, I was driven to once again be the GCW Global Champion to finally rectify a wrong that took place in March of 2016. I didn’t have any designs of the journey going down the way it did, nor did I have any designs of coming to NGW, or Redemption Wrestling as it was known at the time. But, I’ve placed the pieces of the puzzle together and I’ve come to realize that this was the way it was meant to be the entire time. I had to learn, not just from myself. Not just from my fans who always loved me and stood behind me no matter how difficult the obstacle became, not just from my family who has been through a lot over the years because of some of the worst I’ve ever had to suffer as a professional wrestler, and not just from my friends in NGW and GCW, but when I really thought about it… I realized I learned just as much from my ENEMIES as I did anyone else.
Jazmyn pauses and smiles, knowing that such a statement might come as a surprise to other people.
Jazmyn Rain: You have to go back to the start of this year in GCW, a full eight months before I had my first match in an NGW ring. I began the year with a sick, psychopath named Sophie O’Brien doing everything in her power to try to return me to a dark place not just with playing mind games with me, but also HURTING people that were close to me. I was pushed to my limits. I thought my demons and my dark past was going to overwhelm me and haunt me and there was even a brief moment when I lost faith in myself thinking that maybe I just didn’t have what it took to fulfill my purpose in this business and in this life. But what I learned, from dealing with her, is two things: one, you can’t run away from the past, you have to face up to it and two, the opinions of other people don’t matter. How YOU feel about YOU is what matters the most. So taking those two lessons, I overcame her and I can safely say that without those lessons, my 2017 could have fallen off the rails before it even began. My next enemy in GCW was the Utopia faction led by Myra Lynwood. Myra didn’t necessarily hate me, but she wanted to keep me down.
That woman had nothing but jealousy within her. I stopped her from cheating to win the Global title she had just lost two weeks prior and in kind, she stopped my dream of winning the title at Resurrection dead in its tracks. So, I rallied the troops and made the effort to finally get mine and to finally rid GCW of her gang. And that’s precisely what happened. Myra and I had one more match where I finally made her respect me after I submitted her in the center of the ring and that experience taught me that there is no obstacle that will ever be too big to overcome. Considering what she put me through and her role in the title being robbed from me at the start of this whole thing, destiny essentially told me that I wasn’t going to get that title back without going through HER first. Yet, my learning still doesn’t end there. Now my focus was the Global Championship and Aphrodite Noel and that was a trip and a half.
Jazmyn pauses for a few seconds as she begins to reflect on her feud with Aphrodite, a feud that she knows in her heart got extremely personal rather quickly. She sighs, knowing that she’s about to reveal some feelings about the war that she had contained within herself until this point.
Jazmyn Rain: Aphrodite was and is a hell of a wrestler. That’s something I never took away from her. With the way she treated my friends, I was already irked with her and I felt that the best way to win justice for the friends that she put down along the way was to take the title from her. Now I had a different purpose alongside my own redemption to regain the gold. I admit that I’ve done and said some wrong things. I’ve never pretended to be perfect. With her, I had to adjust my way of thinking a little which is what anyone does against any opponent, but my goodness, the HATE… the absolute HATE in her heart that she had for me was unreal. It reached a point where she was talking about how my existence bothered her and yes, I admit that some of her words hurt. The way she wanted to shun me and send me to the back of the line just to get it over with hurt but then I realized that it’s the nature of the beast. She wasn’t the first, nor will she be the last, wrestler to have such a disdain for me. So from dealing with all that, I not only learned how harsh critics can be, but also how to overcome them too.
Put all of those experiences together, and it all led to me regaining that GCW Global Championship, FINALLY, six months ago and it’s these lessons that I need to start applying to my GCW career.
I’ve been on the wrong end of what Matthew Shields has had to say again and again. The way he tries to spin things, the way he tries to martyr himself… it’s all, unfortunately, far too familiar to me. I’ve dealt with crap like that ENOUGH over in GCW, but I guess people that do that sort of crap are prevalent in this business no matter where you go. The Destroyers want to focus 90 percent of their attention on Adrien and shun the rest of us which totally SUCKS, I admit, but ignorance has always been the fall of the enemy. Ask those in GCW that I mentioned and if you’re lucky, they’ll be stand up and actually admit that is true. I sense a jealousy within them, not just toward us in the Guardians, but an even DEEPER jealousy within themselves. But what they have to say, what their ignorance has to say, does it matter? No it doesn’t. They have been quite harsh toward me, both in that ring, and away from it when they focus all of their attention on Adrien. Daisy and her “just there” comment admittedly got to me for a while also considering in a way, that’s what the Destroyers have been saying about me too.
So that being said, I go into this last match in NGW this year against Travis Blake. I don’t know what angle he is going to come at me from with this match. I don’t know if he’s going to take me seriously or if he’s just going to be ignorant and cast me aside like they have, but at the end of the day, I can’t focus on all of that negative. I need to take my lessons I learned throughout this year and in two companies and I need to apply that to this match. I’m fighting this match to gain some momentum heading toward Homecoming and my Five Lakes Championship challenge against Jack Tillman and that is my mission. It’s been a hell of a pleasure introducing myself to the NGW audience this year. But believe me, the best is yet to come. I’ve only just started to fly. Everything I learned this year has made me one heck of a professional wrestler and nobody… from my GCW enemies to the Destroyers and Travis Blake… will ever be able to take that away from me.
Jazmyn takes a deep breath and sighs with confidence as she stands up and shuts off the camera. Once she does so, she continues to reflect on all that she was able to learn in what was an incredible 2017 across the board for her.
