'The Jew Blazer' Josh Goldstein- Getting Back Up

“Are you the Jew Blazer?” The teacher asks. Josh stood there in the hallway of the Elementary school in his full sparkly blue, red, and white gear complete with a large Star of David on the center of his chest. He was wearing his sparkly blue jacket over it that had ‘JB’ on the breast pocket.

“I…I mean… if I told you ‘No’ would you believe me? Like, statistically what do you think are the odds that I’m not the Jewish-themed Pro Wrestler here to speak to your class and…I dunno…a flamboyant Hebrew Janitor.” Josh answers. He could be sassy if he didn’t have his coffee. Josh was returning to his normal schedule of doing inspirational appearances at schools. Johnny had taken over several of his previously scheduled appearances with…absolutely terrible results.

“So you ARE The Jew Blazer.” The teacher asks.

The silence hangs heavy in the air for a few moments like an eggy fart in a humid room.

“…………..yeah.”

Josh enters the classroom. This was one that Johnny had already visited before and NGW had booked this event as an ‘apology’ for the previous actions of one of their contracted wrestlers. One kid in the back gets a little upset when he sees the Jew Blazer as he assumed when he heard that a Wrestler would be speaking to the class that he’d be learning a new swear word again.

“Hey kids! It’s so great to be here talking to you all! I understand the previous speaker here spoke to you guys about bullying. What did he have to say on the subject?” Josh asks . A student raises their hand and Josh calls on them.

“Mister Johnny said it was easier than most people thought to blame a crime on someone but if that didn’t work to just kick ‘em in the di-“

“OKAY! Well. Today we’re actually going to be talking about what a positive mental outlook can do for you.” Josh says.

“Sometimes we all get sad….but a positive mental outlook can make even the darkest clouds disap-“

“Mr. Blazer?” One of the children says, interrupting him.

“Yes? What is it?” Josh asks.

“I watch NGW and…well you seemed REAL sad for a little bit after you lost the Five Lakes Title. It made me sad, too. ” The student says.

“I…” Josh says. He takes a moment to think before choosing his words carefully.

“Hey buddy… we all get sad sometimes. Sometimes we don’t deal with it in healthy ways. Sometimes something so bad happens that you think you’re never going to feel better but it will ALWAYS get better. I promise you. As for me… I almost let how I fell define me. Now I’m choosing to be defined by how I got back up.” Josh says.
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“If I had known that winning the New Gen….later the Five Lakes Title would’ve had me labelled as a fluke and a con artist… I would still be using that Rags to Riches Briefcase to carry my lunch in.” Josh says. It’s a pretty bold statement to start a promo. We are in the Blazecave.

“I forgave Jazmyn for everything she said and Lord knows I said some pretty mean stuff too, but I’m not gonna lie that she really got to me. Every time she pointed out the ‘shady’ way I won the New Gen title I certainly didn’t feel like a Superhero anymore. I didn’t even feel like much of a man. I now have an opportunity to prove myself wrong. To prove I really am worth a damn. Jack Tillman and his manager Chris Constantine worked so hard to drag my reputation through the mud and take away everything that was good about my title reign and honestly? If I can’t pull this off they pretty much succeeded. I’ll have to move on knowing that I failed. I’ll live. Maybe it will even make me better… but I’ll have to live knowing my first ever singles title reign was a joke. I’ll move on, but I’d rather not have to. In a perfect world, I’d have the tag title on one shoulder and the Five Lakes on the other and Jack Tillman would realize that all of that talk of being REAL WRASSLER YOU GUYS made him look like King Schmuck of Schmendrick Mountain.” Josh says.

“I mean…did you think I had forgotten that as part of the winning team at Warfare that I have a title shot lined up for me sometime in the future?” Josh asks, quirking an eyebrow.

“Now I’m back with a new and improved Radicalliance but this isn’t me going back to square one. On the contrary Ronnie, Kaylee, and I wanted to do this tag team under the ‘Freebird’ rules so we’d be able to pursue singles gold if we needed to while still being able to pursue and eventually defend tag gold. My promise for 2018 is that my name is going to be used in the same sentence as the words ‘Potential NGW World Championship Contender’. Maybe those goals don’t sound too lofty to you, but none of YOU are skinny Jewish guys from Long Island whose main encouragement during training was being told ‘at least you have that accounting degree to fall back on’. Breaking up the Radicalliance was never part of the plan. Ronnie got hurt and Kaylee was hurt and I felt I owed it to them to keep going but even as a tag team we had our sites on being something more without ever breaking the band up. I dream of one day facing my brother Ronnie or my lovely fiancé Kaylee one-on-one with a singles title on the line. I want to prove to them that their faith in me when they were gone was not misplaced and I became every bit the person they pushed me to be. Kaylee and Ronnie never gave up on me when I had given up on myself. I can never repay them for that in a million lifetimes. They and The Guardians saved The Jew Blazer when my own biological father abandoned me because he couldn’t make a dollar off of his name.” Josh says.

“So now I potentially step into the ring with a fellow Guardian, a former Horseman, a new Horseman, and a guy who drank me under the table once if I’m remembering correctly and honestly I might not be because HOLY MATZO BALLS was I drunk. Jazmyn is capable and more than deserving of her shot but I have something to prove. I’m sure she will agree that the title belongs around the waist of a Guardian no matter what. I’m gonna do everything in my power to insure that waist is mine. The fact that gets lost in that reign I’m sort of embarrassed of is that I gave Jack Tillman his first clean loss by pinfall in NGW. I’m willing to bet that I can do it again. You all saw me fall. You all saw me stand up. Now watch as I soar.” Josh says. He smiles for the camera before we cut out.