Post by Jazmyn Rain on Apr 29, 2018 5:23:33 GMT -5
“The Wrestler I’ve Become”
Date: April 27, 2018
NGW Five Lakes Champion Jazmyn Rain finds herself alone in New Orleans for the time being, sitting on a chair in a bit of an office setting with the Five Lakes Championship on her lap. She’s looking at with a bit of a determined gaze on her face as she remembers what took place at Battle for London. She looks relieved, obviously, but in the grand scheme of things, she’s extremely happy at the moment. Jazmyn thinks about the long journey she had to endure in order to win that very championship, from her first match in NGW all the way to Battle for London and she’s also perhaps, thinking about the future ahead. The Charlotte native slings the title over her shoulder and expresses a bright smile on her face as she begins to speak her mind about her upcoming first title defense in Washington, D.C.
Jazmyn Rain: It’s hard to believe it’s been almost four weeks since I won this championship already, but that’s exactly how long it’s been. It feels like just yesterday when I faced Jack Tillman in London with the Five Lakes Championship on the line and as much as I don’t like the son of a you know what, I never denied that he is without question, one of the most technically gifted young competitors in the business today. It was a tough match with so much going in. There was the question as to whether I was going to get cleared or not in time for the match and then as it turns out, I WASN’T which was devastating to me because it was an unforeseen obstacle I didn’t plan on. But did that stop me? No. I had to go an extra mile. I had to take a risk, even if it meant that my shoulder got separated and I wouldn’t be able to wrestle for a few months. Some will say that I should have waited and had I done so, I’d be CHALLENGING for the title and not defending it this Sunday… well, then again, if it wasn’t for the shenanigans of Homecoming, I’d have been defending and not challenging for the title at Battle for London. But take the risk that I did and I’m going to be honest, that match was hell for me but in the end, I dug deep in that submission match and I made Jack Tillman… well… PASS OUT which by the way, also wasn’t part of the plan. But you know Jack and Chris Constantine…
They’re going to keep on coming…
Jazmyn sighs, partially knowing that whatever words come out of their mouths are not going to be kind to her.
Jazmyn Rain: So is that going to be your excuse, Jack? Are you going to come out of the woodwork saying that you didn’t tap so therefore you should still be the champion? Well, let’s be honest with ourselves here and allow me to say this once more: if it wasn’t for shenanigans at Homecoming, I would have been the Five Lakes Champion going into Battle for London to begin with. Was it karma that you passed out? For those that believe in that sort of thing, most likely but karma wasn’t the reason why I wanted to beat you so badly. I wanted to beat you so I could finally claim the same championship that I coveted since before I ever signed a contract in new Generation Wrestling. I wanted to beat you to finally bring back some of the dignity that was lost during the reign of Caroline “I never had the heart for this company” Birchill. But I am not going to lie, Tillman, I also beat you to shut you the fuck up and maybe, just maybe, that’s exactly what happened. I mean, you haven’t said much since Battle for London. Yes, I know you’re going all around the world and competing everywhere under the sun, but I have also noticed that you have been especially quiet about me!
What happened, Jack?
Did you finally realize that I’m not the “model cast as a wrestler” type that you wanted to portray me as?
Did you finally realize that I AM a true professional wrestler?
Or is it all just some front for you to lurk in the shadows and come out of hiding later on to run it down as a fluke in an excuse filled rant? It doesn’t matter to me, Jack. I know you’re going to speak out sooner rather than later and that’s fine. But the fact of the matter is, you’re not the Five Lakes Champion anymore, I AM! And I didn’t win that championship or go through the entire journey to get there so I could lose it right back to you in my first defense. I hope that in some way, Battle for London caused you to look in the mirror and at least re-evaluate some things. That may have been the case considering what happened at Lest We Forget and that you wound up pinning your own Destroyers faction mate to pull out the final win for your team and yes Jack, that IS impressive but at the end of the day, that’s what’s going to make my first championship defense against you that much MORE impressive in my own right and darn it, I KNOW I am going to beat you again! You can cry about “not tapping out” all you want. You can bitch and moan and try to dismiss it as a fluke and if you want to do that? More power to you!
Battle for London SHOULD HAVE taught you to watch what you say! If it DIDN’T, I’ll be glad to beat that lesson into you when I humble you for good!
Jazmyn pauses to calm down a little as a passionate fury can be seen in her eyes. Clutching the championship briefly, she continues on with her words.
Jazmyn Rain: But that’s not the only lesson that I plan on teaching you on Sunday, Jack. Another that I wanted to teach you? Simple!
Jazmyn Rain is no fluke!
I remember the first time I ever won a singles championship and everything leading up to that. People saw me as a joke. Nobody thought that I even deserved my roster spot in PRW let alone the championship that I won in December of 2011. I admit, at the time, I was eccentric and rather erratic, but I silenced those critics when I held my first championship ever for four months and when I DID lose it, I wasn’t even pinned for it. Curse of the triple threat rule, ya know? But did I let that stop me? No! I bounced right back and went into world title contention the summer of 2012. Then, when I crashed and burned, people called that entire run in PRW a fluke. Yet, I came back and I proved them wrong. When I was GCW Global Champion for the first time, I admit that I was very skittish. I wasn’t all that confident in myself and I was completely overburdened by my first world championship reign. My critics came out in DROVES. My worst enemies were getting the better of me CONSTANTLY. “Charity case”, “fluke” among other things… and then when that first reign ended the way it did, I was crushed because it really felt like that entire reign was all a fluke. Yet…
All of that struggle, Jack…
It’s what made me the wrestler that I have become!
After I was screwed out of that title the way I was, I made every effort possible to be better both personally and professionally and ever since then, I’ve grown leaps and bounds. If you were facing the early 2016 Jazmyn, you’d be facing someone who was never sure of herself, always nervous on the big stage, someone who needed reassurance time and time again and someone who would always question whether or not she deserved what she had. But that’s not the Jazmyn Rain you are facing, Jack. At 33 going on 34, I know that at this point in my career, I’m one of the best professional wrestlers in the world and even what I just said… that took me a LONG time to have the confidence to say and you know what’s funny, Jack? Beating you at Battle for London is what gave me that final push to have the confidence to say that.
Ain’t that funny?
You judged me based on what I tweeted. You judged me based on how I look, like if I’m too beautiful to possibly be a professional wrestler. You judged me based on how I carry myself. You judged me because I’m not wrestling 6 days a week around the world like you do. But what did that get you? Where did that hatred of me, when all I ever did to you was fight you for this championship, lead you, Jack?
At Battle for London, it led you to your downfall, that’s what it did and darn it, this Sunday, I am going to make darn sure that you don’t get this back… especially from me! Because as far as the Five Lakes Championship is concerned, it’s about time the championship had a champion representing it to the best of the ability. This championship has suffered ENOUGH! It deserves better than a champion who gave fuck all about NGW to begin with! It deserves better than a champion that takes shortcut after shortcut to keep the title with them, like you did. If you want to come into this rematch with the same hatred of me from before, or hell, if you come into this with even MORE hatred of me, then I am going to be extremely blunt and honest with you:
You are going to lose again!
And I know this because so many times, I have come across people in this business that for the silliest reasons imaginable, harbored some sort of hatred toward me, often times when I didn’t do a damn thing to them. The guy that ended my first Global title reign… what became of him? Well, even though he was champion, he STILL harbored his hatred of me and because of that, he became, quite honestly, the WORST Global Champion the company has ever had because instead of focusing on what he needed to do with the title, he was focused on running up the score on me and throwing shade at me every chance he got and he would ultimately lose the title with a whimper and not a bang. Shortly after, I faced him, I beat him, got my revenge and he’s hardly in this business anymore.
Obviously, I am not saying that’s going to happen to you. My point is: hatred gets you NOWHERE! Oh and a bit of a secret… when I lost that title to him… I got screwed over. Interference. Betrayal from someone I had feelings for. But I never, EVER used it as an excuse. Instead, I focused on bettering myself in every way possible so I would eventually get revenge on everyone that wronged me that night and that’s exactly what I did before I would go on to win that title a second time. I didn’t harbor hatred toward anyone involved. That being said, sorry Jack, but I could never hate you.
I’ve become too good of a wrestler for that!
Henceforth end the lesson? Do you “get it” now?
Or do you still want to hate me because I’m not what a prototypical wrestler is in your mind?
I won’t say sorry for that, because I don’t need to be THAT. All I need to be in order to beat you and settle the score?
Is to be that wrestler I’ve become!
Jazmyn takes a deep breath, remaining confident afterward. She stands up and leaves the office setting knowing not only that she has every reason to be proud of what she has become, but knowing that her conviction on the wrestler she needs to be far outweighs the hatred and the negativity that has some out of the mouth of her opponent this Sunday.
Date: April 27, 2018
NGW Five Lakes Champion Jazmyn Rain finds herself alone in New Orleans for the time being, sitting on a chair in a bit of an office setting with the Five Lakes Championship on her lap. She’s looking at with a bit of a determined gaze on her face as she remembers what took place at Battle for London. She looks relieved, obviously, but in the grand scheme of things, she’s extremely happy at the moment. Jazmyn thinks about the long journey she had to endure in order to win that very championship, from her first match in NGW all the way to Battle for London and she’s also perhaps, thinking about the future ahead. The Charlotte native slings the title over her shoulder and expresses a bright smile on her face as she begins to speak her mind about her upcoming first title defense in Washington, D.C.
Jazmyn Rain: It’s hard to believe it’s been almost four weeks since I won this championship already, but that’s exactly how long it’s been. It feels like just yesterday when I faced Jack Tillman in London with the Five Lakes Championship on the line and as much as I don’t like the son of a you know what, I never denied that he is without question, one of the most technically gifted young competitors in the business today. It was a tough match with so much going in. There was the question as to whether I was going to get cleared or not in time for the match and then as it turns out, I WASN’T which was devastating to me because it was an unforeseen obstacle I didn’t plan on. But did that stop me? No. I had to go an extra mile. I had to take a risk, even if it meant that my shoulder got separated and I wouldn’t be able to wrestle for a few months. Some will say that I should have waited and had I done so, I’d be CHALLENGING for the title and not defending it this Sunday… well, then again, if it wasn’t for the shenanigans of Homecoming, I’d have been defending and not challenging for the title at Battle for London. But take the risk that I did and I’m going to be honest, that match was hell for me but in the end, I dug deep in that submission match and I made Jack Tillman… well… PASS OUT which by the way, also wasn’t part of the plan. But you know Jack and Chris Constantine…
They’re going to keep on coming…
Jazmyn sighs, partially knowing that whatever words come out of their mouths are not going to be kind to her.
Jazmyn Rain: So is that going to be your excuse, Jack? Are you going to come out of the woodwork saying that you didn’t tap so therefore you should still be the champion? Well, let’s be honest with ourselves here and allow me to say this once more: if it wasn’t for shenanigans at Homecoming, I would have been the Five Lakes Champion going into Battle for London to begin with. Was it karma that you passed out? For those that believe in that sort of thing, most likely but karma wasn’t the reason why I wanted to beat you so badly. I wanted to beat you so I could finally claim the same championship that I coveted since before I ever signed a contract in new Generation Wrestling. I wanted to beat you to finally bring back some of the dignity that was lost during the reign of Caroline “I never had the heart for this company” Birchill. But I am not going to lie, Tillman, I also beat you to shut you the fuck up and maybe, just maybe, that’s exactly what happened. I mean, you haven’t said much since Battle for London. Yes, I know you’re going all around the world and competing everywhere under the sun, but I have also noticed that you have been especially quiet about me!
What happened, Jack?
Did you finally realize that I’m not the “model cast as a wrestler” type that you wanted to portray me as?
Did you finally realize that I AM a true professional wrestler?
Or is it all just some front for you to lurk in the shadows and come out of hiding later on to run it down as a fluke in an excuse filled rant? It doesn’t matter to me, Jack. I know you’re going to speak out sooner rather than later and that’s fine. But the fact of the matter is, you’re not the Five Lakes Champion anymore, I AM! And I didn’t win that championship or go through the entire journey to get there so I could lose it right back to you in my first defense. I hope that in some way, Battle for London caused you to look in the mirror and at least re-evaluate some things. That may have been the case considering what happened at Lest We Forget and that you wound up pinning your own Destroyers faction mate to pull out the final win for your team and yes Jack, that IS impressive but at the end of the day, that’s what’s going to make my first championship defense against you that much MORE impressive in my own right and darn it, I KNOW I am going to beat you again! You can cry about “not tapping out” all you want. You can bitch and moan and try to dismiss it as a fluke and if you want to do that? More power to you!
Battle for London SHOULD HAVE taught you to watch what you say! If it DIDN’T, I’ll be glad to beat that lesson into you when I humble you for good!
Jazmyn pauses to calm down a little as a passionate fury can be seen in her eyes. Clutching the championship briefly, she continues on with her words.
Jazmyn Rain: But that’s not the only lesson that I plan on teaching you on Sunday, Jack. Another that I wanted to teach you? Simple!
Jazmyn Rain is no fluke!
I remember the first time I ever won a singles championship and everything leading up to that. People saw me as a joke. Nobody thought that I even deserved my roster spot in PRW let alone the championship that I won in December of 2011. I admit, at the time, I was eccentric and rather erratic, but I silenced those critics when I held my first championship ever for four months and when I DID lose it, I wasn’t even pinned for it. Curse of the triple threat rule, ya know? But did I let that stop me? No! I bounced right back and went into world title contention the summer of 2012. Then, when I crashed and burned, people called that entire run in PRW a fluke. Yet, I came back and I proved them wrong. When I was GCW Global Champion for the first time, I admit that I was very skittish. I wasn’t all that confident in myself and I was completely overburdened by my first world championship reign. My critics came out in DROVES. My worst enemies were getting the better of me CONSTANTLY. “Charity case”, “fluke” among other things… and then when that first reign ended the way it did, I was crushed because it really felt like that entire reign was all a fluke. Yet…
All of that struggle, Jack…
It’s what made me the wrestler that I have become!
After I was screwed out of that title the way I was, I made every effort possible to be better both personally and professionally and ever since then, I’ve grown leaps and bounds. If you were facing the early 2016 Jazmyn, you’d be facing someone who was never sure of herself, always nervous on the big stage, someone who needed reassurance time and time again and someone who would always question whether or not she deserved what she had. But that’s not the Jazmyn Rain you are facing, Jack. At 33 going on 34, I know that at this point in my career, I’m one of the best professional wrestlers in the world and even what I just said… that took me a LONG time to have the confidence to say and you know what’s funny, Jack? Beating you at Battle for London is what gave me that final push to have the confidence to say that.
Ain’t that funny?
You judged me based on what I tweeted. You judged me based on how I look, like if I’m too beautiful to possibly be a professional wrestler. You judged me based on how I carry myself. You judged me because I’m not wrestling 6 days a week around the world like you do. But what did that get you? Where did that hatred of me, when all I ever did to you was fight you for this championship, lead you, Jack?
At Battle for London, it led you to your downfall, that’s what it did and darn it, this Sunday, I am going to make darn sure that you don’t get this back… especially from me! Because as far as the Five Lakes Championship is concerned, it’s about time the championship had a champion representing it to the best of the ability. This championship has suffered ENOUGH! It deserves better than a champion who gave fuck all about NGW to begin with! It deserves better than a champion that takes shortcut after shortcut to keep the title with them, like you did. If you want to come into this rematch with the same hatred of me from before, or hell, if you come into this with even MORE hatred of me, then I am going to be extremely blunt and honest with you:
You are going to lose again!
And I know this because so many times, I have come across people in this business that for the silliest reasons imaginable, harbored some sort of hatred toward me, often times when I didn’t do a damn thing to them. The guy that ended my first Global title reign… what became of him? Well, even though he was champion, he STILL harbored his hatred of me and because of that, he became, quite honestly, the WORST Global Champion the company has ever had because instead of focusing on what he needed to do with the title, he was focused on running up the score on me and throwing shade at me every chance he got and he would ultimately lose the title with a whimper and not a bang. Shortly after, I faced him, I beat him, got my revenge and he’s hardly in this business anymore.
Obviously, I am not saying that’s going to happen to you. My point is: hatred gets you NOWHERE! Oh and a bit of a secret… when I lost that title to him… I got screwed over. Interference. Betrayal from someone I had feelings for. But I never, EVER used it as an excuse. Instead, I focused on bettering myself in every way possible so I would eventually get revenge on everyone that wronged me that night and that’s exactly what I did before I would go on to win that title a second time. I didn’t harbor hatred toward anyone involved. That being said, sorry Jack, but I could never hate you.
I’ve become too good of a wrestler for that!
Henceforth end the lesson? Do you “get it” now?
Or do you still want to hate me because I’m not what a prototypical wrestler is in your mind?
I won’t say sorry for that, because I don’t need to be THAT. All I need to be in order to beat you and settle the score?
Is to be that wrestler I’ve become!
Jazmyn takes a deep breath, remaining confident afterward. She stands up and leaves the office setting knowing not only that she has every reason to be proud of what she has become, but knowing that her conviction on the wrestler she needs to be far outweighs the hatred and the negativity that has some out of the mouth of her opponent this Sunday.