Post by Jack Tillman on May 24, 2018 17:10:26 GMT -5
-To be truly good at anything, you have to practice. Time and time again. If it calls for it, some times your hands have to bleed from the amount of times you practice your craft. Doing it till your hands grow calluses and you can no longer feel the tips of your fingers.
-It’s not easy to grow those calluses. It takes dedication and a love for that trade. You love it so much that you’ll miss birthdays. Anniversaries. Deaths in the family. All because you want to be the very best at what you do.
-That’s why I am who I am today in the wrestling industry. I don’t take breaks. I don’t let my personal life get in the way. I have no girlfriend. I have a small little room I call home at a wrestling school in Chicago, Illinois. I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I don’t eat fast food. If I’m not on a plane or in a car going to my next event, then I’m at the wrestling school either working out or sparing with students or other wrestlers that want to improve their skills.
-My only life is professional wrestling. Some people might be against this type of life style. That I should enjoy life. Live it up. Have a few laughs. Do some stupid shit. But I’m doing more with my life than the kids I grew up with in Nebraska. I’ve been to Japan. Mexico. Europe. Asia. South America, Australia. I can speak Japanese fluently. I’ve met so many people and heard so many stories through my travels that I get prospectives about how short life truly is.
-So I enjoy my life as it is now. I live it up as I travel first class to every show I go to. I laugh as I hand out punishment to my opponents in the ring. I’m doing my stupid shit as I follow my friends in the Dogs Of War and Destroyers into battle. A wife. Family children. A white picket fence in the suburbs......all that can happen later in life. I’m only 22. I have the rest of my life in front of me. Right now, I’m married to wrestling.
-High above planet Earth, I’m flying first class as I travel from California to Japan. The day before I had just wrestled in two title matches for Budokan Gaijin Dream Fight. I’d tell you if I won or not but I’m obligated to not tell until the show is put out. Heading my way back to Japan to wrestle for Kamikaze Pro for a couple of matches. One of those matches I’ll be defending the Tag Belts with Devin Hearst. Title defense number two for us.
-I’m glad I’m traveling first class these days. The extra leg room and space around me helps with my body. I’ve cut the companies I’m associated with in half, but the travel between shows is still a pain and I barely have any recovery time during the week. The flight attendant was nice enough to give me some bags of ice to help the swelling and muscle tears. I should probably take a nap but I need to get this promo ready for. So with my video app on my phone, I cut a short promo for my upcoming NGW show.
Jack Tillman: “Well. It’s finally going to happen. A story as old as time. Good verses evil. The people of God verses the spawns of Satin. Guardians verses The Destroyers. We finally get to see who’s the best between these two stables who just utterly hate each other. One last battle to prove who truly controls NGW.”
I lean back in my seat and let out a deep breath as the weight of the world finally seems to be off my chest.
Jack Tillman: “Good. Because I’m tired of it all. It bores me to be stuck in this little squabble. I’m tired of the empty threats. I’m tired of the back and forth tweets that lead to nowhere. I’m tired of the arguments about who’s better than who. It’s like a high school scuffle where everyone puffs there chest out and swears that they’re going to kick the other persons ass..... but nothing ever happens.
And I hate the whole argument from the talking heads of which team is better. Destroyers have done this and that and the Guardians have accomplished all this stuff. It’s real simple. Look at what the two teams have accomplished since the two stables have been formed. I mean look at all the titles that we accumulated over the past year. Twice with the NGW Title. The Five Lakes Title. The Tag Titles. The then Genesis Title and Young Lions Title. All the main events and five star matches that we’ve competed in and won. How can you argue against all that?
But people do and it’s sad to see such jealousy in this world.
But what of the Guardians then? What’s the resume of the Guardians since arriving? A Five Lakes Title, a former Five Lakes Champ, and two over rated sports entertainers that were talked highly with all the work that they had accomplished in other territories....but as soon as they stepped through those NGW doors, they fell flat on their faces and haven’t accomplished anything. No tiles. Barely any huge victories and popcorn fart main events. Just a bunch of midcard talents who’s best days are behind them.
But root for the good guys. The same good guys that are no different than the Destroyers when it comes to violence. They just do it with a smile. The problem is that our violence is tactical and precise while theres is emotional and clumsy. So just like a cancer in the human body, we’re going to cut the wings off the angels and devour them whole while the NGW universe watches.
I think Bertrand Russell said it best. War does not determine who is right....only who is left. And after this Sunday, the Destroyers will be the only ones that will be left.”
That’s good enough for today. Turning my phone off, I lean back in my chair and look up at the ceiling. Rest up Jack. You have a busy weekend.