Post by eddied on Feb 3, 2022 18:58:51 GMT -5
(”The Offspring – Come Out and Play” hits the arena PA system and the screens light up with a technicolor vibrant montage video playing on the screens of him weight training and hitting his favorite moves on people, flashing up to the beat of the music.
Eddie walks slowly to the ring. He high fives the occasional outstretched hand, smiles as though he enjoys the applause, but he’s really 100% focused on the task at hand. Eddie walks up the ring steps, takes a moment to scan the crowd and holds open his arms in honest gratitude of their cheers. Eddie holds up the SWAT World Heavyweight Title Belt for all to see. The crowd pop. Eddie nods his respect and appreciation. Then he steps through the ropes. Microphone in hand he takes a moment to enjoy the fans chants before addressing the crowd.)
EDDIE: Hello New York, Fucking New York!!!
You didn't come out to sit there in masks and quietly survey the carnage. You came here to be seen and be heard and that's beautiful. I hear you New York. I hear you SWAT faithful. And I hear you Vincent Wolf.
Now I was gonna give it a while before I hit the ring. But maybe getting this out of the way now and giving the girls the stage, as it is their big night, might be a better call after all.
Now Warren W Webber interrupted me in the middle of moving some heavy bits of rig around and perhaps I was a little grouchy and some of my comments probably came out as quite scathing and bit hard on Mr Wolf.
Hitting him with some ageism and some blunt egotism clearly wasn't respectful. Now I know that many of you love this Kraut kid and perhaps feel it was cheap and mean for me to go after Vincent in the way that I chose to.
Thing is... I appreciate his efforts, but I can't really like a guy I am about to smack into the middle of next week now can I.
I should have shown him more respect, carrying the second tear title in SWAT, but I can't smother him in praise if am about to try to break his boogey ready body in half in this very ring later tonight.
You see, when you've been around as long as I have and you've just fought through half the roster to get your gold back you get quite territorial. Then when a reporter asks you if this will be the shortest reign in history... You can forgive me for flexing a little and feeling a bit tetchy. Wolves like to mark their territory by taking a piss around the place... Well I metaphorically took a heaping great shit on Vincent to mark my territory and I half regret it... Maybe half.
One of my main criticisms of some of the old X-Crown babyfaces from our auspicious past was that they used to fawn over the history, form and talents of their opponents. These are role model, top of the tree, cross-federation champions accepting a challenge from someone slavering over their title?! What in God's name are you blowing that much smoke up another man's ass for? If you think the guy you're fighting is that amazing, don't risk your neck getting in there. Vacate the title and give it to him if you think he's such a stand up fucking guy. Bake him a cake and give him a backrub why don't cha'. Get a God damned back bone and hate the guy you're about to kick the shit out of!!
You realize after a minute or two in this business that you can't give up your place in the hierarchy for a second and me prodding the Wolf with a blunt stick wasn't personal. It's just business. If people can't take a bed wetting joke, but they can watch blood pour from people's faces in a brutal matchup I question who is more dark. Me for not being bed wetting community woke and telling a joke or the media for selling violence to gore hungry kids on PPV?
Well tonight you will get to see me, The Good Guy, living up to my name. Maybe not as in "good and wholesome". But "good" as in good enough. "Good" as in better. "Good" as in too good for my opponent. "Good" as in righteous and conquering of the bad.
SWAT fans. I understand why you would want us to get on and shake hands in a Queensbury rules happy sporting way, but that not my way and never has been.
We've never fought and this guy had no beef with me until he looked a little too high on the totem and set his self on a collision course with me.
He's a pretty young man. The girls like him, but they're wrong. He's got a ton of moves that can no doubt do me harm in the ring tonight. Sadly being pretty and having some moves won't be enough tonight. I just want it more and I've got the experience and the power to get the job done.
Vincent Wolf isn't tarred with time in a SWAT stable. I am. But I think I have done enough to drag down the KGB to help massage any doubts about me turning over a new leaf and accepting the crowd into my ample bosom.
Vincent Wolf isn't weighed down with expectation. I am. The wrestling world has seen me beat better, bigger and badder than this kid and they would love to see me fail.
Vincent Wolf isn't a World Champion. But I am and I am dead set on making sure that I remain champion when the bell rings tonight.
The weight of Expectation, the weight of my past, the weight of pressure holding the top belt... but even with all that weighing in against me... It's Vincent Wolf that will have the wait... the wait for his first win over Eddie D... the wait for his first time as SWAT World Champion. The wait is on him.
Child actor, Gel boy, Pampered Prodigy Pup of the hour... Vincent "Beta Male" Wolf you can...
BRING... IT.... ON!!!
(”The Offspring – Come Out and Play” hits the arena PA system. Eddie tosses the mic. into the air and bats it with the belt over towards the commentary desk before stepping through the ropes and taking a slow stroll back towards the ramp. The scene fades out and the show goes to a commercial.)