Post by J on Apr 29, 2021 11:02:03 GMT -5
//On Camera//
We open up to perfect darkness, then our camera catches a single spotlight, which focuses on a single steel chair. We hear footsteps and finally see the frame of a man somewhat familiar to uprising fans: roughly 6’6 and about 270 pounds and of course dressed immaculately from head to to toe. You guessed it folks: it’s your champion and mine. Luther Thunder. He smiles at the camera and sits down.
LUTHER THUNDER:
Ladies and gentlemen, fans from all over the world, it’s been far too long since We’ve had a chat hasn’t it? So great to see all of you out there and I do hope you are having a great day working hard towards the weekend, because this weekend on May 1st ¨”Mayday” it’s going to be UPRISING’s 10th episode and while some of you may wonder, how just how is it possible to outdo the previous show that was our esteemed leader and my dear friend for many, many years Bradley Jackson’s birthday bash? I’ll tell you how, it’s by putting not just one but two of your champions to the main event of the show. Trust me folks, this is a night you do not want to miss out on. So if you had any other plans than enjoying yourselves a fine revolution, I suggest you call up and cancel them, better yet, invite them along. Because this is something that will be talked about for a good long while. Trust me, if you will.
He smiles politely to the camera before going on.
LUTHER THUNDER:
One could argue that any night the UPRISING Champion is around it is a night to remember, but a match against the Silver State Champion Samantha Tolson is something nobody should be sleeping on, least of all anyone who wants to consider themselves worth a damn in this business of ours, because there may be more than a few people who can say they don’t like Samantha, there is bound to be those who say don’t respect her but anyone who says they haven’t heard of Samantha Tolson? They are liars, good bad or the ugly everyone and their mother,cousin, auntie and uncle have heard of Samantha Tolson. Now if I told you that myself and Samantha are friends, I would be lying, no we aren’t friends. We’ve been in the same company now and then and I know of her but with the amount of places she’s been employed it would be a wonder for anyone who’s been around longer than a cup of coffee and not been to a company she wasn’t in at some point.
He shrugs at the camera.
LUTHER THUNDER:
I know, I know precisely what you are thinking Samantha, oh man here come the slights, the insults, well before you hit on the fast forward and try to seek out the moment when I start to make sense I suggest you give me a chance to elaborate. What I said before was not a slight, nor an insult of any kind. You see I’ve been around enough to see how people react to you and your presence, not just in the companies you work with, the rosters you are part of but just on social media. All that talk about pictures, surgical enhancements, who you beat and who beat you and all that. You know what I’m talking about? Of course you do, you’ve heard it all before. I bet there are few insults you haven’t had, thrown towards your way at some given point so for you to expect that I’d do the same, trying to find a few original quips to use? I suppose it would be reasonable to suspect..if I was anyone else. There is this saying in the business which I’ve heard a few use, do your homework, do your research. Well, Tolson. I have done just that. I’ve seen enough of those things about how bad of a person you are to how fake you are and you aren’t even worth the time spent to stream the interviews you are on. I have seen enough of stuff like that about you to last me for the rest of my life and quite frankly if you thought I would toe the line and follow suit to that kind of deplorable and disgusting behavior, then it would be you who haven’t done your homework and research on me.
He leans back on the chair a bit and shakes his head.
LUTHER THUNDER:
I mean come on, for your 28 years of life, you have made if not the best of it then pretty damn close, we could sit here and compare accolades, list title reigns, win streaks or win & loss records till we are both blue in the face, but there is no need for that Tolson, no need for that at all because I know just what it is you are about and what so many fail to see when they look at you. They see the social media posts, they see the attitude and they see your name here, there and everywhere and maybe it upsets them, fills them with envy but it sure seems to keep your name on the tip of their tongues quite well. Yet what they fail to see is that every company you go into, every division you are a part of, every championship you hold. You elevate that to your own personal level and force the rest of them to try and catch up to that if they want as much as a chance against you. Maybe that ticks them off, maybe they would like to just keep coasting and doing their things their way and when you step on in and change it all it puts a wrench in the works for them. I already know that of you Samantha, nobody has to tell me that because I have eyes in my head and I do see plenty. Let us forget all the past accomplishments and past companies we’ve both had our share and as I said nobody tunes in to see UPRISING to hear about that do they? You know the saying don’t you Sam? The thing everyone loves saying? Revolution is televised, it’s not Recap is televised. This isn’t a clipshow or the best of so and so..nope, so you and me, we’ll do this like it’s supposed to do. We focus on right here and right now.
We see the champion rubbing his palms together and there is a bit of a quirk on his face as he goes on.
LUTHER THUNDER:
I know that there are those who don’t like where you are at now, I know there are people on this very roster with us who would like nothing better than for me to beat on you from bell to bell, kick you from pillar to post and they may not love me or even like me but they would cheer their heads off for me, just for doing it. What you did? What you have done to become the Silver State Champion, is precisely what you have done everywhere you have gone and it hasn’t won you any friends on this roster has it? Look at what your win did to them, to poor Michael Marou, the self proclaimed Ironman of wrestling is probably off somewhere rusting to obscurity or thinking of changing himself to Tinman of wrestling, well just like Dorothy found out, you ain’t in Kansas anymore and there is no lion around to make you look good, then there was poor Kendrick Kross, alas poor Kendrick, we hardly even knew thee and then there is Crish Mosh and less said about him the better, right? That trio right there and what they have turned into just from going against you speaks a lot louder than a thousand tweets. Not to mention your old pals and friends like Christina and Diamond..you have such a fan club already Sam, I usually get a good bunch of them just by existing and doing my thing but my adoring public, the ones who want my head on a spike. They at least have the sense to shut up about it, yours however? As much of a spectacle as you have made about beating them and I can’t stress this one enough Samantha: the match between you and me, is not going to be like those matches. You see as much as I applaud what you have done to the Silver State Championship and what you have done all by your lonesome to get that title to be where it is at, this is not about that. Nor is it about the UPRISING Championship, which to it’s credit I’d say still has at least a whole different level of competition planting their sights at it, just look at the people in the chamber with me, yeah even Don Tirri. You do remember Tirri don’t you Bloonie’?
He chuckles out a bit, before forcing his face to be serious.
LUTHER THUNDER:
Terribly sorry, Tolson, that was totally uncalled for but you do see what I mean don’t you? You are smart enough to realize that the level of people you have competed against and won in UPRISING are not equal to the ones I have faced and beaten. It’s not me being cocky or obnoxious, those are just sheer facts. However this match between you and me is not about championship superiority, it isn’t about differences between the divisions. I just want you to understand just who and what you are up against, There is a reason why I made my intentions clear on the very first night of UPRISING, anyone can go back and watch it, listen to what I said then and look at the results now. I made the best that I could with what I was offered and I didn’t need past companies, associations or accolades to get where I am at.
He picks up the UPRISING Championship from the darkness and drapes it over his shoulder.
LUTHER THUNDER:
It’s not that I am not proud of this accomplishment, of course being the first of anything means you are immortalized to that company’s history. I could die tomorrow and I would still forever be the first champion in UPRISING’s history as humble of a man as I am it does make me grateful for all that I’ve gotten out of this business, that my loyalty, my dedication and my hard work all put together have gotten me a reputation that others would kill for. Merely my name on the card brings people some people to the shows because they just want to see someone, anyone beat the ever-loving snot out of me. Now do I think it will be you? Maybe, one day, somewhere but this saturday? No, it won’t be. Because even if neither of our championship is on the line this is one of those matches where we both can show not just the fans but to our peers what they can look forward to when they come at these championships. We’ve seen how your last defense went and I am not saying you should go on record that none of your eager challengers least of all Chris Mosh would not appear and ruin things for you but if I was a betting man I would wager that none of my fellow competitors in the chamber would risk soiling their good reputation and ruining their opportunity by trying to get an advantage on me at the expense of this showcase of a match.
They want me at my very best, at 100% percent. I don’t claim to know them, I wouldn’t dare to say that I know what they are thinking but who in their right mind would want to beat a champion that was not at their prime? So that there would be no excuses, no escape or a way to twist and bend the truth to their liking. We’ve both had wins and losses Samantha, we both know that anyone can be beaten at any given night with the right circumstances when the stars align. In your 28 years, cross your heart and hope to die, could you say that you have never once failed? Slipped up or tried to make a excuse to fit to your narrative, just once? I bet you can’t and you are a whole lot of woman Sam, you are all grown up and you can admit that. I won’t tell anyone, but this Saturday on May 1st when the night is over and the lights go out. I don’t want to hear a single word uttered about how you didn’t give me the very best you had, about how you didn’t put all you had on the line, because any kind of champion, heck any competitor worth a darn who wants to be seen as something besides a useless, selfish empty shell would want to provide the fans and peers the very best every given night. I did not win my championship just to sit back and shine it while others fight to get at me. Because you know this from experience I’d assume, when you are the top of the mountain there is only one way to go and that is down and if and when I fall when someone beats me. I want them to have a fight for their life for it. So any match and every match I go into, will be fought like it was the last one I would ever have and anything less than your very best? Well Sam, that just won’t do.
He stands up picking up the championship from his shoulder, holding it in one hand with ease while the other rests at his side.
LUTHER THUNDER:
Now I know all this may seem like a lot to take in Tolson, it probably wasn’t what you were expecting for I got no reason to hate on you unless you are giving me one and then that is something far beyond competition, I would suggest not taking that route, people have threatened and insulted me enough and those who lived to regret it I consider the lucky ones. That is not a brag or a threat. I am just laying it out there that this business, has had my best years, my career in the ring is something beyond just a career it gave me all I have in my life and it would be disrespectful towards it and all I stand for and live by to treat it as mere way to earn a living or get famous. We don’t have to be friends Samantha, neither of us needs that but what I am sure we don’t need either is another enemy, we got enough of them to throw some of the lesser out that those who have none. Everywhere where you go and dare to succeed as who you are, there will be someone hating you for it, waiting for you to fail, hoping to be there to kick you when you fall and are on the ground. I came to you with honesty, truth and respect for what you have done. Prove to me that what I saw in you was right and that all the shit about you wasn’t true, because if you ruin this one, if you make me look like a fool for believing in you...blocking people on twitter will be the least of your problems. I am offering you a chance to prove yourself, not just to me or the UPRISING locker room but to the whole damn world, time to put those workouts and motivational thoughts to work, this one may not be for the titles but it may just be the best damn match you will ever have, then again, Sammy, am I telling you anything, you don’t already know?
With that he drapes the UPRISING Championship over the chair’s backrest and walks off. We hear his footsteps distance, before the lonesome spotlight on the chair and the championship gets turned off pitting us to the darkness all this started from.