Post by Jon Michaels on Sept 11, 2013 15:49:48 GMT -5
The scene picks up in the crowd at a mixed martial arts show in St. Louis, Missouri. Jon Michaels is shown standing next to a member of the combat sports media awaiting his first interview since returning to wrestling earlier this week.
Interviewer: Steve Maren here from pwexpress.com with “King” Jon Michaels who is making his long awaited return to professional wrestling for the WCF promotion. Jon, I have followed your career since your days in WVW and I have to say I am a big fan. What made you decide to return after you abruptly left the scene? You seemingly just dropped off the face of the planet around 2008, what happened and what brought you back?
Jon: Well, a lot of things Steve. Between the divorce and WVWF failing I kind of got stuck in a funk. I tried going other places and just wrestling to make the money back I lost in WVWF, but the magic just wasn't there anymore, you know? And I was getting pretty beaten up.
Steve: Which is crazy because arguably you were doing as good as you ever had.
Jon: Yeah, I won a couple more World championships, I was having good matches but it just wasn't there anymore, you know? It was just a bad time for me, though. I was going out and having the best matches, cutting some of the best promos. I was having matches with the likes of Dark Prophet, Jackhammer, JW McCammon and Reckless Jack. All great talents, and frankly it's just easy to be out shined by them. I tried playing mind games with Dark Prophet and, well that just doesn't work out. We all know how much of a stud Jackhammer and McCammon are. Jack, he is just brutal. So the competition was just super thick. There was no room for errors and in that time, well I made a lot of them outside the ring and paid for it you know?
Steve: What brought you back?
Jon: That's a tough question really. *laughs* Nobody wakes up and says “I want to go and get a job where I am getting into what can be compared to a car wreck everyday” you know? At the same time, that's kind of what happened. In that hiatus I did some training down at the local ATA, learned some MMA techniques like the omoplata, spinning backfist and some vicious kicks. One day I was sparring this big behemoth of a man. He shoots in for the takedown, lifts my little ass up onto his shoulders and slams me as hard as humanly possible. I instinctively just took the bump. Didn't really feel any pain off the bat, other than the fact a 265 pound man just slammed me to the ground. A couple days went by and still nothing, so I figured my body had healed up and got checked out. The doc agreed so I started training and looking for work.
Steve: That's when WCF picked you up.
Jon: Yeah. If you remember I was in WCF back in 2006-2007. I didn't even know they were still in business. I looked up their roster and saw some familiar faces, you know Seth Lerch, Logan, a couple others, and decided to make a call and everything fell into place for us. We came up with a mutually beneficial deal and the rest is history.
Steve: You've already made some enemies it seems. Jordan Calliban, the Internet Champion seems to have take offense to something you said on Twitter, what's going on?
Jon: I just said hello, you know. Maybe not in those exact terms, but you know me. Well, Jordan threatened me with a hospital visit. I don't take too kindly to that behavior, you know? I never even met this cat and he's already dismissing me as some jobber because he's on some roll or whatever. I don't care. I'm in WCF to make money, not friends. If down the line he still has that title and we meet, who knows what will happen? He's a good champion and a good wrestler but he needs to learn his place, and he'll be kissing the rings before all is said and done.
Steve: Anything else you'd like to add?
Jon: Just watch. Tune into WCF and watch how this all plays out. I'm actually kind of excited to be wrestling again.
Scene fades black
Interviewer: Steve Maren here from pwexpress.com with “King” Jon Michaels who is making his long awaited return to professional wrestling for the WCF promotion. Jon, I have followed your career since your days in WVW and I have to say I am a big fan. What made you decide to return after you abruptly left the scene? You seemingly just dropped off the face of the planet around 2008, what happened and what brought you back?
Jon: Well, a lot of things Steve. Between the divorce and WVWF failing I kind of got stuck in a funk. I tried going other places and just wrestling to make the money back I lost in WVWF, but the magic just wasn't there anymore, you know? And I was getting pretty beaten up.
Steve: Which is crazy because arguably you were doing as good as you ever had.
Jon: Yeah, I won a couple more World championships, I was having good matches but it just wasn't there anymore, you know? It was just a bad time for me, though. I was going out and having the best matches, cutting some of the best promos. I was having matches with the likes of Dark Prophet, Jackhammer, JW McCammon and Reckless Jack. All great talents, and frankly it's just easy to be out shined by them. I tried playing mind games with Dark Prophet and, well that just doesn't work out. We all know how much of a stud Jackhammer and McCammon are. Jack, he is just brutal. So the competition was just super thick. There was no room for errors and in that time, well I made a lot of them outside the ring and paid for it you know?
Steve: What brought you back?
Jon: That's a tough question really. *laughs* Nobody wakes up and says “I want to go and get a job where I am getting into what can be compared to a car wreck everyday” you know? At the same time, that's kind of what happened. In that hiatus I did some training down at the local ATA, learned some MMA techniques like the omoplata, spinning backfist and some vicious kicks. One day I was sparring this big behemoth of a man. He shoots in for the takedown, lifts my little ass up onto his shoulders and slams me as hard as humanly possible. I instinctively just took the bump. Didn't really feel any pain off the bat, other than the fact a 265 pound man just slammed me to the ground. A couple days went by and still nothing, so I figured my body had healed up and got checked out. The doc agreed so I started training and looking for work.
Steve: That's when WCF picked you up.
Jon: Yeah. If you remember I was in WCF back in 2006-2007. I didn't even know they were still in business. I looked up their roster and saw some familiar faces, you know Seth Lerch, Logan, a couple others, and decided to make a call and everything fell into place for us. We came up with a mutually beneficial deal and the rest is history.
Steve: You've already made some enemies it seems. Jordan Calliban, the Internet Champion seems to have take offense to something you said on Twitter, what's going on?
Jon: I just said hello, you know. Maybe not in those exact terms, but you know me. Well, Jordan threatened me with a hospital visit. I don't take too kindly to that behavior, you know? I never even met this cat and he's already dismissing me as some jobber because he's on some roll or whatever. I don't care. I'm in WCF to make money, not friends. If down the line he still has that title and we meet, who knows what will happen? He's a good champion and a good wrestler but he needs to learn his place, and he'll be kissing the rings before all is said and done.
Steve: Anything else you'd like to add?
Jon: Just watch. Tune into WCF and watch how this all plays out. I'm actually kind of excited to be wrestling again.
Scene fades black
