Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2014 22:17:07 GMT -5
The scene slowly fades in on Jayson Price, his face and upper body illuminated by the soft orange glow of the fire roaring in front of him. We see him casually lounging in his favorite arm chair, feet propped up on a matching footrest, a half full glass of Jack Daniels resting on the arm rest as a new bottle sits on a table next to him. He's got his free hand tucked behind his head, his eyes shut as he listens to the silence, interrupted only briefly by the soft crackling of the fire. He opens his eyes for a moment to take a sip from his drink before setting it on the table and then running his hand over the scruff on his chin. As he tilts his head back into the chair and stares up at the ceiling, the camera slowly pans over to the flames as we hear Price speak.
Jayson Price: "As Timebomb approaches I can't help but feel a sense of déjà vu come over me. It makes sense, I suppose, I mean how is this time any different than the last time I was walking into a PPV Main Event where I could win the World Title. Jonny Fly is the current World Champion, just like he was in 2012 when I was getting ready to meet him at XIII. The odds against myself are once again overwhelming according to anyone you ask, nowhere near the 50/50 chance that I had going into XIII or the 1 out of 6 chance now. In fact, according to the experts, the fans, the media and anyone else you ask, I'm once again a non factor. It's academic, they say. "Jay Price or Jayson Price, no matter what he calls himself or how he acts, he's still the lowlife piece of shit that chokes under pressure." Walking into XIII all you heard anywhere you went was how Jay Price was going to fall at the feet of the all mighty Jonny Fly. Jay Price was nothing but an alcoholic and prescription pill addict that was hand delivered a World Title match on a silver platter by his good friend Corey Black. He didn't deserve shit because he never earned shit in his pathetic career.
And those were just the nicer things you heard. There's no reason to bring back up all the talk about how Price was stuck in a battle with depression and should just end it. Or at least this time succeed at trying to end it. Oh yeah, that's the kind of shit that sticks with a person. Hearing fans and fellow wrestlers wishing that you would off yourself just because they didn't like the fact that you were fortunate enough to be main eventing a PPV for the World Title. But like I said, no reason to bring all of that shit back up. Back to pre XIII and all of the bullshit being spread, it ranged from little pot shots to some morbid bullshit, but it all carried the same message: Jonny Fly was going to embarrass the lowlife Jay Price and Corey Black for putting him in the match. And now, we're looking at the same situation as we head into the final days before Timebomb. Jonny Fly, World Champion, is still looked upon as being an unbeatable champion. Even with four other men besides Price, each a World Champion at some point in their careers, he's still the odds on favorite because he's been placed on that pedestal by everyone else. A funny thing about that pedestal though, at some point even the best are brought back down to be amongst the regular folk.
Do you think Jonny Fly remembers what it's like to be amongst the regular folk? Or, at the least, remember the last time that he was up on a pedestal being showered by love and praise by all only to be knocked off and sent to the ground as another took his place? He should, because right now he's a little over a day away from stepping into the ring and looking across at the same man that knocked him down at XIII. The one and only man that has ever been able to pin him in a ring with the World Title on the line. And that's some shit right there to think about. The man is a four time World Champion and out of the three times that he's lost the belt only once was it because someone was able to pin him. Eric Price, Sarah Twilight, Jeff Purse, Steve Orbit, Odin Balfore, Nathan von Liebert...the list of main eventers that Fly defended the World Title against during all of those reigns and not one of them was ever able to accomplish the task of pinning him. But I fucking did it. I did the fucking unthinkable and undoable and pinned the unpinnable for the one, two, three and I won the World Title off of him. Fuck all of the bullshit being talked about before the match. Fuck all of the jokes that would come a few weeks later after I dropped the title back to Fly. Two years ago Jonny Fly won his first World Title and then dropped it to me two months later. Since then he's won it three more times, including his current run. He's been stripped of the belt as he went into prison and he was the victim of circumstance in a fatal four way match as he watched someone else get pinned, but he's yet to be pinned and beaten by anyone.
But of course no one ever wants to talk about that. No, it's still fucking cool to be the guy that jokes about the sixteen day title reign. It doesn't matter if you're a Hall Of Famer or a scrub that's just walked in off the street. It doesn't matter if you're a former World Champion or just a World Class disappointment that's yet to live up to the hype made by yourself and your buddies. Nope, it doesn't matter one fucking bit who you are, I'm the joke of the company here for your amusement. Fuck the fact that most of the people that still like to crack those sixteen day jokes are still waiting for the World Title fairy to come and gift them their first belt because they still don't have what it takes to even get into the main event picture. Fuck the fact that if you take away my reign as World Champion, I've still done more shit than 90% of the pieces of crap in this company has ever done and could retire tomorrow before being put into the Hall Of Fame. No, I'm only here to dance like a drunk monkey for your amusement, right? I'm Jayson Price, the nobody, right? The fucking drunk clown that had to have his buddy put him in a World Title match so he could finally say he'd gotten a chance, right? Well then please, just answer me one question: If I, the nobody, am so pathetic and worthless and all the other things I've been labeled, what does that make each and every single one of you out there that has yet to amount to shit but still find it okay to talk shit?
Don't get me wrong, I can handle a bit of shit being thrown my way from a guy like Corey Black. He's an asshole and he fucking knows it. But when he says "Price, you fucked up" I don't get offended, because he knows what the fuck he's talking about. Multi time World Champion and Hall Of Famer, he knows his shit. But when a little Joe Schmo, like Roy Speede or Lilith for example, like to try and stay relevant by talking about things that are above their heads, up there floating in the sky with their dreams, I tend to get a bit pissed. What the fuck do people like you know? It doesn't matter if you just walked through the doors a few weeks ago or you've been here a few years, the fact is that if you have yet to climb the mountain, if you're still down at the bottom looking up with bright, wide eyes, you have no business opening your mouths and talking about people's World Title reigns. Yeah, I had a sixteen day reign, so what? It's like I said to Roy Speede one time when he was running his mouth, "You can talk down my time as World Champion all you want, but at least I've been there. At least I've held the World Title. Your jokes, they're cute, but when are you finally going to shut your mouth and prove you're better than me by winning the strap and holding it longer?". Spoiler alert: Roy never did, he ran off when shit became too hard for him to deal with. Lilith as well, but that's a whole different type of fucker that would take me far too long to talk about.
But I'm getting off track, let's swing all this back to Jonny Fly, XIII and Timebomb. Because no matter who else is in this World Title match, Jonny Fly is going to be keeping what went down at XIII in the back of his mind. Right now, we're friends. We're fucking amigos in Pantheon. But Jonny Fly and I both know that if the situation presents itself and I'm able to get the pin for the World Title, even if it's on Fly himself, I will take it. I'll take it and I'm the only person credible enough in this match to be able to say it. Steve Orbit, Logan, Waylon Cash, Oblivion, all somewhat worthy in their rights, I'm sure, but not one of them can get the job done when it counts like I can. And that's not just some macho bullshit that I'm throwing out there, I know what the fuck I'm talking about. I've beaten everyone in this match before and they've all beaten each other, but none of them has even done what I've done when it comes to Jonny Fly. And Fly knows it. He'll never admit to it, he'll instead fire right back with how he "righted the wrong" a few weeks later, but he knows that he'll have to watch his back at all times in this match to see where I'm at. There was a lot of talk leading up to this match about whether or not Fly and Orbit were really on the same page or not, whether the two of them could keep the Pantheon brotherhood going on in the match, after their recent history. And you know what, it's fair, the two of them have their own issues that they still need to work out. Hell, I'm in the group and I've seen firsthand how they've been getting along recently but even I still wonder whether it's 100% genuine or not. But whether they say they're on the same page or not, neither one of those two want to walk out of this match not holding the World Title. So the inevitable is going to happen at one point or another in the match and they're going to stare each other down until one of them makes a move. And once one of them makes their move, I make mine. Like I said, we're Pantheon amigos through and through and any other time I'd be the first one there to have their backs, but when the opportunity arises for me to win the World Title, I'm not going to let who's a friend and who isn't stop me. It's nothing personal, of course. After all, it's just business, right? I'm not saying that I'm going to do anything that Jonny or Steve aren't thinking right now."
Voice: "Do you actually believe the shit coming out of your mouth sometimes?"
The camera cuts back over to Price as we see the outline of someone standing behind him in the doorway. Price reaches over to his drink beside him, picks it up and swirls the ice around in the glass as he looks ahead into the fire.
Jayson Price: "The last time I saw you, you made it a point to tell me that you'd never be setting foot in this tower again."
The figure steps forward from the doorway and the light from the fire reveals that it's Hank Brown.
Hank Brown: "Yeah, well, when you leave Scoops Callahan with a black eye and his studio destroyed..."
Jayson Price: "Let me stop you right there Hank, I didn't destroy any studio, that was all Biohazard."
Hank Brown: "Yeah well you still left Scoops with one hell of a shiner."
Jayson Price: "I've done worse."
Hank Brown: "And then there's Cameraman Bob."
Jayson Price: "What about him?"
Hank Brown: "No one's seen him or heard from him in a week. His wife's a mess and has been talking nonstop about how she thinks he's dead."
Jayson Price: "Wouldn't be the first time a woman overreacted."
Hank Brown: "Yeah well, be it as it may, with Scoops refusing to be anywhere near you and Bob MIA, I drew the short straw."
Price stops swirling the ice in his glass and throws back the rest of his drink before setting the glass down on the table beside him.
Jayson Price: "Well come in, have a seat. You know how I feel about people standing behind me."
Hank walks around the side of Price and takes a seat in a chair sitting beside the fireplace.
Hank Brown: "Who were you even talking to?"
Price reaches over to the table beside him and picks up a tape recorder before pressing the stop button.
Jayson Price: "Sometimes I like to get my thoughts out of my head. I don't know what it is, but listening to them later sometimes helps when I can't figure something out."
Hank Brown: "Or is it because you're usually too bombed to remember anything?"
Jayson Price: "Fuck you."
Hank Brown: "Ohh, someone's a bit more pissy than usual."
Jayson Price: "You ever wonder what it'd be like to have your face shoved into a burning fire?"
Hank Brown: "Fine, fine, I'll quit with the jokes."
Jayson Price: "So how long were you standing back there? How much did you hear?"
Hank Brown: "Right about the time you started talking about flower petals or pedal bikes or-"
Jayson Price: "Pedestals, you fucking moron."
Hank Brown: "Pedestals, right, yeah. What was that all about?"
Jayson Price: "Just going over stuff in my head before Timebomb. Trying to get everything right up here so I can go into the match clear minded."
Hank Brown: "Makes sense I suppose."
Jayson Price: "Of course it makes sense. And now that you're here, you're going to help."
Hank Brown: "Help?"
Jayson Price: "Yeah, help. You're going to do your job and sit there as I bounce shit off of you."
Hank Brown: "And why the fuck would I do that?"
Jayson Price: "Because it's your job. Why else would you be here?"
Hank Brown: "Like I said, I drew the short straw and had to come here. I never said I was actually going to do anything. Have you forgotten why I told you I was never going to come back here?"
Jayson Price: "Seriously? Are you still harping about that? I made one little mistake-"
Hank Brown: "YOU SLEPT WITH MY DAUGHTER!"
Jayson Price: "She was 19!"
Hank Brown: "HER AGE ISN'T WHY I'M PISSED!"
Jayson Price: "Is it because I talked her into getting an abortion?
Hank Brown: "An a...abor...ABORTION?!?! YOU GOT MY LITTLE GIRL PREGNANT?!?!"
Jayson Price: "Well I did. But it's all good! I mean, it's not like there's a little mulatto Jayson Price running around."
Hank Brown: "I think I'm going to be sick."
Hank races out of the room with his hand covering his mouth, muffling the gagging sounds. You can hear the bathroom door opening followed by the sounds of Hank retching as Price smiles.
Hank Brown: "How could you defile my sweet little angel?"
Jayson Price: "What are you talking about "sweet little angel"? Let me tell you something Hank, that little girl of yours curses worse than I do when she orgasms. And the scratches...Jesus Christ Hank, you'd have thought a rabid raccoon had gotten trapped in the back of my shirt after that little demon was done with me."
More retching sounds from the bathroom in between Hank yelling out obscenities at Price until finally he comes back into the room, drying his hands off on his pants.
Jayson Price: "Please tell me you cleaned up in there at least."
Hank Brown: "For the love of God Price, tell me that was just a sick joke."
Jayson Price: "Okay, fine, you got me."
Hank Brown: "Oh thank Jesus."
Jayson Price: "She was more of the strangle me type than a "I'ma scratch you up good" type."
Hank Brown: "..."
Jayson Price: "So did you clean up in there or not?"
Hank Brown: "Fuck you."
Jayson Price: "Okay fine, you don't have to. We can just call it even I guess."
Hank Brown: "Even? EVEN?!?! YOU'RE LUCKY I DON'T-"
Jayson reaches for his bottle of Jack Daniels and Hank nearly jumps out of his shoes anticipating being hit.
Jayson Price: "That's what I thought. Now sit down Hank, we've got business to talk."
Hank doesn't look at all sure about what is going to come next, but eventually he lets out a sigh and settles back down into the chair beside the fire. Price stares at him for a few moments and then reaches back over to the bottle sitting beside him. He twists off the top and then pours himself a second drink, all the while staring ahead at Hank.
Jayson Price: "Well?"
Hank Brown: "Well what?"
Jayson Price: "Come on Hank, you're an interviewer. We used to do this back and forth kind of thing all the time before you decided that you'd rather be a pussy and avoid me."
Hank Brown: "Oh yeah, I'm a big pussy. I should have loved being left in Tijuana, drunk in bed with transvestites. Or getting my ass kicked in bars after you told bikers I was trying to get their women to duck into the men's room with me. What kind of person wouldn't want to put as much space between them and you as possible?"
Jayson Price: "I don't know, maybe someone who doesn't have a giant, gaping vagina?"
Hank Brown: "You know what, fuck you. You want to do the little back and forth bullshit like the old days, fine. Whatever will get me the hell out of here."
Jayson Price: "That's the spirit!"
Hank Brown: "So what's the plan for not looking like a huge disappointment? You know, as oppose to how you usually come off to people as?"
Jayson Price: "Cute. Thing is, I really don't have a full on plan. You can't have a plan going into a six man match like this because there's too many god damn variables that you can't account for. For example, I know Steve, Jonny and myself aren't going to let the belt leave Pantheon. We might just end up beating the shit out of each other before the match is over, but you can be guaranteed that we won't let Oblivion, Waylon Cash or...for the love of God I can't even believe there's a chance...Logan walk out of Timebomb holding the World Title. So the three of us are going to be working together, at least once the bell rings. But outside of us three, who know what the fuck is going to happen. Logan, Oblivion and Cash could decide early on to take a similar strategy and work together. Shit, they could decide to just say fuck it and start brawling amongst themselves so the three Pantheon bros can play charades. You just don't know what is going on inside of their minds outside of their own desire to hold the belt."
Hank Brown: "Well let's say you, Fly and Orbit do in fact work together once the bell rings to take out the other three guys. Let's picture the three of them laid out outside of the ring and you three standing tall in the ring. What then? Are you three just going to sit down and have a tea party or are you going to fight?"
Jayson Price: "Oh we'll fight, you can count on that. Once we've handled business and disposed of the trash, the three of us will have a three-way dance for the ages for the fans to determine the World Champion."
Hank Brown: "Sounds beautiful and all, but do you really expect it to turn out as nice as you're making it out to be? I mean, you make it sound like you, Fly and Orbit won't be trying to pull one out on the other for the win."
Jayson Price: "That's one of those variables Hank. Like I said, I've got the rough plan in my head about taking out the other three along with the boys, but at the same time I'm ready for all hell to break loose."
Hank Brown: "And if all hell should break loose?"
Jayson Price: "Well then it's time for a fucking fight. All hell breaks loose, I'm grabbing anything that's moving and I'm hitting it with a fucking Downfall. If there's a little collateral damage, my bad, it was nothing personal."
Hank Brown: "And all of this, you've been talking with Steve and Jonny about it? You guys been formulating any strategies or anything?"
Jayson Price: "Well you know we've had some of the classic Pantheon team meetings, and we've talked about things. Jonny, he wants to be World Champion when all is said and done, but he's also been making it clear that if he should be beat, he wants it to be either Steve or myself that take the belt from him."
Hank Brown: "And do you believe that?"
Jayson Price: "I do, mostly. I mean I do honestly believe that at the end of the day he'd much rather see Steve or myself as World Champion than Logan, Cash or Oblivion. But the way he sounds when he says it, it makes me believe that despite how happy he says he'd be to see one of us two with the belt, inside he'd still be pissed that he was no longer "that guy". And that's not to say he'd lose any credibility in this company, the man is still going to be up there amongst the greats if he loses the matches. But being the World Champion means something to him, you can just see it in his eyes."
Hank Brown: "Well with all that lovely sentiment, I gotta ask, do you really think it would be that easy for you to be the guy to pin him?"
Jayson Price: "Oh, absolutely. Look, Jonny is my boy. Out of everyone else in Pantheon he's really the only fucker that I can say I trust. Steve, he's new and I'm getting to know him. Corey, well you all know that bullshit. But Fly, despite some rocky talk here and there in the past, we get each other. The thing is though, and he knows this, I want that belt. And I know you can say "Well duh, everyone wants to be the World Champion", but I want that fucking belt more than anyone. Steve would make for one hell of a champion and Jonny has been proven to be one of the best champs of all time, but that belt needs to be back around the sexy waist of yours truly so that I can tell each and every fucker out there to suck my cock."
Hank Brown: "You really think a second two week reign would silence your critics?"
Jayson Price: "You really think you're cute trying to piss me off?"
Hank Brown: "I was asking a legitimate question. I heard mostly the same stuff come from you two years ago when you were gunning for the World Title at XIII and you ended up dropping the ball after calling for it for years. So do you really think this time is going to be any different if you should win the belt a second time?"
Jayson Price: "I'm not the same person I was two years ago Hank. Two years ago I was still the same kid that had walked into WCF in 2009, hotheaded as fuck and wanting nothing but accolades. But this is 2014 and I'm a whole new person Hank. I've got all the accolades that I was still searching for two years back, I'm more mature and I know what it takes to be a winner. My mind is clear and focused and I know what I have to do to not only win the World Title for a second time, but be a fucking champion that people look at and say "Fuck, that's a hell of a wrestler"."
Hank Brown: "Like I said, that all sounds really nice and all but I've heard it before from you Price. You claim to be this whole new person and then you either fail and then revert back to your old self or you succeed only to make a giant ass out of yourself and then revert back to your old self. And yeah, maybe you are a bit more mature and maybe you've proved that you can win bigger matches finally, but deep down we both know that you're always going to be that hotheaded loudmouth desperate for accolades and attention. You're not capable of change, hell look what you did at One. You had to make a big spectacle to announce your return and tell everyone that you were a changed man. How do you expect people to believe you're a changed man when you're standing in front of them still doing what you've always done? That'd be like me going to an AA meeting, telling the crowd that I want to be a new man and then cracking open a beer."
Jayson Price: "I'm sorry, was there a question in there somewhere?"
Hank Brown: "You see, this is what I mean. I'm telling you that no one is ever going to believe you when you say you're not the same person from years ago, and you're making a joke of it."
Jayson Price: "Well in my defense, I really could give a fuck less about your opinion of me Hank. You want to sit there and criticize me for everything I've ever done, well then fuck, what do you want me to say? "Oh no, you didn't?" I don't expect you or anyone else to just take my word for it but I am not the same person from years ago. And I'm going to shut you and everyone else up when I'm holding that World Title up in the air as Timebomb ends."
Hank Brown: "Well I'll tell you what, why don't we just go ahead and move on to the five reasons I know why that's not the image we're going to be seeing: your opponents."
Jayson Price: "Have at it."
Hank Brown: "Well where the hell should I begin? Oh, I know. You talked about the possibility of a Pantheon assault on the other three guys when the bell rang so that the three of you would be all that was remaining to determine a winner. So let's take that scenario to the next step and let me ask you just how in the hell you expect to be able to knock off either Steve Orbit or Jonny Fly to be the World Champion."
Jayson Price: "Fly, I've already done it before. Come on Hank, you were standing right there behind me listening as I talked about XIII and Jonny Fly and our past. We're buddies now but there was a time when I had his number and I still do. When he was the unstoppable, unbeatable and undefeated World Champion in 2012, I stopped, beat and defeated him. Now yeah, Fly turned around and beat me to take back the belt, but I figured out what no one up until that point, and hell even up until now, could and that was how to get the better of Fly when the stakes were at their highest. Now it's two years later and I still know how to get the better of Jonny Fly and not one other person in this match can even begin to lay claim to that."
Hank Brown: "Including Ste-"
Jayson Price: "Yes, including Steve Orbit, Hank. Like Fly, the two of us are buddies, but the fact is that Steve couldn't get the job done if it were to come down to just Fly and him. Him and Cash, him and Oblivion or him and Logan, I'll bet on Steve every fucking time. But Steve Orbit one on one with Jonny Fly or myself and he's going to lose. And that's not a knock on Steve, don't get me wrong he's a hell of a competitor, but he's still got some proving to do before he's up there on the same level as Fly or even myself."
Hank Brown: "You're really putting yourself above everyone these days, aren't you?"
Jayson Price: "Facts are facts, Hank."
Hank Brown: "Well there's also the fact that Steve Orbit's World Title reign was twice as long as your sixteen day reign."
Jayson Price: "Touche, that it was. And I give him all the credit in the world for being the person that was able to end what was Sarah Twilight's horrendous reign as champion. But a month long reign as World Champion doesn't bump him up to the top of the list of competitors in WCF just like a sixteen day reign as World Champion doesn't drop me any. So you want to ask me how I expect to knock off Steve Orbit if it comes to it, let me ask you what makes you think I can't knock him off."
Hank Brown: "Well he's not just another nobody, for starters."
Jayson Price: "True, he's not a nobody. He's just not enough a somebody yet. And yes, before you inevitably ask me, I've heard what Steve has had to say about me as of late. And no, I'm not going to respond to his shit. Instead, let me just say that Pantheon bro or not, I'll be more than happy to prove that the Raiders aren't the only thing black and embarrassing to come from Oakland when I drop him for the one, two, three."
Hank Brown: "Cute. Well let's switch up the scenario. The other three men in the match decide to band together and suddenly you, Fly and Orbit are looking at one hell of a fight. What are you going to do if it comes down to you and Logan."
Price stops mid-sip and lowers his drink as he stares ahead at Hank.
Jayson Price: "I'll fucking kill him."
Price raises his drink back up and takes another sip as Hank smiles.
Hank Brown: "Always nice to see the brotherly love between you two."
Jayson Price: "You can go fuck yourself right off the nearest cliff."
Hank Brown: "Why don't you go ahead and continue?"
Jayson Price: "Logan...I don't think I can even name all the reasons why he's not going to be able to win this match. There's the fact that outside of his little run as Hardcore Champion where he defended it about as much as Roy Speede and helped sully it's prestige, he hasn't been able to do a god damn thing lately. And is there really anyone who believes that he has it in him to knock off Jonny Fly? Or Steve Orbit? Or me? I mean fuck, I'm sure he could knock off Oblivion and I know he could knock off Cash, I mean anyone could do that, but as the fourth best competitor in this match he holds as much of a chance as you do."
Hank Brown: "But I'm not even in the- oh."
Jayson Price: "Wow, really? Fuck it, I'll let that one slide. Look, Logan, he can still try and act like this is the beginning of the 21st century and he's still the best that WCF has to offer, but facts are facts and he's just treading water these days. He had his run as Hardcore Champion and that's right where he needs to be, going after the second tier belts and competing against guys like Benjamin Atreyu and Remus Micayle and Brent Alpine. Right now any of those guys could not only easily hold their own against Logan, but do a hell of a lot better than him in this match."
Hank Brown: "Well now that seems a bit preposterous."
Jayson Price: "Is it? Is it really preposterous to think that there are competitors in WCF right now that are better than Logan? Look I'm not saying they're more distinguished or that they're more deserving of a Hall Of Fame spot than him, but he's not at the same level he was a decade ago. Times have changed in WCF and they haven't been kind to Logan as he's been determined to stay the same pelvic thrusting, hot dog eating, boudle shouting piece of shit that he's always been."
Hank Brown: "Well he hasn't always been- okay, he hasn't changed that much over the years. But make it sound like he's completely fallen from the top of WCF to the bowels of it."
Jayson Price: "Damn near close to it. He was already falling fast when I came into WCF and I just sped up the process when I knocked him off at One back in 2009."
Hank Brown: "Maybe so, but he came back and put you on the shelf with a broken neck."
Jayson Price: "And then I put him in the hospital. And then we went back and forth beating the shit out of each other whenever we got our hands on each other. It's what the fuck we do. And Timebomb is just going to be the next round in this little war between us and I'm going to come out on top."
Hank Brown: "Any idea if that war is ever going to end?"
Jayson Price: "Fuck if I know. Maybe it'll end at Timebomb if I can my hands on him long enough to break his neck."
Hank Brown: "Ah, a neck for a neck, huh?"
Jayson Price: "What?"
Hank Brown: "Nevermind. I have a feeling I know where this is going to end up going, but what about Oblivion? Is he going to be as easy to knock off as Logan."
Jayson Price: "No, he'll be a tougher task. Then again, just about anyone would be outside of Cash, but Oblivion is probably the only real wild card of the three guys not in Pantheon. Cash has been a near constant disappointment his entire WCF career and Logan is Logan, which leaves Oblivion as the only real threat of them. But not even Oblivion is going to be able to take out one of the three members of Pantheon because the other two are going to be right there to fight him off. We might not have all four of us in the ring, but a three corners superkick is still enough to fuck up even the biggest man."
Hank Brown: "But if it's just you and he, let's say Orbit and Fly have their hands full, then what?"
Jayson Price: "Then nothing changes. Oblivion is the best of the three but that doesn't mean he's going to have a real chance of success. He and I go way back, you know this Hank. He and I used to fight all the time over the Hardcore Title back in the day. I know all of his little tricks, I know his strengths and weaknesses and I know just what the fuck I need to do to beat him. In fact, I could probably give you a play by play of Oblivion's next taped promo for this match that would blow your god damn mind because of how accurate it will be. "*growl* *snort* "Yelling random bullshit" *more growling and more snorting* "More random bullshit yelling" followed by a "you can choke on that" and then it's end fucking scene. In fact, I guarantee you that in 10 years I'll be telling you that Oblivion reminds me of Logan in the way that he doesn't know when the fuck to get some new material and adapt to the times. No one's afraid of a big, ugly freak yelling and snorting into the camera anymore and he's yet to figure it out."
Hank Brown: "And finally, what about Waylon Cash?"
Jayson Price: "What about him?"
Hank Brown: "He's in the match too."
Jayson Price: "Oh? And?"
Hank Brown: "Come on now, surely you don't think so little of him that you're not even going to acknowledge him."
Jayson Price: "Actually Hank, I do think that little of him!"
Cut to black screen. End scene.
Jayson Price: "As Timebomb approaches I can't help but feel a sense of déjà vu come over me. It makes sense, I suppose, I mean how is this time any different than the last time I was walking into a PPV Main Event where I could win the World Title. Jonny Fly is the current World Champion, just like he was in 2012 when I was getting ready to meet him at XIII. The odds against myself are once again overwhelming according to anyone you ask, nowhere near the 50/50 chance that I had going into XIII or the 1 out of 6 chance now. In fact, according to the experts, the fans, the media and anyone else you ask, I'm once again a non factor. It's academic, they say. "Jay Price or Jayson Price, no matter what he calls himself or how he acts, he's still the lowlife piece of shit that chokes under pressure." Walking into XIII all you heard anywhere you went was how Jay Price was going to fall at the feet of the all mighty Jonny Fly. Jay Price was nothing but an alcoholic and prescription pill addict that was hand delivered a World Title match on a silver platter by his good friend Corey Black. He didn't deserve shit because he never earned shit in his pathetic career.
And those were just the nicer things you heard. There's no reason to bring back up all the talk about how Price was stuck in a battle with depression and should just end it. Or at least this time succeed at trying to end it. Oh yeah, that's the kind of shit that sticks with a person. Hearing fans and fellow wrestlers wishing that you would off yourself just because they didn't like the fact that you were fortunate enough to be main eventing a PPV for the World Title. But like I said, no reason to bring all of that shit back up. Back to pre XIII and all of the bullshit being spread, it ranged from little pot shots to some morbid bullshit, but it all carried the same message: Jonny Fly was going to embarrass the lowlife Jay Price and Corey Black for putting him in the match. And now, we're looking at the same situation as we head into the final days before Timebomb. Jonny Fly, World Champion, is still looked upon as being an unbeatable champion. Even with four other men besides Price, each a World Champion at some point in their careers, he's still the odds on favorite because he's been placed on that pedestal by everyone else. A funny thing about that pedestal though, at some point even the best are brought back down to be amongst the regular folk.
Do you think Jonny Fly remembers what it's like to be amongst the regular folk? Or, at the least, remember the last time that he was up on a pedestal being showered by love and praise by all only to be knocked off and sent to the ground as another took his place? He should, because right now he's a little over a day away from stepping into the ring and looking across at the same man that knocked him down at XIII. The one and only man that has ever been able to pin him in a ring with the World Title on the line. And that's some shit right there to think about. The man is a four time World Champion and out of the three times that he's lost the belt only once was it because someone was able to pin him. Eric Price, Sarah Twilight, Jeff Purse, Steve Orbit, Odin Balfore, Nathan von Liebert...the list of main eventers that Fly defended the World Title against during all of those reigns and not one of them was ever able to accomplish the task of pinning him. But I fucking did it. I did the fucking unthinkable and undoable and pinned the unpinnable for the one, two, three and I won the World Title off of him. Fuck all of the bullshit being talked about before the match. Fuck all of the jokes that would come a few weeks later after I dropped the title back to Fly. Two years ago Jonny Fly won his first World Title and then dropped it to me two months later. Since then he's won it three more times, including his current run. He's been stripped of the belt as he went into prison and he was the victim of circumstance in a fatal four way match as he watched someone else get pinned, but he's yet to be pinned and beaten by anyone.
But of course no one ever wants to talk about that. No, it's still fucking cool to be the guy that jokes about the sixteen day title reign. It doesn't matter if you're a Hall Of Famer or a scrub that's just walked in off the street. It doesn't matter if you're a former World Champion or just a World Class disappointment that's yet to live up to the hype made by yourself and your buddies. Nope, it doesn't matter one fucking bit who you are, I'm the joke of the company here for your amusement. Fuck the fact that most of the people that still like to crack those sixteen day jokes are still waiting for the World Title fairy to come and gift them their first belt because they still don't have what it takes to even get into the main event picture. Fuck the fact that if you take away my reign as World Champion, I've still done more shit than 90% of the pieces of crap in this company has ever done and could retire tomorrow before being put into the Hall Of Fame. No, I'm only here to dance like a drunk monkey for your amusement, right? I'm Jayson Price, the nobody, right? The fucking drunk clown that had to have his buddy put him in a World Title match so he could finally say he'd gotten a chance, right? Well then please, just answer me one question: If I, the nobody, am so pathetic and worthless and all the other things I've been labeled, what does that make each and every single one of you out there that has yet to amount to shit but still find it okay to talk shit?
Don't get me wrong, I can handle a bit of shit being thrown my way from a guy like Corey Black. He's an asshole and he fucking knows it. But when he says "Price, you fucked up" I don't get offended, because he knows what the fuck he's talking about. Multi time World Champion and Hall Of Famer, he knows his shit. But when a little Joe Schmo, like Roy Speede or Lilith for example, like to try and stay relevant by talking about things that are above their heads, up there floating in the sky with their dreams, I tend to get a bit pissed. What the fuck do people like you know? It doesn't matter if you just walked through the doors a few weeks ago or you've been here a few years, the fact is that if you have yet to climb the mountain, if you're still down at the bottom looking up with bright, wide eyes, you have no business opening your mouths and talking about people's World Title reigns. Yeah, I had a sixteen day reign, so what? It's like I said to Roy Speede one time when he was running his mouth, "You can talk down my time as World Champion all you want, but at least I've been there. At least I've held the World Title. Your jokes, they're cute, but when are you finally going to shut your mouth and prove you're better than me by winning the strap and holding it longer?". Spoiler alert: Roy never did, he ran off when shit became too hard for him to deal with. Lilith as well, but that's a whole different type of fucker that would take me far too long to talk about.
But I'm getting off track, let's swing all this back to Jonny Fly, XIII and Timebomb. Because no matter who else is in this World Title match, Jonny Fly is going to be keeping what went down at XIII in the back of his mind. Right now, we're friends. We're fucking amigos in Pantheon. But Jonny Fly and I both know that if the situation presents itself and I'm able to get the pin for the World Title, even if it's on Fly himself, I will take it. I'll take it and I'm the only person credible enough in this match to be able to say it. Steve Orbit, Logan, Waylon Cash, Oblivion, all somewhat worthy in their rights, I'm sure, but not one of them can get the job done when it counts like I can. And that's not just some macho bullshit that I'm throwing out there, I know what the fuck I'm talking about. I've beaten everyone in this match before and they've all beaten each other, but none of them has even done what I've done when it comes to Jonny Fly. And Fly knows it. He'll never admit to it, he'll instead fire right back with how he "righted the wrong" a few weeks later, but he knows that he'll have to watch his back at all times in this match to see where I'm at. There was a lot of talk leading up to this match about whether or not Fly and Orbit were really on the same page or not, whether the two of them could keep the Pantheon brotherhood going on in the match, after their recent history. And you know what, it's fair, the two of them have their own issues that they still need to work out. Hell, I'm in the group and I've seen firsthand how they've been getting along recently but even I still wonder whether it's 100% genuine or not. But whether they say they're on the same page or not, neither one of those two want to walk out of this match not holding the World Title. So the inevitable is going to happen at one point or another in the match and they're going to stare each other down until one of them makes a move. And once one of them makes their move, I make mine. Like I said, we're Pantheon amigos through and through and any other time I'd be the first one there to have their backs, but when the opportunity arises for me to win the World Title, I'm not going to let who's a friend and who isn't stop me. It's nothing personal, of course. After all, it's just business, right? I'm not saying that I'm going to do anything that Jonny or Steve aren't thinking right now."
Voice: "Do you actually believe the shit coming out of your mouth sometimes?"
The camera cuts back over to Price as we see the outline of someone standing behind him in the doorway. Price reaches over to his drink beside him, picks it up and swirls the ice around in the glass as he looks ahead into the fire.
Jayson Price: "The last time I saw you, you made it a point to tell me that you'd never be setting foot in this tower again."
The figure steps forward from the doorway and the light from the fire reveals that it's Hank Brown.
Hank Brown: "Yeah, well, when you leave Scoops Callahan with a black eye and his studio destroyed..."
Jayson Price: "Let me stop you right there Hank, I didn't destroy any studio, that was all Biohazard."
Hank Brown: "Yeah well you still left Scoops with one hell of a shiner."
Jayson Price: "I've done worse."
Hank Brown: "And then there's Cameraman Bob."
Jayson Price: "What about him?"
Hank Brown: "No one's seen him or heard from him in a week. His wife's a mess and has been talking nonstop about how she thinks he's dead."
Jayson Price: "Wouldn't be the first time a woman overreacted."
Hank Brown: "Yeah well, be it as it may, with Scoops refusing to be anywhere near you and Bob MIA, I drew the short straw."
Price stops swirling the ice in his glass and throws back the rest of his drink before setting the glass down on the table beside him.
Jayson Price: "Well come in, have a seat. You know how I feel about people standing behind me."
Hank walks around the side of Price and takes a seat in a chair sitting beside the fireplace.
Hank Brown: "Who were you even talking to?"
Price reaches over to the table beside him and picks up a tape recorder before pressing the stop button.
Jayson Price: "Sometimes I like to get my thoughts out of my head. I don't know what it is, but listening to them later sometimes helps when I can't figure something out."
Hank Brown: "Or is it because you're usually too bombed to remember anything?"
Jayson Price: "Fuck you."
Hank Brown: "Ohh, someone's a bit more pissy than usual."
Jayson Price: "You ever wonder what it'd be like to have your face shoved into a burning fire?"
Hank Brown: "Fine, fine, I'll quit with the jokes."
Jayson Price: "So how long were you standing back there? How much did you hear?"
Hank Brown: "Right about the time you started talking about flower petals or pedal bikes or-"
Jayson Price: "Pedestals, you fucking moron."
Hank Brown: "Pedestals, right, yeah. What was that all about?"
Jayson Price: "Just going over stuff in my head before Timebomb. Trying to get everything right up here so I can go into the match clear minded."
Hank Brown: "Makes sense I suppose."
Jayson Price: "Of course it makes sense. And now that you're here, you're going to help."
Hank Brown: "Help?"
Jayson Price: "Yeah, help. You're going to do your job and sit there as I bounce shit off of you."
Hank Brown: "And why the fuck would I do that?"
Jayson Price: "Because it's your job. Why else would you be here?"
Hank Brown: "Like I said, I drew the short straw and had to come here. I never said I was actually going to do anything. Have you forgotten why I told you I was never going to come back here?"
Jayson Price: "Seriously? Are you still harping about that? I made one little mistake-"
Hank Brown: "YOU SLEPT WITH MY DAUGHTER!"
Jayson Price: "She was 19!"
Hank Brown: "HER AGE ISN'T WHY I'M PISSED!"
Jayson Price: "Is it because I talked her into getting an abortion?
Hank Brown: "An a...abor...ABORTION?!?! YOU GOT MY LITTLE GIRL PREGNANT?!?!"
Jayson Price: "Well I did. But it's all good! I mean, it's not like there's a little mulatto Jayson Price running around."
Hank Brown: "I think I'm going to be sick."
Hank races out of the room with his hand covering his mouth, muffling the gagging sounds. You can hear the bathroom door opening followed by the sounds of Hank retching as Price smiles.
Hank Brown: "How could you defile my sweet little angel?"
Jayson Price: "What are you talking about "sweet little angel"? Let me tell you something Hank, that little girl of yours curses worse than I do when she orgasms. And the scratches...Jesus Christ Hank, you'd have thought a rabid raccoon had gotten trapped in the back of my shirt after that little demon was done with me."
More retching sounds from the bathroom in between Hank yelling out obscenities at Price until finally he comes back into the room, drying his hands off on his pants.
Jayson Price: "Please tell me you cleaned up in there at least."
Hank Brown: "For the love of God Price, tell me that was just a sick joke."
Jayson Price: "Okay, fine, you got me."
Hank Brown: "Oh thank Jesus."
Jayson Price: "She was more of the strangle me type than a "I'ma scratch you up good" type."
Hank Brown: "..."
Jayson Price: "So did you clean up in there or not?"
Hank Brown: "Fuck you."
Jayson Price: "Okay fine, you don't have to. We can just call it even I guess."
Hank Brown: "Even? EVEN?!?! YOU'RE LUCKY I DON'T-"
Jayson reaches for his bottle of Jack Daniels and Hank nearly jumps out of his shoes anticipating being hit.
Jayson Price: "That's what I thought. Now sit down Hank, we've got business to talk."
Hank doesn't look at all sure about what is going to come next, but eventually he lets out a sigh and settles back down into the chair beside the fire. Price stares at him for a few moments and then reaches back over to the bottle sitting beside him. He twists off the top and then pours himself a second drink, all the while staring ahead at Hank.
Jayson Price: "Well?"
Hank Brown: "Well what?"
Jayson Price: "Come on Hank, you're an interviewer. We used to do this back and forth kind of thing all the time before you decided that you'd rather be a pussy and avoid me."
Hank Brown: "Oh yeah, I'm a big pussy. I should have loved being left in Tijuana, drunk in bed with transvestites. Or getting my ass kicked in bars after you told bikers I was trying to get their women to duck into the men's room with me. What kind of person wouldn't want to put as much space between them and you as possible?"
Jayson Price: "I don't know, maybe someone who doesn't have a giant, gaping vagina?"
Hank Brown: "You know what, fuck you. You want to do the little back and forth bullshit like the old days, fine. Whatever will get me the hell out of here."
Jayson Price: "That's the spirit!"
Hank Brown: "So what's the plan for not looking like a huge disappointment? You know, as oppose to how you usually come off to people as?"
Jayson Price: "Cute. Thing is, I really don't have a full on plan. You can't have a plan going into a six man match like this because there's too many god damn variables that you can't account for. For example, I know Steve, Jonny and myself aren't going to let the belt leave Pantheon. We might just end up beating the shit out of each other before the match is over, but you can be guaranteed that we won't let Oblivion, Waylon Cash or...for the love of God I can't even believe there's a chance...Logan walk out of Timebomb holding the World Title. So the three of us are going to be working together, at least once the bell rings. But outside of us three, who know what the fuck is going to happen. Logan, Oblivion and Cash could decide early on to take a similar strategy and work together. Shit, they could decide to just say fuck it and start brawling amongst themselves so the three Pantheon bros can play charades. You just don't know what is going on inside of their minds outside of their own desire to hold the belt."
Hank Brown: "Well let's say you, Fly and Orbit do in fact work together once the bell rings to take out the other three guys. Let's picture the three of them laid out outside of the ring and you three standing tall in the ring. What then? Are you three just going to sit down and have a tea party or are you going to fight?"
Jayson Price: "Oh we'll fight, you can count on that. Once we've handled business and disposed of the trash, the three of us will have a three-way dance for the ages for the fans to determine the World Champion."
Hank Brown: "Sounds beautiful and all, but do you really expect it to turn out as nice as you're making it out to be? I mean, you make it sound like you, Fly and Orbit won't be trying to pull one out on the other for the win."
Jayson Price: "That's one of those variables Hank. Like I said, I've got the rough plan in my head about taking out the other three along with the boys, but at the same time I'm ready for all hell to break loose."
Hank Brown: "And if all hell should break loose?"
Jayson Price: "Well then it's time for a fucking fight. All hell breaks loose, I'm grabbing anything that's moving and I'm hitting it with a fucking Downfall. If there's a little collateral damage, my bad, it was nothing personal."
Hank Brown: "And all of this, you've been talking with Steve and Jonny about it? You guys been formulating any strategies or anything?"
Jayson Price: "Well you know we've had some of the classic Pantheon team meetings, and we've talked about things. Jonny, he wants to be World Champion when all is said and done, but he's also been making it clear that if he should be beat, he wants it to be either Steve or myself that take the belt from him."
Hank Brown: "And do you believe that?"
Jayson Price: "I do, mostly. I mean I do honestly believe that at the end of the day he'd much rather see Steve or myself as World Champion than Logan, Cash or Oblivion. But the way he sounds when he says it, it makes me believe that despite how happy he says he'd be to see one of us two with the belt, inside he'd still be pissed that he was no longer "that guy". And that's not to say he'd lose any credibility in this company, the man is still going to be up there amongst the greats if he loses the matches. But being the World Champion means something to him, you can just see it in his eyes."
Hank Brown: "Well with all that lovely sentiment, I gotta ask, do you really think it would be that easy for you to be the guy to pin him?"
Jayson Price: "Oh, absolutely. Look, Jonny is my boy. Out of everyone else in Pantheon he's really the only fucker that I can say I trust. Steve, he's new and I'm getting to know him. Corey, well you all know that bullshit. But Fly, despite some rocky talk here and there in the past, we get each other. The thing is though, and he knows this, I want that belt. And I know you can say "Well duh, everyone wants to be the World Champion", but I want that fucking belt more than anyone. Steve would make for one hell of a champion and Jonny has been proven to be one of the best champs of all time, but that belt needs to be back around the sexy waist of yours truly so that I can tell each and every fucker out there to suck my cock."
Hank Brown: "You really think a second two week reign would silence your critics?"
Jayson Price: "You really think you're cute trying to piss me off?"
Hank Brown: "I was asking a legitimate question. I heard mostly the same stuff come from you two years ago when you were gunning for the World Title at XIII and you ended up dropping the ball after calling for it for years. So do you really think this time is going to be any different if you should win the belt a second time?"
Jayson Price: "I'm not the same person I was two years ago Hank. Two years ago I was still the same kid that had walked into WCF in 2009, hotheaded as fuck and wanting nothing but accolades. But this is 2014 and I'm a whole new person Hank. I've got all the accolades that I was still searching for two years back, I'm more mature and I know what it takes to be a winner. My mind is clear and focused and I know what I have to do to not only win the World Title for a second time, but be a fucking champion that people look at and say "Fuck, that's a hell of a wrestler"."
Hank Brown: "Like I said, that all sounds really nice and all but I've heard it before from you Price. You claim to be this whole new person and then you either fail and then revert back to your old self or you succeed only to make a giant ass out of yourself and then revert back to your old self. And yeah, maybe you are a bit more mature and maybe you've proved that you can win bigger matches finally, but deep down we both know that you're always going to be that hotheaded loudmouth desperate for accolades and attention. You're not capable of change, hell look what you did at One. You had to make a big spectacle to announce your return and tell everyone that you were a changed man. How do you expect people to believe you're a changed man when you're standing in front of them still doing what you've always done? That'd be like me going to an AA meeting, telling the crowd that I want to be a new man and then cracking open a beer."
Jayson Price: "I'm sorry, was there a question in there somewhere?"
Hank Brown: "You see, this is what I mean. I'm telling you that no one is ever going to believe you when you say you're not the same person from years ago, and you're making a joke of it."
Jayson Price: "Well in my defense, I really could give a fuck less about your opinion of me Hank. You want to sit there and criticize me for everything I've ever done, well then fuck, what do you want me to say? "Oh no, you didn't?" I don't expect you or anyone else to just take my word for it but I am not the same person from years ago. And I'm going to shut you and everyone else up when I'm holding that World Title up in the air as Timebomb ends."
Hank Brown: "Well I'll tell you what, why don't we just go ahead and move on to the five reasons I know why that's not the image we're going to be seeing: your opponents."
Jayson Price: "Have at it."
Hank Brown: "Well where the hell should I begin? Oh, I know. You talked about the possibility of a Pantheon assault on the other three guys when the bell rang so that the three of you would be all that was remaining to determine a winner. So let's take that scenario to the next step and let me ask you just how in the hell you expect to be able to knock off either Steve Orbit or Jonny Fly to be the World Champion."
Jayson Price: "Fly, I've already done it before. Come on Hank, you were standing right there behind me listening as I talked about XIII and Jonny Fly and our past. We're buddies now but there was a time when I had his number and I still do. When he was the unstoppable, unbeatable and undefeated World Champion in 2012, I stopped, beat and defeated him. Now yeah, Fly turned around and beat me to take back the belt, but I figured out what no one up until that point, and hell even up until now, could and that was how to get the better of Fly when the stakes were at their highest. Now it's two years later and I still know how to get the better of Jonny Fly and not one other person in this match can even begin to lay claim to that."
Hank Brown: "Including Ste-"
Jayson Price: "Yes, including Steve Orbit, Hank. Like Fly, the two of us are buddies, but the fact is that Steve couldn't get the job done if it were to come down to just Fly and him. Him and Cash, him and Oblivion or him and Logan, I'll bet on Steve every fucking time. But Steve Orbit one on one with Jonny Fly or myself and he's going to lose. And that's not a knock on Steve, don't get me wrong he's a hell of a competitor, but he's still got some proving to do before he's up there on the same level as Fly or even myself."
Hank Brown: "You're really putting yourself above everyone these days, aren't you?"
Jayson Price: "Facts are facts, Hank."
Hank Brown: "Well there's also the fact that Steve Orbit's World Title reign was twice as long as your sixteen day reign."
Jayson Price: "Touche, that it was. And I give him all the credit in the world for being the person that was able to end what was Sarah Twilight's horrendous reign as champion. But a month long reign as World Champion doesn't bump him up to the top of the list of competitors in WCF just like a sixteen day reign as World Champion doesn't drop me any. So you want to ask me how I expect to knock off Steve Orbit if it comes to it, let me ask you what makes you think I can't knock him off."
Hank Brown: "Well he's not just another nobody, for starters."
Jayson Price: "True, he's not a nobody. He's just not enough a somebody yet. And yes, before you inevitably ask me, I've heard what Steve has had to say about me as of late. And no, I'm not going to respond to his shit. Instead, let me just say that Pantheon bro or not, I'll be more than happy to prove that the Raiders aren't the only thing black and embarrassing to come from Oakland when I drop him for the one, two, three."
Hank Brown: "Cute. Well let's switch up the scenario. The other three men in the match decide to band together and suddenly you, Fly and Orbit are looking at one hell of a fight. What are you going to do if it comes down to you and Logan."
Price stops mid-sip and lowers his drink as he stares ahead at Hank.
Jayson Price: "I'll fucking kill him."
Price raises his drink back up and takes another sip as Hank smiles.
Hank Brown: "Always nice to see the brotherly love between you two."
Jayson Price: "You can go fuck yourself right off the nearest cliff."
Hank Brown: "Why don't you go ahead and continue?"
Jayson Price: "Logan...I don't think I can even name all the reasons why he's not going to be able to win this match. There's the fact that outside of his little run as Hardcore Champion where he defended it about as much as Roy Speede and helped sully it's prestige, he hasn't been able to do a god damn thing lately. And is there really anyone who believes that he has it in him to knock off Jonny Fly? Or Steve Orbit? Or me? I mean fuck, I'm sure he could knock off Oblivion and I know he could knock off Cash, I mean anyone could do that, but as the fourth best competitor in this match he holds as much of a chance as you do."
Hank Brown: "But I'm not even in the- oh."
Jayson Price: "Wow, really? Fuck it, I'll let that one slide. Look, Logan, he can still try and act like this is the beginning of the 21st century and he's still the best that WCF has to offer, but facts are facts and he's just treading water these days. He had his run as Hardcore Champion and that's right where he needs to be, going after the second tier belts and competing against guys like Benjamin Atreyu and Remus Micayle and Brent Alpine. Right now any of those guys could not only easily hold their own against Logan, but do a hell of a lot better than him in this match."
Hank Brown: "Well now that seems a bit preposterous."
Jayson Price: "Is it? Is it really preposterous to think that there are competitors in WCF right now that are better than Logan? Look I'm not saying they're more distinguished or that they're more deserving of a Hall Of Fame spot than him, but he's not at the same level he was a decade ago. Times have changed in WCF and they haven't been kind to Logan as he's been determined to stay the same pelvic thrusting, hot dog eating, boudle shouting piece of shit that he's always been."
Hank Brown: "Well he hasn't always been- okay, he hasn't changed that much over the years. But make it sound like he's completely fallen from the top of WCF to the bowels of it."
Jayson Price: "Damn near close to it. He was already falling fast when I came into WCF and I just sped up the process when I knocked him off at One back in 2009."
Hank Brown: "Maybe so, but he came back and put you on the shelf with a broken neck."
Jayson Price: "And then I put him in the hospital. And then we went back and forth beating the shit out of each other whenever we got our hands on each other. It's what the fuck we do. And Timebomb is just going to be the next round in this little war between us and I'm going to come out on top."
Hank Brown: "Any idea if that war is ever going to end?"
Jayson Price: "Fuck if I know. Maybe it'll end at Timebomb if I can my hands on him long enough to break his neck."
Hank Brown: "Ah, a neck for a neck, huh?"
Jayson Price: "What?"
Hank Brown: "Nevermind. I have a feeling I know where this is going to end up going, but what about Oblivion? Is he going to be as easy to knock off as Logan."
Jayson Price: "No, he'll be a tougher task. Then again, just about anyone would be outside of Cash, but Oblivion is probably the only real wild card of the three guys not in Pantheon. Cash has been a near constant disappointment his entire WCF career and Logan is Logan, which leaves Oblivion as the only real threat of them. But not even Oblivion is going to be able to take out one of the three members of Pantheon because the other two are going to be right there to fight him off. We might not have all four of us in the ring, but a three corners superkick is still enough to fuck up even the biggest man."
Hank Brown: "But if it's just you and he, let's say Orbit and Fly have their hands full, then what?"
Jayson Price: "Then nothing changes. Oblivion is the best of the three but that doesn't mean he's going to have a real chance of success. He and I go way back, you know this Hank. He and I used to fight all the time over the Hardcore Title back in the day. I know all of his little tricks, I know his strengths and weaknesses and I know just what the fuck I need to do to beat him. In fact, I could probably give you a play by play of Oblivion's next taped promo for this match that would blow your god damn mind because of how accurate it will be. "*growl* *snort* "Yelling random bullshit" *more growling and more snorting* "More random bullshit yelling" followed by a "you can choke on that" and then it's end fucking scene. In fact, I guarantee you that in 10 years I'll be telling you that Oblivion reminds me of Logan in the way that he doesn't know when the fuck to get some new material and adapt to the times. No one's afraid of a big, ugly freak yelling and snorting into the camera anymore and he's yet to figure it out."
Hank Brown: "And finally, what about Waylon Cash?"
Jayson Price: "What about him?"
Hank Brown: "He's in the match too."
Jayson Price: "Oh? And?"
Hank Brown: "Come on now, surely you don't think so little of him that you're not even going to acknowledge him."
Jayson Price: "Actually Hank, I do think that little of him!"
Cut to black screen. End scene.
