Post by Thunder on Jul 22, 2007 11:56:22 GMT -5
OOC: Sorry, I'll do better next week.
Michael, the WCF wrestler more commonly known as Thunder, had a lot on his mind lately. For quite some time, he stepped away from the WCF ring. One of the most decorated wrestlers WCF had ever seen took the time off, but why? It is the reasons only he knows.
Those reasons, if he had told others, would have sounded simple and reasonable to anyone that would have heard it. For nearly a year straight, Michael stepped into a WCF ring and won titles, but at a physical price. Any wrestler would tell you that the wear and tear of wrestling constantly takes a strong, strong toll on the person, physically and mentally. He had many triumphs, and at the same time, many failures. During his time in WCF, he has held every title in WCF except for the World Title. And in some ways, what happened in his shot at the World Title was his greatest failure and possibly what led him to not really being an active competitor.
His Pyramid Match against Skyler Striker for the World Title was not only the biggest match of his WCF career, but probably the biggest match in his career anywhere. With a win here, he would have become a WCF grand slam champion, something that can only be dreamed about by most people that have ever competed for WCF. He had defeated Striker before, and thus was probably a little more arrogant than he should have been. But what he really hadn’t prepared himself for was just how brutal the Pyramid Match would be. Michael may have never really been a hardcore wrestler, but he had certainly had been in hardcore matches before, and even was Hardcore Champion at one time. Throughout his career in WCF and elsewhere, Michael was hit with weapons, bled buckets on ring mats, fought through crowds, and so much more. But there was nothing, absolutely nothing, that could prepare him for what he had to face in the Pyramid Match. By the end, Michael was nearly a shell of who he was when he entered the arena. Shards of glass entered his body in every exposed everywhere and would not leave until later on the locker room when he ripped it out of his flesh. He took a horrible, crushing fall from the top of the structure to the bottom. This was only one part of the excruciating pain that he went through he went through in the match. Striker may have also felt great pain, but in the end he was able to say that he was still WCF Champion. Michael went through all of that and in the end, he had nothing to show for it except for scars.
Although he did compete after that match, even moments after the match he was thinking that a break was just what he needed. That match had seemed to drain everything he had from him. Maybe it was burnout from the entire year, maybe it was from just that match, but whatever it was, it needed to be done. And now he was ready to return again, ready to make an impact in WCF…
[/left]Those reasons, if he had told others, would have sounded simple and reasonable to anyone that would have heard it. For nearly a year straight, Michael stepped into a WCF ring and won titles, but at a physical price. Any wrestler would tell you that the wear and tear of wrestling constantly takes a strong, strong toll on the person, physically and mentally. He had many triumphs, and at the same time, many failures. During his time in WCF, he has held every title in WCF except for the World Title. And in some ways, what happened in his shot at the World Title was his greatest failure and possibly what led him to not really being an active competitor.
His Pyramid Match against Skyler Striker for the World Title was not only the biggest match of his WCF career, but probably the biggest match in his career anywhere. With a win here, he would have become a WCF grand slam champion, something that can only be dreamed about by most people that have ever competed for WCF. He had defeated Striker before, and thus was probably a little more arrogant than he should have been. But what he really hadn’t prepared himself for was just how brutal the Pyramid Match would be. Michael may have never really been a hardcore wrestler, but he had certainly had been in hardcore matches before, and even was Hardcore Champion at one time. Throughout his career in WCF and elsewhere, Michael was hit with weapons, bled buckets on ring mats, fought through crowds, and so much more. But there was nothing, absolutely nothing, that could prepare him for what he had to face in the Pyramid Match. By the end, Michael was nearly a shell of who he was when he entered the arena. Shards of glass entered his body in every exposed everywhere and would not leave until later on the locker room when he ripped it out of his flesh. He took a horrible, crushing fall from the top of the structure to the bottom. This was only one part of the excruciating pain that he went through he went through in the match. Striker may have also felt great pain, but in the end he was able to say that he was still WCF Champion. Michael went through all of that and in the end, he had nothing to show for it except for scars.
Although he did compete after that match, even moments after the match he was thinking that a break was just what he needed. That match had seemed to drain everything he had from him. Maybe it was burnout from the entire year, maybe it was from just that match, but whatever it was, it needed to be done. And now he was ready to return again, ready to make an impact in WCF…
