Post by recklessjack on Jan 21, 2007 23:31:56 GMT -5
We open up to a darkly lit room. On a couple of candles are burning. There is a huge red screen that we can kinda see but not really. Then the face of Reckless Jack appears out of no where. He is smiling for a moment but that quickly turns into an expressionless face. We notice that there is some sweat on his forehead but not much. Reckless Jack sighs and starts in.
Reckless Jack: Here we are, One closing down upon us. The final night I will be in Wrestling Championship Federation. The final night I will be stepping into that ring. The final night where I will hear those fans out there cheer for me. We all know through out my career that I haven't cared about the fans much but they respected me at times. They might not have wanted to but I got their respect. Those fans who used to boo me, call me names are now cheering me. But is that because they know I am leaving or does that matter. In some promotions, wrestlers going out usually get booed, saying out sold out. In other promotions, wrestlers will get cheered because the fans remember the memory of what that wrestler did. They remember what he was able to do. They remember what he accomplished, what he said, what he did in the ring. It seems that the WCF fans have chose that route. These fans are unlike any other fans in wrestling. And for that, I thank them.
Reckless Jack smirks.
Reckless Jack: One, what a event that is. I should know. I mean, I have been at both of them. At the first One, my opponent was Creeping Death, the "Human Horror Show" as he liked to call himself. Something he has broke away from though. The Creeping Death you see now is nothing like the Creeping Death I faced about two years ago. Creeping Death was the first person I had interaction with in WCF. Creeping Death had just pinned Logan after a hard fought match up. So, I jump right into, hitting Creeping Death with a Springboard Bulldog. That was my WCF debut. After that, he cost me my debut match against a guy by the name of Eric Willson. At One, we know what happened. We know that by some stroke of luck or skill, I was able to defeat Creeping Death in his match. I won at the biggest show WCF had ever seen. Quite an accomplishment consider I was only a month into my career.
Reckless Jack's smirk goes away as a that blank look comes across again.
Reckless Jack: Then I got a big head. Most rookies can go through this. They manage to beat a top star and think they are hot shit. I went through this and it cost me. Just ask Nate Nytro. Just ask the Big Timers. You see, the Big Timers was my failed idea for a stable in WCF. I basically started with two other rookies and it fizzled out really fast. So I was left without the first title I had won and no friends. So the War came and I had a small spat with Outcast, something that would finally come to form in 2006. But then, I was just like a fly to him. So the War came and Creeping Death shocked everyone by showing up and pinning me. Soon after that, WCF was done. WCF was done and I didn't know what to think.
So I hopped around from place to place until WCF opened up again. I came back for the War Games and War match. A true rivalry was born that night as I pinned Nate Nytro in the War Games match, the only true War Games match in WCF history. Quite an accomplishment in my mind but that might be just me though. So, Nate and myself locked horns so many times in 2005 and he couldn't pin me. From a Hardcore match at Slam, to Aftermath, to the Elimination Chamber that took place, he couldn't pin me. So we finally met up again at One. Three Stages of Hell match. I beat Nate in the Street Fight, he won the Texas Death Match and finally he was able to defeat me in a TLC match. A match that saw me get Suplexed off a ladder through a flaming table. Nate had finally beat me and WCF closed down again.
Reckless Jack nods his head.
Reckless Jack: Then, 2006, WCF comes back to life again. WCF comes back and I come back because this is where my career was born. War came and went without nothing of note expect Logan winning it and getting a bigger head then though possible. After that was a crazy ass month. I joined the Team of Treachery for about a week. Then a dispute happened backstage and many things happened. Dake Ken suddenly left WCF and that left a spot open in the main event for Till Death Do Us Part. Creeping Death and myself filled that spot up. What happened was nothing short of amazing. All my life I have heard how I wasn't good enough to win the WCF World Title. Well, I did win it and then I just, something happened in me. I don't know how to explain it but I was a horrible champion. I'll be the first to admit it. I did nothing of note except for losing. I lost the title to Outcast and did some things with Logan. He beat me and then I quit.
Then I came back as my real name, nothing special. In fact, for months now I have pretty much been going through the motions. I have been floating along doing this or that. Didn't really matter. In the process though I have beaten the people I wanted to beat. Nothing more and nothing less. I look around in the locker room anymore and see faces I hardly know. Guys like Danny Vice or Skyler Striker for example. The people I knew like Nate were basically gone. I guess that is part of life though. Part of being a wrestler. Seeing people go that you were friends with outside of the ring just leave. Am I happy with the life I chose though? The life of living on the road, the life of never knowing what is going to happen... I can easily say I am.
Reckless Jack runs his hands through his hair.
Reckless Jack: Sure my wife left me for another guy she was fucking. Do I regret that? No, I don't feel that was my fault. That was her choice. Do I regret this past month in WCF? No I don't. I have come to learn that if you regret something, you'll just be stuck in a rut, never being able to move forward because you continually think about what has happened in the past. The past is the past. The title reigns, the wins, the losses, the beatdown, the blood, the tears, all of the things that have happened to me in here in Wrestling Championship Federation is in the past now. This is it. This is my swan song for the promotion that helped me out in more ways then you can imagine. I learned from watching the veterans when I debuted here. I learned in 2005 from my matches against Nate Nytro. I learned in 2006 from my matches with Logan. Every year I have learned something about myself in WCF. But this year, I have learned it's simply time to move on. It may not be the most popular decision with everyone but it's just something I have to do.
There comes a time in a person's life when they come to terms with what they have done and have to move on. This is one of those times. But believe me when I said I thought about this for months. I had thought about this decision since Aftermath when I faced Torture. This decision is just something I didn't make overnight. I kept it all to myself until I knew for certain about what I wanted to do. You fans were the first people to know my decision about what to do. It was shocking but I know most of you think I'll just be back in a month or so. But I am not going to be. This is it, like I have been saying. No longer will there be instant returns that people have come to know me by.
Reckless Jack shakes his head.
Reckless Jack: Instead of accepting it, Seth Lerch has decided to try to end my career before I am done in WCF. Seth Lerch is trying to keep me from working elsewhere. From hitting me with my own finisher on a chair no less. From signing that huge handicap match where I knew I was going to get my ass beat but I still went into that match. Then I was basically dropped onto hard cemement. That should have put me on the shelf but I didn't care. You saw what I did to Cryboy. He was my messenger for Seth. He was the person I needed to take my aggressions out on until One. He had to be it. Then Seth bails on me in that tag team match. I knew he was going to do it but I still went out there and tried to win. I had no chance. He wasn't going to tag in so I did what I had to do. Almost won the damn thing on my own. But Seth, at One, you will have no where to run. Sure this is a No DQ, Falls Count Anywhere match but you and I both know that what I am going to do to you is nothing short of homicide.
You see Seth, ever since you and Logan kicked me out of the ToT all those months ago, I have had nothing but ideas of revenge in my head. I have nearly defeated every member that has been in the Team of Treachery recently. I beat JJ Biggs, I beat Logan, I beat Danny Vice before he was in the Team of Treachery but still, you get my point. This is it, you are the final mark on the list Seth. You are the only person I really need to beat in WCF now. It's just you and me and the ring. I don't care what it takes, I just know that I will leave the winner in my final match and you will leave under the help of the EMTs. WCF, this is the goodbye I want. This is the goodbye to all of you.
A bit of tears are forming in the eyes of Reckless Jack.
Reckless Jack: Thank you.
Reckless Jack sighs as he turns around and walks away from the area for the last time.
Reckless Jack: Here we are, One closing down upon us. The final night I will be in Wrestling Championship Federation. The final night I will be stepping into that ring. The final night where I will hear those fans out there cheer for me. We all know through out my career that I haven't cared about the fans much but they respected me at times. They might not have wanted to but I got their respect. Those fans who used to boo me, call me names are now cheering me. But is that because they know I am leaving or does that matter. In some promotions, wrestlers going out usually get booed, saying out sold out. In other promotions, wrestlers will get cheered because the fans remember the memory of what that wrestler did. They remember what he was able to do. They remember what he accomplished, what he said, what he did in the ring. It seems that the WCF fans have chose that route. These fans are unlike any other fans in wrestling. And for that, I thank them.
Reckless Jack smirks.
Reckless Jack: One, what a event that is. I should know. I mean, I have been at both of them. At the first One, my opponent was Creeping Death, the "Human Horror Show" as he liked to call himself. Something he has broke away from though. The Creeping Death you see now is nothing like the Creeping Death I faced about two years ago. Creeping Death was the first person I had interaction with in WCF. Creeping Death had just pinned Logan after a hard fought match up. So, I jump right into, hitting Creeping Death with a Springboard Bulldog. That was my WCF debut. After that, he cost me my debut match against a guy by the name of Eric Willson. At One, we know what happened. We know that by some stroke of luck or skill, I was able to defeat Creeping Death in his match. I won at the biggest show WCF had ever seen. Quite an accomplishment consider I was only a month into my career.
Reckless Jack's smirk goes away as a that blank look comes across again.
Reckless Jack: Then I got a big head. Most rookies can go through this. They manage to beat a top star and think they are hot shit. I went through this and it cost me. Just ask Nate Nytro. Just ask the Big Timers. You see, the Big Timers was my failed idea for a stable in WCF. I basically started with two other rookies and it fizzled out really fast. So I was left without the first title I had won and no friends. So the War came and I had a small spat with Outcast, something that would finally come to form in 2006. But then, I was just like a fly to him. So the War came and Creeping Death shocked everyone by showing up and pinning me. Soon after that, WCF was done. WCF was done and I didn't know what to think.
So I hopped around from place to place until WCF opened up again. I came back for the War Games and War match. A true rivalry was born that night as I pinned Nate Nytro in the War Games match, the only true War Games match in WCF history. Quite an accomplishment in my mind but that might be just me though. So, Nate and myself locked horns so many times in 2005 and he couldn't pin me. From a Hardcore match at Slam, to Aftermath, to the Elimination Chamber that took place, he couldn't pin me. So we finally met up again at One. Three Stages of Hell match. I beat Nate in the Street Fight, he won the Texas Death Match and finally he was able to defeat me in a TLC match. A match that saw me get Suplexed off a ladder through a flaming table. Nate had finally beat me and WCF closed down again.
Reckless Jack nods his head.
Reckless Jack: Then, 2006, WCF comes back to life again. WCF comes back and I come back because this is where my career was born. War came and went without nothing of note expect Logan winning it and getting a bigger head then though possible. After that was a crazy ass month. I joined the Team of Treachery for about a week. Then a dispute happened backstage and many things happened. Dake Ken suddenly left WCF and that left a spot open in the main event for Till Death Do Us Part. Creeping Death and myself filled that spot up. What happened was nothing short of amazing. All my life I have heard how I wasn't good enough to win the WCF World Title. Well, I did win it and then I just, something happened in me. I don't know how to explain it but I was a horrible champion. I'll be the first to admit it. I did nothing of note except for losing. I lost the title to Outcast and did some things with Logan. He beat me and then I quit.
Then I came back as my real name, nothing special. In fact, for months now I have pretty much been going through the motions. I have been floating along doing this or that. Didn't really matter. In the process though I have beaten the people I wanted to beat. Nothing more and nothing less. I look around in the locker room anymore and see faces I hardly know. Guys like Danny Vice or Skyler Striker for example. The people I knew like Nate were basically gone. I guess that is part of life though. Part of being a wrestler. Seeing people go that you were friends with outside of the ring just leave. Am I happy with the life I chose though? The life of living on the road, the life of never knowing what is going to happen... I can easily say I am.
Reckless Jack runs his hands through his hair.
Reckless Jack: Sure my wife left me for another guy she was fucking. Do I regret that? No, I don't feel that was my fault. That was her choice. Do I regret this past month in WCF? No I don't. I have come to learn that if you regret something, you'll just be stuck in a rut, never being able to move forward because you continually think about what has happened in the past. The past is the past. The title reigns, the wins, the losses, the beatdown, the blood, the tears, all of the things that have happened to me in here in Wrestling Championship Federation is in the past now. This is it. This is my swan song for the promotion that helped me out in more ways then you can imagine. I learned from watching the veterans when I debuted here. I learned in 2005 from my matches against Nate Nytro. I learned in 2006 from my matches with Logan. Every year I have learned something about myself in WCF. But this year, I have learned it's simply time to move on. It may not be the most popular decision with everyone but it's just something I have to do.
There comes a time in a person's life when they come to terms with what they have done and have to move on. This is one of those times. But believe me when I said I thought about this for months. I had thought about this decision since Aftermath when I faced Torture. This decision is just something I didn't make overnight. I kept it all to myself until I knew for certain about what I wanted to do. You fans were the first people to know my decision about what to do. It was shocking but I know most of you think I'll just be back in a month or so. But I am not going to be. This is it, like I have been saying. No longer will there be instant returns that people have come to know me by.
Reckless Jack shakes his head.
Reckless Jack: Instead of accepting it, Seth Lerch has decided to try to end my career before I am done in WCF. Seth Lerch is trying to keep me from working elsewhere. From hitting me with my own finisher on a chair no less. From signing that huge handicap match where I knew I was going to get my ass beat but I still went into that match. Then I was basically dropped onto hard cemement. That should have put me on the shelf but I didn't care. You saw what I did to Cryboy. He was my messenger for Seth. He was the person I needed to take my aggressions out on until One. He had to be it. Then Seth bails on me in that tag team match. I knew he was going to do it but I still went out there and tried to win. I had no chance. He wasn't going to tag in so I did what I had to do. Almost won the damn thing on my own. But Seth, at One, you will have no where to run. Sure this is a No DQ, Falls Count Anywhere match but you and I both know that what I am going to do to you is nothing short of homicide.
You see Seth, ever since you and Logan kicked me out of the ToT all those months ago, I have had nothing but ideas of revenge in my head. I have nearly defeated every member that has been in the Team of Treachery recently. I beat JJ Biggs, I beat Logan, I beat Danny Vice before he was in the Team of Treachery but still, you get my point. This is it, you are the final mark on the list Seth. You are the only person I really need to beat in WCF now. It's just you and me and the ring. I don't care what it takes, I just know that I will leave the winner in my final match and you will leave under the help of the EMTs. WCF, this is the goodbye I want. This is the goodbye to all of you.
A bit of tears are forming in the eyes of Reckless Jack.
Reckless Jack: Thank you.
Reckless Jack sighs as he turns around and walks away from the area for the last time.
