Jordan Ciserano vs Thomas Uriel Bates

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::The scene opens to Jordan Ciserano about an hour after his match against Greg St Matthews at “The Ultimate Showdown” at the Izod Center. He looks a bit tired, as you would expect after a long hard fought battle, but it looks like not even fatigue and bodily harm could stop Jordan from watching the main event match at “The Ultimate Showdown.” Why Jordan is so intent in watching this match? We do not know yet. All we do know is that the gears in his head are working, watching, and learning about every competitor in this match. Does he think that he will be fighting against one of the champions in the near future? Is he watching to see what it takes to become a champion in WCF? Is it a combination of both that if he learns what it takes to be a champion here he will fight and win a championship?

Jordan watches the first part of the match in the large common area with the rest of the roster, many of which competed earlier on in the night. With ice packs taped to their legs and pre-wrap taped around their bodies all sitting down watching the main event match. As each move hits the locker room reacts depending on whom they are cheering for; boos, cheers, yelling, and clapping are all apart of the spirited reactions. With all these excited reactions the camera zooms into Jordan who is normally apart of the more raucous part of the roster hoping to see him standing on a chair doing something crazy. This time though his has a straight face, sitting down, focused on what’s going on like he is a scout looking for talent as opposed to a spectator watching the match for entertainment.

At exactly the time that Brent Alpine was pinned by Thomas Uriel Bates, Jordan narrows his eyes in with absolute focus on the man that pinned his former Sequitus teammate. With a huge roster reaction after the massive choke slam Jordan leans forward looking for a way that Brent could’ve escaped, or perhaps a way that he’ll be able to. Jordan leans back in his chair for a few seconds, looking up at the ceiling thinking about the possible escape before he slowly moves out of the room, wanting to study the match and not wanting to distract anyone from the match. Moving to the green room he sits down on a brown leather couch watching the rest of the match on his tablet where he can watch in a bit more silence and a bit more detail.

It is not hard to see after a few moments that Jordan is fixated on Thomas Uriel Bates more and more as the match rolls on, any pattern that he sees he writes down, any advantage that’s open, he writes down. When the camera zooms into his notes section it shows only one move though, “The Badge,” underlined, bolded, and highlighted as he had used it against Brent Alpine and now against Zombie McMorris taking him out of the match. Jordan knows that to defeat Thomas Bates he would need to be able to counter or avoid that move, so keeping it in his mind is exactly what he needs to do. The match continues and nearly every time that something is mentioned about Thomas Bates he writes it down under the heavily notated “The Badge,” including “Powerhouse” and “Mountain” two words that epitomize Bates according to the announcers of the match.

More fighting, more watching, more notes all the way until the end of the match. At the conclusion of the match Jordan stands up and begins to pace around the room thinking about what he just saw. The pacing continues as Jordan begins writing a lengthy description for himself so he can look back at the notes and knew what went on, right when he finishes it though he deletes it and replaces it with something much shorter. As the camera moves in, Jordan turns his tablet off so that the camera and audience can’t see what he wrote down. Jordan begins to walk out of the room, heading back to his hotel, before stopping and turning around to the camera, and with a slight smile saying what must’ve wrote down.::

“Time to move a mountain, time to get to the top of one.”

::He winks at the camera with a smirk and walks out of the room toward the garage tipping off the audience to who Thomas Bates will be defending his newly won title against, Jordan Ciserano. Confirming the earlier questions that he knew he was to fight a champion, but he didn’t know which one. Now that the match has ended both he and the audience know that there is only one man that Jordan wants to face, only one title that he wants to fight for, and only one goal that he has, “… [to]move a mountain… to get to the top of one.” With this the camera fades to black still hearing some cheering and booing from the other room as “The Ultimate Showdown” concludes.::

::The next scene opens to Jordan Ciserano inside his hotel room in Manchester, New Hampshire where this week’s edition of Slam will be taking place. He is lying in his bed, trying to relax so that he is at his best for his first title match since coming back to WCF taking place tomorrow. He is flipping through the channels looking for something that would ease his mind a bit while also keeping him a bit on edge, still relaxed, just a shock to the system to keep him prime. He is currently watching the new “Sharknado” movie before shaking his head in disappointment and changing it to ESPN 2 hoping for some sport. A sport, but not the kind he was looking for is on, Professional Arm Wrestling, again Jordan can’t believe that this is all TV has to offer before going to ESPN 3 where a recap of “The Ultimate Showdown” is currently on. Note that last week Jordan was annoyed at the lack of coverage his match against Greg St. Matthews so he isn’t expecting much from this, but hell it’s better than anything else so he watches the recap taking a deep breath::

 Sportscaster: “The Ultimate Showdown” lived up to all the hype that surrounded it all coming together in the main event. 

Jordan Ciserano: Looks like some things don’t change. 

::Jordan almost changes the channel, but he decides against it as he knows he can’t sit through another “Syfy” movie. He drinks some water and lays back no longer watching the show just listening::

 Sportscaster: …

erhaps the biggest surprise occurred with the excellent match that Jordan Ciserano versus Greg St. Matthews was.

:: Jordan's head picks up spitting out the water in disbelief of what he just heard. Putting his water bottle down he rushes looking for the remote that he put down earlier. Once he does find it he turns the volume up high to listen to what the newscaster has to say about the match excites that it was even mentioned.:: 

Sportscaster: It provided for everything you would want in an early match up that you want to wake the crowd up with; flips, counters, submissions, and a beautiful display of some of the best talent WCF has to offer. Of course this match all came to a satisfying ending with Jordan coming out on top after a huge Psycho Driver to St. Matthews. An excited match that each man put everything into, a precursor to two future stars for sure. 

::Jordan faces the camera with a priceless face of disbelief. Not that the match was being touted of course but that it was talked about.:: 

Jordan Ciserano: Did you hear that? Ciserano versus St. Matthews, everything you would want! Personally I had no doubts that this match was going to be ranked in the upper tiers of the show, that it was going to be a great showcase of talent myself and Greg… but to be on the review after a long week of not existing in the eyes of the same sportscaster, that’s something special right there. That definitely speaks to the kind of match it was too, special all the way through. 

::Jordan turns the TV off so that he can tell his own story as the sportcaster was going to a different one. He goes from laying down in his bed to sitting on the edge right in front of the camera.:: 

Jordan Ciserano: The set up was epic. “The Ultimate Showdown” was my first Pay-Per View in WCF since coming back so it was going to be a massive match for my career. This was the first real opportunity to show a wide audience on a grand stage that I can wrestle, that I can fight, that I can hold my own with no tag partners, no interference, no cheating, no shenanigans, and more important than all of that… that I could win and put on an amazing match against a tough young talent who gave his best against me. 

Jordan Ciserano: I will say, I was impressed with Greg St. Matthews, I truly was. In re-watching the match I heard the announcers say “we learnt a little something about Matthews tonight” and that statement really says it all. He pulled out all the stops that he could against me. He knew that I had a pretty tight strategy that grounded him in the air, so he adapted, something that I can’t say everyone would do. Going into the match I saw the result going easily one way, but he made me change my mind real quick so that I knew was going to have to fight my hardest to win. Greg stepped up his game and stepped mine up as well, something I won’t forget if I ever face him again. 

::Jordan stands up and quietly claps for the amazing performance that Greg St. Matthews put on ending it with a thumbs up toward the camera.:: 

Jordan Ciserano: Speaking of things that I won’t forget, my first Pay Per View back resulted in my first Pay Per View win since I came back! Everything that I said leading up to the match, that I must win that match and that I would win that match, happened. My strategy though it went through some changes came through for me once again with a perfect execution of the plan. My body felt great and my mind felt fresh, ready to react to what Greg was going to throw at me and ready to throw something right back. I won! I fought another battle, I earned another victory, and I moved myself up the giant ladder into another new height. 

::Jordan begins to pace around his hotel room trying to make sure that he says what he wants to say in the best way possible. He grabs his waterbottle off a desk and takes a drink from it before continuing to speak.:: 

Jordan Ciserano: I know there were a lot of questions going into the match on whether or not I would be able to win. It had been a long time since I stepped foot here and you never know whether someone has gotten better or worse until you see them wrestle. Speculation was high and doubt got higher after my first match resulted in a loss, but now that I’m comfortable it seems all is well. I won my match before “The Ultimate Showdown” and I won my match at “The Ultimate Showdown” so I say that’s a pretty good sign that I have improved by a pretty large amount since the last time I came here.  

Jordan Ciserano: I guess that I’m not the only one who picked up on this improvement either, because this Slam I get one of the biggest opportunities in my entire career and definitely one of the opportunities that means the most. This Slam I get my first title shot, my first chance at gold, my first chance at full redemption when I face off against Thomas Uriel Bates for the Television Championship. 

::Jordan does a quick move across his waist asking for the title with a smile. After doing this we walks out of his hotel room with only his water and his tablet to take a walk around to calm himself while still being able to talk to the audience.::

 Jordan Ciserano: Now I’ve had title shots in the past, World Titles, Tag Titles, every Hardcore titles if you can believe that and each time that I did I saw it as the company having enough faith in me that they would be willing to make me one of their top guys if I could win that match. What it also did for me is that it gave me confidence, that if I could earn a title shot I am more than able to win the actual title itself. If I am being seen in the light of a champion, I am not far away from actually becoming that champion. This time has been no different.

 Jordan Ciserano: After my last match ended in victory I knew that at some point in the near future. Whether it would happen within the week or within the month, I was going to be rewarded with a chance to become one of the top guys in the business due to my efforts and the hard work that I have put into my performances in WCF. It’s because of this that I was watching “The Ultimate Showdown” main event the way I did. I knew that one of the champions in that match was going to become my opponent very, very soon. So I decided to get a bit of a head start on my regular research, look deep into every opponent and look deeper into every move. It is when I did this I knew who I wanted to face and knew who I was going to face.

 ::Jordan starts to walk to the Verizon Wireless Arena, not to far away from his hotel, when he stops at Stanton Park where he decides to sit down on a bench and try to rest his mind. He is still intense in his speaking when talking about Thomas Bates, knowing that he brings some intensity to the ring:: 

Jordan Ciserano: I saw a display of power in the ring like few men have, taking out two champions and showing some dominate features, this is how that I knew I was going to face Thomas Uriel Bates. He poses as a challenge, as many of the champions would, but more than that I have a feeling that Seth knew that he would be the perfect test to see if I really am ready for a title match and a championship. He’s big, he’s a giant, and he’s a tough competitor that doesn’t play around especially when it’s for the gold on his shoulder. He is a mountain, one that I will have to climb, one that I will have to move. 

Jordan Ciserano: In my career I’ve faced plenty of competitors that were bigger than me, they don’t call it the “Heavyweight Championship” in some places for nothing… it’s because some of those guys are huge, six foot six, two hundred and fifty pounds of muscles using their size to their advantage anytime the wrestle a smaller person which is just about everyone. They win the title through their size and strength, that much is clear, they cement a strategy where the bigger man will pick you up and try to throw you as hard as they can before laying on top of you for the pin when you can’t move and even if you can you might not want to… it’s not the most fun time in the world.  

::Jordan looks up at the bright blue sky almost like he’s having a flashback to some of the previous matches against giants, he stays like that for a few seconds before cringing and shaking his head to get the image out looking at the camera with wide eyes.:: 

Jordan Ciserano: Many, many of these match have gone on in my career, from the lower card all the way up to a World Heavyweight Championship match, and they make you think many things before and during the match, “how are these men so big” “how am I going to stop these freight trains” “what is their weakness, what can I expose?” After so many matches you start to develop a way against them, where they pick you up and throw you down, you decide that you are going to do other things to even the score a bit between size and skill based, hard hitting attacks.

 ::Jordan takes out his table and shows the underline, bolded, and highlighted word “The Badge” from when he was taking notes at “The Ultimate Showdown.” He takes a look at it, smiles, and give it a “not bad” face before laughing a little.:: 

Jordan Ciserano: This was the case when I was watching Thomas work, seeing his large size, seeing him throw people around the ring, seeing him preform one move… “The Badge” to take out two different champions, that move which I did quite a bit of art work around to make sure that I didn’t forget about it. Later on that night I decided to look at some of the other things that he has done in WCF and some of the other moves that he employs to achieve such devastation, what I found didn’t really surprise me a whole lot though not as much as I would think from a champion. 

::Jordan tells the camera “one minute” as he opens up his note page so that he doesn’t get any of the moves he saw wrong. He holds it away from his face like he is saying a royal decree, clearing his throat he declares:: 

Jordan Ciserano: Suplexes, power slams, Suplexes, hard punches, Suplexes, DDT, Suplexes, throwing maneuvers of the tossiest kind, and more Suplexes. To simplify more than I already had, the guy likes to pick you up and throw you down hard just like all of the other big men that I’ve faced in the past. You know, power and size instead of speed and agility. I’m not saying he is like every other man because clearly he is not, he can bench a lot which I’m absolutely positive will help him when he actually gets in the ring, weightlifting equipment are one of the biggest interference objects in the wrestling world after all. 

::Jordan puts his tablet in one hand and acts like his is curling it in his arm breathing heavy and over-exaggerating each rep that he does acting like his tablet weights quite a bit more than it actually does. He finishes his act with a smile and begins walking through the park more, dodging Pokémon Go players and staying focused on task::

 Jordan Ciserano: So how does one prepare for such size, but such ability where he can thrown men thirty feet? Well you have to compensate for your smaller size with his slower speed, getting behind the larger man and taking their knees out so they have little to no lifting power to squat their opponent for example is always one of the ways to knock down a bigger man. Once you take out the foundation you can then go for submissions on their legs, further away from the arms so that strikes aren’t that easy to do, a knee bar usually gets the job done pretty well, but if all else fails a heel hook does pretty good as well.

 ::Jordan stops and cups his hand to his ear nearly to the end of the park.:: 

Jordan Ciserano: I can already hear you all saying that it won’t be that easy, I can hear him complaining that he has plenty of speed along with that size as well. I am plenty aware that taking out a champion isn’t an easy thing to do, which is why I am preparing the strategy that I am so that when I do go face to face I won’t have to panic and get thrown around, I can ground him and attack. And I’m sure he has some speed behind his size, the connects with his punches and hits his moves on a consistent basis so he has to have some speed… just not enough speed to dodge everything that I’ll be throwing against him. Greg St. Matthews didn’t have enough speed to dodge what I was doing and he’s a flipping adrenaline junkie! A four hundred plus pound man isn’t going to dodge what a hundred sixty plus man couldn’t.

 Jordan Ciserano: Those are just the facts too. I’m not over exaggerating, I’m not over hyping my own abilities, I am just stating the obvious. The bigger you are the more energy it takes to move and the slower you will go allowing me to get more hits in to knock you down. That simple. But allow me now to dive a little deeper into your last match Thomas, look a bit closer, expose a bit wider. 

::Jordan is now walking up the street toward the arena, he gets about half way there before turning around and walking backward to face the camera. While speaking he talks in a more serious tone than before acting like the games are over and it’s time for business and serious analysis.:: 

 Jordan Ciserano: When watching your match in the green room, knowing that you were my next opponent, studying how I was going to defeat you even though you were one of the last two men in that battle, I realized a silver lining to what could be a poor situation. Walking into that match, you were a tag team champion with none other then the winning finalist Gemini Battle. In being a former tag champion myself and being in fatal four way matches with them involved I know that when your partner is in an elimination-structured match, you team with them until there’s nobody left. You work with them to knock everyone else out, you make sure that your greatest ally works with you and gives you an advantage that is quickly gained on your side. It goes from a one on one on one etc. to a two on one on one and so on. The numbers game instantly goes to your side and you are able to knock out other competitors because they’re in it for themselves. Then when the finals come, you’re winning one way or another so you fight. When you have a tag team partner in the match you are able to work with them, they are able to help you if you get attacked, you are able to stay fresher and you are able to last until the end.

 ::By the time Jordan finishes speaking he is at the arena, heading toward the backstage area where he can start getting ready, warming up, in the locker room.::

 Jordan Ciserano: Why do I bring this up? For one thing in your match against me you will have no partner helping you out. You will have no one to protect you when your back is turned, no one to save you if you are on the brink of defeat, and most of all no one to save you some energy in the long run because you didn’t have to put as much work as you otherwise would’ve had to. When you face me you have no saving grace, if and when I take you down to the ground, if and when I tire you out so that you can barely run around, if and when I put you into a submission, you have nobody on your side to keep you alive and the title on your shoulder. Your performance at “The Ultimate Showdown” was damn impressive, that is true, but it would have been in a lesser place if you didn’t have another, more skilled man at your side.

 ::Jordan reaches the locker room keeping the same tone that he had before.:: 

Jordan Ciserano: Speaking of Gemini, he did pretty well against you right? You knock a guy out and he’s there waiting for you to turn so that he can take the World Title. Look at the end of the match, at that point all he had to do was shift his weight because you didn’t have the same fire you had when you were working together. What will happen when you are facing me? Are you just going to collapse there since you couldn’t save any energy? Because if you fight the same way you did against him that may be a better fate than what eventually will happen. 

Jordan Ciserano: He’s been more than just a tag team champion though, he’s been a US Champion and a Television Champion before this current run meaning that he can win titles when he is all alone, but the amount of reliance that can be built up after just a few weeks of tagging with another person can reach very high levels. It was the same case with me anytime that I had a singles match in Sequitus, I was so used to those guys with me that I lost some of what I had when I was a singles competitor. Some of this was because I was just starting out in the major wrestling scene, yes, but it also came because of a huge reliance. This reliance led to me being uncomfortable in the ring and as a result I often lost in big matchups. I think the same thing could be happening with Thomas Bates right now and having gone through what he is, I know that he isn’t going to be at his best singles shape when he needs to defend his title. 

::Jordan begins to stretch getting more and more focused as time goes on. The more he talks about his match against Thomas Bates you see that he is tapping into a new side of himself, one that will do anything to win the Television Title:: 

Jordan Ciserano: That’s a bit of speculation though and I’ve tried my best to stay away from it so I will bring you back to the facts, I have momentum. My last five matches: 2-1, a winning record his last five matches 2-3 a losing record. Four out of those five matches were with a tag partner or was like “The Ultimate Showdown” where he had a partner in the match still not being able to pick up a victory three times. Myself on the other hand has a winning record all on my own. A fatal four way and a singles matchup have made up the two match winning streak meaning that instead of having someone by my side, I’ve been outnumbered nearly every time. Still being able to win with the numbers against you, that’s how you build momentum and that’s how you gain confidence walking into your next match. 

Jordan Ciserano: To be fair I feel that I have earned this confidence and this momentum, I’ve won matches, I’ve done what I said I was going to do, I’ve tackled any challenge that has been called upon me, now I know it is time to win the big one and solidify my place in WCF. I know what I can do, I know that I can win against the odds and I know that under a big match circumstance I can walk out of the arena with a win, now it’s just time to do it. 

 Jordan Ciserano: To take out Thomas Bates is a big order to fill, not just because he is big, but also he has some skill behind it. He can throw me thirty feet and he can knock me out in a punch, I just need to make sure that he never gets a good enough hold of me to do it. To take him out I need to knock him down, and dropkicks or strikes aren’t going to do me any favors for me, what I need to do is use my submission savvy skill to take out his legs, hurt his knees, and make him tap. If he doesn’t tap? Then I’ll run around hitting him, making him tired and wishing he had a partner, once he is out of breath he’ll get desperate and go out of his mind, that’s what you’ll see the best in me taking his title away. 

::Jordan moves on to a different stretch making sure that his muscles are plenty warmed up for his pre-match workout and the actual match. He seems passionate, that his words aren’t just being said but they are also being felt. Jordan knows that the only way to achieve what he wants is to take this opportunity and win so he is preparing for the worst and preparing so he’s at his best.:: 

Jordan Ciserano: In the past two matches you have seen what I’ve been able to do against my opponents all in a journey to get to the top of WCF as I never have been able to in the past. This journey has taught me more than any time in my career, more about the competitors and more about myself as a wrestler, I’m going to use what I’ve learned in my trip up this mountain to climb one. This is literally trying to move a mountain, but I have no fear in doing so. I’ve thought this out, I’ve planned it since last week and have been perfecting that same plan since getting ready to do what I need to do because the Television Title is more than a title to me, it is gratification and one step further in my journey. 

::Jordan stops stretching to look straight at the camera one more time, completely serious sending a direct message not only to Thomas Bates, but also to management and the crowd. A direct message that he won’t stop until he will win as this is his the start to his ultimate goal.:: 

Jordan Ciserano: A journey is “an act of traveling from one place to another” in my case from the bottom to the top, but I am well aware that whether I win this match and become champion or lose this match and force myself to get back up to get another opportunity my journey does not end with this match. When I win, I repeat when I win this title my journey will still continue, but instead of going from the bottom to the top, it’ll be from the top to new heights, to legendary heights, to heights that would’ve never been possible two years ago! I know that I am able to achieve those ranks, and I plan on achieving those ranks. 

Jordan Ciserano: Thomas Uriel Bates, I wish you the best of luck as I do with the rest of the competitors that I face. I wish you the best of luck that you are able to put on the best match you can, that without a partner you can push me to my limit and beyond. I wish you the best of luck that you are able to rebound after I take that newly acquired title of yours. I’m confident, yes. But it’s because I already know the outcome of this match due to facts, not speculation. You will try to speculate what I will do, you will guess, I know. I know what you’ve been doing the past month, I know your style, what it reaps and what it burns. I know one other thing too, that I will execute my plan like in the past two shows and I will become your new Television Champion! 

::Jordan smiles to the camera hitting his shoulder like the title is already there. He knows that this battle won’t be easy, but he knows that he has enough skill and a good enough strategy that when the match goes on he’ll be able to defeat Thomas Uriel Bates for the Television Title. While going through a journey everyone experiences both hills and valleys, high points and low points in their career where they have to learn how to go from the bottom back to the top. This week on Slam, Jordan Ciserano is hoping to turn that already high hill into a taller mountain and above, but to reach the top of a mountain he will have to defeat one, a challenge he is ready for a challenge is ready to conquer.::