Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2013 7:27:32 GMT -5
Reach - "So are we all ready to do this or what? I don't have all day."
As the first voice is heard we pull away from the black and come into a scene. The gym setting opens up and in the center is a regulation boxing ring. Inside the ring are five people and Alessandra standing in the center of those five as if a class or lesson were going on.
I understood from my first match and debut on Pure Wrestling. I wasn't a wrestler by trade and I wasn't happy with my performance at all so I knew I had to adapt. As I stand in this ring right now all I can focus on is getting better at professional wrestling and trying to adapt at something that's still quite foreign to me. Inside a Pure Wrestling Ring there were no restrictions to the hundreds of fighting styles that I knew but something about the atmosphere in wrestling was different.
Fighter 1 - "I'm ready to go. I've been prepared since this morning."
As I stood in the middle of the 5 guys around me, I tried to glance only at Reach and focus at the rest without looking at them as difficult as it may sound. I felt certain aspects against Mephisto and Mannie that I lagged behind with in the ring. I felt that I carried my partner to a point but the whole thing was new to me and I had to get used to performing and fighting under chaos with many things going on at once.
Alessandra - "No holding back remember. Full force for as long as each of us can go all right? This is important and it needs to be done right. There needs to be a lot going on."
Personally I was confident with my skills and I’d grown accustom to that short amount of time I was in the ring. The upside to this week was that I’d be in pretty much the exact situation as I’d be teaming with Joe Martinez. Another tag team contest teaming with the exact same partner as last week. Clearly matches like these weren’t going to move me any higher up on the pecking order but it was nice to have that stability and reliance that I knew I had. I knew that as a team we performed really great last week and defeated the team of a 6’6” 235 pound psychopath murderer and a cocky self-entitled so called “top competitor.” It was quite a rush actually wrestling, actually hearing the crowd cheering for you and actually beating those guys up. Joe and I were clearly the underdogs in that match. Everyone thought that the 19-year-old girl and the gruff looking man in less than stellar shape were going to be crushed by these two big bad competitors. Boy were they wrong.
Fighter 1 - "All right then!"
One of the fighters comes from behind in a rush of surprise and swings at Alessandra who tilts her head avoiding the blow. She responds with a quick knee right into his midsection. With the distraction another fighter comes at Alessandra who makes quick work of him with a roundhouse.
Reach - "Ok. Ok. We get it. If you want to get ready properly then you have to implement a little bit of survival in your mindset. No one’s saying that you can’t fight or had trouble fighting but you have to worry about your partner as well. You have to have two other guys."
Fighter 2 - "Yeah, two other losers. Didn’t you see your opponents last week? Last week both of them talked a big game but neither of them could win their qualifying match! You would think one of them would have picked up the win the way they went on but Aubrey J Parker won. Neither Jordan Caliban or Xianlong made any waves in that match."
Reach - "Jordan Caliban doesn’t exactally have a heinous style of offense does he. If I have to be honest, Caliban isn’t anything special really. Just another guy and another face."
Alessandra - "I agree neither man has really showed an amazing output of raw talent and skill but I’m not going to condemn or underestimate them. I’m going to focus as hard as I possibly can on the match and do my best to win."
Fighter 2 - "Jordan Caliban looks like a real ego manic and sounds like one too. There’s nothing great about this kid. Just another big mouth who tries to ram himself down everyone’s throats every two seconds because he knows he’s irrelevant."
Edging out of the ring and taking off her gloves. Alessandra throws up her hands in a wave and begins to leave.
Alessandra - "I know what you’re saying 100%. Personally I’m going to try much more time active in the ring this time and I hope I get to see or meet someone this time, like Johnny Rebel or The Director. I want to experience something this time. Anyway, I’m off to work now, It’s been fun."
Reach - "Oh... You guys hear that? She calls it work now. Ha."
Alessandra - "Hmm well that’s what it is. Bye."
Alessandra grabs her bag and exits out of the door of the gym as we fade out.
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The scene opens up in a dark room. The walls are of a light grey brick appearance. The quick glimmers of light are reflecting from the shadows and darkness of the hallway across form it, mostly coming from people walking past, creating distance between the light from outside and the darkness inside. Chatter is heard outside in the hall but inside is Alessandra Nayara, just sitting on a small black sofa relaxing. As we zoom in towards her he hear the tone of her soft fluttery voice.
Alessandra - "Yet another teaming of Joe Martinez and myself will occur this week as set by management. Maybe they’re trying to shape something up on Pure Wrestling and they’re using us two as the pioneers of what they’re creating... or maybe they’re just putting us somewhere because they don’t have much else for us, because we’re being over looked. It wouldn’t be the first time but I couldn’t blame anyone. I’ve had to prove myself time and time again and my aspiring career in Pure Wrestling would be no exception, I knew before I even signed that I would have to prove myself again. Last week I’d like to think that I proved something by taking down those two guys with Joe last week. I got the pin, I hit the Skyfall and I hit the Corkscrew Moonsault and the crowd couldn’t have gotten any louder for me. I’m happy with my performance last week but I can’t say the same for Lucien and Mannie. These over confident beasts as many would refer to them got left with egg on their face and embarrassment in their minds as 5’4" 130 Pound 19 year old girl defeated them and picked up the win. It’s almost poetic isn’t it!?
Unfortunately for my opponents this week I can’t say that they would be too happy either. I think that they also got embarrassed after talking up such a big game and then coming up short to Aubrey J Parker. Jordan Caliban, Xianlong, Mannie and Lucien Mephisto II were all over confident and they all got their asses handed to them in the end. Now personally I’m not one for talking up my opponents. I’ll say it again, I’m NOT for talking up my opponents but there is no denying that Joe and I will face a harder task this week than we faced last week. It’ll be much more difficult and we know it.
On one side I have another self entitled cocky and brash opponent just like Mannie was last week in Jordan Caliban. He’s a guy who has a basic moveset and a deep expression of determination but for the life of me I just can’t talk the guy up and not only because I don’t want to but because I simply can’t. Jordan Caliban isn’t anything special, he’s just your run of the mill watered down normal stock competitor. The fact that he made it to that qualifying match actually shocked me but who am I to judge? Jordan is arrogant and everyone knows it. It seems that arrogance is not only a contagious trait in Pure Wrestling but it’s also contagious in pro wrestling itself. Personally arrogance just isn’t my thing and I understand that some competitors have something to be smug and arrogant assholes about but Jordan doesn’t. Jordan doesn’t have a thing going for him right now. He built up some good momentum by winning an opener a few weeks ago but then he wasted it by getting his mouth shut in the main event of last week. The Irishman doesn’t impress me, he’s not unique, his skills are basic and when I heard him talk last week I almost fell asleep, I mean he can barely put a coherent sentence together so why is he acting like he’s the be all and end all of Pure Wrestling. I’m not worried about Jordan Caliban and I’m not worrying about his partner’s Dragon Choke but what I am worried about is not beating up Jordan enough. He needs to be brought back down to earth and taken down a few pegs and I can guarantee that a few people around Pure Wresting will agree with me.
Unlike Jordan, his partner Xianlong actually has some skill and actually has a little color behind him. Now clearly I’m going to be weary of both of my opponents but I will be sure to focus on Xianlong much more than I will on Caliban. While I have the goal of making an impact in Pure and winning my first ever title in pro wrestling Xianlong has the noble goal of reaching perfection in mind and body. I believe I’ve reached a form of perfection but I didn’t come here for that. I just find myself constantly asking myself why a warrior monk who is looking for a deep spiritual calling with the entailing of great enlightenment and personal illumination and betterment come to Pure Wrestling of all places? I mean I came here to wrestle, to lean and to accomplish a goal I’ve had for a very long time. Perhaps such an objective gets in the way of Xianlong’s will to compete in Pure. Maybe it takes up too much room in his mind and that’s why he fizzled out and lost last week in such an important match. I mean, the guy clearly has a lot of important things going in, it’s weird that he’s even taking the time out of such a busy and odd life to come and compete in a wrestling federation for half an hour every week. Now, Xiany isn’t the most eloquent individual I’ve ever heard I’m sure that’s clear to everyone but the guy is at least on a better standard than Jordan Caliban. Xianlong’s Dragon Choke impressed a few people as he claimed his first victory but it’s nothing I’ve ever seen before. I’m beginning to think that maybe Jordan and Xianlong were just hot air when they showcased their abilities on the debut of Pure Wrestling. They didn’t fight elite competitors and rightfully so seeing as I don’t view them as elite themselves but the second they faced a real challenge in the form of the Pure Wrestling Heavyweight Championship Fatal Four Way Qualifier. If that’s what Jordan Caliban and Xianlong are representing as a showcase of their individual skill than I have to think that we have the advantage here. Clearly I know that we’ll still be viewed as the underdogs in the eyes of everyone else but we were last week as well and Joe and I proved everyone wrong!
Sometimes there’s so much pain in a fight that sometimes it doesn’t matter anymore, you just get up and do what you have to do. Sometimes there’s not enough of it that it does matter and you feel like you’re not pushing yourself beyond your limits enough so you go that extra mile more and then another and another. Everyone gives us a taste of their personal lives, everyone feels it necessary of delving us into the goings on in their life at the moment, remembering ONLY in the back of their mind that they have a wrestling match at the end of the week. It’s funny really, I mean, I don’t dislike it but I don’t really get it as well. However, I never really got pulled in or captivated by either Xianlong or big bad Jordan Caliban. No offense but they bore me. They bored me last week and they’re probably going to bore me next week with whatever uncreative dribble they choose to spew out of their non-individually exclusive mouths. I’m not being low or what have you I’m just dissatisfied with them and I hope for their sake that they bring better wrestling skills than what they preach because if they don’t Joe and I won’t show any mercy.
Jordan can run around in that ring as much as he want I don’t plan on letting him be faster than me and Xianlong can implement every style and move of fighting art he’s ever learned I don’t plan on letting him out match me. Caliban said last week that on the debut episode of Pure Wrestling that he picked the weakest of the herd to step over on his way to the top. Well I don’t usually want to pick out people that are weak and grind them down into defeat just in a personal display of dominance for my own gain to reach the top. No, unlike Caliban I prefer to face a challenge and to fight for my spot at the top against anyone who thinks they’re the best. Caliban, give me a break look what happened when he faced the strongest of the herd, he got his ass kicked and he lost a chance to fight for the Pure Wrestling Heavyweight Championship. I don’t care about his self entitlement or his cocky smug behavior. I don’t care about his friends or his opinions or even his pauses for effect. He’s bland and the only thing I that I care about in terms of Jordan Caliban is defeating him come show time and showing him that his cocky highness gets him one thing. Defeated.
I guess the same can be said for Xianlong just not as intense. Xianlong has some good points but not any that I care to mention right now. If there’s anyone that I wish to actually defeat and pin inside that ring this week then it’s Xianlong. No ninjas, no ancient prophesies just a straight up wrestling match between two well trained artists, lets be serious here. Xianlong is one of those hard to get individuals and although I have no idea where he’s going with most things he says or does, I don’t plan on letting my guard down around him for a split second.
Finally I guess that it’s only right that I address on teamwork. It only shows that when a team comes together than anything can be accomplished. Joe and I vanquished Mannie and Lucien and it felt great. It felt amazing to win my first match and can bet you that Joe felt just as great as I did. I don’t mind having to partner up with Joe, I really don’t but I want to eventually break out of the tag team mold and be the single best competitor that this place will ever know. I know right, a big goal but I’m up for trying to accomplish it. The good thing is that I know I can really I Joe. We’re on the same page, we get a long and if you were watching last week then you would know that we work great together. Can the same be said for Xiany and Jordo? They’re both two very different personalities and something tells me that they might just blame each other for the loss of their huge opportunity last week. Joe and I are united and I know that our opponents are far from it. In a tag team match the one thing that demands all of your input and effort is to work as a team and we can do that far better than our opponents.
Alas our time here has come to an end and we’re going to have to wait until you see me in action against Xianlong and Jordan Caliban. Surely this match will be not just another contest for me to prove myself but another step to climb to where I want and need to be. All I can part with is that come match time I’ll be ready and focused and I will not tolerate defeat. Expect me.
Her soft voice stops and she reclines back into the sofa, closing her eyes in focus and relaxation as the moving shadows continue to pass over the light in the room and silhouette over her. We fade away slowly from the scene and as we go to black all we can hear are the fading voices of the chatter from those outside in the hall.
