Post by cyborg878 on Mar 8, 2021 22:26:06 GMT -5
I know you're probably all dying to know what I'm thinking.... what I'm feeling. I've dedicated the last year to doing anything and everything I had to in order to prove myself within this company... and it's all falling to pieces because of one man. I have put so much of my time... my heart into this company. I have always faced an uphill battle in this business, but in APW it felt worth it. Here I was a relative nobody that came in as Smith Jones' third in command. Let's face it... I was never supposed to amount to anything beyond a tag team champion.... maybe a Hardcore or Junior champ. That's it. Damon Warrens was supposed to be what everyone in every other company has seen me to be.... a reliable midcarder. A "second or third tier" star. Gracing the main even when someone else would carry me there.
I refused to let that be my narrative. I refused to look myself in the mirror and be okay with standing just outside of the spotlight. I surpassed EVERY expectation of me. I made a point to prove I wasn't some "emo boyband member". I made a point to prove I wasn't just another "flash in the pan".... I wasn't overproduced drivel. I proved that I wasn't Smith Jones' third in command. I wasn't his right hand man. I was his superior. I gave the world concrete evidence to never underestimate me and yet that is what everyone in APW seems to have been insistent on doing. Claims of me being weak for having loved ones.. claims I lost my spark after being forced out of APW.... claims that I was never even remotely close to being able to win APW's World Championship. Everyone has failed to recognize my level. And every one of them has paid the price for it.
Warsaw Pact hasn't been seen in over a year. Jaice WIlds faded into obscurity after I decimated him. Andre Aquarius just...disappeared after I shut him up. The Sitch ran out of hope after I allegedly cheated to beat him. Corey Bull apparently couldn't handle losing to an APW wrestler and ran back home. Every one of them... Elliot Siscoe.... PKA... Latoya Hixx.... all of these names.... every single one of them thought that Damon Warrens was going to be their chance to prove themselves. They thought that I was going to be the stepping stone to their success. EVERY ONE OF THEM LONG GONE. As hard as they tried they couldn't make an example out of me.... and despite a brief... forced sabbatical I have been here. Despite everything thrown my way..... to paraphrase a line John Blade stole from someone else....I NEVER GIVE UP. I have BEEN HERE. I'm not the Man Made Gods who tucked their tails between their legs and ran to the safety of Action Wrestling the second they lost their Tag Team Championships ...... sound familiar Zaigon Carter? I'm not Derek Wellings who burned every bridge in this company in an expletive filled rant about two men he never stood a chance of beating on his best day. I'm not Sky Edwards who quietly disappeared because he couldn't handle being called out on his constant bigotry. I am a man who has taken every drop of mud slung my way.... and withstood. I have never stopped fighting for myself.... for my family... for APW... and dare I say it for the fans.
I know that has been such a controversial topic in regards to Damon Warrens in APW. Why don't I embrace the fans. They apparently want to love me. Why don't I love them? Well maybe it's time. Since my return they have fairly frequently rooted me on while I faced every single unworthy challenger thrown my way. And so with that in mind I want the fans to know what I do on Metal... it is in part for you. When I rain down my fists upon Jubei's face... those punches are for your anger at what he is doing. I will make him suffer. And Jubei I promise... you will suffer.
Jubei.... you.... you really are an egomaniac. So power hungry.... and yet such a fragile ego. Like every "power that be" in APW before you.... you have NEEDED control. You're JUST like Adam Dante.. He tried to say he "scrounged enough together for a few more shows"..... Jubei..... I get that you want to pull the curtain over to hide your villainy.... but I think we all know the truth. We all know that this wasn't some spontaneous decision brought on by financial hardship. This was yet again another Jubei power trip. He got Dante out of the way so he could take over. He knew he couldn't succeed as a wrestler and so he decided to use this company as his action figure wrestling show to control to his every whim. What you never counted on....was me. And so when people like myself...like America Jackson... when we didn't want to play your games.... you took it one step further. You moved us to Japan. You tried to isolate us as a means to gain control. And again your efforts fell flat. We adapted... we refused to let you see us sweat. We still stood tall against your dictatorship. So then you tried to throw us some curveballs... first the Left Hand which we broke. Then a more interesting surprise...Zaigon Carter.... but even that didnt turn out like you hoped. Zaigon came so close and yet he STILL could not pull the trigger to put me down for good. I may be co-champion.... but I'm still champion.
All of your plans to break us have failed time and time again. So what now? You decide to pull the plug. The only way you can think to silence me permanently is to kill your own company. You couldn't remove me from the system... you couldn't assimilate me... so you had to destroy the entire system itself. You decided to cost everyone their jobs.... to take away this company from the fans... all to preserve your own ego. But worse than moving us to Japan... worse than ending the company... you have made what may genuinely be the WORST mistake of your time here in APW. You really want to put yourself in the ring with me? Have you not seen what I've done to wrestlers that I don't actively hate? What do you think is in store for you? I knee'd Jason Ryan's skull so hard he woke up with a new personality. I like you LESS than Jason. I'm going to rip you limb from limb.... and I'm going to savor every moment of it.
Now I'll give you your due... you were APW's first World Champion. You aren't a run of the mill jobber. I am not underestimating you as I'm sure you are doing about me. No... I know that you are a force in this ring.... I just also know that I am a force UNRIVALED in this company. You are going to just be another check on my list of the former World Champs in this company that I have decimated. Smith Jones... two time champion... fell at my hands and never regained his glory. Legitimate flash in the pan Jason Ryan.... I've beaten like once a month for the last year. Andrew Barnes... his demise brought about my second record breaking reign. Dean Wolf.... well if he didn't get his ass banned from here before I ever showed up I probably would have kicked his ass too. And so now you Jubei... you are the next former World Champion to fall before me. You are the penultimate step to cementing my legacy as THE GREATEST WORLD CHAMPION IN APW HISTORY.
And after I run through you I end up at the final showdown..... one last epic clash between the three titans of APW. Where we will finally find out that Damon Warrens is the greatest wrestler in any room. That he is the most resilient person in APW history. I will walk out of this company on it's dying night as the UNDISPUTED World Heavyweight Champion.
I refused to let that be my narrative. I refused to look myself in the mirror and be okay with standing just outside of the spotlight. I surpassed EVERY expectation of me. I made a point to prove I wasn't some "emo boyband member". I made a point to prove I wasn't just another "flash in the pan".... I wasn't overproduced drivel. I proved that I wasn't Smith Jones' third in command. I wasn't his right hand man. I was his superior. I gave the world concrete evidence to never underestimate me and yet that is what everyone in APW seems to have been insistent on doing. Claims of me being weak for having loved ones.. claims I lost my spark after being forced out of APW.... claims that I was never even remotely close to being able to win APW's World Championship. Everyone has failed to recognize my level. And every one of them has paid the price for it.
Warsaw Pact hasn't been seen in over a year. Jaice WIlds faded into obscurity after I decimated him. Andre Aquarius just...disappeared after I shut him up. The Sitch ran out of hope after I allegedly cheated to beat him. Corey Bull apparently couldn't handle losing to an APW wrestler and ran back home. Every one of them... Elliot Siscoe.... PKA... Latoya Hixx.... all of these names.... every single one of them thought that Damon Warrens was going to be their chance to prove themselves. They thought that I was going to be the stepping stone to their success. EVERY ONE OF THEM LONG GONE. As hard as they tried they couldn't make an example out of me.... and despite a brief... forced sabbatical I have been here. Despite everything thrown my way..... to paraphrase a line John Blade stole from someone else....I NEVER GIVE UP. I have BEEN HERE. I'm not the Man Made Gods who tucked their tails between their legs and ran to the safety of Action Wrestling the second they lost their Tag Team Championships ...... sound familiar Zaigon Carter? I'm not Derek Wellings who burned every bridge in this company in an expletive filled rant about two men he never stood a chance of beating on his best day. I'm not Sky Edwards who quietly disappeared because he couldn't handle being called out on his constant bigotry. I am a man who has taken every drop of mud slung my way.... and withstood. I have never stopped fighting for myself.... for my family... for APW... and dare I say it for the fans.
I know that has been such a controversial topic in regards to Damon Warrens in APW. Why don't I embrace the fans. They apparently want to love me. Why don't I love them? Well maybe it's time. Since my return they have fairly frequently rooted me on while I faced every single unworthy challenger thrown my way. And so with that in mind I want the fans to know what I do on Metal... it is in part for you. When I rain down my fists upon Jubei's face... those punches are for your anger at what he is doing. I will make him suffer. And Jubei I promise... you will suffer.
Jubei.... you.... you really are an egomaniac. So power hungry.... and yet such a fragile ego. Like every "power that be" in APW before you.... you have NEEDED control. You're JUST like Adam Dante.. He tried to say he "scrounged enough together for a few more shows"..... Jubei..... I get that you want to pull the curtain over to hide your villainy.... but I think we all know the truth. We all know that this wasn't some spontaneous decision brought on by financial hardship. This was yet again another Jubei power trip. He got Dante out of the way so he could take over. He knew he couldn't succeed as a wrestler and so he decided to use this company as his action figure wrestling show to control to his every whim. What you never counted on....was me. And so when people like myself...like America Jackson... when we didn't want to play your games.... you took it one step further. You moved us to Japan. You tried to isolate us as a means to gain control. And again your efforts fell flat. We adapted... we refused to let you see us sweat. We still stood tall against your dictatorship. So then you tried to throw us some curveballs... first the Left Hand which we broke. Then a more interesting surprise...Zaigon Carter.... but even that didnt turn out like you hoped. Zaigon came so close and yet he STILL could not pull the trigger to put me down for good. I may be co-champion.... but I'm still champion.
All of your plans to break us have failed time and time again. So what now? You decide to pull the plug. The only way you can think to silence me permanently is to kill your own company. You couldn't remove me from the system... you couldn't assimilate me... so you had to destroy the entire system itself. You decided to cost everyone their jobs.... to take away this company from the fans... all to preserve your own ego. But worse than moving us to Japan... worse than ending the company... you have made what may genuinely be the WORST mistake of your time here in APW. You really want to put yourself in the ring with me? Have you not seen what I've done to wrestlers that I don't actively hate? What do you think is in store for you? I knee'd Jason Ryan's skull so hard he woke up with a new personality. I like you LESS than Jason. I'm going to rip you limb from limb.... and I'm going to savor every moment of it.
Now I'll give you your due... you were APW's first World Champion. You aren't a run of the mill jobber. I am not underestimating you as I'm sure you are doing about me. No... I know that you are a force in this ring.... I just also know that I am a force UNRIVALED in this company. You are going to just be another check on my list of the former World Champs in this company that I have decimated. Smith Jones... two time champion... fell at my hands and never regained his glory. Legitimate flash in the pan Jason Ryan.... I've beaten like once a month for the last year. Andrew Barnes... his demise brought about my second record breaking reign. Dean Wolf.... well if he didn't get his ass banned from here before I ever showed up I probably would have kicked his ass too. And so now you Jubei... you are the next former World Champion to fall before me. You are the penultimate step to cementing my legacy as THE GREATEST WORLD CHAMPION IN APW HISTORY.
And after I run through you I end up at the final showdown..... one last epic clash between the three titans of APW. Where we will finally find out that Damon Warrens is the greatest wrestler in any room. That he is the most resilient person in APW history. I will walk out of this company on it's dying night as the UNDISPUTED World Heavyweight Champion.
