Dr. Bethany Blue’s Health Tip #108
Always remember to never play with medications that while you may want to use as a weapon against your opponent, in wrestling of course, KIDS DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME, it is also a smart idea to keep the drugs at home. I have already been injected with my own syringes a few times, once completely knocking me unconscious, it is dangerous and makes you look like a completely asshole. Do it the old-fashioned way, beat them at their own game, wrestling, what exactly I’m doing this week on Dynasty against Jack Ripley. Save the drugs for a special occasion.
EVERY VICTORY IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
CHAPTER TWO
Dr. Bethany Blue has always been a very motivated woman that has seen so much happen to her in the last two plus years within her time in the EAW. Anyone that knows her has never seen this woman so determined as now, it was like losing the Specialists Championship turned on the switch and suddenly she has become a more determined woman, one that has vowed to put it all together and become the Universal Women’s Champion or any World Champion for that matter, she has already promised to be wearing it by the end of Season 15, a bold one that she made last year saying she would walk out of Pain for Pride with a Championship, and she did. Bethany has always been a woman of her word, she wants nothing more than to show just how talented she is, also changing drastically since the first time appearing in the EAW, where she was quite the eccentric soul, but for Bethany it was more about determination, getting that chance to fulfill her dream, to become the first Doctor to ever hold a World Championship. When her time on Showdown was a mixed bag, she did get the opportunity to elevate herself and failed, many think that it was too soon for her, she was maybe in way over her head, others just think she was a bad luck loser, wrong place and wrong time scenario, but one thing was for sure, she became a better wrestler for it.
In the ring, Bethany’s skill sets is one of the very best.
The Good Doctor has already shown just how good she is and can be, what it takes to be the best and now more than ever so determined to prove it, there are those who think when she was traded to Dynasty, it was the change needed to start climbing back to the very top, where she had said it was going to take her some time to get in the conversation, but after defeating a current Champion and former World Champion, Bethany now has the opportunity to face another former World Champion and top dog on the Red Brand….
Jack Ripley.
She and Ripley are not strangers to each other, they had one match to start off Season 14 on Showdown, Ripley went on to become an Answers World Champion, Bethany on the other hand found herself struggling some, finding her footing at times, others not so much. Now though she has tried to mount some consistency since being traded from Showdown to Dynasty and it shows. This match is massive for both. Jack wants to be a World Champion again, go up against The Visual Prophet, while Bethany wants to get into the conversation and avenge a loss from last Season…
… something will give.
We find Dr. Bethany Blue in her home; she is ready to fly out to Baltimore. Wearing ripped jeans, a Pink Floyd t-shirt and thong sandals, her long sandy wavy blonde hair hanging down, nails polished red, in her New Jersey Condo staring at the titles and moments she won and had in her home office or “she-shed”, as the camera starts to record…
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She speaks in her sexy yet somewhat humble tone still feeling the injuries from House of Glass…
“Let me start off by making one thing perfectly clear here, I am not looking for any form of sympathy. There is no one that is a worst critic on herself than I am. For a large part of my career so far in the EAW, I tried to find every excuse I could to explain my failures, cover-up the inadequacies to this journey I embarked on in July 2019. I have had some great and unforgettable moments so far, those that have made me a household name in this promotion and throughout the wrestling landscape, gave me some legitimacy, people knew when they saw my name next to theirs on the card, they were in for a long week. Win or lose, I give my best, doesn’t matter who my opponent is, I treat them all the same. From winning my very first match against Jesse Barlow to the Unique Opportunity at Bloodsport 2019. Upsetting Terry Chambers for the Interwire Championship at Territorial Invasion of the same year and some incredible spots such as Shock Value with Lars Grier to Midsummer Massacre 2020 in a Fatal Four-Way to finally winning the Specialists Championship earlier this year at Battle of Egypt II. When thinking back to the Elitists I defeated, from Rex McAllister, Raven Roberts, Ms. Extreme, Charlie Marr, Bronson Daniels, Constance Blevins, Ryan Wilson, TLA, Myles, Diamond Cage, Justin Windgate, Terry Chambers, Harlow Reichert and so many others in between, it is still a wonder why I am always questioned, undervalued and most importantly overlooked. Most of the reason why I don’t have the respect of the roster is of my own doing, yes, I have already concluded this, yet in the time I decided to evolve, move away from the gimmicky Doctor shtick though being a Doctor is damn real, instead of always trying to analyze my opponents and see what is wrong with them in a medical sense, I started to concentrate more on why we are here to begin with….
… wrestling.
With every great moment comes some bad ones, and I do have a habit of dwelling on them, but they motivate me, the more I think about it, the angrier I get. I’m not expecting anyone to walk in my Louboutin heels, Jimmy Choo thong sandals or Air Jordan’s. You don’t need to understand Dr. Bethany Blue, figure her out, comprehend her actions or decipher her motives. I am an open book. Generally bragging about how smart I am, lately hasn’t been any indicative of it, not giving certain people enough credit or simply walking into a situation with such an inflated ego, not stopping for one second to ask, “What If?”, and when it happens, I have no one to blame but myself. Losing to the likes of Ms. Extreme, Darcy May Morgan, Kassidy Heart and IDOL-GUN hurts. It is a pain that will never go away, but like any lingering ailment, many learn to live with it, even if that goes against everything I preach as a Doctor and Medical Physician. Looking at the successes of others, the opportunities paving their way, some win gold just a couple of months after losing their last title, always in the picture, the conversation, yet I waited FIFTEEN MONTHS between reigns. Does it make me salty and bitter?
Yes, but not in the way where I start not to trust this process or start thinking I will never be good enough to get to the very top. A lot is attributed to poor booking decisions, different visions on who is the real star of a brand, Showdown for example, or the victim of a corrupt system also attribute to my climb stalling some. I must continue to thrive, for it makes me stronger through an inability to always keep a straight face and not wear my heart on the sleeve. For all intents and purposes, I tried to cheat every single one of you from what you worked so hard for before 2021. Terry even said that he expected Nurse Goldstein to interfere in the Glass Ball Pit Match we had over the weekend. I proved him wrong, he begrudgingly admitted to it and means a lot to me that he feels that way about my path moving forward. Yes, I did whatever I could to get ahead and played stupid, constantly outsmarted myself many times thinking that getting cute was the way to go instead of trusting on my skills alone.
This Friday?
I get the chance to prove it with what brought me to the dance in the first place against a man that inside the ring is well respected, outside the ring, well it’s a different story and you know what? There are plenty of people here who are not huge fans of my lifestyle and who I am as a person either, that is fine, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. At the beginning I wanted all to like and respect me, demanding it, making a mockery of anyone that didn’t see what I was trying to do in helping them, but as time went on, it wasn’t about showing off hospital beds or operating rooms or using cadavers as props to get your attention and for that maybe I wasn’t as entertaining or unique, even receiving more press for it, but when someone continues to jest about something so indicative like a match that can mean the difference between becoming a champion or getting to the back of the line?
It is no laughing matter.
I am serious as a heart attack when my goal on this Dynasty is to defeat Jack Ripely ANOTHER former World Champion who had skyrocketed last season and continues to make a play for Road to Redemption and the EAW World Heavyweight Championship. I get it Jack, no one wants to get back to the level you were at almost a year ago, but I was never at that level and it’s time I get there and if I have to use you and this match to continue my rise, soaring with the eagles as I am sick and tired of crawling with the snakes, then you can bet your ass I won’t leave that ring without a victory.
As we all know, most of the time when it comes to Dr. Bethany Blue, you all think it’s hyperbole.
Not anymore, not now or ever again.”
The Good Doctor lets out a sigh, her baby brown eyes fixated on the replica Interwire and Specialists Championships in the glass casing. There is no doubt Bethany is a changed woman, maturing before our eyes, but even she is tired of waiting. This match is her chance to show that Bethany Blue has finally arrived at the next level. She speaks, not looking at the camera…
“Success in this business comes at a hefty price, looking at these championships, those special moments that come few and far in-between, the victories that meant so much to me, not giving a shit how I came upon them, in many ways became a drug and I, even as a Doctor was addicted to it. See, Jack Ripley, I don’t know what it is like to be the absolute best, but you do. I have never taken the big fall from the very top like you have. I may have had my setbacks, some much bigger than others, humiliating to say the least and having to fess up and admit to my wrongdoings, complimenting others for besting me, was hard while gritting my teeth, mad, angry, tired, frustrated and annoyed because I know Dr. Bethany Blue is better than that. There is a bit of arrogance when it comes to you, its warranted, I mean you know better than anyone else what it is like to feel being trapped in this never-ending chase to the very top of the mountain. I remember watching you try to climb, but Season 14 you came into Showdown already a star, they were willing to roll out the carpet right from the very beginning, putting you in the Main Event against Jamie O’Hara at the first Brand Free Per View, your first match the same season to start was against me, showed they didn’t care how you won, or I lost, the money was always going to be on Jack Ripley…
… and you didn’t disappoint much to my expense.
Your role was already set, a top draft pick, they were gushing at the prospect of Jack Ripley being the face of the BLUE Brand, even if he hadn’t become a World Champion yet, it was all inevitable, yes? It was only my second year in the business, there are growing pains, sure, always needing to figure things out even when success came to me extremely early, it was almost without any effort, and in hindsight, that did its damage, filled me with a false pretense that I could be this world breaker only one year in, but the sophomore slump hit and suddenly Dr. Bethany Blue was on this rollercoaster ride going up and down, not knowing which way was up and which way was down. I tried hard to mask my feelings, yes I was jealous of your success, but I also knew that Jack Ripley had a lot more time in the EAW than I did, how could I expect anything more for me or less by you? I was given chances to shine, those opportunities though were failures against the main event talent of Showdown, in their eyes was I ready? Or was my role in the brand simply to compete but never live up to the potential that I see more than HALF the roster not give a third of the effort I do weekly.
Jack, you are a staple of Dynasty, the EAW and professional Wrestling, when people mention your name, they think World Champion. They don’t say the same about me. I on the other hand have an advantage, no one thinks I have a chance in defeating you. Why would they when I came off one of my shittiest months in all of the EAW which I didn’t deserve after everything I have done in this company heading into Territorial Invasion and looking back, I was made to look like an ass and adding to it with stupid decisions, I’m not that gullible, but whatever, now I must live with it. I am pissed off, have a huge chip on my shoulder, know that every loss I take moving forward is like Santa Clause to little Mikey in the Christmas Story when he places his boot on the kids forehead and pushes him down the slide when he asks for a Red Ryder Bibi Gun.
I’m not falling down the fucking slide again.
Showdown basically threw me away, and honestly Jack anything that you say to try and demean me isn’t going to work. You are talking to a woman that in professional wrestling alone she has hit rock bottom before and has had to pick herself back up so many times over but unlike those that I have faced in the past, let’s say like Darcy May Morgan, even after getting absolutely embarrassed, I won’t disappear. This is the reason I am here now Jack, Showdown fucked up, they had their chance and like Candice Blair Ava said in her promo over on Voltage, there I was sitting there to be used and given the chance, but instead thrown in some murky waters without a life raft and expected not to drown while promoting shit stains who never earned those spots, well I didn’t drown, but I came awfully close. In Dynasty though you are the proven commodity, I am not. In Dynasty you are a certified Main Event guy, I am not. In Dynasty you’re already considered to be one of the next challengers to the EAW World Heavyweight Championship, I am not. See the pattern? In my third year, I have watched women that have been here less time than me get all the press, accolades and attention, yet here is Dr. Bethany Blue coming out every week, smiling, doing whatever she is told, being the good company wrestler and never once complaining about it.
There comes a time when enough is enough.
Jack Ripley, for you this is another Friday, for me it is the turning point in my Season 15. You are my white whale, but unlike Captain Ahab, I will not allow it to destroy me. Maybe I put too much stock in my ability to twist the narrative around to benefit me, obviously blowing up in my face for there will always be detractors who think I suck, don’t deserve a damn thing or will never be on your level, I am sure that you are one of those, but see Jack, my only response to those who think this?
Plain, simple and to the point.
Now, the question is Jack, are you going to be the disrespectful, cocky ass trope that you like to play when your back is to the wall? Or are you going to be the guy that all these fans love to get behind, cheer and see us have one hell of a match even if in your mind this is a no contest, and you will walk out the winner?
How about we test that theory, bucko.”
Dr. Bethany Blue now switches her attitude a little, staring at her titles, the pictures which captured her moments, thinking long and hard about everything that has been going on in recent months. She actually chuckles to herself a little, seeing this as a golden opportunity to elevate her stock, turning back this time to the camera….
“I could be wrong, don’t really know and by now, don’t really care, but you’re not taking this as serious as I am, I can already tell, you barely have acknowledged me, this match or anything that pertains to it. In a way that is disrespectful, it’s cool though, happens to the best of us and coming off a huge win over Bronson Daniels at House of Glass, why should you care any more when the last time I faced Bronson on Showdown, well I lost thanks to outside interference but that was always a norm, are you going to be the first Elitist to defeat Dr. Bethany Blue on skill and merit alone and not some bullshit finish? I think really that is what’s on everyone’s mind when entering Dynasty this Friday. I want you to know that I have waited over a year to get a shot at you again, looking at so many that were on the roster like Darcy, Bronson, Andrea, all wrestlers that I have gone down to, and this is my chance to get a little payback and show what a difference a year or so makes. I can’t prove it with them right now, but I sure as hell can prove it with you. I am not going to continue standing here singing your praises, you might actually take that as a weakness, not really…
… what is the point of scoring a huge upset over one of the best if I try to defame your character or accomplishments, huh? Not really my style Jack. Should I give you some health tips even if you’re on the best shape of your life? How about a few pointers in healthy habits? I could invite you for a check-up, StarrStan has given me free reign to have a small clinic backstage for anything and everything that is necessary for COVID as we are still in a pandemic. I could do all of those things Jack…
… but I won’t, I have no interest in it.
The only thing I am focused on right now is kicking your ass. I want for StarrStan to watch this Main Event like he did my match with Harlow Reichert and at House of Glass against Terry Chambers and look over at Showdown to the ass hat they traded me for who is already losing matches to Harper Lee. I am the blue-chip prospect, I am the woman that came into the company with a 10-0 singles win streak to start her career, I am one of the most gifted athletes in this entire company no matter what the past has shown and recent events, because one by one I will make them a distant memory and the only thing anyone will ever remember are the victories I have had against the very best this company has to offer and that includes you Jack. Minimize this, don’t make it feel important, I am sorry that it isn’t Xander Payne or The Visual Prophet or Andrea Valentine who you wrestled a few weeks ago, I’m just Dr. Bethany Blue….
The woman who walked up into the Red Brand and made this her home.
Jack, let’s get real here, alright? This Friday, it is more than just some match for me, this is the opportunity to slap the face of StarrStan with a little does of reality, that he just made Dynasty a little more interesting. I’m not here to fail, I refuse, and I mean REFUSE to ever have to go through that same bullshit I did a year ago. I learned my lessons; I took every single one of them and applied it to now. What have I always said, Jack? You probably have no clue as I’m sure you pay no attention to my promos, but every time I come to wrestle, whomever it is, the only way they will ever get rid of me?
Is to kill me and yes….
… I am pretty fucking hard to kill.
Bring your best Jack, be that guy in the Elimination Chamber that became the Answers World Champion, not the guy who like me failed miserably at Territorial Invasion. Be the man that I watched in awe and not the coward who took advantage of a drugged-up Dr. Bethany Blue to steal a victory. I have heard enough of this rhetoric by so many others bragging and trying to change the narrative on how things happened to fall in my matches, making me look like a complete incompetent fool, incapable of being better than anyone else, and you know what, that is alright too. Go ahead Jack, kick dirt on me, pretend that Dr. Bethany Blue like anyone else will fail to live up to these lofty expectations, and when they raise my hand in victory, for I will NOT leave the ring until I come out with a win or I will wait until next Friday and the Friday after that until I do, then you can glare up at me and see that none of what happened prior to me joining Dynasty means absolute shit ….
… this is Dr. Bethany Blue’s story now, Jack and you’re just the next chapter in it.”
Brushing her hair back, tilting her head, Bethany glares into the camera with her baby brown eyes, biting down on her jaw line, hands on her hips, determined as ever to walk into Dynasty’s Main Event and come out with one of the biggest wins of her career. She cracks a smirk…
“Jack Ripley, I think it is time we start changing things up around here, this brand has stayed comfortable with its certain stars for too long, throw my name in the mix, the conversation, start hearing Bethany Blue mentioned as one of the top stars of this brand and the EAW. Live up to your reputation, that is all I can ever ask for, so that way, there are no excuses when I beat the master in his game Jack…
Because the Doctor is IN and you?
Are OUT.”
All Bethany can do is stare at the camera; she doesn’t do anything else until backing up and walking away.
FADE TO BLACK
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