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It’s a little surreal…
To think I can have fun again.
To think that no matter what happens, I’ll know I had fun.
To announce I’m entering the Grand Rampage match and instead of putting at the forefront one big dream, one big conclusion to the story I’ve fought years upon years to reach, and to fail… I can have fun this time around. I can go in there with twenty-nine other men and women below me… I can eliminate all of them… I can have so much fun without any pressure in regards to anything that happens…
I can’t dream anymore!
Am I hopeless – or am I free?
Isn’t it funny that I couldn’t defend my World Heavyweight Title ‘till the very end? Isn’t it funny how I could only come third in the Chamber match just like every other time? Isn’t it funny how Myles retained at King of Elite because of Jake Smith’s incompetence? Isn’t it HILARIOUS that Milli Banks has a World Title opportunity instead of me because Jake Smith is INCOMPETENT??? Isn’t it so hilarious that Limmy Monaghan comes back and cuts right ahead to the line? It’s so insane! It’s hilarious! Myles heard the Kendrick Lamar verse and decided to make his own version like the TikTok edits… it’s… it’s so funny… it’s just big him, ain’t it? The fact Jake Smith is on posters… the fact he is still breathing… the hilarity of this situation. I shouldn’t have lost my title. I shouldn’t have failed to regain it. I shouldn’t have failed to make history in the Iron Survivor match. I shouldn’t have to declare myself for the Grand Rampage match… not when going all the way isn’t the option. Everyone’s found their purpose so easily, everyone is so HAPPY! They all take six months off, they come back like nothing has changed, they cut in line, and they succeed as everything is catered to them… and they look and laugh at the man who is singlehandedly responsible for the fact they still have a brand to come back to… ME!! Because I’m one of the few who have enough pride to still go out here every week and accept my responsibility of being the face of this brand, how can Andre Walker be the centerpiece of Dynasty when he spends more time at home than in the ring?? How is Limmy Monaghan number one now??? How is Myles the strongest when HE NEVER PINNED ME?!?! Do you know why I’m not World Heavyweight Champion right now? Because of one man. One man that you could say has all the credit for my mere existence right now, and the one man I’ve since surpassed since that moment… the one man I’ve had to spent five painful months along as he was allowed to think he was anything more than a gremlin stuck to me and holding me back – Jake Smith is the reason Myles is World Heavyweight Champion. Jake Smith is the reason Limmy Monaghan cuts in line. Jake Smith is the reason I’m not still at the top of Dynasty defending the World Heavyweight Championship. Jake Smith is the man who turned me into the fallen. Jake Smith turned me into a monster – and I’ll make sure to give back that same treatment whenever I see his face again. I used to take nothing personal. I used to have no enemies. I used to hate nobody… but I’m too far gone… I’m not the same being – I must fight fire with fire and I must eradicate the cancer plaguing my career and this industry Jake Smith has been – and if anyone stands in the way of making his life a hell in the Grand Rampage match then go ahead and take a shot at The Emperor because you’ll go up in flames just like him. The difference a year can make is quite wild… I look at the child I was a year ago and live with the shame of what I became in just 365 days – I had hopes. I had dreams. I needed to be the best, and you know what happened when I tried my hardest in the Grand Rampage match? I failed like no other… I fell flat on my face and didn't think another opportunity like it would strike. All because I could dream... how dumb. I’m not the same anymore. I don’t care as much as I did back then… I don’t dream anymore… I don’t fear my fate – I solely exist as a cog in the machine, a revenge-filled robot doing what they want me to do. I know why I declared for the Grand Rampage match, and it’s not to outlast everyone, not to earn my first Pain For Pride main event.
I’m there to kill off somebody else’s dreams for once.
Nobody in that match is equal to me, and if they believe otherwise, they can put that to the test and throw me over the top rope…
If not – well, I’ll take the benefit of showing it’s just big me at Pain For Pride. As it always has been.
Onto my match this week – let me make one thing clear, I’m not here to help anybody but myself. I’m here to make a repeat of last week and end the match with my hand raised high – and I don’t care who shows up, Drake. I don’t care if it’s Mitsu and I don’t care if it’s Jake Smith or anybody else, they’re all the same to me and they’re all just pawns in the way of my victory. Perhaps you should pray Jake Smith shows up, perhaps you may need that advantage going. Perhaps, you even need Mitsu, that way you have an excuse, but here’s the deal Drake, I’m not here to lose. I’m not here to get screwed over by Jake Smith. I’m here to win, I don’t care what else comes in between that, the whole Grand Rampage field could come out and cost me this match I would still not lose. Now that we got that straight, let’s address some of your points for a second, you spend a whole lot of time talking of complacency, it’s almost as if you fear that very idea, to be honest, Drake, I’ve never been complacent, I’ve never been happy with where I was if I wasn’t at the very top of the food chain, I’ve never been able to accept being lesser than the very best, I called myself the future before you did, Drake, I challenged the very people you idolize at this stage of your career, Drake – and you know what I find great shame in? Losing to them, but more than shame, I found the motivation to surpass them, perhaps if I get another chance at Jamie, I would put him down this time around, but that’s fantasy, not reality, truth be told, Drake, we’re similar, I had the same motivation you do to be the best, but we’re also different: the journey to that comes in many ways, you undercut others and find all the ways possible to get that victory, no matter the morality of it all, and I’m not gonna knock down what works, but I ask you Drake, how far do you think that’ll carry you? Against somebody like myself, do you think the same tricks that put down Ronan Malosi and the like will work against me? Do you think you can defeat me with anything but pure force? The truth is, Drake… you can’t. You can’t pull trickery on me, and once that door shuts, you’re left with this one option of having to purely outwrestle me and you’re not capable of that. Surprising to me is you don’t truly know how to classify that championship – so allow me to enlighten you as I’ve held it before and coincidentally enough we dethroned the same man, the Interwire Championship is the last championship you’ll ever win that isn’t a World Championship if you live up to its purpose. It’s like a gateway, the calm before the storm, the way the New Breed Championship prepares you for the world is all the same as the Interwire Championship preparing you for the “new world”, if everything goes to plan, Drake, once your reign is over, the toughest journey of them all will start and you’ll be faced with the challenge of climbing to a World Championship win. In short, the Interwire Championship is like a declaration. You’re declaring that your time is next when it comes to capturing that World Championship. But, many have failed. The Interwire Championship guarantees nothing, it just gives you the platform and opportunities you need to take the next step, what comes after is purely your own doing.
You ask how I fit into the main event scene of Dynasty?
Well, I am the main event scene.
No matter who reigns or who joins the ranks of the main event – they all have a shadow hanging above their heads, they’re all on my land. They all stake their claims… but I’m the one ending most weekly editions. I’m the one ending the marquees. I’m the one featured in promotional materials. I’m the face of Dynasty – and no matter who tries to replace me, no matter who tries to diminish my status beneath it, I’m still going to be the face of Dynasty until I depart from this brand. Cy Henderson might be chasing to be the golden standard once more, but the truth of the matter is, Drake, unlike him, I AM the golden standard, and a mere lack of a belt doesn’t change that fact, because how could I call myself anything if I still depended on a championship I’ve long since lost? Perhaps, you don’t find me a part of your subjective list of pantheons, but that’s because my name is joined by no other for I alone am the pantheon. Perhaps you took my words to you a few weeks ago too kindly, even going as far as to think that victory over myself and a few others meant something a few weeks ago, I don’t know, but here’s the truth, you doubt I’m the best? I show you I’m the best. You stand in my way? I murder you if that’s what it takes to get you moving, and you know what you’re doing right now Drake Armstrong? You’re in my way. We are three weeks away from the Grand Rampage match, and the Grand Rampage match is the moment I will kill the monster, but before then, there’s preparations I must make, there’s momentum I must build, and there’s people I must take out, and you’re amongst those folks, Drake, wanna see what it takes to go against complacency? Wanna see what the gold standard means? Wanna see what being the strongest looks like? Well, I’ll show you, that’s my parting gift before I move on and I keep my streak of victories going. No one has been able to replicate what Andre Walker managed to do to me in October 2022, not even he, himself. And yet, every time signs of defeat would show, a feeling much more intense arose: satisfaction. The loneliness that comes with absolute strength… with no one in this entire world able to satisfy me through defeat. I doubt you can achieve what you wish to. You will not get the headstart to your reign you wish you would get. Enjoy taking down rotting corpses like Mitsubachi before you can aim for the crown of the king, take in all the joys of fighting the weak because there’s satisfaction in domination as well, for I will find much satisfaction in dominating you, Drake Armstrong, and I’m gonna have a lot of fun while doing so. I stand on the mountaintop and await an equal, I await somebody who can challenge my records. To challenge my status. My singles record. My Pain For Pride record. My latest title reign. Every day, I walk away disappointed. I walk away disappointed knowing such a man doesn’t exist. The only man that can take me down is myself, the monster outside of me – and what brings me joy now… is the lack of pressure, the lack of care. I can do what I want, for no one will ever hold the ability to challenge the beating heart of Dynasty. You’re not gonna be that man, Drake Armstrong, just like Jay Jerry Johnson wasn’t. Just like Jake Smith will never be. Just like everybody else in the Grand Rampage match won’t be.
The Fallen will crush them all.
To think I can have fun again.
To think that no matter what happens, I’ll know I had fun.
To announce I’m entering the Grand Rampage match and instead of putting at the forefront one big dream, one big conclusion to the story I’ve fought years upon years to reach, and to fail… I can have fun this time around. I can go in there with twenty-nine other men and women below me… I can eliminate all of them… I can have so much fun without any pressure in regards to anything that happens…
I can’t dream anymore!
Am I hopeless – or am I free?
Isn’t it funny that I couldn’t defend my World Heavyweight Title ‘till the very end? Isn’t it funny how I could only come third in the Chamber match just like every other time? Isn’t it funny how Myles retained at King of Elite because of Jake Smith’s incompetence? Isn’t it HILARIOUS that Milli Banks has a World Title opportunity instead of me because Jake Smith is INCOMPETENT??? Isn’t it so hilarious that Limmy Monaghan comes back and cuts right ahead to the line? It’s so insane! It’s hilarious! Myles heard the Kendrick Lamar verse and decided to make his own version like the TikTok edits… it’s… it’s so funny… it’s just big him, ain’t it? The fact Jake Smith is on posters… the fact he is still breathing… the hilarity of this situation. I shouldn’t have lost my title. I shouldn’t have failed to regain it. I shouldn’t have failed to make history in the Iron Survivor match. I shouldn’t have to declare myself for the Grand Rampage match… not when going all the way isn’t the option. Everyone’s found their purpose so easily, everyone is so HAPPY! They all take six months off, they come back like nothing has changed, they cut in line, and they succeed as everything is catered to them… and they look and laugh at the man who is singlehandedly responsible for the fact they still have a brand to come back to… ME!! Because I’m one of the few who have enough pride to still go out here every week and accept my responsibility of being the face of this brand, how can Andre Walker be the centerpiece of Dynasty when he spends more time at home than in the ring?? How is Limmy Monaghan number one now??? How is Myles the strongest when HE NEVER PINNED ME?!?! Do you know why I’m not World Heavyweight Champion right now? Because of one man. One man that you could say has all the credit for my mere existence right now, and the one man I’ve since surpassed since that moment… the one man I’ve had to spent five painful months along as he was allowed to think he was anything more than a gremlin stuck to me and holding me back – Jake Smith is the reason Myles is World Heavyweight Champion. Jake Smith is the reason Limmy Monaghan cuts in line. Jake Smith is the reason I’m not still at the top of Dynasty defending the World Heavyweight Championship. Jake Smith is the man who turned me into the fallen. Jake Smith turned me into a monster – and I’ll make sure to give back that same treatment whenever I see his face again. I used to take nothing personal. I used to have no enemies. I used to hate nobody… but I’m too far gone… I’m not the same being – I must fight fire with fire and I must eradicate the cancer plaguing my career and this industry Jake Smith has been – and if anyone stands in the way of making his life a hell in the Grand Rampage match then go ahead and take a shot at The Emperor because you’ll go up in flames just like him. The difference a year can make is quite wild… I look at the child I was a year ago and live with the shame of what I became in just 365 days – I had hopes. I had dreams. I needed to be the best, and you know what happened when I tried my hardest in the Grand Rampage match? I failed like no other… I fell flat on my face and didn't think another opportunity like it would strike. All because I could dream... how dumb. I’m not the same anymore. I don’t care as much as I did back then… I don’t dream anymore… I don’t fear my fate – I solely exist as a cog in the machine, a revenge-filled robot doing what they want me to do. I know why I declared for the Grand Rampage match, and it’s not to outlast everyone, not to earn my first Pain For Pride main event.
I’m there to kill off somebody else’s dreams for once.
Nobody in that match is equal to me, and if they believe otherwise, they can put that to the test and throw me over the top rope…
If not – well, I’ll take the benefit of showing it’s just big me at Pain For Pride. As it always has been.
Onto my match this week – let me make one thing clear, I’m not here to help anybody but myself. I’m here to make a repeat of last week and end the match with my hand raised high – and I don’t care who shows up, Drake. I don’t care if it’s Mitsu and I don’t care if it’s Jake Smith or anybody else, they’re all the same to me and they’re all just pawns in the way of my victory. Perhaps you should pray Jake Smith shows up, perhaps you may need that advantage going. Perhaps, you even need Mitsu, that way you have an excuse, but here’s the deal Drake, I’m not here to lose. I’m not here to get screwed over by Jake Smith. I’m here to win, I don’t care what else comes in between that, the whole Grand Rampage field could come out and cost me this match I would still not lose. Now that we got that straight, let’s address some of your points for a second, you spend a whole lot of time talking of complacency, it’s almost as if you fear that very idea, to be honest, Drake, I’ve never been complacent, I’ve never been happy with where I was if I wasn’t at the very top of the food chain, I’ve never been able to accept being lesser than the very best, I called myself the future before you did, Drake, I challenged the very people you idolize at this stage of your career, Drake – and you know what I find great shame in? Losing to them, but more than shame, I found the motivation to surpass them, perhaps if I get another chance at Jamie, I would put him down this time around, but that’s fantasy, not reality, truth be told, Drake, we’re similar, I had the same motivation you do to be the best, but we’re also different: the journey to that comes in many ways, you undercut others and find all the ways possible to get that victory, no matter the morality of it all, and I’m not gonna knock down what works, but I ask you Drake, how far do you think that’ll carry you? Against somebody like myself, do you think the same tricks that put down Ronan Malosi and the like will work against me? Do you think you can defeat me with anything but pure force? The truth is, Drake… you can’t. You can’t pull trickery on me, and once that door shuts, you’re left with this one option of having to purely outwrestle me and you’re not capable of that. Surprising to me is you don’t truly know how to classify that championship – so allow me to enlighten you as I’ve held it before and coincidentally enough we dethroned the same man, the Interwire Championship is the last championship you’ll ever win that isn’t a World Championship if you live up to its purpose. It’s like a gateway, the calm before the storm, the way the New Breed Championship prepares you for the world is all the same as the Interwire Championship preparing you for the “new world”, if everything goes to plan, Drake, once your reign is over, the toughest journey of them all will start and you’ll be faced with the challenge of climbing to a World Championship win. In short, the Interwire Championship is like a declaration. You’re declaring that your time is next when it comes to capturing that World Championship. But, many have failed. The Interwire Championship guarantees nothing, it just gives you the platform and opportunities you need to take the next step, what comes after is purely your own doing.
You ask how I fit into the main event scene of Dynasty?
Well, I am the main event scene.
No matter who reigns or who joins the ranks of the main event – they all have a shadow hanging above their heads, they’re all on my land. They all stake their claims… but I’m the one ending most weekly editions. I’m the one ending the marquees. I’m the one featured in promotional materials. I’m the face of Dynasty – and no matter who tries to replace me, no matter who tries to diminish my status beneath it, I’m still going to be the face of Dynasty until I depart from this brand. Cy Henderson might be chasing to be the golden standard once more, but the truth of the matter is, Drake, unlike him, I AM the golden standard, and a mere lack of a belt doesn’t change that fact, because how could I call myself anything if I still depended on a championship I’ve long since lost? Perhaps, you don’t find me a part of your subjective list of pantheons, but that’s because my name is joined by no other for I alone am the pantheon. Perhaps you took my words to you a few weeks ago too kindly, even going as far as to think that victory over myself and a few others meant something a few weeks ago, I don’t know, but here’s the truth, you doubt I’m the best? I show you I’m the best. You stand in my way? I murder you if that’s what it takes to get you moving, and you know what you’re doing right now Drake Armstrong? You’re in my way. We are three weeks away from the Grand Rampage match, and the Grand Rampage match is the moment I will kill the monster, but before then, there’s preparations I must make, there’s momentum I must build, and there’s people I must take out, and you’re amongst those folks, Drake, wanna see what it takes to go against complacency? Wanna see what the gold standard means? Wanna see what being the strongest looks like? Well, I’ll show you, that’s my parting gift before I move on and I keep my streak of victories going. No one has been able to replicate what Andre Walker managed to do to me in October 2022, not even he, himself. And yet, every time signs of defeat would show, a feeling much more intense arose: satisfaction. The loneliness that comes with absolute strength… with no one in this entire world able to satisfy me through defeat. I doubt you can achieve what you wish to. You will not get the headstart to your reign you wish you would get. Enjoy taking down rotting corpses like Mitsubachi before you can aim for the crown of the king, take in all the joys of fighting the weak because there’s satisfaction in domination as well, for I will find much satisfaction in dominating you, Drake Armstrong, and I’m gonna have a lot of fun while doing so. I stand on the mountaintop and await an equal, I await somebody who can challenge my records. To challenge my status. My singles record. My Pain For Pride record. My latest title reign. Every day, I walk away disappointed. I walk away disappointed knowing such a man doesn’t exist. The only man that can take me down is myself, the monster outside of me – and what brings me joy now… is the lack of pressure, the lack of care. I can do what I want, for no one will ever hold the ability to challenge the beating heart of Dynasty. You’re not gonna be that man, Drake Armstrong, just like Jay Jerry Johnson wasn’t. Just like Jake Smith will never be. Just like everybody else in the Grand Rampage match won’t be.
The Fallen will crush them all.
