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I told Akari Kiyoko that it would take a lot more than just his will and his hope to defeat The Ruler of Everything considering my current state of frustration. I still am not all too happy with my past few marquee results, but the fact of the matter is that vengeance is on the horizon. A shot at redemption is out there very shortly, and a rematch with The Jaded Hearts barring any sort of British Invasion interference is most certainly the night where NICHOLISM will solidify itself as THE tag team of Elite Answers Wrestling. Fighting Spirit is either the now or the never for Alexis and I, and we plan on making it count.. Akari Kiyoko had a decent fight / performance on Sunday night too - I will not ignore it, but like I stated, I showed him that it was an impossible, uphill battle that he could not validly argue against. A task too tall, and a match too large for his current abilities. Coming out of the match, however, I do indeed respect what he did, yet I still find his agreement to that match very much foolish. He shall take it as a lesson if anything because there is a level of potential within him that can only prosper so long as he evolves with the times. I believe that he is capable of such due to the sole reality that he even attempted to stand his ground against one half of the current EAW Unified Tag Team Champions, but for now it is time that I move onwards to bigger and greater things. I completed my required business with Akari, and as I asked during that same week, I am now granted with a larger opponent of far more meaning and far more significance. I am faced with a challenge that will help me hone in my craft ahead of my next defence of this tandem crown, no matter a win or loss, because that is what a true professional wrestler does.
I am not unfamiliar with Minerva in the slightest. We have already had our fair share of back and forths earlier this season and into Territorial Invasion 2023 - with Alex Myers and Jack Ripley on our respective sides - and since that event we have both gone our separate ways, dominating the routes in which we have travelled. Minerva and Ruler have moved onto greater successes in our designated divisions; Minerva taking the Universal Women’s Championship away from the grip of Kassidy Heart, and The Ruler of Everything and Alex Myers taking hold of these EAW Unified Tag Team Championships not too long ago, coincidentally enough from Kassidy Heart as well, and Sienna Jade, of The Jaded Hearts. It is safe to say that since our last meeting we have both taken it up a couple of notches, and we have been able to captivate as the leading champions of our desired category. That is something that I had looked to do during that initial build of Territorial Invasion 2023 as it was NICHOLISM’s first test as a genuine tag team, and first impressions certainly do matter. All that The Ruler of Everything and then Guardian Angel wanted at that moment in time was to be recognized as the future that we have long been promising, and thus, what greater way to get a few steps closer to that reality than to challenge some mainstays of the EAW product on a stage as big as Territorial Invasion? Of course, Alexis and I were just getting started as a name was not even put in place for the tandem that we created at the time of the bell, but still - we were going to strike for gold, and we were going to make sure that the match against Jack Ripley and Minerva wasn’t an immediate end to our reignited flame. NICHOLISM began its rise a year to the day of when we faced off for the New Breed Championship.
We didn’t achieve the glory of victory then, but we certainly have now. From not knowing much of what we would be doing as a team in EAW at the start of our current run, to very promptly securing these Unified Tag Team Championships in a moment of desperate need against one of the best tag teams in this industry.. NICHOLISM has grown immensely within a six month period. A beginning defeat suffered at the hands of two Elitists who did not even see eye to eye with one another was never the wanted outcome of NICHOLISM’s first big break, but it definitely motivated us far more than it halted our momentum. It motivated us to move past our inexperience as a duo, and to train harder, to work more, and most importantly to bet on our message far more than we ever had before – We would make the tag team division of EAW the greatest that it possibly could be, and no man or woman would be able to keep us down. In my personal line of travel down the route than Alexis and I chose, I was able to improve upon what was lacking at Territorial Invasion, and transform into a better performer. Road To Redemption later that year saw my trust within the tag team craft shine through my personal dislike towards Donovan Duke and Mia Santoro as we took home a win, and King of Elite saw my enhanced sharpness come into play within a devastating victory against La Familia, as I even stood side by side with Jack Ripley. At Shock Value, Alexis and I would go into a needed Electric Chair battle in order to finally settle the differences that we long have had since our formation - and in a turn that many others didn’t see coming - we stole back to back free per view events when we were called into Operation: Doomsday and took hold of the tandem crown that The Jaded Hearts once possessed.
I have grown, I have evolved, and I have become far more than what I was coming up on a half a year ago. This is a very different Ruler of Everything that Minerva is meeting; One who isn’t as quick to take to the offensive so suddenly, but one who will still strike when he feels it is needed as I have continued to sharpen my abilities, unforgivingly. Minerva and Jack Ripley may have accidentally struck NICHOLISM into a drive so thick, and a motivation so undying, but even through that accident I can realise that it was perhaps just fate itself, and I appreciate it. I appreciate fate being realised at the time it did, and I am more than prepared to poke the very bear that NICHOLISM first stumbled into as a way to exclaim just how far our growth has come. To prove in a prelude of Fighting Spirit that NICHOLISM doesn’t glide by with these titles due to flukes, but rather we fly with this crown thanks to our power, preparedness, and evolution. This contest is my elaboration, not a stepping stone... An important piece of elaboration that will see Minerva taken aback by The Monarch of Agony, as I am ready to right the defeat of my group that occurred in our very first test. Considering this a “stepping stone” type of match would be a great disservice to everything that has come after the first one, and it would show that I haven’t gained anything since then.
But I have gained a whole lot more knowledge in regards to what I need to do in matches where it seems like betting on The Ruler of Everything may not be the smartest idea, and I know for a fact that Minerva will feel, see, and experience all that I have acquired since September 17th, 2023. This match, like she has stated, is crucial to our current positions going forward and into Pain For Pride. There is a sense of great desperation on each end of the stick. There is a sense of needing this win, although it may not completely translate into the bigger picture, as it is a champion versus champion, warrior versus warrior battle. Two human beings of the same kind, and two Elitists who have risen from the collective fine line of deep, dark, realities fighting for the first time ever in one on one action.. It is as marquee as it can get for a weekly Voltage, and the victory for either Minerva or I will certainly elevate not only our confidence, and not only the view in which all other Elitists and viewers of the EAW product see us as competitors, but it will also elevate everything that we mean, and everything that we stand for. Nobody wants to be wrong. Nobody wants to go out there and suffer defeat no matter the occasion, and I can assure that is the reason why The Revolutionzier will bring nothing but the best to take on EAW’s Universal Women's Champion. I would be foolish not to. Minerva is exactly right on why I have been stepping up to these match opportunities week after week and Voltage after Voltage. NICHOLISM’s credibility has been hurt, and I wish to be the one who heals.
From The Jaded Hearts, to Jack Ripley and Cemeron Ella Ava, to the likes of Pandora Paisley and Halsey Neel, AJ Redding, and Akari Kiyoko, I have been doing my best to prove that NICOLISM has earned - not just deserved - these EAW Unified Tag Team Championships. And yet three of those five attempts in looking to go out there and save this tandem crown from looking far less than it currently should, I was either screwed out of a result thanks to poorly decided interference, or I was forced to take a victory that was marked by the hands of said interference, although a plausible and clean win was absolutely on the horizon despite the ending. The other remaining two instances saw my opponents not even give me half of what I expected from them, where no real challenge was faced. Nothing was truly proven. I wasn't able to do much of anything besides release my anger upon two new breeds whose future is as questionable as it can get, in a bout or bludgeoning that saw Ruler reigning predictably. I know exactly where I stand on this day, and where my name should be held if it wasn't for the constant troubles that are completely out of my control. The Ruler of Everything means more than every single name that I ticked off as of this very second, and I am not going to let my chance at finally proving such a statement go to waste in a match with Minerva.
It is almost poetic that this current run of mine leading into NICHOLISM’s Unified Tag Team Championships win started off with a fair, honourable defeat that was much needed for the development of my successful future, and I am now being faced with victories that could not be more invalid, causing far more development than I could have initially imagined.. And now I am faced with the same beginning, again challenging myself to overcome what I once could not. I, too, respect you, Minerva, and I take your words very seriously. Your point on everything was correct, and your assessment on The Revolutionizer holds many truths. There is just one thing, however, that I do not hold in the same light of agreement. That I cannot defeat you one on one. That I cannot stand with one of the current world champions. I have been able to accomplish such a feat many times over my EAW career since 2022, and this one match is not any different. With my previous experience of seeing how you are in that ring and being able to already have a match against you, even though it was not a singles outing, I hold more of an advantage than most do by default. Add that to my drive, and to my mentality, and to the fact that this match would mean more to the outcome on my end than it would yours? I have no choice but to place my confidence above that of your own. I mean it in good faith, Minerva, but Sunday night is going to be the night where The Black Ross begins her fall.
Save The World.
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