Hold up, say that again?
Someone was just too good for the New Breed Championship, huh??
Do you really think that means anything with who you’re talking to, Adam?
Any rhetoric alluding to how that title doesn’t surmount to what you’ve done beyond that point of sport doesn’t matter, ‘cause you already know who made the most out of becoming New Breed Champion. A whole new standard was set for how a New Breed elevates himself from that specific period of their career because of how I carried myself with the gold. You know what’s an even bigger rarity around here, Adam? Going from reigning New Breed Champion, to the EAW World fuckin’ Championship as the next destination. I skipped THAT line. There are elitists here who have never & will never be able to become New Breed Champions or Specialists Champions, and that’s because the window of opportunity for those championships is inherently slim. If I didn’t win that title right then & there during the height of my presence as a challenger, I would’ve been bolstered into the next step. I ain’t the only motherfucker around here who was too good for the competition, for the most part I was running shit down there & ensuring I had the proper challenger to carry that mantle after I did. BRAE succeeded, and the cycle is always gonna continue ‘cause you’re only ever too good to a point. To set up the freakin’ future, and this future was once a New Breeder who has now propelled himself to the very top of this mountain that you’re trying to reach the summit of yet again. I didn’t need the assistance of any upper brass to do it, I got here ‘cause they saw what happened when trying to halt me from my opportunities elsewhere. You’re damn right about one thing, sure as shit ain’t as impatient as me. I won’t remain idle as this business moves along, ‘cause there’s something that you don’t seem to grasp as well I do despite all of the knowledge vested within you; you either adapt to this business, or this business fucks off without you in its sights. If this company wants to look at me as their Golden Child, that’s never been my problem. It’s a cutthroat industry, they will try to move on eventually to the next fresh squeeze—but once that time arises, I won’t wait to turn a new leaf in my direction ‘till it’s too late like you did. You represented this sense of absolute sportsmanship & nobility around these parts that kept you from developing this edge for yourself sooner, and it’s costing you severely. I bet if you approached your career with this much bravatto sooner, I’d be challenging you for the EAW World Championship at some point. Maybe the higher ups wouldn’t still be thinking deep down that Adam Lucas is still the same guy who needed to reroute his focus with the aid of his own wife. You used to be able to approach your solvable problems through all of this independence in your craft, what the hell happened?
I’m sure you’d prefer to act like you don’t care too much about me personally, but you maintain all of this good will about how capable I am.
Do you really want me to not end up like you that fuckin’ bad?
‘Cause if you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m well ahead of you brother. I’ve got enough in the reservoir that can combat what’s thrown in my direction.
Now I don’t know how you interpreted not talking the talk the way that you did, so I’ll bring you back to having the most marginal critical thinking when I tell you it’s maintaining the fact that I’ve walked the goddamn walk my whole career so far. It’s all I’ve done, you call this generic like plenty have ‘cause they can’t seem to comprehend to take a look at me on a surface level. What you see is what you get, and maybe you fail to accept the fact that I really have been giving something to this business that hasn’t been seen as often as it should: the severe lack of bullshit. I speak my mind and don’t shy away from laying it all down out there through the havoc I bring. If you’re looking to compel yourself with some abstract soliloquy then take that crap to the son of a bitch I defended the EAW World Championship against already. I’ll give you plenty of substance to grasp on after I’ve sent you beaming up to the pearly gates right alongside the fraudulent champion of these next few days. Who knows, Adam? I bet they’ll accept you up there while Jake’s only given a glimpse before he spends his lifetime in the deepest pits of Hell. You ain’t all too far gone, but I’m considering that much if you’re really sitting there & thinking I shouldn’t keep promises on my matches. That’s just another realm of contention between us, you can “believe” as much as you’d like but ain’t nothing emphatic about thinking that way. I don’t give a fuck if the entire deck is stacked against me & I’ve got the slimmest possibility of winning. If I’m able to walk on these two feet & ball up these hands into a fist, I’ve got just as good of a shot at victory as any other outing. I’d rather not get comfortable thinking that shit’s gonna go sideways, when I say I’m gonna win? I WILL win. I WILL retain the EAW World Championship. You WILL recognize that between those ropes. Experience can be on your side, but let’s not beat around any bush around here. There’s no secret of the athletic marvel that I am, you can be difficult to put down yet you haven’t known nuthin’ about durability yet once you’re in the ring with a real scorcher. Two years in, Adam, I WILL consider myself the newfound standard ‘cause I goddamn can.
Don’t like it? Big fuckin’ deal.
I’ll make sure respect goes both ways, ‘cause you might be intent on it, Adam.
But I’m ensuring it’s concrete.
The reason I won the EAW World Championship on that day is plain & simple, Jake: I needed your sorry ass to stay down, ‘cause I’d rather drop dead than see you hold a World Championship on any brand I’m involved in again. Hatred can run as deep as it needs to, nothing quite compares to the hate I’ve got to maintain toward you & the Chairman. A slimy bastard who will discover any loophole possible for the sake of preserving himself & living to fight another day. It’s difficult not to take you at face value in that sense, ‘cause the fantasy you’ve got your head residing in can’t be ignored. I’m glad you’ve made company with Adam on mocking up every single assumption that you can muster up under the Sun, don’t start tripping over your own words trying to exact the statement you need to make about me. Everything that’s ever been painstakingly spewed from your mouth has always been a result of anyone else’s words falling on deaf ears. You sure as hell aren’t keen on listening to what I’ve got to say when you really do only reserve belief for how you think. I won’t even front in that light without alluding to how I’ll be wired the same way, ‘cause sometimes I’m really not trying to hear some of the shit I hear these days when I know the way I’ve been able to go about my career has worked for me. But I do understand when it’s time to take that step back & give attention to what's before me. That’s what I’ve done when I look upon the entirety of this brand and see how shit ain’t so bleak from when I became champ’. Matter of fact, it’s feeling like a goddamn honeymoon period for Voltage with how it’s been able to leave this place of nonstop tyranny for a whole year. You’ve got yourself boxxed in, you can’t see what you’ve done to the morale of any elitist that’s paid attention to you since the season began. Voltage being the most battle-tested environment around with a roster that’s stacked to the deck, all of the chaos you can possibly think of—and we got disqualifications on top of blatantly giving up matches. Nah, I ain’t living with having to become a firsthand witness to the EAW World Champion Jake Smith experience again. I’m treating this as my last time that I get to knock you around & have the electricity provide a higher register of agony, ‘cause nothing’s gonna be as satisfying as seeing a broken man of your stature with nothing else to turn to. I’m glad you’ve been able to return to some form of who you were as champion, ‘cause that’s the same asshat who ate shit’ & fell at my own hands. Gonna become a recognizable scene all over again.
It’s funny, my mind didn’t immediately race toward saving the brand from your clutches at first.
You held the gold that makes this business revolve around for any professional wrestler.
You were gonna lose that title at some point—but goddamn, you really were met with this Michael Machina problem at the wrong place & the wrong time.
I chased an accolade any elitist could ever hope for, but I wasn’t emboldened by hopes. I set my legacy in stone through actions. Results. The emphasis on leaving nothing behind by keeping myself on the hunt. Don’t talk to me about how I don’t know what I’m doing when you can’t seem to comprehend when a championship doesn’t belong to you. You’ve got all of the nerve in the world to be hoisting my title around & trying to present any false gospel toward me. You had your chance to take everything away from me back at Road to Redemption, ‘cause I made it well known. If I didn’t win, I would’ve been wrong about every single word that I ever said. That’s how certain I was of my word, and how strongly I will always feel about how I tackle this business. In that moment, it was truly all or nothing; to this day, still being considered the EAW World Champion regardless of how you love to steal hardware, I’m still approaching every title match as if it’s all or nothing. There’s no other way, everything to lose & everything to gain. I don’t have the title over my shoulder like I usually do during these videos, and that should worry you, Jake. You’re out here grasping onto my title like some fan would with their replica, and that pisses me off. I defeated you as a challenger who had to conform to the wrongs from before, with nothing to me but sheer willpower. You call yourself better than you’ve ever been. Well, for your sake I’d hope so. I sincerely hope you’re capable of withstanding what’s sprawling your way & ready to snatch back what’s belonging to me. Throwing around the term “placeholder” when it’s the last person you should even be considering to place in that category, that’s exactly what I’d expect out of you, Jake. I had to become the man that’s reopened the doors of this brand to a comfortably competitive atmosphere—but I’m the furthest from comfortable. I don’t get better by remaining comfortable. I’m venturing into the deepest pits of any hellscape I’m thrown into, and that’s where I’ll be thriving when facing off against yourself & Adam Lucas. You won’t be returning to any throne. Not just ‘cause I doubt you’d ever have a kingdom to remotely return to anyway, but ‘cause of the royal disservice you’ve done for that EAW World Championship that I ain’t letting slide past me again. This reign ain’t a result of a brief fairytale, this is the real world you’ve been cooped up in.
You don’t determine how this all ends, ‘cause yourself & Adam will understand an entirely new level of unfairness.
Having to contend with the New Legend is more than enough to make this unfair.
Better luck when it ain’t me.
Someone was just too good for the New Breed Championship, huh??
Do you really think that means anything with who you’re talking to, Adam?
Any rhetoric alluding to how that title doesn’t surmount to what you’ve done beyond that point of sport doesn’t matter, ‘cause you already know who made the most out of becoming New Breed Champion. A whole new standard was set for how a New Breed elevates himself from that specific period of their career because of how I carried myself with the gold. You know what’s an even bigger rarity around here, Adam? Going from reigning New Breed Champion, to the EAW World fuckin’ Championship as the next destination. I skipped THAT line. There are elitists here who have never & will never be able to become New Breed Champions or Specialists Champions, and that’s because the window of opportunity for those championships is inherently slim. If I didn’t win that title right then & there during the height of my presence as a challenger, I would’ve been bolstered into the next step. I ain’t the only motherfucker around here who was too good for the competition, for the most part I was running shit down there & ensuring I had the proper challenger to carry that mantle after I did. BRAE succeeded, and the cycle is always gonna continue ‘cause you’re only ever too good to a point. To set up the freakin’ future, and this future was once a New Breeder who has now propelled himself to the very top of this mountain that you’re trying to reach the summit of yet again. I didn’t need the assistance of any upper brass to do it, I got here ‘cause they saw what happened when trying to halt me from my opportunities elsewhere. You’re damn right about one thing, sure as shit ain’t as impatient as me. I won’t remain idle as this business moves along, ‘cause there’s something that you don’t seem to grasp as well I do despite all of the knowledge vested within you; you either adapt to this business, or this business fucks off without you in its sights. If this company wants to look at me as their Golden Child, that’s never been my problem. It’s a cutthroat industry, they will try to move on eventually to the next fresh squeeze—but once that time arises, I won’t wait to turn a new leaf in my direction ‘till it’s too late like you did. You represented this sense of absolute sportsmanship & nobility around these parts that kept you from developing this edge for yourself sooner, and it’s costing you severely. I bet if you approached your career with this much bravatto sooner, I’d be challenging you for the EAW World Championship at some point. Maybe the higher ups wouldn’t still be thinking deep down that Adam Lucas is still the same guy who needed to reroute his focus with the aid of his own wife. You used to be able to approach your solvable problems through all of this independence in your craft, what the hell happened?
I’m sure you’d prefer to act like you don’t care too much about me personally, but you maintain all of this good will about how capable I am.
Do you really want me to not end up like you that fuckin’ bad?
‘Cause if you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m well ahead of you brother. I’ve got enough in the reservoir that can combat what’s thrown in my direction.
Now I don’t know how you interpreted not talking the talk the way that you did, so I’ll bring you back to having the most marginal critical thinking when I tell you it’s maintaining the fact that I’ve walked the goddamn walk my whole career so far. It’s all I’ve done, you call this generic like plenty have ‘cause they can’t seem to comprehend to take a look at me on a surface level. What you see is what you get, and maybe you fail to accept the fact that I really have been giving something to this business that hasn’t been seen as often as it should: the severe lack of bullshit. I speak my mind and don’t shy away from laying it all down out there through the havoc I bring. If you’re looking to compel yourself with some abstract soliloquy then take that crap to the son of a bitch I defended the EAW World Championship against already. I’ll give you plenty of substance to grasp on after I’ve sent you beaming up to the pearly gates right alongside the fraudulent champion of these next few days. Who knows, Adam? I bet they’ll accept you up there while Jake’s only given a glimpse before he spends his lifetime in the deepest pits of Hell. You ain’t all too far gone, but I’m considering that much if you’re really sitting there & thinking I shouldn’t keep promises on my matches. That’s just another realm of contention between us, you can “believe” as much as you’d like but ain’t nothing emphatic about thinking that way. I don’t give a fuck if the entire deck is stacked against me & I’ve got the slimmest possibility of winning. If I’m able to walk on these two feet & ball up these hands into a fist, I’ve got just as good of a shot at victory as any other outing. I’d rather not get comfortable thinking that shit’s gonna go sideways, when I say I’m gonna win? I WILL win. I WILL retain the EAW World Championship. You WILL recognize that between those ropes. Experience can be on your side, but let’s not beat around any bush around here. There’s no secret of the athletic marvel that I am, you can be difficult to put down yet you haven’t known nuthin’ about durability yet once you’re in the ring with a real scorcher. Two years in, Adam, I WILL consider myself the newfound standard ‘cause I goddamn can.
Don’t like it? Big fuckin’ deal.
I’ll make sure respect goes both ways, ‘cause you might be intent on it, Adam.
But I’m ensuring it’s concrete.
The reason I won the EAW World Championship on that day is plain & simple, Jake: I needed your sorry ass to stay down, ‘cause I’d rather drop dead than see you hold a World Championship on any brand I’m involved in again. Hatred can run as deep as it needs to, nothing quite compares to the hate I’ve got to maintain toward you & the Chairman. A slimy bastard who will discover any loophole possible for the sake of preserving himself & living to fight another day. It’s difficult not to take you at face value in that sense, ‘cause the fantasy you’ve got your head residing in can’t be ignored. I’m glad you’ve made company with Adam on mocking up every single assumption that you can muster up under the Sun, don’t start tripping over your own words trying to exact the statement you need to make about me. Everything that’s ever been painstakingly spewed from your mouth has always been a result of anyone else’s words falling on deaf ears. You sure as hell aren’t keen on listening to what I’ve got to say when you really do only reserve belief for how you think. I won’t even front in that light without alluding to how I’ll be wired the same way, ‘cause sometimes I’m really not trying to hear some of the shit I hear these days when I know the way I’ve been able to go about my career has worked for me. But I do understand when it’s time to take that step back & give attention to what's before me. That’s what I’ve done when I look upon the entirety of this brand and see how shit ain’t so bleak from when I became champ’. Matter of fact, it’s feeling like a goddamn honeymoon period for Voltage with how it’s been able to leave this place of nonstop tyranny for a whole year. You’ve got yourself boxxed in, you can’t see what you’ve done to the morale of any elitist that’s paid attention to you since the season began. Voltage being the most battle-tested environment around with a roster that’s stacked to the deck, all of the chaos you can possibly think of—and we got disqualifications on top of blatantly giving up matches. Nah, I ain’t living with having to become a firsthand witness to the EAW World Champion Jake Smith experience again. I’m treating this as my last time that I get to knock you around & have the electricity provide a higher register of agony, ‘cause nothing’s gonna be as satisfying as seeing a broken man of your stature with nothing else to turn to. I’m glad you’ve been able to return to some form of who you were as champion, ‘cause that’s the same asshat who ate shit’ & fell at my own hands. Gonna become a recognizable scene all over again.
It’s funny, my mind didn’t immediately race toward saving the brand from your clutches at first.
You held the gold that makes this business revolve around for any professional wrestler.
You were gonna lose that title at some point—but goddamn, you really were met with this Michael Machina problem at the wrong place & the wrong time.
I chased an accolade any elitist could ever hope for, but I wasn’t emboldened by hopes. I set my legacy in stone through actions. Results. The emphasis on leaving nothing behind by keeping myself on the hunt. Don’t talk to me about how I don’t know what I’m doing when you can’t seem to comprehend when a championship doesn’t belong to you. You’ve got all of the nerve in the world to be hoisting my title around & trying to present any false gospel toward me. You had your chance to take everything away from me back at Road to Redemption, ‘cause I made it well known. If I didn’t win, I would’ve been wrong about every single word that I ever said. That’s how certain I was of my word, and how strongly I will always feel about how I tackle this business. In that moment, it was truly all or nothing; to this day, still being considered the EAW World Champion regardless of how you love to steal hardware, I’m still approaching every title match as if it’s all or nothing. There’s no other way, everything to lose & everything to gain. I don’t have the title over my shoulder like I usually do during these videos, and that should worry you, Jake. You’re out here grasping onto my title like some fan would with their replica, and that pisses me off. I defeated you as a challenger who had to conform to the wrongs from before, with nothing to me but sheer willpower. You call yourself better than you’ve ever been. Well, for your sake I’d hope so. I sincerely hope you’re capable of withstanding what’s sprawling your way & ready to snatch back what’s belonging to me. Throwing around the term “placeholder” when it’s the last person you should even be considering to place in that category, that’s exactly what I’d expect out of you, Jake. I had to become the man that’s reopened the doors of this brand to a comfortably competitive atmosphere—but I’m the furthest from comfortable. I don’t get better by remaining comfortable. I’m venturing into the deepest pits of any hellscape I’m thrown into, and that’s where I’ll be thriving when facing off against yourself & Adam Lucas. You won’t be returning to any throne. Not just ‘cause I doubt you’d ever have a kingdom to remotely return to anyway, but ‘cause of the royal disservice you’ve done for that EAW World Championship that I ain’t letting slide past me again. This reign ain’t a result of a brief fairytale, this is the real world you’ve been cooped up in.
You don’t determine how this all ends, ‘cause yourself & Adam will understand an entirely new level of unfairness.
Having to contend with the New Legend is more than enough to make this unfair.
Better luck when it ain’t me.
