Post by Sang Réal on Oct 21, 2011 11:45:54 GMT -5
::The scene opens to inside a radio broadcasting room. There is a large window for people outside to view. On the center table is equipment used by a DJ to play music or talk to people or whatever other things they may need to do, as well as a phone. Microphones are set on top of the equipment. There are water bottles on the table.::
::Seated at the DJ’s position is a heavyset man with long curly hair pulled into a ponytail and a beard. He is wearing an ACW t-shirt and a hat along with his headset.::
M.S. “We are live on the airwaves with the Ringside Report. I am your host Matt Slam. This week the ACW launches it’s final Shockwave before their third Hallow-Havok pay-per-view. This week, Shockwave comes from the Bartow Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.”
M.S.: “With me tonight are two of the men competing in the tag team main event at this upcoming Shockwave. They will be taking on A.C. Smith and one of the all time greats, Brian Stevens. They are the self-proclaimed ACW World Tag Team Champions, Sang Réal, Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown.”
M.S.: “Gentlemen, thank you for being here.”
::The camera shifts to show Sang Réal, Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown sitting at the other side of the table. Murphy is dressed in a black suit with a green tie and his signature glasses. Krown is dressed in black pants and light blue dress shirt. His coat is on the back of the chair. On the table in front of them are their custom made ACW Tag Team Championships, which look like the official titles.
C.M.: “Nice to be here.”
G.K.: “How’s it going?”
M.S.: “Gentlemen, this week you are actually booked in a match at Shockwave.”
C.M.: “Finally, after months of doing nothing except commentary and weeks of wrestling whatever losers we could find in some high school gym or bingo hall or wherever in whatever town we were going to in order to compete, the best tag team of 2011, the team revitalizing the ACW tag team division and the current ACW World Tag Team Champion, Sang Réal is getting a match at Shockwave.”
G.K.: “I suppose we could say that it is about damn time, but that would be an understatement. We have watched the ACW debuted failure after failure and spent weeks cramming those people down throats of the ACW fans. Does the company actually think guys like Slade Griffin or Duke Dice will make it big? Wasn’t Nathan von Liebert trying to kill Kyle Travis or something? Did that go down? Seriously, does anyone know if that went down?”
::Krown looks around, like his is trying to get an answer. Murphy shrugs.::
C.M.: “Nope.”
G.K.: “For that matter, whatever happened to Kaiden Daniels? Did he get released or die or something?”
C.M.: “I think released for some personal reason.”
G.K.: “They never seem to hang on to the really good talent do they. It’s like one of every for or five new people stick around or something.”
C.M.: “And it’s like the same people every week. We keep seeing guys like Derryk Aired and Jeff Purse and Nathan von Liebert week after week after week after week. That’s great with some guys, but I think the only one of the three I mentioned that anyone cares about is Purse, because he’s a high flyer and people like them for some reason.”
G.K.: “They just keep shoving these people down our throats week after week. They keep guys like those, but gave up some really good wrestlers. I mean wrestlers like Logan Alexander, Shane Brooks and even Aaron Lawrence or people like and a few other people. Sure they were peasant stock, but they had talent.”
C.M.: “We’ll maintain that Aaron Lawrence and Shane Brooks should never have gotten a shot at the tag titles, but they were still decent wrestlers. The ACW just keeps releasing the decent talent and replacing it with crap.”
M.S.: “We need to go to commercial. When we return, we will still be joined by Sang Réal.”
[Commercials]
::As the commercials play, Murphy takes a drink from a water bottle. Krown adjusts his tie.::
M.S.: “And we’re back with Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown, better known as Sang Réal. Now before the break, you had mentioned that you were revitalizing the ACW Tag Team division. How exactly are you doing that?”
G.K.: “Are you blind? We are the ACW World Tag Team Champions. We are bringing these belts back.”
::Krown reaches for his title and holds it up. He slaps the plate.::
M.S.: “Yeah, but those belts were belts you had made.”
C.M.: “Well right now, they are a lot more legitimate than the Bare Knuckle Championship. I mean that belt has a fancy name, but no real bare knuckle vibe about it or any special gimmick and the number one contender for the title is Night Rider.”
G.K.: “And the ACW has lost some women. So that division isn’t that strong.”
C.M.: “But it’s a little more legitimate than the Bare Knuckle Championship.”
G.K.: “And no one really seems to be going after the United States Championship at the moment. You would think there would be some sort of number one contender match for that belt or something. I really don’t know what’s going on there.”
C.M.: “As far as we can tell, the ACW has four tag teams or so. We have the Wolf Pack, AntiMatter or any combination of the Church, ourselves and whatever Derryk Aires and Jeff Purse were going to do. I think that fell through though.”
G.K.: “I think that would be something like Prodigal Future or something. I don’t really know. I think it did fall through.”
C.M.: “But that is besides the point.”
G.K.: “And who knows? Maybe Harrison and Storm or Stevens and Smith will remain teaming.”
C.M.: “The point is at least we are trying to do something with the ACW tag team division. We will get these title legitimized.”
M.S.: “Four teams are not a lot.”
C.M.: “It’s still something. The ACW however is just not focusing on tag teams right now.”
G.K.: “Well who is really?”
C.M. “Exactly.”
MS: “Guys, we need to take another break.”
M.S.: “We are back with Sang Réal. We were talking about your invitational challenges. Those two challenges were just you beating the hell out of local people.”
G.K.: “Is there a question there?”
M.S.: “Do you think you two can actually wrestle a match or is there going to be some ring rust? You are taking on AC Smith and one of the most legendary wrestlers in the world in Brian Stevens.”
::Krown starts pointing at Matt.::
G.K.: “Hey! Hey. Hey now. You just watch it buddy. We haven’t been injured for all these past months. We’ve been getting to gyms and all that stuff.”
C.M.: “We hit a gym every town we go to. Yes, we’ve been doing commentary mostly, but that doesn’t mean we have been slacking. What we have over Smith and Stevens is that we are a legitimate tag team, with experience as a tag team. We were not just thrown together for a match because of random match making. Smith and Stevens do not have that.”
M.S.: “Why do you two even do commentary? That is something I and a lot of people wondered about.”
C.M.: “Well we started doing it simply because we were hardly getting scheduled to wrestle and we needed a reason to justify going to Shockwaves or pay-per-views.”
G.K.: “Surprisingly, a lot less people have been pissed off about it than we would have expected.”
C.M.: “Well…there was that one girl.”
G.K.: “Yeah. You know, we’re probably kind of responsible for her leaving.”
C.M.: “I suppose we should feel bad about that. But I don’t. Do you?”
G.K.: “No, not really.”
::Murphy starts to rub his chin in thought, trying to remember something.::
C.M.: “What was her name?”
G.K.: “Does it matter?”
C.M.: “Not really. Amazing we haven’t gotten a backlash from that or Roll Call.”
G.K.: "Definately from Roll Call."
M.S.: “We have to take a quick break. When we return, we will talk about your match this week.”
[Another commercial]
::Krown places the title back on the table and takes a quick drink from the water bottle. Murphy drinks as well.::
M.S.: “Getting back to the match at Shockwave, you two will be taking on the former ACW World Champion A.C. Smith and the newcomer Brian Stevens this week. How do you prepare for a match like that?”
G.K.: “By making sure the match isn’t taking place in New York and that the referee isn’t on the take.”
::Murphy nods in agreement.::
C.M.: "And by not being women. Yes, we know he doesn't hit women, but he does bring them out to the ring to treat them like garbage. And ladies, he's single."
G.K.: “And ladies for obvious reasons, he’s single,. You could do a lot worse.”
C.M.: “As I said, we are a legitimate tag team. We’ve been together for over a year. We have more experience in a tag team environment than AC Smith and Brian Stevens. That’s going to be a deciding factor.”
G.K.: “Yeah, so Brian Stevens is one of the greatest to step into the ring, big deal. The guy hasn’t done a thing in the ACW. Yeah, he’s beaten a couple of people, but no one really brags about beating Jeff Christiansen in this day and age.”
C.M.: "So he was in Japan? Big deal. My brother was in Japan and all he got was drunk off of saki and into the panties of underage Japanese schoolgirls. You know who else says he's big in Japan? Tim Waits. That’s according to a song though. We really have no way of proving how big in Japan he really is.”
G.K.: "Brian Stevens hates America. And that makes him a filthy, socialist liberal. There is no place for that in what may be Herman Cain’s new America. It might in Mitt Romney’s America. Right now there is a place for it in Barrack Obama’s America, which as we all know has become a liberal, socialist society where no one has guns and death panels decide all medical care."
C.M.: “For all we know, he left because of the election of Obama. He probably didn’t want to live in a Democrat run America. Guy probably thinks George Bush and Sarah Palin are the greatest people ever.”
G.K.: “Well of course. George Bush single handedly battled and killed Saddam Husein as he was about to launch his doomsday weapon, which would have brought him ultimate power and then hunted down and killed Osama bin Laden. And as for Sarah Palin, why she was responsible for keeping us safe from Russians and moose as she lead Alaska to a golden age while soaring above them in a helicopter carrying her high powered governor rifle.”
C.M.: “So what? A.C. Smith brought back Brian Stevens to do what? Feud with Evan Harrison and a retuning Jason Storm? Wasn’t Storm in the ACW for like a month?”
M.S.: “I think so.”
C.M.: “And yes, he was in Japan wrestling, but Stevens hasn’t been in the United States for years. As far as we can tell he’s never been in the ACW. That does matter. And what about A.C. Smith? Guy hasn’t exactly been on a tear lately has he? Smith is just proving he is very lucky. But selling out to the boss will do that for you.”
G.K.: “That is why we decided that this match will be a non-title match. They just don’t deserve it.”
::Krown shakes his head and Murphy nods in agreement.::
C.M.: “We are not going to put our titles on the line against two guys trying to stay relevant. How many so-called legends and stars have we seen come and go lately? It seems like it has been way too many.”
G.K.: “We are second generation wrestlers. Our fathers helped make this business. This is our legacy; our birthright.”
C.M.: “We don’t care how good Brian Stevens was. He’s just a man, not some sort of wrestling god. And A.C. Smith has been washed up for years with occasional bursts of luck. Do we care he found yet another AWA star? No. This is not the AWA or LAW or whatever companies these old-timers and legends want to talk about. This is the ACW. It is a whole new game.”
G.K.: “And right now, we are the best damn team in the company.”
C.M.: “We have everything to prove in this match. It is our time now. We are purebred champions.”
M.S.: “And with that, we are out of time. I’m Matt Slam with my guests, Gabriel Krown and Connor Murphy, the ACW’s own Sang Réal. This has been the Ringside Report.”
::Murphy and Krown grab their titles off the table. Krown pulls his coat off the back of the chair and slings it over his shoulder. The two exit the studio as the scene fades out.::
(OCC: If anyone wants to use Ringside Report or Matt Slam for promo purposes, go ahead)
::Seated at the DJ’s position is a heavyset man with long curly hair pulled into a ponytail and a beard. He is wearing an ACW t-shirt and a hat along with his headset.::
M.S. “We are live on the airwaves with the Ringside Report. I am your host Matt Slam. This week the ACW launches it’s final Shockwave before their third Hallow-Havok pay-per-view. This week, Shockwave comes from the Bartow Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.”
M.S.: “With me tonight are two of the men competing in the tag team main event at this upcoming Shockwave. They will be taking on A.C. Smith and one of the all time greats, Brian Stevens. They are the self-proclaimed ACW World Tag Team Champions, Sang Réal, Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown.”
M.S.: “Gentlemen, thank you for being here.”
::The camera shifts to show Sang Réal, Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown sitting at the other side of the table. Murphy is dressed in a black suit with a green tie and his signature glasses. Krown is dressed in black pants and light blue dress shirt. His coat is on the back of the chair. On the table in front of them are their custom made ACW Tag Team Championships, which look like the official titles.
C.M.: “Nice to be here.”
G.K.: “How’s it going?”
M.S.: “Gentlemen, this week you are actually booked in a match at Shockwave.”
C.M.: “Finally, after months of doing nothing except commentary and weeks of wrestling whatever losers we could find in some high school gym or bingo hall or wherever in whatever town we were going to in order to compete, the best tag team of 2011, the team revitalizing the ACW tag team division and the current ACW World Tag Team Champion, Sang Réal is getting a match at Shockwave.”
G.K.: “I suppose we could say that it is about damn time, but that would be an understatement. We have watched the ACW debuted failure after failure and spent weeks cramming those people down throats of the ACW fans. Does the company actually think guys like Slade Griffin or Duke Dice will make it big? Wasn’t Nathan von Liebert trying to kill Kyle Travis or something? Did that go down? Seriously, does anyone know if that went down?”
::Krown looks around, like his is trying to get an answer. Murphy shrugs.::
C.M.: “Nope.”
G.K.: “For that matter, whatever happened to Kaiden Daniels? Did he get released or die or something?”
C.M.: “I think released for some personal reason.”
G.K.: “They never seem to hang on to the really good talent do they. It’s like one of every for or five new people stick around or something.”
C.M.: “And it’s like the same people every week. We keep seeing guys like Derryk Aired and Jeff Purse and Nathan von Liebert week after week after week after week. That’s great with some guys, but I think the only one of the three I mentioned that anyone cares about is Purse, because he’s a high flyer and people like them for some reason.”
G.K.: “They just keep shoving these people down our throats week after week. They keep guys like those, but gave up some really good wrestlers. I mean wrestlers like Logan Alexander, Shane Brooks and even Aaron Lawrence or people like and a few other people. Sure they were peasant stock, but they had talent.”
C.M.: “We’ll maintain that Aaron Lawrence and Shane Brooks should never have gotten a shot at the tag titles, but they were still decent wrestlers. The ACW just keeps releasing the decent talent and replacing it with crap.”
M.S.: “We need to go to commercial. When we return, we will still be joined by Sang Réal.”
[Commercials]
::As the commercials play, Murphy takes a drink from a water bottle. Krown adjusts his tie.::
M.S.: “And we’re back with Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown, better known as Sang Réal. Now before the break, you had mentioned that you were revitalizing the ACW Tag Team division. How exactly are you doing that?”
G.K.: “Are you blind? We are the ACW World Tag Team Champions. We are bringing these belts back.”
::Krown reaches for his title and holds it up. He slaps the plate.::
M.S.: “Yeah, but those belts were belts you had made.”
C.M.: “Well right now, they are a lot more legitimate than the Bare Knuckle Championship. I mean that belt has a fancy name, but no real bare knuckle vibe about it or any special gimmick and the number one contender for the title is Night Rider.”
G.K.: “And the ACW has lost some women. So that division isn’t that strong.”
C.M.: “But it’s a little more legitimate than the Bare Knuckle Championship.”
G.K.: “And no one really seems to be going after the United States Championship at the moment. You would think there would be some sort of number one contender match for that belt or something. I really don’t know what’s going on there.”
C.M.: “As far as we can tell, the ACW has four tag teams or so. We have the Wolf Pack, AntiMatter or any combination of the Church, ourselves and whatever Derryk Aires and Jeff Purse were going to do. I think that fell through though.”
G.K.: “I think that would be something like Prodigal Future or something. I don’t really know. I think it did fall through.”
C.M.: “But that is besides the point.”
G.K.: “And who knows? Maybe Harrison and Storm or Stevens and Smith will remain teaming.”
C.M.: “The point is at least we are trying to do something with the ACW tag team division. We will get these title legitimized.”
M.S.: “Four teams are not a lot.”
C.M.: “It’s still something. The ACW however is just not focusing on tag teams right now.”
G.K.: “Well who is really?”
C.M. “Exactly.”
MS: “Guys, we need to take another break.”
M.S.: “We are back with Sang Réal. We were talking about your invitational challenges. Those two challenges were just you beating the hell out of local people.”
G.K.: “Is there a question there?”
M.S.: “Do you think you two can actually wrestle a match or is there going to be some ring rust? You are taking on AC Smith and one of the most legendary wrestlers in the world in Brian Stevens.”
::Krown starts pointing at Matt.::
G.K.: “Hey! Hey. Hey now. You just watch it buddy. We haven’t been injured for all these past months. We’ve been getting to gyms and all that stuff.”
C.M.: “We hit a gym every town we go to. Yes, we’ve been doing commentary mostly, but that doesn’t mean we have been slacking. What we have over Smith and Stevens is that we are a legitimate tag team, with experience as a tag team. We were not just thrown together for a match because of random match making. Smith and Stevens do not have that.”
M.S.: “Why do you two even do commentary? That is something I and a lot of people wondered about.”
C.M.: “Well we started doing it simply because we were hardly getting scheduled to wrestle and we needed a reason to justify going to Shockwaves or pay-per-views.”
G.K.: “Surprisingly, a lot less people have been pissed off about it than we would have expected.”
C.M.: “Well…there was that one girl.”
G.K.: “Yeah. You know, we’re probably kind of responsible for her leaving.”
C.M.: “I suppose we should feel bad about that. But I don’t. Do you?”
G.K.: “No, not really.”
::Murphy starts to rub his chin in thought, trying to remember something.::
C.M.: “What was her name?”
G.K.: “Does it matter?”
C.M.: “Not really. Amazing we haven’t gotten a backlash from that or Roll Call.”
G.K.: "Definately from Roll Call."
M.S.: “We have to take a quick break. When we return, we will talk about your match this week.”
[Another commercial]
::Krown places the title back on the table and takes a quick drink from the water bottle. Murphy drinks as well.::
M.S.: “Getting back to the match at Shockwave, you two will be taking on the former ACW World Champion A.C. Smith and the newcomer Brian Stevens this week. How do you prepare for a match like that?”
G.K.: “By making sure the match isn’t taking place in New York and that the referee isn’t on the take.”
::Murphy nods in agreement.::
C.M.: "And by not being women. Yes, we know he doesn't hit women, but he does bring them out to the ring to treat them like garbage. And ladies, he's single."
G.K.: “And ladies for obvious reasons, he’s single,. You could do a lot worse.”
C.M.: “As I said, we are a legitimate tag team. We’ve been together for over a year. We have more experience in a tag team environment than AC Smith and Brian Stevens. That’s going to be a deciding factor.”
G.K.: “Yeah, so Brian Stevens is one of the greatest to step into the ring, big deal. The guy hasn’t done a thing in the ACW. Yeah, he’s beaten a couple of people, but no one really brags about beating Jeff Christiansen in this day and age.”
C.M.: "So he was in Japan? Big deal. My brother was in Japan and all he got was drunk off of saki and into the panties of underage Japanese schoolgirls. You know who else says he's big in Japan? Tim Waits. That’s according to a song though. We really have no way of proving how big in Japan he really is.”
G.K.: "Brian Stevens hates America. And that makes him a filthy, socialist liberal. There is no place for that in what may be Herman Cain’s new America. It might in Mitt Romney’s America. Right now there is a place for it in Barrack Obama’s America, which as we all know has become a liberal, socialist society where no one has guns and death panels decide all medical care."
C.M.: “For all we know, he left because of the election of Obama. He probably didn’t want to live in a Democrat run America. Guy probably thinks George Bush and Sarah Palin are the greatest people ever.”
G.K.: “Well of course. George Bush single handedly battled and killed Saddam Husein as he was about to launch his doomsday weapon, which would have brought him ultimate power and then hunted down and killed Osama bin Laden. And as for Sarah Palin, why she was responsible for keeping us safe from Russians and moose as she lead Alaska to a golden age while soaring above them in a helicopter carrying her high powered governor rifle.”
C.M.: “So what? A.C. Smith brought back Brian Stevens to do what? Feud with Evan Harrison and a retuning Jason Storm? Wasn’t Storm in the ACW for like a month?”
M.S.: “I think so.”
C.M.: “And yes, he was in Japan wrestling, but Stevens hasn’t been in the United States for years. As far as we can tell he’s never been in the ACW. That does matter. And what about A.C. Smith? Guy hasn’t exactly been on a tear lately has he? Smith is just proving he is very lucky. But selling out to the boss will do that for you.”
G.K.: “That is why we decided that this match will be a non-title match. They just don’t deserve it.”
::Krown shakes his head and Murphy nods in agreement.::
C.M.: “We are not going to put our titles on the line against two guys trying to stay relevant. How many so-called legends and stars have we seen come and go lately? It seems like it has been way too many.”
G.K.: “We are second generation wrestlers. Our fathers helped make this business. This is our legacy; our birthright.”
C.M.: “We don’t care how good Brian Stevens was. He’s just a man, not some sort of wrestling god. And A.C. Smith has been washed up for years with occasional bursts of luck. Do we care he found yet another AWA star? No. This is not the AWA or LAW or whatever companies these old-timers and legends want to talk about. This is the ACW. It is a whole new game.”
G.K.: “And right now, we are the best damn team in the company.”
C.M.: “We have everything to prove in this match. It is our time now. We are purebred champions.”
M.S.: “And with that, we are out of time. I’m Matt Slam with my guests, Gabriel Krown and Connor Murphy, the ACW’s own Sang Réal. This has been the Ringside Report.”
::Murphy and Krown grab their titles off the table. Krown pulls his coat off the back of the chair and slings it over his shoulder. The two exit the studio as the scene fades out.::
(OCC: If anyone wants to use Ringside Report or Matt Slam for promo purposes, go ahead)
