Post by Joey Scala on Mar 23, 2022 11:21:49 GMT -5
He wipes his head with the palm of his hand as he's walking down the streets of New York City feeling a bit frustrated and anxious.
Joey Scala: I feel like I should get something off my chest real fast. I used to be an alcoholic, just straight up drinking every morning, every day as soon as I got out of whatever bed I found myself in just fucking drinking until the sun came up and then drinkin' some more. Didn't give a shit about myself, honestly I thought I was going to die. I didn't care anymore. This pro wrestling shit is my life, I love this shit and I just wasn't where I was at and so I took it out on myself with bottles every night. I didn't give a shit and I was down bad.
Scala daps up a stranger walking down the street who recognizes him.
Joey Scala: Then at some random show near the Garden, I probably been at that show for 14 years always working whoever was the next east coast guy to move up and there was my hero, my idol man. Ronnie Rochester man, he wrestled since the 60s, man, he was one of the all time greats in New York everyone looks up to him, they should put his banners in the Garden, he pulled me aside and told me I'm getting older and I'm getting fatter but I shouldn't give up on my dream. Nah, he told me I shouldn't give up on myself.
Scala stops and looks over across the street and Madison Square Garden is now in his sights.
Joey Scala: Told me if I got sober, I'd be in that building fighting for real Championships and not wrestling in gyms and small buildings. He said that shit to me and I didn't even believe him but I listened. I stopped drinking since that day and I've been sober ever since. You see Ronnie Rochester man, he was a legend, he was fucking gifted, he could beat anyone, anywhere without even trying and I always wanted to be him. I just wasn't technically good in the ring, I wanted to be him, but I wasn't flying off the ropes. But he told me to believe in myself.
Scala continues walking down the street as a few people in AW gear yell out for him or take photos. He just smiles and keeps walking leading the camera behind him.
Joey Scala: All that lead to me and my boy Holden holding the Tag Team Championships at Friday Night Slam. I achieved success. You see, they don't make belts for me, they don't carve out lanes for me so I have to do it myself. But I had some help from Holden and Gerard Angelo. Two great men who are leading the way for me. I thought I had success when we were holding the Tag Team Championships but then Battlebowl happened.
Scala stops and just soaks in New York City like it's the only air in his lungs.
Joey Scala: Then a five star match happened.
Scala just thinks about it.
Joey Scala: Yeah, we lost, but man, I wasn't giving up and Holden wasn't either. We took Vanguard to their limit, we pushed the top tag team in the world to it's absolute ceiling and then we pushed some more. We were that close and that's what inspires me today. I think about what Ronnie Rochester said to help me sober up, I think about what Gerard Angelo has done for me and how he believes in me too and I think about my tag team partner Holden Ross who can body a mother fucker with ease. Hah.
Scala laughs to himself as he grabs a hot dog from a vendor and trades 2 bucks. He takes the hot dog and just skips across the sidewalk real fast and sets it down in front of a homeless man laying out.
Joey Scala: He'll wake up and want it, you always gotta take care of your own. That's what Grindhouse is about and thats what has me hot about Cassidy Adler, Sam Kidsgrove and Tatiana Jolee. None of them know how to be a team. Sam Kidsgrove been on tag teams with men he hates or men who stab him in the back! Cassidy Adler stabbed his own sister in the back by throwing her off a ladder 2 years ago and Tatiana? She won't even join the one stable who is begging for her love and affection. These three make me sick but I realize they just don't have that bond, that natural chemistry and charisma that Holden and I have, they don't have that leadership that Angelo has.
They also don't have the United States Championship like Angelo has either.
Scala laughs to himself as he stops at his destination. A sober meeting where plenty of men just like him are struggling.
Joey Scala: You see, you three piss me off because you can be handed opportunity after opportunity or love from friends or strangers and you'd stab them in the back. You're disgusting. You're garbage and at Clash I'm going to love bashing your heads in. None of you have what it takes to truly survive this city let alone Action Wrestling, and I'm going to enjoy Angelo standing tall with us with that United States Championship.
Now if you don't mind, I gotta help some friends. You three wouldn't know what I'm talking about cause you three have no friends. Ight, peace.
Scala walks off and pulls his hoodie down from over his head and hugs a strange looking homeless man and helps him into the Sober building. The scene slowly fades out.
Joey Scala: I feel like I should get something off my chest real fast. I used to be an alcoholic, just straight up drinking every morning, every day as soon as I got out of whatever bed I found myself in just fucking drinking until the sun came up and then drinkin' some more. Didn't give a shit about myself, honestly I thought I was going to die. I didn't care anymore. This pro wrestling shit is my life, I love this shit and I just wasn't where I was at and so I took it out on myself with bottles every night. I didn't give a shit and I was down bad.
Scala daps up a stranger walking down the street who recognizes him.
Joey Scala: Then at some random show near the Garden, I probably been at that show for 14 years always working whoever was the next east coast guy to move up and there was my hero, my idol man. Ronnie Rochester man, he wrestled since the 60s, man, he was one of the all time greats in New York everyone looks up to him, they should put his banners in the Garden, he pulled me aside and told me I'm getting older and I'm getting fatter but I shouldn't give up on my dream. Nah, he told me I shouldn't give up on myself.
Scala stops and looks over across the street and Madison Square Garden is now in his sights.
Joey Scala: Told me if I got sober, I'd be in that building fighting for real Championships and not wrestling in gyms and small buildings. He said that shit to me and I didn't even believe him but I listened. I stopped drinking since that day and I've been sober ever since. You see Ronnie Rochester man, he was a legend, he was fucking gifted, he could beat anyone, anywhere without even trying and I always wanted to be him. I just wasn't technically good in the ring, I wanted to be him, but I wasn't flying off the ropes. But he told me to believe in myself.
Scala continues walking down the street as a few people in AW gear yell out for him or take photos. He just smiles and keeps walking leading the camera behind him.
Joey Scala: All that lead to me and my boy Holden holding the Tag Team Championships at Friday Night Slam. I achieved success. You see, they don't make belts for me, they don't carve out lanes for me so I have to do it myself. But I had some help from Holden and Gerard Angelo. Two great men who are leading the way for me. I thought I had success when we were holding the Tag Team Championships but then Battlebowl happened.
Scala stops and just soaks in New York City like it's the only air in his lungs.
Joey Scala: Then a five star match happened.
Scala just thinks about it.
Joey Scala: Yeah, we lost, but man, I wasn't giving up and Holden wasn't either. We took Vanguard to their limit, we pushed the top tag team in the world to it's absolute ceiling and then we pushed some more. We were that close and that's what inspires me today. I think about what Ronnie Rochester said to help me sober up, I think about what Gerard Angelo has done for me and how he believes in me too and I think about my tag team partner Holden Ross who can body a mother fucker with ease. Hah.
Scala laughs to himself as he grabs a hot dog from a vendor and trades 2 bucks. He takes the hot dog and just skips across the sidewalk real fast and sets it down in front of a homeless man laying out.
Joey Scala: He'll wake up and want it, you always gotta take care of your own. That's what Grindhouse is about and thats what has me hot about Cassidy Adler, Sam Kidsgrove and Tatiana Jolee. None of them know how to be a team. Sam Kidsgrove been on tag teams with men he hates or men who stab him in the back! Cassidy Adler stabbed his own sister in the back by throwing her off a ladder 2 years ago and Tatiana? She won't even join the one stable who is begging for her love and affection. These three make me sick but I realize they just don't have that bond, that natural chemistry and charisma that Holden and I have, they don't have that leadership that Angelo has.
They also don't have the United States Championship like Angelo has either.
Scala laughs to himself as he stops at his destination. A sober meeting where plenty of men just like him are struggling.
Joey Scala: You see, you three piss me off because you can be handed opportunity after opportunity or love from friends or strangers and you'd stab them in the back. You're disgusting. You're garbage and at Clash I'm going to love bashing your heads in. None of you have what it takes to truly survive this city let alone Action Wrestling, and I'm going to enjoy Angelo standing tall with us with that United States Championship.
Now if you don't mind, I gotta help some friends. You three wouldn't know what I'm talking about cause you three have no friends. Ight, peace.
Scala walks off and pulls his hoodie down from over his head and hugs a strange looking homeless man and helps him into the Sober building. The scene slowly fades out.