Post by Elijah Martin on Aug 7, 2022 13:12:32 GMT -5
Monday August 1 - 9:37 pm EST
It’s an early night for me, as Pure Cup 3 led off a wild night of Action Wrestling! Four men entered the one night tournament, looking to jumpstart their momentum as we get closer to Uprising at the end of the month. Void was about as productive as an empty slot in the tournament bracket, John Black used HORRIBLE strategy by trying to out-brawl me and Jonny Cedrone proved to be as weak in the ring as he is in his heart… just a big old teddy bear from Vegas who couldn’t cut it when the pressure was turned up a little bit.
Grand Forks, North Dakota proved to be a fortunate city for me, as I walked away with a pair of victories and the Pure Cup. The events from tonight are not lost on me, as I am well aware that I was not living up to expectations in the last six weeks and I needed a mega boost to my credibility, so this Pure Cup really couldn’t have come at a more opportune time for me. However, there is one minor inconvenience to winning like I did - management wants me to do a fucking press scrum interview.
I’m not really much for talking with the media, but I gotta keep the bosses happy from a business perspective, so orders are orders. So here I go, walking down a hallway backstage with an ice pack wrapped around my right shoulder and my left knee, gradually making my way to my appointment with the shitty basement goblin wrestling “journalists” of the world. I eventually turn into an open doorway to find about a dozen writers awaiting my arrival, as I walk between the wooden table with a black table curtain attached to it and the Action Wrestling backdrop. I take a seat directly in the middle of the table and slightly adjust my ice packs.
EM: Okay everybody, you all know I’m only here so I don’t get fined like Marshawn Lynch all them years ago at the Super Bowl, so let’s get this shit over with as painless as possible.
Jackass Reporter 1: Can you talk about the mental preparation you had to put yourself through in order to be ready for tonight’s intense competition?
EM: If you think I viewed the two bums I beat tonight and the third who I didn’t even get a chance to put my hands on as “competition,” then you are more delusional than Pete Davidson thinking he was going to last a year or more with Kim Kardashian, like Red Sox fans thinking they actually had a shot at the World Series this year… NO SHOT!! John Black tried to be all big and bad representing Baltimore like he was freshly walking in from the set of “The Wire,” but I proved to be the Avon Barksdale to his Omar Little - he nothing but a small fish in the ocean and I’m the great white shark who ate his ass! Void, well he certainly lived up to his name by proving to be nothing more than that - in fact, he would have been LESS embarrassed if he just flat out didn’t show up to the arena tonight, instead getting his ass tossed around by the bum I took out in the finals. And then Jonny Cedrone, I mean what do I gotta say other than what I put out there over the weekend… dude is nothing more than a soft ass bitch who uses his “I’m from Vegas” facade to cover up just how weak and helpless he really is. It’s sad, it’s unfortunate, but in the end… it also meant YOUR BOY taking home the Pure Cup tonight!
Jackass Report 2: You took a few lumps against Kyle Kemp in a pair of pay-per-view matches to bookend July, so how important was it for you to start August off on a strong note to try building momentum for Uprising?
EM: Kyle Kemp is a part of my past that I will resolve at a later time, but for now, it’s about moving forward and taking things one match at a time, one week at a time, one MONTH at a time… I can’t control the past, but I can make it obsolete by setting myself up in the present to have success in the future.
Jackass Reporter 3: Not including the current CBS Champion Jason Cashe who you’ve had issues with previously between two different wrestling companies, what champions do you currently have your eye on?
EM: Damn, what is with these fucking softball questions? Y’all be softer than some Charmin Ultra Strong! To begin with, if ANY professional wrestler in ANY company is asked that question and doesn’t begin with saying the World Title, they need to get the fuck out of this business! So aside from that even more obvious answer ya dumb prick, there are a couple of specific championships I have my eyes on… but that’s for me to know and all of you to eventually find out.
Jackass Reporter 4: How do you feel about getting a second opportunity to qualify for the Uprising All In ladder match next week on Clash?
EM: That sounds lovely, shouldn’t be a problem, I’ll cross that bridge in seven nights - next question.
Jackass Reporter 5: What is your current status with CCP Enterprises?
I’m growing more and more annoyed with the line of questioning, but I carry on…
EM: Things are fine, Chris Page and I have in depth conversations at least twice a week - anything else?
Jackass Reporter 6: Are you and Lexi still in contact with each other after your breakup?
EM: Okay that’s enough for tonight, thank you.
I stand up as quick as possible and storm out of the conference room to head back down the hallway I came from.
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Redemption is an essential concept in many religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
In Christian theology, redemption refers to the deliverance of Christians from sin. It assumes an important position in salvation because the transgressions in question form part of a great system against which human power is helpless. Australian biblical scholar Leon Morris says that "Paul uses the concept of redemption primarily to speak of the saving significance of the death of Christ." In the New Testament, the redemption word group is used to refer both to deliverance from sin and freedom from captivity. In Christian theology, redemption is a metaphor for what is achieved through the Atonement; therefore, there is a metaphorical sense in which the death of Jesus pays the price of a ransom, releasing Christians from bondage to sin and death.
Most evangelical theologians and Protestant denominations reject Origen's argument that God paid the ransom price of redemption to Satan.
A concept similar to redemption in Indian religions is called prāyaścitta, which it is not related to theological sense of sin, but to expiation and personal liberation from guilt or sin. However the end goal of a being is moksha or liberation from karma, resulting in the end of the cycle of birth and death. By attaining moksha, the Atma (self or soul) merges back into Paramatma (God), just as a wave merges back into the ocean.
In Islam, redemption is achieved by being a Muslim and doing no action that would forfeit one's identification with Islam, being of sincere faith (iman) and doing virtuous actions. Muslim sinners need turn to a merciful God in repentance and carry out other good deeds, such as prayer (salah) and charity, for redemption. In certain instances, redemption is also linked to seeking forgiveness from the person that has been wronged by us, and obtaining their forgiveness in addition to seeking forgiveness from God directly. As a result of this view of redemption, Muslims have criticized alternative views on redemption, especially the Christian doctrine of original sin.
In the Torah, redemption (Hebrew ge'ulah) referred to the ransom of slaves (Exodus 21:8).
The concept of redemption is a legal and transactional one in halakha, including various sacrifices at the Temple in Jerusalem:
Blood
Mating
Sales and borrowing
Some specific items like the Red Heifer
The concept also applies to redemption of real property such as fields and houses, stock animals, such as donkeys, produce, and specific items such as tefillin. It also means the liberation of an estate in real property from a mortgage.
Redemption also applies to individuals or groups: an Israelite slave, an Israelite captive, and the firstborn son pidyon haben, or redemption of the first-born son, is a mitzvah in Judaism whereby a Jewish firstborn son is redeemed from God by use of silver coins to a kohen. It is from these three cases that the concept of exilic redemption is derived because the People Israel are considered God's 'firstborn' derived from Jacob, who are God's slaves forever, but are currently held captive, even while they reside in the modern state of Israel.
In Rabbinic Judaism, redemption refers to God redeeming the Israelites from their exiles, starting with that from Egypt. This includes the final redemption from the present exile.
In Hasidic philosophy parallels are drawn between the redemption from exile and the personal redemption achieved when a person refines his character traits, although there is no source for this in the Talmud. Rather the Messianic redemption is linked to observing Shabbat, Jewish prayer, and the promise of redemption for those looking toward Mount Zion, the last being the original cultural source of 'Zionism'. As such, the original intent of Zionism was the redemption process by which the Land of Israel that has been pledged to the Israelites is reclaimed, accomplished through a payment of the debt owed to God as a fulfillment of the conditions set out in the Torah.
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Sam… fucking… Kidsgrove. The child actor turned pro wrestler, what a Hollywood story, like something straight out of a movie script… or is he? This dude had it all with the world eating out of the palm of his hand with being a movie success at such a young age, he could have lived off that money for the rest of his life once he turned eighteen and the estate from the money he made legally came into his control rather than his parents, but what does this joker do instead? He says fuck the money, fuck the Hollywood glitz, fuck the easy way in life… I want to be a pro wrestler. Can anyone tell me how the fuck that shit makes sense?! It’s like he watched “Ready to Rumble” a few too many times and decided that if two random ass wrestling fans who collected shit and piss for a living could do it, then I can too!
So this dude eventually comes to Action Wrestling and essentially uses his recent movie success as a springboard to winning his first of what has now become three reigns as United States Champion - for someone with “genuine warmth, charm and personality,” sounds like a pretty arrogant douchebag to me. But then he got what was truly coming to him when he came up against Dandy, and look at the polar opposite directions their careers have gone… one of them was recently the World Champion and the other is well… a diabetic piece of shit who roams around the middle of the card at best.
At some point after Dandy showed this jerkoff who the boss of their rivalry really was, Sam decided to go away for a little while and fall in love and clean up his personal life outside of the ring, get rid of drugs and alcohol from his daily activities. But yet again, after returning with some of your buddies by your side in the Hollywood Elite, you let Dandy MAKE YOU HIS BITCH!! And what did you do… you RAN AWAY AGAIN! Are we beginning to notice a pattern here, ladies and gentlemen?! He can’t handle the ups and downs, the ebbs and flows that can occur over the course of time in a big time wrestling career.
You see Sammy, despite the successes you have had in your career as a three-time United States Champion, there are two very specific things that separate us. The first is that you seem to have this fear of being alone. When you were acting I’m sure you had a bunch of “yes men” follow you around like lost puppy dogs as your entourage, then you fell into the arms of Zooey, you had your home boys from Hollywood Elite… you’re still a kid who needs an army standing behind him and have his back in order to feel brave enough to fight for himself. I might be signed as a talent for CCP Enterprises, but you don’t see me running and hiding behind any of the other members - we fight our own battles, no questions asked, and we do it with honor. I don’t need Page or Holden or J Mont or any of them to fight in my sted, because I’m one of the toughest mothafuckas in the entire world. I can take more punishment than any mere mortal should ever be able to, and I look forward to inflicting that pain on you.
The second and most important thing is that you have a fear of failure - whenever things get hard, you know it’s not going to end well for you. But at the same time, you can’t just run away because you have to at least try, otherwise you are letting down all of the people that follow you to a fault. You did all these great things before with your movies and winning championships in multiple companies, but in the end, you failed everyone with your addictions and had to run away. That failure continues to follow you every single day and it will NEVER go away, no matter how much you try to make it up to your fans and the people you love. You have become nothing more than an abject failure in recent months as a member of the Action Wrestling roster, and I look forward to adding onto your misery this Monday night.
I have been to the bottom of the bottom, I know about scratching and clawing my way to success just as much or even more than anyone in the business. You wanna talk about being overlooked, how you feel like you should have been a participant for the All In ladder match by now, you should have been a multiple time World Champion by now. But let’s be real Sammy - what promoter in their right mind would want someone on top, being the face of their company, knowing at any moment with just the wrong moment of weakness… it could all come crashing down?
You want to bash me for my hard work, being a part of two different wrestling companies at the same time… that’s because I take pride in my work, the ring being my canvas and my matches being the paint to create masterpieces with my opponents, and sometimes our blood can provide the extra shine to take the portrait over the top. I mean, you can’t tell me you never looked at multiple scripts and tried working on multiple projects at the same time when you were at the top of your game as a child actor, right? So what the fuck makes me any different?!
For you, this is just another opportunity for you to show how much of a mediocre and abject failure you really are, that you don’t belong in the same breath as Dandy after all, that everything you have tried to overcome in the last couple of years has just taken too much out of you. I’m feeling fresh, I’m rejuvenated from winning the Pure Cup last week, and I am going to use you as an example of how bright my future is going to be in Action Wrestling. To make things plain and simple Sam, you are an old dog in this company that can’t be taught new tricks, and it’s time for me to bring you out behind the shack to put you down FOR GOOD!
