Post by The Ascension on Nov 27, 2022 11:42:21 GMT -5
The Monologue
In a small room stands a small stage that displays a microphone with a single light source just above it. Alister walks up the side and walks up the 3 steps to get to the stage and stands in front of the microphone with a glass of milk. He looks around the darkened room, only certain the 4 chairs up front were empty, but the lack of brightness from the single light makes it difficult to see the few other chairs around the room. He raises the glass of milk up to his lips and takes an annoyingly loud gulping drink. He slowly lowers the glass and lets out a gasp that would normally be reserved for a ventage scotch.
I’ve realized something over the last couple of weeks, something that I feel warrants a little bit of a shift of my whole perspective as far as Action Wrestling and my place within the company goes. This is my 7th week in the company, and at least as far as I’m concerned, I am on the best rookie run of my life. I walked through those doors doubting I should even be here. I’m not going to pretend like the last 3 years before coming here were easy. Europe isn’t easy to work, so compared to everyone else, I didn’t feel like I had put in enough work to really show up. Not being one to turn on an opportunity, I did prepare myself to be a short run. Each week I just go out there and give all that I can, and yes sometimes I had to borrow from my opponent, because I gave all that I had already. It’s done me well, even the losses I’ve had, well, I’ve yet to be pinned or submitted in Action Wrestling. And in that short time, I find myself once again in the conversation for who could be next for the iLLest of Jill’s. I just don’t think I can continue thinking and saying, I am constantly out matched, or that I don’t belong here. On paper it all makes sense, everyone here is at that high of a level, that accomplished. Then you have me, I wasn’t even that good at wrestling in High School.
He drinks from his cup again, and looks down as he swirls it around, watching the forming shallow funnel. A slight grin begins to show as he nods to himself before finishing the remainder milk. He squats down and sets the cup on the stage.
I’m sure its easily something to be understood, so many people in the company are successful on multiple ventures. Movie stars, artists, martial arts, pretty much if it has to do with any other entertainment outside of wrestling, someone is successful at it. I guess lucky for me, this is all I got, this is my only focus. Which doesn’t make sense to me, so many in the locker room with a lot of success, and yet still walk around here mad, and dickish. Like, who are you mad at? Did they run out of gold trophies for you to win? I just don’t understand how someone could be in a company with so many people watching each week and not be happy about it. Some can’t even be bothered to put in the work to make sure they are ready for a championship, I wouldn’t say its all life and death for me, but it is how I eat. Even in my youth and inexperience, I can acknowledge the fact that if the opponents I did beat gave all of their focus to me and the match, there was a good chance they would have won. So, this is the retirement of that mentality, because I feel I do belong, that I do deserve to be here. Now it’s time to show any doubters that I do.
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What I’m Thankful For
What I’m Thankful For
Welcome back, this is Aly with Alt 104.5 and right now, I have Alister McKissick in the studio, so Alister, you’re a star with Action Wrestling who is holding their Turmoil pay-per-view at the Wells Fargo Center, what can our listeners expect at this weekend’s event?
Alister sits in the small studio that isn’t much bigger than a walk-in closet only big enough for the table they sit at. Aly sitting across from him half hiding behind a plethora of cables and microphones. If not for all the blonde hair, she would all but blend in with the wall. Alister takes the moment to look around at the posters and calendars posted around the room, and then up at the tv mounted on the wall showing the live stream of the interview.
Well, we’re talking about Action Wrestling yeah? So, like the name suggest, tickle your butthole good action. This weekend we have 5 title matches, 2 matches, including mine, to determine the next challenger to 2 of championships. We have CruiserClash implications, Carter Shaw returning, a blood bath with DiVito and Park, and of course the finals to determine the Wrestler of the Year for the second year in a row Spencer Adams and Downfall.
Wrestler of the Year huh? Maybe I should have been talking to one of them then. Why weren’t you involved with that match?
Oh yeah, no, I was going to be part of that tournament, but my contract is pretty specific that I wouldn’t make anyone look too bad until 2023, so next year you’ll see me in that tournament.
Tell us about the match you are in Sunday.
Yeah Fatal Four way for a shot at the US Titl……..
Wrestler of the Year huh? Maybe I should have been talking to one of them then. Why weren’t you involved with that match?
Oh yeah, no, I was going to be part of that tournament, but my contract is pretty specific that I wouldn’t make anyone look too bad until 2023, so next year you’ll see me in that tournament.
Tell us about the match you are in Sunday.
Yeah Fatal Four way for a shot at the US Titl……..
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I Couldn’t Keep Up
I Couldn’t Keep Up
In 2014, for most of the world, was just another year with exciting movie releases, for a teenage Alister it was the end of the world, as with most teens. He is learning the life lesson of the tribulations of balancing work, and sports, for Alister this was very much a Starbucks verse Varsity Wrestling. In almost an autopilot mode, he does just enough to make it through his shift, and heads home. To subsidize his lack of time to train, he runs around town, from school to work to home. Something no one batted an eye out in loosely populated Scotland, everyone truly treated everyone as family. Although some of them may have showed it unconventional. None more unconventional than Henry McKissick, or as Alister calls him, Da. A man who would probably be used as a stereotypical looking Scotsman, maybe an inch taller than his son, but much wider. First impressions of the man are, he looks like he could lift the Dinnie stones and that you know he can play a mean bagpipe. Alister rounds into the parking lot and begins to sprint, heading up 2 flights of stairs and opened his door falling on the couch huffing and puffing.
You’re 7 minutes late, so are you just lazy or did something actually hold you up?
Just left a few minutes late, chill.
I thought you were trying to get on the Varsity team this year?
Sorry, sometimes I get tired, it’s not easy to go to school, wrestling practice, work, home to do it all over again. Why do we even have a Starbucks? I thought we were supposed to drink tea or some shit.
Just left a few minutes late, chill.
I thought you were trying to get on the Varsity team this year?
Sorry, sometimes I get tired, it’s not easy to go to school, wrestling practice, work, home to do it all over again. Why do we even have a Starbucks? I thought we were supposed to drink tea or some shit.
With surprising quickness, Henry rushes over and grabs Alister by the shoulders and stands him up and starts to brush him with his hands as if he was cleaning his appearance up. He spits in his hand and rubs his thumb in it and begins to rub Alister’s face, which prompts him to jump back and away from his father.
WHAT THE FUCK?
I figured if you were going to cry like a cunt, I’d clean you up like one. The only one who cares about your crying is you, you think anyone cared that I had to work so much after your mam passed? All that time you spent with your Boba, you thought that was because I was tired of looking at your ugly face? No, I had to work and take the jobs that I had available, and sometimes that meant working 12-hour days, 7 days a week. All for you to grow up as some ungrateful sniveling baby, oh I’m learning life skills, everything sucks huh? You have 2 more years until you’re finished with school, after that, you can do whatever you want, live in a gutter, but until you bring me that diploma, you will have to learn to be uncomfortable in balancing everything.
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I figured if you were going to cry like a cunt, I’d clean you up like one. The only one who cares about your crying is you, you think anyone cared that I had to work so much after your mam passed? All that time you spent with your Boba, you thought that was because I was tired of looking at your ugly face? No, I had to work and take the jobs that I had available, and sometimes that meant working 12-hour days, 7 days a week. All for you to grow up as some ungrateful sniveling baby, oh I’m learning life skills, everything sucks huh? You have 2 more years until you’re finished with school, after that, you can do whatever you want, live in a gutter, but until you bring me that diploma, you will have to learn to be uncomfortable in balancing everything.
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This Week
Alister is sitting in his Las Vegas Apartment looking out over the morning sunrise over the Vegas Strip a couple blocks away. Breaking the peacefulness, his phone goes off with a video call from Da. He looks down at his phone for a moment before raising it up to his face and hitting Accept.
Hey Da.
So you beat Gerry yet? Where’s my championship?
You already know the answer to that, you’re going to have to be happy with the World Cup for the time. But last week and this week I am facing someone who’s recently been in the ring with him. Even better the other guy in the match recently beat the only guy who holds win over me, so I have that to look forward to this week.
At least I got the World Cup, but don’t let that get too old before bringing something else home.
Lucky for us both there’s another opportunity for a shot at the US Championship.
Yeah, and how do you feel about that?
So you beat Gerry yet? Where’s my championship?
You already know the answer to that, you’re going to have to be happy with the World Cup for the time. But last week and this week I am facing someone who’s recently been in the ring with him. Even better the other guy in the match recently beat the only guy who holds win over me, so I have that to look forward to this week.
At least I got the World Cup, but don’t let that get too old before bringing something else home.
Lucky for us both there’s another opportunity for a shot at the US Championship.
Yeah, and how do you feel about that?
Alister pauses for a moment as if in that moment he was unsure himself of how he felt about things. He looks back up out the window to see the horizon one more time, before turning around and taking a seat on his couch, propping his phone up against a couple of books. He leans back to a relaxing position before giving his attention to his visibly irritated father just silently watching.
I liked my showing last week in the tag match, if I could recreate that this week, I feel I have a really good shot at winning this.
A “good feeling” how come you don’t have a defendant answer to the match this week.
For one thing I’m not a robot, more importantly, I’m not dumb enough to under estimate anyone. It’s not like I’m back wrestling high schoolers.
Thank God, you were no good of that when you were.
Yeah took you all of 5 minutes to bring that up, classy Da. Yeah, I couldn’t keep up with everything, I admit not the best multitasker, but don’t ever think I’m not focused on this. You keep pushing for those stupid championships’ week in and week out. How could I not focus? If I didn’t, I would let you get to me and I would have no chance at any of that stuff. I’m not sure what you’ve been telling yourself ALL these years, but any success I HAVE EVER HAD, is in despite of you!
Well make sure you do whatever you’ve been doing these last few weeks, the last thing I need in my life is another sniveling cunt crying about how they can’t come through when it matters.
A “good feeling” how come you don’t have a defendant answer to the match this week.
For one thing I’m not a robot, more importantly, I’m not dumb enough to under estimate anyone. It’s not like I’m back wrestling high schoolers.
Thank God, you were no good of that when you were.
Yeah took you all of 5 minutes to bring that up, classy Da. Yeah, I couldn’t keep up with everything, I admit not the best multitasker, but don’t ever think I’m not focused on this. You keep pushing for those stupid championships’ week in and week out. How could I not focus? If I didn’t, I would let you get to me and I would have no chance at any of that stuff. I’m not sure what you’ve been telling yourself ALL these years, but any success I HAVE EVER HAD, is in despite of you!
Well make sure you do whatever you’ve been doing these last few weeks, the last thing I need in my life is another sniveling cunt crying about how they can’t come through when it matters.
The call ends, and Alister is left staring at a flashing call ended notification.
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What I’m Thankful For
… I’ve heard some people comment on me having a really solid rise right now, even my opponent Jonny last week put me over pretty well, which was surprising to see honestly. I always find those comments funny, because anything that I am doing is a direct reflection of the competition I have. Take Jonny, this guy almost beat our seemingly unstoppable champion, he is at that level of talent. CJ also in this match has a history with the champ as well, and over the US title that we’re fighting for an opportunity.
Sounds like the odds are stacked against you, against everyone really.
Oh for sure, and let’s not talk about the drama of those two having a successful tag history, not even afraid to admit I sort of hope their competitiveness with each other will create an opening for me to exploit. One good thing is they tagged together last week and lost to us, so I have that going into this week.
How are you handling having the person that you tagged with last week, now part of the opponents list?
Normally, when I ever think about being in a tag team, this would normally be something I would hate. Thankfully, this wasn’t a permanent thing, and the fans I’m starting to get are taking notice that I will win any way I can, but I don’t like taking short cuts, and that’s what Alice did. That may be good for her, and yeah, a win is a win, but for me I’m not super stoked to have that little addition to the win. I truly believe that going through the fire each week creates an almost unstoppable final form. Look at the champ, Jill Park, she scrapped and fought her way to a multi defending champion, with a shot at a 3rd. She’s probably one of the most successful talents accomplishments wise I’ve seen in a while. That’s what I want, I want everyone to want to have a match with me, but at the same time also know a real test is about to happen. I’ve had several matches here in AW with multiple and with the exception of one giant thorn in my side, I’ve been fairly successful thus far.
I know you’re from Scotland, and here in the States, we just celebrated Thanksgiving. Since you were here, did you celebrate? Does Scotland have anything similar?
We have Lammas, basically a later in the year harvest celebration, often involves food. But I think everyone in the world celebrates late year food celebration. Since I was in Vegas, I had a Thanksgiving TV dinner, figure I would give this turkey stuffing ordeal a try. It wasn’t bad, no haggis so I wasn’t brushing my teeth right after. I was trying to more focus on what has to happen this week to do any real celebrating.
Well this week at Alt 104.5 we have been asking all of our guests, ‘What are you thankful for?’
Yeah, there’s a lot of things to be grateful for, the biggest is the opportunities that I have gotten since being here in Action Wrestling as well as the States. I expected a much worse experience so far, so I hope that continues going in that direction. I’m also thankful that I’m growing into all of this, being comfortable with being uncomfortable. My goal is to focus on doing things for myself, and not someone else. I can say I am doing something in honor of a dozen people, in the end it needs to be for myself. I may not be the most talented, the favorite to win, maybe I am, but those things don’t matter right now, I want to be the number 1 contender to the United States Championship for myself.
There you have it, I like to thank Alister and Action Wrestling for their time today, make sure to tune in on CBS’s Paramount Network to catch Turmoil Sunday 27th.
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What I’m Thankful For
… I’ve heard some people comment on me having a really solid rise right now, even my opponent Jonny last week put me over pretty well, which was surprising to see honestly. I always find those comments funny, because anything that I am doing is a direct reflection of the competition I have. Take Jonny, this guy almost beat our seemingly unstoppable champion, he is at that level of talent. CJ also in this match has a history with the champ as well, and over the US title that we’re fighting for an opportunity.
Sounds like the odds are stacked against you, against everyone really.
Oh for sure, and let’s not talk about the drama of those two having a successful tag history, not even afraid to admit I sort of hope their competitiveness with each other will create an opening for me to exploit. One good thing is they tagged together last week and lost to us, so I have that going into this week.
How are you handling having the person that you tagged with last week, now part of the opponents list?
Normally, when I ever think about being in a tag team, this would normally be something I would hate. Thankfully, this wasn’t a permanent thing, and the fans I’m starting to get are taking notice that I will win any way I can, but I don’t like taking short cuts, and that’s what Alice did. That may be good for her, and yeah, a win is a win, but for me I’m not super stoked to have that little addition to the win. I truly believe that going through the fire each week creates an almost unstoppable final form. Look at the champ, Jill Park, she scrapped and fought her way to a multi defending champion, with a shot at a 3rd. She’s probably one of the most successful talents accomplishments wise I’ve seen in a while. That’s what I want, I want everyone to want to have a match with me, but at the same time also know a real test is about to happen. I’ve had several matches here in AW with multiple and with the exception of one giant thorn in my side, I’ve been fairly successful thus far.
I know you’re from Scotland, and here in the States, we just celebrated Thanksgiving. Since you were here, did you celebrate? Does Scotland have anything similar?
We have Lammas, basically a later in the year harvest celebration, often involves food. But I think everyone in the world celebrates late year food celebration. Since I was in Vegas, I had a Thanksgiving TV dinner, figure I would give this turkey stuffing ordeal a try. It wasn’t bad, no haggis so I wasn’t brushing my teeth right after. I was trying to more focus on what has to happen this week to do any real celebrating.
Well this week at Alt 104.5 we have been asking all of our guests, ‘What are you thankful for?’
Yeah, there’s a lot of things to be grateful for, the biggest is the opportunities that I have gotten since being here in Action Wrestling as well as the States. I expected a much worse experience so far, so I hope that continues going in that direction. I’m also thankful that I’m growing into all of this, being comfortable with being uncomfortable. My goal is to focus on doing things for myself, and not someone else. I can say I am doing something in honor of a dozen people, in the end it needs to be for myself. I may not be the most talented, the favorite to win, maybe I am, but those things don’t matter right now, I want to be the number 1 contender to the United States Championship for myself.
There you have it, I like to thank Alister and Action Wrestling for their time today, make sure to tune in on CBS’s Paramount Network to catch Turmoil Sunday 27th.
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TikTok Account: @mckissickthering
Post Date: 11/26/2022
”Add 12 pictures and let TikTok sync them”
A slideshow of pictures from the last 6 weeks highlights for Alister begins to flash up on the screen. Starting with a shot of him performing the double elbow to Jonny and CJ last week. One of him in mid Northern Lights Suplex to Reegan, followed by his 843 from the same match. Picture of him hitting a brainbuster to Kemp, him blocking the knee from Easton, and one of his double pin pose. A picture of his dodge of a big boot from Kidsgrove in the corner that almost hit Odin followed by a perfectly timed picture of his dropkick to Odin, followed by the big boot from Odin that sent Alister out of the ring removing him from the decision. A picture of Tony Savage and Alister teaming up on Odin is next, followed by a shot of Alister and Tony mid exchange of a barrage back and forth punches. The final picture is of him holding up the World Cup after winning on his debut.
Post Comment: “The only people who never fail are those who never tried.” #Ilkachase “Failure is the foundation to experience; experience is the foundation for success” #someoldguy #dumbledoreatemybaby
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Afternoon of Turmoil is stressful and exciting from everyone involved with tonight’s show. The stress is not allergic to Alister McKissick, he feels it just as much if not deeper than others in the locker room. Knowing the gravity and the implications of a win in this match will have going forward for his career with AW. Him going on to challenge for the built is in the background of his mind, no champion has ever been a memorable champion without having to beat top quality opponents. The most important part of these matches is making sure that your head is in the right place. Everyone has the pre match rituals, and some of them get pretty interesting. Alister though, he keeps it simple, he looks at a picture of his Boba, focuses on it, as if he Is trying to hear any advice, he can from it. Of course, there is no mystical profound answers, but for him, in that moment, no one can break him of his goals. He may not be here to help today, but he made sure he had plenty to pull from when he was around. A sharp mind and talented body can take you to any heights.
