Squared Circle Revelations: Behind The Infinite Black Death
Oct 29, 2018 22:33:04 GMT -5
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Post by “The Saint” Johnny Eden on Oct 29, 2018 22:33:04 GMT -5
Squared Circle Revelations: Behind The Infinite Black Death:
(Kyle Ryder)
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to a very special Squared Circle Revelations, I am your Podcast host Kyle Ryder and before I bring on my esteemed guest, I'd like to take a second to talk to the huge amount of first time listeners tuning in today. I am Kyle Ryder best known for my roughneck gut wrenching technical prowess on the Canadian Indie scene of yesteryear and my once romp through New York in the New Blood Wrestling promotion before it sold out to mainstream… But during that time in my career, i did make a good friend who was a master of his craft. I even once wore that Brotherhood shirt with pride, so without further ado, let me introduce you to THEE PLAGUE, The Infinite Kevin Bishop!
(Kevin Bishop)
Thanks for having me on, Kyle.
(Kyle Ryder)
The pleasure is all mine, brother. How the hell have you been?
(Kevin Bishop)
Outside the ring or in?
(Kyle Ryder)
Well I did in fact call this segment Behind The Infinite Black Death… So let's pull down that Great Oz curtain and show the fans the man behind The Brotherhood.
(Kevin Bishop)
You know how to jump right into the deep end, huh?
(Kyle Ryder)
The listeners nowadays have a tough attention span to reel in. So don't hold back, deliver the meat and potatoes, please?
(Kevin Bishop)
Okay… So I have seen the highest heights in my career, but I've also seen the cold hard truth of rock bottom. So many title reigns and so many memorable feuds… My body has been scarred and it has been butchered… Hell in Action Wrestling I was tar and feathered… I tried to hang up the boots after my Brotherhood Cult Following show…
(Kyle Ryder)
But why now? Why that show?
(Kevin Bishop)
Because it was our show and it was an ending that was orchestrated by us, no one else. We didn't have to worry about bookers or shareholders scared of taking chances. I chose to hang the boots up at our show because my career was starting to become a fragile fractured shell of what it once was… In some instances I started to feel like Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler without the over dramatized stuff…
(Kyle Ryder)
It has been tough to see you show up in this new company with your credentials from the past and taking fall after fall. That feud with Shadowlove did not go at all the way any of us thought it would…
(Kevin Bishop)
Ah yes, Shadow is on a whole other level in Action Wrestling and I'll tell you this, I'm pulling for him to finally grab that brass ring.
(Kyle Ryder)
Wait, what? I thought?
(Kevin Bishop)
You asked for the behind the curtain stuff, I honestly respect Shadowlove. Truth be told, he was the greatest foil for me and he made me step up my game at every turn when we were in the ring together… I'm happy to have given him the rub in Action Wrestling and I honestly don't want him to blow it.
(Kyle Ryder)
Well speaking of your rivals, Bonnie Blue had a big shot to win the WCF World title recently, but fell short. What's your thoughts on that?
(Kevin Bishop)
Bonnie is as tough as nails, but her and I are in the same boat right now…
(Kyle Ryder)
And what boat is that?
(Kevin Bishop)
We are trying to cling to the TIME we were the hottest commodities in the wrestling industry… The time where we were carrying UCI on our goddamned backs. I'm sorry to hear Bonnie fell to Odin, but maybe she should reevaluate her career path as well…
(Kyle Ryder)
Maybe… But there's still something lingering here… Why didn't you simply hang up the boots? You know? Have the family time you've been yearning for? What has kept you here still reaching for the true INFINITE Kevin Bishop that once walked tall amongst the masses, portraying their guiding light in the darkness?
(Kevin Bishop)
The lights went out at Cult Following, that final curtain closed, and I went home… I held my son, i held my wife, and I was ready to see that spotlight finally fade to black… Then Casey Holliday came a calling…
(Kyle Ryder)
She's UCI Champion… What could she possibly want with you?
(Kevin Bishop)
Isn't it obvious? She wants the rub that I gave Shadowlove… She won't feel like a true success until she finally bests me… My historical reigns in UCI has outshadowed her and she won't let that stand. Hell I've been in her shoes before and I know what it is like to carry so much pressure on your back…
(Kyle Ryder)
Pssh, how can she even compare to the man I've seen in this wrestling industry who has carried companies on his goddamn back while also feeding extremely hungry mouths? You were a visionary, Kev and no matter what happens out there, there's not a soul in the back who can take that away from you. You lead without a better word coming to mind at the moment, A Cult and you competed at a top level in the ring for over a decade. You've been hated and oddly loved as The Plague for your entire career. Best part is, you've evolved further past the man I stood in the ring with…
(Kevin Bishop)
Hmph, all those years ago, huh? You have “evolved” yourself, brother.
(Kyle Ryder)
Yeah, yeah… So, you've spilt the beans about what your mind has being dealing with since UCI closed for the most part. You appeared in AW with the red carpet laid at your feet and you were given a top notch contract… Is there going to be legal issues now that you basically shit the bed and didn't deliver on your return investment to Digger and Tort?
(Kevin Bishop)
They wanted a man who could tell a compelling story and I did just that, so they can try legal action, but it'll be a fool’s path of they take it. I pushed Shadowlove consecutive times and now I've made this program with Casey Holliday one of the best feuds AW has seen. So much chatter in the back and in the “Twitterverse” about if my Black Death ass was ever going to show up… Tort and Digger tried to rush it many a times but I was able to spin it and have Sean fill in for me to further that build up… Casey sold the hell out of it too. She's a true class act and she's going to bring true prestige to that UCI title, I guarantee it…
(Kyle Ryder)
Wait, Kev, are you planning to take a dive out there?
(Kevin Bishop)
No dive will be taken but one hell of a story will be told… There's a bright light inside that girl and we will all finally see the darkness diminish to absolute nothing…
(Kyle Ryder)
Speaking of that forever looming darkness… Tell me and the listeners… Who's idea was it to have you take on the mantle of The Creeping Death? Really? Was it Seth Lerch? Was it Corey Black himself? Taylor Swift? Kanye? Come on man we NEED to know!
(Kevin Bishop)
Ha ha, calm down Kyle, you're gonna stroke out… WCF Creative approached me one day about it and it wasn't until Corey Black paid me a visit that i finally agreed to do it… Worst part, I thought it was going to help me navigate the bloodthirsty sharks in WCF, but it only added yet another chain to my midcard rock there… Never could shed that US title and People’s Champion stench that clung to my wrestler soul.
(Kyle Ryder)
It's not like that drunkard Seth Lurch was ever going to pull the trigger on you, he knew it'd only make you a bigger threat to his power…
(Kevin Bishop)
Well, I don't blame him there… I was the guy who stepped into his company claiming that he sat on top of his ivory tower placing judgement on all his little puppets. Plus I was foolish and drank Bates’s koolaid of political bull shit that claimed he was best for my career.
(Kyle Ryder)
I feel there was a tough lesson learned there…
(Kevin Bishop)
Without a doubt, man… Believe it or not, but I learned the most when I leaned more toward UCI as a full time competitor and became a mere special attraction in WCF… UCI was a time where it used my level of competing to better its product and I never felt like I was being used as a filler guy…
(Kyle Ryder)
Is that how you felt in WCF?
(Kevin Bishop)
Not a hundred percent, but there were some times that I’d ask myself in the locker room, what the hell my purpose was… Sure I was The People’s Champion, but god you go back and really watch my first couple of promos in WCF and you can tell that I was aiming to be an evil cult leader… Creative decided to spin my a whole other way and make me, fucking lovable? Seriously?
(Kyle Ryder)
I mean you and I have joked about it… The Plagued Nation… You as the United States Champion? Come on, Seth Lerch and his yes men, must’ve really spent the night pounding back some of the hard stuff if they thought that was going to sell tickets… We’ve all learned that you’re no Thaddeus Franklin King when it comes to being a natural fit for a US title reign…
(Kevin Bishop)
Heh, yeah, that guy was made to carry that title, but I did the best i could given the time I held it… Hell it honestly played the key to getting into Ultimate Showdown though, where I started carrying the People’s title, so it did its part for my career…
(Kyle Ryder)
Enough with memory lane Kev, we are all sad to see you regulated to fall guy to the stars… I mean come on, Lincoln Kuechly is getting more wins than you are at the moment.
(Kevin Bishop)
I can’t deny that, can i?
(Kyle Ryder)
WE know the facts here, so what are you going to do about it?! That’s the final question…
(Kevin Bishop)
I told you I wanted to go out on my terms before and everything was fine until Holliday came a barking up my tree… So isn’t it obvious that my next step is to teach her a goddamn lesson about respecting those who paved her way?
(Kyle Ryder)
What about the “rub”?
(Kevin Bishop)
I’m giving her something better than the rub, let me promise you that… Holliday is going to be the best damn UCI Champion in the history of Action Wrestling, but she will never be Kevin Bishop, now that’s a fact you can count on.
(Kyle Ryder)
Well ladies and gentlemen, that is a wrap for this special sit down with the leader of The Brotherhood and the man who is in search of redemption… This was Squared Circle Revelations, Behind The Infinite Black Death… I will catch you next TIME!
(OOC: I owed Casey at least something that I Had written for our match up together. Sorry again Casey and good like with the next chapter in your already evolving character.)