Post by Casey Holliday on Dec 2, 2018 23:48:16 GMT -5
Date: November 19, 2018
It’s shortly after midnight on the Monday after Turmoil and Casey Holliday is alone in her hotel room soaking it all in. She faced some tremendous odds in her match against Zombie McMorris, not just dealing with the wrestler himself, but also with all the mystique and aura that had surrounded him. There weren’t many that expected Casey Holliday to retain the UCI Championship against him and in her heart, the UCI Champion knows that, but Casey is definitely taking so much pride in the fact that she overcame the odds and the expectations in order to retain her championship. Casey is in a bit of a reflective mood when she suddenly hears someone knocking on the door.
Casey: At this hour? Damn…
Casey sighs, but doesn’t seem to mind so much as she walks to the door. Opening it, her friend Hayley Halsey is waiting for her. Hayley is in a happy mood, obviously, after watching from afar and seeing Casey retain her title.
Hayley: Hey.
Casey: What’s up?
Hayley: Congrats!
Casey: Thanks.
The two exchange a quick hug.
Hayley: There weren’t many people expecting you to retain tonight. This especially after the fact that you had gone through a harsh break up and that you were facing a rough challenge.
Casey: You’re not telling me something that I didn’t already know. I feel a little more at peace now that I’ve won tonight. Zombie wasn’t intimidating, I made that clear when I wrote “No Flex Zone” on the internet, but I knew I had my work cut out for me. I shut off all the noise and… not to brag, but once more, I proved why I’m the prodigy that I am and why I am bringing my championship back to respectability.
Hayley: Hey, you’re starting to repair some old bridges back at home now that you’ve been able to come around. I swear, you were the most hated person in our wrestling academy’s history!
Casey laughs this off, but isn’t smiling too much knowing how true this statement is.
Casey: Yeah… I deserved that reputation. I turned my back on everyone and everything that got me to where I am today. I guess there will come a time where I have to go back there with a Santa’s bag full of apologies, right? So, are you going to come in or what?
Hayley: Yeah, I’m coming in. I didn’t come alone though…
Casey raises her eyebrows some.
Hayley: There’s someone that wants to talk to you…
Casey: Is it a fan?
Hayley: No… someone you and I both know quite well…
Casey looks to be curious for a bit, but when Hayley walks into the room, that curious expression turns into one of wide-eyed surprise as she comes face to face with a young woman about her age that she is incredibly familiar with.
Young Woman: Hi…
Casey: Bianca…
Bianca is Hayley’s friend, and at one point was Casey’s friend, manager and even her girlfriend for a while before Casey cruelly dumped her on GCW television earlier this year. This is the first time they have ever seen each other face to face since that awkward breakup and Bianca showcases this awkwardness by walking into the room and closing the door behind her.
Hayley: I’m going to get right to the point, okay? When we were all training, we were so tight! We were like sisters! And then things fell apart…
Casey expresses guilt on her face knowing that it’s her fault.
Hayley: So, I just wanted to get the gang back together and maybe we can work toward all being friends again because… I’m not going to be some go-between with you two. So, whatever you have to say to each other, say it.
Bianca: Can I go first?
Casey: Sure.
Bianca: Casey… I love you… not in THAT way anymore but as the friends that we were. The way you dumped me on live television while you were in GCW, in front of the whole world… that not only broke my heart… but I never wanted anything to do with professional wrestling ever again. You almost ended my career with that. But… I’m not someone that holds grudges. I am willing to forgive you and seeing you on television in Action Wrestling lately and what you’ve been doing there tells me that you’re on the verge of making this huge change for the better. I wanted to see if you were ready to make the jump. I’m willing to forgive you… I just want to know why?
Casey: Why? Why did I dump you the way I did?
Bianca: I’m not talking about just that… this goes so much farther back then you dumping me.
Hayley: Heck, this goes back to long before you even joined UCI in the first place.
Casey: Bianca… look… my head was shrouded in darkness for a long time. Jason didn’t help… he just made everything worse. I was living in that darkness long before I ever started dating him. The way beachkrew took me out of UCI didn’t help… UCI dying before I was able to cash in that Golden Ticket didn’t help, GCW and the way things ended for me didn’t help… but you both know where this started. SCW….
Casey sighs, reflecting on her really brutal rookie year.
Casey: I started doing this trying to put money together for my dad’s hip replacement and I did so well in my tryout that they signed me. Next thing you know, four matches in and I won their Trios tournament. Next thing you know, right after that, they throw me in there with a former world champion. I was 20 years old… with only five matches of experience in the mainstream scene at the time. It was a pressure cooker environment. I wasn’t allowed to cultivate and gradually grow. I was pressured, I was thrown into the fire, I was expected to do all these amazing things and every time I fell short, I felt like a failure… and it all kept boiling and building up until I finally couldn’t take it anymore… so I left… and I went to UCI.
It was great to be out of the pressure cooker, but that experience stuck with me… and it drove me to be “crying Casey” in UCI as the Guardians loved to call me. I complained and whined so much about everything under the sun in UCI that I didn’t appreciate that I was having the time of my career there. Then… I started to take the fed by storm, win some huge matches, set some records and it all got to my head and made this darkness in me worse. I burned bridges, I treated so many people… including both of you… like shit. For a long time… I never felt validated as a professional wrestler… until tonight…
Hayley and Bianca both raise their eyebrows, taking in Casey’s epiphany.
Casey: I finally proved to myself that I was everything I felt I could be and I finally felt like the SCW demons were put to bed. It wasn’t easy… but I finally found light again. Don’t take this for “going soft” because I’m still going to tell it like it is. I don’t give a damn if I hurt anyone’s feelings with the truth. I’m still going to be a cutthroat champion because that’s the kind of girl I am… but I’ve definitely learned a whole new perspective since coming to Action Wrestling and… I’m sorry for the way I treated you Bianca. I’m sorry that I caused the demise of our friendship, and that goes for all of us.
Casey takes a sigh, still dealing with some of the guilt of the wrongs that she had done in the past couple of years.
Hayley: You already know how I feel about it. That’s what I’ve been trying to tell everyone, that you weren’t really like that… that other factors pushed you to be like that.
Bianca: Personally, I am glad you saw the light because I wanted to see my old friend again… not that SCW-influenced person that was just totally different. You were like the sweetest person in the academy before any of us got anywhere and suddenly, you hit the big time and turned into a monster of sorts.
Casey tries to have a little bit of a laugh to lighten her own mood.
Bianca: But… I’m glad you came around. I hated that it took that jerk you dumped me for treating you like a piece of meat for you to come around, but better late than never. I’m just happy that I’m seeing the old Casey… my old friend… again. Tonight, you probably wrestled one of the best matches of your life.
Casey: Yeah…
Casey lets out a soft sigh…
Casey: It certainly gave me so much perspective on so much shit that I wasn’t seeing before.
Bianca: Hey… all is forgiven now!
Casey and Bianca give each other a hug at this point, putting the past behind them.
Hayley smiles in the near distance obviously loving the sight of this.
Hayley: So… I guess that means the gang is back together again?
Casey: You’ve got that right! And if you both need anything as far as your careers are concerned, don’t be shy to reach out. I hope both of you are able to get that rocket boost you both could use at the moment.
Bianca: Yeah… tell me about it!
Hayley: If I can even attain an eighth of your success right now, I’d be happy at this point. But hey, keep doing you. You just continue to improve and to take Action Wrestling by storm.
Bianca: Yeah, it’s been a hell of a ride for you in Action Wrestling. So… that being said, what now? Now that you’ve beaten Zombie McDumbFuck, what’s next?
Casey expressed a confident smile on her face.
Casey: On to the next challenge… whomever and whenever that may be. The UCI Championship, its heritage and the legacy of the company that it came from is in good hands with me… and it’s definitely going to stay that way as long as the championship is around my waist.
After speaking this words, Casey goes into a reflective mood as she thinks of all the ups and downs that her UCI Championship reign has brought to her so far. She knows that there is still a ways to go for her to get that championship to the level that she strives it to be at, but after her huge championship defense on this night at Turmoil, Casey knows that from Beach Krew to Anton Chase… there isn’t a challenge in Action Wrestling that the UCI Champion is going to fear to take on…
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Date: December 2, 2018
Casey Holliday sits down with her UCI Championship slung over her shoulder. In the aftermath of Turmoil, the UCI Champion is definitely expressing some confidence especially after a title defense that was inarguably her toughest to date. But, her mind is starting to shift its focus to the match at hand that she has to deal with tomorrow night in the form of Dark Tiger. Knowing what it feels like to be underestimated, Casey is definitely not taking her opponent lightly. She’s all confidence and all business as she begins to express her thoughts.
Casey Holliday: Let’s be a bit honest with each other, alright? You were not expecting me to still have the UCI World Championship on my shoulder today. Most of you were expecting Zombie McMorris to beat me and to win the UCI Championship. However, that wasn’t the case. I found a way to win and that match meant so much more to me than just another title defense. Yes, I know I said what I said about ZMAC and I am not going to take those words back. But at the same time, I knew that there were some doubts about my title reign from some of you critics. “She beat Karlie Nash and Anton Chase, so the fuck what?” you said. Sadly, I don’t have control over who I am facing especially when I am cashing in a Golden Ticket in that fashion. All I can do is take on what’s in front of me and come away with the win and that’s exactly what I did when I won this championship. “You didn’t even win in your first defense against Kevin Bishop” you say. Stay tuned for the answer to that. “Your first defense was against Sean Kraven, a Brotherhood flunkie” you say. Again, that wasn’t my fault. Bishop was a coward that night and I had to take what I could get. So, I did what I had to, and I beat him. “Bishop was already over the hill and on his way out” you said about my second successful defense. But I beat him and I silenced the talk about how I didn’t even win in my first successful defense. “Your third defense was against someone who doesn’t even work here”. But isn’t that a GOOD THING? Does that NOT prove that I take on all comers? More on THAT soon. So, after making my fourth successful defense against ZMAC, here’s where things stand. I’ve extended the longest UCI Championship reign since the title came to AW and I’m now the second longest reigning champion behind Bishop himself…
And y’all say my defense against Bishop wasn’t impressive.
So, with all that in mind, it’s a damn shame the UCI title can’t get the recognition it deserves, but at least I can say that I’ve been a fighting champion all the way through, with this entire roller coaster that featured the worst relationship breakup ever and the Brotherhood’s bullshit. Tomorrow night, I get right back at it and continue to defend the legacy and honor of the wrestling company that made me a star and Dark Tiger is next on the lost. Tiger, I don’t know you. I’m going to get that part out of the way. I hardly know shit about you. But, I know that I can’t overlook you. Coming off of my toughest UCI title defense yet, tomorrow night isn’t the time for a letdown. I’m not going to Bonnie Blue this shit, you know what I mean? I know going into this thing, you have some heavy advantages over me. You’re way taller than me, you’re way heavier than me, and you have far more experience than I do. Hell, even when it comes to generational experience, you’ve got me beat: 4th generation to 3rd generation. But I’ve got you beat in SO many other ways. Yes, you’ve got the experience advantage, but you’re not facing just ANY 23-year-old, you’re facing a PRODIGY of her generation! I’m 23 and I’ve already won six championships in my mainstream career! I don’t need to run down what I’ve accomplished in UCI and in AW… from the looks of it, you’ve done your research…
And you respect me for it…
Flattering… but I’m going to give you a cold, honest truth here.
I’ve seen your post on social media.
And flattering as it may be, the bitch is?
The moment you made that post?
You lost this match! Let me break down why…
When you say “I respect my opponent”, that means you’re in awe of them. And when you’re in awe of someone, you are putting yourself in a position to prove yourself to your opponent. But see… that’s where you slip up and give me the advantage. You don’t need to prove a damn thing to me. The only person you need to prove a damn thing to is yourself… aside from the powers that be that run the place anyway. You’re not focused on beating me. You’re focused on showing me why I should respect you. You’re focused on a battle for respect and having the best damn match out there and I get it, it’s a noble premise, but I wasn’t trained to battle for respect. I was trained to WIN. You sir… have only one win under your belt here in AW. I get it, you just joined, but have you made a real enough impression to establish yourself as a contender? Not yet. You will someday, there’s no denying that but it’s not going to come at my expense because I am not the type of wrestler that allows anyone to get a free win from me. You’re focused far more on the fight then you are about the victory and that’s what is going to bring you down. You’re too vanilla flavored, sir. I don’t hear a tiger when I see your social media posts about me. I hear and I see a cub that WANTS to be the leader of the pack but you know what happens to the cubs when they take on the big cats? They get mauled! And if you go into this match with the mindset I have seen you in, that’s what is going to happen to you. What use is your experience, size and generational advantages if you don’t even use them properly?
Ever since Turmoil, I’ve been focused and working as hard as I can to become even better, knowing that 10 years from now, I will have then etched my legacy as one of the best that my generation has ever seen. Someday, I will be your age and I’m going to teach the wrestlers that are going to be MY age 10 years from now not how to be respectful, but how to be WINNERS. It’s okay to respect others in this business, but respect doesn’t make you a winner: a killer instinct does. Do you have it? I doubt it. In order to have a killer instinct, you have to have focus and… you don’t have that focus. While I’m preparing for my match and focusing on winning, what are YOU doing? You’re having a social media fight with a former UCI Champion and you’re focused far more on HIM than you are about me. Which… it’s ironic… you… the long time veteran… making the ROOKIE mistakes while I… the 23-year-old prodigy finishing her 3rd year in the mainstream scene… am treating this match like a veteran. You’re not facing Frost, you’re facing me and if you have the respect for me that you say you do, you wouldn’t have wasted so much time exchanging love letters with him on social media.
So… you want to look ahead to John Frost whenever you face him? Okay. Be my guest. Make it even EASIER for me to beat you tomorrow which would be a damn shame because I’d hate an easy victory, especially over someone who has been doing this almost as long as I’ve been alive. I even have my doubts if you’d even have the killer instinct to beat someone like Frost. I KNOW for a fact that I HAVE that killer instinct. Watch my match against Bishop. You didn’t hear me kissing his ass in the lead up to our match two Pay-Per-Views ago and look what happened? I beat him and retained my title. I CHALLENGED my ex-boyfriend to a match and even put my TITLE on the line against him even though he wasn’t contracted to UCI and I just about ended that son of a bitch’s career! I showed him no mercy. After that, when I dealt with Anton Chase… listen to my promo against him. I showed him even LESS mercy! I ripped the asshole a new one and told him exactly how I felt and I exposed him as the sorriest wrestler on the AW roster and sent him packing to the back of the line in my UCI division.
And Turmoil?
You know, the title defense I wasn’t expected to win?
Did you read what I wrote online about Zombie McMorris? I showed him NO respect… NONE! I went guns blazing! I picked apart his record and his accomplishments and showed him no mercy! I didn’t spend one minute kissing his ass or trying to defend myself because I knew that if I spent ONE second in the defensive, that psychologically, I had already lost because I’d show how worried I was of his perception of me. I went into that match against him not giving a FUCK about how he felt about me, the “mystique and aura” that surrounded him, his inflated win-loss record or the fact that he was a former UCI Champion. Killer instinct. Guns blazing. Kill or be killed. No fear! No admiration! No respect! BOOM! Beat him! THAT, Dark Tiger… is a killer instant… THAT is how you become a champion here and after I beat you tomorrow, I hope you take that as a lesson… because if you want to fuck with John Frost… that’s a lesson you’re going to sorely need.
I validated my UCI title reign at Turmoil, I validated myself as a wrestler too and someone to be respected in this company. Time for you to step up and validate yourself too… which you will… just not against me…
Because I’m not thinking about respect…
I’m thinking about how I’m pushing myself to the limit and using the advantages I have over you to my best potential to BEAT YOU tomorrow night!
You will bring your best fight, no doubt about that.
Unfortunately… against the prodigy of her generation with a killer instinct that she has… the tame kitten ain’t winning this round!
Sorry… not sorry!
Hope you learn your lesson tomorrow… for your own sake!
Casey confidently walks away from the view of the camera, clearly ready for her next non-title challenge as the scene fades out.
It’s shortly after midnight on the Monday after Turmoil and Casey Holliday is alone in her hotel room soaking it all in. She faced some tremendous odds in her match against Zombie McMorris, not just dealing with the wrestler himself, but also with all the mystique and aura that had surrounded him. There weren’t many that expected Casey Holliday to retain the UCI Championship against him and in her heart, the UCI Champion knows that, but Casey is definitely taking so much pride in the fact that she overcame the odds and the expectations in order to retain her championship. Casey is in a bit of a reflective mood when she suddenly hears someone knocking on the door.
Casey: At this hour? Damn…
Casey sighs, but doesn’t seem to mind so much as she walks to the door. Opening it, her friend Hayley Halsey is waiting for her. Hayley is in a happy mood, obviously, after watching from afar and seeing Casey retain her title.
Hayley: Hey.
Casey: What’s up?
Hayley: Congrats!
Casey: Thanks.
The two exchange a quick hug.
Hayley: There weren’t many people expecting you to retain tonight. This especially after the fact that you had gone through a harsh break up and that you were facing a rough challenge.
Casey: You’re not telling me something that I didn’t already know. I feel a little more at peace now that I’ve won tonight. Zombie wasn’t intimidating, I made that clear when I wrote “No Flex Zone” on the internet, but I knew I had my work cut out for me. I shut off all the noise and… not to brag, but once more, I proved why I’m the prodigy that I am and why I am bringing my championship back to respectability.
Hayley: Hey, you’re starting to repair some old bridges back at home now that you’ve been able to come around. I swear, you were the most hated person in our wrestling academy’s history!
Casey laughs this off, but isn’t smiling too much knowing how true this statement is.
Casey: Yeah… I deserved that reputation. I turned my back on everyone and everything that got me to where I am today. I guess there will come a time where I have to go back there with a Santa’s bag full of apologies, right? So, are you going to come in or what?
Hayley: Yeah, I’m coming in. I didn’t come alone though…
Casey raises her eyebrows some.
Hayley: There’s someone that wants to talk to you…
Casey: Is it a fan?
Hayley: No… someone you and I both know quite well…
Casey looks to be curious for a bit, but when Hayley walks into the room, that curious expression turns into one of wide-eyed surprise as she comes face to face with a young woman about her age that she is incredibly familiar with.
Young Woman: Hi…
Casey: Bianca…
Bianca is Hayley’s friend, and at one point was Casey’s friend, manager and even her girlfriend for a while before Casey cruelly dumped her on GCW television earlier this year. This is the first time they have ever seen each other face to face since that awkward breakup and Bianca showcases this awkwardness by walking into the room and closing the door behind her.
Hayley: I’m going to get right to the point, okay? When we were all training, we were so tight! We were like sisters! And then things fell apart…
Casey expresses guilt on her face knowing that it’s her fault.
Hayley: So, I just wanted to get the gang back together and maybe we can work toward all being friends again because… I’m not going to be some go-between with you two. So, whatever you have to say to each other, say it.
Bianca: Can I go first?
Casey: Sure.
Bianca: Casey… I love you… not in THAT way anymore but as the friends that we were. The way you dumped me on live television while you were in GCW, in front of the whole world… that not only broke my heart… but I never wanted anything to do with professional wrestling ever again. You almost ended my career with that. But… I’m not someone that holds grudges. I am willing to forgive you and seeing you on television in Action Wrestling lately and what you’ve been doing there tells me that you’re on the verge of making this huge change for the better. I wanted to see if you were ready to make the jump. I’m willing to forgive you… I just want to know why?
Casey: Why? Why did I dump you the way I did?
Bianca: I’m not talking about just that… this goes so much farther back then you dumping me.
Hayley: Heck, this goes back to long before you even joined UCI in the first place.
Casey: Bianca… look… my head was shrouded in darkness for a long time. Jason didn’t help… he just made everything worse. I was living in that darkness long before I ever started dating him. The way beachkrew took me out of UCI didn’t help… UCI dying before I was able to cash in that Golden Ticket didn’t help, GCW and the way things ended for me didn’t help… but you both know where this started. SCW….
Casey sighs, reflecting on her really brutal rookie year.
Casey: I started doing this trying to put money together for my dad’s hip replacement and I did so well in my tryout that they signed me. Next thing you know, four matches in and I won their Trios tournament. Next thing you know, right after that, they throw me in there with a former world champion. I was 20 years old… with only five matches of experience in the mainstream scene at the time. It was a pressure cooker environment. I wasn’t allowed to cultivate and gradually grow. I was pressured, I was thrown into the fire, I was expected to do all these amazing things and every time I fell short, I felt like a failure… and it all kept boiling and building up until I finally couldn’t take it anymore… so I left… and I went to UCI.
It was great to be out of the pressure cooker, but that experience stuck with me… and it drove me to be “crying Casey” in UCI as the Guardians loved to call me. I complained and whined so much about everything under the sun in UCI that I didn’t appreciate that I was having the time of my career there. Then… I started to take the fed by storm, win some huge matches, set some records and it all got to my head and made this darkness in me worse. I burned bridges, I treated so many people… including both of you… like shit. For a long time… I never felt validated as a professional wrestler… until tonight…
Hayley and Bianca both raise their eyebrows, taking in Casey’s epiphany.
Casey: I finally proved to myself that I was everything I felt I could be and I finally felt like the SCW demons were put to bed. It wasn’t easy… but I finally found light again. Don’t take this for “going soft” because I’m still going to tell it like it is. I don’t give a damn if I hurt anyone’s feelings with the truth. I’m still going to be a cutthroat champion because that’s the kind of girl I am… but I’ve definitely learned a whole new perspective since coming to Action Wrestling and… I’m sorry for the way I treated you Bianca. I’m sorry that I caused the demise of our friendship, and that goes for all of us.
Casey takes a sigh, still dealing with some of the guilt of the wrongs that she had done in the past couple of years.
Hayley: You already know how I feel about it. That’s what I’ve been trying to tell everyone, that you weren’t really like that… that other factors pushed you to be like that.
Bianca: Personally, I am glad you saw the light because I wanted to see my old friend again… not that SCW-influenced person that was just totally different. You were like the sweetest person in the academy before any of us got anywhere and suddenly, you hit the big time and turned into a monster of sorts.
Casey tries to have a little bit of a laugh to lighten her own mood.
Bianca: But… I’m glad you came around. I hated that it took that jerk you dumped me for treating you like a piece of meat for you to come around, but better late than never. I’m just happy that I’m seeing the old Casey… my old friend… again. Tonight, you probably wrestled one of the best matches of your life.
Casey: Yeah…
Casey lets out a soft sigh…
Casey: It certainly gave me so much perspective on so much shit that I wasn’t seeing before.
Bianca: Hey… all is forgiven now!
Casey and Bianca give each other a hug at this point, putting the past behind them.
Hayley smiles in the near distance obviously loving the sight of this.
Hayley: So… I guess that means the gang is back together again?
Casey: You’ve got that right! And if you both need anything as far as your careers are concerned, don’t be shy to reach out. I hope both of you are able to get that rocket boost you both could use at the moment.
Bianca: Yeah… tell me about it!
Hayley: If I can even attain an eighth of your success right now, I’d be happy at this point. But hey, keep doing you. You just continue to improve and to take Action Wrestling by storm.
Bianca: Yeah, it’s been a hell of a ride for you in Action Wrestling. So… that being said, what now? Now that you’ve beaten Zombie McDumbFuck, what’s next?
Casey expressed a confident smile on her face.
Casey: On to the next challenge… whomever and whenever that may be. The UCI Championship, its heritage and the legacy of the company that it came from is in good hands with me… and it’s definitely going to stay that way as long as the championship is around my waist.
After speaking this words, Casey goes into a reflective mood as she thinks of all the ups and downs that her UCI Championship reign has brought to her so far. She knows that there is still a ways to go for her to get that championship to the level that she strives it to be at, but after her huge championship defense on this night at Turmoil, Casey knows that from Beach Krew to Anton Chase… there isn’t a challenge in Action Wrestling that the UCI Champion is going to fear to take on…
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Date: December 2, 2018
Casey Holliday sits down with her UCI Championship slung over her shoulder. In the aftermath of Turmoil, the UCI Champion is definitely expressing some confidence especially after a title defense that was inarguably her toughest to date. But, her mind is starting to shift its focus to the match at hand that she has to deal with tomorrow night in the form of Dark Tiger. Knowing what it feels like to be underestimated, Casey is definitely not taking her opponent lightly. She’s all confidence and all business as she begins to express her thoughts.
Casey Holliday: Let’s be a bit honest with each other, alright? You were not expecting me to still have the UCI World Championship on my shoulder today. Most of you were expecting Zombie McMorris to beat me and to win the UCI Championship. However, that wasn’t the case. I found a way to win and that match meant so much more to me than just another title defense. Yes, I know I said what I said about ZMAC and I am not going to take those words back. But at the same time, I knew that there were some doubts about my title reign from some of you critics. “She beat Karlie Nash and Anton Chase, so the fuck what?” you said. Sadly, I don’t have control over who I am facing especially when I am cashing in a Golden Ticket in that fashion. All I can do is take on what’s in front of me and come away with the win and that’s exactly what I did when I won this championship. “You didn’t even win in your first defense against Kevin Bishop” you say. Stay tuned for the answer to that. “Your first defense was against Sean Kraven, a Brotherhood flunkie” you say. Again, that wasn’t my fault. Bishop was a coward that night and I had to take what I could get. So, I did what I had to, and I beat him. “Bishop was already over the hill and on his way out” you said about my second successful defense. But I beat him and I silenced the talk about how I didn’t even win in my first successful defense. “Your third defense was against someone who doesn’t even work here”. But isn’t that a GOOD THING? Does that NOT prove that I take on all comers? More on THAT soon. So, after making my fourth successful defense against ZMAC, here’s where things stand. I’ve extended the longest UCI Championship reign since the title came to AW and I’m now the second longest reigning champion behind Bishop himself…
And y’all say my defense against Bishop wasn’t impressive.
So, with all that in mind, it’s a damn shame the UCI title can’t get the recognition it deserves, but at least I can say that I’ve been a fighting champion all the way through, with this entire roller coaster that featured the worst relationship breakup ever and the Brotherhood’s bullshit. Tomorrow night, I get right back at it and continue to defend the legacy and honor of the wrestling company that made me a star and Dark Tiger is next on the lost. Tiger, I don’t know you. I’m going to get that part out of the way. I hardly know shit about you. But, I know that I can’t overlook you. Coming off of my toughest UCI title defense yet, tomorrow night isn’t the time for a letdown. I’m not going to Bonnie Blue this shit, you know what I mean? I know going into this thing, you have some heavy advantages over me. You’re way taller than me, you’re way heavier than me, and you have far more experience than I do. Hell, even when it comes to generational experience, you’ve got me beat: 4th generation to 3rd generation. But I’ve got you beat in SO many other ways. Yes, you’ve got the experience advantage, but you’re not facing just ANY 23-year-old, you’re facing a PRODIGY of her generation! I’m 23 and I’ve already won six championships in my mainstream career! I don’t need to run down what I’ve accomplished in UCI and in AW… from the looks of it, you’ve done your research…
And you respect me for it…
Flattering… but I’m going to give you a cold, honest truth here.
I’ve seen your post on social media.
And flattering as it may be, the bitch is?
The moment you made that post?
You lost this match! Let me break down why…
When you say “I respect my opponent”, that means you’re in awe of them. And when you’re in awe of someone, you are putting yourself in a position to prove yourself to your opponent. But see… that’s where you slip up and give me the advantage. You don’t need to prove a damn thing to me. The only person you need to prove a damn thing to is yourself… aside from the powers that be that run the place anyway. You’re not focused on beating me. You’re focused on showing me why I should respect you. You’re focused on a battle for respect and having the best damn match out there and I get it, it’s a noble premise, but I wasn’t trained to battle for respect. I was trained to WIN. You sir… have only one win under your belt here in AW. I get it, you just joined, but have you made a real enough impression to establish yourself as a contender? Not yet. You will someday, there’s no denying that but it’s not going to come at my expense because I am not the type of wrestler that allows anyone to get a free win from me. You’re focused far more on the fight then you are about the victory and that’s what is going to bring you down. You’re too vanilla flavored, sir. I don’t hear a tiger when I see your social media posts about me. I hear and I see a cub that WANTS to be the leader of the pack but you know what happens to the cubs when they take on the big cats? They get mauled! And if you go into this match with the mindset I have seen you in, that’s what is going to happen to you. What use is your experience, size and generational advantages if you don’t even use them properly?
Ever since Turmoil, I’ve been focused and working as hard as I can to become even better, knowing that 10 years from now, I will have then etched my legacy as one of the best that my generation has ever seen. Someday, I will be your age and I’m going to teach the wrestlers that are going to be MY age 10 years from now not how to be respectful, but how to be WINNERS. It’s okay to respect others in this business, but respect doesn’t make you a winner: a killer instinct does. Do you have it? I doubt it. In order to have a killer instinct, you have to have focus and… you don’t have that focus. While I’m preparing for my match and focusing on winning, what are YOU doing? You’re having a social media fight with a former UCI Champion and you’re focused far more on HIM than you are about me. Which… it’s ironic… you… the long time veteran… making the ROOKIE mistakes while I… the 23-year-old prodigy finishing her 3rd year in the mainstream scene… am treating this match like a veteran. You’re not facing Frost, you’re facing me and if you have the respect for me that you say you do, you wouldn’t have wasted so much time exchanging love letters with him on social media.
So… you want to look ahead to John Frost whenever you face him? Okay. Be my guest. Make it even EASIER for me to beat you tomorrow which would be a damn shame because I’d hate an easy victory, especially over someone who has been doing this almost as long as I’ve been alive. I even have my doubts if you’d even have the killer instinct to beat someone like Frost. I KNOW for a fact that I HAVE that killer instinct. Watch my match against Bishop. You didn’t hear me kissing his ass in the lead up to our match two Pay-Per-Views ago and look what happened? I beat him and retained my title. I CHALLENGED my ex-boyfriend to a match and even put my TITLE on the line against him even though he wasn’t contracted to UCI and I just about ended that son of a bitch’s career! I showed him no mercy. After that, when I dealt with Anton Chase… listen to my promo against him. I showed him even LESS mercy! I ripped the asshole a new one and told him exactly how I felt and I exposed him as the sorriest wrestler on the AW roster and sent him packing to the back of the line in my UCI division.
And Turmoil?
You know, the title defense I wasn’t expected to win?
Did you read what I wrote online about Zombie McMorris? I showed him NO respect… NONE! I went guns blazing! I picked apart his record and his accomplishments and showed him no mercy! I didn’t spend one minute kissing his ass or trying to defend myself because I knew that if I spent ONE second in the defensive, that psychologically, I had already lost because I’d show how worried I was of his perception of me. I went into that match against him not giving a FUCK about how he felt about me, the “mystique and aura” that surrounded him, his inflated win-loss record or the fact that he was a former UCI Champion. Killer instinct. Guns blazing. Kill or be killed. No fear! No admiration! No respect! BOOM! Beat him! THAT, Dark Tiger… is a killer instant… THAT is how you become a champion here and after I beat you tomorrow, I hope you take that as a lesson… because if you want to fuck with John Frost… that’s a lesson you’re going to sorely need.
I validated my UCI title reign at Turmoil, I validated myself as a wrestler too and someone to be respected in this company. Time for you to step up and validate yourself too… which you will… just not against me…
Because I’m not thinking about respect…
I’m thinking about how I’m pushing myself to the limit and using the advantages I have over you to my best potential to BEAT YOU tomorrow night!
You will bring your best fight, no doubt about that.
Unfortunately… against the prodigy of her generation with a killer instinct that she has… the tame kitten ain’t winning this round!
Sorry… not sorry!
Hope you learn your lesson tomorrow… for your own sake!
Casey confidently walks away from the view of the camera, clearly ready for her next non-title challenge as the scene fades out.