Post by Casey Holliday on Jan 6, 2019 17:55:16 GMT -5
Flashback
Date: May 29, 2017
Immaturity can strike at any time for a professional wrestler. At UCI’s Lazarus event in 2017, Casey Holliday, then 21 years of age, would have herself one of those moments. She’s in the hallway in a clearly joyous mood having just won the UCI Intercontinental Championship. Passing by some wrestlers, one of them even stops her in her tracks to congratulate her.
UCI Wrestler: I got to give you props. It’s nbot easy defeating Andre Holmes, especially when a title is on the line, but you did. Yolu may not be my favorite person on earth but, I gotta give the devil her due on this one. So… congrats…
Casey looks at the UCI wrestler with the mentality that he has no business even talking to her and just smirks for a few seconds.
Casey: Fuck off! You’re not leeching off of MY moment! Yolu have some hidden, inner JEALOUSY that I can beat Andre Holmes and the closest you’ll ever get to him is being his fucking bootlicker you irrelevant, no name, son of a bitch!
Casey flips the other wrestler the bird before walking down the hallway. She raises her nose at people trying to talk to her at some points and shoves her hands in the faces of other wrestlers at other points as she continues to portray her condescending attitude. Once she gets into her locker room, she slams the door shut behind her and locks it, leaving herself alone with her then-girlfriend Bianca.
Bianca: Oh my god! You did it! I think beating Andre Holmes proves once and for all that you truly are the prodigy of your generation!
Casey scoffs with continued arrogance.
Casey: Tell me something I DON’T know! Girl, you and I both know I’m the shit! Fuck Andre Holmes and everything he stands for, fucking piece of shit! He thought he could lecture me out there. He thought that I wouldn’t be ready. Well FUCK HIM, I WAS READY! And anyone that wants to hate me and doubt me will remember this because I will ALWAYS remind them that on this night… I! BEAT! ANDRE! HOLMES! By the way, how is the Guardians Board looking…
Casey smirks some more as Bianca walks over to a whiteboard, turning it over to reveal a chart featuring the Guardians of UCI at that time: Alex Richards… whose face is marked with a red “X”, Bonnie Blue… whose face is not only marked with a blue “X” but whose entire picture has holes stabbed into her… and Andre Holmes… the only one that was untainted… until now…
Casey: I’ve waited so long for this…
Bianca smiles as she picks up a green marker and draws an “X” over the face of Andre Holmes.
Casey: I’ve finally done it! I have now CONQUERED ALL GUARDIANS! They are now DEAD and I ran them out of UCI! Fuck Andre. Fuck the Guardians. I BEAT HIM! The torch has been passed from an antiquated era of greatness to a NEW era of DOMINANCE!
Bianca: Wanna have sex?
Casey: Duh!!!
Casey and Bianca disappear into the bathroom… where we’ll just leave everything to imagination at that point. Still, A year and a half ago, Casey was very immature and had no knowledge at all about how to handle success. In the aftermath of the next time she’d encounter Andre Holmes however… Casey’s tune was completely different…
Date: December 17, 2018
Casey is in the locker room with the UCI Championship following not just her most recent defense against Alexander Pasternak, but following the reality that she has encountered Andre Holmes again. Far more mature now, Casey has since become one of the most successful UCI Champions ever but the joy of that reality is lost on her at the moment.
Casey: Andre Holmes, huh?
Casey takes a deep breath, remembering their last encounter and how she reacted to his victory over him a year and a half prior. This brief recollection of how immature she was at the time really has her going through a split second of remorse and regret. The sudden encounter with him moments ago isn’t affecting her psyche now that she’s had a moment to herself to let it sink in, but when she first arrived in Action Wrestling, she would constantly remind everyone that she beat him back in UCI. While she has matured out of that and had largely ceased mentioning him after she put her ex-boyfriend out to pasture, she knows she ran up the score.
Casey: I guess the piper decided to come by to try and collect his paycheck.
Casey looks at the championship not thinking about her successful defenses against the likes of Kevin Bishop and Zombie McMorris, but an encounter that she knews without anyone needing to tell her is essentially inevitable.
Casey: ...not at my expense…
The UCI Champion narrows her eyes, showing her determination before she stands up and walks out of the locker room, title intact… for now…
Date: December 31, 2018
Casey finds herself back at the Seattle Wrestling Academy, her former wrestling school that she had just gotten herself back into its good graces with, looking forward to the new year. Even now, she’s still hyper focused on her wrestling career and what lies ahead as she’s watching the AW exclusive that Andre Holmes had conducted a few hours prior. By this point, she knows that he’ll be challenging her for the title but still, during this interview, the UCI Champion has had to do a lot of eyebrow raising and head shaking.
Casey: A year and a half later and this guy’s got the same ego that he had before. I suppose I’d have that same ego if I lost the UCI title to fucking Celeste Mallory…
What Casey isn’t aware of though, is that she’s not alone in the scene.
Casey: ...with the way he’s talked to me on social media, it’s like he thinks I’m the same immature crybaby I was back in UCI a year and a half ago…
Voice: Can you blame him?
Casey raises her eyebrows in surprise being familiar with the voice she just heard. Standing up and turning around, she spots an older wrestler by the name of Victoria Salinas, who she and her family have a lot of history with.
Casey: Vicky…
Victoria: Oh hi Casey, long time no talk. I believe the last time we spoke face to face, you wanted me to fuck off while you were blaming me for your career shortcomings at the time.
Casey swallows her pride in regret, knowing all too well how true that is.
Casey: Times have changed… I’ve changed…
Victoria: I’m glad you matured, I’ll tell you that much.
Casey: I’m sorry that I ever treated you like that, though. I was a teenager when you graduated from here yourself and I idolized you and then I wanted nothing to do with you. This is kind of awkward… you know… considering you bought this place from my dad and all…
Victoria: Still, if you thought that turning over a new leaf and saying sorry for your mistakes was going to heal everything overnight, then you must have definitely been in for a surprise when Andre showed up. You walked into Action Wrestling acting like you were the shit and before then, you didn’t have respect for anyone that you worked with. You damn sure didn’t have any respect for yourself knowing some of the things you’ve done. It’s one thing to say that you’re different, it’s another thing to prove it.
Casey: I HAVE proven it! I’ve got the most successful defenses as UCI Champion EVER… and that goes for the title’s entire history dating back to UCI itself. I know that there were so much doubts about me and my validity as a champion and I am well aware that there were so many people out there expecting me to lose that title to Zombie McMorris but I know that when I beat him, I validated myself as a champion. I don’t understand why some people… like Andre for example… want to hold all the stupid things I’ve done and said in the past against me. It’s in the past.
Victoria: Casey, I’ve been doing this a long time and do you know that there are people in this world that hold stuff from seven to nine years ago against me? There are some that are never going to let it go and I can’t say I blame Andre. You spent how long bragging about the fact that you beat him and yet, you want him to somehow forget that for so long, you were running up the score reminding the world of that fact? Hell, you think talking to you isn’t awkward for me right now considering how I once banned you from being here? Fotunately for you, I’m forgiving.
Casey: Doesn’t seem like Andre is…
Victoria: It sounds like you’re worried about him a little too much.
This sets off a small trigger in Casey, who is clearly known for her brashness and bravado. This comes out of her when she completely scoffs at the notion.
Casey: No. I beat him before. Why wouldn’t I be able to beat him again? Especially since I’ve improved so much, you know?
Victoria: But the fact that he sees you as what you were then, and not as you are now… that bothers you.
Casey sighs.
Casey: Yeah, maybe a little bit. I know I wasn’t exactly a Girl Scout during my time in UCI and that I lost my way before and after the fact. And maybe it does bother me some that he comes to Action Wrestling and gets handed a title shot right in the door…
Victoria: In a way, you were too.
Casey: I had the Golden Ticket to cash in. I earned that. That was different.
Victoria: It still ruffled some feathers in the locker room, you have to admit.
Casey rolls her eyes, but nods… showing her trademark stubbornness, but having the maturity to acknowledge the fact.
Casey: I’ve got a lot of work to do. Maybe I have the most successful UCI defenses ever and hell, maybe I’ll eclipse the record for longest reign when it’s all said and done… but the world deserves to know that I’m not that spoiled brat I was before. I don’t want them to see me that way, it’s embarrassing.
Victoria: So what do you want the world to see Casey Holliday as? Because like you said, you’ve got a long way to go to clean up that bad reputation you built up.
Casey: I do… and the bitch is? As far as your question is concerned?
Casey takes a deep breath.
Casey: That’s something I still need to figure out. Being the prodigy that I’ve been and having six overall championships among other accomplishments by the age of 23 isn’t exactly paradise… it’s pressure… and a lot of it at that…
Victoria has a bit of a laugh to this, having been a highly successful prodigy in her own right and having been a first time world champion by the age of 23 herself.
Victoria: You’re not telling me something I didn’t already know. But no worries… the next few weeks is going to teach you so much whether you retain against Andre or not. Just… another thought to mull over.
Victoria leaves the room at this point, leaving Casey alone to think about the conversation that just took place. While she’s not worried too much about the challenge ahead in a few weeks time against Andre, she does know that not only does she have plenty of work to do to right her old wrongs but as UCI Champion and as a wrestler as a whole, she’s also got to find what her identity in this business is.
Of course… it’s an uphill battle that Casey herself knows she can handle with so much evidence in her young career backing up that affirmation.
Date: January 6, 2019
Casey finds herself in Tampa, Florida, the site of the next Clash to take place the following day. Casey sits with the UCI Championship slung over her shoulder and with a “2019” banner hanging overhead, it definitely has the presence of a belated new year’s setting. Through it all, and knowing the task at hand tomorrow, Casey takes a confident breath before she begins to speak her mind.
Casey Holliday: Three hundred and sixty five days ago, I was in another company as a secondary title holder. Don’t get me wrong, my run with that title was pretty damn good. I’ve got no complaints about it in spite of how that title reign ended. A year ago, I would have complained about it, I admit. But, I’ve grown up quite a bit since then and I hate to call out people but that fact seems to be lost on some of you. There are certain people in this company that think that I’m still the same person that I was back in UCI. Now, I can understand that logic. When I first came here to Action Wrestling, the only difference between me at that moment and me back in UCI was that someone else was pulling the strings for me. Of course, as you’d all see eventually, I got rid of that piece of crap, but that’s another story. Take a guy like Andre Holmes. He’s a great addition to Action Wrestling, I’d be a fool to downplay that. Yet, I have mixed feelings about him as a person. From a wrestling standpoint, you’re looking at a dream team tomorrow between Andre and I. From a personal standpoint on the other hand, I’m looking at it as me having to deal with one of the most unbearable, egotistical sons of bitches I’ve ever met in my life.
But, putting that aside for the moment…
I grew a lot in 2018, even if some events that I didn’t foresee forced me to in some ways. Hell, I even ended 2018 getting a LITTLE revenge on #beachkrew for what happened to me at the end of my UCI run… and I’m not done with them yet by the way…
But I admit that I didn’t imagine I would end the year as a world champion. I didn’t think that I’d be here in Action Wrestling. In fact, on January 6, 2018 Action Wrestling was just barely getting started and I didn’t foresee myself ever coming here. Yet, I arrived after I made one of the best ship jumpings any wrestler could have made in their career and I know it’s going to sound like bragging, but I took this company by storm from the jump. Two matches in, I became UCI World Champion. Thirteen matches later and no losses, and a record five UCI Championship defenses. Having said all that, it makes me wonder if Andre Holmes is trying to one up me there. I wouldn’t be shocked considering the massive ego that fucker has, but hey, I’ve got to deal with that ego tomorrow night when I have to team with him and personally, I’m not thrilled about it but I’m not going to complain. There is a task at hand and as big of an ego he has, I know damn well he’s not going to screw me over or do anything that’s going to cost us this match because the GREATNESS that Andre Holmes is would NEVER want to lose his debut match in a wrestling promotion especially after all the hype he lubed up to shove up his own ass from the moment he walked in that door.
2018 ended with me as the UCI World Champion and him surprising me… but 2019 will begin with me surprising him because there’s so much about me that he ASSUMES is still true… but is far from the case. I’ll dive into that at a more proper time, but for right now, I want to focus on the task at hand and that’s Zombie McMorris and Beau Blaze, the current number one contenders to the AW Tag Team Championships. They don’t care about any of the tension between Andre and I, that much is a given. And I’m not going to deny them the fact that they managed to pull through and get themselves a tag team championship match BUT… this task for them is too tall of an order for them. What? Did you two think that you were going to go into this match tomorrow night thinking “oh, we can just capitalize off of their tension and we can win one.” That’s your mindset right? If so, then you’re already behind the eight ball because having that kind of mindset already tells me that you don’t think you can win this match any other way. I don’t know who the fuck Beau “Bullfrog” Blaze is. He seems to enjoy being the troll on social media that his tag team partner has always been from what little I know of him, but I know he doesn’t have the main event experience to defeat a wrestler of Andre’s caliber, let alone a wrestler of my caliber. Besides, knowing the way tag teams work out… honestly… I don’t see a damn thing that is going to make Beau Blaze a star once he stops leeching off of McMorris. He’s by far the weak link in that team. If he’s going to spend his entire career being Zombie McMorris 2.0, then his career isn’t going to last very long. But hey… let’s talk about that partner for a bit…
You know… the one I beat recently?
No ZMAC, I’m not going to MEME BOMB you this time… though the last time around that was pretty fun… but damn, that had to sting right? I remember you walked into our title match a month and a half ago and you came in with the attitude that you had the UCI Championship in the bag. You came in there, probably with an oversized bag of coke, ready to celebrate the INEVITABLE! Well… you didn’t win… but knowing your dumbass, you snorted that coke anyway… whatever… but hey, I have to admit, it does feel a bit sweet knowing you talked all that trash and on that night, you didn’t back it up. But on the real… being a little more on the serious side… I’ll be the first to admit that defending the title against you was a turning point of sorts. This has far less to do with you than it has to do with me. Before our match, I know people thought I was a fluke as a UCI champion. People wondered how I was going to be able to defend the legacy and honor of UCI when all I had ever defended my title against was two outsiders who didn’t even work here and a Kevin Bishop that some were quietly placing the “past his prime” label on. So… I knew that going into my defense with you… that if I had beaten you, I WOULD have that validation as a UCI Champion and that if I had lost… well… perhaps they would have been right.
I mean, losing this title to Zombie fucking McMorris would have been pretty damn disgusting. But I didn’t focus on the overhype surrounding you, I focused on beating you the fuck down and that’s what I did and it’ll be a damn good time for me to do it again. You want to walk into this acting like our match didn’t happen, that’s fine with me. You want to come in here and tell the world that it was a fluke, that’s fine with me too. I didn’t need to prove shit to you before and I damn sure don’t need to prove shit to you now. Good on you for being able to bounce back from that and become a number one contender to the tag team titles, but sorry… not sorry… against two of the best in the business, you could have your old Vapor Kings tag team partner from WCF team up with you and it STILL wouldn’t be enough to beat us because that’s how higher of a plane Andre and I are in this business above such a miserable bastard like yourself.
And speaking of bastards…
Andre…
You can put down your wall.
I’m not interested in screwing you… in one way or another…
I’m not that kind of wrestler anymore. And I know you’re not going to do the same either because I know your inflated ego would rather win with me than have his debut end in a loss to two people he already knows he’s better than.
However… if you want to go into this match tomorrow night, trying to make it all about YOU and tyring to get the glory all for yourself, then tomorrow isn’t going to be a very good experience for you. I trust that for ONCE, you are capable of putting that ego away, so we can win this match. I don’t like this situation any more than you do and as much as I REALLY want to shut you the fuck up tomorrow, that’s not on my agenda. I’m saving that for our title match down the line. YOUR attitude, Andre… dictates how this is going to go. If you walk in under the impression that I’m still the Casey that you knew back in UCI… we’re going to have a hell of a hard time winning this match. If you’re open minded for once and take what I’ve become and what I am today at face value, we’re not going to have a problem winning this match. In the end, the choice is up to you… but I’ll tell you this much… I’m NOT about to lose my unbeaten streak in Action Wrestling because of YOUR fucking ego… especially to wrestlers like THEM.
So keep your dick in your pants, alright? Because tomorrow? I’m going into our match with the EXPECTATION of victory! Get it? Got it? Good!
Casey stands up and walks out of the scene at that point, determined to find a way to make things work with Andre in order to pick up a win tomorrow night at Clash as the scene fades out.
Date: May 29, 2017
Immaturity can strike at any time for a professional wrestler. At UCI’s Lazarus event in 2017, Casey Holliday, then 21 years of age, would have herself one of those moments. She’s in the hallway in a clearly joyous mood having just won the UCI Intercontinental Championship. Passing by some wrestlers, one of them even stops her in her tracks to congratulate her.
UCI Wrestler: I got to give you props. It’s nbot easy defeating Andre Holmes, especially when a title is on the line, but you did. Yolu may not be my favorite person on earth but, I gotta give the devil her due on this one. So… congrats…
Casey looks at the UCI wrestler with the mentality that he has no business even talking to her and just smirks for a few seconds.
Casey: Fuck off! You’re not leeching off of MY moment! Yolu have some hidden, inner JEALOUSY that I can beat Andre Holmes and the closest you’ll ever get to him is being his fucking bootlicker you irrelevant, no name, son of a bitch!
Casey flips the other wrestler the bird before walking down the hallway. She raises her nose at people trying to talk to her at some points and shoves her hands in the faces of other wrestlers at other points as she continues to portray her condescending attitude. Once she gets into her locker room, she slams the door shut behind her and locks it, leaving herself alone with her then-girlfriend Bianca.
Bianca: Oh my god! You did it! I think beating Andre Holmes proves once and for all that you truly are the prodigy of your generation!
Casey scoffs with continued arrogance.
Casey: Tell me something I DON’T know! Girl, you and I both know I’m the shit! Fuck Andre Holmes and everything he stands for, fucking piece of shit! He thought he could lecture me out there. He thought that I wouldn’t be ready. Well FUCK HIM, I WAS READY! And anyone that wants to hate me and doubt me will remember this because I will ALWAYS remind them that on this night… I! BEAT! ANDRE! HOLMES! By the way, how is the Guardians Board looking…
Casey smirks some more as Bianca walks over to a whiteboard, turning it over to reveal a chart featuring the Guardians of UCI at that time: Alex Richards… whose face is marked with a red “X”, Bonnie Blue… whose face is not only marked with a blue “X” but whose entire picture has holes stabbed into her… and Andre Holmes… the only one that was untainted… until now…
Casey: I’ve waited so long for this…
Bianca smiles as she picks up a green marker and draws an “X” over the face of Andre Holmes.
Casey: I’ve finally done it! I have now CONQUERED ALL GUARDIANS! They are now DEAD and I ran them out of UCI! Fuck Andre. Fuck the Guardians. I BEAT HIM! The torch has been passed from an antiquated era of greatness to a NEW era of DOMINANCE!
Bianca: Wanna have sex?
Casey: Duh!!!
Casey and Bianca disappear into the bathroom… where we’ll just leave everything to imagination at that point. Still, A year and a half ago, Casey was very immature and had no knowledge at all about how to handle success. In the aftermath of the next time she’d encounter Andre Holmes however… Casey’s tune was completely different…
Date: December 17, 2018
Casey is in the locker room with the UCI Championship following not just her most recent defense against Alexander Pasternak, but following the reality that she has encountered Andre Holmes again. Far more mature now, Casey has since become one of the most successful UCI Champions ever but the joy of that reality is lost on her at the moment.
Casey: Andre Holmes, huh?
Casey takes a deep breath, remembering their last encounter and how she reacted to his victory over him a year and a half prior. This brief recollection of how immature she was at the time really has her going through a split second of remorse and regret. The sudden encounter with him moments ago isn’t affecting her psyche now that she’s had a moment to herself to let it sink in, but when she first arrived in Action Wrestling, she would constantly remind everyone that she beat him back in UCI. While she has matured out of that and had largely ceased mentioning him after she put her ex-boyfriend out to pasture, she knows she ran up the score.
Casey: I guess the piper decided to come by to try and collect his paycheck.
Casey looks at the championship not thinking about her successful defenses against the likes of Kevin Bishop and Zombie McMorris, but an encounter that she knews without anyone needing to tell her is essentially inevitable.
Casey: ...not at my expense…
The UCI Champion narrows her eyes, showing her determination before she stands up and walks out of the locker room, title intact… for now…
Date: December 31, 2018
Casey finds herself back at the Seattle Wrestling Academy, her former wrestling school that she had just gotten herself back into its good graces with, looking forward to the new year. Even now, she’s still hyper focused on her wrestling career and what lies ahead as she’s watching the AW exclusive that Andre Holmes had conducted a few hours prior. By this point, she knows that he’ll be challenging her for the title but still, during this interview, the UCI Champion has had to do a lot of eyebrow raising and head shaking.
Casey: A year and a half later and this guy’s got the same ego that he had before. I suppose I’d have that same ego if I lost the UCI title to fucking Celeste Mallory…
What Casey isn’t aware of though, is that she’s not alone in the scene.
Casey: ...with the way he’s talked to me on social media, it’s like he thinks I’m the same immature crybaby I was back in UCI a year and a half ago…
Voice: Can you blame him?
Casey raises her eyebrows in surprise being familiar with the voice she just heard. Standing up and turning around, she spots an older wrestler by the name of Victoria Salinas, who she and her family have a lot of history with.
Casey: Vicky…
Victoria: Oh hi Casey, long time no talk. I believe the last time we spoke face to face, you wanted me to fuck off while you were blaming me for your career shortcomings at the time.
Casey swallows her pride in regret, knowing all too well how true that is.
Casey: Times have changed… I’ve changed…
Victoria: I’m glad you matured, I’ll tell you that much.
Casey: I’m sorry that I ever treated you like that, though. I was a teenager when you graduated from here yourself and I idolized you and then I wanted nothing to do with you. This is kind of awkward… you know… considering you bought this place from my dad and all…
Victoria: Still, if you thought that turning over a new leaf and saying sorry for your mistakes was going to heal everything overnight, then you must have definitely been in for a surprise when Andre showed up. You walked into Action Wrestling acting like you were the shit and before then, you didn’t have respect for anyone that you worked with. You damn sure didn’t have any respect for yourself knowing some of the things you’ve done. It’s one thing to say that you’re different, it’s another thing to prove it.
Casey: I HAVE proven it! I’ve got the most successful defenses as UCI Champion EVER… and that goes for the title’s entire history dating back to UCI itself. I know that there were so much doubts about me and my validity as a champion and I am well aware that there were so many people out there expecting me to lose that title to Zombie McMorris but I know that when I beat him, I validated myself as a champion. I don’t understand why some people… like Andre for example… want to hold all the stupid things I’ve done and said in the past against me. It’s in the past.
Victoria: Casey, I’ve been doing this a long time and do you know that there are people in this world that hold stuff from seven to nine years ago against me? There are some that are never going to let it go and I can’t say I blame Andre. You spent how long bragging about the fact that you beat him and yet, you want him to somehow forget that for so long, you were running up the score reminding the world of that fact? Hell, you think talking to you isn’t awkward for me right now considering how I once banned you from being here? Fotunately for you, I’m forgiving.
Casey: Doesn’t seem like Andre is…
Victoria: It sounds like you’re worried about him a little too much.
This sets off a small trigger in Casey, who is clearly known for her brashness and bravado. This comes out of her when she completely scoffs at the notion.
Casey: No. I beat him before. Why wouldn’t I be able to beat him again? Especially since I’ve improved so much, you know?
Victoria: But the fact that he sees you as what you were then, and not as you are now… that bothers you.
Casey sighs.
Casey: Yeah, maybe a little bit. I know I wasn’t exactly a Girl Scout during my time in UCI and that I lost my way before and after the fact. And maybe it does bother me some that he comes to Action Wrestling and gets handed a title shot right in the door…
Victoria: In a way, you were too.
Casey: I had the Golden Ticket to cash in. I earned that. That was different.
Victoria: It still ruffled some feathers in the locker room, you have to admit.
Casey rolls her eyes, but nods… showing her trademark stubbornness, but having the maturity to acknowledge the fact.
Casey: I’ve got a lot of work to do. Maybe I have the most successful UCI defenses ever and hell, maybe I’ll eclipse the record for longest reign when it’s all said and done… but the world deserves to know that I’m not that spoiled brat I was before. I don’t want them to see me that way, it’s embarrassing.
Victoria: So what do you want the world to see Casey Holliday as? Because like you said, you’ve got a long way to go to clean up that bad reputation you built up.
Casey: I do… and the bitch is? As far as your question is concerned?
Casey takes a deep breath.
Casey: That’s something I still need to figure out. Being the prodigy that I’ve been and having six overall championships among other accomplishments by the age of 23 isn’t exactly paradise… it’s pressure… and a lot of it at that…
Victoria has a bit of a laugh to this, having been a highly successful prodigy in her own right and having been a first time world champion by the age of 23 herself.
Victoria: You’re not telling me something I didn’t already know. But no worries… the next few weeks is going to teach you so much whether you retain against Andre or not. Just… another thought to mull over.
Victoria leaves the room at this point, leaving Casey alone to think about the conversation that just took place. While she’s not worried too much about the challenge ahead in a few weeks time against Andre, she does know that not only does she have plenty of work to do to right her old wrongs but as UCI Champion and as a wrestler as a whole, she’s also got to find what her identity in this business is.
Of course… it’s an uphill battle that Casey herself knows she can handle with so much evidence in her young career backing up that affirmation.
Date: January 6, 2019
Casey finds herself in Tampa, Florida, the site of the next Clash to take place the following day. Casey sits with the UCI Championship slung over her shoulder and with a “2019” banner hanging overhead, it definitely has the presence of a belated new year’s setting. Through it all, and knowing the task at hand tomorrow, Casey takes a confident breath before she begins to speak her mind.
Casey Holliday: Three hundred and sixty five days ago, I was in another company as a secondary title holder. Don’t get me wrong, my run with that title was pretty damn good. I’ve got no complaints about it in spite of how that title reign ended. A year ago, I would have complained about it, I admit. But, I’ve grown up quite a bit since then and I hate to call out people but that fact seems to be lost on some of you. There are certain people in this company that think that I’m still the same person that I was back in UCI. Now, I can understand that logic. When I first came here to Action Wrestling, the only difference between me at that moment and me back in UCI was that someone else was pulling the strings for me. Of course, as you’d all see eventually, I got rid of that piece of crap, but that’s another story. Take a guy like Andre Holmes. He’s a great addition to Action Wrestling, I’d be a fool to downplay that. Yet, I have mixed feelings about him as a person. From a wrestling standpoint, you’re looking at a dream team tomorrow between Andre and I. From a personal standpoint on the other hand, I’m looking at it as me having to deal with one of the most unbearable, egotistical sons of bitches I’ve ever met in my life.
But, putting that aside for the moment…
I grew a lot in 2018, even if some events that I didn’t foresee forced me to in some ways. Hell, I even ended 2018 getting a LITTLE revenge on #beachkrew for what happened to me at the end of my UCI run… and I’m not done with them yet by the way…
But I admit that I didn’t imagine I would end the year as a world champion. I didn’t think that I’d be here in Action Wrestling. In fact, on January 6, 2018 Action Wrestling was just barely getting started and I didn’t foresee myself ever coming here. Yet, I arrived after I made one of the best ship jumpings any wrestler could have made in their career and I know it’s going to sound like bragging, but I took this company by storm from the jump. Two matches in, I became UCI World Champion. Thirteen matches later and no losses, and a record five UCI Championship defenses. Having said all that, it makes me wonder if Andre Holmes is trying to one up me there. I wouldn’t be shocked considering the massive ego that fucker has, but hey, I’ve got to deal with that ego tomorrow night when I have to team with him and personally, I’m not thrilled about it but I’m not going to complain. There is a task at hand and as big of an ego he has, I know damn well he’s not going to screw me over or do anything that’s going to cost us this match because the GREATNESS that Andre Holmes is would NEVER want to lose his debut match in a wrestling promotion especially after all the hype he lubed up to shove up his own ass from the moment he walked in that door.
2018 ended with me as the UCI World Champion and him surprising me… but 2019 will begin with me surprising him because there’s so much about me that he ASSUMES is still true… but is far from the case. I’ll dive into that at a more proper time, but for right now, I want to focus on the task at hand and that’s Zombie McMorris and Beau Blaze, the current number one contenders to the AW Tag Team Championships. They don’t care about any of the tension between Andre and I, that much is a given. And I’m not going to deny them the fact that they managed to pull through and get themselves a tag team championship match BUT… this task for them is too tall of an order for them. What? Did you two think that you were going to go into this match tomorrow night thinking “oh, we can just capitalize off of their tension and we can win one.” That’s your mindset right? If so, then you’re already behind the eight ball because having that kind of mindset already tells me that you don’t think you can win this match any other way. I don’t know who the fuck Beau “Bullfrog” Blaze is. He seems to enjoy being the troll on social media that his tag team partner has always been from what little I know of him, but I know he doesn’t have the main event experience to defeat a wrestler of Andre’s caliber, let alone a wrestler of my caliber. Besides, knowing the way tag teams work out… honestly… I don’t see a damn thing that is going to make Beau Blaze a star once he stops leeching off of McMorris. He’s by far the weak link in that team. If he’s going to spend his entire career being Zombie McMorris 2.0, then his career isn’t going to last very long. But hey… let’s talk about that partner for a bit…
You know… the one I beat recently?
No ZMAC, I’m not going to MEME BOMB you this time… though the last time around that was pretty fun… but damn, that had to sting right? I remember you walked into our title match a month and a half ago and you came in with the attitude that you had the UCI Championship in the bag. You came in there, probably with an oversized bag of coke, ready to celebrate the INEVITABLE! Well… you didn’t win… but knowing your dumbass, you snorted that coke anyway… whatever… but hey, I have to admit, it does feel a bit sweet knowing you talked all that trash and on that night, you didn’t back it up. But on the real… being a little more on the serious side… I’ll be the first to admit that defending the title against you was a turning point of sorts. This has far less to do with you than it has to do with me. Before our match, I know people thought I was a fluke as a UCI champion. People wondered how I was going to be able to defend the legacy and honor of UCI when all I had ever defended my title against was two outsiders who didn’t even work here and a Kevin Bishop that some were quietly placing the “past his prime” label on. So… I knew that going into my defense with you… that if I had beaten you, I WOULD have that validation as a UCI Champion and that if I had lost… well… perhaps they would have been right.
I mean, losing this title to Zombie fucking McMorris would have been pretty damn disgusting. But I didn’t focus on the overhype surrounding you, I focused on beating you the fuck down and that’s what I did and it’ll be a damn good time for me to do it again. You want to walk into this acting like our match didn’t happen, that’s fine with me. You want to come in here and tell the world that it was a fluke, that’s fine with me too. I didn’t need to prove shit to you before and I damn sure don’t need to prove shit to you now. Good on you for being able to bounce back from that and become a number one contender to the tag team titles, but sorry… not sorry… against two of the best in the business, you could have your old Vapor Kings tag team partner from WCF team up with you and it STILL wouldn’t be enough to beat us because that’s how higher of a plane Andre and I are in this business above such a miserable bastard like yourself.
And speaking of bastards…
Andre…
You can put down your wall.
I’m not interested in screwing you… in one way or another…
I’m not that kind of wrestler anymore. And I know you’re not going to do the same either because I know your inflated ego would rather win with me than have his debut end in a loss to two people he already knows he’s better than.
However… if you want to go into this match tomorrow night, trying to make it all about YOU and tyring to get the glory all for yourself, then tomorrow isn’t going to be a very good experience for you. I trust that for ONCE, you are capable of putting that ego away, so we can win this match. I don’t like this situation any more than you do and as much as I REALLY want to shut you the fuck up tomorrow, that’s not on my agenda. I’m saving that for our title match down the line. YOUR attitude, Andre… dictates how this is going to go. If you walk in under the impression that I’m still the Casey that you knew back in UCI… we’re going to have a hell of a hard time winning this match. If you’re open minded for once and take what I’ve become and what I am today at face value, we’re not going to have a problem winning this match. In the end, the choice is up to you… but I’ll tell you this much… I’m NOT about to lose my unbeaten streak in Action Wrestling because of YOUR fucking ego… especially to wrestlers like THEM.
So keep your dick in your pants, alright? Because tomorrow? I’m going into our match with the EXPECTATION of victory! Get it? Got it? Good!
Casey stands up and walks out of the scene at that point, determined to find a way to make things work with Andre in order to pick up a win tomorrow night at Clash as the scene fades out.