Post by Teo Blaze on Apr 3, 2020 11:46:22 GMT -5
The following segment appeared on Actionwrestling.com sometime yesterday evening.
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Jenna Bauer: Hey there, Action faithful! Jenna Bauer here! Due to recent events, we have been limited on the number of face-to-face interviews we have been able to produce, but we’re not letting that stop us! Joining me live via Skype from his home in lovely suburban Houston, I have with us everyone’s favorite former Luchador, Teo Blaze!
The screen quickly shifts to show the face of the man in question, sitting in his home office and broadcasting live over Skype.
Jenna Bauer: Mr. Teo, let me just thank you for taking the time in these trying weeks. You must be so excited to be in the battlebowl, alongside-
Teo Blaze: Let me stop you right there, Jenna. You’re not going to want to ask that question.
Jenna Bauer: Ha...but Teo, it’s a chance at-
Teo Blaze: Jenna, can I ask you a question? Have you noticed that no matter how many matches I win in this company, I have been treated like dogshit since signing my soul away to Torture and friends?
Jenna Bauer: Um...I-
Teo Blaze: Shh. This is when I talk. Look at the patterns, Jenna. Kevin Bishop costs me the Hardcore Title, I kick Bishop’s ass! And do I even hear a peep about a rematch? Nope.
I team with Lissie Hope at XIII, I win the damn match for my team, no less, and two weeks later? Lissie’s world champion. Now she had the all-in briefcase, I get that.
I lead a Trios team to victory over the likes of Odin Balfore and the Hollywood Elite, making history in the process, and yet every single member of this roster gets over the moon telling me that I have yet to accomplish anything in Action Wrestling.
But look at the patterns. I beat Nightingale, Nightingale gets a hardcore title shot. I carry Adler through the tournament, next week they’re getting a tag title shot. I beat the hell out of Kevin Bishop again, Kevin Bishop gets Joey Fuckin’ Flash while I’m stuck in a six-man tag booby prize to help carry some self-aware joke of an advertising gimmick.
So you tell me I must be excited, I must be over the moon that my reward is a 1 in 8 chance at a 1 in 50 chance. Fuck. you.
Jenna Bauer: That’s really not nece-
Teo Blaze: I know I’m not alone here. I know I’m not the only one thinking that this company’s going right down the same roads that Torture and company blasted WCF for. I see the blatant favoritism going on here. People getting handed opportunities that they haven’t earned just because management likes them, meanwhile I’m having to get on my hands and knees and beg to be booked, to be on the show. You know this year I have had exactly 2 matches that didn’t involve either Kevin Bishop or Corey Bull, and I have lost exactly one match since November? And yet here I am, being told to be happy with my spot!
You know, I try Jenna. I try so hard to be the company man, I try to do whatever I’m asked to do, and maybe now I’m just starting to realize that being a company man just gets you the damn shaft.
I stuck with WCF until the very end, even as I watched the walls fall down around me, because say what you want, but I have loyalty to the people who got me where I am today. But I’m just starting to think that saying “yes sir” is just a way to bend over and take it up the ass while everyone around you gets to keep getting more and more opportunity.
And hey, let’s talk about WCF. I know it’s become the style to take potshots at the company because it fell apart. Everyone feels like a big fuckin’ man for kicking the company while it’s down, but let me tell you a little secret. Even as I was watching the gears turn, and struggle, even while I was seeing the brakes come off, I still knew that we were on that sinking ship together, that we were all trying to defy those odds till the very end. I knew that we wanted to make it work even as the world, including Action Wrestling, was shouting at us to give up and die.
You know what I’ve felt since coming to Action Wrestling? Like an action figure in a dollhouse. Like a man handed a script to follow. They don’t want talent, they don’t want creativity. They want cogs in their machine to do with as they wish.
Every “opportunity” this company has given me has been a joke. Nearly Every title match has been against 3 or more opponents, and as soon as they’re over, it’s “thank you, now fuck off.” Kyle Kemp and Walter got 2-3 title shots each against each other 1 on 1. I got “Well, you lost the fatal four way, so fuck off.”
I’ve got a whole year’s worth of frustration Jenna, and don’t think I don’t see it coming. This Battle Royal is just another excuse to act like it’s an opportunity, but it’s nothing more than another booby prize. “Well, you didn’t beat 7 other people, so clearly you’re not trying hard enough. No bookings this month.”
But they have made a fatal miscalculation, Jenna. I’ve been nursing a deep hate and resentment over every single lie that those higher ups have told me. I am past giving a damn. I’m going into that battlebowl match doing everything I can to leave a mark. I’m going to bite, claw, gouge eyes, and I am going to make every man and woman in that match regret the fact that they stepped in the ring with me, because I am done! Being the company man.
I am done being the yes man, and I am done with doing what I am told. I’m going to beat the ass of each and every person in that ring, and even if all of them get together and hurl me over that top rope? Fuck ‘em. I am going to be waiting outside that ring with a baseball bat, and I will be using it on them 1 by 1, and giving each of them a little souvenir of what happens when you push a company man too far.
Do you understand yet how I feel about Battlebowl, Jenna? Because quite frankly, whether it’s someone I’ve never faced, or someone like Corey Bull, a man who I quite frankly have already proven that I am better than, they’re all getting the same thing from me- a lesson.
This interview’s over.
With that, the skype call immediately cuts off, leaving Jenna to look back at the viewer with a combination of confusion and concern.