Post by Noah Hanson on Feb 23, 2016 19:26:43 GMT -5
[We open with what sounds like a grandfather clock ringing out, the camera pans out and we can see the pendulum of the clock swaying back and forth, the hammer banging against the chimes louder and louder. Noah then appears from the shadows, a bottle of beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other.]
“Noah you hear that John? Do you hear what it's saying? Listen carefully because it will tell you everything you need to know and that is this. Your time is coming to an end in the tournament, I am going to send you packing, send you back to that little backwoods place in Indiana, maybe you can see if you can hang out in the old PWX arena, relive the old days when YOU had a soul, when you were a man, a man that people like Peter Octavian, Dylan Greenwood and Chris Kostoff helped build a foundation for you, you used the blood, sweat and skills of so may stars and used it all to line your pockets and make you fucking rich and then you bailed on everyone not once but twice and even a damn reunion show. I was one of those that continued to fall for it. I looked at you and I really have no idea what came over me, I jumped at the chance to help you out the first time and do whatever it took to get PWX back to it's former glory, called in every god damn favor and we even got a training school started and then it sank. I stood there and wondered “what the fuck?” I never really understood because we had some of the biggest and best talent in all the world but things fell apart and I decided to go and try my skills in other places, in other feds all over the country.”
[Noah looked at the clock and touches it gently and runs his hand down the beautiful wood grain.]
“I took my skills all over the country from the West Coast in WCCW to the South in SAW to the Midwest in nMw and UCWA. But then I saw that PWX was trying again, I watched with growing curiosity, I watched as so many stars began flocking to it but then I had something buzzing in my ear. It was my better judgment tell me I know better then to go running back to PWX again. But there was something wrong with me back then I was like a junkie wanting my next fix off my past accomplishment and past fame. I need to tap a vein again and get that fix just one more time. I saw Darin and Brian there and I knew what would happen, I knew I would get screwed but I just couldn't stop myself, I was draw to PWX once again. I didn't learn, I should have by this time I should have I really have no answer to it. I should have walked away, I listened to the fact that your management made deals with me, winks and nods, smoke and mirrors, I should be used to it by now. My faith in people is never rewarded, ,my good nature always blinds me to what is usually staring at me right in the face.”
[Noah takes a long drink from his beer.]
“See that is what people like you, Lee Best, Bryan Garvin do to people, used car salesmen, snake charmers you get people to listen to your smooth talk and promises of getting what they want and then before they can see you for what you are it is to late and people get hooked and that is what I did. I got hooked to your drug John and JPO, John you were the dealer and JPO was the supplier, I got hooked and I thought my friends would be there to give me the help needed to get off your drug but they were all part of your plan. They are to blind to see that because they were given a sinking ship one that was infested with rats from top to bottom and with people sitting around with their thumbs up their asses. My friends....i laugh at the thought now a days because it took me this long to see that I really have no friends. I have people that target me, I have people that want to be part of my life and see what they can get out of it. Some would call them users and maybe they are right, maybe I have spent to many years of my career surrounding myself with people that are not going to and never will be there for me.”
[Noah takes a drag off his cigarette, for one this is very unlike Noah because for one Noah doesn't drink or smoke so this is all very curious to some of us that do in fact Noah...]
“One thing I will say is this John you better bring your best, you better step up your game, you better bring a big fucking sack lunch because this is gonna be one of those matches that might not be a technical classic but it is not going to be for the squeamish, if you u have a weak constitution, if you don't like the sight of blood and skin being carved like prime rib then you might wanna go for a powder people. I am going to promise you this John, I have wanted this match for so long it is already making it hard for me to keep food down. I am going to have a hard time sleeping before the show because I can already see how I am going to be going after you John. I know you are going to try and end me, I want you to try, I want you to try and break me, I want you to put the barrel of the gun to my temple and pull the fucking trigger and see if the stories about me being able to cheat death are really once and for all true.”
[Noah pulls up a chair in front of the clock and sighs loudly.]
“Will beating you end my suffering? Will it ease the burden that I have been forced to live with all these years finally come to end or will it cause it to boil over like never before? See John that is what I am afraid of, I am terrified of what I might become, I am terrible of the creature that lurks under my skin. I have fought it for so long but this fork in my road of destiny has made something happen, the darkness it has grown stronger inside of me, the hate, the anger, the resentment to those that have forsaken me it grows more and more with each passing day and it gets to a point to where I won't be able to stop it from getting out, I won't be able to control it John. I warn you like this John because there is still a part of me that has a deep respect for you and for what you did for me years ago. You gave a man that had burned so many bridges, had pissed so many people and you...you gave me a chance when no one else would. That is why I am warning you John, don't hold back John, don't look at me as someone that you might have admired John hit me with everything you can. If you don't if you let up, if you hesitate even for a moment t the darkness will consume you, the darkness will overwhelm you. The darkness wants to take you to hell, the darkness wants to take you in a cold embrace and crush you in its grasp.”
[Noah's head is low and motionless, not looking at all at the camera.]
“See this is why I was kind of hoping that we might not cross paths this early, that we might be able to hold this off as long as possible but fate plays dirty sometimes and has worked destiny to make it happen a little earlier and we are both going to pay for it. The darkness wants payment for everything that you as the one that created my pain, the one that made all of this happen, the darkness wants you to suffer, the darkness wants to drag you into the darkness with it and then you will see just what you have done and why you must suffer as well.”
[Noah looks up and halfheartedly smiles]
“I tried to warn you John, you should have finished the job when you had the chance you made the classic movie villain mistake and didn't finish someone off when you had the chance. You let me slip through your fingers, you had me beaten, hell I couldn't remember shit after all that but you let me go and now we are here. For the moment I don't even give a damn about Darin Zion, Ash Scion or Trent Brown, this is about you and me and how the sins of the past finally get fixed, how the timeline is finally set right. Does it end with this match regardless of the winner? It is really hard to say, the darkness wants a pound of your flesh for your sins, the darkness wants retribution for your crimes John. I must satisfy the darkness, I must, I have to obey, I don't want the darkness to go any further it has to stop here, it has to I can't allow this to go any further but the darkness it talks to me, it whispers in my ear and I understand what has to be. I know that I have to do this why I have to do this, I want to walk away from all of this John but you have to understand that I can't let you make threats against me like that and nothing come of it. The only thing you can say is that you probably won't have is the New Japan Fighting Championship with you when we meet I am going to go out on a limb and say that JPD is going to stone you one more time. I would have loved for you to show up to our match with the belt and maybe some sort of deal could have been worked out so that belt could have been on the line as well. It would have been “sauce on the goose” it would have made it just a bit more sweeter but now I realize that just kicking the ever loving dogshit out of you will just have to do.”
[Noah again sighs deeply...]
“Brian Hollywood's bitch? Are you fucking kidding me? I NEVER followed in his or anyone elses god damn footsteps and I sure as hell never will. Tyler Boyd and let's be clear not whatever version is working in HOW because that Tyler Boyd is a fake, a fraud the Boyd I knew helped make Hollywood and Zion into the current stars they are. I have never had to follow them they always followed me, hell Zion followed me to HOW after months of prodding to get him there. But you are right this match is going to get bloody and messy but mark my words this is far from over. You don't know a damn thing about fate and destiny, you use them as a way to explain things. I use them as tools to guide my career to live my life.”
[Noah shakes his head.]
“I did my promo this week this way is because the direct approach was the only way to do it this week. Doing it this way was the only way to make you understand everything. If you really think this match is going to be the end of it then you really are delusional. This match is just the warm up, the main attraction will be at a later date. This is just where I get to smear blood all over the canvas, this is where I get to hear your bones break and this is where I move on in the tournament...”
[Noah gets up and moves back into the darkness.]
“We are destined to do this for a very long time John...the immovable object versus the Irresistible Force..”
[fade]
“Noah you hear that John? Do you hear what it's saying? Listen carefully because it will tell you everything you need to know and that is this. Your time is coming to an end in the tournament, I am going to send you packing, send you back to that little backwoods place in Indiana, maybe you can see if you can hang out in the old PWX arena, relive the old days when YOU had a soul, when you were a man, a man that people like Peter Octavian, Dylan Greenwood and Chris Kostoff helped build a foundation for you, you used the blood, sweat and skills of so may stars and used it all to line your pockets and make you fucking rich and then you bailed on everyone not once but twice and even a damn reunion show. I was one of those that continued to fall for it. I looked at you and I really have no idea what came over me, I jumped at the chance to help you out the first time and do whatever it took to get PWX back to it's former glory, called in every god damn favor and we even got a training school started and then it sank. I stood there and wondered “what the fuck?” I never really understood because we had some of the biggest and best talent in all the world but things fell apart and I decided to go and try my skills in other places, in other feds all over the country.”
[Noah looked at the clock and touches it gently and runs his hand down the beautiful wood grain.]
“I took my skills all over the country from the West Coast in WCCW to the South in SAW to the Midwest in nMw and UCWA. But then I saw that PWX was trying again, I watched with growing curiosity, I watched as so many stars began flocking to it but then I had something buzzing in my ear. It was my better judgment tell me I know better then to go running back to PWX again. But there was something wrong with me back then I was like a junkie wanting my next fix off my past accomplishment and past fame. I need to tap a vein again and get that fix just one more time. I saw Darin and Brian there and I knew what would happen, I knew I would get screwed but I just couldn't stop myself, I was draw to PWX once again. I didn't learn, I should have by this time I should have I really have no answer to it. I should have walked away, I listened to the fact that your management made deals with me, winks and nods, smoke and mirrors, I should be used to it by now. My faith in people is never rewarded, ,my good nature always blinds me to what is usually staring at me right in the face.”
[Noah takes a long drink from his beer.]
“See that is what people like you, Lee Best, Bryan Garvin do to people, used car salesmen, snake charmers you get people to listen to your smooth talk and promises of getting what they want and then before they can see you for what you are it is to late and people get hooked and that is what I did. I got hooked to your drug John and JPO, John you were the dealer and JPO was the supplier, I got hooked and I thought my friends would be there to give me the help needed to get off your drug but they were all part of your plan. They are to blind to see that because they were given a sinking ship one that was infested with rats from top to bottom and with people sitting around with their thumbs up their asses. My friends....i laugh at the thought now a days because it took me this long to see that I really have no friends. I have people that target me, I have people that want to be part of my life and see what they can get out of it. Some would call them users and maybe they are right, maybe I have spent to many years of my career surrounding myself with people that are not going to and never will be there for me.”
[Noah takes a drag off his cigarette, for one this is very unlike Noah because for one Noah doesn't drink or smoke so this is all very curious to some of us that do in fact Noah...]
“One thing I will say is this John you better bring your best, you better step up your game, you better bring a big fucking sack lunch because this is gonna be one of those matches that might not be a technical classic but it is not going to be for the squeamish, if you u have a weak constitution, if you don't like the sight of blood and skin being carved like prime rib then you might wanna go for a powder people. I am going to promise you this John, I have wanted this match for so long it is already making it hard for me to keep food down. I am going to have a hard time sleeping before the show because I can already see how I am going to be going after you John. I know you are going to try and end me, I want you to try, I want you to try and break me, I want you to put the barrel of the gun to my temple and pull the fucking trigger and see if the stories about me being able to cheat death are really once and for all true.”
[Noah pulls up a chair in front of the clock and sighs loudly.]
“Will beating you end my suffering? Will it ease the burden that I have been forced to live with all these years finally come to end or will it cause it to boil over like never before? See John that is what I am afraid of, I am terrified of what I might become, I am terrible of the creature that lurks under my skin. I have fought it for so long but this fork in my road of destiny has made something happen, the darkness it has grown stronger inside of me, the hate, the anger, the resentment to those that have forsaken me it grows more and more with each passing day and it gets to a point to where I won't be able to stop it from getting out, I won't be able to control it John. I warn you like this John because there is still a part of me that has a deep respect for you and for what you did for me years ago. You gave a man that had burned so many bridges, had pissed so many people and you...you gave me a chance when no one else would. That is why I am warning you John, don't hold back John, don't look at me as someone that you might have admired John hit me with everything you can. If you don't if you let up, if you hesitate even for a moment t the darkness will consume you, the darkness will overwhelm you. The darkness wants to take you to hell, the darkness wants to take you in a cold embrace and crush you in its grasp.”
[Noah's head is low and motionless, not looking at all at the camera.]
“See this is why I was kind of hoping that we might not cross paths this early, that we might be able to hold this off as long as possible but fate plays dirty sometimes and has worked destiny to make it happen a little earlier and we are both going to pay for it. The darkness wants payment for everything that you as the one that created my pain, the one that made all of this happen, the darkness wants you to suffer, the darkness wants to drag you into the darkness with it and then you will see just what you have done and why you must suffer as well.”
[Noah looks up and halfheartedly smiles]
“I tried to warn you John, you should have finished the job when you had the chance you made the classic movie villain mistake and didn't finish someone off when you had the chance. You let me slip through your fingers, you had me beaten, hell I couldn't remember shit after all that but you let me go and now we are here. For the moment I don't even give a damn about Darin Zion, Ash Scion or Trent Brown, this is about you and me and how the sins of the past finally get fixed, how the timeline is finally set right. Does it end with this match regardless of the winner? It is really hard to say, the darkness wants a pound of your flesh for your sins, the darkness wants retribution for your crimes John. I must satisfy the darkness, I must, I have to obey, I don't want the darkness to go any further it has to stop here, it has to I can't allow this to go any further but the darkness it talks to me, it whispers in my ear and I understand what has to be. I know that I have to do this why I have to do this, I want to walk away from all of this John but you have to understand that I can't let you make threats against me like that and nothing come of it. The only thing you can say is that you probably won't have is the New Japan Fighting Championship with you when we meet I am going to go out on a limb and say that JPD is going to stone you one more time. I would have loved for you to show up to our match with the belt and maybe some sort of deal could have been worked out so that belt could have been on the line as well. It would have been “sauce on the goose” it would have made it just a bit more sweeter but now I realize that just kicking the ever loving dogshit out of you will just have to do.”
[Noah again sighs deeply...]
“Brian Hollywood's bitch? Are you fucking kidding me? I NEVER followed in his or anyone elses god damn footsteps and I sure as hell never will. Tyler Boyd and let's be clear not whatever version is working in HOW because that Tyler Boyd is a fake, a fraud the Boyd I knew helped make Hollywood and Zion into the current stars they are. I have never had to follow them they always followed me, hell Zion followed me to HOW after months of prodding to get him there. But you are right this match is going to get bloody and messy but mark my words this is far from over. You don't know a damn thing about fate and destiny, you use them as a way to explain things. I use them as tools to guide my career to live my life.”
[Noah shakes his head.]
“I did my promo this week this way is because the direct approach was the only way to do it this week. Doing it this way was the only way to make you understand everything. If you really think this match is going to be the end of it then you really are delusional. This match is just the warm up, the main attraction will be at a later date. This is just where I get to smear blood all over the canvas, this is where I get to hear your bones break and this is where I move on in the tournament...”
[Noah gets up and moves back into the darkness.]
“We are destined to do this for a very long time John...the immovable object versus the Irresistible Force..”
[fade]