NIW: XBW Revisited?
I'm bored, no one's around to talk to, I think I'll throwdown a few thoughts I've been having over the past few hours.
Now that a personal situation has been temporarily resolved, I've had some time to think about my upcoming hardcore match with JOE. This is something I've been looking forward to since JOE came over with his brother. I remember his first match with NIW was against The Huckster, and I thought this was a shame. Now, I've wrestled the Huckster, and yes it was fun. Just the thought of making someone who's probably three times my age, about 5'7 and a good 90 lbs after getting oiled up look like a threat makes me laugh. Hard. But the thing is, my match with the Huckster was the direct result of my schedualed opponent not showing up. "Sinister" Zakk Neo showed up about 10 minutes before Huckster and I were set to step through the curtain, so we slapped something together with Huck, who I think was supposed to ref that day. So we had a quick 7 minute match, he "Hucked" up, the crowd went nuts (Most of our crowd had never seen Huckster, therefore they weren't sick of his act), I got a cheap win against someone 1/3 my size, and got a lot of heat because of it. But there's only so much someone like the Huckster can do and be entertaining. I think his mini fued with "Nacho Man" Ricky Savage (who I'm pretty sure is dead), where we recreated the Mega Powers fued, was a little bit over because it was so damn goofy and something a bit different for Huckster. As far as in ring action went, it was stale. But the situation was so silly people paid attention, if not only to laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of it all. I'm getting off track now. The basic premise behind The Huckster is the whole "Who the hell does this guy think he is?" factor. But when JOE wrestled him, the crowd had already seen this match a few weeks earlier. Add in the fact that JOE had the invasion behind him and the fact that JOE's offense was severly limited based on Huckster's frailty and this match was a throw away. I'm not saying my match was so much better, I'm saying my thoughts at the time were "Fuck, put me in there with JOE". This is how bad I want in the ring with JOE, I've had time to think about all this. It takes me a really long time to come to a point.
Of course, there were two others prior to JOE and his brother who "jumped ship" (although I'm not really sure you'd refer to the other "organization" as a ship. It's more of a dingy). These were two other guys I was really excited to see come over, Al and Bobby. Yeah, I wanna kill Al now. But I was excited to see these two, since I hadn't seen them since XBW. These are two guys who now bleed NIW, and I love seeing them in our ring. Especially Al, when I'm in the same ring across from him. Son, I'm going to tear you apart.
After these three came Nick. I'm not going to comment on nick much or use his worker name, because I'm not sure how he'd respond to me making those sort of comments. Just know I love ya, bro.
Now Dano Tep is wrestling with us. Here's someone else I'm really excited to see inside the neon green ropes, especially after the dingy fucked him over so much. (Note: I've decided I really like refering to that "organization" as the dingy. I'm going to do that from now on.) Here's a guy who's a genuinly nice guy outside the ring, and a real mean fucker inside. The guy lives only to put on the best match he can, and would fall off a basketball hoop to make something look good (not joking). Dano and I will meet in the ring very soon, and I'll make damn sure it'll be something to remember.
So really, when you think about it, all the best aspects from XBW are over here now. I mean, most of the core NIW guys have a history with XBW, and there's a few people who are no longer here that I wish where (M.S., I'm looking at you), but really it's like a reunion of XBW, minus the fat.
It feels pretty good to post something so positive, and my mood will hopefully stay positive at least until tomorrow. Grandma goes in for surgery. I'm not really much of a praying kind of guy, as it really hasn't done me much good. But I am praying everything goes well tomorrow.
Hugs and headlocks,
VD
Now that a personal situation has been temporarily resolved, I've had some time to think about my upcoming hardcore match with JOE. This is something I've been looking forward to since JOE came over with his brother. I remember his first match with NIW was against The Huckster, and I thought this was a shame. Now, I've wrestled the Huckster, and yes it was fun. Just the thought of making someone who's probably three times my age, about 5'7 and a good 90 lbs after getting oiled up look like a threat makes me laugh. Hard. But the thing is, my match with the Huckster was the direct result of my schedualed opponent not showing up. "Sinister" Zakk Neo showed up about 10 minutes before Huckster and I were set to step through the curtain, so we slapped something together with Huck, who I think was supposed to ref that day. So we had a quick 7 minute match, he "Hucked" up, the crowd went nuts (Most of our crowd had never seen Huckster, therefore they weren't sick of his act), I got a cheap win against someone 1/3 my size, and got a lot of heat because of it. But there's only so much someone like the Huckster can do and be entertaining. I think his mini fued with "Nacho Man" Ricky Savage (who I'm pretty sure is dead), where we recreated the Mega Powers fued, was a little bit over because it was so damn goofy and something a bit different for Huckster. As far as in ring action went, it was stale. But the situation was so silly people paid attention, if not only to laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of it all. I'm getting off track now. The basic premise behind The Huckster is the whole "Who the hell does this guy think he is?" factor. But when JOE wrestled him, the crowd had already seen this match a few weeks earlier. Add in the fact that JOE had the invasion behind him and the fact that JOE's offense was severly limited based on Huckster's frailty and this match was a throw away. I'm not saying my match was so much better, I'm saying my thoughts at the time were "Fuck, put me in there with JOE". This is how bad I want in the ring with JOE, I've had time to think about all this. It takes me a really long time to come to a point.
Of course, there were two others prior to JOE and his brother who "jumped ship" (although I'm not really sure you'd refer to the other "organization" as a ship. It's more of a dingy). These were two other guys I was really excited to see come over, Al and Bobby. Yeah, I wanna kill Al now. But I was excited to see these two, since I hadn't seen them since XBW. These are two guys who now bleed NIW, and I love seeing them in our ring. Especially Al, when I'm in the same ring across from him. Son, I'm going to tear you apart.
After these three came Nick. I'm not going to comment on nick much or use his worker name, because I'm not sure how he'd respond to me making those sort of comments. Just know I love ya, bro.
Now Dano Tep is wrestling with us. Here's someone else I'm really excited to see inside the neon green ropes, especially after the dingy fucked him over so much. (Note: I've decided I really like refering to that "organization" as the dingy. I'm going to do that from now on.) Here's a guy who's a genuinly nice guy outside the ring, and a real mean fucker inside. The guy lives only to put on the best match he can, and would fall off a basketball hoop to make something look good (not joking). Dano and I will meet in the ring very soon, and I'll make damn sure it'll be something to remember.
So really, when you think about it, all the best aspects from XBW are over here now. I mean, most of the core NIW guys have a history with XBW, and there's a few people who are no longer here that I wish where (M.S., I'm looking at you), but really it's like a reunion of XBW, minus the fat.
It feels pretty good to post something so positive, and my mood will hopefully stay positive at least until tomorrow. Grandma goes in for surgery. I'm not really much of a praying kind of guy, as it really hasn't done me much good. But I am praying everything goes well tomorrow.
Hugs and headlocks,
VD