12-30-2023, 12:06 AM
Date: 12/28/2023
Location: Newport, NC
The screen comes in and we find ourselves upstate New York, namely the "Apocalypse Academy" located in Newport, North Carolina on this cloudy, gray day as we then slowly pan around the outside of the building before we cut to the interior where we find the large expansive area in full motion with various classes going on where wrestlers from the past couple couple of decades such as Devon Slayton in one ring showing the advanced students some more effective ways to transition into various submission holds while Alex Marik showcases one of the beginner classes, along with his wife and Joshi Mariko, how to properly take their first bumps.
However in one ring set aside from the others is where we find current SCW/NFW wrestler David Striker currently working out with part-time AA trainer in the form of former ECWF World Trios champion Robert Armstrong as the tattooed striker currently is putting the younger wrestler through his paces as Armstrong seems to be trying to instruct Striker on something as the two men work out while a third man with shoulder length blonde hair that is hanging loose at the moment watches the interaction between the two in the ring which soon ends with both men out of breath and moving to sit on the edge of the ring apron.
"You're improving, Dave. But you still aren't cinching in tightly enough when you have got me locked in. I can understand the need for resistraint but it's part of the reason why you weren't able to capture the Genesis title from Otto the other week." Armstrong explained before he took a swing from his water bottle.
"To hear other people say it, Otto is just simply better than I am, Robbie." David said to which Armstrong snort disgustedly before spitting out his water.
"Fuck.THAT!" Armstrong said while shaking his head. "That's nothing more than some of Jaime Austin's bullshit being fed through the strainer that Tarah Nova is some kind of wrestling diety that we should all be in awe of or something when she isn't. I will give her credit in that she did accomplish a couple of things or two, but that by no means gives her the excuse to treat any of the younger talent the way that she did."
David nodded slowly, "True, but she is a hall of famer though."
Armstrong nodded, "Yes, but you saw what she was doing to people before she started her retirement. She refused to work with anyone who she deemed wasn't on her level or her quote "good friend" because she was sure that they wouldn't just put the great Tarah Nova over. I just hope that Otto doesn't fall into that fucking trap because it has ruined one too many really talented wrestlers over the decades. But guys like your dad, Alex Marik, Devon Slayton, Kevin Maverick, and others...they know how to stay humble and hungry which is always a better than then being some rinky dink Hall of Famer right. I mean look at the main difference between Tarah Nova and Devon Slayton. Both are Hall of Famers but Devon's still right there in the trenches while Nova is sitting pretty in her mansion somewhere."
David couldn't help but blink a few times in surprise before he could finally find his voice again, "Wow...that's pretty strong stuff there man."
In return, Armstrong simply shrugged. "Can't help it, Dave. I was brought up by my parents that if you ever allow your ego to over take you, then you're basically being carjacked on the road of life." and when he saw the look of slight curiousity on his younger friend's face, Armstrong continued with "It's like this. From the day that we are able to understand things and walk, we start on our own road of life with each and every experience, both good and bad, being like a monument that we encounter."
"Kind of like that giant ball of yard or something in that old computer game that my dad loves so much?"
Armstrong chuckled for a moment as he nodded, "Yeah, something like that and you get the general drift of it by now right?"
David nodded, "Yeah. You're the odd one in the group which makes you a perfect fit to work with David and Patrick Slayton." he teased.
Armstrong could not help it but hang his head in mock shame before turning it to look at his friend before the two rolled back into the ring to resume their workout.
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{The screen brightens up and we find outselves outside of the wrestling school, David has his street gear on which includes a Kaya Parker t-shirt which is evident from his battered and well loved brown leather jacket that he is currently wearing}
David: You know the strangest things cause you to have the strangest times to have deep thoughts about something and I'm not different. When I first debuted in this sport, I did so under the name of "Kyle Valentine" and I busted my ass to try and be the complete opposite of my older brother Jacob. I even went out and won the Project Honor World Tag Team championships with DJ Hunter there, but in the end I let my anger and frustration get the better of me when I joined Coastal Empire Wrestling...then promptly had my ass handed to me by Kaya Parker...I mean in my first year as Kyle, I ended a man's tweleve year long career in a very bloody battle over in Pro Wrestlign Nova just to keep my dreams blazing hot...and yet here I was, a wrestling prodigy and she easily handed me my ass with my head firmly stuck up it.
Talk about your first stage wake up calls, huh?
So I went back to square one, to the very school where I trained, and started all over from scratch because in the end, just as my older brother Jacob is known for always saying, I was born to do this...professional wrestling is my *life* and for a short while between Gamma Pro Wrestling and Coastal Empire Wrestling I was denying who the fuck that I was...and in the end, it really didn't matter because it took a family friend dying for me to see the reality of what I was doing.
So in the end I took Devon Slayton up on his offer and joined his Phantom Troupe in NFW, those were the first steps on a much bigger road that I was starting down...a road that lead me here to Supreme Championship Wrestling...a place that I feel that I can truly get me on the right path to where *I* want to go in my career.
Which in turn is why I'm throwing my...hat...
{David steps aside with a teasing smile as he indicates his signature cardboard box}
David:...as it were into the ring for the Supreme Championship Wrestling Twenty Twenty Four End of the Year Special Open Invitational.
But you see, while a lot of you folks on the roster with me will be in it for those bragging rights...and yeah, I would really like the car to that I won't lie...I'm doing it mostly because it's time to see if the fire that's burning inside of me since I started taking these steps towards improving the kind of fighter that I am has been worth it or if I need to simply keep fighting on like the wrestlers that inspired my brother and I. I mean anyone can *brag*...but can you brag about your improvement, about how you need to see where your own internal fires from hell are burning so that you can find out if it's the right hell or the wrong hell that you're burning for....
...of if you simply need to take a step back and see if you need to start the fire again.
Either way, I'm starting off the new year with a real bang in the best way that I know how.
By keeping it short, sweet, and Chaotic.
See you all in the ring.
{David then walks out of the camera's view as the screen cuts to black}
Location: Newport, NC
The screen comes in and we find ourselves upstate New York, namely the "Apocalypse Academy" located in Newport, North Carolina on this cloudy, gray day as we then slowly pan around the outside of the building before we cut to the interior where we find the large expansive area in full motion with various classes going on where wrestlers from the past couple couple of decades such as Devon Slayton in one ring showing the advanced students some more effective ways to transition into various submission holds while Alex Marik showcases one of the beginner classes, along with his wife and Joshi Mariko, how to properly take their first bumps.
However in one ring set aside from the others is where we find current SCW/NFW wrestler David Striker currently working out with part-time AA trainer in the form of former ECWF World Trios champion Robert Armstrong as the tattooed striker currently is putting the younger wrestler through his paces as Armstrong seems to be trying to instruct Striker on something as the two men work out while a third man with shoulder length blonde hair that is hanging loose at the moment watches the interaction between the two in the ring which soon ends with both men out of breath and moving to sit on the edge of the ring apron.
"You're improving, Dave. But you still aren't cinching in tightly enough when you have got me locked in. I can understand the need for resistraint but it's part of the reason why you weren't able to capture the Genesis title from Otto the other week." Armstrong explained before he took a swing from his water bottle.
"To hear other people say it, Otto is just simply better than I am, Robbie." David said to which Armstrong snort disgustedly before spitting out his water.
"Fuck.THAT!" Armstrong said while shaking his head. "That's nothing more than some of Jaime Austin's bullshit being fed through the strainer that Tarah Nova is some kind of wrestling diety that we should all be in awe of or something when she isn't. I will give her credit in that she did accomplish a couple of things or two, but that by no means gives her the excuse to treat any of the younger talent the way that she did."
David nodded slowly, "True, but she is a hall of famer though."
Armstrong nodded, "Yes, but you saw what she was doing to people before she started her retirement. She refused to work with anyone who she deemed wasn't on her level or her quote "good friend" because she was sure that they wouldn't just put the great Tarah Nova over. I just hope that Otto doesn't fall into that fucking trap because it has ruined one too many really talented wrestlers over the decades. But guys like your dad, Alex Marik, Devon Slayton, Kevin Maverick, and others...they know how to stay humble and hungry which is always a better than then being some rinky dink Hall of Famer right. I mean look at the main difference between Tarah Nova and Devon Slayton. Both are Hall of Famers but Devon's still right there in the trenches while Nova is sitting pretty in her mansion somewhere."
David couldn't help but blink a few times in surprise before he could finally find his voice again, "Wow...that's pretty strong stuff there man."
In return, Armstrong simply shrugged. "Can't help it, Dave. I was brought up by my parents that if you ever allow your ego to over take you, then you're basically being carjacked on the road of life." and when he saw the look of slight curiousity on his younger friend's face, Armstrong continued with "It's like this. From the day that we are able to understand things and walk, we start on our own road of life with each and every experience, both good and bad, being like a monument that we encounter."
"Kind of like that giant ball of yard or something in that old computer game that my dad loves so much?"
Armstrong chuckled for a moment as he nodded, "Yeah, something like that and you get the general drift of it by now right?"
David nodded, "Yeah. You're the odd one in the group which makes you a perfect fit to work with David and Patrick Slayton." he teased.
Armstrong could not help it but hang his head in mock shame before turning it to look at his friend before the two rolled back into the ring to resume their workout.
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{The screen brightens up and we find outselves outside of the wrestling school, David has his street gear on which includes a Kaya Parker t-shirt which is evident from his battered and well loved brown leather jacket that he is currently wearing}
David: You know the strangest things cause you to have the strangest times to have deep thoughts about something and I'm not different. When I first debuted in this sport, I did so under the name of "Kyle Valentine" and I busted my ass to try and be the complete opposite of my older brother Jacob. I even went out and won the Project Honor World Tag Team championships with DJ Hunter there, but in the end I let my anger and frustration get the better of me when I joined Coastal Empire Wrestling...then promptly had my ass handed to me by Kaya Parker...I mean in my first year as Kyle, I ended a man's tweleve year long career in a very bloody battle over in Pro Wrestlign Nova just to keep my dreams blazing hot...and yet here I was, a wrestling prodigy and she easily handed me my ass with my head firmly stuck up it.
Talk about your first stage wake up calls, huh?
So I went back to square one, to the very school where I trained, and started all over from scratch because in the end, just as my older brother Jacob is known for always saying, I was born to do this...professional wrestling is my *life* and for a short while between Gamma Pro Wrestling and Coastal Empire Wrestling I was denying who the fuck that I was...and in the end, it really didn't matter because it took a family friend dying for me to see the reality of what I was doing.
So in the end I took Devon Slayton up on his offer and joined his Phantom Troupe in NFW, those were the first steps on a much bigger road that I was starting down...a road that lead me here to Supreme Championship Wrestling...a place that I feel that I can truly get me on the right path to where *I* want to go in my career.
Which in turn is why I'm throwing my...hat...
{David steps aside with a teasing smile as he indicates his signature cardboard box}
David:...as it were into the ring for the Supreme Championship Wrestling Twenty Twenty Four End of the Year Special Open Invitational.
But you see, while a lot of you folks on the roster with me will be in it for those bragging rights...and yeah, I would really like the car to that I won't lie...I'm doing it mostly because it's time to see if the fire that's burning inside of me since I started taking these steps towards improving the kind of fighter that I am has been worth it or if I need to simply keep fighting on like the wrestlers that inspired my brother and I. I mean anyone can *brag*...but can you brag about your improvement, about how you need to see where your own internal fires from hell are burning so that you can find out if it's the right hell or the wrong hell that you're burning for....
...of if you simply need to take a step back and see if you need to start the fire again.
Either way, I'm starting off the new year with a real bang in the best way that I know how.
By keeping it short, sweet, and Chaotic.
See you all in the ring.
{David then walks out of the camera's view as the screen cuts to black}