The One vs. Konrad Raab

[Konrad Raab]

Charlotte, North Carolina. Monday 10th October (Off-Camera)

Ah, my good old friend, when I wasn't there for wrestling reasons, won the Xfinity Series Charlotte Roval race for the fourth and last time since he's moving up to Cup Series full-time next year. AJ Allmendinger wanted to hang out with me, his so-called son Justin Haley and my so-called son Ty Gibbs. Although Ty was way too young to drink alcohol as we were sitting in a pub, Justin Haley wasn't really into drinking beer today and wanted a cup of coke, so it didn't make Ty feel left out. AJ said, and I agreed that we do need to socialise a bit more, especially with my Television Title win, which Brad Rogers racing celebrated with me already. Of course, Ty and AJ had a bit of heat earlier, but I ensured they were to patch things up before socialising.

Which they did over some racing incident. Honestly, it was then I learned that even with the mistakes drivers make on the track, hard racing or not, there was going to be some tension, and it was a little awkward when they were the main contenders for the Xfinity Championship. On the other hand, I could never be allowed to go for it because I was not a full-time driver, but I was allowed to go for the regular season Xfinity Championship next year, which was a bonus. I never felt I was part of a family with these guys. I could never do this shit with wrestlers; I'd start shit with them. I couldn't get along with them and never will again after the shit I went through last time.

There's no such issue here as we were all getting along, having a chat and having our kids, so to speak, under the wing. Well, it's because Ty wanted me to treat him like a son, and that's the kind of experience I never get. Justin Haley was more interested in looking at the Television Title I carried with me since Justin wanted to take a close look at it. However, Ty stood up and said this inside of a busy bar known as The Dog Bar, distracting guys and women watching ice Hockey, another sport I loved in my life besides NASCAR and soccer.

Ty Gibbs: “Two cheers for AJ Allmendinger and Konrad Raab for winning Charlotte Roval and being the Television Champion.”

Everyone raises a toast to the pair of us, although I didn't do fantastically well at the Cup Series race at all. I had a shitty start, and then I got side swept by Ross Chastain, that fucking cunt who has been doing that kind of shit all year round. But I couldn't be too upset with him because I had won the TV title and hadn't really had much time to celebrate because I had to come back here from Canada.

Justin Haley: “It's so awesome you became the television champion again. I want to wear this thing around my waist.”

Konrad Raab: “Go right ahead.”

Justin grabs the title and puts it on his waist, acting like he's the world champion, especially since he loves professional wrestling. On the other hand, Ty and AJ were relaxed; the good thing is they are talking, which is important to me because I never want them to dislike each other, especially since they are so good at road courses. I cleared my throat.

Konrad Raab: “I beat the living shit out of Samuel Davis. I knew he wasn't fit to be a Television Champion. He didn't care to be the television champion, just his business with Giovanni.”

Justin ran straight back when he heard me talking about wrestling to both Ty and AJ as he loved the sport, as I could tell, bragging he was a television champion. I wish I could make it more extreme so that it wasn't like other belts; I would have extreme matches every single week as long as I was the Extreme Television champion.

Justin Haley: “Yeah, he didn't care to defend it. Just wanted to hog all the gold. But the idea of you wanting to make this an extreme TV title is a good idea. It's creative, and not sure why nobody has thought of it.”

AJ Allmendinger: “I watched your match, you know, for the first time with my wife. She doesn't get the sport, nor did my dad actually. However, they know how important it was for me to watch it, especially since you and Tara have become close friends lately.”

Konrad Raab: “It's about time someone shares my opinion on Climate Change and being on a strict diet. It must be really difficult that you both can't go on a proper holiday because of her food allergies. That's why Tara is easily likeable.”

Ty Gibbs: “While it turned out in an interview, AJ respects me as a driver and a competitor. I wasn't aware of this until I looked at tapes back on all the interviews he's done.”

Justin Haley: “Ah, he has always said that about you because the truth is, you're the only one on par with him on road courses. I just want to run around celebrating the Television Title; I drank some of my coke before I'll do that.”

Justin takes a sip of his coke, seeing how crazy he is about me being the Television Championship. I'm not stupid; I know I got my work cut out, but it's not like racing NASCAR is any different from defending a title every week. It's always this time of the year I get this Television title shot for some reason, happened in the last few years. We all took a drink from our beers or, in the case of Justin and Ty, took a drink from their cokes.

AJ Allmendinger: “Tell me, what happened in the match? Did you, as you say it, batter him?”

Konrad Raab: “I battered his ankle, that's for damn sure, and I have done multiple suplexes to the outside. Although the useless twat poked me in the eyes more than once, I was too much of a match for that wrestling star wannabe who clearly needed help with Giovanni cos Samuel can't do things for himself.”

Ty Gibbs: “It's so awesome, man. You were really unlucky with the race yesterday, but in your eyes, winning a championship is far better than the trophies you win in NASCAR. I'm beginning to be a bit more of a wrestling fan.”

AJ Allmendinger: “You have made this sport a lot bigger than it actually is, Konrad, more than you realise. Jay can tell you how many fans were wearing both your NASCAR and wrestling shirts. You've given this sport so much more attention than I could.”

Justin Haley: “Cos Konrad's the best wrestler, that's why.”

It was really nice to have this kind of conversation since I rarely get that, and most of all, I haven't really felt angry once. Because I was really enjoying myself, how could I not enjoy life right now with me winning the Talladega race last week in the Cup Series race, beating Christy Matthews twice, and putting James Evans and Samuel Davis on the injury list? I drank most of my beer as I loved drinking it, and so did AJ. We got fosters beers each and liked the taste of this one.

Justin Haley: “Konrad's gonna retain against whoever they've named you as your opponent for the Television title.”

Konrad Raab: “The One.”

Ty Gibbs: “Brother in Christ, who would come up with that garbage name for themselves?”

Konrad Raab: “It is a stupid fucking name. I haven't forgotten what she said about me last time we fought against each other, saying I should be lucky to be under her radar. Like, no, I'm going to fuck her up just purely because she said that. The One was meant to be violent towards me when we fought in a fatal four-way match, but she wasn't. I don't understand her.”

AJ Allmendinger: “Well, you can't go over violent, can you?”

Konrad Raab: “In the wrestling rules for this match, you shouldn't, but I'm going to make it so. Having regular matches is getting boring now. I want to brutalise someone and cause someone to bleed all through their head and suffer from the damage I can cause on The One. I will ensure I have her full attention when we face.”

I needed to get this bit of anger out, but not so much compared to the other days I could have it. I drank more of my beer, as did AJ, while the young kids were drinking their cokes. They were having a blast, talking amongst themselves from time to time as I saw Ty and Justin engaging like I was with AJ, but I knew they were also listening to me.

Justin Haley: “You better make sure you tell her who her boss is with your actions in the ring because you should be destroying her over that. People think you're a joke, huh?”

Konrad Raab: “I'm actually pretty respected; you have SupremeCW confused with UGWC one. That made me become a piece of shit in the first place. I love making everyone's lives hell, even when I threw Samuel on the steel steps. I wanted to make this the extreme TV title where only the violent people prove how tough and violent they are every week.”

Ty Gibbs: “You'll kick her ass; I just know it.”

AJ Allmendinger: “We always believe in you, much as I do in you improving on your road course racing that I still saw with the race, you're still struggling with it. Denny will do some tests with you at some point to improve on that.”

Konrad Raab: “Yeah, Denny said the same as well. Let's enjoy the night. I will learn next year to get better at them just like you, Ty and even Justin Haley; that's holding me back. I will also beat The One to retain my Extreme TV title."

Justin Haley: "Damn right you will because you're the badass driver that's an awesome wrestler. I need to see you wrestle one of these days."

Only raises a smile on my face because it was great. Justin said that as I pulled tickets out and gave one to AJ and Ty, but I held one back just to build the suspense for him. However, he got jealous of AJ and Ty real fast about seeing me wrestle at the next show, and I said this with a chuckle with a ticket in hand for Justin as AJ and Ty put theirs in their pocket.

Konrad Raab: "You were saying?"

Justin had a shocked look on his face and bashed my left shoulder in a jokey way.

Justin Haley: "Damn you, tricking me like that, thought you would leave me out."

Konrad Raab: "Special wrestling fans like yourself get teased. No, seriously, I got you three a special place to watch the show from. Then we head off to Las Vegas together in my private plane.

Justin Haley: "Thank you so much, Konrad. It's going to be the best day of our lives."

AJ Allmendinger: "Along with Konrad bone-crushing The One with his violent and brutal nature of hurting people around him in wrestling. It's a shame you don't have any friends in wrestling, but I guess you can't make friends in that kind of sport."

Konrad Raab: "No, you really can't, not like we can in NASCAR. I know for a fact that Luiza will be proud of me tomorrow when she finds out I've gone out to socialise without Frankie, my dog, around."

Ty Gibbs: "And you didn't bring your mace either."

I hadn't thought about my mace once today, but it was something I always wanted to use because I wanted to make wrestlers suffer in so much pain. I'm enjoying the time I had with my NASCAR friends, loyal ones, although Denny and I need to bond at some point with Ty by ourselves since he will be our mentor, although Martin Truex Jr was another guy on hand that could guide Ty and me as well. We had a few fans, both NASCAR and Wrestling fans, come to us for pics and autographs. But went away afterwards. Even if I was an asshole and hated the fans, I couldn't reject them when they wanted my autograph and pics done.

Konrad Raab: "I just want to hurt The One for completely saying I'm off her radar. It really pissed me off, and I'm sending her a direct fucking message."

Justin Haley: "I know you will. You have that animalistic streak in you to go out for a kill."

AJ Allmendinger: "That's the thing, though, it's made Konrad popular. I've seen a bit of your past and believe you, you went absolutely nowhere, and you were stressed and depressed. But with your violence, you using your anger constructively."

Ty Gibbs: "Although he didn't at Kansas when he nearly blasted the NASCAR official with his mace."

AJ Allmendinger: "We've spoken about that."

Justin Haley: "Let's enjoy the Ice Hockey game and for us being good friends we all are. To AJ and Konrad."

Ty and Justin raised our glasses at us as we started drinking the beers and cokes we had in front of us. I remembered that AJ was almost as old as me in NASCAR. Admittedly, AJ's career is going far better than his previous times in NASCAR. I loved his energy even at his age; Ty is still building his, as is Justin Haley. While I'm just a violent maniac, I enjoy talking to them a lot more than I do with wrestlers. We watched an Ice Hockey game before we went our separate ways and for AJ and Ty to compete to win the Xfinity Championships, but it shows even then, we could get along. Especially Ty has been a good friend, even if he's made rookie mistakes, also. But all this meant I would retain my title from that silly, weak bitch known as The One.