*Smackdown Promo,
The show comes back from commercial
Grave of Opportunity plays]
I walk to the ring. Something is different as I don't do my usual posing, and show-boating. Not even my posing for my pyro
I enter the ring and stand for a moment, looking to be thinking heavily about something*
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Since everyone seems to be voicing their opinions as of late. Maybe it's about that time that I speak up as well.
And this isn't me coming at you as the bandit, stick up boy no, this is me speaking as Jeff the person. The performer. So Spidey.... boss.... , you said no negative feedback to what you said this past Monday Night on RAW, but I can honestly say... I have none. Everything you said, Spidey it made me listen.... it made me think. Perhaps more than anything, anyone has ever said here. Your words, they weren't the typical trash talking, boasts of ego, and grandeur that we all love to partake in so much
*Slight grin*
They had a meaning, perhaps more of one than some people will ever realize. You asked people to give their feedback to change, so here it goes. And just like yourself, I'm a very direct, pull no punches kind of guy. So when you ask for my opinion, that is exactly what I give. No censored, company yes man... nod and smile question dodging, no playing oblivious, no sugar coating. Nothing here but the truth, plain and simple.
It seems like the WOTU is at this standstill, just this feeling of sameness..... and that feeling has been lingering for months now. There used to be this feeling that anything could happen, but lately it seems like that has practically vanished. Like the company was so worried about being trendy that it lost sight of the very thing that made it great in the first place, we have our usual line up of Pay Per Views, but that's just it. We follow that schedule year round, whatever happened to making our own Pay Per Views? our own matches? our own titles?
Now I understand that sometimes it's easier to just follow whats been proven to work, believe me I get that. But if you're always worried about that, then where is the fun in being innovative? Which continues my point about things staying the same.
Things like King of the Ring, those have taken a backseat, that used to be a huge event and what happened. It almost totally fell off the radar it's all about Money in the Bank now. And even events for TV Tapings and raw, why don't we do WOTU anniversarys? WOTU Gimmick throw-back night. If you wanted to get really crazy we could do a corny WCW Thunder, WOTU night. It's something, but thats the bottom line. We do need something, Anything .
Because right now, what exactly is helping us stand out from anyone else? for as much as you go on about yourself. You work your ass off, and only a fool wouldn't be able to notice that. Though, it's really time we wake up already. So yes, you asked and my feeling is we need more to make us stand out. Like somewhere along the way, we lost the company sense of creativity. You want to know what happened? our egos did, we got so caught up in thinking that what we're doing is so great and revolutionary that we never even stopped to realize that maybe, just maybe there's so much more we haven't even done.
What about having champion vs champion once in awhile? when I was the X division champion I wanted to take on the TWF's Cruiserweight champion, that didn't happen but it still would have made a great feud, tons of possibility: for example X Division vs Intercontinental, get crazy and do Tag champ vs Intercontinental, maybe even Tag champ vs The WOTU Champion. Shoot, put Shoe_Crap out there and have him face CP in a Pillow Fight match. Make it a feud and give them a slot on the Wrestlemania card but It's different that what we're doing now.
WOTU needs that feeling back, that unpredictability back. Sure, you could say any of those ideas are harder to pull off... but the one thing about them, it's a change and we can't fear change forever. Unless 5 years from now we're still running Los Icons vs Creame De La Creme for the Tag Titles, they are now 86 time tag team champions and we are 87 time tag team champions, and Killer vs JandS volume 22..
It seems like we wanna be like everyone else, we're scared to really be ourselves. We've got all the talent in the world, right here. So I've gotta ask the question of why aren't we doing even more? Right now, this company is exactly where it was 1 year ago. It feels like it hasn't grown like it hasn't progressed very much. We need something never done before, something to set the world on it's ear. Something that shows we aren't afraid.
So I said my piece, you wanted feeback about the company, and there it is. But that isn't the only reason I'm out here, you have been saying you wanted to face Metal and I at Elimination Chamber, which I say is an honor. Because I know we can feud, and put on a true show, do something people will talk about years on. You said you were hesitant, because you feel like the WOTU Championship is cursed, like everyone you feuded with went silent and like you wanted more. Well.... you don't have to worry about that this time around
In my world, do you have any idea of what I had to do to get to where I am today? so when I say I'm ready, you best believe it. No matter if it was any of those 3 times I held the X Division Championship, being Intercontinental Champion, or any of the times Metal and I were Tag Team champions. You'll notice something about me, I always tried to make it something worthwhile. I treated every title I ever held like a prize, like the crown jewel.
And one thing no-one can ever take away from me, is whether I'm out there rapping, whether I'm playing a movie star with an out of proportion ego, whether I'm loved or hated. No matter what, I always, always bring my A game.
You probably wonder why I say this, don't you? or maybe you don't... Either way Spidey, I have a question I've wanted to ask you for quite the time. Someone in your position is probably one of the most qualified to answer... Why do most men commit to fights that result in bloodshed? Pain? It's true, men possess a side that is barbaric as I'm sure you've witnessed many times.... but it is a double edged sword, it can be a tool used to obtain precious things as well as protect them. Friendship, love, for some men those are the most precious.
I've always thought that beneath them, there is something even more precious than those. Something that we are driven to pursue, solely for our own sake, not that of others. The dream of one man can hold dominance over the entire world, just look through history. There are men who dedicated their entire life to the forging of one goal....Many pursue their dreams in solitude, they hold those close to them and away from the world. Others pursue dreams like great storms, blowing hundreds, or even thousands of the dreams for others apart in their wake. Dreams breathe life into men, and can cage them in suffering and torment.... Men live and die by their dreams, though even long after they've been abandoned, they still burn and smolder deep in within someone.....
*As my expression becomes perhaps more focused than ever, as if the entire world and everything surrounding me was far in the distance*
Some see life purely in black and white pages, nothing more than life and death. Yet they've already died, they have no dreams........My dreams? they go beyond that gold on your shoulder, my dreams allign themselves along with everything we seem to overlook about it..... Maybe one day, one day soon, Spidey.... you will answer my question.....Until that time, I bid you farewell.
*As the segment comes to an end, and fades to darkness*
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