Post by Steve Sinclair on Sept 26, 2015 0:20:29 GMT
“Tick tock.”
“Tick tock.”
“The clock is ticking Craig. The seconds are slowly ticking by and soon it will be Saturday night. Your theme music will hit and you will step out through the curtains and all eyes of the world…..the world will be upon you. The pressure is on. Can you live up to the standard that everyone has set to be the latest guy to face Caleb Hart?”
Billy slowly closes his eyes.
“Or will you melt in the spotlight?”
Billy takes in a deep breath.
“This has been an odd week to say the least. Several names from the past have been brought up and to be honest, half of those names don’t mean jack to me. Yeah sure to you, to Nanook, to Joe, they mean something…..”
Billy slowly shakes his head.
“But not to me. You talk of some guy named Steve. You talked of some old timer who appears to be older than Arch by the name of Green Man. I hear talk of some dude named Hammer. I have Nanook in my ear telling me this and that about you. I have Joe texting me, blowing up my phone. Finally I had to get away from it all. I had to block those fools in real life.”
“So I came out here, in the middle of nowhere to clear my mind. To push out all of the advice from everyone and their brother on what I should do tomorrow night. And it’s here, in the peace and quiet that I can devise a plan and it’s a simple plan really.”
Billy smirks.
“You claim to be have been in the spotlight before. You claim to be the best in the world and this is nothing for you but this isn’t some little rickety promotion from some knot hole on some street where only the diehard fans have heard of and can find. This is the traveling, on Showtime every week, all in the wrestling news UWL. The big time. 10 plus years in the making and this place have seen guys like come and gone. They have seen guys walk in and talk a big game. Some of them can back it up.”
Billy runs his hand over his long beard.
“Most end up here. In a dark corner of the planet where they are forgotten about. They are silenced. Forgotten about. Never to be heard from again. They think…..”
Billy slowly shakes his head.
“And they fail. When they are put into the stop light, they get burned. What they know, what they are used to, isn’t the light the UWL puts on you. Did you bring your suntan lotion Craig? Or will you need a tube of aloe next week when you go up against the king of the UWL, Caleb Hart and FAIL! Only next week there isn’t your buddy to blame. It will be all on you.”
Billy glances down for a brief second.
“Ima thinkin’ it’s time for me to tell you a tale Craig. One that relates to your past and your future. Call it your future being told right now because this is how it will go down and after next week when it goes how I say it will…..you will remember what I am about to tell you.”
“Double J Joe Jones. I know you know him. He didn’t stop telling me all about you this week. But let me tell you the tale of Joe when he first got hired by the UWL. He showed up in the UWL right after the all mighty King Caleb Hart. They both were the newbies here just proving who they are and what they can do. For Caleb it was like sliding onto a old broken in pair of jeans. They just slide right on and felt good. It felt right.”
“Joe on the other hand, struggled. He got knocked around some and after some hard work on his part he finally found his stride. He started showing everyone what he had, what he could do. It was a rough go at first. Eventually it came down to Caleb Hart vs Joe Jones.”
Billy takes a deep breath.
“Caleb won.”
“Joe not one to just give up as you know. He came back after Caleb again.”
“Caleb won.”
“Not to give up without a fight. He came back after Caleb again.”
“And lost.”
“And lost again.”
“And lost again. Each time something happened. Something in which Joe would cry foul about. This annoyed Caleb. This made Caleb angry. This made Caleb who wasn’t quite the King of the UWL yet stand up, and hulk up and declare HART SMASH! And for the final time, the sixth time, he crushed Joe. You know Joe Craig. You have seen Joe at his best. At his worst. You know Joe…..”
Billy runs his hand through his hair.
“That sent Joe through a downward spiral and it took him a while to get his feet under him. It took someone like me, a young bright eyed kid just starting his career to pick him up, dust him off and get him back on the winning track and after a while, after picking up the UWL Tag Team Titles, Joe kicked the tires on the Mack truck that was Caleb Hart. This time Caleb had the Heritage title and the stars and the moon were all aligned on that night!”
Billy holds his arms upwards towards the skies.
“Little old Joe Jones….he took down the all mighty one! He slayed the giant. He beat the one who he couldn’t beat in the previous 6 tries and this time he took with him the Heritage title. He finally climbed the mountain!”
Billy looks back down into the camera. He cracks his knuckles.
“You are on the same path Craig Williams only you just don’t know it. You think in your heart you can march into that show next week and take out Caleb Hart! You think you are the only man in the UWL who can do that! (Laughs) Joe felt the same way. It wasn’t till he got away from the Hart shadow and stretched his legs out in other parts of the company that he finally got everything he needed to do the unthinkable. You Craig might have done a lot in your career. You might have accomplished alot in your career prior to the UWL Craig.”
“But when you view this week as a must win.”
“View it has you HAVE to be better than me.”
“Better than everyone else in the company.”
“That you cannot let the fans down.”
“That you have to keep the momentum going…”
“That is when you will have a hiccup. That is when the fairytale will come crashing down. THAT!”
Billy chuckles and smirks.
“Is just you losing to Caleb Hart for a third time.”
“You still have three more to go kid. For me...this is just my time to give you a little reminder.”
“A reality check.”
“An opportunity to soften the blow for you next week when it again, doesn’t go as you had planned. And when Caleb defeats you…..again, and he will. I will be right there in your face again to remind you that I was the guy who derailed you, who ruined your storybook ending….”
Billy smiles.
“And to take that little belt of yours. Because we all have hopes and dreams…….and I dream of taking that belt from you.”
Fade out.