Post by caseyholliday on Jul 5, 2021 22:59:07 GMT -5
The camera is completely on Casey Holliday as she looks over some 8 by 10’s that she was able to find from the Seattle Wrestling Academy, her father’s wrestling school that she, of course, graduated from in her own right back in 2015. She looks through them and there’s one that really causes her to pause. She sees shattered glass and a broken bookcase along with much debris. Seeing this picture causes Casey to feel some sadness as she looks at the picture after that. It’s her own father on a hospital bed. It’s hard for her to come to grips with seeing this again, but nevertheless, she expresses her thoughts.
“This day in November 2015, around Thanksgiving, it really changed my life. My mentor slash future step sister was in a feud in her company with a lunatic that never met her potential in this business before she died. What that lunatic did, just to get to her head, was break into my father’s wrestling school, break into his office and violently assault him for NO OTHER REASON than to hurt someone else I care about. That day had a profound impact on me. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to continue the dream of being a professional wrestler. That BITCH nearly bankrupted my father with what she did. My father was beaten so badly that he needed an emergency hip replacement surgery! Believe me, it cost a hell of a lot of money and it wasn’t the kind of money that I’d be able to make right away because I hadn’t yet broken into the mainstream business. But six weeks later, I’d get that chance in the most unique way possible…”
Casey looks up at a framed picture that features the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She takes a deep breath as she continues.
“New Year’s Eve. 2015. My first wrestling company, though I wouldn’t know it at that point, is having this open battle royal with a $250,000 grand prize. I HAD to go for it because then that would mean that my father’s hip replacement would be covered and then some. It was truly an all or nothing experience for me because this was something that my dad really needed. It was definitely a challenge. There I was, a rookie, 20 years of age, going into a shark tank full of veterans and former world champions. How the hell was I going to survive that? How was I NOT going to be the first elimination? And even if I WASN’T the first elimination, then there’s no debate in the minds of many that I was going to be one of the first five eliminated. But that’s not what happened. I wasn’t a first five elimination. I was a final five competitor. I finished 5th! ME! The 20 year old rookie wrestler straight out of wrestling school outlasted many former world champions. I didn’t win the $250,000, but I won myself a contract. It wasn’t going to pay for my dad’s surgery immediately… it would do so on a more gradual basis… but I never imagined that the 20 year old rookie that accomplished that would ever evolve into the wrestler that she is today…
My rookie year itself though… was incredibly difficult…”
Casey takes a pause as she sits on the table where some of the images she’s been looking at are on. She gently pushes these images away for the time being as she continues to reflect.
“It wasn’t just travelling around the world and making ends meet and everything like that. It was also all the scrutiny that I would be under in my first wrestling company ever. It was the fact that four matches in, I was a Trios tournament winner. It was the fact that I had attained instant success and everyone was expecting the world out of me. I just wanted to be that young rookie that came up through the ranks, being under the microscope as much as possible with no pressure or no expectations. But holy fucking hell, winning that tournament became a curse because then EVERYONE was expecting the world out of me. Believe me, when I first heard the word ‘prodigy’ in my direction, I HATED it. I didn’t want to be known as that. I didn’t want the spotlight. I didn’t want the pressure. But, whether I liked it or not, that’s exactly what I got and hey, to my own credit, I held my own the best that I could. I won my first championship: a TV title. I lost it two weeks later. Months down the line, I won my second championship in a shocker against the most dominant “Adrenaline Champion” in that company’s history. I lost that two and a half weeks later. It was brutal, my rookie year. At the time, I regretted leaving my first company because I felt like a washout, a failure, a bust, and someone that wasn’t going to make it in this business…
Then of course, my sophomore year turned out to be a hell of a lot better, but that’s the next chapter of the story…
Now you might be wondering why I would talk about my rookie year. It’s no secret that I’ve had a hard year in 2021. There have been signs of brilliance, but I’ve been too damn inconsistent for my own good on top of the fact that my dad just recently overcame leukemia and I had that on my mind for months and it really dragged me down. It’s all too familiar to my rookie year and I managed to overcome the hardest year of my career to evolve into the star that I’ve become and that’s what I’m going to keep doing against Jalen Prince.
Jalen…
You are an absolute piece of work, you know that? You want to walk around here acting like you’re some kind of big shot and yet, I can’t remember a damn thing you’ve actually accomplished. The last that I heard of you, Damian Khaos was beating you around the damn ring exposing you as the wannabe you really are and I am damn sure not going to stand for losing to someone like you. If you want to walk around being a basic little bitch boy with no independence or individuality whatsoever, then fine. Be my guest on that. You want to worship the occult, you can go ahead and do that too but one thing that I KNOW that I am not is someone like YOU!
I could’ve given up my individuality earlier in my career. I could’ve surrendered my independence to some cult out there that made some false and empty promises in my direction. I could’ve done all of that. But no, I didn’t. I’ve never needed to rely on anyone else to get to where I am in this business. Who are YOU to call anyone else ‘just another bitch’ when that’s exactly what you are? What do YOU bring to the table that is anything different? NOTHING! You even float around the idea of joining the Left Hand which is really ALL I need to say about you. You want to give yourself up to THEM because you think that’s your only way to the championship? Are you kidding me? Look, I know that in my career, there have been a time or two where I have won or retained a championship by nefarious means and all of that, but at the same time, I NEVER surrendered my pride or my individuality and that’s why you struggle here Jalen, because internally? You’re a QUITTER! Even through the hard year that I’ve had, I STILL haven’t caved in like you did. Hell, I haven’t even been tempted. Someone like me, considering the year she’s had, has every reason to even CONSIDER joining the Left Hand. But I haven’t! You think I’m going to do that and turn my back on every ounce of my upbringing in this business? To hell with that. In fact, at my weakest point of my career, when I was a rookie, I was as vulnerable as I could’ve ever been to going down that dark path that you yourself floated around in your promo leading up to your match against “Khaos” and I STILL didn’t do it.
So what’s YOUR excuse?
Who are YOU to tell anyone else that they live on their name and their psat accomplishments? What kind of name do YOU even have, Jalen? Because to be brutally honest with you, before I found out I was even booked against you, I had no idea who the hell you even were. I had no idea that you even existed. What accomplishments to your name do YOU even have to brag about? You don’t have one thing to your name in this business, do you? Yeah, that’s precisely what I thought but you want to get on someone’s ass for talking about things that they’ve accomplished when you’ve accomplished nothing?
I’m an open and honest book, even when things aren’t going so well for me, but you choose to hide your past and hide everything about who you really are. You know what that makes you? A damn coward!What are you hiding, Jalen? Is there really something that you don’t want the world to know? Is that it? Are you trying to prevent yourself from being exposed? Your little talk in your previous promo about nightmares doesn’t scare me because as far as my career is concerned, I’ve already survived a couple of them myself. When it all comes down to it, you’re one of those “just another guy” type of wrestlers that has to be mysterious and has to carry this aura of mystery around them because they’ve got nothing good to truly offer.
And you know what I do to basic bitch, just another guy like you? I beat them.
I make examples out of them.
And that’s precisely what I am going to do to you. I don’t need to worship the occult. I don’t need to float around the idea of joining something just to get closer to the world title. I am not wired like that. Never have been. Never will be. My father brought me up in this business to be better than that and to be better than people like you and this week at Legacy, I’m going to show the world that you don’t have one in your future aside from being just another forgettable name that has had the undeserved PRIVILEGE of walking through the hallowed halls of a mainstream wrestling company. People like you just aggravate me because the whole world and the whole roster knows that people like you have nothing special to offer.
But I DO!
I’ve shown that before and I’m going to keep showing that as I continue to fight through the damn personal cobwebs that have been bogging me down all year. With my victory in my last match on Legacy, I definitely showed something and I finally got up off the fucking gound. But against you? I’m going to keep on climbing. I’m going to keep showing what I am capable of. I am NOT going to waste that groundwork and that foundation that the 20 year old Casey Holliday built in her rookie year through ALL the obstacles she ever had to deal with. \
Jalen?
This week?
I’m going to show you what a real professional wrestler who has busted her ass from day one to get to where she is today is all about and I can already tell you for a fact that Legacy is NOT going to be a fun experience for you. When the dust settles? I’m going to give you another reason for your weak minded self to surrender to the Left Hand, you pathetic piece of SHIT!
“This day in November 2015, around Thanksgiving, it really changed my life. My mentor slash future step sister was in a feud in her company with a lunatic that never met her potential in this business before she died. What that lunatic did, just to get to her head, was break into my father’s wrestling school, break into his office and violently assault him for NO OTHER REASON than to hurt someone else I care about. That day had a profound impact on me. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to continue the dream of being a professional wrestler. That BITCH nearly bankrupted my father with what she did. My father was beaten so badly that he needed an emergency hip replacement surgery! Believe me, it cost a hell of a lot of money and it wasn’t the kind of money that I’d be able to make right away because I hadn’t yet broken into the mainstream business. But six weeks later, I’d get that chance in the most unique way possible…”
Casey looks up at a framed picture that features the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She takes a deep breath as she continues.
“New Year’s Eve. 2015. My first wrestling company, though I wouldn’t know it at that point, is having this open battle royal with a $250,000 grand prize. I HAD to go for it because then that would mean that my father’s hip replacement would be covered and then some. It was truly an all or nothing experience for me because this was something that my dad really needed. It was definitely a challenge. There I was, a rookie, 20 years of age, going into a shark tank full of veterans and former world champions. How the hell was I going to survive that? How was I NOT going to be the first elimination? And even if I WASN’T the first elimination, then there’s no debate in the minds of many that I was going to be one of the first five eliminated. But that’s not what happened. I wasn’t a first five elimination. I was a final five competitor. I finished 5th! ME! The 20 year old rookie wrestler straight out of wrestling school outlasted many former world champions. I didn’t win the $250,000, but I won myself a contract. It wasn’t going to pay for my dad’s surgery immediately… it would do so on a more gradual basis… but I never imagined that the 20 year old rookie that accomplished that would ever evolve into the wrestler that she is today…
My rookie year itself though… was incredibly difficult…”
Casey takes a pause as she sits on the table where some of the images she’s been looking at are on. She gently pushes these images away for the time being as she continues to reflect.
“It wasn’t just travelling around the world and making ends meet and everything like that. It was also all the scrutiny that I would be under in my first wrestling company ever. It was the fact that four matches in, I was a Trios tournament winner. It was the fact that I had attained instant success and everyone was expecting the world out of me. I just wanted to be that young rookie that came up through the ranks, being under the microscope as much as possible with no pressure or no expectations. But holy fucking hell, winning that tournament became a curse because then EVERYONE was expecting the world out of me. Believe me, when I first heard the word ‘prodigy’ in my direction, I HATED it. I didn’t want to be known as that. I didn’t want the spotlight. I didn’t want the pressure. But, whether I liked it or not, that’s exactly what I got and hey, to my own credit, I held my own the best that I could. I won my first championship: a TV title. I lost it two weeks later. Months down the line, I won my second championship in a shocker against the most dominant “Adrenaline Champion” in that company’s history. I lost that two and a half weeks later. It was brutal, my rookie year. At the time, I regretted leaving my first company because I felt like a washout, a failure, a bust, and someone that wasn’t going to make it in this business…
Then of course, my sophomore year turned out to be a hell of a lot better, but that’s the next chapter of the story…
Now you might be wondering why I would talk about my rookie year. It’s no secret that I’ve had a hard year in 2021. There have been signs of brilliance, but I’ve been too damn inconsistent for my own good on top of the fact that my dad just recently overcame leukemia and I had that on my mind for months and it really dragged me down. It’s all too familiar to my rookie year and I managed to overcome the hardest year of my career to evolve into the star that I’ve become and that’s what I’m going to keep doing against Jalen Prince.
Jalen…
You are an absolute piece of work, you know that? You want to walk around here acting like you’re some kind of big shot and yet, I can’t remember a damn thing you’ve actually accomplished. The last that I heard of you, Damian Khaos was beating you around the damn ring exposing you as the wannabe you really are and I am damn sure not going to stand for losing to someone like you. If you want to walk around being a basic little bitch boy with no independence or individuality whatsoever, then fine. Be my guest on that. You want to worship the occult, you can go ahead and do that too but one thing that I KNOW that I am not is someone like YOU!
I could’ve given up my individuality earlier in my career. I could’ve surrendered my independence to some cult out there that made some false and empty promises in my direction. I could’ve done all of that. But no, I didn’t. I’ve never needed to rely on anyone else to get to where I am in this business. Who are YOU to call anyone else ‘just another bitch’ when that’s exactly what you are? What do YOU bring to the table that is anything different? NOTHING! You even float around the idea of joining the Left Hand which is really ALL I need to say about you. You want to give yourself up to THEM because you think that’s your only way to the championship? Are you kidding me? Look, I know that in my career, there have been a time or two where I have won or retained a championship by nefarious means and all of that, but at the same time, I NEVER surrendered my pride or my individuality and that’s why you struggle here Jalen, because internally? You’re a QUITTER! Even through the hard year that I’ve had, I STILL haven’t caved in like you did. Hell, I haven’t even been tempted. Someone like me, considering the year she’s had, has every reason to even CONSIDER joining the Left Hand. But I haven’t! You think I’m going to do that and turn my back on every ounce of my upbringing in this business? To hell with that. In fact, at my weakest point of my career, when I was a rookie, I was as vulnerable as I could’ve ever been to going down that dark path that you yourself floated around in your promo leading up to your match against “Khaos” and I STILL didn’t do it.
So what’s YOUR excuse?
Who are YOU to tell anyone else that they live on their name and their psat accomplishments? What kind of name do YOU even have, Jalen? Because to be brutally honest with you, before I found out I was even booked against you, I had no idea who the hell you even were. I had no idea that you even existed. What accomplishments to your name do YOU even have to brag about? You don’t have one thing to your name in this business, do you? Yeah, that’s precisely what I thought but you want to get on someone’s ass for talking about things that they’ve accomplished when you’ve accomplished nothing?
I’m an open and honest book, even when things aren’t going so well for me, but you choose to hide your past and hide everything about who you really are. You know what that makes you? A damn coward!What are you hiding, Jalen? Is there really something that you don’t want the world to know? Is that it? Are you trying to prevent yourself from being exposed? Your little talk in your previous promo about nightmares doesn’t scare me because as far as my career is concerned, I’ve already survived a couple of them myself. When it all comes down to it, you’re one of those “just another guy” type of wrestlers that has to be mysterious and has to carry this aura of mystery around them because they’ve got nothing good to truly offer.
And you know what I do to basic bitch, just another guy like you? I beat them.
I make examples out of them.
And that’s precisely what I am going to do to you. I don’t need to worship the occult. I don’t need to float around the idea of joining something just to get closer to the world title. I am not wired like that. Never have been. Never will be. My father brought me up in this business to be better than that and to be better than people like you and this week at Legacy, I’m going to show the world that you don’t have one in your future aside from being just another forgettable name that has had the undeserved PRIVILEGE of walking through the hallowed halls of a mainstream wrestling company. People like you just aggravate me because the whole world and the whole roster knows that people like you have nothing special to offer.
But I DO!
I’ve shown that before and I’m going to keep showing that as I continue to fight through the damn personal cobwebs that have been bogging me down all year. With my victory in my last match on Legacy, I definitely showed something and I finally got up off the fucking gound. But against you? I’m going to keep on climbing. I’m going to keep showing what I am capable of. I am NOT going to waste that groundwork and that foundation that the 20 year old Casey Holliday built in her rookie year through ALL the obstacles she ever had to deal with. \
Jalen?
This week?
I’m going to show you what a real professional wrestler who has busted her ass from day one to get to where she is today is all about and I can already tell you for a fact that Legacy is NOT going to be a fun experience for you. When the dust settles? I’m going to give you another reason for your weak minded self to surrender to the Left Hand, you pathetic piece of SHIT!