Post by caseyholliday on Apr 5, 2021 22:53:37 GMT -5
“They didn’t expect much out of me when I first started…”
A flashback clip shows a 20-year-old Casey Holliday competing in a battle royal in Supreme Championship wrestling in the first mainstream match of her career…
“But then at my age, I started to do some big, big things…”
The next clip shows Casey accomplishing some massive things early on in her mainstream career: winning SCW’s Trios tournament, winning their Adrenaline and TV titles, going to UCI and winning the Rising Star Championship, Intercontinental Championship and their golden ticket match, going to GCW and winning the Heritage Championship, then Action Wrestling and winning her first world title: the UCI title, and defending it time and time again…
“I became known as the prodigy of my generation! I had travelled the world! I had become a multi-time champion with so much to her name by the age of 23. It was insane… and with the UCI Championship… I retired it…”
Another clip of Casey is shown, this one of her winning the UCI gauntlet and then being awarded the All-In Briefcase in Action Wrestling.
“I had it all in my fingertips…”
The next clip shows a dismayed Casey finding out that she had been fired from Action Wrestling, the regret on her face is equivalent to a devastating feeling that she had hoped she would never experience again.
“And I threw it all away… but like the Shinedown song says: ‘sometimes goodbye is a second chance…”
A collage of clips from Casey’s most recent venture in a company named UWL are shown: which feature her winning the U.S. Championship, their Coronation Cup and the World Championship. With the last clip, she’s beaming… she’s having the moment of her entire career. It was in that moment that Casey was feeling like she was on top of the world and that nothing could ever go wrong with her career again.
“So now I’m 25…” her voice over continues… “I’m on top of the world having just changed the game in UWL: first female Coronation Cup winner, first female World Champion! I broke the barriers. I brought the company into the 21st century, I brought a new style and way of doing things to a company that was stuck in ancient traditions. But little did I know… it would be the beginning of the end…”
March 20, 2021
“Casey… snap out of it…” Casey’s older sister, Sydney Holliday, says in concern as Casey herself is left in a state of disbelief, in the worst way possible, following the loss of the UWL World Championship.
“It wasn’t supposed to be like that…'' Casey says with a catatonic stare in her face. “...UWL was supposed to be my lifer company. This was the place where I wanted to spend the rest of my career. But to be treated the way I was after I won the title… and then to be SCREWED like that… with a fucking sleeper hold… the fact that I proved my haters right… that I was a horrible UWL World Champion and everything…
“Casey… sis… don’t be talking like that…”
“I can’t be here anymore…” Casey tells Sydney, with tears in her eyes. The self-proclaimed prodigy still has too much pride for anyone to see her cry, so she just grabs her things and heads out of the locker room. Sydney calls out to her, but Casey doesn’t listen. Sydney follows her down the hallway.
“Casey…”
“Quit kidding yourself, Sydney. Deep down in your heart, you know it’s over for me here. You know that there’s no way in hell I can recover from this. You know just as well as I do that my credibility here is damaged beyond repair. I’m ALWAYS going to be looked upon as a fluke, a joke, a ‘transitional champion’ that was out of her depth… and I’m not going to stomach ANY of that crap! I’m not going to be treated like that! You don’t understand what it’s like to go through what I’m going through right now because you never wanted to be the wrestler…”
Sydney just sighs, knowing that it was pointless to try and talk some sense into her. Casey in the meantime, bolts from the UWL locker room… never to return…
March 23, 2021
“You did the right thing…” Casey hears from another ‘sister’, this one who knows all about what Casey is going through. Victoria Salinas can be nothing more than sympathetic for her protege. “I know it was hard to walk away, but you did what was best for you. You were in for a world of misery had you stayed.”
“I feel like a quitter…” Casey tells Victoria.
“You’re not!” she says to reassure her. “Last year, when I walked out of MWE… I knew it was tough and everything. It was something that I didn’t want to do… but it was something that I HAD to do, remember?”
“God, Victoria… I had never seen you more miserable at any point in your career aside from dating you-know-who a few years back. I remember I kept telling you that you were trying too hard to fit in somewhere that… well… you were never, ever going to fit in… and that you’d be better off leaving and being so much happier…”
“Exactly…” Victoria reminisces. “Had you stayed in UWL, you would’ve been going through the same thing that I did in MWE. You did the right thing, Casey… and I know how much it hurts when you realize somewhere you want to be for life is merely a stop along the way and not the destination you wanted it to be, but you’ll bounce back. I know you will! Remember… what happened with AW… that’s a career wrecker for 99 out of 100 wrestlers… and you just happened to be the 1 out of the 100 that pulled through that. That was enormous compared to this…”
Casey sighs and nods, realizing that her mentor is right.
“I promise you… I WILL make the next chapter SO much better… I’ll find that destination and I’ll be the wrestler that I know in my heart that I am destined to be…”
April 5, 2021
“And so… here we are…”
Casey says these words as the camera comes on her. She’s in her own bedroom inside of her Bellevue home at the moment. The room is adorned with replicas of all the titles she’s won in her career, with the exception of the UCI title which is the real deal. Casey looks like she’s still hurting a bit from the experience she just went through in UWL, but she remains strong as she begins to express her thoughts.
“Revo1 Wrestling. I’ve heard plenty of great things about this place. My girl… and future sister-in-law possibly… Chelsea LeClair, just came in here and won a world title. I’m not saying that this is what I am going to do here… but don’t be surprised if I do that… and I can REALLY put myself in that conversation right out of the gate with a big win over you “KHAOS”. You’re coming off of that big world title win against Cartier and I KNOW that you’re going to overlook me just because you don’t know who the hell I am. Well… I’ve won EIGHT Championships throughout my career. I’ve won TWO tournaments. I’ve won TWO title shot briefcases. TWO of those eight championships are world championships. I’ve done ALL of this and I’m just 25 years old! I am the DEFINITION of PRODIGY, ‘champ’. You don’t get to use ME as your little springboard to prove your dominance because Casey Holliday IS dominance, you son of a bitch!
Yeah, I know that the odds may not look so great going up against someone like you. I get that I’m coming into this thing reeling some from a bad experience I just had and I get that this is my first match since that whole ‘UWL thing’. I get that there are going to be questions about me psychologically coming in here… and sure, someone going through psychological scarring may be an opponent for you to feast on based on what I’ve heard about you… but I’m Casey fucking Holliday… I’m not just some run of the mill wrestler that’s walking in here and talking a bunch of shit! I HAVE a reputation! There are SO many reasons that me signing here is SUCH a big deal! If I wasn’t such a big deal, I wouldn’t be thrown into the fire against you. Listen, I’m not going to get into those reasons… but I know you’re a vulnerable champion. I look at you and I don’t see someone that’s going to be dominant. What you are to me is the kind of champion that will do enough to win a top tier championship against a top tier opponent but when it comes time to defend that title, you’re the type of champion that would lose it in their first defense and who can’t maintain what got them to the top to begin with.
Think I’m not motivated for this, champ?
Because I am!
Think I’ve got motivations for the wrong reasons? Nope!
That’s not the case at all!
This isn’t about proving people at companies I wrestled at in the past. This isn’t about taking out some frustrations from places before out on you. This isn’t about coming back with a vengeance and avenging a wounded pride because of what just happened to me. If I fought this match for ANY of those reasons, I might as well just hand you the fucking match and that’s just not going to happen.
I’m motivated for this because it’s about damn time for a global audience to remember who the hell I am! I’m motivated for this because I know that against any given opponent, I CAN come up clutch… regardless of who the hell they are! Yeah, try to scar me, try to do your thing against me, but it won’t be enough because you’re not just facing ANY prodigy, you’re facing the prodigy of her generation! Very few people have done what I have at my age, champ. You’re not going to get someone like Cartier who walked into that title defense against you thinking that she was just going to cast you aside so easily. I don’t have that kind of arrogance that she does.
I’m not the kind of woman that looks past her opponents. You don’t get to face someone like her that lets her guard down and truthfully, the only reason you’re the world champion right now is because you beat someone like yourself in that ring: arrogant, easily susceptible of letting their guard down, someone who doesn’t have what it takes to be dominant, who doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘legacy’.
But against me? Someone who DEFINES dominance, who is ALWAYS on top of her game, who has PROVEN she can carry a brand into the future, who not only KNOWS the word ‘legacy’, but is BUILDING a legacy of her own to be remembered for generations to come…
Forget it…
I’ll make the challenge that Cartier gave you look like wrestling school basic bitch bullshit! You’re not ready for me, champ. I know you’re not. When I’m as motivated as I am, it’s hard to stop me… and I’m not about to give in and continue to have the spotlight around here that I know I’ll be reaching eventually knowing how damn good I am and have always been throughout my career! So bring your best, champ… because as you’re going to find out facing an opponent like no other… your best isn’t going to be good enough against me!
Haters.
Gonna.
Hate!
Casey’s feeling a little bit better, but that rage and that fire is still in her eyes as she shuts off the camera...
A flashback clip shows a 20-year-old Casey Holliday competing in a battle royal in Supreme Championship wrestling in the first mainstream match of her career…
“But then at my age, I started to do some big, big things…”
The next clip shows Casey accomplishing some massive things early on in her mainstream career: winning SCW’s Trios tournament, winning their Adrenaline and TV titles, going to UCI and winning the Rising Star Championship, Intercontinental Championship and their golden ticket match, going to GCW and winning the Heritage Championship, then Action Wrestling and winning her first world title: the UCI title, and defending it time and time again…
“I became known as the prodigy of my generation! I had travelled the world! I had become a multi-time champion with so much to her name by the age of 23. It was insane… and with the UCI Championship… I retired it…”
Another clip of Casey is shown, this one of her winning the UCI gauntlet and then being awarded the All-In Briefcase in Action Wrestling.
“I had it all in my fingertips…”
The next clip shows a dismayed Casey finding out that she had been fired from Action Wrestling, the regret on her face is equivalent to a devastating feeling that she had hoped she would never experience again.
“And I threw it all away… but like the Shinedown song says: ‘sometimes goodbye is a second chance…”
A collage of clips from Casey’s most recent venture in a company named UWL are shown: which feature her winning the U.S. Championship, their Coronation Cup and the World Championship. With the last clip, she’s beaming… she’s having the moment of her entire career. It was in that moment that Casey was feeling like she was on top of the world and that nothing could ever go wrong with her career again.
“So now I’m 25…” her voice over continues… “I’m on top of the world having just changed the game in UWL: first female Coronation Cup winner, first female World Champion! I broke the barriers. I brought the company into the 21st century, I brought a new style and way of doing things to a company that was stuck in ancient traditions. But little did I know… it would be the beginning of the end…”
March 20, 2021
“Casey… snap out of it…” Casey’s older sister, Sydney Holliday, says in concern as Casey herself is left in a state of disbelief, in the worst way possible, following the loss of the UWL World Championship.
“It wasn’t supposed to be like that…'' Casey says with a catatonic stare in her face. “...UWL was supposed to be my lifer company. This was the place where I wanted to spend the rest of my career. But to be treated the way I was after I won the title… and then to be SCREWED like that… with a fucking sleeper hold… the fact that I proved my haters right… that I was a horrible UWL World Champion and everything…
“Casey… sis… don’t be talking like that…”
“I can’t be here anymore…” Casey tells Sydney, with tears in her eyes. The self-proclaimed prodigy still has too much pride for anyone to see her cry, so she just grabs her things and heads out of the locker room. Sydney calls out to her, but Casey doesn’t listen. Sydney follows her down the hallway.
“Casey…”
“Quit kidding yourself, Sydney. Deep down in your heart, you know it’s over for me here. You know that there’s no way in hell I can recover from this. You know just as well as I do that my credibility here is damaged beyond repair. I’m ALWAYS going to be looked upon as a fluke, a joke, a ‘transitional champion’ that was out of her depth… and I’m not going to stomach ANY of that crap! I’m not going to be treated like that! You don’t understand what it’s like to go through what I’m going through right now because you never wanted to be the wrestler…”
Sydney just sighs, knowing that it was pointless to try and talk some sense into her. Casey in the meantime, bolts from the UWL locker room… never to return…
March 23, 2021
“You did the right thing…” Casey hears from another ‘sister’, this one who knows all about what Casey is going through. Victoria Salinas can be nothing more than sympathetic for her protege. “I know it was hard to walk away, but you did what was best for you. You were in for a world of misery had you stayed.”
“I feel like a quitter…” Casey tells Victoria.
“You’re not!” she says to reassure her. “Last year, when I walked out of MWE… I knew it was tough and everything. It was something that I didn’t want to do… but it was something that I HAD to do, remember?”
“God, Victoria… I had never seen you more miserable at any point in your career aside from dating you-know-who a few years back. I remember I kept telling you that you were trying too hard to fit in somewhere that… well… you were never, ever going to fit in… and that you’d be better off leaving and being so much happier…”
“Exactly…” Victoria reminisces. “Had you stayed in UWL, you would’ve been going through the same thing that I did in MWE. You did the right thing, Casey… and I know how much it hurts when you realize somewhere you want to be for life is merely a stop along the way and not the destination you wanted it to be, but you’ll bounce back. I know you will! Remember… what happened with AW… that’s a career wrecker for 99 out of 100 wrestlers… and you just happened to be the 1 out of the 100 that pulled through that. That was enormous compared to this…”
Casey sighs and nods, realizing that her mentor is right.
“I promise you… I WILL make the next chapter SO much better… I’ll find that destination and I’ll be the wrestler that I know in my heart that I am destined to be…”
April 5, 2021
“And so… here we are…”
Casey says these words as the camera comes on her. She’s in her own bedroom inside of her Bellevue home at the moment. The room is adorned with replicas of all the titles she’s won in her career, with the exception of the UCI title which is the real deal. Casey looks like she’s still hurting a bit from the experience she just went through in UWL, but she remains strong as she begins to express her thoughts.
“Revo1 Wrestling. I’ve heard plenty of great things about this place. My girl… and future sister-in-law possibly… Chelsea LeClair, just came in here and won a world title. I’m not saying that this is what I am going to do here… but don’t be surprised if I do that… and I can REALLY put myself in that conversation right out of the gate with a big win over you “KHAOS”. You’re coming off of that big world title win against Cartier and I KNOW that you’re going to overlook me just because you don’t know who the hell I am. Well… I’ve won EIGHT Championships throughout my career. I’ve won TWO tournaments. I’ve won TWO title shot briefcases. TWO of those eight championships are world championships. I’ve done ALL of this and I’m just 25 years old! I am the DEFINITION of PRODIGY, ‘champ’. You don’t get to use ME as your little springboard to prove your dominance because Casey Holliday IS dominance, you son of a bitch!
Yeah, I know that the odds may not look so great going up against someone like you. I get that I’m coming into this thing reeling some from a bad experience I just had and I get that this is my first match since that whole ‘UWL thing’. I get that there are going to be questions about me psychologically coming in here… and sure, someone going through psychological scarring may be an opponent for you to feast on based on what I’ve heard about you… but I’m Casey fucking Holliday… I’m not just some run of the mill wrestler that’s walking in here and talking a bunch of shit! I HAVE a reputation! There are SO many reasons that me signing here is SUCH a big deal! If I wasn’t such a big deal, I wouldn’t be thrown into the fire against you. Listen, I’m not going to get into those reasons… but I know you’re a vulnerable champion. I look at you and I don’t see someone that’s going to be dominant. What you are to me is the kind of champion that will do enough to win a top tier championship against a top tier opponent but when it comes time to defend that title, you’re the type of champion that would lose it in their first defense and who can’t maintain what got them to the top to begin with.
Think I’m not motivated for this, champ?
Because I am!
Think I’ve got motivations for the wrong reasons? Nope!
That’s not the case at all!
This isn’t about proving people at companies I wrestled at in the past. This isn’t about taking out some frustrations from places before out on you. This isn’t about coming back with a vengeance and avenging a wounded pride because of what just happened to me. If I fought this match for ANY of those reasons, I might as well just hand you the fucking match and that’s just not going to happen.
I’m motivated for this because it’s about damn time for a global audience to remember who the hell I am! I’m motivated for this because I know that against any given opponent, I CAN come up clutch… regardless of who the hell they are! Yeah, try to scar me, try to do your thing against me, but it won’t be enough because you’re not just facing ANY prodigy, you’re facing the prodigy of her generation! Very few people have done what I have at my age, champ. You’re not going to get someone like Cartier who walked into that title defense against you thinking that she was just going to cast you aside so easily. I don’t have that kind of arrogance that she does.
I’m not the kind of woman that looks past her opponents. You don’t get to face someone like her that lets her guard down and truthfully, the only reason you’re the world champion right now is because you beat someone like yourself in that ring: arrogant, easily susceptible of letting their guard down, someone who doesn’t have what it takes to be dominant, who doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘legacy’.
But against me? Someone who DEFINES dominance, who is ALWAYS on top of her game, who has PROVEN she can carry a brand into the future, who not only KNOWS the word ‘legacy’, but is BUILDING a legacy of her own to be remembered for generations to come…
Forget it…
I’ll make the challenge that Cartier gave you look like wrestling school basic bitch bullshit! You’re not ready for me, champ. I know you’re not. When I’m as motivated as I am, it’s hard to stop me… and I’m not about to give in and continue to have the spotlight around here that I know I’ll be reaching eventually knowing how damn good I am and have always been throughout my career! So bring your best, champ… because as you’re going to find out facing an opponent like no other… your best isn’t going to be good enough against me!
Haters.
Gonna.
Hate!
Casey’s feeling a little bit better, but that rage and that fire is still in her eyes as she shuts off the camera...