Post by Niall on Jul 14, 2014 11:37:56 GMT -5
"FUCK!"
The scene opens up backstage at Monday Night Raw 132, immediately after Joey The Bastard has beaten Bob Cena in order to advance to the number one contenders match against FEAR next week on Monday Night Raw. We see the deflated figure of Bob Cena walking alone back to his locker room, with his head in his hands, a look which has become common to the young man. Cena is briskly walking along when he is approached by a ThyWWE cameraman who tries to get Bob's thoughts on the match. Cena pushes past him, not interesting in speaking with anybody. The cameraman persists with his annoying questions to Bob until he snaps.
"What the fuck do you want from me?!"
Cena turns to face the cameraman with a combined look of anger and self pity on his face. The cameraman is rather scruffy looking, with long, greasy black hair with a patchy beard. The guy looked a little older than Bob but he was still intimidated by him as he stepped back a bit, trying to keep his distance from the angered Cena but still get some footage, as he was instructed to do.
"You really want to know how I feel about what the fuck just happened?! I! Am! Pissed!"
Bob rubs his head a couple of times, feeling the sting of defeat once again ring through his body, a pain a lot harder to take than any move anybody can throw at him.
"My back hurts....My neck hurts....My arms hurt....My legs hurt, everywhere on my body hurts. I'm cut, I'm bruised, I'm scraped. But one thing that hurts more than anything is my pride....In life, there are times when you hit a brick wall. You try, and you try, and you try, but no matter what you do, you cant get over this wall. But a measure of a man is not how many times he gets knocked down....Its how many times he can get knocked down and come back still swinging. And I keep getting up....You see to me, there is no todsy, there was no yesterday, there is only tomorrow. And tomorrow is another day for me to get up, train, better myself, and become the best wrestler that this industry has ever witnessed. But no matter how hard I train, no matter how many opportunities I am given, Joey I cant beat you....I get closer every single time. I get two and nine tenths every fucking time. My moves have no lethal effects on you, my FU only wears you out, I cant get you to tap to the ChainLock Choke....But I live by the motto that if at first you do not succeed, you try and you try and you try and you try again until you accomplish what you set out to achieve. And that is all I can fucking do! So Joey The Bastard! No matter how bad I feel physically right now, no matter how many times you lay on top of me and pin me, I'm going to get up! And I am going to get up and do to you exactly what you have done to me on 4 different occasions! I will defeat you, I will conquer you, I will make you feel exactly how I feel right now! I didnt fly in from my home to be beaten by you again! Never again will I fly to the United States to be defeated by you again Joey. I dont know when and I dont know where you and I will meet again Joey, but it will happen again one day....Me and you, we are top draws for this company, so we will meet one more time, and we will continue to meet one more time, until I pin you, 1 2 3, in the centre of the ring....Then I can prove to the world that I am, the best in the world! Now get that fucking camera out of my face!"
Cena pushes the cameraman away from him as he turns to walk towards his locker room. He was without Crack who was hanging back to let Bob grieve on his own, something he always did after he lost a match, mainly because there was nothing that he could say or do to cheer him up. Bob begins to wonder where he went wrong in the match, he was in total control of the match right up until Joey kicked out of the FU. Where did it go wrng? Did he lose focus? Did he let his emotions control him rather than his brain? Either way, he lost, he cant change it, he cant erase it from history, he is forced to live with it for the rest of his life. Bob has travelled home for the next few days. He always goes to Belfast to relax after a match but no he has someone to go home to, which made the experience little less lonlier. He still had to deal with his loss to Joey The Bastard however, which no doubt would be playing on his mind in the coming days. On the plus side, he got an email yesterday telling him that he was in the number one contenders match on Raw 133 which was enough to get him out of his depressed state of mind. In addition to that, Bob's relationship with Nicole has improved, the two have been texting each other while Bob was in America for Raw on a regular basis. Our scene opens up inside of Nicole's living room in her home, which is a 5 minute walk from Bob's home. The two are sitting on the white leather couch watching the World Cup Semi Final between Holland and Costa Rica, whilst drinking a cup of coffee. The match is a lot like the early stages of Bob's match with Joey on Raw. Slow paced, neither side with the upper hand, both sides taking all the punishment that their opponents could throw at them. Bob sets his drink down and turns to Nicole as the referee blows the whistle to signal the end of the first half and talks.
"So, I was thinking that maybe you could meet with John sometime, he's been dying to find out about you."
"John? Who's John?"
"Crack....The guy who is always with me on TV"
"Oh....Look Ro-..."
Nicole sets her drink down on her coffee table as Bob cuts her off.
"I know you're still upset about what I did and you have every right to be. I didn't mean to make you feel like you were second best to me and I'm trying to make it up to you. I know what you went through with Riain an-..."
"You think I'm upset with you because you remind me of Riain?"
Riain. Nicole's ex. Complete bellend to be honest. He was a hood or thug as the Americans would call it. He spent the majority of his time with his friends, stealing cars, collecting wood for bonfires, or just out at parties, not returning until the early hours of the morning. Nicole had dated Riain for 4 years while all of this was going on, she said she stayed with him out of fear that she wouldnt find anybody else. Understandable really, seeing as her boyfriend had neglected her for years, her self esteem couldnt have been too high. Riain was like a child who refused to grow up, commiting pathetic crimes such as joy riding, stealing the odd can of Coke from the local store, he never was caught though. He was good at what he did, I'll give him that.
"Robert....When I dumped Riain, I felt relieved, I didnt have to worry about him anymore and life got easier. You're nowhere near as bad as Riain ever was."
"I'm worse." Bob thought to himself, going over everything he was ever done to people. He wasnt exactly the model human being himself. He didnt live by the rules, he did whatever it took to reach the attain the success he has gotten, taking out anybody who stood in his way.
"You have your demons and I accept that, but you dont have to be a slave to them."
"I wish that were true." Bob thought to himself, as he began to think about the dirty tricks he pulled to get where he is today. Luckily Nicole wasnt a follower of professional wrestling and so didn't take any notice to anything Bob has done in the past, she still seems him as a kind and loving person rather than the manipulative asshole the ThyWWE fans see him as.
"Robert, I know you better than you know yourself. You can conquer whatever darkness there is within you, I know you can."
Bob's mind has already drifted off, thinking about his match on Monday, a shot at redemption, he gets another crack at the whip to pin Joey The Bastard. Bob's thoughts are interrupted by a hug from Nicole.
"....I know everything that goes on inside of that head of yours."
"I dont think you do." Bob chuckles at his thought as Nicole continues the hug. Bob remembers that start of the conversation and tries to divert it back.
"So, do you want to meet with John....I've told him so much about you."
That was a lie but why not, Crack had been annoying him all week to find out about Nicole and Nicole had been bugging him to open up more, this was a good way to kill two birds with one stone.
"Well, since he wants to meet me so much, how about tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow sounds great."
The couple hug again as Bob plants a kiss on Nicole's forehead. "Thank God" Bob thinks to himself. Atleast now that was one thing he could cross off the to do list. He would have to go over the plan with Crack to make sure he didnt say anything too bad, it has to go well. The next night Bob and John went Nicole's house as planned. John put on a pair of jeans and a plain black hoodie, not exactly formal wear but a lot better than what he would usually wear. Bob wore the usual, a pair of sweats with a red hoodie, nothing too special. At the beginning of the night, conversation didnt flow, and Bob was the centrepiece of everything, making sure that there was no awkward breaks in conversation. As the night went on, Nicole and John got more comfortable around each other and Bob could let his mind wander for a little while, thinking about his match on Monday. He felt guilty for always putting his career first over everybody else, but without his career, Bob would be a nobody doing nothing with his life. The match on Monday was a match that Bob needed to win, he was desperate for a victory. Not only did the match have the prestigious prize of being in the main event of Oppression with the World Heavyweight Champion but it gave Bob the opportunity to prove himself against two former champions in ThyWWE. His first competitor in the match was Joey The Bastard, a man who has beaten Bob more times than any other person. Nobody held more than 2 victories over Bob, nobody except for Joey The Bastard. It humiliated Bob, he hated it. Joey had dominated his thoughts for a very long time, even while Bob was away, he kept thinking of the man that Bob couldnt pin or submit. The other man in the match is a big name in ThyWWE's history books around ThyWWE. Richard Black joined ThyWWE as a promising high flyer with mountains of ability, he didnt have to wait long before he was selected by Beno to be the Tag Team Champion with him, a championship that both Bob and Joey have held. Only Bob can say that he earned it though, FEAR and Joey were both handed the championship and suffered from a dying division. Bob faced a number of tag teams during his reign. FEAR had left ThyWWE in very controversial circumstances, it was the talk of the locker room for weeks after it happened. Not a lot of people knew the full details of what happened, but Bob knew every little problem that FEAR had. He liked to keep his ear to the ground and keep up to date with what was going on around him and this story certainly caught his attention. FEAR was upset at how things were run in ThyWWE, understandably really, Bob left in January for the same reason. But FEAR had a certain issue that he brought up multiple times and that was the disrespect that Kurt Orton had shown for the company in the buildup to Wrestlemania III. Kurt was upset that Bob had beaten him for the World Heavyweight Championship, two weeks after he had won it from Alex Kendall, and then was not given a rematch. Nobody believed that Kurt deserved a rematch, well except Kurt and he made everybody aware of his opinions. Kurt was a well known backstage politician, think 1997 Shawn Michaels with a lot less talent. Bob hated Kurt, despite accepting him into OFU, he still didnt get on with him. Bob carried OFU when Kurt was in the group. They had 3 matches, 2 of which Kurt didnt bother turning up for, and then when Anarchy 2013 rolled around, Bob was horrified by the card. The main event featured the World Heavyweight Champion, Beno taking on Kurt Orton in a Casket match for the championship, while Bob curtain jerked with Bret Hart. That one really hurt Bob's pride. He had spent 14 months building something with Bret and it definitely caught the eye of the public but then to have it curtain jerk felt like a slap in the face. Kurt wasnt wrong when he called himself the "Viper", he was a snake who would turn on anybody. There were rumours that he was going between ThyWWE and another company to get a "better deal", which really pissed off Bob. On top of that, Kurt was being handed opportunities such as a match with Christian Knight at Raw 100, numerous World Championship bouts, and a prestigious match with Sheamus at Oppression 2013, another PPV where Bob was forced into the first hour of the show while Kurt was in the second main event. He left a few months back, apparently he won the World title at that other promotion, God knows how bad the talent is there for that to happen. Needless to say, Bob didnt like Kurt and felt the exact same way that FEAR did about him. Bob had never faced FEAR before and so relished the opportunity to sink his teeth into a new challenge. FEAR was a founding member of the Knights of the Roundtable, the most dominant force in the history of ThyWWE. The group had a mission and they would destroy anybody that got in their way. They took out Bob on numerous occasions, but it never scared him off, it merely increased his resentment for the Knights. Bob is snatched back into reality as John nudges him on the arm, he shakes his head and looks up to see John and Nicole staring at him confused.
"Bob, are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm just a bit tired, I didnt get a lot of sleep last night."
That was a lie. Bob tended to lie to everybody rather than telling them what he was really thinking about. Anyway, Nicole didnt like when he put wrestling over her and telling her what was going on in his head would just cause an argument. Bob got back into the conversation, and tried to put the match into the back of his head. Soon it was time for Bob and John to head home to Bob's house. Bob hugged Nicole and give her a kiss on the lips before walking into the dismal, wet Belfast night. He put his hood up as he walked, hoping that he wouldnt bump into an autograph or photograph hunter. The two got home at 11.07pm, a couple of minutes after leaving Nicole's, luckily without being seen. As Bob entered he threw his keys on the sofa and turned to John.
"Take your camera out, I want to cut a promo."
"Now? Cant it wait until tomorrow? I'm tired"
"I have to do it now, it will keep me up tonight thinking about it, I just gotta blow off some steam."
"Fine."
John sighed as he took out his phone and turned on his video camera to record Bob's promo. Bob walked towards the blank area in his living room where he cut his promos and took off his wet hoodie to reveal a red OFU shirt. John counted down from 3 on his fingers before pointing to Bob, signalling for him to start.
"Recently, I came back to ThyWWE to reach the pinacle of this industry once again, I have scratched and clawed for 3 years to make it but theres no man who I just cannot seem to beat. That mans name is Joey The Bastard. I respect Joey....I love what the guy does but he cant beat me again, he will never beat me again, never in a million years. I have watched every single match we have had together multiple times over the past few years and I know every single trick in his book, I know him better than he knows himself...."
Bob starts to pace the room as he gets into the flow of his promo.
"The thing about Joey is, he knows what I know so every time he fights me he will through something new in there and that is what really pisses me off. He's like a bug and he's gotten underneath my skin and what I'm gonna do, is I'm gonna cut him out for good. I mean why me? Why does Joey always feel the need to up his game against me? I never did anything to Joey, why is he targeting me?.....I know I know, because he wants what I got, he wants the spotlight, he's hungry for the main event slot. But why take it from me? Why not somebody who doesnt deserve it....Blade LaVigne....Zak Shields....Bryn Shander. Why me?! I dont owe him shit, why does he want to take this from me? This week, I've been added to the main event of Monday Night Raw as a reward for my 5 star performance on Raw against Joey, and I know what I have to do now. I have to up my game, I'm ready to die for this match. What I wanna know is does Joey have it in him? Does he have what it takes to pull the trigger on me?....I hope he does, I hope he has the balls to break my skull in order to get what he wants, I want to feel him punch me in the face until I cannot breathe anymore, I want to feel every fucking bit of it! I hope he puts me out of my fucking misery!"
Bob slaps himself in the face to calm himself down and snap him out of his angry state of mind. He needs a cool head to get inside of Joey's head.
"Thats if he can....Because if he cant, he's going to eat every meal for the rest of his life through a straw. Honestly I am so sick of Joey The Bastard, he never leaves me alone, everywhere I go he's in my head, I cant eat, I cant sleep. But dont be mistaken Joey, just because I dont want you lingering around me, doesnt mean that I'm not following you around. I dont go away. I'm going to put him in his grave. I'm so sick of this man, maybe its because we're the two best in ThyWWE, we always keep fighting each other. The reason I dont go away Joey is because every time we fight, you do one little thing, make one less mistake than I do and it fucking irritates me.....This time is going to be different. This time I am going to slam your big Canadian ass down on the mat for good this time. You are going to scream bloody Mary all over America as I put an end to this rivalry."
Bob moves on from Joey and changes the topic to his other opponent; the newest addition to the roster, FEAR. A founding father of the Knights of the Roundtable, a guaranteed draw simply because of his history in the business. Bob knew he would provide a challenge for him and that the fans would come in hordes to see a founding Knight go one on one for the World Championship.
"You know we may aswell make this Monday a national holiday with the amount of people that will be tuning in to witness the biggest match in Richard Black's career. Yes thats right, FEAR has returned to ThyWWE. He was here before, only now he's coming back a few years later with a lot of experience, success and more importantly he's coming back to become the World Heavyweight Champion. I respect what you did in ThyWWE no doubt, its how you went about leaving ThyWWE that I have an issue with. You called me a plastic champion before you went and said that you were better than me and then you didnt even have the balls to get into the ring and prove it. That was a bitch move man. I dont have many regrets man, but I do have one major one that sticks out in my mind....When I think back to Wrestlemania III, I tapped out to Sam Barton, a very close friend of mine, and I looked to ringside and watched you cheering as Barton refused to release the hold. You stood by and cheered as Barton broke the arm of a man who you disrespected. My regret is that I havent yet avenged that night, I never got the opportunity to kick your ass and prove to the paying public that I am better than you....So come Monday, I'm going to get you in the ChainLock Choke and I'm not gonna release the hold, I'm not gonna release the hold until the locker room clears out, the cops come, they are going to need the fucking army to pull me off of you. Honestly, I have had this fantasy in my head, where I go to your house, kick your damn door in, drag you into the street and drill your face into the pavement....But what I'm gonna do, is I'm gonna wait until Monday and I'm gonna make you tap out to me just like I did to Barton. I'm going to make you feel worthless."
Bob storms off camera as Crack stops recording. Bob may have let his emotions get the better of him during his promo but he still feels like he got his message across. This Monday, Bob has the opportunity of a lifetime, can he take it? Or will he choke again?
The scene opens up backstage at Monday Night Raw 132, immediately after Joey The Bastard has beaten Bob Cena in order to advance to the number one contenders match against FEAR next week on Monday Night Raw. We see the deflated figure of Bob Cena walking alone back to his locker room, with his head in his hands, a look which has become common to the young man. Cena is briskly walking along when he is approached by a ThyWWE cameraman who tries to get Bob's thoughts on the match. Cena pushes past him, not interesting in speaking with anybody. The cameraman persists with his annoying questions to Bob until he snaps.
"What the fuck do you want from me?!"
Cena turns to face the cameraman with a combined look of anger and self pity on his face. The cameraman is rather scruffy looking, with long, greasy black hair with a patchy beard. The guy looked a little older than Bob but he was still intimidated by him as he stepped back a bit, trying to keep his distance from the angered Cena but still get some footage, as he was instructed to do.
"You really want to know how I feel about what the fuck just happened?! I! Am! Pissed!"
Bob rubs his head a couple of times, feeling the sting of defeat once again ring through his body, a pain a lot harder to take than any move anybody can throw at him.
"My back hurts....My neck hurts....My arms hurt....My legs hurt, everywhere on my body hurts. I'm cut, I'm bruised, I'm scraped. But one thing that hurts more than anything is my pride....In life, there are times when you hit a brick wall. You try, and you try, and you try, but no matter what you do, you cant get over this wall. But a measure of a man is not how many times he gets knocked down....Its how many times he can get knocked down and come back still swinging. And I keep getting up....You see to me, there is no todsy, there was no yesterday, there is only tomorrow. And tomorrow is another day for me to get up, train, better myself, and become the best wrestler that this industry has ever witnessed. But no matter how hard I train, no matter how many opportunities I am given, Joey I cant beat you....I get closer every single time. I get two and nine tenths every fucking time. My moves have no lethal effects on you, my FU only wears you out, I cant get you to tap to the ChainLock Choke....But I live by the motto that if at first you do not succeed, you try and you try and you try and you try again until you accomplish what you set out to achieve. And that is all I can fucking do! So Joey The Bastard! No matter how bad I feel physically right now, no matter how many times you lay on top of me and pin me, I'm going to get up! And I am going to get up and do to you exactly what you have done to me on 4 different occasions! I will defeat you, I will conquer you, I will make you feel exactly how I feel right now! I didnt fly in from my home to be beaten by you again! Never again will I fly to the United States to be defeated by you again Joey. I dont know when and I dont know where you and I will meet again Joey, but it will happen again one day....Me and you, we are top draws for this company, so we will meet one more time, and we will continue to meet one more time, until I pin you, 1 2 3, in the centre of the ring....Then I can prove to the world that I am, the best in the world! Now get that fucking camera out of my face!"
Cena pushes the cameraman away from him as he turns to walk towards his locker room. He was without Crack who was hanging back to let Bob grieve on his own, something he always did after he lost a match, mainly because there was nothing that he could say or do to cheer him up. Bob begins to wonder where he went wrong in the match, he was in total control of the match right up until Joey kicked out of the FU. Where did it go wrng? Did he lose focus? Did he let his emotions control him rather than his brain? Either way, he lost, he cant change it, he cant erase it from history, he is forced to live with it for the rest of his life. Bob has travelled home for the next few days. He always goes to Belfast to relax after a match but no he has someone to go home to, which made the experience little less lonlier. He still had to deal with his loss to Joey The Bastard however, which no doubt would be playing on his mind in the coming days. On the plus side, he got an email yesterday telling him that he was in the number one contenders match on Raw 133 which was enough to get him out of his depressed state of mind. In addition to that, Bob's relationship with Nicole has improved, the two have been texting each other while Bob was in America for Raw on a regular basis. Our scene opens up inside of Nicole's living room in her home, which is a 5 minute walk from Bob's home. The two are sitting on the white leather couch watching the World Cup Semi Final between Holland and Costa Rica, whilst drinking a cup of coffee. The match is a lot like the early stages of Bob's match with Joey on Raw. Slow paced, neither side with the upper hand, both sides taking all the punishment that their opponents could throw at them. Bob sets his drink down and turns to Nicole as the referee blows the whistle to signal the end of the first half and talks.
"So, I was thinking that maybe you could meet with John sometime, he's been dying to find out about you."
"John? Who's John?"
"Crack....The guy who is always with me on TV"
"Oh....Look Ro-..."
Nicole sets her drink down on her coffee table as Bob cuts her off.
"I know you're still upset about what I did and you have every right to be. I didn't mean to make you feel like you were second best to me and I'm trying to make it up to you. I know what you went through with Riain an-..."
"You think I'm upset with you because you remind me of Riain?"
Riain. Nicole's ex. Complete bellend to be honest. He was a hood or thug as the Americans would call it. He spent the majority of his time with his friends, stealing cars, collecting wood for bonfires, or just out at parties, not returning until the early hours of the morning. Nicole had dated Riain for 4 years while all of this was going on, she said she stayed with him out of fear that she wouldnt find anybody else. Understandable really, seeing as her boyfriend had neglected her for years, her self esteem couldnt have been too high. Riain was like a child who refused to grow up, commiting pathetic crimes such as joy riding, stealing the odd can of Coke from the local store, he never was caught though. He was good at what he did, I'll give him that.
"Robert....When I dumped Riain, I felt relieved, I didnt have to worry about him anymore and life got easier. You're nowhere near as bad as Riain ever was."
"I'm worse." Bob thought to himself, going over everything he was ever done to people. He wasnt exactly the model human being himself. He didnt live by the rules, he did whatever it took to reach the attain the success he has gotten, taking out anybody who stood in his way.
"You have your demons and I accept that, but you dont have to be a slave to them."
"I wish that were true." Bob thought to himself, as he began to think about the dirty tricks he pulled to get where he is today. Luckily Nicole wasnt a follower of professional wrestling and so didn't take any notice to anything Bob has done in the past, she still seems him as a kind and loving person rather than the manipulative asshole the ThyWWE fans see him as.
"Robert, I know you better than you know yourself. You can conquer whatever darkness there is within you, I know you can."
Bob's mind has already drifted off, thinking about his match on Monday, a shot at redemption, he gets another crack at the whip to pin Joey The Bastard. Bob's thoughts are interrupted by a hug from Nicole.
"....I know everything that goes on inside of that head of yours."
"I dont think you do." Bob chuckles at his thought as Nicole continues the hug. Bob remembers that start of the conversation and tries to divert it back.
"So, do you want to meet with John....I've told him so much about you."
That was a lie but why not, Crack had been annoying him all week to find out about Nicole and Nicole had been bugging him to open up more, this was a good way to kill two birds with one stone.
"Well, since he wants to meet me so much, how about tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow sounds great."
The couple hug again as Bob plants a kiss on Nicole's forehead. "Thank God" Bob thinks to himself. Atleast now that was one thing he could cross off the to do list. He would have to go over the plan with Crack to make sure he didnt say anything too bad, it has to go well. The next night Bob and John went Nicole's house as planned. John put on a pair of jeans and a plain black hoodie, not exactly formal wear but a lot better than what he would usually wear. Bob wore the usual, a pair of sweats with a red hoodie, nothing too special. At the beginning of the night, conversation didnt flow, and Bob was the centrepiece of everything, making sure that there was no awkward breaks in conversation. As the night went on, Nicole and John got more comfortable around each other and Bob could let his mind wander for a little while, thinking about his match on Monday. He felt guilty for always putting his career first over everybody else, but without his career, Bob would be a nobody doing nothing with his life. The match on Monday was a match that Bob needed to win, he was desperate for a victory. Not only did the match have the prestigious prize of being in the main event of Oppression with the World Heavyweight Champion but it gave Bob the opportunity to prove himself against two former champions in ThyWWE. His first competitor in the match was Joey The Bastard, a man who has beaten Bob more times than any other person. Nobody held more than 2 victories over Bob, nobody except for Joey The Bastard. It humiliated Bob, he hated it. Joey had dominated his thoughts for a very long time, even while Bob was away, he kept thinking of the man that Bob couldnt pin or submit. The other man in the match is a big name in ThyWWE's history books around ThyWWE. Richard Black joined ThyWWE as a promising high flyer with mountains of ability, he didnt have to wait long before he was selected by Beno to be the Tag Team Champion with him, a championship that both Bob and Joey have held. Only Bob can say that he earned it though, FEAR and Joey were both handed the championship and suffered from a dying division. Bob faced a number of tag teams during his reign. FEAR had left ThyWWE in very controversial circumstances, it was the talk of the locker room for weeks after it happened. Not a lot of people knew the full details of what happened, but Bob knew every little problem that FEAR had. He liked to keep his ear to the ground and keep up to date with what was going on around him and this story certainly caught his attention. FEAR was upset at how things were run in ThyWWE, understandably really, Bob left in January for the same reason. But FEAR had a certain issue that he brought up multiple times and that was the disrespect that Kurt Orton had shown for the company in the buildup to Wrestlemania III. Kurt was upset that Bob had beaten him for the World Heavyweight Championship, two weeks after he had won it from Alex Kendall, and then was not given a rematch. Nobody believed that Kurt deserved a rematch, well except Kurt and he made everybody aware of his opinions. Kurt was a well known backstage politician, think 1997 Shawn Michaels with a lot less talent. Bob hated Kurt, despite accepting him into OFU, he still didnt get on with him. Bob carried OFU when Kurt was in the group. They had 3 matches, 2 of which Kurt didnt bother turning up for, and then when Anarchy 2013 rolled around, Bob was horrified by the card. The main event featured the World Heavyweight Champion, Beno taking on Kurt Orton in a Casket match for the championship, while Bob curtain jerked with Bret Hart. That one really hurt Bob's pride. He had spent 14 months building something with Bret and it definitely caught the eye of the public but then to have it curtain jerk felt like a slap in the face. Kurt wasnt wrong when he called himself the "Viper", he was a snake who would turn on anybody. There were rumours that he was going between ThyWWE and another company to get a "better deal", which really pissed off Bob. On top of that, Kurt was being handed opportunities such as a match with Christian Knight at Raw 100, numerous World Championship bouts, and a prestigious match with Sheamus at Oppression 2013, another PPV where Bob was forced into the first hour of the show while Kurt was in the second main event. He left a few months back, apparently he won the World title at that other promotion, God knows how bad the talent is there for that to happen. Needless to say, Bob didnt like Kurt and felt the exact same way that FEAR did about him. Bob had never faced FEAR before and so relished the opportunity to sink his teeth into a new challenge. FEAR was a founding member of the Knights of the Roundtable, the most dominant force in the history of ThyWWE. The group had a mission and they would destroy anybody that got in their way. They took out Bob on numerous occasions, but it never scared him off, it merely increased his resentment for the Knights. Bob is snatched back into reality as John nudges him on the arm, he shakes his head and looks up to see John and Nicole staring at him confused.
"Bob, are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm just a bit tired, I didnt get a lot of sleep last night."
That was a lie. Bob tended to lie to everybody rather than telling them what he was really thinking about. Anyway, Nicole didnt like when he put wrestling over her and telling her what was going on in his head would just cause an argument. Bob got back into the conversation, and tried to put the match into the back of his head. Soon it was time for Bob and John to head home to Bob's house. Bob hugged Nicole and give her a kiss on the lips before walking into the dismal, wet Belfast night. He put his hood up as he walked, hoping that he wouldnt bump into an autograph or photograph hunter. The two got home at 11.07pm, a couple of minutes after leaving Nicole's, luckily without being seen. As Bob entered he threw his keys on the sofa and turned to John.
"Take your camera out, I want to cut a promo."
"Now? Cant it wait until tomorrow? I'm tired"
"I have to do it now, it will keep me up tonight thinking about it, I just gotta blow off some steam."
"Fine."
John sighed as he took out his phone and turned on his video camera to record Bob's promo. Bob walked towards the blank area in his living room where he cut his promos and took off his wet hoodie to reveal a red OFU shirt. John counted down from 3 on his fingers before pointing to Bob, signalling for him to start.
"Recently, I came back to ThyWWE to reach the pinacle of this industry once again, I have scratched and clawed for 3 years to make it but theres no man who I just cannot seem to beat. That mans name is Joey The Bastard. I respect Joey....I love what the guy does but he cant beat me again, he will never beat me again, never in a million years. I have watched every single match we have had together multiple times over the past few years and I know every single trick in his book, I know him better than he knows himself...."
Bob starts to pace the room as he gets into the flow of his promo.
"The thing about Joey is, he knows what I know so every time he fights me he will through something new in there and that is what really pisses me off. He's like a bug and he's gotten underneath my skin and what I'm gonna do, is I'm gonna cut him out for good. I mean why me? Why does Joey always feel the need to up his game against me? I never did anything to Joey, why is he targeting me?.....I know I know, because he wants what I got, he wants the spotlight, he's hungry for the main event slot. But why take it from me? Why not somebody who doesnt deserve it....Blade LaVigne....Zak Shields....Bryn Shander. Why me?! I dont owe him shit, why does he want to take this from me? This week, I've been added to the main event of Monday Night Raw as a reward for my 5 star performance on Raw against Joey, and I know what I have to do now. I have to up my game, I'm ready to die for this match. What I wanna know is does Joey have it in him? Does he have what it takes to pull the trigger on me?....I hope he does, I hope he has the balls to break my skull in order to get what he wants, I want to feel him punch me in the face until I cannot breathe anymore, I want to feel every fucking bit of it! I hope he puts me out of my fucking misery!"
Bob slaps himself in the face to calm himself down and snap him out of his angry state of mind. He needs a cool head to get inside of Joey's head.
"Thats if he can....Because if he cant, he's going to eat every meal for the rest of his life through a straw. Honestly I am so sick of Joey The Bastard, he never leaves me alone, everywhere I go he's in my head, I cant eat, I cant sleep. But dont be mistaken Joey, just because I dont want you lingering around me, doesnt mean that I'm not following you around. I dont go away. I'm going to put him in his grave. I'm so sick of this man, maybe its because we're the two best in ThyWWE, we always keep fighting each other. The reason I dont go away Joey is because every time we fight, you do one little thing, make one less mistake than I do and it fucking irritates me.....This time is going to be different. This time I am going to slam your big Canadian ass down on the mat for good this time. You are going to scream bloody Mary all over America as I put an end to this rivalry."
Bob moves on from Joey and changes the topic to his other opponent; the newest addition to the roster, FEAR. A founding father of the Knights of the Roundtable, a guaranteed draw simply because of his history in the business. Bob knew he would provide a challenge for him and that the fans would come in hordes to see a founding Knight go one on one for the World Championship.
"You know we may aswell make this Monday a national holiday with the amount of people that will be tuning in to witness the biggest match in Richard Black's career. Yes thats right, FEAR has returned to ThyWWE. He was here before, only now he's coming back a few years later with a lot of experience, success and more importantly he's coming back to become the World Heavyweight Champion. I respect what you did in ThyWWE no doubt, its how you went about leaving ThyWWE that I have an issue with. You called me a plastic champion before you went and said that you were better than me and then you didnt even have the balls to get into the ring and prove it. That was a bitch move man. I dont have many regrets man, but I do have one major one that sticks out in my mind....When I think back to Wrestlemania III, I tapped out to Sam Barton, a very close friend of mine, and I looked to ringside and watched you cheering as Barton refused to release the hold. You stood by and cheered as Barton broke the arm of a man who you disrespected. My regret is that I havent yet avenged that night, I never got the opportunity to kick your ass and prove to the paying public that I am better than you....So come Monday, I'm going to get you in the ChainLock Choke and I'm not gonna release the hold, I'm not gonna release the hold until the locker room clears out, the cops come, they are going to need the fucking army to pull me off of you. Honestly, I have had this fantasy in my head, where I go to your house, kick your damn door in, drag you into the street and drill your face into the pavement....But what I'm gonna do, is I'm gonna wait until Monday and I'm gonna make you tap out to me just like I did to Barton. I'm going to make you feel worthless."
Bob storms off camera as Crack stops recording. Bob may have let his emotions get the better of him during his promo but he still feels like he got his message across. This Monday, Bob has the opportunity of a lifetime, can he take it? Or will he choke again?
