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Travis Blaine: True Wrestling Story
Topic Started: Oct 8 2011, 01:51 AM (143 Views)
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From behind a generic desk sits Travis Blaine wearing a suit jacket and tie. On the desk rests piles of papers he dreads going through from contracts to potential law suits. Also on the desk a few portraits lay, pictures of people Travis has never bothered talking about or introducing to anyone he has surrounded himself with over the past few years. On the wall behind him is a framed photograph of Travis's early days in the business on XFC Uncovered where we see Travis standing next to Tommy Gunz and Oz, XFC's former head of security.

Travis sighs while holding his face in one hand. He knows that October sixteenth will be here soon and that is the day everything seems to be centered around. Jimmy Helmsley, a man Travis once considered a friend, a brother, a man he would have given anything for will now face him in a fight.

“I've given a lot for this business and no I don't just mean NEW, XFC, or anything of that nature, I mean the business in general. You see when I first started I never wanted any of this. I was complacent running my little interview show introducing you all to the stars of tomorrow in Jihad, Eliza Corvin, even Jimmy Helmsley. That was my one job, interview them. However, how I came into power was an accident and a necessity.

The Big Guy is what we called him... he liked to flaunt money around but nothing ever satisfied him long enough to keep his interest. It was early 2005, Tommy Gunz was rising to the top in UIWF and for some reason none of us will ever understand he decided to leave the company and go into business with this Big Guy to form Xtreme Fighting Championship. Like I said, I was hired to do interviews, nothing more, nothing less. But given Gunz and The Big Guys track record nobody had high hopes for XFC. It would be nothing more than another run of the mill experiment. The people in UIWF, Jimmy Helmsley included, laughed at the concept and quite frankly so did I. A wrestling company housed on an island in the Caribbean. In fact The Big Guy bought an entire island just for the sole purpose of wrestling. Ridiculous concept but I can't tell people what to do with their money especially when they have far too much to spend.

Tommy Gunz had a vision where every match had to be hardcore, every match had to be extreme. Once again I hated that vision... I just wanted to do my interviews and go home to my then wife at the time. We were expecting a child but The Big Guy and Gunz kept dropping the ball over and over again. There was a man by the industry name of Justin Zane. Justin Zane ended up running the show himself all because Gun and Biggie couldn't be bothered to do a damn thing. Eventually Justin grew weary and came to my front door one night in the pouring rain. I asked him what was wrong, he simply asked me if I wanted XFC. I thought it was a joke and said no. I figured everything would be fine once he sobered up in the morning.

Except when I came to work the next morning I came to find out everything wasn't alright and wouldn't be unless somebody stepped in. Apparently Justin Zane had put in his resignation papers and The Big Guy was blowing a gasket unsure of what to do. He put all the blame on Justin walking out on him. I couldn't help but think, well maybe if you were more hand son and gave the guy a hand this wouldn't have happened.

UIWF was throwing victory parties thinking they had won another non existent fed battle royal. It didn't help matters that a few months prior Rigormortis X had left XFC with the tag titles and burnt them on live UIWF television. Now I could have walked away and went and joined UIWF like I was advised to do. I was told by Andrew Smith that XFC was a sinking ship, an experiment like I stated earlier. But I didn't... instead for whatever reason, I glanced around the room at worried, confused wrestlers and maybe it was my emotions talking... but I said I would run the fed. I said this after Biggie asked me two times.

Now I had never run a wrestling company before, I knew I was in way over my head but I did understand one thing and that was the mindset of a professional wrestler and how the business worked. For whatever reason it worked. XFC stayed open for five more years until I forced the place closed on my own terms. We've all heard the stories about during the last year of XFC's existence. It turned into something that shouldn't have existed anymore.

But during that entire time, no matter how many times Jimmy Helmsley bailed on me, ran back to UIWF because they offered him a World title shot or because he was getting a push or when he was being found in gutters coked up out of his mind... when UIWF turned their backs on him... when society as a whole turned their backs on him... it was always me who was there to pick Jimmy back up and put him back together again. And no matter how many times people told me to cut Jimmy loose, to stop believing in him... to stop pushing him ti the moon... I was there to try again and try harder.

Jimmy... you never got burnt... I was the one who always got burnt... I was the one who always took the brunt of everybody's shit when things didn't go there way. And I understand, I write the pay check, its my company, who else is to blame when things go wrong? Never mind that it was always about them and not the company as a whole. Never mind that it was always about Travis did this to ME, Travis did this to ME! No... you of all people should know that what I do is a thankless job. For all the good I do, I don't receive a job well done, I don't receive a pat on the back and I don't expect any of that. Instead I get questions about how come so and so didn't look like a God this week compared to every other week. Instead I get screamed at for things they could have fixed themselves.

Do you know why I do what I do despite all of that? I do this because I love this business more than anything. I lost my wife and child to this business but I keep on going because this is all I know. And when I turned on you Jimmy you felt stabbed in the back? Now you know how I felt all these years going to bat for you time and time again.”


Travis finishes speaking, closes his eyes and sighs as we fade to black.
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