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One Year; The last email
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Topic Started: Mar 9 2012, 10:26 AM (256 Views)
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Joey NOX
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Mar 9 2012, 10:26 AM
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OVER 9000!!!
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PRW offices received what Joey NOX said would be his "last" email update until after his match with Ninja MAGIC at Blackout. We thank Joey for his contributions to the site and hope that he continues this email trend for further matches. We have yet to receive a response from him either way indicating whether or not he will. None the less, please enjoy the last entry of Joey NOX's Blackout journal!
Once again, hello to all my PRW fans and to my haters/motivators!
On Sunday, Ninja MAGIC and I will get in the ring and wrap up weeks of (invisible) trash talk. The X-Division title will be hanging in the proverbial balance. Seattle, Washington will likely bare witness to the most exciting card in PRW history and Ninja MAGIC and I are lucky enough to be apart of the triple header main event. I would say how cool it is to be main eventing with old friends like Alex and new friends like Ace and Wrath but nobody cares. With all that said, my intention isn't to sell some pay per views at the last minute. Ninja MAGIC certainly isn't going out of his way to sell em and neither will I. Instead I want to do a little reflecting. No gameplan talking, no hyperbole about how Ninja MAGIC is amazing and certainly no more inside double talk. Just.....an honest moment to analyze.
There's an old wrestler's belief that a wrestler's success for the year is defined by his title accumulation at the end of the year. I've heard plenty of big names stress that their goal when they begin the year and when they end the year is to be world champion. I mean taking it one step further, why would anyone enter this business besides to be champion? If yer the champ, you get paid more, you get the big publicity, you get the better looking rats and you drive in the best cars the company can afford. As Billy Martin once said, the grass looks greener, the songbirds are louder and the girls look 10 lbs slimmer when you're a champion. It's what fuels the competitive body of anyone who truly believes themselves to be a wrestler. Being a champion is what ALL true warriors strive for.
Following me so far? If so, let's hop in our time machines with Dr. Peabody and go back to March of last year. March 5rd, 2011 to be exact. For most people it's just another day in a year. M. Bison might even say it was Tuesday. Just another year in the PRW calendar amirite? Well for me that day holds some heavy significance. That was the last time I was in a title match in PRW. Joey NOX and Alex LeBlanc, collectively known as The Black Suit Outlaws, went to the ring to take on Rated X for the PRW Tag Team Titles. It's been one year since I had the opportunity to say I was in a title match. One year. In most situations, one year in a career is nothing more than a temporary snapshot. That yearly period has felt like an eternity. One year since I was in a title match. God.
You look at the PRW title scene for that yearly period. What do you see? I mean seriously think of all the people who have held either held or challenged for gold during that yearly period. You had hasbeens (Chaos The Clown) and never was' (Lucy Hawke was a tremendous person but not much of a wrestler). Guys I had beaten (Alex LeBlanc and Adam Xclusiv) were getting shots. Guys who weren't even in the company at the start of that period(Ace Andrews, Ninja MAGIC) were getting title shots. Tommy Nova got a title shot during that period. Let that last bit marinate. Tommy Nova, a guy who wouldn't make PWI's top 100000 wrestlers list, was chasing gold. Where was I? On the sidelines watching everyone else in the assembly line of title shots get their turn. I mean realistically if you made a list of everyone in every title match from March of 2011 to March of 2012, ask yourself this; how many of those guys could beat Joey NOX on neutral ground? If you said 30%, I'd say you were being generous to those guys.
Am I saying I'm better than those guys? Better than Alex, Ace, Aries, Sylvia, Xclusiv, Slaughter, Kazama and company? Not necessarily. I'm just saying that I stand a hell of a shot against anybody who called themselves either a "champion" or a "title contender" from March to March. Hell I think if you broke out a truth serum, those very guys would admit that. I'm kind of good at this wrestling stuff.
Now before some of you run to your twitters or forums and say I'm bitter, I'm not. I'm happy for every single wrestler out there who tried to better his career. I have noone to blame but myself for getting preoccupied with other matters. I'm just reflecting on that yearly period between title shots. Am I really all that wrong if I look at that list of guys and say I can beat a lot of em? Even the really good ones like Alex, Wrath, Xclusiv and Ace? Like I said, I'm in this business to be a champion. Beating those guys is the key to being a champion. Hell some of those guys I've already beaten! I'm not trying to beat you to death about this, believe me. I'm just painting the picture. In one year, some of the names that have gotten title opportunities instead of me are less than stellar. That's what makes the one year stretch so...interesting. So frustrating and perhaps ever so humbling.
Even in PRW or the land of milk, honey and title shots as some of us call it; there's no guarantees. I spent a year that was essentially wasted. No title shots, no championships, no nothing. It was a year I WASTED. That's the thing..if you spend a year not even contending, what did you do that year? That's a wasted year. A period of my career I can't get back. A collection of braincells lost on a wrestling mat I can never get back. To make matters worse, I lied myself into thinking that it was alright. I have to live with that fact every day. I have to live with the fact that I allowed a years worth of professional work go to waste. Sure I got paid but for what? To say that I could have been champion? That I COULD have been a contender? Even Terry on the waterfront would laugh at me. To spend a year of your life for nothing and then to believe it's acceptable? It would be enough to make a man bitter...
Instead of becoming bitter about what was essentially a wasted sports year, I let it fuel me. I've let it consume me to the point where I don't feel bitterness but rage and determination. It's become the mental edge I feel I need. On a wall in that training room at the bottom of Alex LeBlanc's gym where I've spent countless hours trying to decipher the riddle that is Ninja MAGIC, I have that date in magic marker. Every day I go to that room to watch film or work out, it's there. I have to pass it and even when I don't want to look at it, I'm compelled to. As Doctor Scottland Frankensteiner once said to me, the numbers don't lie. It's been a year and counting since the last time I entered a PRW ring for a title match. If I lose on Sunday, there's a chance that one year could turn two years. I think I'd rather retire than let one year become two. Scratch that. I'd rather die. Luckily for me, Ninja MAGIC and Seattle awaits in a few days.
Funny how when you're the hunted, months feels like days but when you're the hunter, months feel like decades. Ninja MAGIC has spent two months being champion but I bet it feels like two days., I've spent one year away from that rush and I can tell you it feels like 20. In Seattle, I've got one years worth of rage to work out all in one night.
Did you buy the PPV yet?
Until next time,
Joey NOX
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