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Topic Started: Jul 29 2017, 10:05 PM (95 Views)
SaviourSelf
Seasoned Professional
I tried to stay away.

I really did.

I took my retirement as it came, day by day and I stayed true to my word that I would remain gone for the betterment of this company and those who inhabit it, because it was high time that this cowboy rode off into the sunset and allowed the newer generation to graze the same plans with the same reckless abandon that he had once had himself.

Hell, I even took an office job. I became a PRW suit. Furthermore, I even started my own vanity project in order to ensure that I could stay away from the lights and the glamour of it all. Thing is? Life is a vicious and cruel bitch, and here I am once again.

That vanity project failed after investing heavy money, and it wasn't due to a lack of money or interest, but the reality is that a custody battle for your child and a very serious mental breakdown will have a habit of halting production on something you were passionate about and making the most menial of tasks, like getting out of bed, more of a struggle than say...putting together a 20-man roster for a show in Birmingham, England or London once a month.

I share because honestly, my life has always been an open book and beneath all the controversy and all the dismissals and the disappearances has been the unmitigated truth that I've always been transparent about my opinions, my emotions, my feelings and my past. Keeping in that vain, I'll tell you that until recently, I was sitting with a therapist because wrestling might be my figurative mistress, but I had a literal one and she tried to bilk me of hundred of thousands and steal my child. For all the times I used to laugh at those old wrestlers like Ric Flair who NEEDED to keep wrestling because of their financial, mental and emotional state?

Here I am in the same damn boat.

People call this business and doing it into your 50s a disease, an illness. They laugh at you when you retire and come back. They chide you and disarm your rhetoric and your words and poke fun at you because you couldn't stay away and went back on your word. Inevitably, I'm sure some new kid will claim I'm coming back to steal his spot, or that I'm coming back for the "War for Four" or the "Drive for Five" or whatever bullshit marketing term people will cook up for what they hope is me gunning for Drive or Nox's title belt.

What they don't get is that this isn't an illness. It's an escape. It's an escape from all the bullshit, from the demons, from the thoughts, from the therapists and the doctors, from the lawyers and the bills, from the prescriptions and the pills, from the urges and the doubts. It's the only moment in my day where I can breathe, where I can focus on something and where I can be in completely control.

After months of not having control of a single thing? To be able to look at you and tell you that in that ring, I'll still give you the best fucking show you've ever seen because I STILL can. That's a control that many of you will never understand.

This isn't about championships. This isn't about glory. This isn't about victories or plaudits.

This is about feeling like a damn human again.

This is about feeling like Alex F'N LeBlanc again.

I'm back, kids.

- AL


- 4x PRW Undisputed Champion
- 2x World Tag Team Champion
- 8x Cyanide Champion
- PRW Intercontinental Champion
- PRW Triple Crown Champion
- PRW Grand Slam Champion
- PRW Hall of Famer
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