Post by Christopher Graves on Dec 6, 2021 11:11:27 GMT -5
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Reporter: "And breaking news from Project: Honor as the company as brought in an new brand to their company named Project Underground. If you're interested in trying out for the brand and wanting to have a start in professional wrestling, please sign up on their website and try out in two days!" This catches the sight of one Christopher Graves. He sits on the couch inside his trailer home in Pennsylvania. Finally, an opportunity. He has went to many independent promotions, but no one would hire him due to the fact that he is too green and to go big time would take ages and they don't have the time if they want to go big soon. He immediately gets to his feet and heads over to the desktop and turn on the screen. On the screen is ten different wrestling promotion websites before he opens an different tab and types in the Project Honor website. He selects the try out section for Project Underground, getting to the application part and seeing "Years Pro". Graves: "Fuck… um…". Graves sighs before putting five years. He had to lie, because if he put zero, he knew he wasn't getting signed. He finishes his application and sends it. He sighs again before standing up and walks towards the room at the end of the hall. He stands at the doorway, staring at his mother laid out in her bed. Machines hooked up to her nose and throat. Christopher enters the room and sits on the chair beside her bed, taking ahold of her hand.
Graves: "Mom… I promise you… I will get the money… you will get better mom. I won't let you down..". Christopher stands up and gives his mom a kiss on the cheek, a tear falling down his face as he backs out of the room, closing the door behind him.
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Outside the Project Honor Performance Center stands Christopher. He carries his bag with his gear and enters the building, which inside many of Project Underground's newest signees attend to when needed to train or work on their microphone work. Christopher Graves heads to the locker room, inside a few superstars. Graves looks around with nervousness before placing his bag into a locker room and starts changing. His attire is of two elbow pads, black wrist tape on both wrists, black trunks, and custom Air Jordan's 11 Retro in black and white. He exits the locker room and heads over to a female with a sheet. ?: "Alright. Sir what's your name?"
Graves: "Um Christopher Graves."
?: "Hm.. Graves Graves… ah yes I see your name on here. Says you got five years experience, is that right?"
Graves: "Yes. Yes ma'am."
?: "Perfect. Now go ahead and step into the ring and show us what you got against one of the greener guys that signed up."
Christopher looks into the ring and sees another male inside the ring. He walks past the lady before sliding under the bottom rope and immediately locks up with the trainee in the ring. Chris botches a transition into a headlock, which he sense disappointment in the eyes of trainers. He gets pushed off the ropes and leapfrogs over the guy before quickly transitions into laying on his stomach when the opponent ran off the ropes, causing him to jump over Graves's back. Christopher gets up and ducks a clothesline before running and leaping off the mat to the top rope and backs backwards, landing on the other guy. He looks over at the trainers and sees some shocked looks from his athleticism. He quickly lifts the guy to his feet before giving him a kick to the midsection and places his head between Christopher's legs and hooks both his arms before jumping up in the air, landing on his knees but his sparring partner landing on his face and stomach. Christopher quickly covers him and gets a three count from a fake referee before rolling out of the ring. As his feet land on the mat, he is greeted by the female assistant.
?: "Very well done Mr. Graves. You seemed to be a little rusty. Taken time off?"
Graves: "Yeah. My mom's health has declined. I took a year off to aid her."
?: "Aw I'm sorry to hear that. Shouldn't be long before you shake off the ring rust. Alright now this part is going to be taped and sent to Project Honor main building. You're going to cut a promo on the following topics: Why you wanted to become a professional wrestler, long term goal in this sport, were you a fan, etc etc. Make sure to introduce yourself to the people to start off as well so they know who they're paying attention to. Easy enough?"
Graves: "Yes ma'am."
?: "Good. Step to the stage to start."
She points at a entrance ramp with camera pointing towards it. He walks over, standing on the stage as he is handed a microphone. The cameraman tells him to hold, then tells him to go as he starts recording.
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Graves: "Project Underground audience, please allow me to introduce myself. I am Christopher Graves…." Christopher stops himself for a second, thinking of adding a nickname to himself before finally continuing. "The G.O.A.T. of this brand. You question that but if you just saw what I did, then you'd agree. I left people speechless from what I just done, and I'm just getting started. You see, growing up in Pennsylvania, our television didn't have many shows to play, but one of the shows we could watch on Saturday was professional wrestling. I watched it one time and I feel in love with the masterpieces of wrestling matches I saw. I enjoyed the out of this world characters on the show, but I loved the matches better. I loved watching the crowd come alive because of a move or a sequence. It made me want to watch more. When I got straight A's, my father, God rest his soul, took me to my first wrestling show. I loved it. I knew that I was made for this. I was built to become a professional wrestler. Unfortunately, now and days my reasons to be a professional wrestler changed. I started a fan, but now it's personal for me. My mother was diagnosed with lung cancer a year ago, and now she's been stuck needing tubes in her nose and her mouth to stay somewhat alive. I promised her the day that she came home that I was going to make it to the big time, and I was going to make the money to pay for her treatments, to get those tubes out of her, for her to be able to breathe on her own and to buy her a house so she never has to worry again.""I won't stop fighting till I make the money and have something to showcase for it. I called myself "The G.O.A.T" because I want everyone to know that my mindset is not clouded by what happened with my mother, but that it made me more determined to prove that statement true. If you don't like it, I suggest you get use to it, because I am staying for the long run and I will be Project Underground's greatest of all time. And you can bring that to the bank and cash it."
Christopher Graves drops the microphone before walking up to the camera and stares at the lens before walking off, the cameraman ending the recording.
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Graves walks away from the stage and is motioned over by the assistant. ?: "Good work. Well have that sent off and we'll give you a call whenever we find out if you are accepted or not."
Graves: "Awesome thank you very much."
Graves says his goodbyes and heads to the locker room to change before finally leaving the Performance Center of Project Honor.
A week pass, and not hearing a word from Project Honor, he figures he wasn't signed. To cope with his emotions on the situation, he goes to the local park and play some basketball. He has his headphones on as he continues shooting the ball when suddenly his phone starts to ring. He pulls his phone out and sees a unknown number appear on the screen. He slides the green phone over to answer the call.
Graves: "Hello?"
?: "Hello Mr. Graves. This is Rachel, the assistant you talked to at the Performance Center for Project Honor. Good news, they are impressed with you and want to sign you to a contract and have you compete on Project Underground's first show against another new signing in XERTOS."
Graves: "Sounds good. Thank you very much."
Christopher hangs up the phone. He is sent a email afterwards stating to record himself doing a promo for his match to hype it up and have it sent to be put on the Project Honor YouTube channel. He goes to the store and buys a video recorder and has it set up in the backyard of his trailer, the white wall behind him as he sat on metal chair that is used when people eat at the table outside.
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Graves: "XERTOS huh? No idea who this is but obviously he's my first opponent, however, he's also the first on my Road To Recovery as I'm calling it. I don't know you, and I don't care to. What I care about is stepping in that ring and beating you. Hell, you seem like you're not even guaranteed to be staying here because when you lose to the roo-". Christopher catches himself, stopping him from saying rookie. "Five year vet, I mean, then you will leave in embarrassment. And good riddance, because that puts one person out of my way in quest for the ultimate glory I need to win. XERTOS, I hope you're prepared for Project Underground, because when I beat you, my name climbs mountains, while yours remain.. well Underground, no pun intended. Good luck, you're going to need it when fighting "The G.O.A.T." Graves smirks into the camera before tapping the stop recording feature of the recorder. He sits at his computer and plugs a USB into the recorder and pastes over the video into the USB before plugging the USB into his computer and sends off the video to PH. His debut was set, hopefully he could perform good enough to pass.