Post by darkcircle on Jan 7, 2022 12:43:29 GMT -5
{The screen cuts in and we find both halves of the Phantom Troupe, DJ Hunter and Kyle Valentine, standing in a room somewhere in their street clothes and both men are looking rather put off by something}
DJ: You know when Kyle and myself first came here to Project Honor, we didn’t come in and started making demands, no. We didn’t show up on our very first night and demand that we always have the main event nor did we make demands to have all of the gold, but we are thankful for each and every single chance that we are given for titles here so early in our tenure with this company.
The only singular thing that we insisted on was to be taken *seriously* and that’s because we take this sport seriously, that much is evident in each and every single match that we are in because we go into those matches without a gripe…maybe a playful bitch session in order to lighten the mood and have a spot of fun at our opponents expense…but we’ve never complained, never uttered an undue compliant until now when you put us on a card as the curtain jerkers.
Now, don’t get me wrong as I understand fully the entire concept of going out there and paying your dues in this industry and this is by no way our attempt at going into business for ourselves…but what this *IS* however is me laying the shit out on the table for the world to see because if you all don’t want to take the Phantom Troupe seriously and think that we’re only here for a fucking cup of coffee and a ham sandwich like the old adage goes…then you’ve got another fucking thing coming, now don’t you?
{DJ runs a hand through his short hair for a moment before turning to look fully at the camera, his frustration highly evident}
DJ: But honestly it seems to me that this company does not take its tag team division seriously if you’re going to put one of your more seriously talented teams, in the *entire* division here at Project Honor, against a couple of guys whose biggest thing is that they named for a couple of low end dairy products!?
I mean lets be serious here for a moment because in my own personal past, I have faced off against a couple of wrestlers that were called, and I’m not shitting you when I say this, “Chicken Choke” and “Monkey Spank” or the Knights of the Lagoon, who were a bunch of “alien bird people” over in the WfWA a few years back.
But my only hope is that our opponents, unlike either the Circle Jerks or the Knights of the past….even though the Jerks were SCW world tag team champions at one point in their careers…but this isn’t SCW nor is it some feeder fed for the larger WfWA.
This is Project Honor and there is only one tag team that’s truly doing this division any kind of *HONOR* and that’s myself and my partner here!!
I mean look at the top of our division, we’ve got a couple of real jokes in the form of our tag team champions in Jules and and Little Petey. It's easy to slip into the narrow world view that your entire tag team division is a joke by having two people who don't take tag team wrestling seriously and are only in it for the money that comes with being a champion!
Yeah, we had a shot at Julius and Petey once and we lost, we're not going to lie. But let's face facts here, we took that entire fucking match more seriously than anyone else did in it and that's the bottom line there!!
{DJ's jaw clenches hard as the camera pans over to look at Kyle who has been silent up to that point, his eyes closed in total concentration and they open as the camera falls upon him}
Kyle: While the lot of you, including our opponents for Unbreakable, might see this as us going into business for ourselves, that is the farest thing from the truth because we are simply airing out our anger at being stuck as the opening act at the pay per view when we have collectively put in the work to be recognized as something a little bit more than what the front office, at present, seems to think that we're only good for.
You see what you see here, gentlemen, is the very definition of the word "dedicated".
For example just a couple of weeks ago no less, my partner had to throw the towel in for me because Myojin was close to breaking my fucking right arm because I refused to let the match end in that way because I knew, deep down in my heart, that somehow I could've broken that hold and gone onto win the entire match. And while Myojin opened my eyes up a little bit to show me where I needed to do some serious work, I still believed that I could've won that match.
Just like I know that you and Serrano both think that you two can, Percival, at Unbreakable but the truth of the matter is that as of this moment those odds are looking fairly slim to none because before we even started this promo, DJ and I had a long talk about this shit going down and we decided that if Project Honor wants to pull something like this...then maybe we need to show them what dedication really looks like.
What happens when "determination" becomes a reason for intense and unregulated violence in that very ring.
And to you, Percival and Serrano, I can only offer up a fully half-hearted apology because at Unbreakable...you've been sent to be *BROKEN* by the Phantom Troupe. Because if the front office wants to view us just like they view the rest of the tag team division, like a couple of side jokes about carnies...then we'll give them a reason to fucking respect tag team wrestling again and we'll do it with *PLEASURE*.
DJ: You see in our past tag team matches, we haven't had a reason to go full bore on anyone in this company as of yet...but then again, we've been trying to be the good guys and following Indy's example. But we've felt that desire...that *pull* to do what we really wanted to do against our better angels time and time again, but we've held back and kept to our guns that we're going to be the heroes here.
But maybe we need to stop working against that *pull* just a little bit and start to enjoying ourselves until we've worked up such a history of violence that not a single one of you fuckers view us as a joke ever *AGAIN*.
Kyle: Our opponents might be fine with being viewed as a joke, but we're not. I remember during that tournament that the Troupe was apart of before we formally joined Project Honor...Arata Asakura and Havoc, the two of them viewed us as nothing more than a poor and sick joke. The problem is that we know what it's like to be humble, to be hungry and fight for every thing that you're given in this sport and one day, when we're carrying around more gold than most record labels, we're still going to be the same humble and respectful motherfuckers *THEN* that we are *NOW* because we'll never forget how hungry we were.
Unlike you, Arata.
You're not an "Emperor" or a "Shogun", you're nothing more than some piss poor dog of war that was hungry enough to scratch and claw your way up the ladders until you forgot what it was like to be hungry, to fight for *everything* that you wanted because at some point you were *TAMED*, Arata, you were tamed and turned into a fucking show animal.
And now you go around acting like you're some kind of god or something when you're nothing more than a weak peasant. You weren't *BORN* to this like I was, Arata. You were crafted by fate to one day tear down the walls that false kings like you have put up to lay claim to this industry.
{Kyle's face breaks out into a rather sinister smile}
Kyle: You know something, DJ? Maybe we have been taking things a little bit too easy here in Project Honor. Maybe we need to stop being so respectful in the ring and just fucking start to tear the house down and I think that at Unbreakable, the moment that the Pepperjack Boys step into *OUR* world, that we need to melt their mother fucking faces off!
DJ: I can get with that, Kyle.
Kyle: Good, because the more that I think about it...the more that I start to see what my brothers have been telling me all this time about how I've been "holding back"...maybe I have been and maybe I haven't, but the point is that at Unbreakable, there will be no "holding" back...no, there are too many fucking mock ivory towers around this place and if it takes us breaking some rules to get our point across then so be it.
Maybe someone needs to be shot down from the hottest young gun in this entire promotion, *MAYBE* it's time to step things up a little bit and we show the difference between weak ass government cheese like that shitspeck team that we're facing at Unbreakable is compared to real fucking ring generals like DJ and myself.
Percival and Serrano, I want you two to get off your fucking asses at Unbreakable and drop any games that the two of you think that you're going to be playing because playtime is *OVER* and you need to get ready for a fucking *FIGHT*, because if you ain't ready....then you'll never hear the shot that'll take you down.
Either of you.
Because at Unbreakable, I fully intend to make a bloody statement that will be not only loud and clear but perfectly fucking *understandable*!!
DJ: See you soon, boys!
{The screen cuts out}
DJ: You know when Kyle and myself first came here to Project Honor, we didn’t come in and started making demands, no. We didn’t show up on our very first night and demand that we always have the main event nor did we make demands to have all of the gold, but we are thankful for each and every single chance that we are given for titles here so early in our tenure with this company.
The only singular thing that we insisted on was to be taken *seriously* and that’s because we take this sport seriously, that much is evident in each and every single match that we are in because we go into those matches without a gripe…maybe a playful bitch session in order to lighten the mood and have a spot of fun at our opponents expense…but we’ve never complained, never uttered an undue compliant until now when you put us on a card as the curtain jerkers.
Now, don’t get me wrong as I understand fully the entire concept of going out there and paying your dues in this industry and this is by no way our attempt at going into business for ourselves…but what this *IS* however is me laying the shit out on the table for the world to see because if you all don’t want to take the Phantom Troupe seriously and think that we’re only here for a fucking cup of coffee and a ham sandwich like the old adage goes…then you’ve got another fucking thing coming, now don’t you?
{DJ runs a hand through his short hair for a moment before turning to look fully at the camera, his frustration highly evident}
DJ: But honestly it seems to me that this company does not take its tag team division seriously if you’re going to put one of your more seriously talented teams, in the *entire* division here at Project Honor, against a couple of guys whose biggest thing is that they named for a couple of low end dairy products!?
I mean lets be serious here for a moment because in my own personal past, I have faced off against a couple of wrestlers that were called, and I’m not shitting you when I say this, “Chicken Choke” and “Monkey Spank” or the Knights of the Lagoon, who were a bunch of “alien bird people” over in the WfWA a few years back.
But my only hope is that our opponents, unlike either the Circle Jerks or the Knights of the past….even though the Jerks were SCW world tag team champions at one point in their careers…but this isn’t SCW nor is it some feeder fed for the larger WfWA.
This is Project Honor and there is only one tag team that’s truly doing this division any kind of *HONOR* and that’s myself and my partner here!!
I mean look at the top of our division, we’ve got a couple of real jokes in the form of our tag team champions in Jules and and Little Petey. It's easy to slip into the narrow world view that your entire tag team division is a joke by having two people who don't take tag team wrestling seriously and are only in it for the money that comes with being a champion!
Yeah, we had a shot at Julius and Petey once and we lost, we're not going to lie. But let's face facts here, we took that entire fucking match more seriously than anyone else did in it and that's the bottom line there!!
{DJ's jaw clenches hard as the camera pans over to look at Kyle who has been silent up to that point, his eyes closed in total concentration and they open as the camera falls upon him}
Kyle: While the lot of you, including our opponents for Unbreakable, might see this as us going into business for ourselves, that is the farest thing from the truth because we are simply airing out our anger at being stuck as the opening act at the pay per view when we have collectively put in the work to be recognized as something a little bit more than what the front office, at present, seems to think that we're only good for.
You see what you see here, gentlemen, is the very definition of the word "dedicated".
For example just a couple of weeks ago no less, my partner had to throw the towel in for me because Myojin was close to breaking my fucking right arm because I refused to let the match end in that way because I knew, deep down in my heart, that somehow I could've broken that hold and gone onto win the entire match. And while Myojin opened my eyes up a little bit to show me where I needed to do some serious work, I still believed that I could've won that match.
Just like I know that you and Serrano both think that you two can, Percival, at Unbreakable but the truth of the matter is that as of this moment those odds are looking fairly slim to none because before we even started this promo, DJ and I had a long talk about this shit going down and we decided that if Project Honor wants to pull something like this...then maybe we need to show them what dedication really looks like.
What happens when "determination" becomes a reason for intense and unregulated violence in that very ring.
And to you, Percival and Serrano, I can only offer up a fully half-hearted apology because at Unbreakable...you've been sent to be *BROKEN* by the Phantom Troupe. Because if the front office wants to view us just like they view the rest of the tag team division, like a couple of side jokes about carnies...then we'll give them a reason to fucking respect tag team wrestling again and we'll do it with *PLEASURE*.
DJ: You see in our past tag team matches, we haven't had a reason to go full bore on anyone in this company as of yet...but then again, we've been trying to be the good guys and following Indy's example. But we've felt that desire...that *pull* to do what we really wanted to do against our better angels time and time again, but we've held back and kept to our guns that we're going to be the heroes here.
But maybe we need to stop working against that *pull* just a little bit and start to enjoying ourselves until we've worked up such a history of violence that not a single one of you fuckers view us as a joke ever *AGAIN*.
Kyle: Our opponents might be fine with being viewed as a joke, but we're not. I remember during that tournament that the Troupe was apart of before we formally joined Project Honor...Arata Asakura and Havoc, the two of them viewed us as nothing more than a poor and sick joke. The problem is that we know what it's like to be humble, to be hungry and fight for every thing that you're given in this sport and one day, when we're carrying around more gold than most record labels, we're still going to be the same humble and respectful motherfuckers *THEN* that we are *NOW* because we'll never forget how hungry we were.
Unlike you, Arata.
You're not an "Emperor" or a "Shogun", you're nothing more than some piss poor dog of war that was hungry enough to scratch and claw your way up the ladders until you forgot what it was like to be hungry, to fight for *everything* that you wanted because at some point you were *TAMED*, Arata, you were tamed and turned into a fucking show animal.
And now you go around acting like you're some kind of god or something when you're nothing more than a weak peasant. You weren't *BORN* to this like I was, Arata. You were crafted by fate to one day tear down the walls that false kings like you have put up to lay claim to this industry.
{Kyle's face breaks out into a rather sinister smile}
Kyle: You know something, DJ? Maybe we have been taking things a little bit too easy here in Project Honor. Maybe we need to stop being so respectful in the ring and just fucking start to tear the house down and I think that at Unbreakable, the moment that the Pepperjack Boys step into *OUR* world, that we need to melt their mother fucking faces off!
DJ: I can get with that, Kyle.
Kyle: Good, because the more that I think about it...the more that I start to see what my brothers have been telling me all this time about how I've been "holding back"...maybe I have been and maybe I haven't, but the point is that at Unbreakable, there will be no "holding" back...no, there are too many fucking mock ivory towers around this place and if it takes us breaking some rules to get our point across then so be it.
Maybe someone needs to be shot down from the hottest young gun in this entire promotion, *MAYBE* it's time to step things up a little bit and we show the difference between weak ass government cheese like that shitspeck team that we're facing at Unbreakable is compared to real fucking ring generals like DJ and myself.
Percival and Serrano, I want you two to get off your fucking asses at Unbreakable and drop any games that the two of you think that you're going to be playing because playtime is *OVER* and you need to get ready for a fucking *FIGHT*, because if you ain't ready....then you'll never hear the shot that'll take you down.
Either of you.
Because at Unbreakable, I fully intend to make a bloody statement that will be not only loud and clear but perfectly fucking *understandable*!!
DJ: See you soon, boys!
{The screen cuts out}