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Strong Style Defined
Topic Started: Feb 28 2018, 12:40 AM (64 Views)
James Edwards


From the private writings of James Edwards:

Strong style. It’s not just a fighting discipline; it’s a way of life.

Trust me, I know there is a lot of fighters who wrap themselves in the term because it is trendy use strikes and compete in Japan right now. Fair enough. I’m purist at heart, and it kills me to see something I honor watered down to sell t-shirts, but I quit trying to be the counterculture in professional wrestling a long time ago. So I’ll suffer in silence.

I don’t punch and kick because it’s popular. I don’t drop people on their heads to increase my notoriety with bloodthirsty fans. I do it because it is the only way I'm going to succeed in this sport.

I'm not graceful enough to fly through the air, and I'm not patient enough to dissect another man's limbs like a surgeon. I can hit a son of a bitch hard enough to make his teeth chatter for a week, and I'm tough enough to grit my own teeth and flip pain the bird. I've done it all over the world, it how I made my reputation, and it is the reason why Iron Japan invited me to the tournament to kickoff their strong division.

It doesn't make much sense not to include the man dedicated to making his career the very definition of strong style.

I'm pretty sure the Japanese definition and mine aren't the same, at least that I know of, I've never really thought to ask before.

Anyways, it isn't like mine is the essential definition. I do know for a fact that it doesn't mean being the one that hits the hardest or causes the most pain. That's a little too sadistic for my soul to handle, and it is not who I am as a fighter.

I'm the kind of guy like going to toe to toe with another man and taking the absolute best he can throw at me. I love absorbing his shot and then holding on to my mental focus for dear life when my body is screaming at me to go down. I get new life when I see that look in my opponent's eyes; the flash of fire when they realize better than their best is the only way they are going to put me down.

At the same time, I know that the same rules apply to me: step up or get shut up. There is no other option. There is no beauty higher than that, violence taken from the savage to the civilized.

To me, strong style is a game of brinksmanship where redefining personal excellence is the only way to win.

I expect this from Rob Sharpe. I know I'll get it from Mark Storm and David Troy if I face either of them, and I'm not sure if I'll get it from the rest of the field. If not, their loss will be my gain.

Iron Japan and the folks in Tokyo are going to get my absolute best because I don't know any other way to be, and I refuse to accept defeat in this tournament. The winner becomes the inaugural Strong Crown Champion, the very definition of strong style in the company. That man, in turn, will be the one to mold the division in their image.

I want that challenge and distinction. I want to keep strong style pure from the pretenders. I want to prove that I am the living incarnation of what it truly means to be strong.
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