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| A Change of Pace; <Joe> | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 1 2018, 12:07 AM (20 Views) | |
| Joe Stanton | Mar 1 2018, 12:07 AM Post #1 |
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A montage plays of Joe Stanton matches, initially starting with some of his less hardcore Full Intensity Wrestling matches it transitions gradually into his time in Death Trip Wrestling & IJPW. Soundbytes play, snippets from various calls from various announcers over the footage till it ends on the main event of IJPW's first show. Stanton, worse for wear, holding the IJPW Death Crown Championship high in victory with tears in his eyes. The montage fades out and the scene is a simple dojo where Stanton is standing in front of a punching bag with the IJPW Death Crown Championship over his shoulder. "You know, it might seem obvious but I love professional wrestling." Stanton states pointedly with a shrug. "And, I mean I love professional wrestling. All of it. Every style, every type of match, every stipulation or manner of doing it, I love it all, I love that this is a sport where Ironman matches exist but so do Firecracker Deathmatches. I know some of you might be wondering the point of me saying this but I feel like it is an understated thing in our profession, a lot of people you meet only like professional wrestling for one aspect of it. They like technical wrestling, they only like lucha, they like a more colorful roster, they like a more bare bones fight club presentation, they only like the most violent shit in the world." The IJPW Death Crown Champion rolls his hand at the wrist in a sort of "You get the idea" gesture. "They love professional wrestling conditionally. And, I'm not going to be the guy that splits hairs and tries to debate what wrestling is or isn't, or what love is or isn't. They love it the way they do, great, but as for me? I love this weird, fucked up sport unconditionally, warts and all. I love that in one trip to Japan I can go from wrestling whatever crazy ideas DTW has devised to working a hard hitting tag team match with Aaron in KAMIKAZE. I loved that in FIW on any given week I could be fighting against a dude possessed by a demon, a shooter, a luchador, a technician, or some pissed off mountain man looking to split my wig." Shaking his head about the idea of him trying to play judge, jury and executioner for wrestlers at large, there's a certain glow to his eyes when he talks about his love of pro-wrestling. An excitement, an eagerness, a bloodlust when he talks about the different situations he can find himself in. "I'm incredibly proud of the accomplishment I have achieved in IJPW already, I'm proud of the matches I put on, and I'm proud to be the first IJPW Death Crown Champion. It's why I've taken this championship with me to wherever I end up since winning it, UKWF, SAP, NJFC, Union Battleground, everywhere I go it has gone with. It's like I said, I want to elevate professional wrestling as a whole, I want to elevate every promotion I work for, every opponent I'm put in there with in every match I'm booked in. Because elevating this sport is only going to help everyone in the long run." Sliding the championship off of his shoulder, Stanton stares down at the title in his hands when he talks about IJPW and what he's achieved in the promotion. His green eyes laser focus in on the camera lens when he talks about the different promotions he's taken this title with him to. Speaking passionately but carefully when he talks of trying to do his part to better pro-wrestling. "But...variety is the spice of life, it's the spice of pro-wrestling for me too. It's why as honored as I am to be the Death Crown Champion my attention at Tokyo Turmoil won't be first and foremost on the championship I have in my hands. It will be a secondary focus to the Strong Crown Championship that the eight of us are vying for, eight of the hardest hitting bastards this sport has ever seen step into that ring. My focus will be on putting on memorable match after memorable match like I did on our first show and making my way to the finals to become the Strong Crown Champion." Crouching down, Joe looks back down at the championship he's practically cradling in his arms and he slowly & very carefully sets it at his feet. Staying crouched, he continues to stare at it as he speaks of his goals in this tournament. "I'm no stranger to the strong style action Japan has become known for. For as much as I was trained in Chicago, I was forged in the fires of a dojo not unlike the one I'm in right now in Japan too when I got the call to tour all those years ago. There's nothing quite like your first training session and your teacher chopping your chest till you see flakes of skin come off with every strike and it starts bleeding from the abuse. It's not glamorous, it's not for everybody, but it toughens your skin for the long road ahead of you as a warrior." Maybe subconsciously Joe rubs his chest through his tank top when he talks about the chops he received on his first day in the dojo. "I'm a hard hitter, always have been, why I've probably always felt more at home in Japan or a promotion that was trying to emulate the style over here. Too often you get promotions that shy away from it, that frown upon you going too crazy with the strike, especially when a state athletic commission is involved. And, you want to drop some guy on his head with a suplex or a driver or whatever? In some states you still need to pay a fine for every single one you perform, who has time to think about what you can or can't use in your arsenal in the middle of a fucking fight?" Cracking his right hand's knuckles, he palms his right hand's fist in his left hand while he talks about the disadvantages of wrestling in some states in America. There's a pronounced frown when he brings up state athletic commissions, he's had some headaches with them in the past. Very much for the reasons he mentions yet he can't help but smile & have to stifle a laugh when he talks about trying to remember what moves are okay & what moves aren't in some states. "What I'm trying to say is that I look across the names in this tournament and I couldn't be more stoked to be apart of it, at the prospect of facing all of them in the environment we've been thrown into. Hell, even the guy I have in the first round, Keiji Sugiwara, goes by the Last Emperor and he's out of NGW's developmental promotion, WCGenesis. I've heard the name but up until this tournament I'm going to be honest, I hadn't seen any footage of this guy till I was studying him for our match. He does stuff I couldn't do on my best days with that high flying stuff but he also hits like a fucking mule with his knees and specifically his elbows that he dishes out." There's a certain almost child like quality to the excitement on Stanton's face when he talks about what this tournament is providing him with, mentioning Sugiwara. "This is the kind of thing I thrive on, matches with guys I've never fought before or hell in the case of Sugiwara barely even knew till we were booked across from each other! If I make it by him, I got by the looks of it Mark Storm or David Troy, a world class traveler or a guy who is on the rise in the industry?! Beyond them who the hell even knows who could come out of the other half of the brackets?! Could be one of the Menagerie, could be a Dog of War, another world class athlete in Edwards, or my old friend Sharpe!" The Scarlet Speedster is borderline licking his lips at the possibilities. "Strong Crown Championship Tournament? Let's. Fucking. Go!" Snatching the Death Crown Championship up and popping up straight, the One Punch Man let's out the last bit like a battle cry to finish the promotional material. |
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