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AGGRESSION 67: Animezing Dragons (cc) vs. Point of View - Non-Title

Steve

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(FADEIN – To POINT OF VIEW in front of an EPW backdrop.)

JASON MURRAY: They say the whole world is a stage and it seemed it was for the last few years in my dad’s backyard where I perfected the frogsplash off the firs t story roof. I never imagined I – we—would be here so fast so quickly. It doesn’t seem real. I dreamt of this moment. There were a couple of brothers from across the ways who were backyard wrestlers in their own right. Maybe their videos weren’t quite as great. Outside of family of friends they had limited views, but it felt like a moment inviting them to the Murray household. We were battling for the tag titles, the titles were imaginary, but it felt like a big moment. Donnie and Luke. I remember the calm before the storm, sharing a Palermo’s pizza as Bronte checked over the ring. I built my own promotion from the ground up. Constructed the ring from spare parts. Sold tickets and marketed my videos.

The ring was a deathtrap of sorts, but the thing about it being YOURS is you know the dead spots and the places where you get the most lift. That afternoon, Eric and I beat the hell out of those kids and we did it all for positive viewer comments.

I reckon EPW isn’t that much different. The ring is tighter, the lights artificial, and we’re reaching a wider audience, but we know what it’s like to get nervous before a big match and have the pressure of having to execute. The embarrassment of having the Scott brothers walk off with a win in our backyard..literally, well I was going to do everything in my power to not let it happen. In the end, they took the fall with the benefit being an introduction into a wider realm.

You could say Dragons, the shoe is on the other foot now.

But from our POINT OF VIEW it shouldn’t be an embarrassment losing. We are the next wave of superstars, two men born and bred to win together. We have talent, not everybody in this business can say that. Heart? Desire? Will? Business Sense? Yes, but talent…no. We have it all, and the fun part now is proving it. I know we won’t be accepted wholly. What we’ve done the world we come from it’s looked down on by true professionals. I get that. But, our past got us here so in that sense it’s no more different than the road each of you took, outside of the fact we’re hitting EPW with a built in audience.

BRONTE LAKES: The internet is a gold mine if properly played but no one in this business is doing anything with it. Companies **** themselves because their content is uploaded without their permission. The New Frontier of Professional Wrestling has tried to shut down every site it can find for illegally enjoying its content. Why? We already have a hand in the market Dragons. But the question now is can we translate? What language will we speak in EPW…

ERIC BEACHY: DRAGONS! We were trained PERSONALLY by the greatest tag team in wrestling history Steve Fiennes and Chad Dandy, the CS Express. The team that started the tag revolution of the last twenty years, so less you think we’re just a couple of hicks who like to break out cheese graters, we have SKILL! We’re the hotness in the ring and to back it up we’ve got a professional foundation that most teams would love to have. I’M A 3-TIME HS ALL-AMERICAN. Grown men have been drooling over my athletic talent since I was fifteen years old. There wasn’t anything I couldn’t do on a football field, and there’s nothing I can't do in the wrestling ring. What we lack in experience we make up for in balls and ingenuity. EPW must want us to fail. Put the backyard clowns against its champions to be embarrassed and shut up. But Dragons, the creator of dynamite didn’t know he had something explosive until it was – TOO LATE.

JASON MURRAY: We’re EPW’s new POINT OF VIEW. Some of you won’t like what you see…

ERIC BEACHY: (slaps Jason on the back) Yeah, baby.

(FTB)
 

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[FADE IN to “The Dragon” leaning against the boot of his red 3.16i BMW in a small gravel car park near a river in the countryside. He’s dressed rather differently to normal, foregoing jeans for a pair of red tight-fitting casual shorts, with a black Animezing Dragon T-shirt and a pair of deck blue deck shoes. The sun is brilliant in the sky, reflecting off the river just to the edge of shot]

Karl: Summer’s almost here, and that always seems to brighten the mood. Of course, some people aren’t summer people; Otaku’s locked himself in his room back in the States to keep from getting too strong a tan, something about not wanting to look like Peach Girl. But for the rest of us, the sunshine brings more light, more joy, longer days and more opportunities. They’re everywhere.

Of course, my good mood could be down to seeing some wonderful improve comedy with MissImp in Nottingham last night. But the thought of new opportunities, of people coming through and grabbing their chance… it’s good to see.

Dreamstealers, they’re sure to get their opportunity soon. Whether they live up to the hype of their manager we’ll have to wait and see. Several times people have come in, been hyped by their manager, only to fade away quicker than a snuffed candle. It could be they’re fantastic elsewhere but fail when they get to Empire Pro. I’ve seen enough videos to have seen people be amazing in one company but fail in a different one. They get comfortable with what they know. It’s like… imagine a bird living its life in a cage. It gets used to its surroundings, and if there’re other birds in the cage as well it may be the top bird. But when they get outside the cage and spread their wings, they might find it more than they bargained for, so they’ll either go back into their familiar cage or go to another one rather than fly through the big wide world. I’ll believe the hype about Dreamstealers when I see them against Otaku and I.

I get to see in person another team who are after their shot at glory first, though. Point of View. It’s good to see two up and comers who are ready to try and grasp their opportunity with both hands.

Yep. Try. Because you can’t actually be sure you’ll seize the chance you’ve been given. I’ve seen people who, frankly, were better than me in almost every way, but they couldn’t grasp the chance. They had the skills, the power, the speed, the charisma, and they thought they had the heart. But… the bright lights, they’re unnerving if you’re not used to them or you’re not used to making a prat of yourself in public. You’ve had some time in front of small crowds, but if you’re like most people the lights, the sounds, the energy of the grand solar spectacle that is professional wrestling will put butterflies in your stomach to say the least.

Me, I’ve always been a little different. So, here’s some advice to get over the butterflies. Don’t give a damn what happens. Don’t give a damn what people say or whether people cheer, boo, or leave to go to the toilet during the match. Leave Dan to worry about those things. You shouldn’t even concentrate on blocking out the crowd and the surroundings – focus on the moment.

That’s the first piece of advice, from someone who’s been making a prat out of himself in sport, in music, in presenting and now in improvised comedy, since I was 8.

The second piece of advice, I have to give personally to you, Eric. 3 time All American? I honestly have no idea what an All American is, except people in the States think it’s impressive. It’s not something you want to focus on, especially with a Briton in the match. Even more so when you talk about people admiring your athletic talent since you were 15. I’ve already mentioned I started sport at 8, I was a black belt at 11, and I’m a Master in Taekwondo. At school I competed for the county in athletics and the three counties in rugby for three years, and placed well in national fencing competitions. From 18 to 21 I took time during holidays to travel to Canada, Japan, Mexico, Europe and the United States to train in professional wrestling. I’m now 29, with 21 years of training and athleticism behind me. Whatever an All American is, whether you’ve had people interested in you since you were 15, doesn’t really matter to me. It’s wasted effort.

Above all else, it’s wasted in this business. You may have natural sporting ability, but this isn’t something like boxing where you train intensively for a while and then take a few months off. It’s not even like when I did rugby and we had two matches a week. This business is seven days a week. Some of the people in it wrestle TV shows, house shows and tours across the country. I remember Blitz when they were in Empire Pro also competed in other continents, jetting back and forth to make tapings in the States. Cameron Cruise, Marcus Wescott, Christian Sands, Sean Stevens, The First, all competed in multiple venues. There’s a very different discipline to this competitive environment to anything you’re used to, a mental and physical discipline that is unlike anything else I’ve experienced.

I’m not trying to knock you – like I said, I haven’t a clue what an All American is, let alone a 3 time one. But nobody in Empire Pro is going to be impressed, because you need to prove you have the discipline for this environment. Anything you say about what you’ve done before means nothing until you’ve backed it up here.

Save your breath for now, and concentrate on the moment in front of you. You’ve got an opportunity that statistically nobody gets. Less than a fraction of a percentage of people in this business even make it to a major company, and you’ve got a chance to shine. A real opportunity, the same I had when I first laced up my boots for a professional match.

I took the chance, and I ran with it. I hope you guys can as well, because while it may sound like I’m pouring cold water on you, I know this business needs a future it can rely on. I’m nowhere near old enough to consider retirement, but hey, I’m considered a battle-weary veteran in some parts, so I guess I should pass out advice and hope it sticks.

Naturally, though, if you two want to grasp this opportunity, you have to beat Otaku and I at our best. There’s no chance of us underestimating you. Overestimating, maybe, we’ll see. I have a habit of overestimating other people in the ring, but I’m sure you guys are the same in that you’d prefer to be disappointed that the challenge wasn’t what you expected instead of disappointed you weren’t as good as you thought you’d be.

It wouldn’t do anyone any favours for any of us to give this anything less than the best we can on the night.

Well, I better head off. I’ve got a bit of a drive and a Eurovision show to present tonight. Think on what I’ve said, and remember – win or lose for you, how you handle yourselves will say far more than your experience, or your history.

[FADE OUT]
 

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(FADEIN: JIMMY MYLDE sitting at his desk, papers neatly stacked to the left and right. His hair is slicked back, and he's wearing his signature polo and sunglasses)

MYLDE: "Karl, baby, do you REALLY think I'd bring a team to Empire Pro Wrestling that was all hype and no bite? See, I don't know what you might've heard, but Uncle Jimmy doesn't operate like that. The Dreamstealers taking those straps off the Dragons...it's IN THE BAG. Now if you were a smart man, Karl, which you're not...you would place that bet NOW, refuse the power tag from Otaku while my boys take him apart, and we'd split the pot four ways, with an extra 20% owed to Mylde Management for handling provisions, training expenses, travel, and fealty."

"Now if you really, REALLY want to meet The Dreamstealers, just like millions of rock and roll fans all around this rockin' globe, tell you what...the Mylde One's gonna grant your request. At Aggression 67, not ONLY will The Dreamstealers make their EPW debut, but they're going to demonstrate the greatness and POWER of their rock and roll celebrity, without lifting so much as a finger."

"Just see to it, Karl, that you don't embarrass yourselves against a couple of backyard wrestling Drop D-tards stuck in a Gen-X time warp, and keep your mojo fresh for the REAL THING. The Dreamstealers are tuning this bastard up to a power chord, bringin' it BACK to '87, cutting the sleeves off every man, woman, and child, and showing 'em how to RUN WITH THE DEVIL!"

(FADEOUT)
 

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[FADE IN to the World Tag Team Champions, Animezing Dragon, standing in front of an Empire Pro Wrestling “Aggression” backdrop. “The Dragon” is dressed ready to head to the ring, while Otaku looks to be channelling Kurogane from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles]

Karl: Time moves ever forward. I’d be amazed if that stopped. What doesn’t amaze me, though, is someone who wasn’t paying much attention.

Otaku: Hey! I said I was sorry for forgetting your latte!

Karl: Not that, the walk back to Starbucks was a nice one.

Otaku: Oh! You mean Myl-dew-san!

Karl: Mildew?

Otaku: Hai.

Karl: Interesting. Not really.

Otaku: Meanie!

Karl: Mylde or I?

Otaku: Ooooh, and grammatically correct! You. Myldew-san’s a baka.

[“The Dragon” shakes his head sarcastically as Otaku continues]

Otaku: I mean you made it clear, Dragon-domo. Dreamstealers haven’t done anything in Empire Pro. They’ve not made it here. They could make it everywhere else and still fail here. It’s simple! I made it outside, I failed here, went away and made it, came back and made it. Loads of people have made it elsewhere, come here and couldn’t make it. I know his job is to hype them up but how’s anyone going to know how good they are until the prove it? How are they going to know they can make it here until they do, hm? The strife you face in Empire Pro is different to the strife you face elsewhere!

Karl: [singing in a tuneless way] “Everywhere has its own strife…”

Otaku: Exactly!

Karl: How about we focus on Point of View rather than Dreamstealers? Chances are they’ll be cliché and attack after the match but we can deal with that eventuality should it arise.

Otaku: Hai.

Karl: [Under his breath] Baka [At normal volume] Not long to go now. Animezing Dragon taking on Point of View. Naturally people are thinking it’s going to be a cakewalk for us. We’re the established guys. We’re the tag team champions

Otaku: Two time champions!

Karl: Apparently we have nothing to gain and almost everything to lose in this match.

Otaku: Well, we do.

Karl: Really? From the sound of it, Point of View are the more established team.

Otaku: Huh?

Karl: We’ve been teaming a few months. We live in different countries. We didn’t really speak to each other outside of shows before we got teamed together. These guys have worked their way up together. In terms of team work, being on the same page, being able to react instinctively as a unit, they should have the advantage. We’re the bigger names, sure, and we are more experienced individually, but there’s more to it than numbers.

Otaku: So

Karl: If they manage to beat us it’s going to cause damage to our reputations, but I’ve never rested on a reputation.

Otaku: Erm… I’m confused but maybe you could explain that to me later.

Karl: Good idea. I’ve noticed people don’t always see the relevance when I start talking about things like that.

Otaku: Hai.

Karl: Point of View have to ask themselves – will they still be proud leaving everything in the ring if they get caught short? And I don’t mean they give us a run for our money but the champions pull it out of the bag in the cliché way you might expect in something like Rocky. I mean are they ready for one of the alternatives – are Dreamstealers for that matter – that they show up, get to the ring, and everything goes wrong. They climb the steps, falling face first into them. They step through the ropes, we come out, and in seconds the match is over, they’ve lost, and we’ve not broken a sweat.

Otaku: That’s what I thought you were telling Myl-dew-san!

Karl: It’s always a possibility. It’s something I’ve seen happen.

Otaku: Could happen to us, couldn’t it?

Karl: There’s a remote possibility you’ll get lost in your head and trip, yeah.

Otaku: Hey!

Karl: I don’t know what’s going to happen. This match could be explosive or a damp squib. I just want them to know what they’ll do if things go totally pear shaped. I don’t want to waste time holding their hands as they throw a tantrum in the middle of the ring.

Otaku: They can go back on their journey once they find the feather.

Karl: OK, what?

Otaku: You haven’t watched the DVD I sent you?

Karl: I seldom do.

Otaku: Grrr!

Karl: Kidding. I just haven’t gotten to it.

Otaku: Grrr!

Karl: Now, take that anger and unleash it at Aggression!

Otaku: I know people expect you to be teachery but you’re a jerk sometimes, ya know that?

Karl: Yup.

Otaku: It’s cool, though. I mean, Point of View have ta, you know, put everything they have into grabbing this chance, we’ve gotta give it everything so we don’t embarrass ourselves, or so I don’t embarrass me because you don’t really embarrass, everyone has to put on their best otherwise there’s no point doing this.

Karl: You’re running your thoughts together again.

Otaku: Whatever!

Karl: Just be ready. If you want to prove me wrong, Point of View, proof it. If Dreamstealers want to get involved, do it.

But remember – Otaku’s a little weird, I’m a little weird. I’m also still one of the best at what I do. Try and mess with a Dragon, and you have to be prepared to get burned.

[FADE…]

Otaku: WAIT!!

[back in!]

Otaku: Hey, just remembered something that can’t wait for the after voice over thingy. Dynamite. Invented as a safer-to-transport explosive, so Nobel knew what he was doing. Look it up!

Karl: Look who’s done some reading outside of manga! I’m so proud.

Otaku: Weirdo.

[FADE…]

Voice: Next time on Animezing Dragon…

Otaku: Hey everyone! Otaku here! This time we’re not on a magic quest, we’re on a mission to test and train the newbies! They’re making lots of mistakes, but Dragon-domo-sensai and I will have them ready to go before their first mission!

Next time, on Animezing Dragon – New Beginnings! I can’t wait. So proud…


[END]
 

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(FADEIN: Jason Murray, Eric Beachy, and Bronte Lakes in front of an EPW AGGRESSION backdrop.)

JASON MURRAY: Thanks for the advice Karl. It’s sound. It’s…fatherly in a way. Take it slow, appreciate the moment, it’s not about winning and losing, right? (Jason looks at Eric and sneers.)

See, I was never one of those kids who voted for not keeping score. I didn’t have to be spoon fed the facts of life. Little league baseball games or, Rugby if you will, they don’t have to end in ties to spare a kid’s feelings. We’re all winners in the Dragons’ book. That’s nice to hear, but as World Champions that’s the luxury you have, you can stand on the mountaintop and color the world as you see it, but I’m not interested in painting happy little trees Karl. The world we know is more violet, and it sure as hell isn’t fair.

(Jason rubs his hands through his hair as Bronte rubs his back.)

You can never get any moment in time back, one moment you’re eight year-old sledding down a snow covered hill in Kentucky and the next you’ve been opened up between your eyes by a friend’s errant elbow. Which moment do I appreciate more now? Which one brings a sense of melancholy and marks the end of my youth? You might be surprised by the answer. There was a kid at Fiennes and Dandy’s school, one of the best students in our class. He was going to be a star in this business, there was zero doubt about that. But one night after a training session, he drank a little too much and later that evening drove his pickup through a five hundred year old oak tree. Our next moment could be our last. So, I learned pretty early to appreciate what’s given --- right now.

(Jason taps his heart)

I suspect there are a lot of people who want Point of View to be taught a lesson. Maybe you’ll be willing to do it with a handshake at the end, but Karl we’re not afraid of failing. We’re not afraid of getting up tomorrow and finding ourselves in a hole. But in this age of social media we’re all stars in the making. Our time is NOW. We want Warhol’s 15 minutes, and in Andy’s head 15 minutes could last twelve years. But, this is our time. We’re desperate to be stars, because if you’re not broadcast, if you don’t have millions of followers you’re nobody in this world, and unlike anybody in my family, I want to be remembered. If you wait your turn you could be dead before the controller is passed off. No, Karl, EPW may be your canvas but you don’t completely understand what you have to work with at AGGRESSION and by the time you do, it’ll be too late.

ERIC BEACHY: You don’t have to understand my athletic highlights, they’re better understood in the ring anyway. I think we’ll enjoy the challenge, Brown. I like competing against someone who’s highly capable in the ring, someone who pushes me beyond what I’ve learned. But I don’t reckon anyone leaves to take a pee break when Point Of View hits the ring. If you’re telling me not to notice the droves of people who normally leave during your matches to relieve themselves then you really don’t understand why Jason and I (slap hands) were brought here. You haven’t connected the dots yet as to why we’ve been put in the ring with you right out the gate. The tag division needs SOMETHING you can’t give. It needs another POINT OF VIEW.

JASON MURRAY: The thousands of views on youtube, the twitter followers. Dragon we’ve got an audience before stepping into an EPW ring. They want to see what Eric and I can do. They want to see us do the crazy **** we’ve done in my backyard. The forum will be a little different, but the talent is the same. We’re so ready for this, we wake up every day wishing it was debut day. We’ve played the match a 100 times in our heads. And with Bronte leading the way, we’ve studied HOURS of your ringwork. We know exactly where you’re vulnerable and what combination you won’t ever see coming.

BRONTE LAKES: Dragons, you’ve been great champions, but every #1 billboard chart topper is eventually replaced with something new and fresh. I said we’d be Tag Champs by the end of the summer and when my baby Jason and Spotlight leave the ring, by default the belts will stay on but every morning after when your alarm clock wakes you you’ll know you’re just one day closer to getting BACK in that right and dropping them to their new POV. You don’t have to call me prophetic I just see the sea of change coming across EPW like a tidal wave.

ERIC BEACHY: We were trained by the best Dragons. It will be an honor stepping into that ring with you, but when the bell rings the SPOTLIGHT will be on me where it always has been since I was old enough to know I was special. At AGGRESSION you’ll find out first hand not only do Jason and I play hard, we always play to win.

JASON MURRAY: Truth be told! Yeah! (slaps Eric on the back.)

(FTB)
 

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