Post by amyzing on Jun 8, 2015 6:10:38 GMT -6
Amy Zing lays stretched out on a carpet. Her hands are folded on her stomach. She gazes upward at the ceiling.
“A few months ago, I challenged Ashley Kenyon for the UWA North American Championship after losing the Television Championship at Cataclysm to the current champion Lacey Roberts. Everyone said it was my shot at redemption. They said it was my chance to get over the loss to Lacey and move on with my career. They all said that beating Ashley for the North American Championship would wipe away the loss at Cataclysm.”
Amy sighs and shakes her head a bit.
“They were wrong. Beating Ashley Kenyon for the North American Championship would not have been redemption for losing the UWA Television Championship to Lacey Roberts.”
“The Hong Kong Sensation” tilts her head to look upwards. She reaches up and picks something up with her hand, pulling it down towards her. It is a framed photo of the night at Raising Hell 2014 when she defeated Bob Brooks, Skylar, and J-Shades to become the first UWA Television Champion. The photo shows Amy raising the title as the referee lifts her arm at the moment her name was announced as the winner and champion.
“To this day, I wonder why I had been given the shot at the Television Championship at Raising Hell. I came in to the UWA and lost every single match I competed in, until I beat J-Shades. Then, next thing I know, I am in a fatal fourway on a pay-per-view to determine the first ever UWA Television Champion. Bob Brooks, Skylar, J-Shades and I had been given this huge opportunity to make history. Each of them had been here awhile and won matches, at least more than I did, and somehow, I was in this match. I knew I didn’t deserve to be in the match. There were tons of people that deserved the opportunity more than I did, but somehow I was in the match.”
“And, even though I knew I didn't deserve the chance, I was going to at least make the most of it. I never thought I would win. I never thought I’d do it. I never, in the wildest dreams that I allowed myself to have before the match, I never though I would end up as the UWA Television Champion.”
The former UWA Television Champion allows herself a smile.
“And yet, somehow, someway, I did. Somehow, someway, I became the UWA Television Champion at Raising Hell. Somehow, someway, I was the one who made history and became the first ever Television Champion.”
She sets the photo down as she sits up to reveal that she in her living room at her home. The sun comes through the open windows. A light breeze moves the curtains of her windows. Outside are the sounds of people of San Francisco, California who are going about their lives like any other day.
“I never expected to win the title. In all honesty, I never expect to win any match. It is why I never promise or guarantee victory. I wrestle the way I do because I go into every single match expecting to lose, but with the absolutely belief that I can win. I leave everything I have in the ring each and every time I walk into the ring because I go into each match not expecting to win but trying as hard as I can to win. I either somehow pull off the victory, or I lose, but I will be damned if I make it easy on the person who beats me. I never expect to win, but I never give up trying to win. I will never give up. I will never quit. No matter the odds, no matter how outclassed or outnumbered I may be, I am not going to give up. The day I tap out, the day someone makes me quit, is the day I walk away from wrestling. No matter how badly I get beat, no matter how many times my shoulders hit the mat, as long as I can fight, I will fight. As long as I can get back up, I will get back up. I may never expect to win, but I believe I can win, and I will always fight to win. I only lose, I only fail, if I quit. The day I tap out, that I finally say the words “I quit” is the day I walk away from wrestling forever.”
Amy stops talking as she catches herself rambling. She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. Slowly, she exhales and opens her eyes. She glances back down at the picture.
“I never expected to win the UWA Television Championship, but I went into the match last year fully intending to try and win the title and the match. Somehow, someway, I won the match. Somehow, someway, I became the first UWA Television Champion.”
“I did it. I never thought I would. I believed I was capable of doing it, but I never actually thought I would win. That surprise, that joy in my face when I was handed the title, it was real. Being there, holding that title up, with my name being announced as the winner, the fans cheering and celebrating with me, it was such...such the great moment.”
“Then to have Lacey Roberts walk up, someone who had already beaten me before, and tell me I did not deserve the title and that I did not even deserve to be in the UWA was really hurtful. I wanted to shut her up. I really wanted to take her head off. I didn't get any of those things done. I lost.”
Amy sighs.
“At Cataclysm, Lacey Roberts beat me to become the new UWA Television Champion.”
Amy gets back to her feet, picking the photo up. She sets it up on the small bookcase she uses to hold the memories of her career, like photos and her collection of postcards of every place she’s ever wrestled. As she sets the photo down, her eyes move to another picture. The photo shows her shaking hands with Robin Hood, her longtime rival in the APW, at the finally APW when Robin beat her and Young Mannie to regain the North American Championship Amy had beaten her for months ago. The moment captures the moment their rivalry, their war, ended.
“I don’t mind losing. It’s part of the job. No undefeated streak lasts forever. Honestly, mine never really began here in the UWA, but that loss got to me, because Lacey just hit that right nerve, because while I have had people telling me I would never make it. But, I have never had anyone tell me I never deserved everything I worked so hard to attain or that I did not deserve to be here. That was insulting. She said she could take the title whenever she wanted, like I was just holding it for her until she was ready was a slap in the face. She guaranteed a victory at Cataclysm, and that she would become champion and she did. It wasn’t a lucky pin or a fast count or outside interference. She put me through a table and pinned me for the Television Championship. She said she was going to win and she did.”
“The Hong Kong Sensatiuon” turns away from her photos and postcards.
“For nearly six months, I have had to watch her carry around the Television Championship knowing I am the person she beat for the title, knowing she did exactly what she said she was going to do and knowing that I was not able to beat her.”
“Now I am not going to ever say that Lacey Roberts did not earn the victory. She beat me as fair and square as can happen in a street fight, which, when you consider that there are no rules in the match, is saying quite a bit. I gave it my best effort, but in the end it was not enough to win, and I am willing to admit that. Cataclysm was her night.”
“I will also not say that Lacey Roberts has not been a great champion. I may not like her personally. I do not think she’s a role model or a nice person. To be honest, I haven’t a bit of use for her as a person. However, I cannot deny that Lacey Roberts has been a successful Television Champion, and I think she’s held the title longer that I held it. She’s a tough competitor, and I feel like she could really be successful in the UWA. She was born into this business and it shows. I don’t know if it gives her an advantage, but it shows.”
“I believe I can beat Lacey Roberts. I know I can do it. But when it came time to prove it, I did not do it. She said she would beat me to become Television Champion and did.”
She takes a deep breath and shakes her head.
“There was no way at all that beating Ashley Kenyon and becoming UWA Television Champion would have been redemption. Yes, it was a huge opportunity and it would have been a huge win. But it would not have been redemption. This match, however, this chance I have to beat Lacey Roberts for the UWA Television Championship would be redemption.”
“Now I am sure Lacey Roberts will tell me I do not deserve this match. And she has a valid point. I have not won a single match since I lost at Cataclysm. Not a single victory in that whole time. Now, I will admit that I do not wrestle often, but that does not take away from the fact that I haven’t won a match since last December, which really does not hurt her argument that I do not deserve a title shot. She had the same argument before I had the match with Ashley Kenyon, who defended the match, but this time, it’s really a valid argument.”
“I failed to beat Ashley for the North American Championship. And I can say it was because of outside interference, which is completely true, but I am not going to blame others because I did not win. I have no way of knowing if I actually would have won the match had Vince Jones not interfered, but it certainly did not help. And while on the subject of Vince Jones, I didn’t beat him at Tragic Engagement. I didn’t even make it to my match against Breaker. So I have not exactly racked up a lot of wins these last few weeks.”
“This is the first rematch, the first opportunity a former champion has ever had to regain a title in UWA history. If I win, if I beat Lacey Roberts and become the new Television Champion, I not only become the first two-time UWA Television Champion, the first person in to ever regain a title and the first two-time champion ever in the UWA. It is a huge honor. It’s history. Do I deserve it? I know Lacey would more than likely say no as she was of the opinion I did not deserve to be in the UWA, much less deserved to ever have been Television Champion. My fans say would probably say yes, I deserve it. I, myself, would say I don’t think I deserve the honor, but I am going to take the opportunity presented to me.”
“And I know she will talk about the fact that she beat me, and she has every right to. She beat me in one of my first matches here. She beat me to become Television Champion. By all logic, she should be able to be beat me again at Monday Night Mayhem. When you consider that I have only once ever actually beaten her, and it was in a tag team match, the odds are really more in her favor of victory than they are of mine.”
“But I honestly do not care about the odds. Yes, I do not have a great record against Lacey Roberts. Yeah, she’s beaten me a few times, but I do not care. I know I can beat Lacey Roberts. I believe that I can beat Lacey Roberts. But I know believing I can do it, and knowing I can do it is totally different than actually doing it. I need to prove that I can beat Lacey Roberts one-on-one.”
“They say that in a title match a challenger has everything to gain and nothing to lose. I do not see it that way at all when it comes to this match. Opportunities at redemption do not come along every day. I will never have this chance at redemption, of defeating Lacey Roberts for the Television Championship again. Yes, Lacey and I may meet again, and I may win that match, but she may not have the Television Champions, and while it will be redemption, it will not be as perfect a redemption as this is.”
“You do not have to beat me Lacey. We both know that. A count out or disqualification allows you to retain the UWA Television Championship. And I cannot imagine you feel a huge need to show people that you can beat me. We both know that you can beat me. You’ve done it twice. But, what I know you will not do, what you can not do, is get me to tap out. You will never get me to quit. You can pin me, but you will never get me to tap out Lacey. I am coming to fight.”
“All logic says I am going into this match and I am getting my ass kicked. I am sure the experts probably have me putting up a great fight, and a valiant effort, but it will be futile as Lacey Roberts ultimately puts me down on the mat and retains the Television Championship. And they have a valid argument for it. They really do. If I wasn’t in the match, I would expect Lacey to win. But I am in the match, and I have no intentions of letting her win this match.”
“Lacey Roberts can say whatever she wants about me, whether or not I deserve this title shot, and her innate superiority over me, and she is more than welcome to. All the experts can say whatever they want about how I am probably going to lose this match, that I will not make history, and it would be hard to argue against that given my career history and record. But I do not care what Lacey or the experts say. There will be hundreds of people cheering me in the arena. There will be thousands more watching UWA Monday Night Mayhem to see me face Lacey Roberts. They know and they believe that I can beat Lacey Roberts, become Television Champion and make history. They know and they believe I can get the redemption I need to get.”
“I do not care about making history Lacey. This is the redemption everyone thought I would get with Ashley Kenyon and the North American Championship. I am coming with absolutely everything I have Lacey. I am leaving nothing behind, but I will leave absolutely everything in the ring. I may crash and burn, I may go down in a blaze of glory, but I am going to do my best to take you with me. I burn, you are coming with me.”
“The Hong Kong Sensation” Amy Zing touches the picture of when she became Television Champion. She takes her hand off it, balling her hands into fists as she looks upwards.
“At Monday Night Mayhem, I am coming for the Television Champion. I am coming to kick your bloody head off and maybe shut that big mouth of yours. I am coming for redemption. At Monday Night Mayhem, I am coming to show you once and for all what every single person who believes in my has been shown again and again. At Monday Night Mayhem, I am going to show you why I am simply Amy Zing!”
The scene fades out as Amy walks away from the photos. The camera fades to black on the image of Amy Zing holding up the Television Championship.
“A few months ago, I challenged Ashley Kenyon for the UWA North American Championship after losing the Television Championship at Cataclysm to the current champion Lacey Roberts. Everyone said it was my shot at redemption. They said it was my chance to get over the loss to Lacey and move on with my career. They all said that beating Ashley for the North American Championship would wipe away the loss at Cataclysm.”
Amy sighs and shakes her head a bit.
“They were wrong. Beating Ashley Kenyon for the North American Championship would not have been redemption for losing the UWA Television Championship to Lacey Roberts.”
“The Hong Kong Sensation” tilts her head to look upwards. She reaches up and picks something up with her hand, pulling it down towards her. It is a framed photo of the night at Raising Hell 2014 when she defeated Bob Brooks, Skylar, and J-Shades to become the first UWA Television Champion. The photo shows Amy raising the title as the referee lifts her arm at the moment her name was announced as the winner and champion.
“To this day, I wonder why I had been given the shot at the Television Championship at Raising Hell. I came in to the UWA and lost every single match I competed in, until I beat J-Shades. Then, next thing I know, I am in a fatal fourway on a pay-per-view to determine the first ever UWA Television Champion. Bob Brooks, Skylar, J-Shades and I had been given this huge opportunity to make history. Each of them had been here awhile and won matches, at least more than I did, and somehow, I was in this match. I knew I didn’t deserve to be in the match. There were tons of people that deserved the opportunity more than I did, but somehow I was in the match.”
“And, even though I knew I didn't deserve the chance, I was going to at least make the most of it. I never thought I would win. I never thought I’d do it. I never, in the wildest dreams that I allowed myself to have before the match, I never though I would end up as the UWA Television Champion.”
The former UWA Television Champion allows herself a smile.
“And yet, somehow, someway, I did. Somehow, someway, I became the UWA Television Champion at Raising Hell. Somehow, someway, I was the one who made history and became the first ever Television Champion.”
She sets the photo down as she sits up to reveal that she in her living room at her home. The sun comes through the open windows. A light breeze moves the curtains of her windows. Outside are the sounds of people of San Francisco, California who are going about their lives like any other day.
“I never expected to win the title. In all honesty, I never expect to win any match. It is why I never promise or guarantee victory. I wrestle the way I do because I go into every single match expecting to lose, but with the absolutely belief that I can win. I leave everything I have in the ring each and every time I walk into the ring because I go into each match not expecting to win but trying as hard as I can to win. I either somehow pull off the victory, or I lose, but I will be damned if I make it easy on the person who beats me. I never expect to win, but I never give up trying to win. I will never give up. I will never quit. No matter the odds, no matter how outclassed or outnumbered I may be, I am not going to give up. The day I tap out, the day someone makes me quit, is the day I walk away from wrestling. No matter how badly I get beat, no matter how many times my shoulders hit the mat, as long as I can fight, I will fight. As long as I can get back up, I will get back up. I may never expect to win, but I believe I can win, and I will always fight to win. I only lose, I only fail, if I quit. The day I tap out, that I finally say the words “I quit” is the day I walk away from wrestling forever.”
Amy stops talking as she catches herself rambling. She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. Slowly, she exhales and opens her eyes. She glances back down at the picture.
“I never expected to win the UWA Television Championship, but I went into the match last year fully intending to try and win the title and the match. Somehow, someway, I won the match. Somehow, someway, I became the first UWA Television Champion.”
“I did it. I never thought I would. I believed I was capable of doing it, but I never actually thought I would win. That surprise, that joy in my face when I was handed the title, it was real. Being there, holding that title up, with my name being announced as the winner, the fans cheering and celebrating with me, it was such...such the great moment.”
“Then to have Lacey Roberts walk up, someone who had already beaten me before, and tell me I did not deserve the title and that I did not even deserve to be in the UWA was really hurtful. I wanted to shut her up. I really wanted to take her head off. I didn't get any of those things done. I lost.”
Amy sighs.
“At Cataclysm, Lacey Roberts beat me to become the new UWA Television Champion.”
Amy gets back to her feet, picking the photo up. She sets it up on the small bookcase she uses to hold the memories of her career, like photos and her collection of postcards of every place she’s ever wrestled. As she sets the photo down, her eyes move to another picture. The photo shows her shaking hands with Robin Hood, her longtime rival in the APW, at the finally APW when Robin beat her and Young Mannie to regain the North American Championship Amy had beaten her for months ago. The moment captures the moment their rivalry, their war, ended.
“I don’t mind losing. It’s part of the job. No undefeated streak lasts forever. Honestly, mine never really began here in the UWA, but that loss got to me, because Lacey just hit that right nerve, because while I have had people telling me I would never make it. But, I have never had anyone tell me I never deserved everything I worked so hard to attain or that I did not deserve to be here. That was insulting. She said she could take the title whenever she wanted, like I was just holding it for her until she was ready was a slap in the face. She guaranteed a victory at Cataclysm, and that she would become champion and she did. It wasn’t a lucky pin or a fast count or outside interference. She put me through a table and pinned me for the Television Championship. She said she was going to win and she did.”
“The Hong Kong Sensatiuon” turns away from her photos and postcards.
“For nearly six months, I have had to watch her carry around the Television Championship knowing I am the person she beat for the title, knowing she did exactly what she said she was going to do and knowing that I was not able to beat her.”
“Now I am not going to ever say that Lacey Roberts did not earn the victory. She beat me as fair and square as can happen in a street fight, which, when you consider that there are no rules in the match, is saying quite a bit. I gave it my best effort, but in the end it was not enough to win, and I am willing to admit that. Cataclysm was her night.”
“I will also not say that Lacey Roberts has not been a great champion. I may not like her personally. I do not think she’s a role model or a nice person. To be honest, I haven’t a bit of use for her as a person. However, I cannot deny that Lacey Roberts has been a successful Television Champion, and I think she’s held the title longer that I held it. She’s a tough competitor, and I feel like she could really be successful in the UWA. She was born into this business and it shows. I don’t know if it gives her an advantage, but it shows.”
“I believe I can beat Lacey Roberts. I know I can do it. But when it came time to prove it, I did not do it. She said she would beat me to become Television Champion and did.”
She takes a deep breath and shakes her head.
“There was no way at all that beating Ashley Kenyon and becoming UWA Television Champion would have been redemption. Yes, it was a huge opportunity and it would have been a huge win. But it would not have been redemption. This match, however, this chance I have to beat Lacey Roberts for the UWA Television Championship would be redemption.”
“Now I am sure Lacey Roberts will tell me I do not deserve this match. And she has a valid point. I have not won a single match since I lost at Cataclysm. Not a single victory in that whole time. Now, I will admit that I do not wrestle often, but that does not take away from the fact that I haven’t won a match since last December, which really does not hurt her argument that I do not deserve a title shot. She had the same argument before I had the match with Ashley Kenyon, who defended the match, but this time, it’s really a valid argument.”
“I failed to beat Ashley for the North American Championship. And I can say it was because of outside interference, which is completely true, but I am not going to blame others because I did not win. I have no way of knowing if I actually would have won the match had Vince Jones not interfered, but it certainly did not help. And while on the subject of Vince Jones, I didn’t beat him at Tragic Engagement. I didn’t even make it to my match against Breaker. So I have not exactly racked up a lot of wins these last few weeks.”
“This is the first rematch, the first opportunity a former champion has ever had to regain a title in UWA history. If I win, if I beat Lacey Roberts and become the new Television Champion, I not only become the first two-time UWA Television Champion, the first person in to ever regain a title and the first two-time champion ever in the UWA. It is a huge honor. It’s history. Do I deserve it? I know Lacey would more than likely say no as she was of the opinion I did not deserve to be in the UWA, much less deserved to ever have been Television Champion. My fans say would probably say yes, I deserve it. I, myself, would say I don’t think I deserve the honor, but I am going to take the opportunity presented to me.”
“And I know she will talk about the fact that she beat me, and she has every right to. She beat me in one of my first matches here. She beat me to become Television Champion. By all logic, she should be able to be beat me again at Monday Night Mayhem. When you consider that I have only once ever actually beaten her, and it was in a tag team match, the odds are really more in her favor of victory than they are of mine.”
“But I honestly do not care about the odds. Yes, I do not have a great record against Lacey Roberts. Yeah, she’s beaten me a few times, but I do not care. I know I can beat Lacey Roberts. I believe that I can beat Lacey Roberts. But I know believing I can do it, and knowing I can do it is totally different than actually doing it. I need to prove that I can beat Lacey Roberts one-on-one.”
“They say that in a title match a challenger has everything to gain and nothing to lose. I do not see it that way at all when it comes to this match. Opportunities at redemption do not come along every day. I will never have this chance at redemption, of defeating Lacey Roberts for the Television Championship again. Yes, Lacey and I may meet again, and I may win that match, but she may not have the Television Champions, and while it will be redemption, it will not be as perfect a redemption as this is.”
“You do not have to beat me Lacey. We both know that. A count out or disqualification allows you to retain the UWA Television Championship. And I cannot imagine you feel a huge need to show people that you can beat me. We both know that you can beat me. You’ve done it twice. But, what I know you will not do, what you can not do, is get me to tap out. You will never get me to quit. You can pin me, but you will never get me to tap out Lacey. I am coming to fight.”
“All logic says I am going into this match and I am getting my ass kicked. I am sure the experts probably have me putting up a great fight, and a valiant effort, but it will be futile as Lacey Roberts ultimately puts me down on the mat and retains the Television Championship. And they have a valid argument for it. They really do. If I wasn’t in the match, I would expect Lacey to win. But I am in the match, and I have no intentions of letting her win this match.”
“Lacey Roberts can say whatever she wants about me, whether or not I deserve this title shot, and her innate superiority over me, and she is more than welcome to. All the experts can say whatever they want about how I am probably going to lose this match, that I will not make history, and it would be hard to argue against that given my career history and record. But I do not care what Lacey or the experts say. There will be hundreds of people cheering me in the arena. There will be thousands more watching UWA Monday Night Mayhem to see me face Lacey Roberts. They know and they believe that I can beat Lacey Roberts, become Television Champion and make history. They know and they believe I can get the redemption I need to get.”
“I do not care about making history Lacey. This is the redemption everyone thought I would get with Ashley Kenyon and the North American Championship. I am coming with absolutely everything I have Lacey. I am leaving nothing behind, but I will leave absolutely everything in the ring. I may crash and burn, I may go down in a blaze of glory, but I am going to do my best to take you with me. I burn, you are coming with me.”
“The Hong Kong Sensation” Amy Zing touches the picture of when she became Television Champion. She takes her hand off it, balling her hands into fists as she looks upwards.
“At Monday Night Mayhem, I am coming for the Television Champion. I am coming to kick your bloody head off and maybe shut that big mouth of yours. I am coming for redemption. At Monday Night Mayhem, I am coming to show you once and for all what every single person who believes in my has been shown again and again. At Monday Night Mayhem, I am going to show you why I am simply Amy Zing!”
The scene fades out as Amy walks away from the photos. The camera fades to black on the image of Amy Zing holding up the Television Championship.