Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2016 8:42:35 GMT
**The following content was written as a blog by Declan Black to DeclanBlack.com, and was reproduced for use in EOW. The views of Mr. Black are his own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Epic Online Wrestling’s staff and ownership. Viewer discretion is advised.**
I’ve been getting the question since Livewire’s debut on September 11th, about how my neck is. Am I okay? Can I go? I mean, after Aidan Carlisle’s malicious attempt to maim me inside that steel cage, it’s a legitimate question. Of course, as ever, if there is a question about me, I am more than willing to answer it. I’m also going to say something somewhere in here about Jeremiah Greyson, who I’m facing at Livewire #2: Return of the Black (isn’t my tag for it so much better than just saying Livewire #2?), with any good luck.
Firstly, I’m dealing with a strained neck, and I’m lucky not to have worse. My neck is surgically fused as it is, and if that fall had gone a little differently, I could’ve been risking paralysis or a surgery that would have ended my wrestling career. I’m not coming into September 25th at 100%, but I have every faith that I will be able to not only defeat Jeremiah Greyson, but have another high quality match in the process. I don’t say all this to garner sympathy or to try to look like some kind of badass…I say it because it needs to be said, and it’s honest.
I’m a little curious as to why people wonder why I now hate Aidan Carlisle, why I don’t think she’s a worthy or deserving champion, and so on. I would've thought this would be obvious, but I’ll gladly explain myself.
I'm very traditional in terms of what the role of a champion should be. A champion should strive to lead the locker room and the brand, and should lead by example. I don’t feel that Ms. Carlisle is up to that, given the fact that she deliberately attempted to put me out of wrestling, and possibly into a wheelchair. Wrestling, of course, is hardly ballet, but I have never deliberately tried to hurt somebody so badly that they might never wrestle again. My goal always was, and still is, to win matches, not to make myself look like a big deal by trying to steal somebody’s career. Given the fact that Ms. Carlisle absolutely did do that, I feel that she is unfit to represent Livewire and EOW as a whole as its Champion.
Evidently, I will need to earn my way into challenging her, and with a decisive win over Jeremiah Greyson, I can do just that. Now, while I know he’s a lot faster and less banged up than I am, he lacks the skill with mat work necessary to beat me. I’m smarter, more experienced, and a lot more cunning. No matter what the distraction was on September 11th, he took his eyes off me…just one example of how I’m more ready to get that win than he is. This isn’t meant to be a knock on him, because he could well develop that skillset in time. But he doesn’t have it now, and it’s going to show when I defeat him. This time, he won’t have some distraction to blame his loss on. All Jeremiah’s going to have is himself.
Wrestling is all I’ve ever wanted to do. Sure, I got caught in the trappings of my parents’ wealth, who among you wouldn’t? But I’m the guy that on the same day that he graduated university, I was on a plane to Kobe to do a tour. I loved this, and I still love it, and I’m willing to sacrifice anything if it means reaching the top again. That’s why I came back, that’s why I still do this when I don’t need the money or the notoriety. I just love this.
Aidan Carlisle tried to take my passion away from me forever, and there’ll be dire consequences for that. I’m coming for her EOW Heavyweight Championship…and maybe I’ll have to come for a little more than that. But Greyson comes first. I’ll see you all in New York City.
DB
I’ve been getting the question since Livewire’s debut on September 11th, about how my neck is. Am I okay? Can I go? I mean, after Aidan Carlisle’s malicious attempt to maim me inside that steel cage, it’s a legitimate question. Of course, as ever, if there is a question about me, I am more than willing to answer it. I’m also going to say something somewhere in here about Jeremiah Greyson, who I’m facing at Livewire #2: Return of the Black (isn’t my tag for it so much better than just saying Livewire #2?), with any good luck.
Firstly, I’m dealing with a strained neck, and I’m lucky not to have worse. My neck is surgically fused as it is, and if that fall had gone a little differently, I could’ve been risking paralysis or a surgery that would have ended my wrestling career. I’m not coming into September 25th at 100%, but I have every faith that I will be able to not only defeat Jeremiah Greyson, but have another high quality match in the process. I don’t say all this to garner sympathy or to try to look like some kind of badass…I say it because it needs to be said, and it’s honest.
I’m a little curious as to why people wonder why I now hate Aidan Carlisle, why I don’t think she’s a worthy or deserving champion, and so on. I would've thought this would be obvious, but I’ll gladly explain myself.
I'm very traditional in terms of what the role of a champion should be. A champion should strive to lead the locker room and the brand, and should lead by example. I don’t feel that Ms. Carlisle is up to that, given the fact that she deliberately attempted to put me out of wrestling, and possibly into a wheelchair. Wrestling, of course, is hardly ballet, but I have never deliberately tried to hurt somebody so badly that they might never wrestle again. My goal always was, and still is, to win matches, not to make myself look like a big deal by trying to steal somebody’s career. Given the fact that Ms. Carlisle absolutely did do that, I feel that she is unfit to represent Livewire and EOW as a whole as its Champion.
Evidently, I will need to earn my way into challenging her, and with a decisive win over Jeremiah Greyson, I can do just that. Now, while I know he’s a lot faster and less banged up than I am, he lacks the skill with mat work necessary to beat me. I’m smarter, more experienced, and a lot more cunning. No matter what the distraction was on September 11th, he took his eyes off me…just one example of how I’m more ready to get that win than he is. This isn’t meant to be a knock on him, because he could well develop that skillset in time. But he doesn’t have it now, and it’s going to show when I defeat him. This time, he won’t have some distraction to blame his loss on. All Jeremiah’s going to have is himself.
Wrestling is all I’ve ever wanted to do. Sure, I got caught in the trappings of my parents’ wealth, who among you wouldn’t? But I’m the guy that on the same day that he graduated university, I was on a plane to Kobe to do a tour. I loved this, and I still love it, and I’m willing to sacrifice anything if it means reaching the top again. That’s why I came back, that’s why I still do this when I don’t need the money or the notoriety. I just love this.
Aidan Carlisle tried to take my passion away from me forever, and there’ll be dire consequences for that. I’m coming for her EOW Heavyweight Championship…and maybe I’ll have to come for a little more than that. But Greyson comes first. I’ll see you all in New York City.
DB
