Post by Crystal Zdunich on Aug 4, 2017 16:27:23 GMT
Hello to all of my beautiful Stars and Starlets out there. I know it has been a while but let me be the first one to say that it feels great to be back. One of the scariest moments in my wrestling career is when Maxine took me out. I honestly didn’t know what was going on when it happened. I blacked out when she unleashed her fury and hell on me. It wasn’t until I was able to regain my senses when I saw the video and realized she beat the living hell out of me. She put some major damage on my head. She tossed me around like a rag doll and it could have been much worse but thank goodness Astrid was there to save the day.
I know when people look at me they see the over egotistical movie star who only thinks about herself. They see a very selfish woman who has a me first attitude but being out with a concussion and in a hospital reminded me that I don’t ever want to be selfish. The amount of support, and fan mail that I received when I was away was absolutely mind blowing, and for all of those who chose to support me. You can rest assured that I will have your back because I am going to start putting in the work ethic that you all deserve.
I think what hurts more than anything is the fact that the Heiress for the Throne tournament has already started and I am already a month behind. It killed me being forced to be on medical suspension, and being told that I couldn’t do what I love to do the most. I won’t sweat it because being away for this long reminded me of how much I love wrestling and last year I somehow managed to make it to the semi-finals of the heiress for the throne series.
I know it took a lot of hard work for me to make it that far and even though I got pinned in that triple threat match and walked away with nothing it helped set up the tone for me to eventually pick myself up and march my way towards a shot at the Shield Maiden Championship which I eventually won.
However sometimes setbacks are needed in order to get your life in order, and after dealing with this injury the only place I can go from here is up. So here we are with this big triple threat match in front of me. A chance to make things right, a chance to get back into the fray, and a chance to show IWF that I haven’t lost a step.
There are two people that currently stand in my way of trying to make some noise in this division and to be honest I can relate with both of them to some extent. The first one comes in the form of Fiona McFly.
Fiona you and I have had a strange relationship ever since you came to this company. At first we were at odds with one another because Zelda and I made it a point to make your entire life a living hell. EMF was constantly jumping you each and every week and you never once complained about it. Instead you decided to keep on fighting and you answered whatever challenge was thrown at you.
When I finally saw myself doing the wrong thing you were also there to show forgiveness and that’s a trait that I wish I could have at times. I know your time here hasn’t been the most pleasant one for you. Quite often you are always the victim of somebody else. You are always on the wrong side of a beat down but you never back away from a fight.
Despite sometimes going into a deep major slump you stick it out and keep on fighting until you can’t fight anymore. I wish I could be like that. When things don’t go my way I am very quick to tuck my tail in between my legs and go off to somewhere else. Disappear only to return a month or so later with this big I’m coming back party.
You on the other hand don’t need the theatrics you simply persevere and keep on fighting. I admire that trait about you. I don’t know why you haven’t been able to find yourself getting over that major hump yet but the only thing I could say is to keep at it.
I was in this company for a very long time and when I finally got my first title run it had to be shared with someone else. I fell hard and when I really wanted to make something of myself that is when I took off and actually accomplished what I had set after. You have the power to do the same but you have to keep at it.
I know that times can be tough as nothing good can ever happen to you. I swear it seems at times that the worst of things happens to you at the most needed of times, things that you can use as fuel for motivation to keep you going.
Keep channeling whatever it is that you do and keep pressing on. Eventually something has to give. I have seen you win an Iron Maiden before, I have seen you almost reach that plateau of success, you just need a breakthrough and when you do get it I feel like you would be absolutely unstoppable.
The titles, the accomplishments, the accolades will all come just give it some time, but for now take it step by step, day by day, and you will eventually get there. It happened for me so I know it can happen for you.
Last but not least there is you Keira. A woman who lives in Los Angeles, California just like I do. Keira you remind me of myself. When I first got into this business I was only 17 years of age. I was the woman who was a second generation wrestler and I didn’t even know. But in regards to the family I was raised around everyone surrounding me was a wrestler. My brother, my sister, everybody was indeed a wrestler.
But for me personally starting this craft so early I really didn’t even know where to start but wrestling was where I could vent out on my frustrations about life as a whole. It was hard for me to be raised by my aunt who adopted me.
I was ridiculed by everyone in school because I didn’t look like the sisters and brothers that I grew up with. Everybody always called me a half breed because I was lighter than the rest of my family. It was hard being in that situation and I think that’s what led me to getting pregnant when I was in high school.
I had a lot going for me. I had scouts looking at me from Michigan State University for softball but instead I ruined it in getting pregnant. But where one journey ends another begins and that’s when I found my long lost father who was a wrestling great. I learned everything from him and was quickly on my way.
But around that time mainstream companies didn’t want women to wrestle. They wanted to use me as eye candy, as a valet, and I became stuck until I had a chance to shine. I am happy that you don’t have to go what I went through because you are now in a generation where companies are openly welcoming women wrestlers.
You have that chance for that exposure and the Diamond in the Rough was a chance to finally highlight yourself on the big stage. If you stick at wrestling it will get you far just like it did for me.
People look at me and assume the movie star came before the wrestling but it’s the other way around. What I do in Hollywood is a result of the hard work that I put into this business. I can’t wait to lock up with you. It’s always a test to see if I can hang with the new guard of this business.
But don’t take my kindness for granted, after sitting on the sidelines for so long I am gunning for one thing and one thing only this week.
A win….
A win puts me back in the fray and more importantly it shows I haven’t lost a step. The show must go as they say in the entertainment business, and right now the spotlight is on me.
Lights
Camera
Action
It’s Showtime!!!!
With the cameras rolling it’s our moment ladies let’s make the most of it.
Nothing will stop me from ascending back to my throne…. ALL HAIL THE SILVER SCREEN QUEEN!!!!!!!!
Moscow, Russia.
{After being forced to sit out for so long with her injury Crystal Millar was finally getting her chance to shine again. The Queen of the Silver Screen seemed to be in the middle of a serious training exercise being led by none other than her longtime friend and rival Emma Danielson. Crystal was shown in a cabin of some sort with Hearts on Fire playing loudly in the background. Crystal grabbed a bar in this rundown cabin as she did pull up after pull up as Emma stood in the background cheering the woman on.}
Emma: “That’s right Crystal! No pain! No pain you got this girl!”
{Emma was drinking a Coors Light as Crystal continued to train her ass off. She dropped off of the bar as she wiped the sweat off of her forehead. She turned the radio off as she placed her hands on her hips shaking her head back at Emma.}
Crystal: “Way for you to get me to be so cliché!”
Emma: “Cliché?! What are you talking about?!”
Crystal: “Oh I don’t know… Considering we are in the middle of RUSSIA! You are playing HEARTS ON FIRE!!! This is right out of Rocky IV and considering I am the woman who is just now coming back from injury to take on two women who seemed prime to carry on the division in new places? Yeah that’s cliché…”
Emma: “No cliché would be me saying that one of your opponents destroyed your former sister in law in the ring just like Drago beat the snot of Apollo so now it’s up to you to right the wrongs of what happened.”
Crystal: “Hey cut Jenny some slack… She’s still trying to get readjusted to wrestling and yeah she lost to Keira but….”
Emma: “No… I was making an example of what’s cliché… Look Crystal I just figured we do things like this since you are a movie star and I wanted you to pick up on it but the reality is when I answered the challenge you made to your open challenge months ago it wasn’t to break you down. It was because I saw something in you. I saw a woman who I had grown to at one point respect in the ring. You and I always went to war back in NCW and the majority of the times you ended up besting me.”
{Crystal shrugs her shoulders as she nods her head in agreement.}
Crystal: “I guess so, but when we fought here in IWF you beat me.”
Emma: “That’s only because you faltered from what you used to be. There was a point where you were one of the most feared women in all of wrestling. Aside from being a girlfriend of Steve Awesome at one point or the husband to Todd Williams to now being newly married with an English man. You had your own identity you were able to stand on your own two feet and you made a name for yourself! A name free from Zelda, free from Ana, free from anything like that.”
{Emma looks over Crystal as she shakes her head.}
Emma: “Yet as I stare at you now I see a shell of what was there. I don’t see the Crystal I remember and that hurts me deeply because I know out of everyone else in this company of the potential you have. Besides Kathleen Conway who runs the Diamonds division who else in the Diamonds division knows you like I know you?!”
Crystal: “Jenny?!”
Emma: “Well she’s family to you basically but besides her nobody. You are the only one who is left from the old guard and doesn’t it bother you when people constantly talk about the new guard? The new wave of talent, how it’s all about the new movement from women? I know somewhere deep inside you that bothers you because the Crystal I remember wouldn’t have had that… The Crystal I remember would bounce back and tell the whole world why she was the best and that nobody could touch her.”
Crystal: “I feel like I have been down this road before and it’s never worked for me so what’s the big difference now?”
Emma: “Well the only reason it never worked in the past is because you have always been your worst enemy. You stopped your own success because you moment you have one simple set back you think it’s the end of the world. You need to put an end to that if you want to keep on going forward. Just look at your opponents this week and Fiona to be more precise.”
{Emma takes a deep breath as she continues to speak.}
Emma: “I have dealt with my share of women in developmental and I always tell them to have an attitude like Fiona. Whenever things don’t look good for her she keeps going. She dusts herself off and tries again, are you the queen of the Silver Screen going to let someone like that upstage you?!”
Crystal: “Of course not!”
Emma: “Or you even have Keira… The 18 year old who got picked on all her life yet she is in IWF ready to make an impact! These are two people who are new at this sport compared to you but they are ready to leap bounds and leave everyone else in the dust… I know you Christina… I know that’s not what you want for you. You have to be better, you are a movie star, you are a star point blank so START ACTING LIKE IT!”
{Crystal yells at the top of her lungs as she looks back at Emma.}
Crystal: “I am a star! Hell I am a SUPERSTAR!”
Emma: “So go show them what the meaning of star power is! Just imagine that you are on the set and your entire life people are telling that you aren’t good to win an IWF award, you aren’t good enough to win an Emmy, or an Oscar, or even a SAG! You are forever destined to go for the Raspys is that what you really want?! OF course not so prove the haters wrong. Prove to them you are capable of getting over the hump.”
{Emma smiles wickedly}
Emma: “Show them you will do whatever it takes to accomplish the dream and from there you can laugh at everyone who told you that you were washed up. That you couldn’t handle it or deserve to be it. Remember Crystal the only one that can stop you from achieving what you set after is you. You and no one else. If you are going to go down you better put up a fight!”
Crystal: “After being out and away from the ring I feel like this is finally my chance.”
Emma: “Good because that’s the Crystal I want to eventually fight. One who is at hundred percent not some piss poor excuse for a woman who becomes the brunt of everyone’s joke. You about done with your training?!”
Crystal: “I would say so why?!”
Emma: “Because we are in Russia… We can’t go to Russia without having some Vodka….”
Crystal: “Right… Give the recovering alcoholic some Vodka… Seems really smart….”
Emma: “Hey that could be your first test… Watch one of your good friends drink it up while you stay sober… Could be a learning experience a true test of your endurance. Now let’s get going we have some bars to hop in and out of…”
{With that Crystal wipes herself of her sweat as she and Emma leave the cabin, leaving this exercise training as they journey towards some free time on the road to Crystal’s recovery.}
I know when people look at me they see the over egotistical movie star who only thinks about herself. They see a very selfish woman who has a me first attitude but being out with a concussion and in a hospital reminded me that I don’t ever want to be selfish. The amount of support, and fan mail that I received when I was away was absolutely mind blowing, and for all of those who chose to support me. You can rest assured that I will have your back because I am going to start putting in the work ethic that you all deserve.
I think what hurts more than anything is the fact that the Heiress for the Throne tournament has already started and I am already a month behind. It killed me being forced to be on medical suspension, and being told that I couldn’t do what I love to do the most. I won’t sweat it because being away for this long reminded me of how much I love wrestling and last year I somehow managed to make it to the semi-finals of the heiress for the throne series.
I know it took a lot of hard work for me to make it that far and even though I got pinned in that triple threat match and walked away with nothing it helped set up the tone for me to eventually pick myself up and march my way towards a shot at the Shield Maiden Championship which I eventually won.
However sometimes setbacks are needed in order to get your life in order, and after dealing with this injury the only place I can go from here is up. So here we are with this big triple threat match in front of me. A chance to make things right, a chance to get back into the fray, and a chance to show IWF that I haven’t lost a step.
There are two people that currently stand in my way of trying to make some noise in this division and to be honest I can relate with both of them to some extent. The first one comes in the form of Fiona McFly.
Fiona you and I have had a strange relationship ever since you came to this company. At first we were at odds with one another because Zelda and I made it a point to make your entire life a living hell. EMF was constantly jumping you each and every week and you never once complained about it. Instead you decided to keep on fighting and you answered whatever challenge was thrown at you.
When I finally saw myself doing the wrong thing you were also there to show forgiveness and that’s a trait that I wish I could have at times. I know your time here hasn’t been the most pleasant one for you. Quite often you are always the victim of somebody else. You are always on the wrong side of a beat down but you never back away from a fight.
Despite sometimes going into a deep major slump you stick it out and keep on fighting until you can’t fight anymore. I wish I could be like that. When things don’t go my way I am very quick to tuck my tail in between my legs and go off to somewhere else. Disappear only to return a month or so later with this big I’m coming back party.
You on the other hand don’t need the theatrics you simply persevere and keep on fighting. I admire that trait about you. I don’t know why you haven’t been able to find yourself getting over that major hump yet but the only thing I could say is to keep at it.
I was in this company for a very long time and when I finally got my first title run it had to be shared with someone else. I fell hard and when I really wanted to make something of myself that is when I took off and actually accomplished what I had set after. You have the power to do the same but you have to keep at it.
I know that times can be tough as nothing good can ever happen to you. I swear it seems at times that the worst of things happens to you at the most needed of times, things that you can use as fuel for motivation to keep you going.
Keep channeling whatever it is that you do and keep pressing on. Eventually something has to give. I have seen you win an Iron Maiden before, I have seen you almost reach that plateau of success, you just need a breakthrough and when you do get it I feel like you would be absolutely unstoppable.
The titles, the accomplishments, the accolades will all come just give it some time, but for now take it step by step, day by day, and you will eventually get there. It happened for me so I know it can happen for you.
Last but not least there is you Keira. A woman who lives in Los Angeles, California just like I do. Keira you remind me of myself. When I first got into this business I was only 17 years of age. I was the woman who was a second generation wrestler and I didn’t even know. But in regards to the family I was raised around everyone surrounding me was a wrestler. My brother, my sister, everybody was indeed a wrestler.
But for me personally starting this craft so early I really didn’t even know where to start but wrestling was where I could vent out on my frustrations about life as a whole. It was hard for me to be raised by my aunt who adopted me.
I was ridiculed by everyone in school because I didn’t look like the sisters and brothers that I grew up with. Everybody always called me a half breed because I was lighter than the rest of my family. It was hard being in that situation and I think that’s what led me to getting pregnant when I was in high school.
I had a lot going for me. I had scouts looking at me from Michigan State University for softball but instead I ruined it in getting pregnant. But where one journey ends another begins and that’s when I found my long lost father who was a wrestling great. I learned everything from him and was quickly on my way.
But around that time mainstream companies didn’t want women to wrestle. They wanted to use me as eye candy, as a valet, and I became stuck until I had a chance to shine. I am happy that you don’t have to go what I went through because you are now in a generation where companies are openly welcoming women wrestlers.
You have that chance for that exposure and the Diamond in the Rough was a chance to finally highlight yourself on the big stage. If you stick at wrestling it will get you far just like it did for me.
People look at me and assume the movie star came before the wrestling but it’s the other way around. What I do in Hollywood is a result of the hard work that I put into this business. I can’t wait to lock up with you. It’s always a test to see if I can hang with the new guard of this business.
But don’t take my kindness for granted, after sitting on the sidelines for so long I am gunning for one thing and one thing only this week.
A win….
A win puts me back in the fray and more importantly it shows I haven’t lost a step. The show must go as they say in the entertainment business, and right now the spotlight is on me.
Lights
Camera
Action
It’s Showtime!!!!
With the cameras rolling it’s our moment ladies let’s make the most of it.
Nothing will stop me from ascending back to my throne…. ALL HAIL THE SILVER SCREEN QUEEN!!!!!!!!
Moscow, Russia.
{After being forced to sit out for so long with her injury Crystal Millar was finally getting her chance to shine again. The Queen of the Silver Screen seemed to be in the middle of a serious training exercise being led by none other than her longtime friend and rival Emma Danielson. Crystal was shown in a cabin of some sort with Hearts on Fire playing loudly in the background. Crystal grabbed a bar in this rundown cabin as she did pull up after pull up as Emma stood in the background cheering the woman on.}
Emma: “That’s right Crystal! No pain! No pain you got this girl!”
{Emma was drinking a Coors Light as Crystal continued to train her ass off. She dropped off of the bar as she wiped the sweat off of her forehead. She turned the radio off as she placed her hands on her hips shaking her head back at Emma.}
Crystal: “Way for you to get me to be so cliché!”
Emma: “Cliché?! What are you talking about?!”
Crystal: “Oh I don’t know… Considering we are in the middle of RUSSIA! You are playing HEARTS ON FIRE!!! This is right out of Rocky IV and considering I am the woman who is just now coming back from injury to take on two women who seemed prime to carry on the division in new places? Yeah that’s cliché…”
Emma: “No cliché would be me saying that one of your opponents destroyed your former sister in law in the ring just like Drago beat the snot of Apollo so now it’s up to you to right the wrongs of what happened.”
Crystal: “Hey cut Jenny some slack… She’s still trying to get readjusted to wrestling and yeah she lost to Keira but….”
Emma: “No… I was making an example of what’s cliché… Look Crystal I just figured we do things like this since you are a movie star and I wanted you to pick up on it but the reality is when I answered the challenge you made to your open challenge months ago it wasn’t to break you down. It was because I saw something in you. I saw a woman who I had grown to at one point respect in the ring. You and I always went to war back in NCW and the majority of the times you ended up besting me.”
{Crystal shrugs her shoulders as she nods her head in agreement.}
Crystal: “I guess so, but when we fought here in IWF you beat me.”
Emma: “That’s only because you faltered from what you used to be. There was a point where you were one of the most feared women in all of wrestling. Aside from being a girlfriend of Steve Awesome at one point or the husband to Todd Williams to now being newly married with an English man. You had your own identity you were able to stand on your own two feet and you made a name for yourself! A name free from Zelda, free from Ana, free from anything like that.”
{Emma looks over Crystal as she shakes her head.}
Emma: “Yet as I stare at you now I see a shell of what was there. I don’t see the Crystal I remember and that hurts me deeply because I know out of everyone else in this company of the potential you have. Besides Kathleen Conway who runs the Diamonds division who else in the Diamonds division knows you like I know you?!”
Crystal: “Jenny?!”
Emma: “Well she’s family to you basically but besides her nobody. You are the only one who is left from the old guard and doesn’t it bother you when people constantly talk about the new guard? The new wave of talent, how it’s all about the new movement from women? I know somewhere deep inside you that bothers you because the Crystal I remember wouldn’t have had that… The Crystal I remember would bounce back and tell the whole world why she was the best and that nobody could touch her.”
Crystal: “I feel like I have been down this road before and it’s never worked for me so what’s the big difference now?”
Emma: “Well the only reason it never worked in the past is because you have always been your worst enemy. You stopped your own success because you moment you have one simple set back you think it’s the end of the world. You need to put an end to that if you want to keep on going forward. Just look at your opponents this week and Fiona to be more precise.”
{Emma takes a deep breath as she continues to speak.}
Emma: “I have dealt with my share of women in developmental and I always tell them to have an attitude like Fiona. Whenever things don’t look good for her she keeps going. She dusts herself off and tries again, are you the queen of the Silver Screen going to let someone like that upstage you?!”
Crystal: “Of course not!”
Emma: “Or you even have Keira… The 18 year old who got picked on all her life yet she is in IWF ready to make an impact! These are two people who are new at this sport compared to you but they are ready to leap bounds and leave everyone else in the dust… I know you Christina… I know that’s not what you want for you. You have to be better, you are a movie star, you are a star point blank so START ACTING LIKE IT!”
{Crystal yells at the top of her lungs as she looks back at Emma.}
Crystal: “I am a star! Hell I am a SUPERSTAR!”
Emma: “So go show them what the meaning of star power is! Just imagine that you are on the set and your entire life people are telling that you aren’t good to win an IWF award, you aren’t good enough to win an Emmy, or an Oscar, or even a SAG! You are forever destined to go for the Raspys is that what you really want?! OF course not so prove the haters wrong. Prove to them you are capable of getting over the hump.”
{Emma smiles wickedly}
Emma: “Show them you will do whatever it takes to accomplish the dream and from there you can laugh at everyone who told you that you were washed up. That you couldn’t handle it or deserve to be it. Remember Crystal the only one that can stop you from achieving what you set after is you. You and no one else. If you are going to go down you better put up a fight!”
Crystal: “After being out and away from the ring I feel like this is finally my chance.”
Emma: “Good because that’s the Crystal I want to eventually fight. One who is at hundred percent not some piss poor excuse for a woman who becomes the brunt of everyone’s joke. You about done with your training?!”
Crystal: “I would say so why?!”
Emma: “Because we are in Russia… We can’t go to Russia without having some Vodka….”
Crystal: “Right… Give the recovering alcoholic some Vodka… Seems really smart….”
Emma: “Hey that could be your first test… Watch one of your good friends drink it up while you stay sober… Could be a learning experience a true test of your endurance. Now let’s get going we have some bars to hop in and out of…”
{With that Crystal wipes herself of her sweat as she and Emma leave the cabin, leaving this exercise training as they journey towards some free time on the road to Crystal’s recovery.}
Well howdy there pardner.