Post by Crystal Zdunich on Aug 20, 2017 12:49:55 GMT
Hello to all of my beautiful stars and starlets. I just want to say that it has felt absolutely great to be back in the ring again. Even though I have yet to come out on the winning side of things, I know that if I continue to keep at it if I keep pushing myself forward I will eventually find myself breaking this cycle of losing and I will be exactly where I need to be to come out on top.
I know that it’s not something that’s just going to happen overnight but I just need to keep pushing and eventually things will go in my favor. I just want to tell Brooklyn that it felt good to be in the ring with you. Last week you managed to come out ahead and you got that big win over me. I know it must be exciting o have your very first win in this company but you can rest assured that things aren’t over between us. There’s a part of me that wants to step into the ring with you again.
It’s not a matter of id but a matter of when the two of us will lock up again. You might have gotten that first big win in your career, hell that first win over me but I am not going down like that. I will want a rematch and I don’t sit well with losing. I definitely want a rematch and whenever you feel up to it let me know so we can do this all over again.
I guarantee that the result will be different. If there is one thing that I don’t like to do it’s lose. It really drives me up a wall and I take losses harder than anybody else. If you don’t believe me you can just ask Emma she can tell you how much I don’t like losing.
But the biggest thing I can do right now is not dwell on what happened in the past focusing on why I lost and how come I keep going on this downward spiral. Instead I can focus on picking myself up and I can focus on paying attention to my next match and that one being against the likes of Keira Hunter.
As a competitor I really feel as if everything is coming back to me. I know it wasn’t too long ago when I was placed on the shelf and there were some questions if I would be back in the ring again. It’s just a good thing that I am able to lace up my boots and do what I love to do the most.
But I want to much more than just that. I want to have the ability to come down to the ring and actually win. I want to be able to say that I accomplished something in IWF and that’s why winning seems to be my main focus now a days.
I know I should be thrilled just having the ability to say that the injury didn’t keep me away but part of me is longing for more. Part of me wants to excel and I won’t get what I am looking for until I finally get over that hump of what’s holding me back and this next match against the likes of Keira Hunter seems just like the perfect match to do so.
Keira the last time we fought you brought some harsh realities to me. You told me how you feel about me and I appreciate that you were watching me all throughout wrestling school. That’s really means a lot to me but you perhaps should have been watching me before that. When I was competing in the early 200s when I was fresh out of my father’s wrestling school and I was managing my husband at the time as his valet.
Women’s wrestling wasn’t what it has become today. It wasn’t taken seriously and women weren’t close to being equals. Back then I was nothing more than eye candy. I was simply eye candy and was expected to run around the ring wearing something I didn’t want, and was expected to shake my ass for the crowd to see.
That really wasn’t me and when I did get the chance to wrestle it was usually in matches that degraded women. I had to live through all of that and it really wasn’t pretty.
Yet I survived through it. I busted my ass in the ring and because of the efforts of women like me and so many others that you were watching in wrestling school you are now able to do everything that you love to do and can do it to the best of your ability. It’s more than just being a movie star out of the ring. Trust me I am fully aware of where I came from.
So don’t even question my desire or how much I value being in the ring because I treasure it all. Just like you I made my start at 18 years of age and I have seen some stuff. That’s why I said we are cut from the same cloth it had nothing to do with us being in Los Angeles, truth be told I am a Detroit native I moved there.
But that’s beside the point. The truth is I am hungry to beat you in the ring. I know you are in a very good position to qualify for the finals in the Heiress to the Throne. Hell that was exactly where I was last year and I dropped the ball when it meant the most
I showed I wasn’t a prime time player but I am ready to rectify that this year. I am ready to change how people perceive me and I am ready to beat you so people can start taking me seriously. I think that’s the one thing that I want the most.
You have a whole career ahead of you. I know you have the talent and the ability. I witnessed that first hand when we were in the ring with one another. You defeated me and gained yourself some points.
Well I would say you won a triple threat match as you beat Fiona. You just didn’t get that decisive win over me.
I am hungry for a win here. I am hungry to bounce back with a win. It’s not even about the Heiress to the Throne it’s not even about contending for a championship.
It’s about my pride, my passion, and that’s why I need to go out and give you everything I have Keira.
I have been doing this for far longer than you have. It’s time to let my experience factor take over and do what I do best and show why I am better than you.
I wish you the best of luck but in this encounter I need this win more than you could imagine and it’s time to show why experience far exceeds anything that’s close to youth.
Good luck you are going to need it.
It’s showtime!
{Crystal offered a loud sigh as she glanced back at Emma who waited for her in the locker room. Crystal shook her head in absolute disgust as she kept her eyes on her longtime friend. The Silver Screen Queen sat on the locker room bench and just sighed as she kept her eyes on her locker. Emma was speechless as she continued to stare at Crystal.}
“Crystal … I just want to say that….”
{Crystal however didn’t want to hear it as she shook her head in disgust. She stood up went to her locker and quickly opened it. She pulled out the bag with her wrestling gear in it and quickly slammed it on the bench. She slammed the locker as hard as she could as she looked back at Emma.}
“Honestly I don’t even want to hear it right now Emma… You had promised me the world. You told me that it wouldn’t be long before the wrestler you remember returned. How much shit do I really have to go through? Nobody is taking me seriously and the only thing that people are presented with is a shell of my former self. That doesn’t seem like I am really getting to where I need to be…”
Emma looks back at Crystal as she offers a long sigh glancing back into her eyes.
“Crystal these things take time… Nobody picks up right where they left off in an overnight span… It just doesn’t happen like that.”
Crystal snaps back as she raises her voice back at her friend. “Bullshit Emma… Don’t give me that nonsense… Remember when I challenged you in that open fight night. You had no problem beating me and you aren’t even a full time wrestler anymore. How do you think it makes me feel knowing I allowed myself to get beat by you. By that newbie Keira, by that newbie Brooklyn?!”
“Crystal you can’t take losses to heart… You need to….”
Crystal once again cuts her off as she shakes her head in utter disgust and continues to express herself. “Emma tonight I lost to Brooklyn! Somebody who has never won before… No matter what you say it doesn’t justify what I have been going through lately. It doesn’t make up for all of the losing I have done… It doesn’t change what people think of me…”
Crystal just sighs in return as Emma sits right down beside her on the bench. She offers a very long sigh as she begins to hug her. “Crystal… You just need to learn how to channel this built up anger and put it in the ring. It’s like I tell everyone down at developmental… If I beat myself up over every single lost I wouldn’t have made it… I know for the longest it has been heard for you…
“And how exactly has it been hard?!”
“You have been trying to balance how to not be in someone’s shadow like you did in Zelda’s and of course Ana’s… You are trying to figure out who you are as a competitor. I know you have a lot of distractions in your life such as a daughter, your own wrestling school and even trying to manage a movie production studio but you need to find balance so you can start ascending to the top. Most of the people on this roster don’t go through what you do…”
“And how exactly do I pick myself up?!” Crystal questions.
“That’s a question you need to answer but it’s something you will figure out over time. Injuries will come and go they are all part of this business but you can’t give up. You can’t lose focus of what’s important. You just need to keep at it, and don’t dwell on your mistakes learn from them. So what you lost to Brooklyn tonight. Tonight was just her night and next time it will be yours…”
“You mean that?!”
“Of course I do and if it’s not you dust yourself off and keep at it. Now hit the showers… You deserve a good meal tonight and it’s on me…”
Crystal nods her head with a grin as she keeps her eyes on Emma. She didn’t like losing but she knew to trust in Emma and she was going to keep at it no matter how many times you faltered she would keep going.
I know that it’s not something that’s just going to happen overnight but I just need to keep pushing and eventually things will go in my favor. I just want to tell Brooklyn that it felt good to be in the ring with you. Last week you managed to come out ahead and you got that big win over me. I know it must be exciting o have your very first win in this company but you can rest assured that things aren’t over between us. There’s a part of me that wants to step into the ring with you again.
It’s not a matter of id but a matter of when the two of us will lock up again. You might have gotten that first big win in your career, hell that first win over me but I am not going down like that. I will want a rematch and I don’t sit well with losing. I definitely want a rematch and whenever you feel up to it let me know so we can do this all over again.
I guarantee that the result will be different. If there is one thing that I don’t like to do it’s lose. It really drives me up a wall and I take losses harder than anybody else. If you don’t believe me you can just ask Emma she can tell you how much I don’t like losing.
But the biggest thing I can do right now is not dwell on what happened in the past focusing on why I lost and how come I keep going on this downward spiral. Instead I can focus on picking myself up and I can focus on paying attention to my next match and that one being against the likes of Keira Hunter.
As a competitor I really feel as if everything is coming back to me. I know it wasn’t too long ago when I was placed on the shelf and there were some questions if I would be back in the ring again. It’s just a good thing that I am able to lace up my boots and do what I love to do the most.
But I want to much more than just that. I want to have the ability to come down to the ring and actually win. I want to be able to say that I accomplished something in IWF and that’s why winning seems to be my main focus now a days.
I know I should be thrilled just having the ability to say that the injury didn’t keep me away but part of me is longing for more. Part of me wants to excel and I won’t get what I am looking for until I finally get over that hump of what’s holding me back and this next match against the likes of Keira Hunter seems just like the perfect match to do so.
Keira the last time we fought you brought some harsh realities to me. You told me how you feel about me and I appreciate that you were watching me all throughout wrestling school. That’s really means a lot to me but you perhaps should have been watching me before that. When I was competing in the early 200s when I was fresh out of my father’s wrestling school and I was managing my husband at the time as his valet.
Women’s wrestling wasn’t what it has become today. It wasn’t taken seriously and women weren’t close to being equals. Back then I was nothing more than eye candy. I was simply eye candy and was expected to run around the ring wearing something I didn’t want, and was expected to shake my ass for the crowd to see.
That really wasn’t me and when I did get the chance to wrestle it was usually in matches that degraded women. I had to live through all of that and it really wasn’t pretty.
Yet I survived through it. I busted my ass in the ring and because of the efforts of women like me and so many others that you were watching in wrestling school you are now able to do everything that you love to do and can do it to the best of your ability. It’s more than just being a movie star out of the ring. Trust me I am fully aware of where I came from.
So don’t even question my desire or how much I value being in the ring because I treasure it all. Just like you I made my start at 18 years of age and I have seen some stuff. That’s why I said we are cut from the same cloth it had nothing to do with us being in Los Angeles, truth be told I am a Detroit native I moved there.
But that’s beside the point. The truth is I am hungry to beat you in the ring. I know you are in a very good position to qualify for the finals in the Heiress to the Throne. Hell that was exactly where I was last year and I dropped the ball when it meant the most
I showed I wasn’t a prime time player but I am ready to rectify that this year. I am ready to change how people perceive me and I am ready to beat you so people can start taking me seriously. I think that’s the one thing that I want the most.
You have a whole career ahead of you. I know you have the talent and the ability. I witnessed that first hand when we were in the ring with one another. You defeated me and gained yourself some points.
Well I would say you won a triple threat match as you beat Fiona. You just didn’t get that decisive win over me.
I am hungry for a win here. I am hungry to bounce back with a win. It’s not even about the Heiress to the Throne it’s not even about contending for a championship.
It’s about my pride, my passion, and that’s why I need to go out and give you everything I have Keira.
I have been doing this for far longer than you have. It’s time to let my experience factor take over and do what I do best and show why I am better than you.
I wish you the best of luck but in this encounter I need this win more than you could imagine and it’s time to show why experience far exceeds anything that’s close to youth.
Good luck you are going to need it.
It’s showtime!
{Crystal offered a loud sigh as she glanced back at Emma who waited for her in the locker room. Crystal shook her head in absolute disgust as she kept her eyes on her longtime friend. The Silver Screen Queen sat on the locker room bench and just sighed as she kept her eyes on her locker. Emma was speechless as she continued to stare at Crystal.}
“Crystal … I just want to say that….”
{Crystal however didn’t want to hear it as she shook her head in disgust. She stood up went to her locker and quickly opened it. She pulled out the bag with her wrestling gear in it and quickly slammed it on the bench. She slammed the locker as hard as she could as she looked back at Emma.}
“Honestly I don’t even want to hear it right now Emma… You had promised me the world. You told me that it wouldn’t be long before the wrestler you remember returned. How much shit do I really have to go through? Nobody is taking me seriously and the only thing that people are presented with is a shell of my former self. That doesn’t seem like I am really getting to where I need to be…”
Emma looks back at Crystal as she offers a long sigh glancing back into her eyes.
“Crystal these things take time… Nobody picks up right where they left off in an overnight span… It just doesn’t happen like that.”
Crystal snaps back as she raises her voice back at her friend. “Bullshit Emma… Don’t give me that nonsense… Remember when I challenged you in that open fight night. You had no problem beating me and you aren’t even a full time wrestler anymore. How do you think it makes me feel knowing I allowed myself to get beat by you. By that newbie Keira, by that newbie Brooklyn?!”
“Crystal you can’t take losses to heart… You need to….”
Crystal once again cuts her off as she shakes her head in utter disgust and continues to express herself. “Emma tonight I lost to Brooklyn! Somebody who has never won before… No matter what you say it doesn’t justify what I have been going through lately. It doesn’t make up for all of the losing I have done… It doesn’t change what people think of me…”
Crystal just sighs in return as Emma sits right down beside her on the bench. She offers a very long sigh as she begins to hug her. “Crystal… You just need to learn how to channel this built up anger and put it in the ring. It’s like I tell everyone down at developmental… If I beat myself up over every single lost I wouldn’t have made it… I know for the longest it has been heard for you…
“And how exactly has it been hard?!”
“You have been trying to balance how to not be in someone’s shadow like you did in Zelda’s and of course Ana’s… You are trying to figure out who you are as a competitor. I know you have a lot of distractions in your life such as a daughter, your own wrestling school and even trying to manage a movie production studio but you need to find balance so you can start ascending to the top. Most of the people on this roster don’t go through what you do…”
“And how exactly do I pick myself up?!” Crystal questions.
“That’s a question you need to answer but it’s something you will figure out over time. Injuries will come and go they are all part of this business but you can’t give up. You can’t lose focus of what’s important. You just need to keep at it, and don’t dwell on your mistakes learn from them. So what you lost to Brooklyn tonight. Tonight was just her night and next time it will be yours…”
“You mean that?!”
“Of course I do and if it’s not you dust yourself off and keep at it. Now hit the showers… You deserve a good meal tonight and it’s on me…”
Crystal nods her head with a grin as she keeps her eyes on Emma. She didn’t like losing but she knew to trust in Emma and she was going to keep at it no matter how many times you faltered she would keep going.
Well howdy there pardner.