Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 3:04:08 GMT
“The samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come.”
As Nighthawk tapes his hands with care and attention inside a locker room in Tijuana as he prepares for a sparring session with some local students one can’t help but see in his eyes a beatific calm, something far unlike the anger and zeal we see there so frequently. Clad in a blue USA Wrestling cut-off shirt, blue-and-orange baggy nylon shorts, and blue-and-white wrestling boots, the “American Samurai” smiles and closes his eyes.
Nighthawk: “The Roulette has always been about challenges. About pushing yourself past what you imagine your limits ought to be. And for me, winning the Roulette is the hardest and biggest limit there is.
Not just because I have to outlast 29 of the most talented wrestlers in the world in a match where there are no friends, no allies I can trust to have my back, and threats every two minutes. If that was all it was, winning the Roulette would be a noble challenge.
But what takes this from something hard into something that will make me test everything I know about myself is what’s going to happen if I win it.
If I outlast and outwit 29 of the very best in the world, I will earn as my prize the chance to battle my best friend in the world for a prize I have only ever gotten one shot before. I will battle my best friend, the man who has been a champion of the 1st order, if I pull off this victory. If I do what others think I might not be able to do, I will wrestle my friend, a man who I have never defeated, for the richest prize in wrestling today. And my best friend has made it that way.
Can I wrestle Andrew Jacobsen? Can I defeat the man many are calling the Ace of IWF?
Between you and me, and whoever else is listening, I’d love to find out.
Goodnight IWF. May sleep give you the courage to go on.”
As Nighthawk tapes his hands with care and attention inside a locker room in Tijuana as he prepares for a sparring session with some local students one can’t help but see in his eyes a beatific calm, something far unlike the anger and zeal we see there so frequently. Clad in a blue USA Wrestling cut-off shirt, blue-and-orange baggy nylon shorts, and blue-and-white wrestling boots, the “American Samurai” smiles and closes his eyes.
Nighthawk: “The Roulette has always been about challenges. About pushing yourself past what you imagine your limits ought to be. And for me, winning the Roulette is the hardest and biggest limit there is.
Not just because I have to outlast 29 of the most talented wrestlers in the world in a match where there are no friends, no allies I can trust to have my back, and threats every two minutes. If that was all it was, winning the Roulette would be a noble challenge.
But what takes this from something hard into something that will make me test everything I know about myself is what’s going to happen if I win it.
If I outlast and outwit 29 of the very best in the world, I will earn as my prize the chance to battle my best friend in the world for a prize I have only ever gotten one shot before. I will battle my best friend, the man who has been a champion of the 1st order, if I pull off this victory. If I do what others think I might not be able to do, I will wrestle my friend, a man who I have never defeated, for the richest prize in wrestling today. And my best friend has made it that way.
Can I wrestle Andrew Jacobsen? Can I defeat the man many are calling the Ace of IWF?
Between you and me, and whoever else is listening, I’d love to find out.
Goodnight IWF. May sleep give you the courage to go on.”
Well howdy there pardner.