Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 23:36:46 GMT
As Nighthawk finishes drilling his evening class of students at the Wrestle Factory, the custom-made Chicago Blackhawks mouthpiece he wears still in after a night spent teaching his students proper hand placement and wrist control for arm submissions and a brief refresher course on proper European uppercut technique, he smiles around his mouthpiece as every single one of his students leaves carefully and slowly to head towards the locker room, quite possibly to slink into ice tubs or to head towards the sports massages provided at no additional cost. Feeling confident that he has properly prepared his students for whatever new tasks may be happening the āAmerican Samuraiā slowly sets up a speed bag near a stair-master machine and a squat rack with an Olympic barbell loaded with 605 pounds.
Smiling as he prepares to do his own training to keep his legendary conditioning up to the same high standards on his return as they were before he left on his sabbatical the āAmerican Samuraiā glances in the mirror and notices our cameraman filming him. Clad in a white Chicago Blackhawks practice t-shirt, blue-and-orange spandex compression shorts, and American-Flag Nike Hypersweep wrestling shoes, Nighthawk smiles and flips his sweat-drenched long cherry bomb-red hair out of his face.
Nighthawk: āItās been 6 months, give or take a few days, since I walked out of IWF after I defeated Jason Sandman in a chain match. I needed to find myself away from being the āMaster of 1000 Holdsā, and it took me a while. And in that 6 months, I never watched IWF programming. There was nothing there that interested me, no challenge that motivated me to stop doing what I knew I needed to do to become as good as I needed to. And what was that, you may be asking?
I needed to learn. I was arrogant and prideful near the end of my IWF run, believing I knew all there was.
I trained with masters of grappling, striking, and conditioning. I learned as much while away from the ring as I could have ever learned while being in the ring and pounding my body for 300 days a year. But now I have returned. I am ready to rejoin the battles that have occurred in my absence.
And the best way to do that is to throw a spanner in the works and win the Roulette, when not a soul expects it to happen. Because, to be perfectly honest, everyone has already picked their favorites out of the draw.
Dean Harper, Pax Stormcrow, Warren Kane.
Those are your 3. In whichever order you may desire to have them placed. I know it. Everyone else in this roulette knows it. Those are the big pelts on the wall.
But at the Roulette, it wonāt matter. Survive and advance. Survive and advance. One night, 30 men. It doesnāt matter whether I arrive near the end, or whether Iām the first man in. I will do all I can, and all I can is plenty, to be the last man standing. And when I am, Iāll be seeing our world champion soon.
Goodnight IWF. May sleep give you the courage to go on.ā
Smiling as he prepares to do his own training to keep his legendary conditioning up to the same high standards on his return as they were before he left on his sabbatical the āAmerican Samuraiā glances in the mirror and notices our cameraman filming him. Clad in a white Chicago Blackhawks practice t-shirt, blue-and-orange spandex compression shorts, and American-Flag Nike Hypersweep wrestling shoes, Nighthawk smiles and flips his sweat-drenched long cherry bomb-red hair out of his face.
Nighthawk: āItās been 6 months, give or take a few days, since I walked out of IWF after I defeated Jason Sandman in a chain match. I needed to find myself away from being the āMaster of 1000 Holdsā, and it took me a while. And in that 6 months, I never watched IWF programming. There was nothing there that interested me, no challenge that motivated me to stop doing what I knew I needed to do to become as good as I needed to. And what was that, you may be asking?
I needed to learn. I was arrogant and prideful near the end of my IWF run, believing I knew all there was.
I trained with masters of grappling, striking, and conditioning. I learned as much while away from the ring as I could have ever learned while being in the ring and pounding my body for 300 days a year. But now I have returned. I am ready to rejoin the battles that have occurred in my absence.
And the best way to do that is to throw a spanner in the works and win the Roulette, when not a soul expects it to happen. Because, to be perfectly honest, everyone has already picked their favorites out of the draw.
Dean Harper, Pax Stormcrow, Warren Kane.
Those are your 3. In whichever order you may desire to have them placed. I know it. Everyone else in this roulette knows it. Those are the big pelts on the wall.
But at the Roulette, it wonāt matter. Survive and advance. Survive and advance. One night, 30 men. It doesnāt matter whether I arrive near the end, or whether Iām the first man in. I will do all I can, and all I can is plenty, to be the last man standing. And when I am, Iāll be seeing our world champion soon.
Goodnight IWF. May sleep give you the courage to go on.ā
Well howdy there pardner.