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[Eddie Black]

Eddie Black’s a tough son of bitch, that being said he also wears his heart on his sleeve. If he beliefs in something, invests his time in it and really cares for it, he will die for it, no questions asked.

When he first asked me out on a date back in high school I never imagined this life, I couldn’t but what I could imagine was a life time with a man who absolutely gave his all in everything he did. That was true with us and our relationship.

If you’re waiting for the but, it’s coming. But once we got out on the road and started touring the world our relationship never really moved to the next level. We’re idling in the same spot we’ve been in for a real long time and I know I should be happy, a girl my age being able to see so much of the world is amazing, but I can’t help but want more…

So when Eddie said he had something he needed to talk to me about you could imagine my excitement.

( As always the handi cam comes to life, a little jittery at first but Rachel evens it out as she focuses on Eddie Black sitting on the couch beside her in their hotel room. )

Eddie: Always with that cam?

Rachel: Eddie, I’m telling you when you make it to the top their gonna wanna make a documentary about ya and we are gonna have all the footage they could ever want.

Eddie: Yeah I guess…

Rachel: So what was it you wanna talk about?

( Eddie fumbled around for a minute or two on the couch, just staring at his hands. )

I’d been waiting a long time for this. My parents told me countless times to give up on Eddie and this life and just come home but this is where I wanted to be, it’s where I belonged.

Eddie: Look Rach, I’ve been think’in…

Rachel: Yeah?

Eddie: You an me, we been together a long time an…

I could feel it, this was the moment…

Eddie: Ya mean the world to me, I don’t think I’d be here if it weren’t for you.

Rachel: Aww.

Eddie: So I gotta ask…

OhmygodOhmygodOhmygod.

Eddie: Do ya want me to train ya?

Rachel: OHMYGOD YES EDDIE I’D LOVE TO MAR… Wait, what?

Eddie: Yeah I just read online that IWF is think’in bout do’in a mixed tag division, whaddya think?

( The framed shot of Eddie suddenly drops as the handi cam nose dives into a pillow. )

Eddie: Rach, where ya go’in?

Rachel: Out, Eddie.

Eddie: Ya not interested?

( The scene is still black as the camera lies lens down on the couch, Eddie sighs as the door opens and closes. )

Eddie: What’s eat’in her?

( Eddie sighs as you can hear something small opening. )

Eddie: All the hellish matches I been through an I still can’t work up the balls to ask her to marry me…

( Eventually the battery lights flashes as the cam runs out of power and dies… )

Who ever said I was mad?

I ain’t mad, Jay, far fuck’in from it. See, ya dream is to go out there and make all them people happy with your flips and quick wit and mine is to go out there and have the bloodiest fuck’in match possible.

Why?

Because it’s goddamn fun, Jay. I know ya one of them plucky young fucks just look’in ta have a good time and I respect that, I appreciate the effort ya put inta this business and while ya may not agree with my style or approach I could give a rats ass. Ain’t gonna stop me from bash’in your brains in with a barbed wire bat and gett’in dq’ed.

Hell, IWF knew who they were hir’in when they brought me in, there’s enough documented evidence on youtube showing ya how fucked up I can make things in the ring. Honestlu kid, I fuck’in love it. I love the blood, the violence, the screams, yours and mine. I love the feel’in of just ripping through flesh, the smell of burning hair, the sound of the crowd as they fuck’in shit a brick at what I just did.

And if ya manage to beat me, ya beat me. Ain’t no sweat of my sack. As long as I can get back up and get back in that ring the next night I’m good. So do what ya gotta do Jay, have ya fun, do ya flips and just really try ya hardest to kick my fuck’in ass because that’s what I’m gonna do to ya.

Kid, ya tak’in me the wrong ay here. I didn’t have no Spike Kane home life, I wasn’t trained to be a killer like that fuck tard Nero Blake, I came from a regular home wit a regular family an one day I turned on the tv and saw this fat ass piece of shit jump’in off a balcony and putt’in another grown man through a flaming table…

I was sold. That was it fer me. That’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to go out there in front of those people and give them something they ain’t ever seen before. Yeah, I ain’t the best wrestler, I ain’t gonna become the Man of Steel Champion and reign supreme over this company but my skills that ya mock’in, it got me here just like you. So obviously I’m do’in something right.

So it’s like this kid, we’re go’in out there in front of all them people and we’re expected to light a fire under there ass before the real stars wrestle. I like the sounds of that, it sounds like a fuck’in challenge. Think about it kid, we go out there and we put on the show of a fuck’in life time and all those over paid assholes in the back gotta watch, they gotta follow that, they gotta have a match witout the fans scream’in boring. We got the chance to steal the fuck’in show and make our names.

So do what ya do best Jay and lets put on a fuck’in show.

Mason, ya make it really hard to trash talk ya friend.

A few weeks back we went out there and we really kicked the shit out of each other, I liked it, it was fuck’in fun and you can tell me all ya want that I whooped ya but ya won. That’s something to be proud of. I may not be here to win belts and all that but a win is a win and it shouldn’t ever be looked down at. I ain’t ever go’in to say I can’t lose, I know I ain’t the best damn wrestler on the planet, I’m just good at what I do, like yaself.

So do yaself a favor and take pride in the fact we gave each other hell and you got that three count. I’d of ben pretty fuck’in happy if it were me. Yer a tough son of a bitch an I know with that mind set ya got now yer gonna be even tougher this time around. Luckily fer me I don’t have to beat ya, I could choke out Matthews if I can just keep ya distracted long enough. But that ain’t gonna mean anything. I can already here the kids on the web boards talk’in about which one of us is better if I win and don’t beat ya. So I’m gonna go ahead and say this now, as much as fun as it’d be to choke out Matthews, I’m gonna be com’in fer ya Mason.

It ain’t about hav’in ta win this match or prov’in I’m better than ya, that don’t matter to me. Most people, they’d see this as a shot at redemption, a shot I don’t need or care about. What I need, what I want is to step inside that ring and have the bloodiest damn match possibly with ya. I wanna match up with one of the toughest sons of bitches I’ve ever come across and I wanna lay your ass out.

Fuck redemption. Fuck prov’n myself. I know what I’m capable of inside that ring and like I told the kid, as long as I’ breathing I ain’t ever gonna stop.

What ya been through, the shit ya must of seen, I can’t even fuck’in imagine the horrors. Ya been through hell Mason and I’d be a fuck’in idiot to tell ya I’m tak’in ya back there. There ain’t nothing that can happen inside that ring that can compare to what ya already been through. A far as I’m concerned yer one of the greatest men to ever live to come back from what ya been through and wanna get in the ring with the king of animals this business attracts.

What I’m try’in ta say here is, it’d be my honor to choke ya out Mason.

It’d be my absolute pleasure to draw ya blood and get a scream outta ya. Ya’ve already done me the honor of putt’in me down for three so the way I see it I owe ya one. I know ya ain’t been around the business long but we like to call it a receipt.

So let’s do this the right way, first we drop that happy go lucky bitch Jayson and then we give the IWF a blood bath unlike any it’s ever seen before. An after the show, first rounds on me.

I don’t know why I ever expect things to change with Eddie… We’ve been together for years now and it’s always just been “dating.” I keep thinking things are going to change, that we’re going to take the next step but sometimes I wonder if he just loves wrestling more than he loves me. Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever come first. Sometimes I wonder if I should just leave…