Post by itami on Sept 8, 2024 6:41:04 GMT
{Gregor Winter is standing in front of his hotel window overlooking downtown Phoenix. The former TV Champ is dressed in shorts and a sweaty t-shirt fresh from a trip to the hotel fitness center.}
When I broke into the wrestling business I would be easy, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Even fresh out of the Corps and in the best shape of my life, I struggled every day of wrestling school and even more once I signed my first contract. I didn’t want anyone else to experience those hardships, so I formed Team MOD and brought some of the best fighters in the world to one place to train to be the best versions of themselves possible.
When Itami first came to the island she had no intentions of becoming a wrestler, but her experience as a fighter made her the perfect candidate. She had all of the skills needed to become a champion, but I knew that her skills and my knowledge wouldn’t be enough because it’s a long way to the top of the mountain. Luckily I knew that the shortcut was by climbing on the backs of your fallen opponents.
One by one they’ve lined up, and one by one they’ve fallen. Yusumi Mitsu and Nancy Pailson-Carlson thought they had what it takes to topple Lady Pain, but they were left in a heap when she hit Baku. They would have tapped in an instant had she locked on Shinigami, so what makes Amber Vogel think she has a chance of beating Itami?
{Winter grins.}
Heck, Amber will be lucky if she can survive being in the ring with Itami.
I do not doubt that she received the best training from Tara Fenix, but training is nothing like getting your hands dirty. Itami has made a life of getting her hands dirty, just take a look at this.
{A chainlink fence surrounded by men in business suits comes onto the screen. The video is shaky because it’s being filmed using a cellphone, but it’s easy to see a younger Itami inside of the makeshift ring with a much larger man covered in tattoos.}
This footage was taken five years ago in an underground fighting pit run by the yakuza. That monster standing across from her is the champion of the most violent street gang in all of Tokyo.
{A man wearing a ceremonial kimono calls for the start of the fight and the big man charges Itami. She holds her ground until he is about to grab her before using her quickness to sidestep the charge and kick the man in the side of the knee. The knee folds over, but Itami is not finished inflicting pain she connects with a round kick to the gang member's face sending blood flying from a broken nose.
The video cuts out and Gregor Winter is once again in the middle of the screen.}
That is what I mean about getting your hands dirty. Do you have what it takes to get your hands dirty Amber because I don’t. You never will, which is why you’re always just going to be one of Tara’s students. Itami on the other hand is going to be known as the Gladiatorix Champion very soon.
{The scene fades to black.}
When I broke into the wrestling business I would be easy, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Even fresh out of the Corps and in the best shape of my life, I struggled every day of wrestling school and even more once I signed my first contract. I didn’t want anyone else to experience those hardships, so I formed Team MOD and brought some of the best fighters in the world to one place to train to be the best versions of themselves possible.
When Itami first came to the island she had no intentions of becoming a wrestler, but her experience as a fighter made her the perfect candidate. She had all of the skills needed to become a champion, but I knew that her skills and my knowledge wouldn’t be enough because it’s a long way to the top of the mountain. Luckily I knew that the shortcut was by climbing on the backs of your fallen opponents.
One by one they’ve lined up, and one by one they’ve fallen. Yusumi Mitsu and Nancy Pailson-Carlson thought they had what it takes to topple Lady Pain, but they were left in a heap when she hit Baku. They would have tapped in an instant had she locked on Shinigami, so what makes Amber Vogel think she has a chance of beating Itami?
{Winter grins.}
Heck, Amber will be lucky if she can survive being in the ring with Itami.
I do not doubt that she received the best training from Tara Fenix, but training is nothing like getting your hands dirty. Itami has made a life of getting her hands dirty, just take a look at this.
{A chainlink fence surrounded by men in business suits comes onto the screen. The video is shaky because it’s being filmed using a cellphone, but it’s easy to see a younger Itami inside of the makeshift ring with a much larger man covered in tattoos.}
This footage was taken five years ago in an underground fighting pit run by the yakuza. That monster standing across from her is the champion of the most violent street gang in all of Tokyo.
{A man wearing a ceremonial kimono calls for the start of the fight and the big man charges Itami. She holds her ground until he is about to grab her before using her quickness to sidestep the charge and kick the man in the side of the knee. The knee folds over, but Itami is not finished inflicting pain she connects with a round kick to the gang member's face sending blood flying from a broken nose.
The video cuts out and Gregor Winter is once again in the middle of the screen.}
That is what I mean about getting your hands dirty. Do you have what it takes to get your hands dirty Amber because I don’t. You never will, which is why you’re always just going to be one of Tara’s students. Itami on the other hand is going to be known as the Gladiatorix Champion very soon.
{The scene fades to black.}
Well howdy there pardner.