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Post by REDEFINE Pro on Apr 20, 2014 16:27:11 GMT
Jordan Caliban vs Johnny Ajax
The Story:
Jordan Caliban made his debut at New Frontiers, doing commentary on the Ajax / Fairchild match-which saw Johnny Ajax score the impressive win over the former FGA Heavyweight Champion. This time, Caliban and Ajax square off one on one in what promises to be a high flying spectacle. Caliban was at one point a front runner for the PWX Hybrid Championship-what will these two stars do when they clash at Crossing The Line?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2014 22:38:17 GMT
Date: 04/19/2014 Location: Frontier Fieldhouse, Chicago Ridge, IL
We find Caliban backstage, he is filming a promo for the next show as his opponent was just announced, the sounds running through the arena is deafening as the main event if about 15 minutes deep, someone closes the door of the makeshift sound stage shutting out the din Caliban: Well ladies and gentlemen I hear what people have been saying about me over the last couple of months, I've publicly left a couple of high profile companies when people considered me to have a spot that would be coveted in those companies. I hear what people have said about the appearances I have had. That I'm not focused anymore, that I'm not the same guy, that I just go through the motions of pretending to be that guy and I gotta admit there is a whole lotta truth in that. Recently my confidence not just in wrestling but in general hasn't exactly been great. And it is because I feel let down by myself because I couldn't maintain the spots I had fought to be in, as the Marquee says, former future PWX Hybrid Division Saviour and all that and I was ready to be that. I didn't think it would be so hard, I thought Id take out Graystone and end my relationship with one company on a high note and then move on and be the new boy wonder in PWX but in the end it never happened and I couldn't get it done. So that brought me to a new low, so yeah I repeat myself and go through the motions "awww I'm gunna be the best, I'm the yardstick" over and over again.
He scratches his nose and lights a smoke Caliban: You don't understand what it's like to be able to generate a ground swell like I can just by having my name mentioned against this guy or that guy because everyone expects a great match not because of the opponent but because people know the level I will take that opponent too, just to beat me, there is never any real confidence that I can get the job done. So recently we had some time off and me and Sinnesy my wife, we went home and I was feeling pretty bad, I was feeling like something on a shoe going through the motions, a few joints, those odd couple of drinks I allow myself every now and then. And I looked in the mirror and I saw the man looking back at me, this beat battered 26 year old dog, ribs wrapped up, broken nose, shoulder still in athletic tape, And as I see that image I realised who I was always meant to be, the person who put me in the spot where all those expectations where put on me either by others or myself. The person I used to be, the scrappy dog in the fight who didn't know when to EVER say die, that person was the one staring back at me from that mirror. I am at a cross roads in my career ladies and gentlemen, I am angry, I am beat up but I am ready, I have nothing really to lose and I like it. May 3rd in Bridge view at Crossing the Line I face a man I watched wrestle for the first time at New Frontiers and until I realised this guy has me beaten by about 4 years, I was pissed because I thought he was ripping off my act. I was happy to hear that this wasn't the case, so I started laying traps in my commentary, trying to get the match makers attention and it worked and low and behold I have my match
He smiles and rubs the sides off his head before starting to talk more animatedly, his hands are being waved around, you can see genuine excitement for the challenge ahead Caliban: Ajax, Johnny, Johnny Ajax whatever you wanna call your self, I do like you, thats why I put the idea out there for this too happen, but I feel bad and what I feel shitty about is what I am going to do to you. You see now I got my head back in the game, now my ego is playing ball with the rest of my head, I got a little more swagger and I am ready to go! The best damn thing on a bottle rocket in the business is back, Johnny Ajax Im coming for you, with all the confidence in the world... INCOMING!
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Date: 04/20/2014 Location: Vancouver Hilton Hotel, Vancouver, Canada We open on Caliban sitting in a hotel Lobby, there is a female interviewer from a non descript sports magazine sitting across from him with a small reporters tape recorder on the table between them, Caliban looks relaxed sitting back on the couch wearing a huge wool knitted oversized sweater and black skinny jeans looking absolutely nothing like the image his name and job description should conjure up. The interviewer begins with an easy one Interviewer: A lot of hype behind this match and that match at The Line Is Crossed but with some remarks you made on commentary at New Frontier people are especially excited to see what you and Ajax can pull out Caliban: There is something almost tantalising in the air, I can smell it too, it has all the signs of an oncoming classic, I dubbed this match spiral wars on twitter and the world awaits something high speed and high flying, but you see that is not their decision to make, yes it will come down to a 630 VS imploding 630 contest, as I said whoever misses is gunna probably eat the pin, for anyone who has felt that move I'd like you to take just a second and think about what it feels like for one of us when we miss that and take a canvas to the back. As for the comments I made really that was me stoking the fire, it's not easy to sit on the side lines and see an act so closely related to yours be performed so flawlessly by someone who is not you and there is only one remedy for that and in our world we call it a fight.The interviewer looks at him skeptically through her half rim glasses Interviewer: Surely an athletic contest would be a more appropriate description no?Caliban allows himself a small giggle at this sign of ignorance Caliban: In a perfect world that would most certainly be the case but in truth we are competing and the way you win that competition is by hurting people, you don't pin a guy because he thinks I can't top that, no you pin him because for 3 to 5 seconds he can't stand the fuck up anymore. You think people like me and Johnny train on trampolines all day? No, no we don't, I dunno about him but when I train I train with a Nova Scotian Brother of mine from the Sequitus movement called Cormack MacNeil, this man weighs 280 and has a lifetime membership to the nest of giants gym, any of you who doesn't know what that is let me explain to you, this place is in Reykjavik Iceland widely considered one of the hardest places in the world to live, this gym doesn't have a shower room, it barely has dumbbells, instead these guys train with industrial equipment, Car suspension shafts and the like. Now imagine what that kind of personal trainer is like 6 days a week. When I train my punches and kicks, I don't hit a bag I hit a tree. I don't train to fly I train to hurt people because thats how you make it in this business
The reporter nods her head making shorthand notes as he speaks, when she gets what she needs down she looks back up laying her hands on her knees and continues Interviewer: You are still relatively new to this right? I mean you only went pro and left the Dojo behind in the last couple of years yes?Caliban considers this wording his answer properly so as not to disrespect anyone Caliban: Year actually, I'm not quite over my freshman year as a pro but We never really stop learning, every opponent is different and we learn something new from each other even if its simple, certain things I never would've thought of, like that transition into the 630 Johnny pulled out of his ass at Frontier, I never even considered doing that and you waste very little motion for it. As for my actual training, yes it has been about 2 years since I got that dark match trainee monkey off my back but I had wrestled a 3rd of my bucket list before that tag came off. I have been lucky, the hard part for me was getting medically ready for the ring. Once my health was where it needed to be I just tried to hit the ground running, I was in the ring for the first time 3 months after my first session, jumped company for the first time after 6 and went and trained on the other side of the country and thats really been my story. Move around, set up rings, follow promoters, learn the walls and the weak points that can be exploited in them, do that and keep the hunger for it for 6 years and you are guaranteed to get somewhere and now I amInterviewer: 2nd City is a new company with a very high talent pool, some men whose names were known when you were still going by Cra.....Caliban: Wow! hold it right there, integrity please, I have met a lot of the guys here before and faced I think 2 of them I'm not sure, chair shots and bong hits have that effect
The reporter rolls her eyes and continues Interviewer: How do you respond to reports that you haven't really done much to earn your name
Caliban: I don't, you can't because that would be trying to change someones opinion and I dunno how much time you spent in the dirty internet hovels of the IWC, but from my experience you can't do that simply with words. So let me answer you question the same way I have answered every other one like it asked of me in the past. Ajax is going to be my canvas for that, you see this guy really relies on the high flying look at me tactic and that one works nice if you wanna get the fans into it but I only saw one moment that made me think about it when it comes to this guy and that was that vicious little bulldog in the ropes when the bell rang. I don't see the killer instinct you need to put down someone like me. I'm not the guy who takes the best you got and thats the end of it, Im the guy who takes the best you got 3 times and still kicks out. I'm the guy you need to hospitalise to put down. I am not you average wrestler, I am not the next big thing I am the culmination of the past 20 years of pro wrestling, I have taken everything good from those years and adapted them to myself. I am the walking embodiment of the era of wrestling that died a young death with the lives of a Mexican and a Canadian. I don't just call myself the New Age Libertine, I mean it, I don't see things the way the rest of the locker rooms do, I don't see anyone who is better or worse on any given night because on any given night the right 5 foot 6 150 pound wrestler can become a god in his own time all it takes is 3 seconds and the right opportunity, I have been handed that opportunity on a platter and I don't just intend to take it, I intend to consume it completely the same way I will devour everything Johnny Ajax can throw at me and still be standing when the bell rings at the end with my hand raised, this is step 1 and I don't intend to fall at the first hurdleInterviewer: Ok just one more The interviewer runs through her notes to make sure she hasn't missed anything before selecting her final question Interviewer: So Mr Caliban to end tell me what you Strive for, what your personal goal is
Caliban: Excellence She looks at him with a slight bemused look on her face Interviewer: I'm afraid some elaboration may be needed, why do you say that?
He takes a long drink from a can of rockstar Caliban: Well to take it from the source, Harlan Ellison a dominant figure in speculative fiction once wrote
Caliban lounges back into the seat as if trying to channel the writer he is quoting Caliban: That's from the introduction to Sandman Season of MistsCaliban stares at her as she furiously scribbles down the end of the quote before continuing Caliban: For someone like myself I don't like being the best I like being on the level because when you have a wrestling company that there is only one level, no jobbers, mid cards no bullshit and definitely no fucking womans division. When you have a group of people who can create a free and open kind of company where everyone is a contender and hold onto that state of mind, in that company anything can happen. I have a vision for 2nd city wrestling for it to be a place where as I already said on any given night a 150 pound 5 foot 7 guy can be a god damn super hero for the right punch here or the lucky pin there. Now imagine if every single one of those guys no matter what size or height or whatever are all as good as I am, when excellence runs through a company's lifeblood what happens?She shakes her head, he smiles and gives her a final caption Caliban: Absolutely anything**********************
We open on Caliban in front of a white back drop decorated with a comic book style dead rabbit hanging off a stick, he looks jovial and when he speaks does so animatedly with his hands, he yet again is dressed more like a handsome less crack addicted version of MGK with a backwards cap, oversized tank top with what looks like deadpools torso printed on it and overly tight jeans Caliban: Johnny I'd like to start by saying that watching you and Fairchild go to work last week was interesting, you got some serious credibility and the shit to back it up and thats a good thing, for me, because you are not going to be that star people have been labeling you with, you are gunna be forgotten when someone better than you comes along and he just did. And I hear a lot of people saying "Well Jonny Ajax was Jordan Caliban before Caliban gave himself his silly little name" and yeah thats true but there are times when people just hold a place you know? But by the time I'm done with you Johnny you won't be able to show your face here again because you will know that everything you do I do so much betterCaliban pulls a smoke out from behind his ear and lights it quick eager to keep listening to the sound of his own voice Caliban: And the best thing about it is that Johnny will actually laugh all this off and why the hell shouldn't he, in fact Ajax please rip apart everything I am saying and grow your ignorance, let your ego cloud you from the violence I am about to inflict on your person and in the end we will make that your undoing. I will dismantle you Johnny, mentally, physically and completely, I see no place for you in the professional wrestling utopia I intend this company to become and you will just be the first to fall by the way side for stupid notions like thinking you are better than any of the rest of us in the locker room He smiles and his eye's narrow, Sinney walks out of the dark behind him in a suicide silence Tshirt and skinned anatomy leggings showing her figure perfectly she leans her chin on his shoulder and mirrors his smile Sinney: Overconfidence is a vicious ally when in the correct hands, and these....
They both spin their hands in front of the camera Caliban: are those hands, the hands that twist the world to our image and in the end, Johnny Ajax and 2nd city wrestling will be moulded in the image that I have for it. Johnny when you hear the word Blam duck or someone might just murder you, but you won't be able to hide forever, Ajax, Fairchild, Pariah it doesn't matter who or when in the end every man on that list will suck my super kick, INCOMING!
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Date: 04/27/2014 Narrator: 3 hours ago A british television company named challenge caught the the moment when Caliban was told his match would indeed be a number on contenders match for the 2nd city title the the video was posted by wrestle talk TV to their youtube channel as an extra from his recent appearance, the following footage contains the moment it is revealed and the reaction from Caliban himselfA badly crafted theme song begins and a Graphic reading Wrestle Talk TV Extra flashes up for a few seconds before both fade away together into a TV studio, the lighting is a slightly off pink and the décor look a bit like a clockwork orange house of fun match with chairs and traffic cones among other regularly used foreign objects are cable tied to what looks like one side of a steel cage. Behind that is a wall of old British Wrestling Photo's from the world of sport era, in front of the display sits Joel Simon's a small guy with a bit of a campish demeanour but to the guys credit he is very obviously a wrestling fan by how excited he seems to be there, a small studio crowd made from the production crew gives a smattering of applause as Joel introduces the show Joel Simons: Ladies and Gentlemen welcome back to wrestle talk TV extra, on the couch we have Jordan Caliban, now we have actually finished filming at this point but we decided to turn the cameras back on because within 15 seconds of this show ending a news report came through regarding your match with Johnny Ajax at Crossing the line
Caliban: Well dude don't keep me in... Actually hold on, you see this, this is twitter at its best, I haven't been online for 10 minutes and I missed something
Joel Simons: Yeah you missed something alright, drum roll pleaseThe small crowd start banging on their knees Joel: The news has just come in the match between Ajax and Caliban has now been changed with the stipulation added
Joel Pauses for effective and Caliban mutters in the background Caliban: Please not a ladder match, please not a ladder match
Joel Simons: Will now be a number 1
Calibans already on his feet and asking for a hand held mike, Joel is trying to finish the sentence through excited glances and giggles at Caliban Joel Simons: contenders match for the newly created 2nd City Wrestling Championship with the winner being the first challenger for that title after the champ is crowned at Crossing the line on May 3rd
Caliban finally has a mike in his hand and is laughing his ass off down it, he shushes Joel and then spins round into the camera lense Caliban: JOHNNY AJAX YOU JUST GOT SENT A CYANIDE ENVELOPE IN SERANDRAP MY FRIEND! See you went from being someone I could showcase my talents against to an opportunity and I dont like it when I see opportunities walking out the door. Johnny has the talent, he has the name, the rep, the money, the fame and he also has the most important thing, MY SPOT and I'll stand here in front of you and listen to the backlash, "1st match in the company and up for a title shot," " I've never heard of this kid I deserve it." The lists go on, and its the same shit I have had spewed at me from day one all the way to point z which is right now because this is the biggest opportunity of my career and I don't intend to let it slip away simply because some people don't think I'm good enough. I will not live my life in that state of mind anymore and I sure as hell will not dedicate my life to trying to prove it. Because I have nothing to prove, that's why I don't waste time when I get involved in something
He stops catching his breath for a second Caliban: I have spent the last 6 months of my career, no sorry let me rephrase that, I have wasted the last 6 months of my career feeling sorry for myself and you know what would really make me feel great? Some god damn recognition and how do you get that? You go belt shopping, first stop is a proper tailors to get measured for one, that's what May 3rd will be when I step in the ring with Ajax he will take the measure of me and realise that the 2nd city belt is perfect for my waist not his. I will display that with inchs marked with kicks and centimeters infected with venom, I will do what it takes to make my way into that main event and Johnny now it's gunna take so much more than your 630 to stop me, you wanna beat me? You better be prepared to end me all together because without that intention, you will never ever get the job done. Let me end with a dream I had about this match, I saw 2 guys going beyond what they normally do but I see myself holding the chain and dragging Ajax down into a pit of battle and up to a level of competition he won't be able to survive. I see Johnny's head stuck in the ring like a tack and I see myself climbing to the top rope and Johnny Ajax that will be the last thing you see on May 3rd I will see you on the way back down
The video ends there
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