Post by Kyle Shane on May 6, 2019 4:01:09 GMT -5
Pardon me if it feels like I'm kicking the rust off of this. Maybe you can just look at this as an old friend's voice who hasn't been heard in quite a long time. Maybe you'll take a metaphor as an established fact. Or maybe I am someone else entirely, that you've never met.
Either way, allow me to reintroduce myself, especially to the new faces in the crowd. I am Kyle Shane. I am the Game God. And I am not content with just taking what I've done before.
But in many ways, when I pledged to become Remastered, I wasn't just spouting a catchphrase. I looked at what I was doing going into Mass Destruction. And even if half the people in the back came up to me, clapped me on the shoulder and said, man, it was such a tough loss, it could have gone either way. I felt broken by losing, but as always, the essence of Kyle Shane lies in experimentation. And honestly, I felt like maybe that was where I'd failed. I talked a lot about taking risks, and changing the game, but I can say that in my feud with Gerard Angelo I did adhere tightly to a formula. Maybe I got too arrogant because the formula had allowed me to overcome legends and main event players such as Grimm and Seromine. Who's to say. But if relationship drama lacked the... sense of exploration that 2016 Kyle Shane had, where exactly would I start again?
In many ways that's why I felt like I have to put myself in this position, where I'm almost another person, a fresh pair of eyes looking at what worked and tinkering with what didn't.
While you may only get one chance to make a first impression... if you've got someone entirely new wearing the mask and becoming a newer, better Kyle Shane, then every week after would be a first impression... wouldn't it?
Or maybe I'm still the same when it's all said and done. Maybe I AM that Kyle Shane, who's core strength of unbreakable will pushed to the top of the mountain and stayed there.
Does that mean I need to get complacent?
I had it once, so who gives a shit, why bother trying to get back?
That is, somehow, what Darren Hughes thinks, and that's now tied with David Hunter saying that Kyle Shane was never THE main event (oh, but David is...) as the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life.
I actually feel bad that Darren has to throw away his first match against me, because when I was younger (and a lot meaner) I took absolute relish in shredding shitty gimmicks. Since Darren wants to namedrop Larry Whatever World Champion he beat, I'll just smile, reminisce, talk about how I used to get booked against a guy named Lion, who was an animal themed big game hunter who wore a freaking cat mask, and I shredded his fucking gimmick so badly and mercilessly that he had to unmask and be something else. You put someone Like Darren Hughes against me, I poke eighteen million holes and contradictions in their story, I make it so it's kind of worthless for them to try again. I would regret doing that to Darren, honestly, because his introduction on Trauma actually got a chuckle out of me. But it does him no favors that his first match, his first chance to make a great first impression, and he has to go against me. It's manifestly unfair, actually. Even if I'm not trying to hurt him or break his character apart, I'm going to outshine him. That's just the way that works. And I'll outwork him. But the simple fact of the matter is this is a guy who came to our company, proclaiming to be good enough that he could wrangle a reptile, and not even doing that properly. And now he's going to pit whatever skills he didn't show there against me, decidedly not cold blooded, faster on land and quicker than the strike of a cobra.
This is a dude who's entire reputation, in fact, in built on him wrestling alligators, like that's not some backwoods carny shit that would embarrass anyone not on crystal meth.
But this is a man who tells his story, how he found success elsewhere and toppled men he wasn't supposed to. Yet when he came here he washed out. It's not uncommon, actually, even I found the difficulty spike something to adjust to. But Darren, that's where we're not the same... because everywhere I've gone, I've risen to the top. And that includes Pure Class Wrestling. There was no getting humbled and then leaving because I wasn't good enough. You laid that card on the table, then you expect to turn it around because you did well elsewhere and now you're hungry again. You picked a bad time to reenter, son, and you got the worst luck of the draw facing off against me.
It's... great that you've trained to face me, that you think two weeks worth of watching will help. Shit, dude, I can give you six months... You can watch tape morning noon and night, peeing in a bottle while I give you reels of everything I accomplished and all of my biggest matches in IEW 2009-2010, XWF Reboot 2011-2012 and WGWF all the way up to a year or so ago and you can rewind on every move, replay every hit, freeze frame every opening and it still won't give you an edge. You think just because you've studied how to avoid a move I hit in the ring is going to help? Thanks so much for telling me how you're going to reverse it ahead of time, dick. If someone is trying to mug you with a knife, and you pull a gun out and point it at them do you drop it at their feet and let them pick that up too?
You think my place is safe on the card, so you're hungrier than me. That was your biggest mistake, because you simply don't know who I am.
I am the hungriest, most driven player of the Game there ever was. I am the chaser of endless Achievement. If I don't go out there and 100% this shit, then I'm not happy, and I'll never be satisfied, and if I'll never be fulfilled that's my cross to bear. I am starting over from the bottom because I intended to, because this Remastered Game is coming in crystal clear sharper, better and more focused than it ever was before. This is my first impression too, here, now, in the 2019 Icemann Invitational Tournament, and I am not blowing my first shot at getting back to the end of it. My Endgame.
You've had your first impression already, Darren, and you fucking blew it. Couldn't wrangle that brass ring like you couldn't trap the albatross that is your gator.
I don't need to look up your tapes from eight years ago or wheneverthefuck, chico. I'm good enough that your moves simply will not matter.
And I do wish you luck, I hope after you get bounced from this piece in the first round you stick around here. Give Pure Class Wrestling a chance. But god Damn, son, I'm sorry. You really, really wanted to come back and get a win because your bad tenure before tainted your legacy, and I feel that, I do, but my legacy matters much more to me in the long run and my legacy is made by steamrolling right over n00bs. (Damn, he went l33t spe4k, forum style.) So you can just bow right down to your Overlord. No, I'm sorry. To your God. Allow me to formally introduce myself. My next step will be to shake your hand. The step after that is to break your jaw. Soz.
Now, how would I usually close these off?
Oh yes.
First match of the Icemann Invitational.
Achievement... Unlocked.
Either way, allow me to reintroduce myself, especially to the new faces in the crowd. I am Kyle Shane. I am the Game God. And I am not content with just taking what I've done before.
But in many ways, when I pledged to become Remastered, I wasn't just spouting a catchphrase. I looked at what I was doing going into Mass Destruction. And even if half the people in the back came up to me, clapped me on the shoulder and said, man, it was such a tough loss, it could have gone either way. I felt broken by losing, but as always, the essence of Kyle Shane lies in experimentation. And honestly, I felt like maybe that was where I'd failed. I talked a lot about taking risks, and changing the game, but I can say that in my feud with Gerard Angelo I did adhere tightly to a formula. Maybe I got too arrogant because the formula had allowed me to overcome legends and main event players such as Grimm and Seromine. Who's to say. But if relationship drama lacked the... sense of exploration that 2016 Kyle Shane had, where exactly would I start again?
In many ways that's why I felt like I have to put myself in this position, where I'm almost another person, a fresh pair of eyes looking at what worked and tinkering with what didn't.
While you may only get one chance to make a first impression... if you've got someone entirely new wearing the mask and becoming a newer, better Kyle Shane, then every week after would be a first impression... wouldn't it?
Or maybe I'm still the same when it's all said and done. Maybe I AM that Kyle Shane, who's core strength of unbreakable will pushed to the top of the mountain and stayed there.
Does that mean I need to get complacent?
I had it once, so who gives a shit, why bother trying to get back?
That is, somehow, what Darren Hughes thinks, and that's now tied with David Hunter saying that Kyle Shane was never THE main event (oh, but David is...) as the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life.
I actually feel bad that Darren has to throw away his first match against me, because when I was younger (and a lot meaner) I took absolute relish in shredding shitty gimmicks. Since Darren wants to namedrop Larry Whatever World Champion he beat, I'll just smile, reminisce, talk about how I used to get booked against a guy named Lion, who was an animal themed big game hunter who wore a freaking cat mask, and I shredded his fucking gimmick so badly and mercilessly that he had to unmask and be something else. You put someone Like Darren Hughes against me, I poke eighteen million holes and contradictions in their story, I make it so it's kind of worthless for them to try again. I would regret doing that to Darren, honestly, because his introduction on Trauma actually got a chuckle out of me. But it does him no favors that his first match, his first chance to make a great first impression, and he has to go against me. It's manifestly unfair, actually. Even if I'm not trying to hurt him or break his character apart, I'm going to outshine him. That's just the way that works. And I'll outwork him. But the simple fact of the matter is this is a guy who came to our company, proclaiming to be good enough that he could wrangle a reptile, and not even doing that properly. And now he's going to pit whatever skills he didn't show there against me, decidedly not cold blooded, faster on land and quicker than the strike of a cobra.
This is a dude who's entire reputation, in fact, in built on him wrestling alligators, like that's not some backwoods carny shit that would embarrass anyone not on crystal meth.
But this is a man who tells his story, how he found success elsewhere and toppled men he wasn't supposed to. Yet when he came here he washed out. It's not uncommon, actually, even I found the difficulty spike something to adjust to. But Darren, that's where we're not the same... because everywhere I've gone, I've risen to the top. And that includes Pure Class Wrestling. There was no getting humbled and then leaving because I wasn't good enough. You laid that card on the table, then you expect to turn it around because you did well elsewhere and now you're hungry again. You picked a bad time to reenter, son, and you got the worst luck of the draw facing off against me.
It's... great that you've trained to face me, that you think two weeks worth of watching will help. Shit, dude, I can give you six months... You can watch tape morning noon and night, peeing in a bottle while I give you reels of everything I accomplished and all of my biggest matches in IEW 2009-2010, XWF Reboot 2011-2012 and WGWF all the way up to a year or so ago and you can rewind on every move, replay every hit, freeze frame every opening and it still won't give you an edge. You think just because you've studied how to avoid a move I hit in the ring is going to help? Thanks so much for telling me how you're going to reverse it ahead of time, dick. If someone is trying to mug you with a knife, and you pull a gun out and point it at them do you drop it at their feet and let them pick that up too?
You think my place is safe on the card, so you're hungrier than me. That was your biggest mistake, because you simply don't know who I am.
I am the hungriest, most driven player of the Game there ever was. I am the chaser of endless Achievement. If I don't go out there and 100% this shit, then I'm not happy, and I'll never be satisfied, and if I'll never be fulfilled that's my cross to bear. I am starting over from the bottom because I intended to, because this Remastered Game is coming in crystal clear sharper, better and more focused than it ever was before. This is my first impression too, here, now, in the 2019 Icemann Invitational Tournament, and I am not blowing my first shot at getting back to the end of it. My Endgame.
You've had your first impression already, Darren, and you fucking blew it. Couldn't wrangle that brass ring like you couldn't trap the albatross that is your gator.
I don't need to look up your tapes from eight years ago or wheneverthefuck, chico. I'm good enough that your moves simply will not matter.
And I do wish you luck, I hope after you get bounced from this piece in the first round you stick around here. Give Pure Class Wrestling a chance. But god Damn, son, I'm sorry. You really, really wanted to come back and get a win because your bad tenure before tainted your legacy, and I feel that, I do, but my legacy matters much more to me in the long run and my legacy is made by steamrolling right over n00bs. (Damn, he went l33t spe4k, forum style.) So you can just bow right down to your Overlord. No, I'm sorry. To your God. Allow me to formally introduce myself. My next step will be to shake your hand. The step after that is to break your jaw. Soz.
Now, how would I usually close these off?
Oh yes.
First match of the Icemann Invitational.
Achievement... Unlocked.
