"Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again." (Psalms 140:10)
Televisions around the world are tunes in to CNN and its biggest interview of the new year…as Piers Morgan sits down with Senester. With Fatality approaching Senester thought it to be an ideal opportunity to bring HWA into the spotlight, and set the stage for 2014. Off camera he is greeted by Piers as he arrives onto the stage, takes a seat with seconds before they go live. After the television intros and friendly welcome the questions begin.
(Piers Morgan): So it’s 2014 and the professional wrestling business has come a long way and HWA is the leading company in the world. What is it about wrestling that still draws fans?
(Senester): Let us not start this way Mr. Morgan…don’t patronize me or my business.
Piers looks confused and immediately goes into damage control.
(Piers Morgan): I’m sorry for any offense, but I’m not quite certain what it is.
(Senester): Then allow me to be clear. In the mind of society the wrestling industry lies somewhere between sports and entertainment. There are no balls, no fields, and no courts here…so the sports world shuns the industry. Local and national news make no mention of wrestling but ceaselessly tally insignificant scores of teams and individual stats in Football, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Boxing, Hockey, MMA, Tennis and even Golf. There are shows dedicated to the discussion of these sports, there are networks who beg for interviews……but not with wrestling.
(Piers Morgan): Wrestling isn’t exactly acknowledged as a sport. The curtain has long been pulled back, exposing the secrets of business….the scripted matches, the choreographed moves etc. A part of the significance and classification of recognized sports is that these things are not part of them.
(Senester): As with any industry there are those who do not live up to the standards set by others. When you look at WWE, or TNA and watch their talent stumble over scripted lines, or stomp and hit the mat a certain way as to make their fisted blows appear more impactful…you dishonor the sport, its legacy, its heritage, and its history. HWA is the leading promotion in the industry for a reason and it goes to the old adage “what you see is what you get.”
(Piers Morgan): So you’re maintaining that wrestling is a legitimate sport?
(Senester): Naturally. There is but one real world where men and women may be called true athletes. Where the human body is stretched, broken, mutilated, and pushed past the threshold of what it means to most to even be called “human” and that is wrestling. When Kobe Bryant sprains his little finger, his ankle, or tweaks his knee he goes and sits on the bench, and then goes home. Here muscle, bone and flesh must mend along the way. Wrestling is 365 days a year, there are no seasons here, no time off, no do-over’s, and no scripts.
(Piers Morgan): Alright, but is it fair to compare the injuries of individuals in the sports world to those in the wrestling world? I mean…you’ve got 300lbs guys on the grid iron smacking into each other like freight trains.
(Senester): And you’ve got discussions and rules of conduct on the appropriate way to hit a man, yet you don’t call it scripted. There are no helmets in wrestling and men of even greater weight collide head on, night after night..skull to skull. There is no equal comparison of the so-called “legitimate” sports injuries to those in the wrestling world. Some of them may be the same sort, but in wrestling the difference is the greater value in them.
(Piers Morgan): How so?
(Senester): When Butch Parker wrestled with a brain tumor knowing that should even the slightest bump occur her might never leave the ring alive…we weren’t filming a scene from a movie…this was his real life. How does a human being where all others would be in a hospital compete in anything let alone the physical trials of a wrestling match? It was a challenge. A personal challenge to prove that he was stronger than his own body. That in a condition most wouldn’t dare get out of bed, that he was still the best and would not be denied his claim to the ring. When Maniac stabbed me in the knee with a Bowie knife I kept fighting and ruined both him and his accomplices. When Michael Dredge was impaled with shards of glass over two-thirds of his body he didn’t stop until the match was done. Foley lost an ear, tucked it in his pocket and continued a match. I’ve had women wrestle pregnant. Physical maladies do not detour us, but anything above a band-aid and those in the so-called sports world cringe at the thought of doing what they are paid to do.
(Piers Morgan): And what of the “entertainment” factor?
(Senester): People are entertained by what we do, it is not a title the wrestling world promoted itself. The WWE may call their brand “Sports Entertainment” because that is what they do. They put on a show, they build their characters, and they make movies to further get recognition. Dwayne Johnson is an entrepreneur not an athlete. He went from football, to wrestling, to making movies, wherever the dollar trail leads that is where he will be. If he could bring in millions cleaning toilets at the arenas he’d be first in line for the job. There is no red carpet here, no constant barrage of paparazzi, no phones ringing with agents and producers, but the entertainment world is full of people who stand in the spotlight of society, not by the merit of their proficiencies, not by blood, sweat or tears, but by images of luxurious lives and of rules that do not apply, mere smoke and mirrors feeding off the sinful lusts and envies of society.
There is but one real world where men and women may be called a star. Where they have earned the respect or disdain of fans for giving them everything they have…then digging down and finding more to give. Here you are not awarded for hitting or putting a ball through a hoop or hole, or running down a field. Here no one gives a damn about what designer’s clothes you’re wearing, or what some common item some sniveling TMZ reporter saw you buy a local store. Here you are rewarded for stepping into the ring and defeating your opponent.
(Piers Morgan): What of MMA? It’s aggressive, it’s physical and there is no denying the injuries are real. Anderson Sylva just had a gruesome injury.
(Senester): If I took two individuals off the street, put them into a cage and had them fight until one gives up, or is knocked out would you call it a sport? I’m not discounting the physical ability of the men and women who perform in MMA, I’m saying that their training, and their severely infrequent confrontations do not qualify them at the same level of performance as a wrestler. We are of a superior caliber.
(Piers Morgan): Fair enough….so let’s switch gears here…your Fatality ppv is coming up. Tell us about it.
Piers flips through some papers and pulls up the card.
(Piers Morgan): What do we have uh….Michael James and Butch Parker who you just mentioned…a Tag Team Championship match….Fallen and Draconis…etc….etc…
Senester simply stares at him, his cold eyes putting a chill in Mr. Morgan who clears his throat.
(Piers Morgan): I’m sorry did I mispronounce someone’s name or something?
(Senester): This is exactly the kind of mentality that overlooks wrestling. Instead of reading the card from top to bottom “etc…etc..” seemed to suffice to you. If you were reading the roster of the last years Superbowl Champions I’d hardly suggest you’d leave off a single member of the Baltimore Ravens, down to the towel boy, yet you so easily dismiss those under my banner with casual disregard.
(Piers Morgan): You’re right…my apologies, I’d be happy to read it properly.
(Senester): Save your apologies Mr. Morgan, you’ll find no pardon from me.
Piers clears his throat…
(Piers Morgan): Ummm…let us move forward then and talk about you for a moment. More specifically perhaps Michael Dredge. He’s a highly decorated professional wrestler, Hall of Famer, beginning his career as an ambitious young man who became utterly hated by his association with you, to turning the corner and going against you. He’s fought against you for what was it…7 years? And now you have brought him back. This seems to be a pattern with you, this “God complex” you are reported to have. When someone doesn’t do as you envision you seek to destroy them.
(Senester): What a crude portrait you paint taking peoples sins against me, and projecting them back at me. Marking me as some mere, delusional mortal.
(Piers Morgan): I’ve got a surprise for you. Standing by via satellite are two former HWA superstars. Mr. John Wolf and Charles Maxwell…you know them by their wrestling names Nightwolf and C.R. Maxwell. Gentlemen…thank you for joining us.
The cameras shows a split screen of the two men in their respective locations, both nod appreciative of the invite. Senester looks at the screen a wry smirk on his face, recalling them both vividly, having seen neither for a good 14 years.
(Piers Morgan): Mr. Wolf let’s start with you, tell us your story with wrestling and my guest this evening…Senester.
He begins to mutter something in an unidentified Indian language, his eyes fixed on Senester.
(Wolf): What is there to tell? I was an up and coming superstar in HWA. My tribe, and the Dakota nation were proud of my accomplishments, few Indian men had ever made an impact in the wrestling business even to this day. I didn’t think much of Senester when he came in, just another young guy looking to break into the business, another face in the crowd ya know.
(Piers Morgan): But he wasn’t just another face…tell us what happened.
(Wolf): His very first match in HWA was my last that’s what happened. He came in that ring with no respect for me, for the business, for the rules of engagement. You’d have thought he was fighting for his life. I tried giving him signals in the ring, but he didn’t seem to care. I said “ease up” but he didn’t listen. A code of conduct paved by thousands before him was spat upon.
(Senester): It was you who made a mockery of this sport, with your pathetic charade. Why don’t you call it what it was. In your miserable career that was going nowhere you were simply out-wrestled, and outclassed.
(Wolf): You took my livelihood you son-of-a-b###h. Everything I had worked over 10 years to achieve you took away in 10 minutes. This is wrestling not some medieval death match.
(Senester): I put you on the path to a life where you might contribute to your miserable society. I spared you the humiliation of a wasted career waddling in mediocrity. You see Piers…..this is the thanks I get for giving him the life he now lead.
(Wolf): What life? Having my spine held together by nuts and bolts. Wrestling was my career and at 33 years old I was forced to retire and find something else to do, I’m lucky to be walking after what you did to me. Typical white man…Typical white man thinking he is superior to everyone, can have whatever he wants, can take whatever he wants, can do whatever he wants. How many times will the white man stick it to my people? The white man is responsible for ….
(Piers Morgan): I’m afraid we’ll have to cut Mr. Nightwolf off there and remind our viewers that the comments of our guest are not representative of CNN opinion.
(Senester): All the better, and you can forget the other one as well…I didn’t come here for impromptu reunions with former wrestlers not even worthy of being called a has-been.
(Piers Morgan): The let us continue on our discussion….in “personnel” matters shall we say. Tell us about your obsession with Butch Parker.
(Senester): I am the first, the great humanitarian Mr. Morgan. Butch Parker is but one man of many others who I have tried to nurture, to bring to his full potential. There is nothing more to it.
(Piers Morgan): (Piers Morgan): One of many others like Talon Wilkinson for example.
Senester cracks a smile.
(Piers Morgan): Your attempts at “nurturing” his full potential threw HWA into global spotlight with legal ramifications. A Utah town destroyed, but more importantly you used his own brother as a catalyst to it all.
(Senester): Daniel Khan Wilkinson’s death was unfortunate, but may I remind you that neither I or HWA have been held to any legal responsibility for that tragic event.
(Piers Morgan): Of course not… you’ve used your political connections to wiggle around that as I see it, just as you have again most recently with Michael Dredge. You are seen on home security footage invading his home, attacking his wife, and kidnapping his child. Mrs. Dredge remains hospitalized in a mental health facility, we are told that she is in a vegetative state.
(Senester): The woman is of no consequence to me, as has this conversation turned into. I will leave you Mr. Morgan with this. In a matter of days HWA will produce one of the greatest ppv’s this industry has ever known. My will be done and anyone who stands in my way will be destroyed. I created hell Piers Morgan…you and the rest of the world have only read about it.
Senester gets up from his seat, tosses off his microphone and leaves the studio area as the scene fades to black.
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