D.I.R.T.

A Week Later, and A BIG Thank You!

2009-10-14T20:19:18Z

So at about this time one week ago, I made a huge step up in life and proposed to my sweetheart. It was definitely one of the craziest, most unique days of my life, and I mean all of that in a very good way. Time never flew so fast, and we were both very energetic and worn out emotionally at the same time. It was a day filled with complete happiness that I haven't similarly felt in any other day of my life.

I had it all planned out how I wanted to propose to her, but of course, once it actually happened, I was shaking like a leaf and my voice was trembling. But other than that, it was all a big surprise to her, as I hoped. And more importantly, she loves her ring. She's not much of a jewelry person, and I didn't want to come up with something lackluster, so thankfully that was a success as well.

Once I had the ring in my hand for the first time, for some reason, in my mind I immediately decided the way I was going to do this was propose to her in the form of a poem. The poem would at first appear to be just something nice and thoughtful for our anniversary, but then I drop the paper I'm reading from to reveal that I'm holding her engagement ring, which has three diamond stones on it, with the three stones representing "past, present, and future". I wanted the poem itself to reference towards the ring and what it represents, so here's what I came up with:

Dear Jennifer,

I know that your favorite number is four, but believe me,
The best things in life really do come in three.
It's true when they say that the third time's a charm,
Because for three years, you've made me feel loved and warm.

October 7th, 2009; there is no day better,
To celebrate our past, present, and future together.
You are my soul mate, my lover and my best friend.
And you will always be those things, even when time comes to an end.

Happy 3rd Anniversary, Jennifer Zelaski.
But now I have to end this poem to ask you a question...

...Will you marry me?

For pretty much the entire day she was in shock, even after she said yes. The proposal took place in our hotel room at The Homewood Suites. The Homewood Suites is a sentimental place for us, seeing how our first time officially together, we decided to spend the night there. So with it being our anniversary, we first went to Olive Garden to stuff ourselves with pasta, then go check in to our room. Then once the proposal itself happened, time flew like crazy the rest of the day. That was the only bad thing about the day. We closed the night out with some bowling (pitiful bowling on my part), billiards, and food at Dave & Buster's, then snuggled up in our hotel room to watch BRUNO of all movies; that movie was hilarious and unbelievable with how much they pushed the envelope in it. Not to mention, the day was full of Jagerbombs for me as well, hahaha

To everyone who wished us well, I just wanted to give you all a heartfelt thank you! The support everyone showed us was amazing and overwhelming, it all means a great deal to us. And I apologize also for scaring you with my first official statement, but come on... I wanted to have a little fun with my announcement and pull a little prank. Just flat out saying "OMG WERE ENGAGED YAYYYZ" would've been too cliche and boring, and anyone that really knows me knows I have a warped sense of humor and like doing things a little different. So sorry about that. :)

As for where we go from here, all I can say right now is I know that Jen wants a long engagement, maybe around 2 years or so. I personally hope that we can be wed on our anniversary, October 7th, since that's our day. If we were to get married any other day, what would October 7th be after that? So I'm hoping our marriage can either happen that day, or at least a significant part of it happen on that day. Right now, especially with the holidays coming up, we both have a ways to go as far as planning, date, location etc. But so far we already have quite a bit of people offering to take care of certain duties at the wedding, which is awesome, and something else Jen and I are very thankful for.

Plus, big ups to everybody at N.E.W. for all the support! Tyger Smith starting out the pre-show meeting with announcing the engagement to the rest of the locker room and the ovation we got was totally awesome and a very nice surprise, and the congratulations throughout the night were great. I normally don't like breaking kayfabe, but fuck it (lol), it was really something special to us that I'll never forget.

Of course, I'll reveal more details as they come, which unfortunately right now isn't a whole lot. But I really wanted to thank everyone for their kind words. They really did make an excellent day even better, so thanks to all of you who supported us!

After three great years, I'm without a girlfriend...

2009-10-08T04:08:35Z

Yes, it's true. I didn't think I'd ever find myself saying this anytime soon, but I'm afraid it's true that all good things must come to an end... it looks as if though I'm without a girlfriend. I've had a wonderful three years with her, but as great as this chapter in my life was, it is now over.

It just feels so weird, so different... three years of fun and excitement have come to this. Jen had made me feel so happy all this time, and made me feel like these past three years were the best of my life. Anyone whose known me for a long time knows I wasn't exactly the luckiest guy when it came to women, so when this relationship with Jen came along, it felt like a huge step upward in my life. I felt like I found my someone. It totally turned my life around for the better, and I didn't look back. I figured we'd pretty much become inseperable up to this point; everyone always associated one of us with the other.

It's quite ironic that at around this time three years ago, we began something special. But now that's all changed. But even with this sudden change, I hope she knows that all this time, I cared for her more than life itself. No matter how things might have went down, I will always love her and care about her.

That's why today, on October 7th, 2009, I proposed to her, asking her to be my wife. She said yes.

So with this big change, Jen is no longer my girlfriend, but she is now my fiance!

Just leave a comment

2009-09-24T19:22:48Z

LiveJournal's becoming pretty obsolete these days... I jump on here from time to time, so if you do too, just leave a little something, just because. :)

9/12/09

2009-09-04T16:31:16Z

Just puttin' this out there in LiveJournal land...

R.I.P. Sandy

2009-07-28T07:06:06Z

Tonight was absolutely one of the hardest nights of my life. I came home from work at about 10pm to find that Sandy, one of my pet turtles, had passed away. My girlfriend wouldn't be home for anouther hour though... so not only did I want to get "it" out of the way, "it" is just something I dread doing, and it definitely was not easy. She was so heartbroken, and it just devastated me, losing one of our very own first pets, and seeing how sad it made my girlfriend. I'm fine right now, I just hope everything will be okay soon.

Rest in peace Sandy. Your mom and dad love you and miss you. <3

Who's To Blame?

2009-05-23T07:14:43Z

So I'm up late (what's new) looking through wrestling dirt sheet websites, when I read about this upcoming grudge match between Kevin Nash and Pierre-Carl Ouellet. Here's the aritcle:

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The International Wrestling Syndicate celebrates its Tenth Anniversary on May 30th at the Medley with the biggest grudge match to hit Quebec since the Rougeaus fought the Garvins in the old Montreal Forum: Kevin Nash vs. Pierre-Carl Ouellet. The History: In September 1995, PCO (as Jean-Pierre Lafitte) was scheduled to face Kevin Nash (as WWF Champion Diesel) in Montreal. PCO refused to job in his home-town. Kevin Nash was a monumental ass-hole about it. PCO lost his push and eventually his position in the WWF. What You Need To Know: For the first time in 14 years, PCO will be in the same ring as Kevin Nash, the man who cost him his dream job and literally millions of dollars in lost revenue. PCO will be able to punch Kevin Nash in the face as hard as he wants and not go to jail for it.

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Now here's my take on the whole thing... I don't consider myself a know-it-all in the wrestling business by any means. But I personally don't know of any excuse that makes it okay to refuse doing a job. It might just be me, but this article makes Nash out to be the bad guy in all this, whether it's hyping the match or not. I feel it was PCO's pride that led to him losing his dream job and literally millions of dollars in lost revenue. Regardless of if Nash was a monumental asshole about things, he was the top star of the WWF at that time, and that's just bad business refusing to job to the top guy. And no disrespect to PCO, but he wasn't exactly high up on the pecking order at that time. These days it'd be like R-Truth refusing to job to Randy Orton just because they're in R-Truth's hometown. To me it's just bad business to put your ego and/or pride before the product, in such a case as this.

I gotta say, it was a good day

2009-04-02T21:44:17Z

So April Fools Day turned out to be one of the best days I've had in a long time.

Was off with the misses all day, so first we went to the Broadway Market. It was my first time there and I thought it was a nice place with a lot of cool stuff. After that we needed to clean out our turtle tank, and as much of a pain as it is, I feel like we've gotten better at it, and it shows. It's real satisfying to see a nice, crystal clear turtle tank after all the hard work.

Then I went on PlayStation Home, to see if their April Fools "joke" was for real, and not a joke in itself. We both love the Chain Swing song on the Listen@Home playlist, it's seriously addicting. So the one day I came on and noticed it was replaced with all this 50 Cent stuff, needless to say we weren't happy about it at all. Apparently many others didn't either, and the moderators suggested for April Fools day making a playlist with only Chain Swing on there. So I checked it out, and turns out it was true. A playlist of 23 songs, and all of them were the exact same song (lol). It was hilarious, so we kept it on for a pretty long time and enjoyed ourselves. As dumb and monotonous as it was, we never get tired of it, and we think it's great.

And finally, I've gotten back in touch with Matt, my best friend from back in high school. We'd since gone our separate ways, with him moving back to his home state of Missouri. Last time we saw each other was I believe '02 or '03; he was up here with a friend of his and his girlfriend Rachel. It kind of left a bad taste in my mouth, because I apparently rubbed them all the wrong way without even realizing it, and they didn't really enjoy the visit, which I felt really bad about. But recently I found him on Myspace, and he sent me a message telling me what he's been up to, and how proud he was of me for how I've come up in life. Him and Rachel have actually been married for 2 years now which is great. So I messaged him back telling him some of what's been going on lately. It's been a long time and we have a lot of catching up to do, which I'm looking forward to. Matt's seriously one of the coolest people I've ever met, so I'm real happy to be talking with him again.

When it was all said and done for the day, I realized that I haven't had a day quite as good or as fun as that in a while, and there needs to be more days like that.

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Just annoyed by Michael Cole as usual...

2009-02-17T03:55:05Z

I dunno why, but it just makes my skin crawl whenever I hear Michael Cole say "the monstrous" Mike Knox. Cole and his annoying catchphrases (whoring out WWE.com with the Daily Diva and Cryme Tyme's word of the day, Kofi Kingston's "controlled frenzy, etc.) are starting to remind me of how much of a tool he comes off as. Jim Ross used to always get on my nerves too with his "scalded dog" and "government mule" phrases, but he didn't annoy me as bad as Cole.

As if I didn't have enough hope to ever see Heidenreich come back, I wish he'd come back and make Cole his bitch again. lol

Okay, enough of my randomness-driven rant. kthxbye.

My 2008 Wrestling Year-In-Review

2008-12-24T20:55:53Z

Well it’s already getting towards the end of 2008, and as per usual, it’s time for my review of my year in wrestling. I’d like to start off by saying that my 2008 in wrestling didn’t exactly blossom like I wanted it to honestly, but in the end it wound up becoming overall more of a stepping stone to the new direction I want to take with wrestling.

My first goal in 2008 was first and foremost, to get back in the ring at some point. And while I was on hiatus, I noticed how much my home fed Next Era Wrestling was beefing up the production, getting to the point where the set started reminding me of Monday Night Raw, which was awesome. And of course, me always trying to be a little different, I saw all this and thought to myself that I'd love for my return to be something with build-up and surprise; something that would be a memorable moment.

The coming back part obviously happened no problem. But... unfortunately, the part about it being a memorable moment failed miserably.

It really sucked, because I'd put quite a bit of effort into this hoping it would work out; I thought it was a great idea, and one that was simple, yet effective, to pull off. And this isn't me knocking anybody, but those that I put my trust into to assist me with it didn't really put forth as much effort as needed. Too many people got their hands on it, my idea got changed up so much that it wound up being a fraction of the original idea, and in the end, it flopped. Nobody really noticed or cared, which was the exact opposite of what I was going for. I also made it a point to let me know if they couldn't really put in the time and effort, and I'd try something else. They gave me the green light with it, but didn't put forth 100% effort like I'd hoped, so that was kinda disappointing as well.

Case in point, sort of an ironic story stemming from it: this guy we call Mullet Joe was a big fan of mine since my time in Roc City Wrestling. While I was on hiatus, I still came backstage to N.E.W. shows to help out with other things. And a lot of times, Joe would catch up to me after the show and always ask me "ZEKE! WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK!?" Of course I was kayfabing it at the time, but I was trying to give the impression that it wouldn't be anytime soon. That would happen so many times after shows: "ZEKE! WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK!?" and I'd try n' kayfabe him. Then finally, it was the night of the comeback. Despite it failing, I was still hoping to hear what Joe thought of it. I was walking around doing the usual post-show frolicking with people, when Joe finally caught up with me.

"ZEKE! WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK!?"

At that point, I was pretty much like "Ouch". That told me how much it failed, so that was a tough pill to swallow.

But I still played with the cards that were dealt, and bounced back as best as I could. The working idea fueling the return was that I got screwed over by N.E.W. back when I was N.E.W. Champion; that I worked so hard to achieve that, and that it was just simply taken away. So now I was going to come back the opposite of what I was. I was going to go from being a hard-working, honorable sort of journeyman wrestler who wanted to earn his accolades, to being a cowardly heel with no respect for anybody or anything (except myself of course, lol), taking any shortcut I can, and bragging about the things I did accomplish.

I was excited about doing this new character, since I was always into heels. Plus this character would allow me to open up and be more myself than ever before. Robert Ezekyo was always kind of dark and sinister. But despite me trying to be dark and sinister, I couldn't help but throw in some sort of comedy one way or another, which wasn't exactly dark or sinister (lol). But now I was able to shed that and just let my funny side really blossom, since I also kind of use wrestling as sort of my outlet for comedy. Prior to me going on sabbatical, I toyed with this new character a few times in Canada, since I was a heel there, and I had a LOT of fun doing it, so I was excited to make this my primary gimmick.

On that note, this brings me to my overall primary and major goal of 2008: for Amy Ash and I to become a duo.

This idea was pretty much 17 months in the making. After N.E.W. Prodigal Sons in April 2007, that was when I pretty much decided I needed time off. When everything was done for the night, Amy and I were driving home. It was a long-ass drive from Elmira to Buffalo, so of course we were talking quite a bit about this being it for me for a while. Then out of the blue, Amy suggested that when I do come back, that her and I become a wrestler/valet tandem, with a gimmick similar to Edge and Lita. Just her mentioning that idea already got me feeling like I was ready to come back, and the wheels had pretty much been turning ever since. And I give all the credit to her for getting that idea going.

Back to 2008. Another storyline at the time was that Amy Ash came back to N.E.W. and was scouting matches, looking for her next charge, which eventually became J.C. Money. Coincidentally, J.C. was my target the night of my comeback. After I came back, we kind of played a game of cat-and-mouse with me always dodging J.C. until we actually had a match. Along the way in July, to add fuel to the fire, I came out when it looked like J.C. was going to defeat Kriptic for the N.E.W. Championship. I grabbed Amy by the hair, got J.C.'s attention, and then drilled her with my new finisher on the floor, otherwise known as The C.U.M. (Currently Unnamed Move, lol).

Then in September we finally had our match, and J.C. pretty much went to town on my ass as expected. He got the duke in the end, and as he was celebrating, I grabbed Amy by the hair threatening to drop her again. But I pushed her out of the way when J.C. got in my face… and then the double-cross happened. Amy nailed J.C. with a low blow from behind which got the crowd REALLY pissed off. We both kind of stalked J.C. looking down at him, then I laid him out with The C.U.M. And then the icing on the cake: in the middle of the ring, Amy and I shared a long, raunchy, dirty kiss. The disgusted reaction from the crowd was unbelievable, and I loved it so much. So long story short: her angle of looking for her next charge and my angle of coming back both intertwined and became one, another thing I was going for. So finally after 17 months, Amy Ash and Robert Ezekyo were an item, and the crowd hated us for it. And that was exactly what I was hoping for. It worked out awesome. That was my highlight for 2008, without a shadow of a doubt.

Unfortunately, that's the last time we've been on a show. Things have been really rough financially lately, so we're focusing on that right now. We should be back soon in early 2009, which brings us to what I'm looking forward to in 2009...

I eventually want to start traveling again in 2009, go back to Ontario and hopefully other parts of the Northeast. In 2008, I didn't exactly get back to where I used to be with wrestling. I hope to do that in 2009. Also, a goal for 2009 is for Amy Ash and I to gain more notoriety as a duo, and eventually become the next Marc Mandrake and Ferrari; to do all of our bookings together as a team, and look good doing it (lol). And finally, one more goal I have for 2009 is to simply just have some more fun in wrestling again.

Overall, I wouldn't rank 2008 as my best year, mainly because my 2008 spanned from May to September (lol). I think my best year was definitely in 2006, my run from becoming the first N.E.W. Tap Out Champion, transitioning from being one of N.E.W.'s most hated guys to being one of the most popular, to finally becoming N.E.W. World Champion, and also being recognized as 2006 Wrestler of the Year by N.E.W., as well as WrestleBlast TV. 2008 was a really rocky and rough year for me, but my last moment of 2008 was definitely the exclamation point. It was that good to where it overshadowed everything else, so that's enough for me to give my 2008 a thumbs up. Not as high up as I wanted, but thumbs up nonetheless.

Happy Gimmick, Parts 5 & 6

2008-12-16T16:49:43Z

Almost forgot about this thing, but I can pretty much kill two stones with one bird... or something like that. Past two days were about the same thing, the satisfaction of getting some chores done around the apartment.

Not much, but it's something.

Happy Gimmick, Part 4

2008-12-15T03:06:21Z

The day started off kinda hectic and busy, as Jen and I plowed through the Walden Galleria for Christmas shopping. As expected, my old beat-up body was feeling it after a few hours of rushing around pretty much the entire mall.

However, we went from a busy day to a fun night. I turned on some Christmas music, and we decorated the tree with lights and some bulbs, and then hung our Christmas stockings by it. We both were very happy with how it all turned out and it boosted our Christmas spirit. And to top it all off, I made us an awesome linguine dinner with rolls and watched Mulberry St. Definitely not a Christmasy movie by any stretch of the imagination; we don't have any holiday movies, but we felt like the night called for a movie, so we pretty much went from Christmas back to Halloween! :P

Day 3

2008-12-14T06:41:47Z

Happy thing about Friday was gettin' my paycheck. And that's not saying much. Ah well...

Day Two/Mini Rant

2008-12-12T21:52:23Z

So first off, for day two of my 8 days of happy stuff, Jen and I got our christmas tree.

Now that that's out of the way, somebody tell me something here...

Why do people feel the need to be bitchy and/or cop an attitude for no reason? Whatever happened to the days where someone could tell me something, and not have to be an ass about it?

Especially lately, I feel like 90% of anyone I encounter fit that description, and it really upsets me. I have a really big problem when someone decides to talk to me in a rude, disrespectful manner and get snotty with me, especially when I don't deserve it. If someone has a problem with me, they can just tell me what I did wrong and what I can do better without putting me down in the process. It really isn't hard at all. I'm almost 27, and I really don't need anyone talking to me like I'm a dumb child.

So yeah, it's no secret that common sense is a long~lost concept. Looks like you can throw manners and respectability out there as well.

For eight days...

2008-12-11T05:26:53Z

For eight days you have to post something that made you happy that day. Tag eight people to do the same.

Tags:
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ravenmoonsonata
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My happy thing today: Changing the turtle tank with Jen for the first time, job well done. :)

Hilarious YouTube Comment

2008-12-01T16:25:56Z

Sometimes I am curious to check out the grammatically-challenged comments on YouTube, and I found this gem when I was reading comments in a video of when Ashley Massaro broke her ankle. It makes me picture Borat typing this, haha

"There is ashley, your bitch. You know, before Ashley on a WWE DIVA search I was her boyfriend. I told her for don't go to WWE. Now is go to playboy and she is naked in all places. I never saw her since she goes to WWE. She never more call me. Hey Ashley, you a BITCH, I TOLD YOU, "DON'T GO TO WWE". Hey guys she likes to sucks and between of her tits and I remember that when we was sex, in final he likes that I put sperm in all her body."

WWE "Entertainers"?

2008-11-25T22:40:59Z

HOLY MOLEY! 7 MONTHS! It's been 7 freakin' months since I last updated this thing! I'd been meaning to sometime, but blogging's just not a typical thing for me. I'm pretty spontaneous with it; I only do it when I feel like it. There could be another one tomorrow, or next week, or another 7 months, who knows? I have no blogging "schedule". But anyway, I felt compelled to do this thing here n' now.

So word going around lately is that WWE is supposedly banning the term "sports-entertainment"; that it's just "entertainment", and that "superstars" are now to be referred to as entertainers. People keep expressing disgust and bitterness towards it, how bad it is, how it's shitting on the business, etc. But here's what I'm wondering:

I could be wrong and/or missing something, but if this supposed change has happened, why hasn't WWE really acknowledged it? Ever since this whole "entertainment/entertainers" talk began, WWE still says sports-entertainment, superstars are still referred to as superstars, nothing about just "entertainment" or "entertainers". Hell, even last night, William Regal said "professional wrestler" on a live Raw broadcast. I jokingly thought William Regal committed the ultimate sin by doing that (lol).

So what's the deal? Is WWE just entertainment or still sports-entertainment? Are they entertainers or superstars? Am I missing something here? Because I've yet to see or hear WWE acknowledge such a thing. Only from people who have seemingly nothing good to say about WWE lately. You'd think if you hear it from the main source, that it would be concrete. But from the website to TV shows, I've yet to see or hear such a thing.

AWKWARRRD...

2008-05-11T17:15:54Z

"HEY, GET OUT FROM THERE!"

Survey or Survery, take your pick.

2008-05-08T03:52:15Z

I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, if you're more of a lurker, or if we already know everything about each other.

Copy from here then answer them in a comment. Repost the empty questions in your LJ.

BE HONEST!

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A.

2) What was your dream growing up?
A.

3) What talent do you wish you had?
A.

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A.

5) Favorite vegetable?
A.

6) What was the last book you read?
A.

7) What zodiac sign are you?
A.

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A.

9) Worst Habit?
A.

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A.

11) What is your favorite sport?
A.

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A.

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A.

16) Do you have any pets?
A.

17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A.

18) What was your first impression of me?
A.

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A.

22) What color eyes do you have?
A.

23) Ever been arrested?
A.

24) Bottle or can soda?
A.

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A.

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
A.

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A.

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A.

30) Do you swear a lot?
A.

31) Biggest pet peeve?
A.

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
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33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A.

35) Do you believe in God?
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36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
A.

Quick follow-up to last blog...

2008-04-20T02:23:32Z

Although I'm dissatisfied with the inclusion of DC comic book characters into a Mortal Kombat game, I'll be real happy if The Joker is a playable character in the game.

The next Mortal Kombat game

2008-04-18T22:01:52Z

Well, the news on the next Mortal Kombat game have surfaced... and as a fan of Mortal Kombat ever since the beginning back in 1992, I really don't know if I'm at all happy about it. In fact, right now I feel more disappointed than anything. I've always considered myself a die-hard MK fan, and right now I'm honestly worried that Midway, the makers of Mortal Kombat, have indeed found a way to kill the MK fan in me.

The long-rumored "Mortal Kombat 8" appears to be a crossover game, mixing MK characters with superheroes of DC Comics. The game is called Mortal Kombat Vs. D.C. Universe.

I'm really hoping right now that this isn't canon, that it isn't a true sequel to the MK series... but it seems definite that this is THE Mortal Kombat 8 that has been in the works. They've said that the next MK game was going under some drastic changes, that it was going to be a big departure from the usual Mortal Kombat... and I'm afraid this change might be TOO drastic, that it is a total departure from MK, and not necessarily one I like.

I haven't given up hope on MK yet with this. Part of me hopes that this isn't true, but I can't really deny what it is. I guess all I can really hope for is that this is just a side MK game, and not an extension of the series; not the true MK8 if you will. I know it's already been done with Street Fighter Vs. X-Men or whatever they did, but the idea of Mortal Kombat characters fighting with superheroes in comic books really sounds like too crazy of an idea to me. To me, it's just two totally different entities that shouldn't be mixed. For instance, maybe it's just me, but I just couldn't picture something like Star Wars Vs. G.I. Joe, or some sort of union with Slayer and G-Unit, and I couldn't imagine that fan bases of either entities would be happy with such a thing.

I was never much of a comics guy, but I do like Batman. But other than that, right now, I honestly am not looking forward to this new direction. I'll be following it, as I'm not so driven away from this as to abandon Mortal Kombat altogether. Hell, I'm sure I'll play the game when it comes out, and I'll probably like it. But it definitely doesn't look like the Mortal Kombat I've come to know and love.

I realize I'm ranting on just a video game... but a lot of people know me for being a big Mortal Kombat fan, a Trekkie when it comes to MK if you will, and I know there's bigger fans of MK than me out there. Mortal Kombat has made various impacts that all go beyond video games, so I'm sure others would agree with me that MK is more than just some other video game. I'm sure I sounded like a total geek about all this, but I don't care... I'm just a big Mortal Kombat fan who needed to vent.

One word schmoz

2008-03-28T20:58:46Z

Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me. It can only be one word.

No more.

Then copy & paste this in your journal so that I may leave a word about you.

My Wrestling Year In Review, Part 2

2008-03-09T06:02:27Z

Sorry I didn't get to this sooner, been busy lately. But I'm gonna take this home today, so here goes. We left off in the middle of March, so...

The rest of March saw me wrestle at NWX against my Canadian rival Infinito. Since we both got counted out last time, this time we were in a No Count Out match... which in my opinion was garbage, because that gives away what's gonna happen. But anyway, we were first on the card and we had this No Count Out schmoz to do, which turned out to be a bad idea, as you'll find out in a bit. The match itself was great though, the crowd hated me plenty, and it's always fun to work with Infinito. And then of course, at the end, double disqualification to go along with the double count out finish from the last match.

So then Infinito and I make our way to the locker room afterwards when we hear...

"HEY!!! RETARDS!!!"

TNA Superstar Johnny Devine was on the card, and boy, was he piiiiiiissed, lol... he pretty much yelled at us from the other side of the locker room, saying that the first match on the card always stays inside the ring, no matter what, of course because there's on average eight matches per show, so you don't pull out all the stops on the first match. It kind of kills the mystique of the rest of the card if the first match has all sorts of crazy shit in it that should be saved for towards the end. But I told him how it was a No Count Out match, so we practically had to go on the outside in order to push the No Count Out gimmick. It would be like if there was a Hardcore match without one single rule broken, or one single weapon being used, it would've made the stipulation pointless. But either way, Devine apologized and said that that Infinito and I were just victims of bad booking. Couldn't have agreed more. Devine's the kind of guy that takes the business seriously, so I totally understood him getting pissed about that, but he didn't know about it being No Count Out at first. Either way it was all good, I had a cool match despite it being saddled with a dumb stipulation, and I also got to brag to people that I got yelled at by a TNA star, lol :)

Now we're in April, and it is time for Prodigal Sons 2007. And I dunno why... but for some reason I was just very unenthusiastic about being there. I guess it was safe to say that at this point, I realized that I wasn't 100% into wrestling anymore. I'd already went into this show thinking about quitting, and the show just kind of escalated it. And figures, I had to do double duty that night, so I couldn't exactly work, change, and chill. The first match turned out to be a big clusterfuck, which never leads to a great match in my opinion. It was SuperBeast and myself bringing back the Machines of Hate, and teaming up with Spot Monkeys Inc. to take on Mat Bomboy, Din Mak, and Team F-View (J.C. Money and Tyger Smith) in a Survivor Series-style match. On paper it looked great, as I enjoy working with everyone involved with the match, I was looking forward to teaming with Beast and the Monkeys, and I finally got to work with J.C. a bit. But the match in my opinion, didn't go so great. I hate clusterfucks, I had a bad feeling going into the match, and sure enough, the match sucked. Turned out to be a cluster as I expected, and everything went out of control. Not all of it was bad though, but I was just really not into it at all, and that didn't help.

Since I was the sole survivor of that match, I was to take part in a cool idea that WWE only did once and never really capitalized on: the survivors of each Survivor Series match all competing in one grand finale. Alere Little Feather served as guest referee. At first, the setup was extremely weird though: the survivors in this match were myself from my team, Ryot from his team, and Billy Foxx and Dynamite from one team. The match was billed an Ultimate Survivor Match, and they changed the stipulation to the survivor of that match winning the World Title, which I still held at that point. Except Foxx and Dynamite counted as one entrant into the match, leaving it me Vs. Ryot Vs. the team of Foxx and Dynamite. All four of us in the back were all confused, trying to make sense of what we had before us. Finally we brought it up to the booker, and suggested that it just be a four-man elimination match, and that's what it wound up as. The stress from that made me not want to go through with this either, but thankfully the match went good. A lot better than my first. I wound up eliminating Foxx and Derek, bringing it down to Ryot, continuing our feud. I hit the Brainbuster on Ryot, and thought I had the pin, but Cindy Rogers came out and conveniently had a bone to pick with Alere as she was administering the three count. They brawled to the back, and I had no one to count three. Eventually, Ryot caught me with a Claw Slam and went for a pin. Truman P. Wellington III, who pitched the World Title stipulation idea to acting C.E.O. Chris Halen, came in and counted three. It looked like Ryot had beaten me for the belt, but since Truman was not a sanctioned referee, the title switch was unofficial. The title was eventually declared vacant as a result. So thankfully, the show was finally over, and I was relieved. I remember getting in the back, and Chris Halen had the title belt, and was joking with me saying something like "here's your belt... or is it yours!?" I just kinda replied with something like "Thank God, keep that damn thing away from me."

It was pretty sad that I went from having my career highlight (winning the N.E.W. Title), and now I was relieved that I didn't have it anymore. At that point, I'd realized that my reign was handled poorly, and it was better off being over with. Factors of this come from N.E.W., as well as myself. Back in 2006, I began getting cheered, because everyone was catching onto my heel persona, in a fashion similar to when Stone Cold Steve Austin turned babyface. So I was jockeying for me to be showcased in a similar fashion: to be the anti-hero busting his ass, not working well with authority, that kinda thing. But for some reason, N.E.W. didn't really follow through with it. And eventually, I was pretty much told to not do anything the fans cheered me for: no more Anarchist Cookbook, no more "Messiah of Malice", no more of the familiar Cannibal Corpse music I usually used... and I went from being a Stone Cold-style babyface, to being a rookie Orlando Jordan-style babyface. That pretty much threw a huge bucket of ice water on my fire... I could tell from the fans' reactions to me, as they weren't quite as positive as before, with some even booing me. What didn't help my reactions was that we didn't have that crowd at the German House who was familiar with me, so now I kind of had to make the fans know me all over again, but in a fashion that just didn't work.

What also didn't help was the fact that as a babyface, I was booked against more babyfaces than heels. So in an effort to save face, I shook hands alot. In that regard, I should've just went with the flow, and wrestled against a babyface how Robert Ezekyo would, not how a babyface wrestling another babyface would. I was too concerned with keeping my babyface status, as I really enjoyed it, and didn't want to do anything that could potentially get me booed. So that was on me. Another thing that contributed to the bad title reign was bad timing on my part. Foxx even told me before that I was just a victim of bad timing. By March, I'd decided to rest my body up some... but the time off became longer, as my grandfather took a turn for the worst and eventually passed away. On top of all that, Jen and I were putting a lot of effort into finding an apartment to move into together. So with all of that on my plate, I really was unable to dedicate 100% of myself to wrestling. And if I couldn't do that, I feel like it wouldn't be fair to myself to just half-ass it, it wouldn't be fair to fans expecting a good show, and it wouldn't be fair to other wrestlers that want a spot that I'm just kind of half-assing. That, and that conversation I had that made me feel like all of my problems at the time paled in comparison to wrestling... well, I really felt it was time to quit. And after that show, I let it be known that May would be the last time I wrestled.

Then comes May. I actually did three shows that month. The first one was N.E.W.: The Ultimate Clash 2007... Ryot Vs. myself to determine who the undisputed N.E.W. Heavyweight Champion was. I'd say that match was our best in our rivalry. After a straight-up, no B.S. back-and-forth match, Ryot was finally able to sinch me in and drop me with his Ryot Act finishing move, thus beating me to become the new N.E.W. Champion. I was personally glad that Ryot was getting the belt, because he's a guy that puts a lot of hard work and effort into wrestling, and he has a good gimmick. I really felt he deserved it. After the match, we exchanged thank yous, talked about the match, and both decided we were happy with how it turned out. Then Ryot gave me one of the biggest compliments that I'll always remember: he'd told me that he worked with quite a few names before, and that I was better to wrestle with than all of them. It really meant alot, and it was a positive thing to go away with, a high note to leave on.

In OSPW (where I wasn't quite booked in the same fashion as I was in N.E.W., lol), I was thrown into one of those random tag teams with Rico Cruz, and we pretty much got killed by the Samoan Bone Chrushers. I was told by The Davidsons that I should take charge with that match, to pretty much be the ring general, as the Crushers were still relatively new at the time, and apparently still needed work. So I just talked things over with them, asked what kind of stuff they liked to do, we threw ideas around, and the match turned out well for what it was. Since Rico and I were pretty much getting squashed, the goal of the match was to make the Crushers look good. Everything came out good, the crowd reacted to them real well, and Rico and I were dead meat. lol

Then my absolute last show was on a baseball field somewhere around Simcoe, Ontario for NWX. It was cool for Jen and I to spend the night with Ashe Dravin and his wife, although I couldn't get a wink of sleep 'cause they had the TV on all night, lol. But other than that, for some reason I was unenthusiastic about this show too. We weren't sure if it was even gonna happen, and we find out almost last minute that it was on. It was cold as fuck, so I didn't even bother getting in my biker shorts, and just wore black sweatpants instead. A real ghetto approach to a ghetto show, goes hand in hand, lol. At least I was happy with the stuff I did on the show. I had a rematch with James Masterson for his TV title, and they wanted the finish to sort of play off of how we went to a time limit draw... but I knew I wasn't gonna be around after this, so I wanted Masterson to go over clean instead. Was fun as usual, and Masterson's pretty much become one of my favorite guys to work with at this point.

Then I had one more appearance in this battle royal towards the end, with elimination occurring either by pinfall, submission, or being thrown over the top rope with both feet hitting the ground. I came out and sort of bullied some of the rookies in there, which was fun, lol. Kwan Chang and I both double teamed "T.F.G", The Fitness Guy, and made short work of him. Then somehow, it wound up being just myself in there waiting for the last two entrants. One was Mikey, pretty much a rehash of Eugene, a "special" wrestler. So putting a "special" wrestler against the Messiah of Malice would make for a fun time indeed, haha. So me being the kind of guy I am in the ring, I helped the rookie Mikey out by giving him some wrestling tips... by actually executing the moves on him and beating the crap out of him, lol. Was pretty funny in a villainous kind of way that makes you feel guilty (haha), saying things like "Okay Mikey, this is a bodyslam!" as I scoop him up and slam him. Then Ashe Dravin comes in, and it becomes him and I double-teaming poor little Mikey. After a while Ashe slapped on a Sharpshooter as I watched. But then I decided to roll up Ashe for the pin. Ashe yelled at me for it, but I reminded him that he would've done the same to me, to which he laughed and agreed. So it was down to me and Mikey. I went to charge him, but he simply bent down to tie his shoe, sending me propelling over him, straddling the top rope. He took advantage and pushed me to the floor, winning the battle royal. After the show was over, I was told by a fan that people were offended with how I was treating Mikey, which was pretty funny considering it was a wrestling show. Here I was, a big asshole of a bad guy, poking fun and bullying a "special" babyface. Then the babyface turns it around and wins the battle royal by eliminating me. There's the payoff. But I apparently caused some controversy with the whole thing... sounded like a job well done to me, haha!

Alas, it would be my last job well done in wrestling, as this was it for me.

As I mentioned before, I'd kept my departure pretty quiet, but I have had a lot more people than I expected hounding me about coming back. I just simply didn't feel it for wrestling anymore, thus deciding it was time to call it a career. All I can say is if I ever get that urge to come back, I'll capitalize on it. But for now, I'm overall happy with what my career turned out to be. I followed a dream from when I was a kid, came through with it, experienced a lot of good times, had a lot of fun, I was good at what I did and developed something of a small following, and met some of the best friends I could ever have. And of course, wrestling brought me Jen. So it's sad that I just didn't feel it for wrestling anymore, but they say nothing lasts forever. But I will always be thankful for the happiness and fun that wrestling put in my life. Despite all the drama and bullshit that comes with wrestling, I still had a blast. So I want to take this time to send a big thanks to wrestling as a whole, and the people involved that helped me realize my dream and have fun, and became my second family. Thank you!

My 2007 Wrestling Year In Review: Part 1

2008-01-21T05:26:10Z

...well, if you can call it that. Really, it was more of a half of a year. I never really came out and said it in a more public fashion and kept it relatively quiet. Plenty of people know it by now, but in case you don't know, I've decided my time as a wrestler was through in 2007. I'll get into that a bit more later.

I realized I never really did a year-in-review gimmick or anything for '07, but I'll give it a shot.

January: My first match of the year saw me make my first N.E.W. Championship defense against Dynamite Derek, during Next Era Revelation, N.E.W.'s only show in Buffalo, New York thus far. I really enjoyed working with Derek; for it being our first time, I felt it went real smooth and felt natural. I consider Derek to be one of the better wrestling technicians I've ever met. I enjoyed the match, and for him to have enjoyed working with me as well was real flattering.

Only real problem though was it was a face-on-face match, so it didn't really get much of a reaction. Plus, with it having been my first N.E.W. Championship defense, with me being a bayface, you'd think they'd have me wrestle a heel to help push myself as a babyface champ. But either way, it did get heeled upon, as The Axis of Evil (Al Jihad, Tony Zucco and Boris Justice) disrupted the match and took Derek and myself to the tool shed.

February: This month would be Fatal Attraction - the show everyone considered to be N.E.W.'s "WrestleMania". It definitely felt big, because it was gonna be our first show in N.E.W.'s new home, the Main Street Armory. Gorgeous place. I was blown away by it. I miss the German House, but the Armory was a brand new chapter, and has thus become N.E.W.'s new home.

At first, I was set to defend the belt against SuperBeast. Although I was happy I was gonna face Beast, I was unhappy about it for storyline purposes. 'Cause my first title defense was against another babyface, and now I was gonna be defending the belt against not only another babyface again, but someone I had more of a friendly history with. But the plot was made that the C.E.O. at the time Mr. Perez was pitting me against him to "test" our friendship so to speak, plus to punish two of his ex-Cartel members. So that sounded a lot better. Plus, I forget how, but Al Jihad was added into the equation, capitalizing on what he did to me in January. So it gave me a real good heel to work with too. Working with Jihad before helped get me over big as a babyface, so this would certainly help too.

I thought the match went pretty well, was billed as a Triple Threat match, and I believe No Holds Barred. We all got to do a couple crazy things, so that was cool. And in a pretty funny way to take Jihad out of the equation, Beast tied him to the ring post with a rope, leaving him there the rest of the match defenseless, narrowing it down to Beast versus myself.

The end got pretty clustered though. Beast was set to put me through a table, but I kicked him off of me onto the table. Beast was meant to just be dazed, leaning on the table, and I would come off the top with my Diving Senton I call the Speedball. But the table crumbled underneath Beast, and I came off with a real weak looking Speedball. I went for the cover, but Beast told me to do it again, so he kicked out. The production crew thought that was the take home spot, so my theme music played, even though Referee Johnathan Ashe was trying to wave it off. Everybody was getting confused and it was getting messy, but the show must go on. So I went to the top for one more Speedball onto Beast. This one looked much better this time around... and it was a good thing, because I smacked the back of my head on the canvas upon landing. The room looked like it was spinning and I was pretty much out to lunch after that, lol. But nonetheless I was able to make the pinfall and win. Unfortunately, due to all of the confusion, it left fans wondering what happened, again I didn't get quite the response I hoped for.

But also, February saw me return to Canada for the National Wrestling Xperience (where I was a heel) to do a double shot over the weekend, which wound up becoming a triple shot, lol. I face James Masterson the first night, in a match for his Canadian Television Championship. We wrestled all the way to the time limit, resulting in a draw. I wound up hitting him with the Brainbuster, but the time ran out before I could get a three count. So of course I believed I won, but the referee told me that the time ran out. But he really said "the time ran oot", so I started going "What's OOT!?" The crowd thought that was pretty funny, so that was cool. That night I REALLY heeled it up and it made me miss being a heel in a way.

The next day I faced "Mr. One Night Stand" Steve Kruz for the first time. It was odd though, because he was booked as a babyface, and he's usually a heel. This presented us with quite a predicament though... There's a group of fans in Ontario called "The Chant Monkeys". Kruz told me that The Chant Monkeys hate him, so there was no way he'd get a babyface reaction, so we would probably have to switch roles during the match. It presented a unique challenge for me, but for the most part, Kruz was able to look like a believable babyface, and I got heel heat. Although, during the match, The Chant Monkeys were making metrosexual references, 'cause I guess their usual thing would be to insinuate that Kruz was "Metro". Also for some reason, I forget what hotel they were chanting for, but they chanted for some kind of hotel for some reason. So in heel fashion, I put over the hotel I stayed at the night before, as it was not the one they chanted for, lol. Kruz got a quick pinfall on me, countering my Brainbuster with the Small Package Rollup.

I came back out after intermission pissed about my loss, and cut a promo saying I was back for more. This brought out Infinito, leading to a rematch from October, where he beat me in a Tables Match. I don't remember a whole lot about it, except we both get counted out, and we brawled to the back. My favorite part was when I took Infinito and launched him into a row of chairs, lol, that looked fun. Then I just kind of slammed him into the locker room with the door, and that was that.

March: FINALLY, I was defending the N.E.W. Championship against a heel: RYOT! This was gonna be cool, him and I always wanted to mix it up in the ring, and we had fun. Unfortunately (see the theme here? lol), this match also got a lackluster reaction from what I know. And after what was pointed out to me, I couldn't help but agree. The major problem was that too much of the match occurred outside the ring, thus not being able to be seen by a lot of fans. Also, the finish saw Ryot put a chokehold on me, and refused to release it, thus getting disqualified. He then planted me with a Claw Slam and left my laying. This got yet another bad reaction though; I won the match by DQ, but Ryot was the one who pretty much beat me senseless, and he walked out with his music playing. Fans didn't really know what was going on yet again. It seemed reactions to my match had been just getting worse by the month, and that wasn't good.

To be continued, as this is unbearably long already, lol

Tagged by Furrerry.

2008-01-17T08:06:22Z

Four Jobs I have had:

1. Cart collector
2. Pizza maker
3. Produce clerk
4. Cook

Four Places I have lived:

1. Lancaster, NY
2. Rochester, NY
3. Same as 2, different house.
4. Same as 3.

Four Places I have been:

1. Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
2. Piscataway, New Jersey
3. New York City
4. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Four of my favourite foods:

1. Tacos
2. Cheesy Enchilada Hamburger Helper
3. Chicken Parmigiana
4. Pepperoni pizza

Four Places I would rather be now:

1. Not at work tomorrow :(
2. New York City
3. Fitness Factory
4. Somewhere in Florida

Four Current Favourite songs or albums:

1. Eldorado Baby by Daniel Lioneye
2. Black Betty by Ram Jam
3. Homage For Satan by Deicide
4. She Was Asking For It by Cannibal Corpse

Four friends I think will Post this Meme first:

1. Swift
2. JC
3. refalscott.com maybe?
4. Ashe