MAIN EVENT: Television Championship - Minion v Cruise (c)

[TheOriginalSE]

All RP for the MAIN EVENT Television championship match between MINION and CAMERON CRUISE (c) at RAUCOUS should be done in this folder. Any RP posted outside of the folder will not count.



The RP deadline is 11:59pm PST on SUNDAY, September 6th, 2009. Angles should be sent to wfwnewrestling@gmail.com ..

 

[TSiegel]

(Fadein, Cameron Cruise in front of a WFW:NE RAUCOUS backdrop dressed in blue jeans, a light blue T-shirt with matching Anarchy-style shades, and a North Carolina Tarheels ballcap on backwards. Cruise holds both WFW Tag Team titles over both his shoulders and the WFW:NE Television title around his waist as he takes a deep breath and sighs.)

CRUISE: It's a new day. Cameron Cruise as the WFW:NE Television Champion does something for the atmosphere in this company so good, it makes the birds sing, chipmunks play with small children, and even at random key points...perceive the notion that all a Lesbian really needs is a good deep dicking.

It really does.

Then again, knowing that the WFW:NE Television Champion is a man like....ME...and NOT Mister Entertainment...if you're gonna be a "Blue-Collar Champion" and fight "Balboa-esqe", then the phrase holds true: A Man's Work Is Never Done.

Which is why I've already begun work on the first man given a chance to take this Television title, a man by the name of "Minion".

Now...by general "Webster Dictionary" definition...a "Minion" is a Noun, that's defined as a "favorite; or servile flatterer".

(Cruise smiles as he shakes his head in amazement)

Boy, you could smell the irony a mile away, right??

After all...you're not exactly a favorite to anyone around here, and let's be honest...your overall record in this business isn't really flattering, now is it?? Granted, you've only had two matches since WFW:NE has merged and come back on the air, but you lost both and was the sorry piece of...ya know...that took the fall.

Now, not that it's not worth mentioning because in your case, I've no choice...but just what in the blue hell is wrong with THIS picture I wonder??

Could it be that whomever booked this match was alittle tipsy-turvey on Grandpa's old liquid cough medicine??

(Cruise reaches up and takes off his shades for a second.)

I WOULD LIKE TO THINK SO!!

There's no other explanation why a man with your rapidly-deteriorating-reputation would be so deserving of a title shot other than the notion that someone up there in Management is trying to pass off a philosophy like one of yours.

"Failing Upwards".

Who would know of such a Philosophy??

Producer Jon Peters, that's who, but that's another story worth laughing at at another time.

The fact is, is that being the WFW:NE Television Champion isn't as easy as it sounds, Minion, but at the end of the day when we it comes down to the grand scheme of things of who's better and who's going to have a better career.

So do the both of us a favor Minion, and act like one of Dr. Evils' Henchmen when we get in the ring.

Lie down and stay still because you really don't stand a chance Minion, you just don't.

But if you really think you could last more than five minutes in the ring against the likes of Cameron Cruise, I implore you...please do.

Because doing so is only going to end up a REALITY CHECK that you just...won't...like.

FADEOUT

 

[Minion]

What do you know

(screen fades in as we see ourselves entering into Minion’s apartment. Unlike last time when Minion had destroyed his home looking for his pills, everything is put back into its proper place. The camera pans around and we see Minion sitting in front of his television looking at clips from his last fight. As the TV flashes various images, we can see Minion shaking his head in obvious disgust at what he is witnessing. After a few seconds the television goes to snow and the Minion gets up and begins.)

Minion (pops a pill): What I have been watching over and over since I came home is utter disappointment and failure. I was distracted, I had the pin, I had the win, and I had my pills. Everything was going my way, my way, but I let myself get distracted and could not complete my mission of getting a pin on Golem. However, fate has smiled on me this glorious day. Fate has bestowed upon me a chance and graced me with an opportunity for my good deeds and not giving into my old self. Fate has given me a chance in Memphis to get gold. I must not let myself get distracted again. I must concentrate at the task at hand. I must look at the now and not the later, when I know I will face Golem. I have a task in front of me. I have the opportunity, the chance, the ability to get redemption, and it all takes place in Memphis.

(Minion walks towards the window of his apartment and looks out. His apartment overlooks the part where he conducted one of his first interviews. The scene is peaceful as we can see several families playing with their children and other people just milling about the park. The Minion without looking at the camera starts back up.)

Minion: One thing about this league I love more than any league I have been in is the fact that they must Fed-Ex a copy of the Webster’s Dictionary. Hell, every opponent I have face since starting in this league has had the gall to point out the definition of my name. Well it matters not to me what my name is or what my name means in some dictionary. I was given this name by the legend Tom Parker. I was his student and I was his disciple. I took this name when he died and I am better than he ever was, he was fake, and a foolish man who could not see that everyone around him…..(before Minion could say another word he stops and pops another pill and calms down). I was trained by one of the best and even though I have had it rough since coming to the WFW: NE I can take the punishment and the pain; that is why I was given this title shot Cruise.

(Minion moves away from the window and goes back over to the couch where we first found him. Minion pulls out a cig, lights it up, and take a couple of drags before beginning again.)

Minion: Cruise, you speak the truth. I have lost my two matches. I was the man pinned in the six man tag team match, but Cruise what have you done? Sure you won a title, but the man you beat could not have held my jock strap. Sure you can ask “Minion what have you done besides losing two matches?” and you would raise a very valid question. Cruise what I have done is fight the best this league has to offer. What I have done Cruise is fight a man no one has a clue who he is, but we all know he is interested in Felix and for any man to be interested in Felix and get Felix’s attention we know Gamm-O is a threat. What have I done Cruise? I held off the best this league had to offer and while you were out there beating a two bit wrestler I was beating the tar out of Golem and Psycho and holding my own when the chips were down I was a millisecond from winning a six man tag team match all by myself. The real question Cruise is what have you done?

(Minion takes a few more drags off his cig and snuffs it out in the ash tray behind him before flicking on the TV)

Minion: Don’t worry yourself with answering that question Cruise, cause I will tell you what you have done or will be doing. You will be facing a AAA talent in the WFW. Cruise you will walk into Memphis with that title and you will lose that title quicker than the NCAA took Memphis’s basketball wins away from them. Look it is okay Cruise, you made a little name for yourself and you carved yourself out some nice real estate in the WFW by winning the TV title, but really Cruise let’s not kid ourselves, you have done nothing to impress me. In Memphis I will walk in with confidence, I will walk in with a chip on my shoulder the size of Mount Everest. I will take out all this rage and frustration these pills hold back on you and you know what as you scream in pain and as I hear your bones break I will enjoy every last minute of it. The fates have been kind to me and granted me this opportunity for my commitment to my redemption. I will not squander it and I will not look past what is in front of me in Memphis. I fell from grace once and was a beat broken man, but now I can see the path in front of me and Cruise you are merely in the way. Before I leave you Cruise I am going to give you two bits of advice. First, I want you to take a good long hard look at your TV Championship Belt and cherish the time you have had with it up to that point. Second, I want you to shine up that TV Championship belt real nice because the last thing I want is a ****ty looking championship title to take through the airport. When it is all said and done Cruise and Raucous is in the books you will have fallen from grace and I will be your new WFW:NE Television Champ and there ain’t a damn thing you can do about Cruise.
(FADE OUT)

 

[TSiegel]

Re: What do you know

(Fadein, Cameron Cruise in front of a WFW:NE RAUCOUS backdrop. Dressed in a white WFW:NE t-shirt and blue jeans, the WFW:NE Tag Team Championships strapped around his shoulders and the WFW:NE Television Championship title secured snugly around his waist, Cruise shrugs his shoulders and holds his arms out, palms up as if to take a pass on a question.)

CRUISE: I don't understand....you had over half of a week to respond to what I had stated and just about everything you managed to ramble off everything I could careless about and what was left over pretty much made less sense than what could possibly be spinning inside of that marble head of one Brandon Marshall, supposed "Star" Wide Receiver of the Denver Broncos.

You liked the fact that myself and everyone else took the diplomatic route and described what it was that we thought your "moniker" meant and what it meant to us.

What do you expect, Minion??

It's pretty obvious that neither one of us has met the other in the ring, and other than surely rumors and video tape...I'm pretty sure neither one of us has much to work with when we step in the ring.

Especially myself being the Television Champion...it's a guaranteed issue on my part that I stay on top of things, always stay prepared.

It's like I said before...all part of being a "Blue-Collar Champion".

But at the end of the day you wanted to respect a man that taught you what you know today and to an extent, I can respect that. I truly can.

The only problem with that Minion, is that by you calling your mentor a "Legend", you expect more than just a select few know him by more than just his name.

It's the REPUTATION that should put him into that upper echelon of a level like "Legend", not the NAME.

And as I said before, that presents a problem.

I don't know who "Minion" is, much less "Tom Parker" but to me...telling people that you're his disciple and that you're even better now than he was then...

(Cruise chuckles abit)

Who are you kidding?? Your a SHAM, sir.

Half of these people like myself, never heard of the man to begin with before the WFW and New Era merged.

But like I said, if you think you got this shot by any other means other than a random name out of the hat is rediculous.

You haven't EARNED anything in this company other than acouple of beatings and the honor of either being slated as "The Loser" or the man that LOST FOR HIS TEAM.

Juliet Marceau and Marcus LaRoque aren't exactly the smartest people in management one can rely on, but trust me when I tell you that they're not going to give someone a chance to win the WFW:NE Television title just because they like the fact that a man can get thrown a pretty hard beating two weeks in a row and still be willing to come back for more.

Why?? Because if you're willing to buy the fact that they would, then I've got some land down Florida that I'd like to sell you if you're interested...I might even give you a deal.

But as far as Mister Entertainment is concerned, I'm glad you thought that he was a "two-bit" wrestler, in fact, it does my heart so GOOD to hear that you think less of him because Mister Entertainment holding the TV title for almost three years straight regardless of a company hiatus isn't exactly something I would call LUCK.

After all...you don't exactly have the same accollades working for you, do you??

But please, tell Entertainment that to his face, tell him that he's nothing but a "two-bit wrestler". There's nothing that I'd like on my day off than a GOOD SHOW.

What have I done, Minion??

I beat a man who by all rights, was one of the longest active Champions on the CIRCUIT.

You competed against a man that's supposedly a threat and teamed with a man in a Triple threat Tag Team match that ultimately saw you taking the fall.

Sure, you may have put up a fight against some of the top notch men for a minute or two and even did a decent job in the process....but a "millisecond away from winning" to me...

Unless you win Minion...it's pretty cut and dry what happened.

You LOST.

But please....keep talking, I like nothing more than a good laugh first thing in the morning.

You call yourself Triple-A talent in WFW, and that's okay, it's nothing to be ashamed of...but the thing is Minion...I'm a MAJOR LEAGUE PLAYER.

I'm a level higher than you are around here and have been for quite along time.

But it's kinda hard to believe that "the fates" as you put it, would kind enough to reward a man with a title he doesn't deserve when he's not really made any sort of progress in "redemption".

You see, because that's how it works Minion.

You can't be rewarded for a job well done unless you actually GET THE JOB DONE, and you sir...FAILED.

You've got two strikes against you going into our match at Raucous, Minion, and I'm going to send you back to the bench after a called strike three that you won't even see coming.

Because that's what you do best, Minion, you said it yourself.

You squander.

You see the opportunity in front of you and fail to take advantage of it, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't take your advice for Gospel.

But take heart Minion, it's not all bad, because eventually those who accept their roles do become beloved by a measured sum in the future.

'Course it might be another ten years before it happens, but coming from a man that's done alot more on the positive end of things that you'll probably ever get a CHANCE to...it's a REALITY CHECK that you won't like....

...but it's one you're gonna get.

FADEOUT

 

[Minion]

Down the Rabbit Hole

(screen fades in and we see ourselves at the park we saw in Minion’s last interview. The camera creeps forward and Minion without looking motions for the camera man to come over to him. As the camera man rolls in front of Minion we can see Minion wearing a dark old school “tom parker is alive” t-shirt and blue jeans. The Minion pops a couple pills, lights up a cig and begins.)

Minion: Cruise, my dear boy in your entire diatribe you were right about one thing and that I did not earn this title shot. You were right I did not earn this title shot through my actions in the ring, nor did I earn this title shot by buying off the WFW:NE brass like the old me would have done. No, sir I did not earn this title shot through the normal means. I earned this title shot by redeeming myself and following the path less traveled by me in years past. There was a time Cruise where I would brush people like you off and come down the ring smash your face into an open turn buckle, watch you bleed, and laugh as your blood trickled onto the mat, but that was the old me and I have moved on from that. Cruise, you seem hung up on the fact that I have yet to win a match in the two matches I have fought. To quote the immortal Tom Petty “even the losers get lucky sometime.” Even though I am calling myself a loser I think the quote reigns true in this situation, don’t you think? Sure I might be a loser, sure I might have lost the two matches I have participated in thus far, but you see all it takes is three quick seconds and you will be the former Television Champion. All it takes it a slip in the right direction or a moment of distraction for me to get that quick three second slap on the mat and for you to be a few pounds lighter as you walk back to the locker room.

(Minion takes a couple of drags off his cig, gets up from his bench, and motions for the camera man to follow him. The day is a bright blue one, and kids and families are playing in the park. The Minion sticks to the sidewalks and begins again.)
Minion: I must say I am as disappointed in your deeds in the WFW:NE as you are mine. You say it was more than luck that you beat a man who held the title for three years. Let’s get the facts straight: 1) in that three year title reign the league in which the title was held was defunct and 2) Besides your little title victory what caliber of wrestlers have you fought. Unlike you, I will state again since obviously it went over your head the first time, I have fought the cream of the crop of the WFW:NE. True I have lost in those matches, but to lose to the best is far more impressive than winning to some second bit champion who only had his belt cause of the status of the league. Let me put it in terms even you can understand: had the University of Memphis beaten the University of Mississippi then that would have been humiliating for the University of Mississippi since the University of Memphis is a Conference USA team. Now if the University of Mississippi loses to a team like Florida, Alabama, or one of the elite teams then there is no humiliation. Now put me in this example: I lost to the best this league had to offer, I put myself up there, and even though I lost I went for it, and strived. Sure I was shot down, sure I fell from grace, sure I lost, but here I am in the Television Title picture, which obviously means someone is impressed. You call yourself a Major League talent, but once you get to the Majors you can always come down, especially when you have out lived your usefulness. I will bring you down and elevate myself Cruise. The AAA talents are always hungry and always willing to do what it takes to win; do not think for one minute that I will not do whatever it takes to win. Even though I have started and continue my journey for redemption there are always things I am willing to do and pay for later.

(Minion takes the last drag from his cig and flicks it onto the ground. Minion motions for the camera to follow him as he crosses the street and heads towards his home.)

Minion: Fate is a cruel mistress. See you thought it was fate that you were given and won your title, but see fate being the cruelest of women put you on the path to meet me. Sure when you looked at who you were fighting you thought it would be a push over, but fate had other designs for you. Fate wants you to suffer. Fate wants you to meet the man who has faced his demons and the best this league and the wrestling world has to offer and ever will offer. It is okay Cruise to admit that you are afraid. It is okay Cruise to admit that once you saw what I am capable of and what I will do to win that you were a little uneasy about stepping into the ring with me. Cruise it is only natural to joke and make fun of something you don’t understand. The one lucky thing fate has done for you is the fact you will be facing me now and not a past version of me. As I said before I used to enjoy hurting people. I did not care if I won, even though that was the ultimate outcome, I just wanted to hurt people. Now it is different, now I am in the business of winning and even though business is slow I see it picking up in Memphis. For one of the few times in my career I am going into this fight the underdog trying to make a comeback, but you know what I like being the underdog. The fans need the underdog and you know what I will give it to them because there is nothing that the human race loves better than a comeback story. You have that taste of victory in your mouth, but I want it. I am hungry for it, I am starving for it and when you dangle a piece of meat in front of a starving man, don’t be surprised at what that man will do to get it. Cruise, you want a reality check and I am more than willing to give it to you as you fall from grace.
(FADE TO BLACK)

 

[TSiegel]

Re: Down the Rabbit Hole

(Fadein, Cameron Cruise in front of a WFW:NE Raucous backdrop in blue jeans and a green shirt with matching Anarchy-style shades. Wrapped around his neck and clasped together is the WFW:NE Tag Team titles and around his waist as usual is the WFW:NE Television title.)

CRUISE: First off...being that I'm more successful than you are Minion, I'd like to let the record state that you have no call to call ME...a BOY. You don't rate it and the truth of the matter is that if I was a REAL jerk, I'd force you to call me MISTER Cruise, but I'm not gonna do that.

Why?? Because a "Blue-Collar Champion" like myself doesn't force the issue. But you're not just the regular standard of an opponent are you, Minion??

Maybe you've gotten the jest of the point I made that you don't deserve this title much less the chance to compete for it, but the fact is that not only is the match legitimate, you've been also appointed referee of a number one contenders match and everyone knows that despite the role you play...you don't really belong there, do you??

I didn't think so either.

Nonetheless you paint a story of a time in which you could done things differently and even "hurt me", bad enough to where Dentists are daydreaming about the dividends coming from the business end of the appointments.

See, you NEED to be ruthless, you need to MAIM, cause havoc, destruction. You need to relish in the fact that I'm being caused pain and possible scars protruding from placed I might not know I could scar from. You need to do that because apparently your change of heart, hasn't done you anything but the opposite of what's intended.

Unfortunately for the dentists is that that regression in behavior isn't going to happen.

Sure, quoting Tom Petty gives you a valid point but honestly Minion, it really doesn't make a difference in the long term.

Sure, you could catch a chance at pinning me for three seconds but let's be honest here.

You don't have any momentum going for you, and I've been nearly unbeatable for almost a year...do you really think that you can pull off an upset over what people are waging their very nesteggs and savings on as just "another day at the office"??

Again, I don't think so, but just so you can say I played the game too....George Carlin once said "even the sun shines on a dog's ass sometimes", implying there could be a small ray of hope for a henchman like you.

But you know what happens if you do the unimaginable, Minion??

The referee might declare you "The Victor", but in all seriousness...no one sees it that way; you're not a loser anymore Minion, this much is true.

But you've only made things worse in that you might not be a loser...but instead now people see you as a FLUKE.

Believe me when I tell you that it's nothing short of worse for you to endure because if you thought the pressure and the stress caused you to have voices in your head BEFORE...then I just might petition to have you stripped of the title.

But again...I'm gonna save you that trouble, Minion. I'd save you that pain, that pressure and stress because for a man like you it's unsafe, it's unhealthy.

But there's nothing that Marcus LaRoque and Juliet Marceau would like more to avoid a classless act like you forcing the state to bring a lawsuit against them.

It's not in their aganda, and they don't intend for it to be.

But please, explain to me why you're just as disappointed in me as I am in you, when my reasons just COULDN'T be more viable than yours. I mean, it's not like I've other things to do but to listen to YOUR boring DIATRIBE about why it is I rate higher than you do:

I beat a man who held a title for almost three years, regardless of whether or not you think it's defunct.

You faced men that either could be distinguished as "The Cream of The Crop", or otherwise and just plain LOST.

If my title victory is as "Little" as you claim it to be then tell me Minion..

Why are you so interested in trying to duplicate the same thing for your own benefit?? Why are you so intrigued in the possible conquest of making my reign as the WFW:NE Television Champion a short one??

You said "to lose to the best is far more impressive than winning to some second bit champion who only had his belt cause of the status of the league."

Funny...last I checked Minion, it didn't matter who it was that you faced, a loss by any means of how you dress it up, is a LOSS is a LOSS is a LOSS.

But take it for what works for you, Minion, because it's obvious that it's working for you thus far right??

I agree with you on one factor though, "Fate is a Cruel mistress".

But then again, you don't know about the one that Joey Melton had from Bangkok that forced him to contract Syphyllis and Gonorrhea in a return act of vengeance for listening to Boy George, The Culture Club and "WHAM! The Greatest Hits".

It wasn't until Two-Thousand-Six that I was finally able to settle the lawsuit with the Howard Johnson we were staying at.

That building has since then been condemmed...

(Cruise sighs and continues.)

It's not that I don't think you're a pushover just because you've been a guaranteed victory Minion, but think about it..look at yourself sir!!

It's just about an undeniable CERTAINTY.

Fate doesn't want me to suffer, Minion, had I have to endure that then Joey Melton wouldn't have taken the easy way out and retire, he wouldn't have given up the best chance he had at proving to this business that the CCP was the best thing he had going.

But no, instead it was HIM that chose to shoot himself in the foot, not I.

It's good that you've made good with yourself and that you claim to have "faced your demons", because it's something almost every man on the face of the planet has to do.

But you've not faced the best this league has to offer Minion, not yet and not by a longshot. Especially when you've had your ass handed to you like you have and my winning the WFW:NE Television championship among my other successes...

Let's just say that if I'm gonna start shaking in my boots, Minion...then I'm gonna haveta take a raincheck on that because I've got other things more important like eating dinner and taking a nap afterward.

But for right now...you'll have to excuse me when I tell you that I've got to call Myles Brand and set up a conference between him and I because it's pretty clear to me that despite what the NCAA has done to justify the situation with the University of Memphis, it's apparently not enough as the unnatural but yet homosexual feelings Minion has for them is about borderline out of control.

And the continuing obsession he has for them just CANNOT STAND...at least not while I'm Cameron Cruise...the WFW:NE Television Champion...and that's a REALITY CHECK that you just...won't like.

FADEOUT