Post by The Hitman on May 16, 2012 13:50:29 GMT -4
Steve Stryker claims that he knew it all along. There was no concern going up against a girl at Meltdown. What on earth was Carmen Rivera going to do to “The Hitman”? The match wasn’t necessarily a blow-out, but the result was the same as it was the week before. Stryker ends up with the victory. This time he was even able to hit the Bounty Kill. While he wanted to make Rivera tap, he’d settle for finishing her off with the Bounty Kill. West and Harris had it right the whole night, Rivera was just too much of a showboat and in the end she paid for it. Stryker liked the attention from the crowd. It was all negative attention, but he ate it up. He didn’t need to be liked, he loved to be hated. It was easy to hate him. All he wants to do is win. He doesn’t care about putting on a show for the crowd; he doesn’t care about playing to those people. He’s in this for himself, he’s in it for the money, he’s in it so he can stop staying in shit ass motels and renting busted up Chevy’s to get from arena to arena.
Now, two weeks into his professional career, he’s 2-0 and has begun his rise to the top. After squeaking by with a victory over Warren Peace, this win over Carmen Rivera was far more convincing. But his biggest challenge lies ahead of him. He’s working his way up the card on Meltdown, and now at the Meltdown Super Show his match is right before the Main Event. Sure, it’s still a far cry away from where he wants to be. But apparently APW wanted to put their old has-beens in the main event to gain some name-recognition for the event. Eventually APW will realize that their best and brightest star is Steve Stryker, he’s paving his way through the ranks with little to no problem. This week, he has Stefan Raab who is essentially a worthless piece of shit, and Niobe Martin, who may or may not even really exist.
Stefan Raab is a new-comer to APW along with Stryker. Stryker has had one more week at Meltdown than Raab, but Raab won his first match as well. Steve has made it his mission to learn all he can about all the APW performers, and when Raab busted onto the scene Stryker took note of him. Not because he was impressive or because he was a threat. , but because he was an arrogant prick. Now, it’s a bit of the pot calling the kettle black, but there was something about Raab he just hasn’t liked since the get-go. For Steve, the chance to get in the ring with Stefan Raab in front of the entire APW world is a gift.
Niobe Martin on the other hand, just another Carmen Rivera, except without any of the talent. For some reason highly touted by the APW brass, Niobe Martin seems to be nothing more than nice tits and a busted face. If you’re going to be a woman professional wrestler who isn’t good at wrestling, don’t you need to at least have a pretty face? Stryker is no Brad Pitt, but at least you don’t have to turn away at the sight of him.
Stryker was clearly lost in his own head as he makes the five hour drive from Charleston, WV to Richmond, VA. Much like last week he’s getting a late start due to his extra night in Charleston celebrating his victory. But the good signs were there again. He didn’t punch anything and didn’t get punched. There’s a chance that being able to wrestle for a living is keeping him out of trouble during any extracurricular activity. He would have to tell Bianca about this if she ever spoke to him again.
The driving wasn’t getting to Steve this time as much as it did last week. Even though it’s a longer drive, Stryker almost felt at peace with the world. He knew he was making a name for himself in APW and whether it was a good name or a bad name, it was a name, and that’s the most important thing. The crowd didn’t come around to him like he expected, but he was finding that he thrives off of it. Granted, Carmen Rivera was no great woman of the people, but when he hit the Bounty Kill on her, he could feel the air escape the arena. He had dashed any of the fans hopes, and certainly dashed Rivera’s hopes, and he fucking loved it.
Stryker has a new rental car this time around to make the drive, and luckily, this one doesn’t have that awful smell of puke that the last one did. Still of piece of crap car, but it’ll work for a quick five hour drive. There is really nothing going on between West Virginia and Virginia. It’s like driving through the Dakota’s, just plants, plants, oh is that a person, nope, a plant. It seems to never end. It was the perfect way for Stryker to get lost in his own head. That’s been happening a lot lately though, which is why during this trip Steve brought along a camera with him. Not a camera man, just a camera. His thought process is that if he gets lost in his own head and starts riffing about his opponents, why not just start the promo in the car? Who said he needs to wait to get to Richmond and try and fool people into filming his promo again?
Stryker was a man people wanted to hear from now. He wasn’t some nobody that was going to be flying under the radar anymore. No, now Stryker had gained attention. He hoped it was the right kind of attention too. President Jeff will be watching this Meltdown Super Show and has said that he’ll be bringing some talent up to Overdrive. Stryker is hoping that he’s made enough waves in the two weeks he’s been around to warrant a call up. God, feels like high school baseball all over again.
He was a good athlete. In high-school he hadn’t grown into his body yet though, so he spent three years on the JV baseball team. As a freshman he made the JV team instead of the freshman team, so this was supposed to mean big things for him. But after struggling to barely hit .300 for the year, the team decided to keep him down. Again in his sophomore year he struggled even more, struck out more than he walked, just couldn’t put it all together. Finally in his junior year he saw some progress, but not enough to warrant a call-up. It wasn’t until his senior year when he was finally called up and was able to thrive under the pressure of high school varsity baseball did he have any real success. What foolish thinking that is now, that high school baseball was the most important thing to him, he thought it was the most pressure-filled his life was ever going to be. Look at him now.
He didn’t want to make the same mistakes that he made with high school baseball. No, he wanted to be in the first round of call-ups to Overdrive. That meant that this next match against Stefan Raab and Niobe Martin was going to be a very important one. Biggest match of his career so far. There’s a chance that this match could be a career changer even.
That’s it, enough getting stuck in his own head. Stryker put the car on cruise control, amazing this thing even had that. He looked forward to make sure he had a good stretch of straight road and reached into the backseat trying to grab his bag. He was looking half at the road, half in the backseat, steering with his knee keeping everything real safe.
Finally he grabbed his bag and brought it up to the front with him. He straightened out the car and got it back into the correct lane before he decided to start rooting around in the bag. He locates the camera and turns it on. He had a great idea before he left that he bought some Velcro from Home Depot and stuck half of it to the dashboard of the car, Enterprise won’t mind, and stuck the other half to the bottom of his camera. This way he can just prop that baby right up to the dashboard and have hands-free promo’ing. He was pretty sure that was a word.
Everything was set with the camera, Stryker took a deep breath and drink from his water that was in the cup holder next to him and presses play on the camera.
"Welcome APW to the Hitman’s Road Trip! Here we are on I-64 making our way from Charleston, West Virginia to Richmond, Virginia. There is a lot of talk about how West Virginia shouldn’t be a state because it has a bullshit name, but the UK has been protesting that about New England since the 1800’s so we’re going to ignore it."
"I join you here today because I wanted to address my opponents before my upcoming match at the Meltdown Super Show. What a great name that is, “Super Show” and to think that I’ll be the show-stealer of the night at this show that is so super. Before I get to my upcoming opponents though, I’d be remiss if I didn’t touch on the young Carmen Rivera."
"Carmen, I know I talked about what you said before our match at Meltdown, but now that the match has past and the results are final, I just can’t help myself. You walked into this match all high and mighty after beating Bulk Rogaine thinking that you were some hot shit who was going to roll through every man, woman, and child in the APW. But here we are, a mere five days after Carmen spewed all of this nonsense about me being an illiterate drunk who was just lazily gallivanting about, oh how a week can change things, eh Carmen? You felt the true power of the Bounty Kill and the true power of the Hitman, and while I didn’t get you to tap out like I wanted to, a victory is a victory. And if I ever find myself back in the ring with you, you can be damn sure that I’ll make you my bitch again."
"But one must not dwell on the past for too long, because anyone living in the past is truly not living. No the future is where all the fun is. And what does the future hold for Steve Stryker? Oh, another goddamn girl. Niobe Martin, what the hell are you even doing in this match? Have you done anything in the APW that is even remotely worth talking about? You’re just a no talent bitch with a hot body who thought; “well, I can either be a personal trainer or a professional wrestler” looks like you made the wrong choice sweet cheeks. You should be hanging up those boots and trading them in for Sketchers because they’re not going to help you out this week."
"This week is the week that Steve Stryker takes the spotlight from all other competitors. I have risen up and am ready to take my spot at the top. I mean, look whose main eventing this damn thing, Blade, a washed up hack whose biggest accomplishment will be one Main Event of Rasslemania that he lost. And Mark Mania, a man who had a failed comeback and now is coming to Meltdown with his tails between his legs after a huge fall from grace. Who wants to watch these old bastards battle back and forth for 15 minutes before they’re heaving for breath and one of them falls over on the other? Not a damn person that’s who."
"They want to watch “The Hitman” Steve Stryker throw people around the ring and kick some ass. After the simple time I had with Carmen Rivera last week, what possible chance does Niobe think she stands? I mean, as I was thinking earlier, Niobe is a carbon copy of Rivera, except with no talent. Martin hasn’t done a single thing that would warrant an impression being made on me. It’s embarrassing really. I have to imagine she was only put in this match because they thought if they let me go one on one with Stefan Raab that someone would be getting seriously injured. Maybe Niobe can distract me for a few minutes while Raab is licking his wounds."
"That brings me to you Stefan. Which is a stupid damn name by the way, I get that you’re German and that’s real normal over there, but to me, just a damn embarrassment of the name. Now before you go off spewing how I’m an ignorant American, I don’t want to hear your bull shit. You’re in America trying to make a name for yourself because it’s the best country in the damn world, if you want to lecture me on German history, let me stop you right now because I don’t give a damn. You want me to respect the country, go back there, live there, and shut the hell up."
"Stefan, I haven’t liked you since you first entered the APW. I saw your first promo and I just hated you. Every single thing about you seems fake. Your smile, your hair, your arrogance, your aggressiveness. I’m just not buying it. You started telling this story about how you almost killed a man in the ring. Am I supposed to be impressed by these tall tales? “One day I was in the ring with a man who a ripped his head off and stuck his tongue down the opening and ripped it through his ass, fear me!” Come on man, I’m not afraid of your 5’11” short piece of shit. Maybe in the German celebrity world that you think you live in that’s a real tall guy and everyone is intimidated by you. But I got more than a few inches on you and frankly you just looked like a pudgy piece of shit to me. You can work your intimidation game all day long, but in the end I’m going to wipe the arena floor with your fat face and then stop it into oblivion on my way to walking out of the Meltdown Super Show with a victory."
"You’re just so easy to hate Raab. You have that smug look on your face that I really just want to slap right off every time I see you do anything. Sure you had a pretty good match against Tommy Walker last week, but who is Tommy Walker? I’m not being sarcastic here, who the hell is he? It was your first week in the APW and you got a win sure, but you’re going to see a big difference this week. When you step into the ring and you’re looking at “The Hitman” staring back over at you, you’re going to be in for a rude awakening."
"Niobe, Raab, I don’t really know which of you I’m worried about less going into this match on Monday. But what I do know is that you’re standing between me and my journey to the top of APW, which means that I’m going to have to give you the same treatment that Carmen Rivera and Warren Peace got. There’s a bounty on both of your heads, and the Hitman is here to collect."[/i]
Stryker ends his promos as he’s become accustomed to over the past few weeks and presses stop on the camera. Speaking in front of the camera is coming a lot easier for Steve as each week passes. It still feels a bit unnatural, but he might be onto something with this whole speaking while he’s driving thing. Although, he’s sure anyone that passed him while he was screaming at the camera probably thought he was about to explode, it felt good to get it all off of his chest.
Now he could relax as the last few hours of this drive would just pass quickly by. He couldn’t wait to hear the response from Niobe and Raab and then see the fear in their eyes when they actually step into the ring with him on Monday. More than anything, Stryker couldn’t wait for Monday to arrive.
Two Hours Later[/u]
Stryker arrives at the arena first, as he has the past few weeks to get a feel for the location. It was bigger. A lot bigger. The Richmond Coliseum was going to be the home of Steve Stryker’s coming out party. No, not that kind of coming out. Stryker has realized his dream. He wants to be headlining events at arenas like this for the rest of his life.
Niobe Martin and Stefan Raab were not going to be getting in the way of him realizing that dream. A nobody and a never-was weren’t going to stand in the way of Steve Stryker making his glorious rise to the top of APW. The Meltdown Super Show was just the first step, he’s in for a long journey, but every single moment of this journey was going to be fun. All the highs, all the lows, every bump, bruise, and cut. Whether he was delivering them or receiving them, he was looking forward to it. Raab and Niobe don’t know what’s coming for them this week. Stryker was a man on a mission.
Now, two weeks into his professional career, he’s 2-0 and has begun his rise to the top. After squeaking by with a victory over Warren Peace, this win over Carmen Rivera was far more convincing. But his biggest challenge lies ahead of him. He’s working his way up the card on Meltdown, and now at the Meltdown Super Show his match is right before the Main Event. Sure, it’s still a far cry away from where he wants to be. But apparently APW wanted to put their old has-beens in the main event to gain some name-recognition for the event. Eventually APW will realize that their best and brightest star is Steve Stryker, he’s paving his way through the ranks with little to no problem. This week, he has Stefan Raab who is essentially a worthless piece of shit, and Niobe Martin, who may or may not even really exist.
Stefan Raab is a new-comer to APW along with Stryker. Stryker has had one more week at Meltdown than Raab, but Raab won his first match as well. Steve has made it his mission to learn all he can about all the APW performers, and when Raab busted onto the scene Stryker took note of him. Not because he was impressive or because he was a threat. , but because he was an arrogant prick. Now, it’s a bit of the pot calling the kettle black, but there was something about Raab he just hasn’t liked since the get-go. For Steve, the chance to get in the ring with Stefan Raab in front of the entire APW world is a gift.
Niobe Martin on the other hand, just another Carmen Rivera, except without any of the talent. For some reason highly touted by the APW brass, Niobe Martin seems to be nothing more than nice tits and a busted face. If you’re going to be a woman professional wrestler who isn’t good at wrestling, don’t you need to at least have a pretty face? Stryker is no Brad Pitt, but at least you don’t have to turn away at the sight of him.
Stryker was clearly lost in his own head as he makes the five hour drive from Charleston, WV to Richmond, VA. Much like last week he’s getting a late start due to his extra night in Charleston celebrating his victory. But the good signs were there again. He didn’t punch anything and didn’t get punched. There’s a chance that being able to wrestle for a living is keeping him out of trouble during any extracurricular activity. He would have to tell Bianca about this if she ever spoke to him again.
The driving wasn’t getting to Steve this time as much as it did last week. Even though it’s a longer drive, Stryker almost felt at peace with the world. He knew he was making a name for himself in APW and whether it was a good name or a bad name, it was a name, and that’s the most important thing. The crowd didn’t come around to him like he expected, but he was finding that he thrives off of it. Granted, Carmen Rivera was no great woman of the people, but when he hit the Bounty Kill on her, he could feel the air escape the arena. He had dashed any of the fans hopes, and certainly dashed Rivera’s hopes, and he fucking loved it.
Stryker has a new rental car this time around to make the drive, and luckily, this one doesn’t have that awful smell of puke that the last one did. Still of piece of crap car, but it’ll work for a quick five hour drive. There is really nothing going on between West Virginia and Virginia. It’s like driving through the Dakota’s, just plants, plants, oh is that a person, nope, a plant. It seems to never end. It was the perfect way for Stryker to get lost in his own head. That’s been happening a lot lately though, which is why during this trip Steve brought along a camera with him. Not a camera man, just a camera. His thought process is that if he gets lost in his own head and starts riffing about his opponents, why not just start the promo in the car? Who said he needs to wait to get to Richmond and try and fool people into filming his promo again?
Stryker was a man people wanted to hear from now. He wasn’t some nobody that was going to be flying under the radar anymore. No, now Stryker had gained attention. He hoped it was the right kind of attention too. President Jeff will be watching this Meltdown Super Show and has said that he’ll be bringing some talent up to Overdrive. Stryker is hoping that he’s made enough waves in the two weeks he’s been around to warrant a call up. God, feels like high school baseball all over again.
He was a good athlete. In high-school he hadn’t grown into his body yet though, so he spent three years on the JV baseball team. As a freshman he made the JV team instead of the freshman team, so this was supposed to mean big things for him. But after struggling to barely hit .300 for the year, the team decided to keep him down. Again in his sophomore year he struggled even more, struck out more than he walked, just couldn’t put it all together. Finally in his junior year he saw some progress, but not enough to warrant a call-up. It wasn’t until his senior year when he was finally called up and was able to thrive under the pressure of high school varsity baseball did he have any real success. What foolish thinking that is now, that high school baseball was the most important thing to him, he thought it was the most pressure-filled his life was ever going to be. Look at him now.
He didn’t want to make the same mistakes that he made with high school baseball. No, he wanted to be in the first round of call-ups to Overdrive. That meant that this next match against Stefan Raab and Niobe Martin was going to be a very important one. Biggest match of his career so far. There’s a chance that this match could be a career changer even.
That’s it, enough getting stuck in his own head. Stryker put the car on cruise control, amazing this thing even had that. He looked forward to make sure he had a good stretch of straight road and reached into the backseat trying to grab his bag. He was looking half at the road, half in the backseat, steering with his knee keeping everything real safe.
Finally he grabbed his bag and brought it up to the front with him. He straightened out the car and got it back into the correct lane before he decided to start rooting around in the bag. He locates the camera and turns it on. He had a great idea before he left that he bought some Velcro from Home Depot and stuck half of it to the dashboard of the car, Enterprise won’t mind, and stuck the other half to the bottom of his camera. This way he can just prop that baby right up to the dashboard and have hands-free promo’ing. He was pretty sure that was a word.
Everything was set with the camera, Stryker took a deep breath and drink from his water that was in the cup holder next to him and presses play on the camera.
"Welcome APW to the Hitman’s Road Trip! Here we are on I-64 making our way from Charleston, West Virginia to Richmond, Virginia. There is a lot of talk about how West Virginia shouldn’t be a state because it has a bullshit name, but the UK has been protesting that about New England since the 1800’s so we’re going to ignore it."
"I join you here today because I wanted to address my opponents before my upcoming match at the Meltdown Super Show. What a great name that is, “Super Show” and to think that I’ll be the show-stealer of the night at this show that is so super. Before I get to my upcoming opponents though, I’d be remiss if I didn’t touch on the young Carmen Rivera."
"Carmen, I know I talked about what you said before our match at Meltdown, but now that the match has past and the results are final, I just can’t help myself. You walked into this match all high and mighty after beating Bulk Rogaine thinking that you were some hot shit who was going to roll through every man, woman, and child in the APW. But here we are, a mere five days after Carmen spewed all of this nonsense about me being an illiterate drunk who was just lazily gallivanting about, oh how a week can change things, eh Carmen? You felt the true power of the Bounty Kill and the true power of the Hitman, and while I didn’t get you to tap out like I wanted to, a victory is a victory. And if I ever find myself back in the ring with you, you can be damn sure that I’ll make you my bitch again."
"But one must not dwell on the past for too long, because anyone living in the past is truly not living. No the future is where all the fun is. And what does the future hold for Steve Stryker? Oh, another goddamn girl. Niobe Martin, what the hell are you even doing in this match? Have you done anything in the APW that is even remotely worth talking about? You’re just a no talent bitch with a hot body who thought; “well, I can either be a personal trainer or a professional wrestler” looks like you made the wrong choice sweet cheeks. You should be hanging up those boots and trading them in for Sketchers because they’re not going to help you out this week."
"This week is the week that Steve Stryker takes the spotlight from all other competitors. I have risen up and am ready to take my spot at the top. I mean, look whose main eventing this damn thing, Blade, a washed up hack whose biggest accomplishment will be one Main Event of Rasslemania that he lost. And Mark Mania, a man who had a failed comeback and now is coming to Meltdown with his tails between his legs after a huge fall from grace. Who wants to watch these old bastards battle back and forth for 15 minutes before they’re heaving for breath and one of them falls over on the other? Not a damn person that’s who."
"They want to watch “The Hitman” Steve Stryker throw people around the ring and kick some ass. After the simple time I had with Carmen Rivera last week, what possible chance does Niobe think she stands? I mean, as I was thinking earlier, Niobe is a carbon copy of Rivera, except with no talent. Martin hasn’t done a single thing that would warrant an impression being made on me. It’s embarrassing really. I have to imagine she was only put in this match because they thought if they let me go one on one with Stefan Raab that someone would be getting seriously injured. Maybe Niobe can distract me for a few minutes while Raab is licking his wounds."
"That brings me to you Stefan. Which is a stupid damn name by the way, I get that you’re German and that’s real normal over there, but to me, just a damn embarrassment of the name. Now before you go off spewing how I’m an ignorant American, I don’t want to hear your bull shit. You’re in America trying to make a name for yourself because it’s the best country in the damn world, if you want to lecture me on German history, let me stop you right now because I don’t give a damn. You want me to respect the country, go back there, live there, and shut the hell up."
"Stefan, I haven’t liked you since you first entered the APW. I saw your first promo and I just hated you. Every single thing about you seems fake. Your smile, your hair, your arrogance, your aggressiveness. I’m just not buying it. You started telling this story about how you almost killed a man in the ring. Am I supposed to be impressed by these tall tales? “One day I was in the ring with a man who a ripped his head off and stuck his tongue down the opening and ripped it through his ass, fear me!” Come on man, I’m not afraid of your 5’11” short piece of shit. Maybe in the German celebrity world that you think you live in that’s a real tall guy and everyone is intimidated by you. But I got more than a few inches on you and frankly you just looked like a pudgy piece of shit to me. You can work your intimidation game all day long, but in the end I’m going to wipe the arena floor with your fat face and then stop it into oblivion on my way to walking out of the Meltdown Super Show with a victory."
"You’re just so easy to hate Raab. You have that smug look on your face that I really just want to slap right off every time I see you do anything. Sure you had a pretty good match against Tommy Walker last week, but who is Tommy Walker? I’m not being sarcastic here, who the hell is he? It was your first week in the APW and you got a win sure, but you’re going to see a big difference this week. When you step into the ring and you’re looking at “The Hitman” staring back over at you, you’re going to be in for a rude awakening."
"Niobe, Raab, I don’t really know which of you I’m worried about less going into this match on Monday. But what I do know is that you’re standing between me and my journey to the top of APW, which means that I’m going to have to give you the same treatment that Carmen Rivera and Warren Peace got. There’s a bounty on both of your heads, and the Hitman is here to collect."[/i]
Stryker ends his promos as he’s become accustomed to over the past few weeks and presses stop on the camera. Speaking in front of the camera is coming a lot easier for Steve as each week passes. It still feels a bit unnatural, but he might be onto something with this whole speaking while he’s driving thing. Although, he’s sure anyone that passed him while he was screaming at the camera probably thought he was about to explode, it felt good to get it all off of his chest.
Now he could relax as the last few hours of this drive would just pass quickly by. He couldn’t wait to hear the response from Niobe and Raab and then see the fear in their eyes when they actually step into the ring with him on Monday. More than anything, Stryker couldn’t wait for Monday to arrive.
Two Hours Later[/u]
Stryker arrives at the arena first, as he has the past few weeks to get a feel for the location. It was bigger. A lot bigger. The Richmond Coliseum was going to be the home of Steve Stryker’s coming out party. No, not that kind of coming out. Stryker has realized his dream. He wants to be headlining events at arenas like this for the rest of his life.
Niobe Martin and Stefan Raab were not going to be getting in the way of him realizing that dream. A nobody and a never-was weren’t going to stand in the way of Steve Stryker making his glorious rise to the top of APW. The Meltdown Super Show was just the first step, he’s in for a long journey, but every single moment of this journey was going to be fun. All the highs, all the lows, every bump, bruise, and cut. Whether he was delivering them or receiving them, he was looking forward to it. Raab and Niobe don’t know what’s coming for them this week. Stryker was a man on a mission.
