Post by Anthony Bailey on Oct 13, 2012 16:20:15 GMT -4
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed." – Sean O’Casey
A trip to China didn’t mean escaping problems for Bailey; it meant that it was now the time to confront them. Michael Callahan pulled a stunt last weekend that makes the Jason Kash break in incident at his townhouse earlier this past summer pale in comparison. Callahan had gotten personal and the lighthearted Bailey could no longer act in a passive manner towards him. His partner, Johnny Rebel, was guilty by association although he was usually ignored because of his provoking sarcasm. Aggression was just the resolution that Bailey needed going into this tumultuous One Night In Hell season.
{{The scene opens to a beautiful shot of the Beijing National Stadium located in Beijing, China. This venue was primarily designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and serves as the location for tomorrow evening’s Sunday Night Asylum. Anthony Bailey is immediately spotted, along with Asylum’s backstage interviewer Cindy Shannon, and he is in awe of the dazzling edifice. A blue and gold “APW’s Only Promise” sweatshirt and blue jeans clothe the World Heavyweight Champion and attempt to shield him from the chilly Beijing weather. Looking up at the building, Shannon and Bailey’s visible vapor are made manifest as they repeatedly exhale. Shannon looks directly into the camera and begins to speak as Bailey shivers from environment being so foreign to his usual tropical setting.}}[/color]
Cindy Shannon: Good afternoon and greetings from Beijing! I am Cindy Shannon reporting for APW’s Asylum and the World Champion himself, Mr. Anthony Bailey, joins me today. How are you Anthony? All rested up from the long plane ride over here?
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: Good afternoon Cindy and hello to everyone out there watching. I’m not quite rested up just yet but I plan on calling it an early night later so I should be energized and ready to go by tomorrow. But all in all, I am grateful to be here and I hope that my time here today will be a delight to you all.
Cindy Shannon: And we’re delighted that you could be here. And for those of you just tuning in, we wanted to meet up with our World Champion and allow you to see him in sort of a different light. In the past, you have caught heat for being too private or too reserved. Do you agree with that?
{{Bailey laughs.}}[/color]
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: To an extent. What people have to realize is that this is all still fairly new to me. The cameras, the paparazzi following your every step, bloggers lying about you and intruding on your personal life for no reason, I’m still getting the hang of this “living in the public eye” thing. I never meant to give off the notion that I’m a secretive person because honestly, I have nothing to hide. My life’s an open book but I had no idea what that really meant only a year ago.
Cindy Shannon: You are in a very interesting position. At only twenty-two years of age, you are probably the youngest World Heavyweight Champion in the history of the entire company. I would have to double check my sources obviously but that statement probably isn’t a long shot. How does it feel to be headlining the main event tomorrow here in Beijing at your ripe young age? Most people your age haven’t even left their hometowns and here you are traveling the world.
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: Whenever I dwell on the fact and remind myself that I get to travel around the world and get paid to do what I love, I’m humbled. Me, little old Anthony from Tampa, was picked up by Action Packed Wrestling and has been climbing to new heights ever since. And in Beijing at that?! I remember watching the 2008 Olympics. I had just graduated from Calvary Christian High School in Clearwater, Florida so it was my last summer to live it up before I moved to St. Augustine for college. Only four short years ago, I probably couldn’t have even afforded a ticket inside of here for the Olympics but here I am now teaming up with the remarkable Sally Talfourd to take on Michael Callahan and Johnny Rebel, two men who make my blood boil but are still some of the best talents on the entire globe.
Cindy Shannon: That’s one thing that I have always admired about you. Despite differences of worldviews or convictions, you always give credit to true talent where it’s due.
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: I feel the need to. I couldn’t say that I stand and represent truth if it is never heard being spoken from my mouth.
Cindy Shannon: I agree. And speaking of your opponents for tomorrow night’s edition of Sunday Night Asylum, what are your thoughts and feelings towards Michael Callahan and Johnny Rebel?
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: Since his arrival here back in late January, Michael Callahan has done nothing but parade around here demanding to be treated like royalty. For months he has desired my acknowledgement and though I’m appreciative and creeped out simultaneously by all of the attention he has been paying me, personally I was far too busy dealing with other important matters at hand. Callahan’s shrieking cry for assertion from The Promise failed to even make a minor blip on my radar until a few days ago. The Tap Out Title was one reason and The World Title was another. Leisure isn’t always on the side of a man who is more concerned with building a persisting legacy of priceless value than a man who lends an ear to childish gossip.
But little Timmy can only pull on his father’s pants leg in the toy section of a department store or in the check out aisle in front of the mounds of candy at a grocery store for so long. Sooner or later his father will give in and see what little Timmy really wants. So ladies and gentlemen let’s give Mr. Callahan a round of applause because you have finally gotten your wish Mikey. After that little stunt you pulled on Asylum, you have my undivided attention and it’s not going anywhere until I obliterate you this Sunday night and also at One Night In Hell. Interfering in my matches and trying to prevent me from winning the World Title was low. Attempting to sew seeds of discord between Sally and I was also pretty low.
But driving a wedge between the Bailey family bloodline?? How do you even sleep at night knowing what you did? You turned my own dear uncle against me and I promise to the Lord Almighty that you will suffer for what you did.
Terrance Bailey is the older brother of Anthony’s father Eddie. Terrance was arrested during the summer of 2011 on money laundering charges but because of Anthony’s accidental chair shot on Sally Talfourd at the July 29th edition of Sunday Night Asylum in Las Vegas, Michael Callahan pulled some strings and his friendship with Governor Rick Scott of Florida helped Terrance gain clemency and helped his charges get overturned. Out of sheer gratitude, Terrance has made an alliance with Michael Callahan and has vowed to help him take down his nephew due to allegations of Anthony refusing to offer Terrance a helping hand and never responding to any of the letters that he received from jail.[/color]
Family has always been and will always be personal. I have never once idolized titles, fame, or fortune. Those things come and go far too quickly for you to even secure a firm grip on them. Unfortunately, what my uncle has failed to realize is that he is reneging on his own words. His present actions are inconsistent with the very words that he told me himself from behind those jail bars. “Don’t worry about me Anthony, I can take care of myself. You listen to Frank and you let him lead you to greatness. Stay focused and chase your dreams Anthony, I’ll be fine.” Yes, while I was in the pursuit of my dreams, our correspondence wasn’t as frequent as it should have been and I sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart uncle Terrance.
But that gives you no right to come to the aid of arguably one of the biggest scumbags I have ever encountered in my entire life. Using you to get through to me has afforded Callahan quite the opportunity so far. Quite a few family members have been looking at me funny and have been thinking that I’m the one to solely blame for what went down. But as you and my father would always say to me growing up whenever I came to visit you guys, “Men are accountable for their own actions,” and that statement couldn’t be any more relevant than now. You and Callahan are no different and Callahan’s comprehension, along with Johnny Rebel’s, will come to fruition tomorrow night at Asylum as they both pay for their months and months of resentment towards me.
Callahan’s resentment was better masked than Rebel’s. I knew from the start that Callahan didn’t like me for who I was and what I stood for. I cannot even begin to count the amount of times that he has mentioned how much we are alike, but in good ol’ political fashion, that declaration couldn’t be further from the truth. It was all a ploy to get me to become his puppet like Dillinger, Takagi, and unfortunately my own kin. But after he realized that T.R.I. needed me a whole lot more than I needed him, the little chieftain became furious. He also couldn’t stand by and swallow the hard pill of a man like myself, a man younger than he is and not as experienced in the ring, was getting more shine and more coverage than he was. This past summer here in APW, especially on Asylum, was the summer of The Promise and both of my opponents this weekend know it.
Rebel, not so much, because he was being carried on the shoulders of Level-One on Overdrive and therefore was most likely disengaged to the happenings of this brand. Rebel pinning me three times, all under flawed circumstances, has been the fuel I needed going into tomorrow. Your pride is out of control and you must be knocked off of that high horse of yours. I might not be the one who is bringing years and years of experience to the table for my team like Sally is, but I am the man of the hour and the hour is far from over. Feed into the speculation of my “downward” spiral or me going “cold” if you want to Rebel, because when you least expect it, you will be knocked flat on your gluteus maximus gazing up at the Promise and pleading for your life…pleading for me to take it easy on you and that all along you were just trying to give me a hard time.
Sort of a right of passage for being the new kid on the block but I will refuse to hear you out. I will refuse to relent because every strike of my fist, every thrust of my boot, you would have brought that on yourself. Three pins won’t mean anything tomorrow as I pursue to give you and the fans only a sneak peak of One Night In Hell. Tomorrow will be hellacious enough but self control will be exercised on you and Callahan because if I tear you to pieces this swiftly, what will be left for the pay per view? What will be left to prove as to why I am deserving of that title that I carry so proudly around my waist?
Cindy Shannon: Tenacious words from our World Champion…I’m sure that you prepared yourself for this question, but how about Sally Talfourd? What are your thoughts on her and will the two of you be able to co-exist as partners at Asylum?
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: I’m grateful to have someone of legendary status like Sally in my corner as a tag team partner but at this particular moment in time, is it truly worth it? Sally, this is not a diss, but you have been a little too indecisive for me recently to actually take you serious as a partner. Do you respect me or don’t you? Answer me once and for all. Shoot, for all I know, you’ll throw me to the wolves and leave my flesh to rot. I hope that what I’m saying is wrong and that you will be ride or die for me just like you used to be and that you truly will have my back tomorrow against Callahan and Rebel. But do you genuinely respect me Sally? Stop stalling because I personally don’t have the time to wait hand and foot on you any longer. You’ve burdened me for two months straight with this, now with the addition of Callahan’s burdens dealing with my family, I’m trying to not collapse from all of this stress enveloping me…
Is Bailey at his breaking point? Has Sally’s uncertainty, Callahan’s ill motives, and Rebel’s taunts finally pushed The Promise to a point of no return? Will we experience a Kurt Noble like sequel with our beloved World Champion?[/color]
But that’s the moment when I realize…that I will not collapse because I was built for this. I have prepared my whole life for this and I’m not going to let it derail me from my ultimate goals. I’ve faced countless trials this past year and have any of them stopped me yet? I have rehearsed for this role, I have practiced, I have sweated, and I have been in agony because I am ready. When many hit the “big” time, they quickly fall back into obscurity because no strong foundation was laid that was able to sustain them.
Cindy Shannon: Yes, a strong foundation is key to staying grounded and enjoying a lasting career in this line of work. Any final words Mr. Bailey?
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: Rookie or not, I’ve been through hell and high water and tomorrow, along with One Night In Hell, is simply another opportunity to show what I am made of. My Chinese brethren will witness tomorrow that if the world was a stage or if APW were a Broadway show, I’m ready to put on the most stellar performance that I possibly can. Sooner or later you all will realize that I am not some unrehearsed rookie; I am Anthony Bailey…APW’s only Promise…the only Promise that can't be broken. Until next time…
Cindy Shannon: We are out of time for today but thank you for tuning into this interview and thank you Mr. Anthony Bailey for taking the time out to give us this one on one. Hopefully your peers and colleagues will now be able to see you in a different light. Once again, I am Cindy Shannon reporting for APW’s Asylum and we’ll see you right here tomorrow night live on The Food Network. Take care everyone!
{{The scene slowly fades to black as Shannon and Bailey shake hands.}}[/color]
A trip to China didn’t mean escaping problems for Bailey; it meant that it was now the time to confront them. Michael Callahan pulled a stunt last weekend that makes the Jason Kash break in incident at his townhouse earlier this past summer pale in comparison. Callahan had gotten personal and the lighthearted Bailey could no longer act in a passive manner towards him. His partner, Johnny Rebel, was guilty by association although he was usually ignored because of his provoking sarcasm. Aggression was just the resolution that Bailey needed going into this tumultuous One Night In Hell season.
{{The scene opens to a beautiful shot of the Beijing National Stadium located in Beijing, China. This venue was primarily designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and serves as the location for tomorrow evening’s Sunday Night Asylum. Anthony Bailey is immediately spotted, along with Asylum’s backstage interviewer Cindy Shannon, and he is in awe of the dazzling edifice. A blue and gold “APW’s Only Promise” sweatshirt and blue jeans clothe the World Heavyweight Champion and attempt to shield him from the chilly Beijing weather. Looking up at the building, Shannon and Bailey’s visible vapor are made manifest as they repeatedly exhale. Shannon looks directly into the camera and begins to speak as Bailey shivers from environment being so foreign to his usual tropical setting.}}[/color]
Cindy Shannon: Good afternoon and greetings from Beijing! I am Cindy Shannon reporting for APW’s Asylum and the World Champion himself, Mr. Anthony Bailey, joins me today. How are you Anthony? All rested up from the long plane ride over here?
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: Good afternoon Cindy and hello to everyone out there watching. I’m not quite rested up just yet but I plan on calling it an early night later so I should be energized and ready to go by tomorrow. But all in all, I am grateful to be here and I hope that my time here today will be a delight to you all.
Cindy Shannon: And we’re delighted that you could be here. And for those of you just tuning in, we wanted to meet up with our World Champion and allow you to see him in sort of a different light. In the past, you have caught heat for being too private or too reserved. Do you agree with that?
{{Bailey laughs.}}[/color]
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: To an extent. What people have to realize is that this is all still fairly new to me. The cameras, the paparazzi following your every step, bloggers lying about you and intruding on your personal life for no reason, I’m still getting the hang of this “living in the public eye” thing. I never meant to give off the notion that I’m a secretive person because honestly, I have nothing to hide. My life’s an open book but I had no idea what that really meant only a year ago.
Cindy Shannon: You are in a very interesting position. At only twenty-two years of age, you are probably the youngest World Heavyweight Champion in the history of the entire company. I would have to double check my sources obviously but that statement probably isn’t a long shot. How does it feel to be headlining the main event tomorrow here in Beijing at your ripe young age? Most people your age haven’t even left their hometowns and here you are traveling the world.
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: Whenever I dwell on the fact and remind myself that I get to travel around the world and get paid to do what I love, I’m humbled. Me, little old Anthony from Tampa, was picked up by Action Packed Wrestling and has been climbing to new heights ever since. And in Beijing at that?! I remember watching the 2008 Olympics. I had just graduated from Calvary Christian High School in Clearwater, Florida so it was my last summer to live it up before I moved to St. Augustine for college. Only four short years ago, I probably couldn’t have even afforded a ticket inside of here for the Olympics but here I am now teaming up with the remarkable Sally Talfourd to take on Michael Callahan and Johnny Rebel, two men who make my blood boil but are still some of the best talents on the entire globe.
Cindy Shannon: That’s one thing that I have always admired about you. Despite differences of worldviews or convictions, you always give credit to true talent where it’s due.
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: I feel the need to. I couldn’t say that I stand and represent truth if it is never heard being spoken from my mouth.
Cindy Shannon: I agree. And speaking of your opponents for tomorrow night’s edition of Sunday Night Asylum, what are your thoughts and feelings towards Michael Callahan and Johnny Rebel?
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: Since his arrival here back in late January, Michael Callahan has done nothing but parade around here demanding to be treated like royalty. For months he has desired my acknowledgement and though I’m appreciative and creeped out simultaneously by all of the attention he has been paying me, personally I was far too busy dealing with other important matters at hand. Callahan’s shrieking cry for assertion from The Promise failed to even make a minor blip on my radar until a few days ago. The Tap Out Title was one reason and The World Title was another. Leisure isn’t always on the side of a man who is more concerned with building a persisting legacy of priceless value than a man who lends an ear to childish gossip.
But little Timmy can only pull on his father’s pants leg in the toy section of a department store or in the check out aisle in front of the mounds of candy at a grocery store for so long. Sooner or later his father will give in and see what little Timmy really wants. So ladies and gentlemen let’s give Mr. Callahan a round of applause because you have finally gotten your wish Mikey. After that little stunt you pulled on Asylum, you have my undivided attention and it’s not going anywhere until I obliterate you this Sunday night and also at One Night In Hell. Interfering in my matches and trying to prevent me from winning the World Title was low. Attempting to sew seeds of discord between Sally and I was also pretty low.
But driving a wedge between the Bailey family bloodline?? How do you even sleep at night knowing what you did? You turned my own dear uncle against me and I promise to the Lord Almighty that you will suffer for what you did.
Terrance Bailey is the older brother of Anthony’s father Eddie. Terrance was arrested during the summer of 2011 on money laundering charges but because of Anthony’s accidental chair shot on Sally Talfourd at the July 29th edition of Sunday Night Asylum in Las Vegas, Michael Callahan pulled some strings and his friendship with Governor Rick Scott of Florida helped Terrance gain clemency and helped his charges get overturned. Out of sheer gratitude, Terrance has made an alliance with Michael Callahan and has vowed to help him take down his nephew due to allegations of Anthony refusing to offer Terrance a helping hand and never responding to any of the letters that he received from jail.[/color]
Family has always been and will always be personal. I have never once idolized titles, fame, or fortune. Those things come and go far too quickly for you to even secure a firm grip on them. Unfortunately, what my uncle has failed to realize is that he is reneging on his own words. His present actions are inconsistent with the very words that he told me himself from behind those jail bars. “Don’t worry about me Anthony, I can take care of myself. You listen to Frank and you let him lead you to greatness. Stay focused and chase your dreams Anthony, I’ll be fine.” Yes, while I was in the pursuit of my dreams, our correspondence wasn’t as frequent as it should have been and I sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart uncle Terrance.
But that gives you no right to come to the aid of arguably one of the biggest scumbags I have ever encountered in my entire life. Using you to get through to me has afforded Callahan quite the opportunity so far. Quite a few family members have been looking at me funny and have been thinking that I’m the one to solely blame for what went down. But as you and my father would always say to me growing up whenever I came to visit you guys, “Men are accountable for their own actions,” and that statement couldn’t be any more relevant than now. You and Callahan are no different and Callahan’s comprehension, along with Johnny Rebel’s, will come to fruition tomorrow night at Asylum as they both pay for their months and months of resentment towards me.
Callahan’s resentment was better masked than Rebel’s. I knew from the start that Callahan didn’t like me for who I was and what I stood for. I cannot even begin to count the amount of times that he has mentioned how much we are alike, but in good ol’ political fashion, that declaration couldn’t be further from the truth. It was all a ploy to get me to become his puppet like Dillinger, Takagi, and unfortunately my own kin. But after he realized that T.R.I. needed me a whole lot more than I needed him, the little chieftain became furious. He also couldn’t stand by and swallow the hard pill of a man like myself, a man younger than he is and not as experienced in the ring, was getting more shine and more coverage than he was. This past summer here in APW, especially on Asylum, was the summer of The Promise and both of my opponents this weekend know it.
Rebel, not so much, because he was being carried on the shoulders of Level-One on Overdrive and therefore was most likely disengaged to the happenings of this brand. Rebel pinning me three times, all under flawed circumstances, has been the fuel I needed going into tomorrow. Your pride is out of control and you must be knocked off of that high horse of yours. I might not be the one who is bringing years and years of experience to the table for my team like Sally is, but I am the man of the hour and the hour is far from over. Feed into the speculation of my “downward” spiral or me going “cold” if you want to Rebel, because when you least expect it, you will be knocked flat on your gluteus maximus gazing up at the Promise and pleading for your life…pleading for me to take it easy on you and that all along you were just trying to give me a hard time.
Sort of a right of passage for being the new kid on the block but I will refuse to hear you out. I will refuse to relent because every strike of my fist, every thrust of my boot, you would have brought that on yourself. Three pins won’t mean anything tomorrow as I pursue to give you and the fans only a sneak peak of One Night In Hell. Tomorrow will be hellacious enough but self control will be exercised on you and Callahan because if I tear you to pieces this swiftly, what will be left for the pay per view? What will be left to prove as to why I am deserving of that title that I carry so proudly around my waist?
Cindy Shannon: Tenacious words from our World Champion…I’m sure that you prepared yourself for this question, but how about Sally Talfourd? What are your thoughts on her and will the two of you be able to co-exist as partners at Asylum?
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: I’m grateful to have someone of legendary status like Sally in my corner as a tag team partner but at this particular moment in time, is it truly worth it? Sally, this is not a diss, but you have been a little too indecisive for me recently to actually take you serious as a partner. Do you respect me or don’t you? Answer me once and for all. Shoot, for all I know, you’ll throw me to the wolves and leave my flesh to rot. I hope that what I’m saying is wrong and that you will be ride or die for me just like you used to be and that you truly will have my back tomorrow against Callahan and Rebel. But do you genuinely respect me Sally? Stop stalling because I personally don’t have the time to wait hand and foot on you any longer. You’ve burdened me for two months straight with this, now with the addition of Callahan’s burdens dealing with my family, I’m trying to not collapse from all of this stress enveloping me…
Is Bailey at his breaking point? Has Sally’s uncertainty, Callahan’s ill motives, and Rebel’s taunts finally pushed The Promise to a point of no return? Will we experience a Kurt Noble like sequel with our beloved World Champion?[/color]
But that’s the moment when I realize…that I will not collapse because I was built for this. I have prepared my whole life for this and I’m not going to let it derail me from my ultimate goals. I’ve faced countless trials this past year and have any of them stopped me yet? I have rehearsed for this role, I have practiced, I have sweated, and I have been in agony because I am ready. When many hit the “big” time, they quickly fall back into obscurity because no strong foundation was laid that was able to sustain them.
Cindy Shannon: Yes, a strong foundation is key to staying grounded and enjoying a lasting career in this line of work. Any final words Mr. Bailey?
Anthony "The Promise" Bailey: Rookie or not, I’ve been through hell and high water and tomorrow, along with One Night In Hell, is simply another opportunity to show what I am made of. My Chinese brethren will witness tomorrow that if the world was a stage or if APW were a Broadway show, I’m ready to put on the most stellar performance that I possibly can. Sooner or later you all will realize that I am not some unrehearsed rookie; I am Anthony Bailey…APW’s only Promise…the only Promise that can't be broken. Until next time…
Cindy Shannon: We are out of time for today but thank you for tuning into this interview and thank you Mr. Anthony Bailey for taking the time out to give us this one on one. Hopefully your peers and colleagues will now be able to see you in a different light. Once again, I am Cindy Shannon reporting for APW’s Asylum and we’ll see you right here tomorrow night live on The Food Network. Take care everyone!
{{The scene slowly fades to black as Shannon and Bailey shake hands.}}[/color]
