Post by biggs on Oct 14, 2009 0:59:12 GMT -4
(Continued from last promo)
Gary Biggerstaff is seated on the bed in his hotel room in Helsinki, Finland on Tuesday, October 6th. He has just called his pastor, Jay Whitaker.
Gary: Hey Jay, it's Gary. There's something I need to talk to you about.
Jay: (cheerfully) Good morning, my friend! What's happening?
Gary: I'm actually here in Helsinki, Finland, and I came to a realization, or rather, a conviction, that there was something a needed to get open with you about...
Jay: (more somber) Really? What's going on?
Gary: Well, there's two things I need to confess to you, Jay, and one of them is a sin directly against you. You remember in Toronto how you asked me if I had done anything else at the pay per view that was out of line?
Jay: Yes I do.
Gary: Well, I lied to you when I told you that nothing happened. (chocking back the tears) I lied to you because I was afraid that you would be disappointed in me, that you would tell me that I had to give up wrestling for what I had done!
Jay: (sounding upset, yet trying to be comforting) What happened?
Gary: Well, my friend, Chris Cyrus, was involved in a Blaze of Glory match, where the object of the match is to set your opponent on fire. During the match, I came out from the back with a Super Soaker filled with lighter fluid, and doused Chris' opponent with the lighter fluid, which allowed Chris to win the match. And I'll be honest, I justified it in my mind that I was doing it to protect Chris from that fate, that I was preventing him from getting burned. I considered it an act of love towards my friend, and since my motivations were to help him, not necessarily to harm his opponent, that I was justified...
Jay: How severely burned was his opponent?
Gary: Well, thankfully, not too badly, as he was back in action a little over two weeks later, but the fact that I was willing to go so far to hurt somebody else to protect my friend, it really bothered me. And I didn't tell you about it at the restaurant because I didn't want you telling me that I had to give up wrestling.
Jay sighs can be heard over the phone. There is some silence between the two men for a moment before Jay starts to speak.
Jay: Honestly, Gary, I can forgive you for lying to me. It was a decision motivated by fear, and I understand why you did it. I'm not condoning the fact that you did it, but I am grateful for the fact that you were eventually honest with me. Still, I'm concerned about two things, the first obviously being that you helped to set another man on fire, and the second being that it took you so long to be honest about it? As your pastor and mentor, I can't help but feel a little hurt by the fact that you didn't feel like you could talk to me about anything. My intentions have never been to intimidate or scare you, but rather to help you grow in your relationship with God. But the fact that it's taken you this long to get open shows a fundamental lack of trust either in myself, or possibly even God. I think the fact that you're traveling the globe so often without any real accountability partner in the Church has really hurt your relationship with God. The Bible talks about the healing power of confession, and what it's like to not confess, particularly in 1 John 1: 5-10:
“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.”
Take that scripture in conjunction with Luke 15: 3-7:
“Then Jesus told them this parable: "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.”
Through these two scriptures, we see not only how vital it is that we confess our sins to God and one another, but also how God rejoices when we do make the right choice. In your situation, I think that you were too concerned about what I thought, rather than what God thinks. I'll be honest, in the big scheme of things, my opinion of you means jack squat! What matters is that when your time on this earth fades away, what will God think of you? You have a very clear path of repentance ahead of you here, which you've already started by confessing to me. What do you think you need to do?
Gary: Well, I need to properly apologize to you for lying, and I should make sure that I don't put myself in a position to set another guy on fire again.
Jay: You know there's more to it than that. What else?
Gary: I should probably apologize to the guy I set on fire.
Jay: Good! That's one step! Should be pretty easy...
Gary: Not really. You see, him and his partner are mine and Cyrus' opponents at the next pay per view, and needless to say, they don't like us very much!
Jay: Well, I think you should still try.
Gary: Fair enough. I'll see what I can do.
Jay: When you get back to Seattle, I'd like to sit down with you, and talk about things further. When do you get back into town?
Gary: Honestly, I won't be back home until our pay per view in Japan on the 25th.
Jay: Hmmm...Well until you get back, I want you to call me every night before you go to bed and tell me how your day went. We'll just have a time of openness every night before you go to bed, and I guess every morning for me considering the time difference, but if you can commit to that, it would go a long way in rebuilding the trust between the two of us.
Gary: Okay, not a problem. I'll stick to it!
Jay: Also, you should apologize to that guy as quickly as you can.
Gary: Can do.
Jay: Before you hang up, I'd like to pray with you over the phone...
Jay starts to pray over the phone as Gary kneels and bows his head. After Jay has finished praying, Gary says a prayer himself. The two friends say their goodbyes, and Gary hangs up. He places his phone on the night stand, and gets ready for his bed time routine. As Gary is brushing his teeth, he thinks to himself.
Gary: “I feel better...”
***
(Airing Tuesday, October 13)
Depeche Mode's “Space Walker” begins to play as the words “First Contact” flash across the screen. It then shifts to Biggs on his fancy set, complete with the clear podium and blue leather couch. The large video screen is behind him, and he's wearing a Killers' T-Shirt and blue jeans, complete with his APW Overdrive Championship around his waist, and his signature blue shades on his face. He begins to speak.
Biggs: Ladies and germs, welcome one and all to the continually highest rated wrestling webshow on the entire Internet, Biggs' First Contact! I am obviously your host Biggs, the current reigning and defending APW Overdrive Champion, not to mention the flat out most handsome son of a gun this business has ever seen! But enough about me, let's get straight to business.
A picture of Shadow shows up on the screen behind Biggs.
Biggs: Last week, Chris Cyrus and myself were on the cusp of defeating those no-good, debaucherous drunken fools known as the O'Connor Brothers, when Shadow decided to stick his nose in things and cost us the victory! The match was officially declared a no contest, but the fact remains that Shadow denied Cyrus and myself our share of the winner's purse! Shadow, you've already pissed me off with your blatant disrespect towards me, your apathy towards holding the APW Overdrive Championship, and your suckitude in general, but you've reached a new low when you start to affect my income! Now I can understand that if you are legitimately involved in a match, you're going to try and win, but when the outcome of the match doesn't personally affect you, and you knowingly and willingly deny another man his right to earn a living, well, that's just selfish! If you really wanted to get at me that badly, you could have waited until the referee counted Austin's shoulders down for the three count, and then take his cheap shot! But I guess what really irritates me the most is the fact that an honest, hard working man like myself is booed for telling the truth, when a sneaky, conniving punk like you can get away with blatant thievery, and you are cheered for it. Let's be honest here, Shadow, you know as well as I do that you and Slade do not deserve the second chance you two are getting at One Night In Hell! You know that you don't belong anywhere near the APW Overdrive Championship. But you figure that since you were giving this opportunity on a silver platter by Max Carter, you're going to take it, and do what you can to frustrate Cyrus and myself to try and up your and Slade's minuscule chance at taking the APW Overdrive and Xtreme Titles away from the Axis of Awesome. Well, let me tell you something, Shadow, while you may have gotten under my skin, and cost me a bit of a paycheck, it's going to take far more than that for you to take my APW Overdrive Championship from me!
The screen then shifts to show a picture of the eight men involved in the APW Overdrive Main Event.
Biggs: But lucky for me, I get a small chance at retribution this week, as me and my good friend, Chris Cyrus, team up with the likes of Victor Hades and the APW Heavyweight Champion of the World himself, Level-One, to take on the pathetic team of you and Slade, along with Jesse Nuñez and Pence Weatherlight. You know, this match seems quite unfair when you look at the talent on one side of the ring versus the other. I mean, on one side you have not only one of the most exciting, vicious, fastest rising new comers we've seen in some time in Victor Hades, you have a man who deserves honor and respect in Level-One, and you have the most dominant faction in APW today, The Axis of Awesome! Our team has all three of the recognized Champions here in APW, while your team consists of has-beens and never-weres. Nuñez has been on a mighty long losing streak, and has been more preoccupied with trying to keep his wife safe rather than winning a match! If he were a good husband, he'd let her stay at home. Thing is, he's probably too worried that if he leaves her by herself, she's realize how pathetic of a man she's married to, and be driven into the arms of another man in a passionate lust. Then there's Pence Weatherlight, Mr. Hypocrite himself! I don't care what you're calling yourself these days, Pence, whether it's The Reaper or Mr. Fluffington the Third, the fact remains that you go around claiming to be a paragon of virtue, but in reality, you are the most selfish man I've ever seen in this business! Let's not forget how quick you were to condemn Level-One for faking an injury leading up to your match at Test for the Best, when you were harboring a false injury yourself! It's just too bad you can't fake having any actual wrestling talent! As for the AKA, Shadow and Slade, The Axis has dealt with you two clowns enough to know exactly what to expect from the two of you! Slade, I know you enjoy the high risk style, that when it pays off, it pays big. But the problem is that you've got worse luck than a rabbit with no feet! More often than not, Slade, you're your own downfall! And Shadow, I've already said all that I need to say about you. The fact of the matter is, this Wednesday, on Overdrive, the four of you aren't walking into a wrestling match, you're walking into a freakin' genocide! You're outclassed, there's no other way around it, because my team is quite simply out of this world!
The words “Shameless Plug of the Week” flash across the video screen in the background.
Biggs: Well, we're almost out of time, so that means it's time for the “Shameless Plug of the Week!” This week, I'm plugging the Angus Bacon Cheeseburger from McDonald's! Now this is quite simply one of the best burgers I've ever had from a fast food joint, and while I can't eat them very often, I must say that they're a treat when I do. That's all the time I have for today, so until next time, keep watching the stars!
First Contact comes to a close, and the APW logo and trademark flash across the screen.
Gary Biggerstaff is seated on the bed in his hotel room in Helsinki, Finland on Tuesday, October 6th. He has just called his pastor, Jay Whitaker.
Gary: Hey Jay, it's Gary. There's something I need to talk to you about.
Jay: (cheerfully) Good morning, my friend! What's happening?
Gary: I'm actually here in Helsinki, Finland, and I came to a realization, or rather, a conviction, that there was something a needed to get open with you about...
Jay: (more somber) Really? What's going on?
Gary: Well, there's two things I need to confess to you, Jay, and one of them is a sin directly against you. You remember in Toronto how you asked me if I had done anything else at the pay per view that was out of line?
Jay: Yes I do.
Gary: Well, I lied to you when I told you that nothing happened. (chocking back the tears) I lied to you because I was afraid that you would be disappointed in me, that you would tell me that I had to give up wrestling for what I had done!
Jay: (sounding upset, yet trying to be comforting) What happened?
Gary: Well, my friend, Chris Cyrus, was involved in a Blaze of Glory match, where the object of the match is to set your opponent on fire. During the match, I came out from the back with a Super Soaker filled with lighter fluid, and doused Chris' opponent with the lighter fluid, which allowed Chris to win the match. And I'll be honest, I justified it in my mind that I was doing it to protect Chris from that fate, that I was preventing him from getting burned. I considered it an act of love towards my friend, and since my motivations were to help him, not necessarily to harm his opponent, that I was justified...
Jay: How severely burned was his opponent?
Gary: Well, thankfully, not too badly, as he was back in action a little over two weeks later, but the fact that I was willing to go so far to hurt somebody else to protect my friend, it really bothered me. And I didn't tell you about it at the restaurant because I didn't want you telling me that I had to give up wrestling.
Jay sighs can be heard over the phone. There is some silence between the two men for a moment before Jay starts to speak.
Jay: Honestly, Gary, I can forgive you for lying to me. It was a decision motivated by fear, and I understand why you did it. I'm not condoning the fact that you did it, but I am grateful for the fact that you were eventually honest with me. Still, I'm concerned about two things, the first obviously being that you helped to set another man on fire, and the second being that it took you so long to be honest about it? As your pastor and mentor, I can't help but feel a little hurt by the fact that you didn't feel like you could talk to me about anything. My intentions have never been to intimidate or scare you, but rather to help you grow in your relationship with God. But the fact that it's taken you this long to get open shows a fundamental lack of trust either in myself, or possibly even God. I think the fact that you're traveling the globe so often without any real accountability partner in the Church has really hurt your relationship with God. The Bible talks about the healing power of confession, and what it's like to not confess, particularly in 1 John 1: 5-10:
“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.”
Take that scripture in conjunction with Luke 15: 3-7:
“Then Jesus told them this parable: "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.”
Through these two scriptures, we see not only how vital it is that we confess our sins to God and one another, but also how God rejoices when we do make the right choice. In your situation, I think that you were too concerned about what I thought, rather than what God thinks. I'll be honest, in the big scheme of things, my opinion of you means jack squat! What matters is that when your time on this earth fades away, what will God think of you? You have a very clear path of repentance ahead of you here, which you've already started by confessing to me. What do you think you need to do?
Gary: Well, I need to properly apologize to you for lying, and I should make sure that I don't put myself in a position to set another guy on fire again.
Jay: You know there's more to it than that. What else?
Gary: I should probably apologize to the guy I set on fire.
Jay: Good! That's one step! Should be pretty easy...
Gary: Not really. You see, him and his partner are mine and Cyrus' opponents at the next pay per view, and needless to say, they don't like us very much!
Jay: Well, I think you should still try.
Gary: Fair enough. I'll see what I can do.
Jay: When you get back to Seattle, I'd like to sit down with you, and talk about things further. When do you get back into town?
Gary: Honestly, I won't be back home until our pay per view in Japan on the 25th.
Jay: Hmmm...Well until you get back, I want you to call me every night before you go to bed and tell me how your day went. We'll just have a time of openness every night before you go to bed, and I guess every morning for me considering the time difference, but if you can commit to that, it would go a long way in rebuilding the trust between the two of us.
Gary: Okay, not a problem. I'll stick to it!
Jay: Also, you should apologize to that guy as quickly as you can.
Gary: Can do.
Jay: Before you hang up, I'd like to pray with you over the phone...
Jay starts to pray over the phone as Gary kneels and bows his head. After Jay has finished praying, Gary says a prayer himself. The two friends say their goodbyes, and Gary hangs up. He places his phone on the night stand, and gets ready for his bed time routine. As Gary is brushing his teeth, he thinks to himself.
Gary: “I feel better...”
***
(Airing Tuesday, October 13)
Depeche Mode's “Space Walker” begins to play as the words “First Contact” flash across the screen. It then shifts to Biggs on his fancy set, complete with the clear podium and blue leather couch. The large video screen is behind him, and he's wearing a Killers' T-Shirt and blue jeans, complete with his APW Overdrive Championship around his waist, and his signature blue shades on his face. He begins to speak.
Biggs: Ladies and germs, welcome one and all to the continually highest rated wrestling webshow on the entire Internet, Biggs' First Contact! I am obviously your host Biggs, the current reigning and defending APW Overdrive Champion, not to mention the flat out most handsome son of a gun this business has ever seen! But enough about me, let's get straight to business.
A picture of Shadow shows up on the screen behind Biggs.
Biggs: Last week, Chris Cyrus and myself were on the cusp of defeating those no-good, debaucherous drunken fools known as the O'Connor Brothers, when Shadow decided to stick his nose in things and cost us the victory! The match was officially declared a no contest, but the fact remains that Shadow denied Cyrus and myself our share of the winner's purse! Shadow, you've already pissed me off with your blatant disrespect towards me, your apathy towards holding the APW Overdrive Championship, and your suckitude in general, but you've reached a new low when you start to affect my income! Now I can understand that if you are legitimately involved in a match, you're going to try and win, but when the outcome of the match doesn't personally affect you, and you knowingly and willingly deny another man his right to earn a living, well, that's just selfish! If you really wanted to get at me that badly, you could have waited until the referee counted Austin's shoulders down for the three count, and then take his cheap shot! But I guess what really irritates me the most is the fact that an honest, hard working man like myself is booed for telling the truth, when a sneaky, conniving punk like you can get away with blatant thievery, and you are cheered for it. Let's be honest here, Shadow, you know as well as I do that you and Slade do not deserve the second chance you two are getting at One Night In Hell! You know that you don't belong anywhere near the APW Overdrive Championship. But you figure that since you were giving this opportunity on a silver platter by Max Carter, you're going to take it, and do what you can to frustrate Cyrus and myself to try and up your and Slade's minuscule chance at taking the APW Overdrive and Xtreme Titles away from the Axis of Awesome. Well, let me tell you something, Shadow, while you may have gotten under my skin, and cost me a bit of a paycheck, it's going to take far more than that for you to take my APW Overdrive Championship from me!
The screen then shifts to show a picture of the eight men involved in the APW Overdrive Main Event.
Biggs: But lucky for me, I get a small chance at retribution this week, as me and my good friend, Chris Cyrus, team up with the likes of Victor Hades and the APW Heavyweight Champion of the World himself, Level-One, to take on the pathetic team of you and Slade, along with Jesse Nuñez and Pence Weatherlight. You know, this match seems quite unfair when you look at the talent on one side of the ring versus the other. I mean, on one side you have not only one of the most exciting, vicious, fastest rising new comers we've seen in some time in Victor Hades, you have a man who deserves honor and respect in Level-One, and you have the most dominant faction in APW today, The Axis of Awesome! Our team has all three of the recognized Champions here in APW, while your team consists of has-beens and never-weres. Nuñez has been on a mighty long losing streak, and has been more preoccupied with trying to keep his wife safe rather than winning a match! If he were a good husband, he'd let her stay at home. Thing is, he's probably too worried that if he leaves her by herself, she's realize how pathetic of a man she's married to, and be driven into the arms of another man in a passionate lust. Then there's Pence Weatherlight, Mr. Hypocrite himself! I don't care what you're calling yourself these days, Pence, whether it's The Reaper or Mr. Fluffington the Third, the fact remains that you go around claiming to be a paragon of virtue, but in reality, you are the most selfish man I've ever seen in this business! Let's not forget how quick you were to condemn Level-One for faking an injury leading up to your match at Test for the Best, when you were harboring a false injury yourself! It's just too bad you can't fake having any actual wrestling talent! As for the AKA, Shadow and Slade, The Axis has dealt with you two clowns enough to know exactly what to expect from the two of you! Slade, I know you enjoy the high risk style, that when it pays off, it pays big. But the problem is that you've got worse luck than a rabbit with no feet! More often than not, Slade, you're your own downfall! And Shadow, I've already said all that I need to say about you. The fact of the matter is, this Wednesday, on Overdrive, the four of you aren't walking into a wrestling match, you're walking into a freakin' genocide! You're outclassed, there's no other way around it, because my team is quite simply out of this world!
The words “Shameless Plug of the Week” flash across the video screen in the background.
Biggs: Well, we're almost out of time, so that means it's time for the “Shameless Plug of the Week!” This week, I'm plugging the Angus Bacon Cheeseburger from McDonald's! Now this is quite simply one of the best burgers I've ever had from a fast food joint, and while I can't eat them very often, I must say that they're a treat when I do. That's all the time I have for today, so until next time, keep watching the stars!
First Contact comes to a close, and the APW logo and trademark flash across the screen.
