Post by biggs on Jun 10, 2009 16:44:14 GMT -4
The camera is set on a quaint house in a Seattle neighborhood. It is a white house with blue trim, and the yard is very well maintained. The front door opens as Biggs steps out to grab his morning newspaper. He is dressed in a dark blue bathrobe with blue pajama pants and Garfield slippers. As Biggs reaches down for his paper, he notices the camera.
Biggs: Hey! What the heck are you doing here!? Turn that camera off!
Biggs has an angry look on his face as he makes his way to towards the cameraman. The cameraman shuts it off.
***
A church building in the Queen Anne neighborhood is shown. It’s a turn of the century building with almost baroque architecture. The bronze roof has greened with age, and there’s a beautiful courtyard filled with several plants. Service is just getting out as Biggs emerges from the building, talking with some of his friends. They’re chatting away as one of Biggs’ friends notices the camera, and points it out to Biggs. Biggs has an exasperated look on his face as he walks towards the cameraman. The cameraman flicks a switch on the camera that shuts off the video as Biggs walks towards him. However, audio is still being recorded.
Biggs: Seriously, what the heck is going on here!? You showed up on my front step this morning, and now you show up to my church! Since we’re at a church, I’m going to try my best to be civil, but I do not appreciate you following me around. It’s an invasion of privacy, and if I catch you again, I will press charges!
Cameraman: It’s off, man! It’s off! I’m just doing my job here!
Biggs: Who do you work for? TMZ? Another one of those cheesy tabloid shows?
Cameraman: No! I don’t work for those sleazeballs!
Biggs: Listen, I don’t care who you work for, you go back and tell them that they are not to have you or any other cameraman under their employ film me, you got that?
Cameraman: Why don’t you go and tell them yourself! You work for them!
Biggs: You’ve got to be kidding me! APW sent you out here!? What kind of screwy….wait, what’s that red light flashing on the camera for? You told me you turned it off, you lying sack of scum! Get out of here now!
Some rustling is heard before the audio is cut off.
***
President Jeff is sitting at his desk in his office, doing some paperwork. There’s a knock at the door.
President Jeff: (Without looking up) Come in.
Biggs walks into the office with a perturbed look across his face. President Jeff looks up.
President Jeff: What can I do for you?
Biggs: We’ve got to talk! This past Sunday, I stepped out onto my porch to get my Sunday newspaper, only to be greeted by an APW Cameraman! I told him to leave, which he complied with, but later, after I left church, the sleazebag was right out there waiting for me again! Now I don’t know what kind of screwy operation you guys are trying to run here, but I do know that when I signed a contract to work for Action Packed Wrestling, it was to be a wrestler, not some reality TV star! My private life is just that, private, and I’ve talked with my lawyer about this. He says I am well within my rights to sue this company for breach of contract!
President Jeff: Now let’s not be hasty here. Let me be the first to apologize for the unprofessional conduct of the cameraman. Once you requested for him to leave you alone, he should have. I honestly had no idea that this was going on. It probably was Max Carter that authorized this. As the President of APW, let me assure you that it won’t happen again, and that we will do everything in our power to make it right!
Biggs: I appreciate you gestures, but that doesn’t change the fact that it already happened! I to see you destroy that footage, and make sure that its never aired, because it would be damaging to the character I am trying to portray. If I was some goody two-shoes face, it might work, but heels don’t wear Garfield slippers, and they most certainly don’t go to church! I am a completely different man than the character I portray in the APW ring, and I like it that way.
President Jeff: Well, why don’t we turn you face then, if it’s more natural for you.
Biggs: Not going to happen, at least not now. I enjoy being a heel, because it allows me to do things and act in ways that I normally would not be able to. It allows me to exercise the flat out rotten parts of who I am in a way that is not only acceptable, but also entertaining. The reason I can be such a good man outside of the ring is because I can be such a bad one in the ring. Now what are you going to do to make this right?
President Jeff: Well, for one, that cameraman is fired. Secondly, I will talk with Max Carter and remind him that while he is the General Manager of Overdrive, I am the president of APW, and that his decisions must be cleared through me. Thirdly, the footage will be destroyed, and never aired, and any further filming of you outside of APW shows will only be pursued with your explicit permission. Finally, you will be entered in the Test 4 The Best tournament, in which the winner will receive an APW Heavyweight Championship title match at our summer PPV extravaganza! You’re an extremely great talent, Biggs, and I would hate for APW to lose your services. I’ll do everything in my power to make sure that you’re taken care of.
Biggs: I appreciate that. Thank you for your time, I’m now off to prepare for my match against Jason Royce.
President Jeff: Best of luck in your match.
***
Shane West is in the back with Biggs.
Shane: Biggs, tonight, you face off against Jason Royce. Now both you and Royce are looking to rebound from pay per view losses last night, so really, tonight is a must win for both of you tonight!
Biggs snatches the mic from Shane, and adjusts his shades before speaking.
Biggs: Shane, how dare you imply that my match tonight is a “must win” match, because in actuality, each and every match I wrestle is a must win for me. To say any less would infer that I don't care about my career. That is far, far from the truth. But before I get to my match with Royce later tonight, I wanted to say something to the APW as a whole, and more specifically, Shadow. You see, at Mayhem, Shadow said a few things in the commentary booth that I took exception to. He said I was a young upstart who was trying to make a name for myself. The fact of the matter is that I'm not trying to make a name for myself, I already have. However, just because I wasn't an EWC wrestler, nor did I become a superstar here, my legacy, my reputation has been largely ignored. The wrestlers have seemingly dismissed me, and that's a very dangerous thing to do with an athlete of my calibur! Now I don't expect the casual fans to know that much about me, but when the men whom I compete with don't take the time realize who they're facing, well, that just smacks of laziness and apathy.
Shane tries to get the mic back, but Biggs pulls it away from him, and shoves him away. Biggs continues to speak.
Biggs: But that's not the only thing that bothers me about what Shadow had to say at the pay per view. You see, he said that my match was between the weakest of the weak, and quite frankly, I am insulted. So Shadow, I'll give you an opportunity to see how “weak” I really am, as I am challenging you to a non-title match on next weeks' Overdrive! Believe me, it's not about your title, because I could care less about that trinket you carry over your shoulder. My goals lie higher, namely the APW Heavyweight Championship, but I do want to prove you wrong! So if you have the guts, if you have the nerve, I implore you to take me up on my challenge!
The crowd boos Biggs.
Biggs: Now onto you Royce, again, I refer to my previous point that I have largely been ignored in my time in APW, and your little spiel tonight only further confirmed this. You said, and I quote, “you are nothing but a want to be who has gotten very lucky since coming to the APW.” Obviously you have failed to notice that the only victory I've gotten since I got here was in my house show debut match. But since you haven't been paying attention, Jason Royce, much like no one else here does anyways, you have no idea what to expect when you stand in that ring with me later tonight! I don't care that you headlined Mayhem, you are not a better wrestler than me! You say that I have yet to step in the ring with an wrestler the calibur of yourself, Jason Royce, and you're completely right, I haven't ever stepped in the ring with somebody as uneducated and ignorant as yourself! I will use your lack of focus against you, and claim victory. Tonight will be my night, the night where I finally get the elusive first win of my career here in APW, and get my legacy back on track, and there's nothing you can do about it!
Biggs pauses, and shoves Shane West out of the way again.
Biggs: On the topic of the upcoming Test 4 the Best tournament to determine the #1 Contender for Pence's APW Heavyweight Championship, I will use this tournament as my springboard to the top here. After I win the tournament, the wrestlers, the fans, and the adminstartion here will have no choice but to recognize me as the single greatest wrestler alive today, which I am. You all can say that I'm nothing but hype, nothing but talk, but at the end of the day, I will prove my point in the ring, where there is no bias, where winners and losers are determined objectively, where one man's skill overcomes another's. Tonight is the first step in me proving that I am what I say that I am, and that is out of this world!
Biggs drops the mic and walks off camera as Shane stumbles into view, going down to pick up the mic. As Shane is bent over, Biggs comes back and gives him a swift kick to the butt, sending Shane down to ground.
***
(Note) The edit that was made to the post was making the cameraman's text green instead of purple, because it was unreadible on the black background.
Biggs: Hey! What the heck are you doing here!? Turn that camera off!
Biggs has an angry look on his face as he makes his way to towards the cameraman. The cameraman shuts it off.
***
A church building in the Queen Anne neighborhood is shown. It’s a turn of the century building with almost baroque architecture. The bronze roof has greened with age, and there’s a beautiful courtyard filled with several plants. Service is just getting out as Biggs emerges from the building, talking with some of his friends. They’re chatting away as one of Biggs’ friends notices the camera, and points it out to Biggs. Biggs has an exasperated look on his face as he walks towards the cameraman. The cameraman flicks a switch on the camera that shuts off the video as Biggs walks towards him. However, audio is still being recorded.
Biggs: Seriously, what the heck is going on here!? You showed up on my front step this morning, and now you show up to my church! Since we’re at a church, I’m going to try my best to be civil, but I do not appreciate you following me around. It’s an invasion of privacy, and if I catch you again, I will press charges!
Cameraman: It’s off, man! It’s off! I’m just doing my job here!
Biggs: Who do you work for? TMZ? Another one of those cheesy tabloid shows?
Cameraman: No! I don’t work for those sleazeballs!
Biggs: Listen, I don’t care who you work for, you go back and tell them that they are not to have you or any other cameraman under their employ film me, you got that?
Cameraman: Why don’t you go and tell them yourself! You work for them!
Biggs: You’ve got to be kidding me! APW sent you out here!? What kind of screwy….wait, what’s that red light flashing on the camera for? You told me you turned it off, you lying sack of scum! Get out of here now!
Some rustling is heard before the audio is cut off.
***
President Jeff is sitting at his desk in his office, doing some paperwork. There’s a knock at the door.
President Jeff: (Without looking up) Come in.
Biggs walks into the office with a perturbed look across his face. President Jeff looks up.
President Jeff: What can I do for you?
Biggs: We’ve got to talk! This past Sunday, I stepped out onto my porch to get my Sunday newspaper, only to be greeted by an APW Cameraman! I told him to leave, which he complied with, but later, after I left church, the sleazebag was right out there waiting for me again! Now I don’t know what kind of screwy operation you guys are trying to run here, but I do know that when I signed a contract to work for Action Packed Wrestling, it was to be a wrestler, not some reality TV star! My private life is just that, private, and I’ve talked with my lawyer about this. He says I am well within my rights to sue this company for breach of contract!
President Jeff: Now let’s not be hasty here. Let me be the first to apologize for the unprofessional conduct of the cameraman. Once you requested for him to leave you alone, he should have. I honestly had no idea that this was going on. It probably was Max Carter that authorized this. As the President of APW, let me assure you that it won’t happen again, and that we will do everything in our power to make it right!
Biggs: I appreciate you gestures, but that doesn’t change the fact that it already happened! I to see you destroy that footage, and make sure that its never aired, because it would be damaging to the character I am trying to portray. If I was some goody two-shoes face, it might work, but heels don’t wear Garfield slippers, and they most certainly don’t go to church! I am a completely different man than the character I portray in the APW ring, and I like it that way.
President Jeff: Well, why don’t we turn you face then, if it’s more natural for you.
Biggs: Not going to happen, at least not now. I enjoy being a heel, because it allows me to do things and act in ways that I normally would not be able to. It allows me to exercise the flat out rotten parts of who I am in a way that is not only acceptable, but also entertaining. The reason I can be such a good man outside of the ring is because I can be such a bad one in the ring. Now what are you going to do to make this right?
President Jeff: Well, for one, that cameraman is fired. Secondly, I will talk with Max Carter and remind him that while he is the General Manager of Overdrive, I am the president of APW, and that his decisions must be cleared through me. Thirdly, the footage will be destroyed, and never aired, and any further filming of you outside of APW shows will only be pursued with your explicit permission. Finally, you will be entered in the Test 4 The Best tournament, in which the winner will receive an APW Heavyweight Championship title match at our summer PPV extravaganza! You’re an extremely great talent, Biggs, and I would hate for APW to lose your services. I’ll do everything in my power to make sure that you’re taken care of.
Biggs: I appreciate that. Thank you for your time, I’m now off to prepare for my match against Jason Royce.
President Jeff: Best of luck in your match.
***
Shane West is in the back with Biggs.
Shane: Biggs, tonight, you face off against Jason Royce. Now both you and Royce are looking to rebound from pay per view losses last night, so really, tonight is a must win for both of you tonight!
Biggs snatches the mic from Shane, and adjusts his shades before speaking.
Biggs: Shane, how dare you imply that my match tonight is a “must win” match, because in actuality, each and every match I wrestle is a must win for me. To say any less would infer that I don't care about my career. That is far, far from the truth. But before I get to my match with Royce later tonight, I wanted to say something to the APW as a whole, and more specifically, Shadow. You see, at Mayhem, Shadow said a few things in the commentary booth that I took exception to. He said I was a young upstart who was trying to make a name for myself. The fact of the matter is that I'm not trying to make a name for myself, I already have. However, just because I wasn't an EWC wrestler, nor did I become a superstar here, my legacy, my reputation has been largely ignored. The wrestlers have seemingly dismissed me, and that's a very dangerous thing to do with an athlete of my calibur! Now I don't expect the casual fans to know that much about me, but when the men whom I compete with don't take the time realize who they're facing, well, that just smacks of laziness and apathy.
Shane tries to get the mic back, but Biggs pulls it away from him, and shoves him away. Biggs continues to speak.
Biggs: But that's not the only thing that bothers me about what Shadow had to say at the pay per view. You see, he said that my match was between the weakest of the weak, and quite frankly, I am insulted. So Shadow, I'll give you an opportunity to see how “weak” I really am, as I am challenging you to a non-title match on next weeks' Overdrive! Believe me, it's not about your title, because I could care less about that trinket you carry over your shoulder. My goals lie higher, namely the APW Heavyweight Championship, but I do want to prove you wrong! So if you have the guts, if you have the nerve, I implore you to take me up on my challenge!
The crowd boos Biggs.
Biggs: Now onto you Royce, again, I refer to my previous point that I have largely been ignored in my time in APW, and your little spiel tonight only further confirmed this. You said, and I quote, “you are nothing but a want to be who has gotten very lucky since coming to the APW.” Obviously you have failed to notice that the only victory I've gotten since I got here was in my house show debut match. But since you haven't been paying attention, Jason Royce, much like no one else here does anyways, you have no idea what to expect when you stand in that ring with me later tonight! I don't care that you headlined Mayhem, you are not a better wrestler than me! You say that I have yet to step in the ring with an wrestler the calibur of yourself, Jason Royce, and you're completely right, I haven't ever stepped in the ring with somebody as uneducated and ignorant as yourself! I will use your lack of focus against you, and claim victory. Tonight will be my night, the night where I finally get the elusive first win of my career here in APW, and get my legacy back on track, and there's nothing you can do about it!
Biggs pauses, and shoves Shane West out of the way again.
Biggs: On the topic of the upcoming Test 4 the Best tournament to determine the #1 Contender for Pence's APW Heavyweight Championship, I will use this tournament as my springboard to the top here. After I win the tournament, the wrestlers, the fans, and the adminstartion here will have no choice but to recognize me as the single greatest wrestler alive today, which I am. You all can say that I'm nothing but hype, nothing but talk, but at the end of the day, I will prove my point in the ring, where there is no bias, where winners and losers are determined objectively, where one man's skill overcomes another's. Tonight is the first step in me proving that I am what I say that I am, and that is out of this world!
Biggs drops the mic and walks off camera as Shane stumbles into view, going down to pick up the mic. As Shane is bent over, Biggs comes back and gives him a swift kick to the butt, sending Shane down to ground.
***
(Note) The edit that was made to the post was making the cameraman's text green instead of purple, because it was unreadible on the black background.
