Post by Sang Réal on Jun 2, 2013 19:25:35 GMT -4
Monday Night Meltdown from Portland, Oregon has ended. The ring is being taken apart. The crew is pulling the set down. Wrestlers and announcers are packing up and getting ready to leave.::
Sang Réal, the tag team of second generation wrestlers Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown, are exiting the locker room. The two have changed out of their wrestling gear and are now in their usual suits. Murphy is wearing a black suit with a red tie. His signature gold round-framed sunglasses are tucked in his jacket. He drags a travel bag behind him. Gabriel Krown is wearing a grey suit with a black tie. He has a gym bag slung over his shoulder.::
Hannah Storm, the former wrestler turned backstage interviewer, approaches the second generation wrestlers.::
Hannah: “Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown, this past week, you were very confident that Sienna Harrison was going to name you number one contenders to the APW Tag Team Championships, but instead, she named the Natural Born Killerz. How do you feel not having the opportunity yet?”
Murphy: “Well, I suppose you could say we are not exactly thrilled that it was not us considering we came here to win the Tag Team Championships. However, we will eventually get that opportunity. I am more than confident that sooner or later, we will not only find ourselves the number one contenders, but also the APW Tag Team Champions.”
Krown: “We came here to win those belts and add to the legacies our families have by becoming the best tag team in Action Packed Wrestler. For us, it is not a matter of “if”, but “when”. Not “if” we can win the titles, but “when” we win the titles. And we will do it. Just you watch.”
The two wrestlers start to walk off. Hannah quickly turns around to catch them.
Hannah: “Just one more question.”
Murphy and Krown stop walking and turn around to face Hannah Storm.
Hannah: “Gabriel Krown, tonight it was announced that you will face Yanzel Holmes one-on-one. How do you think you will do in one-on-one competition against Holmes?”
Krown hands his gym bag to Murphy, who places it on top of the wheeled travel bag and stands the travel bag up.
Krown: “You want to know how I will do against Yanzel Holmes? That is your question? That is the mystery you are trying to solve? I like mysteries.”
Murphy shakes his head.
Murphy: “Oh no.”
The backstage interviewer looks confused at Murphy's reaction.
Hannah: “What?”
Krown: “There are many mysteries I find myself wondering about. These are not great mysteries that will change the course of human history if solved. They are just things that I find myself curious about.”
Murphy: “You had to get him stated.”
Hannah: “Started what?.”
Krown: “One mystery is how Fred’s car in The Flintstones was able to turn? I mean it is two stone cylinders on a wooden frame with two stone couch seats that had no mechanical ability to turn, and yet it does. Anyone mystery I find myself wondering about is, also from Flintstones, how did the radio and television work? There was a small bird in the remote, a critter of some sort in the camera and all the usual stuff, but how did the radio waves and television signals get sent without electricity or anything like that?”
Murphy shakes his head rubbing his forehead.
Krown: “Another is what exactly are the police doing on Scooby-Doo? They really only ever show up to arrest the costumed bad guy. But they never investigate. Is there a murderer on the loose or an arsonist or some rapist or are they looking for some missing child? What is distracting them from the guy in the costume?”
Murphy: “He goes on like this a lot.”
Krown: “And what the hell was Gotham City like before Batman? I don’t mean in the comics or animated stuff or the movies. I mean before the old Adam West and Burt Ward show. I just picture something out of the Old West with a lot of fire and people running with scissors or other stupid things.”
Murphy: “At least they are not all cartoon based. What makes it worse is they are kind of valid.”
Hannah: “I can see that.”
Krown: “But the biggest mystery I find myself wondering about is why you think, after failing as a cop and as a boxer, that you can just walking it a wrestling ring and become a star Yanzel Holmes?”
Murphy stops shaking his head and rubbing his temples, looking forward.
Murphy: “We agree on that. Even though we have instant name recognition due to being second generation wrestlers, we still had to work our way up to get to American Championship wrestling and then here to Action Packed Wrestling. No one just handed us thing.”
The brother of former world champion Noah Krown and son of Michael Krtown turns to his partner.
Krown: “Well, we were handed a few opportunities here and there. I mean, our fathers did help build this business in the late seventies and early eighties.”
The youngest son of Sheamus Murphy nods in agreement. Krown turns back to the camera.
Krown: “Yanzel, look at you. You are a quitter. When things get tough or don’t go as fast as you want, you just give up.”
Murphy: “Which is ironic considering you use a submission move. But then again, who doesn’t love irony? And it makes this match a bit more interesting as it is submission hold versus submission hold.”
Krown: “You got shot and quit being a cop in Los Angeles, which makes no sense to us. It is LA. You lived there your whole life. How could you not know if was dangerous? Forget all the regular city crime like murder, arson, gangs and other stuff that happens every day in a city. Those are things you should have known about. But then you add the other things unique to LA, thinks like earthquakes, Mexican cartels, the Triad, the Yakuza, and the mafia, which I think exists out there.”
Murphy: “It does stand to reason that they would be out there as well as any other city.”
Krown: “Exactly.”
Murphy: “The bottom line is that LA is not exactly a safe place to live.”
Krown: “Now granted it is not Detroit, which has enjoyed being the murder capital of the United States for several years, but LA does alright for itself. And even then, if you somehow managed to survive the streets of LA with no idea what goes on there and somehow missed the LA Riots, someone at the police academy STILL should have told you most of this. There is no way you went into that job without knowing.”
Murphy: “He could have been sick that day.”
Krown: “True, but you would think someone would have given him their notes or it would have come up in the review before the final or at multiple parts of the training.”
Murphy: “A valid argument to be sure. Did he assume he was living in Shambhala or did his Meemaw and Pop-pop shield him that much from the outside world?”
Krown: “Either way, he had to know criminals often carry guns and he could be shot. But apparently, the idea just slipped his mind when he was wounded.”
Murphy: “Which caused him to quit the LAPD, and that is sad. If every cop who got shot quit, there would be a lot less cops than there are now.”
Krown: “So he goes into boxing. But that is not fast enough for him. I really do not understand what he means by that. What did he think he would have one fight and then immediately be headlining at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as he challenged one of the several World Heavyweight Championships boxing seems to have? I don’t understand why he thought it was too slow? Was it just the money or what?”
Murphy: “I have to agree. Yanzel seems to fail in understanding that he needs to work at things to make a go of it. No one is just going to give him these things.”
Krown turns to face the camera. The second generation technical wrestler looks a little angry. He is not yet full blown crazy mode, but he does seem and sound upset. He also appears to look as if he is insulted.
Krown: “Do you want to know why we don’t like you Yanzel?”
Hannah Storm raises her hand.
Hannah: “I think he would, as would we all.”
Krown: “It has nothing to do with the idea that you do not “fit the image of a wrestler”. No. There are a lot of people that do not fit the image.”
Murphy: “Amy Zing comes to mind. Then again, she is hot and Asian, and I tend to go for that.”
Krown: ”Exactly. Amy Zing cannot wrestle in a conventional sense. No one is going to call her a technical wizard or the greatest flying out there. She just jumps around the ring with high risk moves and martial arts. She’s exciting to watch, but she has no wrestling technique. What she does have is a passion and a respect of this business.”
Murphy: “And a nice ass.”
Krown nods, still looking angry.
Krown: “That too.”
He pauses a moment, looking a bit confused, then shakes his head and looks back into the camera. He manages to regain that look of anger and umbrage.
Krown: “There is not perfect image of a wrestler. We come in all shapes and sizes and it dsepends on the era. Back in the early days, it was that sort of athletic, but not overly muscled look that caught one. In the eighties, it became big, tall guys who were in the weight range of like mid-two hundred to three hundred pounds. In the nineties, it started breaking away from the big guys and now wrestlers come in all shapes and sizes, from big fat guys to tiny and fast. There is not “perfect wrestler”.”
Murphy: “We only come close based on skill and genetics and good looks. This business is in our blood.”
Krown: “And it has nothing to do with race either. So you can forget that. I mean, my tag team partner is Irish. When they first came to this country, there were pretty much welcomed off the boat with a beating and thrown back on with a friendly “Get the hell out of this country and go back to your own country you filthy potato eating drunk”.”
Murphy looks at Hannah.
Murphy: “I’d be insulted, but those are the exact words someone actually said to my father Sheamus Murphy during his first US tour. A country founded by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants was not exactly the most welcoming to the Irish, or the Jews, or the Italians, or the Blacks, or the Asians or pretty much to anyone who wasn’t a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Just because I am from Atlanta, Georgia, that does not automatically make me a racist. I mean if it’s female and pretty, I don’t care what race, creed or color she is, I’m going for it.”
Hannah: “That is a bit more information than we needed.”
Krown: “No Yanzel, we do not like you because you have no respect for this business. We were born into wrestling. We were taught to respect that ring and the history of wrestling from the day we were born. This sport has risen from carnival attraction to global entertainment. In America, it is entertainment. In Japan, it is a sport. In Canada, it is a tradition. And in Mexico, it is a damn religion. To us, it is a religion. It is tradition.”
Now Murphy looks into the camera. He too seems upset and even insulted.
Murphy: “There is nothing on Earth we would rather be doing. There is no job we would rather find ourselves performing than this. This is our life. This is our heritage. This is what we are and who we are. We are not going to let some no body who thinks this is the best way to make a buck walk in here and last.”
Krown: “When we learned to crawl, we learned how to do a suplex. When we learned to stand, we learned how to lock up. When we learned to run, we learned how to shoot the ropes. When we learned how to climb, we climbed the turnbuckle. We learned things in locker rooms adults should not tell children, but that is neither here nor there. We were raised in this business. We learned in that ring since the day we could walk. Every time we lace up our boots, slip on the robe and walk to the ring, we are embracing the only thing we were born to do. This business has been providing for our families for a long time. We understand the blood, the sweat, the tears and every single sacrifice that go into making it in this business and we were taught to respect and appreciate them.”
Murphy: “We don’t even know how you got in here Yanzel. You are not a wrestler Yanzel. As far as we are concerned, you have not yet earned the right to be one. And given your track record, as hard as we are going to make this, you never will.”
Krown: “I don’t know who trained you, butt Monday Night Meltdown, you are getting a lesson. I am taking you to the learning tree where I will give you a lesson in wrestling you will not forget.”
Murphy raises and eyebrow.
Murphy: “Learning tree?”
Krown: “It sounded good in my head.”
Murphy shrugs.
Murphy: “Fair enough.”
Krown: “Yanzel, you were a lousy boxer and you are an even worse wrestler. At Monday Night Meltdown, I am going to show you what a second generation wrestler can really do. Now maybe I might be a little off or I don’t come off sounding bright, but in that ring, I am at my best. At least try and put out some effort before I get you in Checkmate. But, once I get that hold on, you are going to quit, just like you do every time things get too rough or they don’t go your way.”
Murphy: “The entire world is going to see you get put in Checkmate and tap out.”
Krown: “It’s all you know how to do. Your Meemaw, Pop-pop and your little girls are going to watch as I show you why I am the technical half of the best tag team in Action Packed Wrestling, Sang Réal. And hey, considering we are in Okland, California, maybe they can dirve up and watch you fail in person. Won't that be a lovely family outing as your kids learn what a disappointment daddy is? I think so.”
Murphy: “That’s Murphy’s Law.”
Krown: “That’s Checkmate.”
Murphy: “And we are Sang Réal.”
With that, Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown turn from Hannah Storm. Krown picks up his gym bag and slings it over his shoulder as Murphy grabs his travel bag. The two second generation wrestlers walk off. Hannah turns to the camera.
Hannah: “There you have it folks. Live from Okland, California on Monday Night Meltdown, it will be Gabriel Krown of Sang Réal against Yanzel Holmes. For APW.com, I am Hannah Storm and I will see you at Meltdown.”
The scene fades to black as Hannah signs off.
Sang Réal, the tag team of second generation wrestlers Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown, are exiting the locker room. The two have changed out of their wrestling gear and are now in their usual suits. Murphy is wearing a black suit with a red tie. His signature gold round-framed sunglasses are tucked in his jacket. He drags a travel bag behind him. Gabriel Krown is wearing a grey suit with a black tie. He has a gym bag slung over his shoulder.::
Hannah Storm, the former wrestler turned backstage interviewer, approaches the second generation wrestlers.::
Hannah: “Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown, this past week, you were very confident that Sienna Harrison was going to name you number one contenders to the APW Tag Team Championships, but instead, she named the Natural Born Killerz. How do you feel not having the opportunity yet?”
Murphy: “Well, I suppose you could say we are not exactly thrilled that it was not us considering we came here to win the Tag Team Championships. However, we will eventually get that opportunity. I am more than confident that sooner or later, we will not only find ourselves the number one contenders, but also the APW Tag Team Champions.”
Krown: “We came here to win those belts and add to the legacies our families have by becoming the best tag team in Action Packed Wrestler. For us, it is not a matter of “if”, but “when”. Not “if” we can win the titles, but “when” we win the titles. And we will do it. Just you watch.”
The two wrestlers start to walk off. Hannah quickly turns around to catch them.
Hannah: “Just one more question.”
Murphy and Krown stop walking and turn around to face Hannah Storm.
Hannah: “Gabriel Krown, tonight it was announced that you will face Yanzel Holmes one-on-one. How do you think you will do in one-on-one competition against Holmes?”
Krown hands his gym bag to Murphy, who places it on top of the wheeled travel bag and stands the travel bag up.
Krown: “You want to know how I will do against Yanzel Holmes? That is your question? That is the mystery you are trying to solve? I like mysteries.”
Murphy shakes his head.
Murphy: “Oh no.”
The backstage interviewer looks confused at Murphy's reaction.
Hannah: “What?”
Krown: “There are many mysteries I find myself wondering about. These are not great mysteries that will change the course of human history if solved. They are just things that I find myself curious about.”
Murphy: “You had to get him stated.”
Hannah: “Started what?.”
Krown: “One mystery is how Fred’s car in The Flintstones was able to turn? I mean it is two stone cylinders on a wooden frame with two stone couch seats that had no mechanical ability to turn, and yet it does. Anyone mystery I find myself wondering about is, also from Flintstones, how did the radio and television work? There was a small bird in the remote, a critter of some sort in the camera and all the usual stuff, but how did the radio waves and television signals get sent without electricity or anything like that?”
Murphy shakes his head rubbing his forehead.
Krown: “Another is what exactly are the police doing on Scooby-Doo? They really only ever show up to arrest the costumed bad guy. But they never investigate. Is there a murderer on the loose or an arsonist or some rapist or are they looking for some missing child? What is distracting them from the guy in the costume?”
Murphy: “He goes on like this a lot.”
Krown: “And what the hell was Gotham City like before Batman? I don’t mean in the comics or animated stuff or the movies. I mean before the old Adam West and Burt Ward show. I just picture something out of the Old West with a lot of fire and people running with scissors or other stupid things.”
Murphy: “At least they are not all cartoon based. What makes it worse is they are kind of valid.”
Hannah: “I can see that.”
Krown: “But the biggest mystery I find myself wondering about is why you think, after failing as a cop and as a boxer, that you can just walking it a wrestling ring and become a star Yanzel Holmes?”
Murphy stops shaking his head and rubbing his temples, looking forward.
Murphy: “We agree on that. Even though we have instant name recognition due to being second generation wrestlers, we still had to work our way up to get to American Championship wrestling and then here to Action Packed Wrestling. No one just handed us thing.”
The brother of former world champion Noah Krown and son of Michael Krtown turns to his partner.
Krown: “Well, we were handed a few opportunities here and there. I mean, our fathers did help build this business in the late seventies and early eighties.”
The youngest son of Sheamus Murphy nods in agreement. Krown turns back to the camera.
Krown: “Yanzel, look at you. You are a quitter. When things get tough or don’t go as fast as you want, you just give up.”
Murphy: “Which is ironic considering you use a submission move. But then again, who doesn’t love irony? And it makes this match a bit more interesting as it is submission hold versus submission hold.”
Krown: “You got shot and quit being a cop in Los Angeles, which makes no sense to us. It is LA. You lived there your whole life. How could you not know if was dangerous? Forget all the regular city crime like murder, arson, gangs and other stuff that happens every day in a city. Those are things you should have known about. But then you add the other things unique to LA, thinks like earthquakes, Mexican cartels, the Triad, the Yakuza, and the mafia, which I think exists out there.”
Murphy: “It does stand to reason that they would be out there as well as any other city.”
Krown: “Exactly.”
Murphy: “The bottom line is that LA is not exactly a safe place to live.”
Krown: “Now granted it is not Detroit, which has enjoyed being the murder capital of the United States for several years, but LA does alright for itself. And even then, if you somehow managed to survive the streets of LA with no idea what goes on there and somehow missed the LA Riots, someone at the police academy STILL should have told you most of this. There is no way you went into that job without knowing.”
Murphy: “He could have been sick that day.”
Krown: “True, but you would think someone would have given him their notes or it would have come up in the review before the final or at multiple parts of the training.”
Murphy: “A valid argument to be sure. Did he assume he was living in Shambhala or did his Meemaw and Pop-pop shield him that much from the outside world?”
Krown: “Either way, he had to know criminals often carry guns and he could be shot. But apparently, the idea just slipped his mind when he was wounded.”
Murphy: “Which caused him to quit the LAPD, and that is sad. If every cop who got shot quit, there would be a lot less cops than there are now.”
Krown: “So he goes into boxing. But that is not fast enough for him. I really do not understand what he means by that. What did he think he would have one fight and then immediately be headlining at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as he challenged one of the several World Heavyweight Championships boxing seems to have? I don’t understand why he thought it was too slow? Was it just the money or what?”
Murphy: “I have to agree. Yanzel seems to fail in understanding that he needs to work at things to make a go of it. No one is just going to give him these things.”
Krown turns to face the camera. The second generation technical wrestler looks a little angry. He is not yet full blown crazy mode, but he does seem and sound upset. He also appears to look as if he is insulted.
Krown: “Do you want to know why we don’t like you Yanzel?”
Hannah Storm raises her hand.
Hannah: “I think he would, as would we all.”
Krown: “It has nothing to do with the idea that you do not “fit the image of a wrestler”. No. There are a lot of people that do not fit the image.”
Murphy: “Amy Zing comes to mind. Then again, she is hot and Asian, and I tend to go for that.”
Krown: ”Exactly. Amy Zing cannot wrestle in a conventional sense. No one is going to call her a technical wizard or the greatest flying out there. She just jumps around the ring with high risk moves and martial arts. She’s exciting to watch, but she has no wrestling technique. What she does have is a passion and a respect of this business.”
Murphy: “And a nice ass.”
Krown nods, still looking angry.
Krown: “That too.”
He pauses a moment, looking a bit confused, then shakes his head and looks back into the camera. He manages to regain that look of anger and umbrage.
Krown: “There is not perfect image of a wrestler. We come in all shapes and sizes and it dsepends on the era. Back in the early days, it was that sort of athletic, but not overly muscled look that caught one. In the eighties, it became big, tall guys who were in the weight range of like mid-two hundred to three hundred pounds. In the nineties, it started breaking away from the big guys and now wrestlers come in all shapes and sizes, from big fat guys to tiny and fast. There is not “perfect wrestler”.”
Murphy: “We only come close based on skill and genetics and good looks. This business is in our blood.”
Krown: “And it has nothing to do with race either. So you can forget that. I mean, my tag team partner is Irish. When they first came to this country, there were pretty much welcomed off the boat with a beating and thrown back on with a friendly “Get the hell out of this country and go back to your own country you filthy potato eating drunk”.”
Murphy looks at Hannah.
Murphy: “I’d be insulted, but those are the exact words someone actually said to my father Sheamus Murphy during his first US tour. A country founded by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants was not exactly the most welcoming to the Irish, or the Jews, or the Italians, or the Blacks, or the Asians or pretty much to anyone who wasn’t a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Just because I am from Atlanta, Georgia, that does not automatically make me a racist. I mean if it’s female and pretty, I don’t care what race, creed or color she is, I’m going for it.”
Hannah: “That is a bit more information than we needed.”
Krown: “No Yanzel, we do not like you because you have no respect for this business. We were born into wrestling. We were taught to respect that ring and the history of wrestling from the day we were born. This sport has risen from carnival attraction to global entertainment. In America, it is entertainment. In Japan, it is a sport. In Canada, it is a tradition. And in Mexico, it is a damn religion. To us, it is a religion. It is tradition.”
Now Murphy looks into the camera. He too seems upset and even insulted.
Murphy: “There is nothing on Earth we would rather be doing. There is no job we would rather find ourselves performing than this. This is our life. This is our heritage. This is what we are and who we are. We are not going to let some no body who thinks this is the best way to make a buck walk in here and last.”
Krown: “When we learned to crawl, we learned how to do a suplex. When we learned to stand, we learned how to lock up. When we learned to run, we learned how to shoot the ropes. When we learned how to climb, we climbed the turnbuckle. We learned things in locker rooms adults should not tell children, but that is neither here nor there. We were raised in this business. We learned in that ring since the day we could walk. Every time we lace up our boots, slip on the robe and walk to the ring, we are embracing the only thing we were born to do. This business has been providing for our families for a long time. We understand the blood, the sweat, the tears and every single sacrifice that go into making it in this business and we were taught to respect and appreciate them.”
Murphy: “We don’t even know how you got in here Yanzel. You are not a wrestler Yanzel. As far as we are concerned, you have not yet earned the right to be one. And given your track record, as hard as we are going to make this, you never will.”
Krown: “I don’t know who trained you, butt Monday Night Meltdown, you are getting a lesson. I am taking you to the learning tree where I will give you a lesson in wrestling you will not forget.”
Murphy raises and eyebrow.
Murphy: “Learning tree?”
Krown: “It sounded good in my head.”
Murphy shrugs.
Murphy: “Fair enough.”
Krown: “Yanzel, you were a lousy boxer and you are an even worse wrestler. At Monday Night Meltdown, I am going to show you what a second generation wrestler can really do. Now maybe I might be a little off or I don’t come off sounding bright, but in that ring, I am at my best. At least try and put out some effort before I get you in Checkmate. But, once I get that hold on, you are going to quit, just like you do every time things get too rough or they don’t go your way.”
Murphy: “The entire world is going to see you get put in Checkmate and tap out.”
Krown: “It’s all you know how to do. Your Meemaw, Pop-pop and your little girls are going to watch as I show you why I am the technical half of the best tag team in Action Packed Wrestling, Sang Réal. And hey, considering we are in Okland, California, maybe they can dirve up and watch you fail in person. Won't that be a lovely family outing as your kids learn what a disappointment daddy is? I think so.”
Murphy: “That’s Murphy’s Law.”
Krown: “That’s Checkmate.”
Murphy: “And we are Sang Réal.”
With that, Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown turn from Hannah Storm. Krown picks up his gym bag and slings it over his shoulder as Murphy grabs his travel bag. The two second generation wrestlers walk off. Hannah turns to the camera.
Hannah: “There you have it folks. Live from Okland, California on Monday Night Meltdown, it will be Gabriel Krown of Sang Réal against Yanzel Holmes. For APW.com, I am Hannah Storm and I will see you at Meltdown.”
The scene fades to black as Hannah signs off.
