Post by Jason Cashe on Jul 13, 2013 3:11:29 GMT -4
"Go Big or Go Home...Overdrive versus Asylum. Most people would say that is the biggest reason for this match. A showcase of the two Brands in APW. I've watched CJ Gates since I came to APW almost four years ago now and I've seen a Champion even when he doesn't have a belt around his waist. There are people who would expect me to trash Gates, it's what I do with everyone else I've ever faced but with Gates it's different. This is a Showcase. It's gonna show what can happen when two people who have risen through the ranks, fallen off, and climbed from the ashes time and time again coming together and showing people the history that WE'VE HELPED BUILD. A history that WE want to see move forward..I Can't Wait.."
So many things seem to be rebuilding as of late. Starting over, healing, removing dead weight. For Jason it's been his ribs, he hasn't had the chance to let them get better since he fell of the Phillips Arena in Atlanta. He went on to get OWNED by Michael Lively at Test for the Best and even though he beat Lively, he took the most damage. He suffered the most pain. Broken ribs, a lung almost punctured and he was forced to sit and wait, to sit and heal the wounds as much as he could.
Then he signed a new contract with APW. One that included a match offer for this Showcase match, this dream match to some even. CJ Gates was someone who like Kash has done so much for his show, his brand and to see them competing against each other only helped buyrates, it helped ticket sales but it would get the attention of not only the fans but the people, the competitors in the back. That was enough in itself to resign with the company. His ribs? They have been given their chance to heal but work...That comes Monday even if the ribs aren't at 100% he wouldn't miss this for the world...
Juan Ramirez: You need to take it easy homie, those ribs won't hold up if you abuse them..
Jason Kash: Yeah I'm thinking 4 hours of those High Flyers and Submission student was probably a dumb idea. I feel alright though, gotta get prepared. GATES!!
Sitting outside on the curb of Golden Boy Wrestling School. He'd been coming here for a few months now, it's helped him come back from some bad times. It's helped him get his focus back and with the new Season of J.A.S.O.N. having arrived, he wanted to make sure he was prepared to step up to the level needed to make this a good season.
Juan Ramirez: Start this Season you been going on about with a bang! CJ Gates? That dude is legit and you have the talent and skill to beat him. Those ribs gives him an advantage but you can still surprise people.
Jason Kash: If I lose it won't be due to these damn ribs. I won't make excuses, I'll make headlines with this one. Bout time those Overdrive guys show some balls and step into the ring with an Asylum guy. Figures it'd be the good old country boy..
Ramirez laughs and turns to see a car slowly approaching and stopping at the curb. He walks past Kash, planting a hand on his shoulder and says what he wants to say before heading back inside.
Juan Ramirez: More importantly he's a former Undisputed Champion who's beaten Level One. Someone who actually shares a few things with you..Think about it, I have to go. These are the new students coming in that car. I'll talk to you later!
Leaving Kash staring off across the street in a deep thought, he doesn't even acknowledge the two young guys coming from the car that pulled up. He can hear them and maybe they knew who he was, said his name but what Juan had said rang louder as if being yelled in his ear. He hadn't thought about the similarities between Gates and himself. He shakes off his daze and checks his Looney Tune watch on his wrist.
Jason Kash: Can't believe this chick is making me wait. Note to self, give Kaylyn a wet willy when she arrives..
Pushing to his feet he means to take a walk. After training he had showered and came outside thinking she'd already be there. He was two hours behind, stuck in Central time. Now he finds himself walking back and forth in a 15 yard line and putting thoughts together, ideas in his head, similarities that he hadn't noticed completely until now..
Jason Kash: It's not just Asylum and Overdrive. Okay that's the original purpose of this "Super Fight" or "Dream Match" for the fanboys but this is bigger than that. Why me? Why you in this position, for this match. A finale to end what has been a great show. Have you ever appeared on Meltdown before now? No, not to my recollection but there couldn't have been a better person. Look at all we've done in our own right, what we've seen on the two very different shows that APW showcases. They could have put anyone in this match, they could have given me Level One, Johnny Rebel, Nathaniel Havok cause as of late that dude has talked some shit about me.
No..You make the most sense if you really think about it Gates. We've both taken our shots, handled our business and felt at times that our star has faded in the sky that shines down on this promotion. I've been without a Title, without Competition to even CONTEND for one in how long now? Folks going around spitting rage, causing all this drama like they've lost their ever loving mind. I'm not asking for hand outs, I've earned what I get and take from this business and I've done my time to be where I'm at now. I've taken my shots and I've given them as well but now you see I'm seeing shit a bit clearer now. I see the horizon without the blur of the sun rise in my eyes.
Wiping his mouth, his pace only picks up. He glances down the road and doesn't see her car. He remembers the emotions he had when she was forced out of his life. He ended up finding remorse for enemies that he didn't know he could feel sorry for.
Jason Kash: I've kidnapped women, I've super glued people to the floor and broken into apartments to get inside someone's head and that's just with Anthony Bailey. I've shit on someone's limo just to get their attention but to think all I had to do is wait long enough and I'd get CJ Gates standing across from me inside that ring. A month ago I'd have tried tearing you apart with words, going into your broken past of the last year and gone down every bad loss you've had or shortcomings you've experienced personally. Like me, you've had troubled times. Close calls in big matches. I haven't Main Evented shit in a long while so you've got that over me but outside of that I've had my shortcomings just like you have. Hell like you, I've struggled with a heated rival. You with Level One, me with Bailey, with Jair Hopkins more recently.
You being known as a Great Champion and the same can be said about me. I held the World Title for 5 Months with Sally Talfourd on the Asylum Roster. Someone tell me that's not impressive because I'd tell you to "Conversate" with the chick and see first hand that she's a handful of not just beauty but vicious intent inside that ring. Half the men on the roster couldn't even fill the cup she uses for her imaginary manhood. That belt I had though...Now belongs to Lester Only. A man I think we both can agree needs an ass whooping..Heh..
But see it's not hard to see where we're different either. You've always been the "Good" boy and well with me you have so many layers of wrong or as I call it "Foul" in how I carried myself and with the things I did. Just my personality to be the negative, this business is about winning against competition, becoming a Hall of Famer and I won't say that about myself but you Gates..You are a sure fire Hall Of Famer! The people REALLY like you and you don't play dirty when the haters start hating, you continue doing what you preach. I respect that in all sense of the word but these people who watch Asylum, who watch my matches cheer for the things I do, the "Action" I bring to the ring.
They only Boo when I've stepped over lines, done wrong to someone on a personal level. Take Anthony Bailey as an example. I did that dude horribly each and every time we've faced each other. I'm Foul, what can I say but the fans had a right to boo me, I took that and used it to motivate me. Something I hadn't learned to do because at one time I just didn't care. Now I see my error. These fans...Without them there is no us. With nobody buying tickets, we don't have jobs in this business. What would you be if not for this business Gates? Me? I'd probably still be slanging drugs to junkies, supporting their addictions instead of realizing my own. I've been a selfish prick to seek out my own cravings and yet these people who buy the tickets and come to the shows or buy our events have an addiction as well. They crave the action that you, that I've provided for YEARS now in this promotion.
So many of us have done it big and there have been some who took their bitch asses Home cause they couldn't cut the butter and make their bread. So when I stepped in the ring at Test for the Best and felt the crowd cheering me, wanting me to comeback and win, beat Michael Lively..Life flashed before me and I seen everything in a new light. I seen my wrongs, what I had done to others, what I had done for my own self respect. Not because of how dirty or "Foul" I was in doing but because there was no remorse for the people standing around me or in the ring against me. When I get to being Foul, I leave the rules and courtesy at home Gates. Inside the ring, and when I find a reason to dislike someone...You I like, you I respect.
Now I see so many doing that same thing, being without remorse for a fallen man, a broken heart who has seen one too many defeats and need someone other than themselves to blame. I'm not blaming anyone but myself now. I know the road to redemption is filled with temptation, desires, that natural feeling you get when you're raised and bred to be one way but know it has some flaws. I wanted to be Foul as in gross, funny, toilet humored but still fight my ass off for what I represented. I felt the hate for the Foul as in evil, foul as in rude, and misguided with nothing but hate for others to lead me. Lively was Hate in a Grand Package. I was filled with that same hate with no real cause for it. My addiction to Action has helped me see that more and more since I've faced it head on.
I had plans on looking at the market, see what other Promotions I could find the Action of my Addiction at but when Jeff put a Match Contract next to my New Contract and your name was already signed accepting the showdown? The Showcase..I smiled, I couldn't help it. I knew it'd be a match not of one or two styles but a mixture of it all. A real throw down of skill inside the ring. I've prepared for nothing short of that Gates, I'm ready for a back and forth to see who grabs that smallest opening and takes advantage of it. Maybe you do go into this match as the overall favorite, betting odds should be against me Gates. As they've been every time I've faced big talent. From Rico Casteel to Sally Talfourd to Anthony Bailey at Mayhem most recently. Michael Callahan was another name I shouldn't have beaten. In the end I have won some and lost some but each of those big names...I beat them first round, I had MY HAND RAISED in the first meeting with each and everyone of them. I'm looking to "Go Big" once again..
He hears the horn sound off before he turns and sees the car pull up. Her hand sticking out of the driver's window as the car creeps to a stop. Kash nods and heads over towards the car, crosses the front of it and slaps the hood as he comes to the passenger side and opens the door. Pulling it shut as he sits into the car, he leans over and kisses Kaylyn on the lips as she leans over with a smile on her face.
Kaylyn J. Evans: How long you've been waiting?
Jason Kash: Pssh, fucking time zones. I had time to put some thoughts together though so it's all good.
Kaylyn J. Evans: Well how was your work out? You smell like Gym Shower soap.
Jason Kash: Quit smelling me, that's my thing damnit! Come here!!
He lunges at her with his nose but he makes a sound like a vampire looking for a bite. She giggles and flinches her head to the side to cover her neck.
Kaylyn J. Evans: Stop it, I'm driving weirdo!
He sits back in his seat and finally buckles up. Female drivers. He'd not dare say that but he thought it for sure. The thought of Gates was still on his mind. It was different though, he didn't think of negative things to say to the man like with most opponents or anyone before July came around. It was the start of his season, a life long curse or gift that he nor anyone could explain. Some say it was just in his head, nothing but a figment of his own imagination but that just isn't the case at all.
Jason Kash: You think The Season had anything to do with us getting back together? I mean let's face it, I've pushed you away TWICE now since we've known each other and that last time..That was greatly fucking rude.
Kaylyn J. Evans: Oh, ya think?
Trying to pull of a Redneck accent as she blurts out her smart ass comment only receives a smile on his face.
Jason Kash: I'm serious! I keep thinking about this match with Gates. I know you got a big match soon as well with Enigma but when I think about Gates the usual Kash isn't inside my head right now. Usually I'd be ripping someone apart verbally. Using my Common Folk Tongue to tell someone what I think of them, how they can't compete and lay the path to get inside their heads before the match. Right now though I'm sitting and finding respect for this man. Respect for even Bailey after all I've done to him. Whats to keep him from doing the same to me with you?
Kaylyn J. Evans: I--
Jason Kash: I know, I know. No mixing business with pleasure. If Mr. Enigma stomps your teeth out, I'm suppose to sit in the back and just watch...Don't remind me. Somethings different though. Inside my head. Since I started smoking weed again things have changed. After the emotions I found myself having after pushing you away, I found myself thinking differently.
Kaylyn J. Evans: Well hopefully that stops you from making so many stupid decisions..
Jason Kash: It's here if I want it to be or not. The Season has arrived and once again it's changed how my head works. How I think, how I see things take shape. Maybe I found a conscience after all these years but the woman in this car makes me want to be a better person. Yet I want to do such naughty things to her every time I look into her eyes.
She swats him with her free hand as he gets into venting out on the start of his changes. Last year he went from being loved to having absolute hatred for all. His crew, his girl, his experiences in that year have helped the change he's having now.
Jason Kash: I'm scolding myself for being a dick to some people. Some not all. I still have hate in my blood, but now the meaning of Foul, the base of my purpose and entertainment in this business has changed. Now I want to have fun, to find that stride I once had, that Gates and I both had that made us Champions. One of us steps closer to that Monday..I still want Action, Addiction doesn't die. I'm looking to feed...
Kaylyn J. Evans: I'm kind of hungry too, where you want to go?
Staring out the window he watches buildings and people pass like flashes as KJE turns onto an empty street. She picks up speed and the scene begins to fade with Kash trying to grasp the future that he wants and how he can achieve it.
So many things seem to be rebuilding as of late. Starting over, healing, removing dead weight. For Jason it's been his ribs, he hasn't had the chance to let them get better since he fell of the Phillips Arena in Atlanta. He went on to get OWNED by Michael Lively at Test for the Best and even though he beat Lively, he took the most damage. He suffered the most pain. Broken ribs, a lung almost punctured and he was forced to sit and wait, to sit and heal the wounds as much as he could.
Then he signed a new contract with APW. One that included a match offer for this Showcase match, this dream match to some even. CJ Gates was someone who like Kash has done so much for his show, his brand and to see them competing against each other only helped buyrates, it helped ticket sales but it would get the attention of not only the fans but the people, the competitors in the back. That was enough in itself to resign with the company. His ribs? They have been given their chance to heal but work...That comes Monday even if the ribs aren't at 100% he wouldn't miss this for the world...
Juan Ramirez: You need to take it easy homie, those ribs won't hold up if you abuse them..
Jason Kash: Yeah I'm thinking 4 hours of those High Flyers and Submission student was probably a dumb idea. I feel alright though, gotta get prepared. GATES!!
Sitting outside on the curb of Golden Boy Wrestling School. He'd been coming here for a few months now, it's helped him come back from some bad times. It's helped him get his focus back and with the new Season of J.A.S.O.N. having arrived, he wanted to make sure he was prepared to step up to the level needed to make this a good season.
Juan Ramirez: Start this Season you been going on about with a bang! CJ Gates? That dude is legit and you have the talent and skill to beat him. Those ribs gives him an advantage but you can still surprise people.
Jason Kash: If I lose it won't be due to these damn ribs. I won't make excuses, I'll make headlines with this one. Bout time those Overdrive guys show some balls and step into the ring with an Asylum guy. Figures it'd be the good old country boy..
Ramirez laughs and turns to see a car slowly approaching and stopping at the curb. He walks past Kash, planting a hand on his shoulder and says what he wants to say before heading back inside.
Juan Ramirez: More importantly he's a former Undisputed Champion who's beaten Level One. Someone who actually shares a few things with you..Think about it, I have to go. These are the new students coming in that car. I'll talk to you later!
Leaving Kash staring off across the street in a deep thought, he doesn't even acknowledge the two young guys coming from the car that pulled up. He can hear them and maybe they knew who he was, said his name but what Juan had said rang louder as if being yelled in his ear. He hadn't thought about the similarities between Gates and himself. He shakes off his daze and checks his Looney Tune watch on his wrist.
Jason Kash: Can't believe this chick is making me wait. Note to self, give Kaylyn a wet willy when she arrives..
Pushing to his feet he means to take a walk. After training he had showered and came outside thinking she'd already be there. He was two hours behind, stuck in Central time. Now he finds himself walking back and forth in a 15 yard line and putting thoughts together, ideas in his head, similarities that he hadn't noticed completely until now..
Jason Kash: It's not just Asylum and Overdrive. Okay that's the original purpose of this "Super Fight" or "Dream Match" for the fanboys but this is bigger than that. Why me? Why you in this position, for this match. A finale to end what has been a great show. Have you ever appeared on Meltdown before now? No, not to my recollection but there couldn't have been a better person. Look at all we've done in our own right, what we've seen on the two very different shows that APW showcases. They could have put anyone in this match, they could have given me Level One, Johnny Rebel, Nathaniel Havok cause as of late that dude has talked some shit about me.
No..You make the most sense if you really think about it Gates. We've both taken our shots, handled our business and felt at times that our star has faded in the sky that shines down on this promotion. I've been without a Title, without Competition to even CONTEND for one in how long now? Folks going around spitting rage, causing all this drama like they've lost their ever loving mind. I'm not asking for hand outs, I've earned what I get and take from this business and I've done my time to be where I'm at now. I've taken my shots and I've given them as well but now you see I'm seeing shit a bit clearer now. I see the horizon without the blur of the sun rise in my eyes.
Wiping his mouth, his pace only picks up. He glances down the road and doesn't see her car. He remembers the emotions he had when she was forced out of his life. He ended up finding remorse for enemies that he didn't know he could feel sorry for.
Jason Kash: I've kidnapped women, I've super glued people to the floor and broken into apartments to get inside someone's head and that's just with Anthony Bailey. I've shit on someone's limo just to get their attention but to think all I had to do is wait long enough and I'd get CJ Gates standing across from me inside that ring. A month ago I'd have tried tearing you apart with words, going into your broken past of the last year and gone down every bad loss you've had or shortcomings you've experienced personally. Like me, you've had troubled times. Close calls in big matches. I haven't Main Evented shit in a long while so you've got that over me but outside of that I've had my shortcomings just like you have. Hell like you, I've struggled with a heated rival. You with Level One, me with Bailey, with Jair Hopkins more recently.
You being known as a Great Champion and the same can be said about me. I held the World Title for 5 Months with Sally Talfourd on the Asylum Roster. Someone tell me that's not impressive because I'd tell you to "Conversate" with the chick and see first hand that she's a handful of not just beauty but vicious intent inside that ring. Half the men on the roster couldn't even fill the cup she uses for her imaginary manhood. That belt I had though...Now belongs to Lester Only. A man I think we both can agree needs an ass whooping..Heh..
But see it's not hard to see where we're different either. You've always been the "Good" boy and well with me you have so many layers of wrong or as I call it "Foul" in how I carried myself and with the things I did. Just my personality to be the negative, this business is about winning against competition, becoming a Hall of Famer and I won't say that about myself but you Gates..You are a sure fire Hall Of Famer! The people REALLY like you and you don't play dirty when the haters start hating, you continue doing what you preach. I respect that in all sense of the word but these people who watch Asylum, who watch my matches cheer for the things I do, the "Action" I bring to the ring.
They only Boo when I've stepped over lines, done wrong to someone on a personal level. Take Anthony Bailey as an example. I did that dude horribly each and every time we've faced each other. I'm Foul, what can I say but the fans had a right to boo me, I took that and used it to motivate me. Something I hadn't learned to do because at one time I just didn't care. Now I see my error. These fans...Without them there is no us. With nobody buying tickets, we don't have jobs in this business. What would you be if not for this business Gates? Me? I'd probably still be slanging drugs to junkies, supporting their addictions instead of realizing my own. I've been a selfish prick to seek out my own cravings and yet these people who buy the tickets and come to the shows or buy our events have an addiction as well. They crave the action that you, that I've provided for YEARS now in this promotion.
So many of us have done it big and there have been some who took their bitch asses Home cause they couldn't cut the butter and make their bread. So when I stepped in the ring at Test for the Best and felt the crowd cheering me, wanting me to comeback and win, beat Michael Lively..Life flashed before me and I seen everything in a new light. I seen my wrongs, what I had done to others, what I had done for my own self respect. Not because of how dirty or "Foul" I was in doing but because there was no remorse for the people standing around me or in the ring against me. When I get to being Foul, I leave the rules and courtesy at home Gates. Inside the ring, and when I find a reason to dislike someone...You I like, you I respect.
Now I see so many doing that same thing, being without remorse for a fallen man, a broken heart who has seen one too many defeats and need someone other than themselves to blame. I'm not blaming anyone but myself now. I know the road to redemption is filled with temptation, desires, that natural feeling you get when you're raised and bred to be one way but know it has some flaws. I wanted to be Foul as in gross, funny, toilet humored but still fight my ass off for what I represented. I felt the hate for the Foul as in evil, foul as in rude, and misguided with nothing but hate for others to lead me. Lively was Hate in a Grand Package. I was filled with that same hate with no real cause for it. My addiction to Action has helped me see that more and more since I've faced it head on.
I had plans on looking at the market, see what other Promotions I could find the Action of my Addiction at but when Jeff put a Match Contract next to my New Contract and your name was already signed accepting the showdown? The Showcase..I smiled, I couldn't help it. I knew it'd be a match not of one or two styles but a mixture of it all. A real throw down of skill inside the ring. I've prepared for nothing short of that Gates, I'm ready for a back and forth to see who grabs that smallest opening and takes advantage of it. Maybe you do go into this match as the overall favorite, betting odds should be against me Gates. As they've been every time I've faced big talent. From Rico Casteel to Sally Talfourd to Anthony Bailey at Mayhem most recently. Michael Callahan was another name I shouldn't have beaten. In the end I have won some and lost some but each of those big names...I beat them first round, I had MY HAND RAISED in the first meeting with each and everyone of them. I'm looking to "Go Big" once again..
He hears the horn sound off before he turns and sees the car pull up. Her hand sticking out of the driver's window as the car creeps to a stop. Kash nods and heads over towards the car, crosses the front of it and slaps the hood as he comes to the passenger side and opens the door. Pulling it shut as he sits into the car, he leans over and kisses Kaylyn on the lips as she leans over with a smile on her face.
Kaylyn J. Evans: How long you've been waiting?
Jason Kash: Pssh, fucking time zones. I had time to put some thoughts together though so it's all good.
Kaylyn J. Evans: Well how was your work out? You smell like Gym Shower soap.
Jason Kash: Quit smelling me, that's my thing damnit! Come here!!
He lunges at her with his nose but he makes a sound like a vampire looking for a bite. She giggles and flinches her head to the side to cover her neck.
Kaylyn J. Evans: Stop it, I'm driving weirdo!
He sits back in his seat and finally buckles up. Female drivers. He'd not dare say that but he thought it for sure. The thought of Gates was still on his mind. It was different though, he didn't think of negative things to say to the man like with most opponents or anyone before July came around. It was the start of his season, a life long curse or gift that he nor anyone could explain. Some say it was just in his head, nothing but a figment of his own imagination but that just isn't the case at all.
Jason Kash: You think The Season had anything to do with us getting back together? I mean let's face it, I've pushed you away TWICE now since we've known each other and that last time..That was greatly fucking rude.
Kaylyn J. Evans: Oh, ya think?
Trying to pull of a Redneck accent as she blurts out her smart ass comment only receives a smile on his face.
Jason Kash: I'm serious! I keep thinking about this match with Gates. I know you got a big match soon as well with Enigma but when I think about Gates the usual Kash isn't inside my head right now. Usually I'd be ripping someone apart verbally. Using my Common Folk Tongue to tell someone what I think of them, how they can't compete and lay the path to get inside their heads before the match. Right now though I'm sitting and finding respect for this man. Respect for even Bailey after all I've done to him. Whats to keep him from doing the same to me with you?
Kaylyn J. Evans: I--
Jason Kash: I know, I know. No mixing business with pleasure. If Mr. Enigma stomps your teeth out, I'm suppose to sit in the back and just watch...Don't remind me. Somethings different though. Inside my head. Since I started smoking weed again things have changed. After the emotions I found myself having after pushing you away, I found myself thinking differently.
Kaylyn J. Evans: Well hopefully that stops you from making so many stupid decisions..
Jason Kash: It's here if I want it to be or not. The Season has arrived and once again it's changed how my head works. How I think, how I see things take shape. Maybe I found a conscience after all these years but the woman in this car makes me want to be a better person. Yet I want to do such naughty things to her every time I look into her eyes.
She swats him with her free hand as he gets into venting out on the start of his changes. Last year he went from being loved to having absolute hatred for all. His crew, his girl, his experiences in that year have helped the change he's having now.
Jason Kash: I'm scolding myself for being a dick to some people. Some not all. I still have hate in my blood, but now the meaning of Foul, the base of my purpose and entertainment in this business has changed. Now I want to have fun, to find that stride I once had, that Gates and I both had that made us Champions. One of us steps closer to that Monday..I still want Action, Addiction doesn't die. I'm looking to feed...
Kaylyn J. Evans: I'm kind of hungry too, where you want to go?
Staring out the window he watches buildings and people pass like flashes as KJE turns onto an empty street. She picks up speed and the scene begins to fade with Kash trying to grasp the future that he wants and how he can achieve it.
