Post by eddied on May 20, 2022 5:29:25 GMT -5
(Eddie D is backstage with Sir Arthur Torchwood for an interview. Eddie looks in good spirits even with the prospect of a huge triple threat match looming in the main event. Sir Arthur introduces himself and Eddie gives him a hearty handshake.)
EDDIE: Great to meet you Art.
TORCHWOOD: I prefer Sir Arthur...
EDDIE: I'm sure you do. We don't have knights where I come from, because joisting is frowned upon in California for the most part. You'll always be Art to me Sir Arthur, but I'll call you by whatever pronouns you prefer kimosabe.
TORCHWOOD: Well... The Good Guy Eddie D, ex-SWAT World Champion about to embark on another chance to be World Champion in a new Fed, in what must be the twilight years of your career... How does that feel?
EDDIE: It feels great... it feels like I am in exactly the right place at the right time... but what's with the twilight years stuff?
TORCHWOOD: Come now Eddie... Let's not be coy about your age and the length of your career. You wrestled in the EIWF in the late 90's...
EDDIE: I was forgetting that you're a bit of a swat for this stuff. Well hell, maybe you can settle something for me. As an honest to goodness knight of the realm you're meant to be objective and true in your deeds and pronouncements right?
TORCHWOOD: I endeavour to be honest of course...
EDDIE: Then settle this for me... Are any of the Feds that have joined together to make Wrestle:UK objectively better than any of the others? Looking at buy-rates, fan base, hits on social media, crowd numbers at events, and contribution to the industry... Can you hand on heart say that any of them were better than SWAT?
TORCHWOOD: Well I do like to keep abreast of the stats and take a keen interest in wrestling history. I would go so far to say that I'm an authority on the subject. legacy is what this federation seems to be founding itself upon, so is partly why I got the job I feel...
EDDIE: So, my old Fed, that put food in my ample belly and roof over my head, is taking flak left, right and centre when I know what the numbers looked like too. I saw the crowds. I entertained them with plenty of stars that would have headlined in any other Fed. But I want you to say it. In your learned opinion how did SWAT rank amongst the best?
TORCHWOOD: The PPVs did great numbers in all the Federations that make up this new Federation. SWAT didn't close because it was doing bad business. Production team changes and Office troubles aside, it was snapped up and merged here at Wrestle:UK because it was seen as a viable asset to Mr Blood and here we all are. There's nothing on paper to split the old Fed's really. They all had their peaks and lows in the ratings, but I personally don't see any of the wrestlers here as superior or inferior based on what Fed they just came from.
EDDIE: Well there you have it ladies and gents. This guy knows his stuff, is sworn to honesty through his bonds to knightly orders and he can't call who the best was... So why my worthy opponents seem so confident in their superiority based only on the tin pot Fed they just got poured out of, I can't understand their arrogance. We're all here as a fresh start. Trying to bring a breath of fresh air to the UK wrestling scene and all I smell is a rotten stinking attitude.
TORCHWOOD: Well talking of legacy and history it seems that Billy Fowler is unimpressed, to say the least, in your underestimation of his place in wrestling history and his longstanding...
EDDIE: Fowler says that I don't know who the Basterds were, what they stood for and how great they were... He says I don't know how great he was and that I am therefore unenlightened and am disrespecting him... That's cry-baby bullshit of the tallest order. The world doesn't owe you a friend request. No one has to look you up. No one has to care about you. You earn that by doing something special. By putting on a show I would like to tune into and watch. You didn't. That's why you're pratting about in Leeds tonight like I am instead of wrestling at The Garden. That's why you're only a legend in your own deluded little mind. You're a goon Fowler. No matter how you cut it up you're a big lumbering goon and I'm gonna stomp you out like that low down stooge you are. I am Main Event Eddie. And tonight I'm gonna show you why that is. The only triple threat you have to worry about is diabetes, fatty liver disease and angina you old duffer. Go back to a happy retirement.
TORCHWOOD: Didn't you step out of retirement to start your career in SWAT just a few years ago...
EDDIE: No one needs to hear about that Art. Damn it Sir Arthur, I was on a roll there. A few years ago I was doing OK financially, The Double D club was doing great business, I left my last Fed under a cloud and I lost the hunger for wrestling. SWAT made me a money deal I couldn't refuse and I am really glad they gave me this part of my life back. I think I have proved over the last 3 years that the wrestling industry was missing something without me in it and I am glad I came back to play my part in making wrestling entertaining and fiscally viable again. XHF, CWA, W:UK all loved that Eddie D was on their books and I am going from strength to strength.
TORCHWOOD: Well Eddie Havok seems particularly pleased with the way that he has you obsessing over his words. After his slight that you were a big fish in a small pond, do you feel that you’ve allowed this to upset your focus ahead of this match up?
EDDIE: Havok is just as bad as Fowler when it come to the world owing him a like and subscribe, but at least he’s not resting quite so comfily on his laurels as Billy boy is. Don't you just hate the C list celebrities pushing to the front of the queue and then when someone steps up to them it's all "Do you know who I am?!" Get the fuck over yourself and don't get crushed under the weight of your own overinflated ego.
Yeah… As stinging jabs go… He got my attention with that “little pond” bull crap, but now he’s gone rogue and off the grid with it. Frostbite was a great wrestler and just because you rolled him up and tugged on his tights in some humdrum Fed somewhere that makes SWAT crap? I hated Frostbite for all the right reasons and he earned every ounce of that hate.
Donzig was SWAT. Goth was SWAT. You want to step in the ring with those two animals and see how your “SWAT was shit” arrogance will taste afterwards.
What the fuck am I saying… You step in the ring with me tonight… so I WILL SHOW YOU what disrespecting SWAT tastes like. For you, it will come with the bitter aftertaste of defeat.
TORCHWOOD: Well I could talk to you all day Eddie, but I'm sure you have to get prepared for your encounter.
EDDIE: It's been a pleasure. Coming to England has clearly given me a dose of culture, because I'm now a big "Art" fan. (Eddie gives Sir Arthur a nudge with his elbow and offers up a big cheesy grin.)
TORCHWOOD: I see what you did there... And as I said before... I prefer Sir Arthur...
EDDIE: Of course you do... See you ringside... Adios amigos.
(Eddie D smiles one last time for the camera and tosses the mic. over his left shoulder and walks out of shot chuckling to himself as the scene fades to black.)