Post by Cross Recoba on Oct 19, 2024 14:05:46 GMT -5
Marco di Fiore: You could grab a glass of coke anywhere in London. Why this place?
AJ Shankz: Come on, fam. This is home, it’s round the corner from a place to train, and it’s got proper atmosphere…
Marco di Fiore: But here?
Marco knew the suggestion was pointless, but The George was loud, dingy, and had a framed photo of the late Queen Elizabeth above the bar.
AJ Shankz: Bruv, I’m not drinking and after bare time in the States, I just want what I know!
Shankz gritted his teeth as he expressed his wishes.
Marco looked around the pub and knew the dangers of a place like this. AJ was his charge, an almost protege, he saw the trap that he needed to steer Shankz away from.
Marco di Fiore: I get that, mate, but finish that and we’ll get productive about this whole match.
The cameras cut as they walk down a street. In the background, a building with a painted-over but still visible sign for ‘The Cubitt Arms’ slowly fades further out of sight much like its existence in the community's memory. Surviving two World Wars, the Spanish Flu, and the creation of Canary Wharf; what did the Cubitt Arms in was the smoking ban and a changing environment that saw pubs not as community assets but as tracts of valuable property.
Marco di Fiore: You listen to the people in that pub, they’ll tell you its an easy victory but they’re going to judge you on being one of them and Psychotic Goth on being…well, not someone they’d have a pint with!
AJ Shankz: Are you going to give me some clapped waffle on how Goth’s had longer losing streaks than man’s been in the ring?
Marco di Fiore: Not as such, but that’s worth remembering.
AJ Shankz: I swear down, if you make me watch his promo and his matches again I’m gonna be vexed, fam! Man walking here actually beat an X*Crown Champion when we took those SCCW titles from Price and Spike! Wasteman wants to say he came close to the title when he’s the one who got pinned at Supremacy is peak, bruv! Then when he got a shot with the big man, Donzig, he choked! He’s all gas, cuz! This whole match is calm, Marco, I’ll pattern a ting when that bell goes. I’m what he should fear, not the other way around, that’s mad, still!
Marco di Fiore: It was Blood’s decision to put you in this match, AJ. I’d have been happy getting you a low-key match and working up to it but when he put this match on the table, I wasn’t going to pull you out of it. But Goth’s dangerous, don’t you dare forget that. He might have lost to Donzig but he made Cage tap out, he beat Gavin Drake and to get to this match - he beat Sinclair Godfrey. Until Donzig beat him, he was undefeated since June and that was to Lord Dominicus. You’re going to have to face reality, AJ….you’re the underdog.
They turn left as they enter the Greenwich Foot Tunnel that goes under the Thames from the Isle of Dogs to the mainland.
AJ Shankz: You saying it’s time to cut? You do that!
Marco di Fiore: You’re not getting this, AJ. I’m saying that you can’t go into the match believing that Goth’s over the hill or that you’re guaranteed the win. He’s going to make you work for everything you have in the match. You got caught against Brayden Duncan a few days ago because when you reversed his rana into a powerbomb, you didn’t commit and when he did the same thing to you, you didn’t have an answer to escape like he did.
AJ Shankz: Duncan was DTF Champ,bruv!
Marco di Fiore: And that was in a company of rookies, you’re not facing greenhorns now - you’ve got to take down a bonafide veteran of the game. He’s going to know moves and escapes you’ve not seen yet.
AJ Shankz: Listen, I ain’t got time to be parred by you or listen to him chat shit about me. Here’s the real talk about this ting - I know I ain’t going to get no vibe off the crowd. I know they’re going to look at me and look at Goth and work out who’s most likely to win but man here isn’t letting that be the end of the matter. When I got the million P’s in DTF, I knew I wasn’t the favourite. I knew I wasn’t their goldenballs choice but I went out and won the match! When we faced Chaos Theory, we upset the odds because EVERY. SINGLE. TIME that man gets put in some big man ting match I STEP UP!
The words echo as they exit the tunnel.
AJ Shankz: What does Goth do? He choked against Donzig for the X*Crown title, he choked in the four-way at Dominion, and he choked in Melbourne against Drake! See man here? Big man ting! That other guy? This match is gonna be long for him, innit! That bell rings and this man’s wetting up Goth! You think mans peeped his matches and not seen that his Torture Rack just makes the Peng Driver easier, fam! I got so many ways to bun that Mickey Mouse, washed, pussole? At the end of the day, man’s gonna move in this match and take the Commonwealth belt back to the actual Commonwealth! I’m gassed but I’m not hyping too big! I see what man can do but I got bare ways to take the W back to the mandem, I got bare ways to take the goon down, AJ! He can come to London and talk about going down Camden Market but I’m leaving him with an Edgeware Road Smile, bruv!
The O2 Arena stands before them.
Marco di Fiore: There it is.
AJ Shankz: This is gonna be RUDE, FAM!
AJ Shankz: Come on, fam. This is home, it’s round the corner from a place to train, and it’s got proper atmosphere…
Marco di Fiore: But here?
Marco knew the suggestion was pointless, but The George was loud, dingy, and had a framed photo of the late Queen Elizabeth above the bar.
AJ Shankz: Bruv, I’m not drinking and after bare time in the States, I just want what I know!
Shankz gritted his teeth as he expressed his wishes.
Marco looked around the pub and knew the dangers of a place like this. AJ was his charge, an almost protege, he saw the trap that he needed to steer Shankz away from.
Marco di Fiore: I get that, mate, but finish that and we’ll get productive about this whole match.
The cameras cut as they walk down a street. In the background, a building with a painted-over but still visible sign for ‘The Cubitt Arms’ slowly fades further out of sight much like its existence in the community's memory. Surviving two World Wars, the Spanish Flu, and the creation of Canary Wharf; what did the Cubitt Arms in was the smoking ban and a changing environment that saw pubs not as community assets but as tracts of valuable property.
Marco di Fiore: You listen to the people in that pub, they’ll tell you its an easy victory but they’re going to judge you on being one of them and Psychotic Goth on being…well, not someone they’d have a pint with!
AJ Shankz: Are you going to give me some clapped waffle on how Goth’s had longer losing streaks than man’s been in the ring?
Marco di Fiore: Not as such, but that’s worth remembering.
AJ Shankz: I swear down, if you make me watch his promo and his matches again I’m gonna be vexed, fam! Man walking here actually beat an X*Crown Champion when we took those SCCW titles from Price and Spike! Wasteman wants to say he came close to the title when he’s the one who got pinned at Supremacy is peak, bruv! Then when he got a shot with the big man, Donzig, he choked! He’s all gas, cuz! This whole match is calm, Marco, I’ll pattern a ting when that bell goes. I’m what he should fear, not the other way around, that’s mad, still!
Marco di Fiore: It was Blood’s decision to put you in this match, AJ. I’d have been happy getting you a low-key match and working up to it but when he put this match on the table, I wasn’t going to pull you out of it. But Goth’s dangerous, don’t you dare forget that. He might have lost to Donzig but he made Cage tap out, he beat Gavin Drake and to get to this match - he beat Sinclair Godfrey. Until Donzig beat him, he was undefeated since June and that was to Lord Dominicus. You’re going to have to face reality, AJ….you’re the underdog.
They turn left as they enter the Greenwich Foot Tunnel that goes under the Thames from the Isle of Dogs to the mainland.
AJ Shankz: You saying it’s time to cut? You do that!
Marco di Fiore: You’re not getting this, AJ. I’m saying that you can’t go into the match believing that Goth’s over the hill or that you’re guaranteed the win. He’s going to make you work for everything you have in the match. You got caught against Brayden Duncan a few days ago because when you reversed his rana into a powerbomb, you didn’t commit and when he did the same thing to you, you didn’t have an answer to escape like he did.
AJ Shankz: Duncan was DTF Champ,bruv!
Marco di Fiore: And that was in a company of rookies, you’re not facing greenhorns now - you’ve got to take down a bonafide veteran of the game. He’s going to know moves and escapes you’ve not seen yet.
AJ Shankz: Listen, I ain’t got time to be parred by you or listen to him chat shit about me. Here’s the real talk about this ting - I know I ain’t going to get no vibe off the crowd. I know they’re going to look at me and look at Goth and work out who’s most likely to win but man here isn’t letting that be the end of the matter. When I got the million P’s in DTF, I knew I wasn’t the favourite. I knew I wasn’t their goldenballs choice but I went out and won the match! When we faced Chaos Theory, we upset the odds because EVERY. SINGLE. TIME that man gets put in some big man ting match I STEP UP!
The words echo as they exit the tunnel.
AJ Shankz: What does Goth do? He choked against Donzig for the X*Crown title, he choked in the four-way at Dominion, and he choked in Melbourne against Drake! See man here? Big man ting! That other guy? This match is gonna be long for him, innit! That bell rings and this man’s wetting up Goth! You think mans peeped his matches and not seen that his Torture Rack just makes the Peng Driver easier, fam! I got so many ways to bun that Mickey Mouse, washed, pussole? At the end of the day, man’s gonna move in this match and take the Commonwealth belt back to the actual Commonwealth! I’m gassed but I’m not hyping too big! I see what man can do but I got bare ways to take the W back to the mandem, I got bare ways to take the goon down, AJ! He can come to London and talk about going down Camden Market but I’m leaving him with an Edgeware Road Smile, bruv!
The O2 Arena stands before them.
Marco di Fiore: There it is.
AJ Shankz: This is gonna be RUDE, FAM!
