06-25-2019, 11:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2019, 12:06 AM by Rick Young.
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Taking Hold of the Flame, didn’t go as Minka Pressler wanted it to go, but then again it didn’t go the way that thirty eight other people wanted it to go either. Needless to say she wasn’t too broken up by the fact that she was left off the last two shows, because it gave her some time to regroup her thoughts. However, when she got the tentative line up for the next show she was going to be on she had to take a spit take.
She could get over the fact that she was placed in match with a walking dildo, but she couldn’t believe what she was seeing. The team of Kandis and Tommy Valentine, the very team that Chance of Pain beat in their last tag team match up. They were getting a tag team title match against Redemption before Chance of Pain. Normally, Minka wouldn’t get worked up over such a thing, but to her it seems that Kandis is getting “gifted” title shots she doesn’t deserve. Minka thinks back to the elimination chamber match… the last match that Chance of Pain has had to deal with the tag team titles. Since Taking Hold of the Flame saw the Truelove Twins (another team that was given more shots than one team deserved) go down in flames. Minka thought that maybe, just maybe that they would finally get their shot at the gold.
They were just coming off a victory in tag team action against Kandis and Valentine, but more importantly… they had history with one half of the tag team champions. There was a story to tell there, but out of the blue the losers of their match get a title shot before them. Something wasn’t right about that. Minka picked up her phone and feverishly texted Samantha who was probably sleeping at the moment given the fact that later tonight she was finally having her singles match against Andrew Raynes.
Sent: 06/19/19 7:30am.
Can you believe it? That whore and has been are getting a tag title shot before us. We beat them!
Minka knew that she was right, but she couldn’t stop thinking about it. As it’s been quite a while since the last time that she was in a title match. She’s had the tag contenders match up, but outside of that the only other chance she’s had was nearly a year ago when she took on AJ Helms for a chance at the Television title. She didn’t want to stop and think that maybe she was starting to care a little too much about becoming a champion, but at the same time it’s been more than good while that she held a championship. She just might be starting to develop a case of gold fever.
Sent: 06/19/19 7:33am.
I know.
Minka could only scoff at her friend’s reply, but she knew that she was right about the situation. Defeated she tossed her phone down on to the couch in her living room. She was more than likely end up tearing the house up later to find it, but for now that was a fine place for it. She walked in to the kitchen and poured her a cup of her freshly brewed tea. She had never been much of a tea drinker, because quite frankly it wasn’t her cup of tea. However, in the last couple of months since she’s started trying to ground herself more she’s taken to it with the help of Luke Dallas.
He’s done a fantastic job of remodeling the barn slash gym by himself to where Minka is almost certain that the job he was on when her grandfather passed away was either a construction or carpenter job, because he’s definitely get the skills to do either one of them. He’s also become a very close friend in the short time that they have known one another, but if you were to ask Ashe she’d swear up and down that the renter and a land lord were having very personal bank deposits between the two of them for the rent.
With the cup of tea in her hand, she exited the kitchen, walked down the hallway a little bit and found herself in the room that she’s turned into her personal study. It’s where she goes to unwind, but at the same time where she goes to research her opponents. Right now she just really wanted to forget about this week’s Breakdown for a little bit. So she sat down at her desk that held a brand new HP Pavilion Desktop Intent Core i5 with: custom 12 gigabytes of memory, a 1 terabyte hard drive plus a 128GB Solid State Drive. It was really something to marvel at, but more importantly it was one of the few luxuries that Minka has spoiled herself with since finally having a decent place to call home.
She just sits there for several moments sipping her tea trying to decide what to do. She despite the fact that it might remind her of her opponent decides she’s going to watch Spider-man: Far From Home on her computer. She places the cup of tea down on the desk and opens open FireFox on her computer after turning on the monitor. She then clicks on her favorites tab and finds the link to her favorite torrent site. Once the page is loaded she looks for and finds a link to one of the uploads for the movie claiming to have the best visual and audio quality.
She was going to be the judge of that, but after she clicked on the link she had to wait for the movie to download. As if someone upstairs was looking out for her a notification popped up on her screen that Mike OxBig had posted a new podcast. The Mike OxBig show wasn’t the most original name in the world nor was it the greatest podcast either. However, Minka listened to it from time to time, because OxBig was the color commentator partner to Dan “Heywood” Jablowme’s play by play for the XWL.
‘The Mike OxBig Show’ was a weekly pro wrestling podcast taped and then uploaded to the internet by… you guessed it, Mike OxBig. The description on the page reads: Mike OxBig is not only a legendary color commentator and former wrestling manager, but he is one of the business’ most outspoken minds and mouths, hitting you with his big Ox and blunt and uncensored take on Professional wrestling.
Minka just looked at the page for a few moments with the hundreds of previous shows listed in front of her. However, she was on a mission to find the latest one. After scrolling down the page a far bit she finally finds the newest addition to the site. After she picks up her cup of tea with her left hand she uses her right hand to click the mouse to click on the link. The page changed slightly to show a picture of a cartoon caricature of OxBig along with his co-host Ben Dover along with the show’s number and title of the episode which is “What the Hell?!”
“Hello again everybody and welcome to another edition of The Mike OxBig show. I’m Mike “The girl’s marvel at my size when I’m between their thighs” OxBig. With me as always my partner in the crime… Ben Dover!” Bellowed OxBig’s voice from the speakers of the computer. Minka reclined a little bit in her computer chair as she took another sip of her tea.
“Aloha Ox, and hello to everyone on this new insufferable episode of the Mike OxBig show. Where Howard Stern and Don Imus have nothing on this host that’s the grossest! What’cha eating tonight, Ox?” Ben Dover, once upon a time was a referee for the XWL, but due to a serious back injury he suffered while being brutalized by Michael and Josh Stevens he can no longer perform those duties.
“I’ve got myself a Oreo and M&M Blizzard from Dairy Queen.” Minka could only scowl at the screen, because now thanks to OxBig she wanted one. She placed her cup down on to the desk again and started to pat around her clothing trying to find her phone. She could text Luke to see if he could pick her up one before he comes back from the hardware store, but she can’t for the life of her find or remember where she left her phone.
“Dairy Queen, eh?” Ben wasn’t the biggest fan of anything that wasn’t healthy. So the fact that his boss was sitting in front of him eating something like that didn’t sit well with him. Minka was on the verge of tuning out of the podcast as she continued to look for her phone.
“I love plowing through her drive thru.” Hearing OxBig say something like that is more than every podcast thing. Minka knew that wasn’t the kind of man he is in real life thanks to her dad working with him in the XWL and AWA, but he loved playing the perverted outlaw character.
“Of course you do,” Minka could just see Ben rolling his eyes at the comment, because he’s always been straight laced. From there and in between bites of his Blizzard, OxBig would take the next few minutes to preview the episode before getting to the subject at hand. Which was the reason why Minka was particularly interested in this podcast compared to the others.
“-now, I’m sure you all know my feelings over years on the subject of Supreme Championship Wrestling and their particular brand of plain Jane wrestling.” Minka just had to shake her head a little bit at that board stroke that he was trying to paint the SCW in, because really SCW wasn’t as plain Jane as he was trying to make it. However, in terms of what he is comparing it to… she couldn’t argue too much about it. “Where’s Rick Young craving up some pregnant lady’s stomach? Or how about when he ripped that teen model with foot fetish toe nails with needle nose pliers? Where’s the pillaging and raping? And my favorite, when Chris Pressler was sucked off by a baby and he exploded…”
OxBig didn’t get a chance to finish the sentence before he was interrupted by Dover shocked and an octave higher voice clamoring: “Whoa, whoa, whoa. WHAT?” Dover had been a referee through most of the things that were mentioned, but that one… was before his time. Minka nearly spit her tea out over her computer upon hearing OxBig bring it up and she knew the whole story behind it. Not the controversial sound bite of click bait goodness that he was trying to make it in to. Minka was about to look for her phone again to call OxBig to give him a piece of her mind for doing that to her dad. She’s hoped that he was going to explain it before moving on. “I’m sorry, but I don’t think that I quite heard that right.”
“You’ve never heard about that?” OxBig paused, as he was probably shoving more of the Blizzard down his mouth. Minka just sat there sipping her tea still hoping that he was going to give more context to what he is talking about. Minka was still really too young to really all the details of the edition of Sunday Night Extreme that they are talking about.
“Ah… no. You’re kidding right, right? Seriously no company would allow something like that to happen!” Which for the most part Minka had to agree with Ben on that. There probably will never be a company that will ever allow something like that in the way that has currently been hyped up as to have happened.
“No, I mean it… just not in the literal sense.” Minka could swear she could hear him smirking behind the microphone in the moment.
“You ass! You really had me thinking that a criminal act on a child had taken place.” Ben’s outrage was genuine from what Minka could hear in his voice as she knew that many of OxBig’s listeners were probably in the same boat. Minka wasn’t too happy about it, but she could appreciate it… a little bit, because at that point in her father’s career that was the biggest storyline he had been in at the moment.
“Let me explain before the pitchforks are brought out.” OxBig said, before he’s interrupted by a sound bite from one of the many monster movies that have had scene where the town’s villagers are hunting down the monster with their torches and pitchforks. Which it was obvious in the moment to Minka that Ben was one that played the bite, because when it quiet and OxBig could speak again he sounded a little pissed at his co-host. “At the times Vampires were the hot ticket item. Pressler along with Ryan Singer were ‘vampires’ along with a couple other douches, but more importantly along with Tyra Burke and Josh Stevens who was going as La Magra at the time.”
“Actually, that’s starting to sound familiar… maybe I have heard of it before.” Dover had to really stop and think about it in the moment. It was possible he had blocked it from his memory because of the connection to one of the men took his lively hood away from him. Not to mention the fact that after the incident that they are talking about… Minka’s father was the laughing stock of the locker room and was even fired from the company, because he ruined the illusion of the characters they were trying to bring to life.
“Burke and La Magra, had just given “magically” birth to their daughter after a week pregnancy. Already, you can see where this going…” He paused again to eat a couple more bites of his dessert. “So the idea was for this baby to “feed” off Pressler or suck his blood if you will and then by the next show be an eighteen year old indy wrestler who was to debut, because XWL was cheap stakes and couldn’t find “filler” fill ins to age the baby slower… they wanted it all in one go.”
“I have a feeling that this ended badly.” Ben said, and he didn’t have the foggiest clue of how it ended.
“Badly doesn’t do it justice… it was a shit storm.” OxBig bellowed, with a hearty laugh, but Minka didn’t find any of it funny, because for the longest time her father couldn’t find work as a serious wrestler. “We had the FCC on our backs over it, but the worse part was the storyline was ruined. Singer and Pressler were supposed to be the kid’s bodyguard and doing one of the skits the kid is to bite Pressler’s thumb to suck his blood. To make that happen without it seeming to be forced… Pressler dipped his finger in to some milk that was hidden in the crib to trick the baby into thinking that it was her mother’s tit.”
“That’s not too bad. I mean you made it seem a million times worse.” Dover was right it was like apple and oranges compared to how he was hyping it up as.
“HOWEVER, what we didn’t know at the time was that Pressler was suffering from diarrhea and had to go to the bath room when we were filming. We also didn’t know that the kid was teething at the time.” You could pause the podcast at that every moment and have a pretty good mental image of what happened. “So everything was going according to plan till all of the sudden the kid decides to actually bite Pressler. Pressler freaked out and how do you put it…”
“Shit hit the fan?” Dover interjected before he played another sound bite and the best way to put it. It sounded like shit hitting a fan. However, when the clip ended there was a ‘moment of silence’ on the podcast as OxBig had to catch his breath between laughing too hard and shoveling down another couple spoonful’s of his Blizzard while the taping continued. Minka took another sip from her tea as she was glad that he told a much truer account of the event, but she wished that he didn’t have to mock her father so much.
“That’s the kind of shit that I like, but that’s not SCW. They focus more on the competition than over the top gimmicks like that. So I’m a little shocked at their recent decision on who they want to be challenging for the tag titles.” Minka’s ears perked back up a little bit, because she couldn’t believe that he was having the same feelings about the tag team title match that she was.
“Really? I thought you would be all over it like white on rice.” Ben quipped, and Minka had to admit that she was wondering the same thing.
“Normally, I’d be all for the Mary Sues of all T.H.O.T.s or twitter hoe over there for you Simon Limens out there. They lost to Chance of Pain a team that has been in the tag team division for months. The Jackass and Big Ass Connection are barely infants in the tag team division… hell they are more akin to the swimmers I rubbed out looking at Kandis’ last twitter post.” There is a momentarily a pause as the sound effect of someone saying “EWWW” cuts in to the podcast. Minka definitely had to agree, because she didn’t like the visual that she was just given by OxBig. “However, that’s not the thing that I’m upset about. Crissy Gardner, the daughter of the man I just made revisit one of the shittiest times of his career. Along with her partner, Samantha Raine, who should be in the tag title match is getting wasted in a throw a way match.”
“How do you figure? She’s on the card for the show isn’t she?” By Dover’s logical Minka knew that she should be happy to have a match on the show. However, she just couldn’t help but side with OxBig that her talent is being wasted in the match that she was given.
“Normally I’d have no problem with her opponent because it’s the kind of shit that I like, but the SCW is about competition and I feel that he doesn’t belong on the roster.” Colored Minka a little impressed that OxBig is going against something he normally loves. “Crissy, has done some crazy shit in the past. I mean she murdered someone in selfdefense, but you can’t deny her talent. So who do you think her opponent is?”
“Giovanni Aries?” Minka raised an eyebrow at the thought of going one on one with The Savior of Wonderland. It be different… hell it would be better than her current opponent.
“Fuck no. Besides, I don’t know what the fuck Giovanni has done with himself, but he comes off as a Dr. Seuss Villain… if Dr. Seuss had villains.” Minka chuckled a little bit at that one.
“So okay, who is it?” The impatient of the co-host was palpable and probably for the fans that don’t actively follow the SCW. However, Minka didn’t need to know who her opponent is, because she already knew his name.
“It’s another one that debuted during Taking hold of the flame. I love the guy, but he probably has the worst fucking gimmick ever possible for a serious company like SCW. Some putz by the name of Zero.” The podcast is broken up by a little more silence as OxBig eats more of his frozen treat. “Just by looking at him… I say he’s an average wrestler, butt ugly because he hides behind a mask, that can’t make up his fucking mind if he’s Megaman’s sidekick, which ever Marvel hero he’s supposed to look like DareSpiderPoolman, or if he’s the main character from the video game INFAMOUS.”
“That’s harsh… even coming from you. I think you mean Daredevil, Spiderman, and Deadpool.” Minka had to agree.
“You can’t make this shit up.” Minka had to disagree, because someone made this shit up. “He’s a career mid-carder at best in EMERGE and is at best enhancement talent on the main roster.”
“Maybe that is why they have having him wrestle Crissy? Have you through of that?” Point noted to Ben on that one, because even she didn’t think of that as a possibility. However, having a match against someone to just make you look good when you could be a in a title match are two different things. Minka took another sip of her tea and then looked in to cup to see that it was just about empty. She’s down to the last couple sips as she could sear she could her the very disconcerting sound of OxBig cramming more of his Blizzard in to his mouth. However, her attention is taken away from the podcast as she hears the front door open and close.
“Minka, I’m back.” Luke’s voice carried through the house easily, because he just had one of those very masculine deep voices that traveled far. For a moment it caused Minka to sit up a little straighter to pause the podcast for a moment.
“I’m in the study.” As she then resumed the podcast. It was funny, after Blake she wasn’t looking for a new relationship, but Luke kind of just fell in her lap so to say and while they aren’t official by any sense of the word… it feels like it might be something.
“You better not be watching Far from Home! You promised we’d see it in the theaters.” Luke yelled, and Minka could only mentally cry out ‘shit’ as she swiveled around to check the room to make sure he wasn’t lurking behind her. Once she was sure that she was in the clear as she whistled casually and trying to be cool, she took the mouse to the right of the keyboard and moved the cursor over the FireFox tab for her torrent site and then to her download. Two windows appeared. She deftly ‘X’d out the window on the right and the box with the potentially offending website disappeared- just as Luke walked into the study. Luke was wearing a black t-shirt with Metallica written across the front of it, a pair of black running shorts, and his favorite pair of NIKEs.
“Get everything you need?” Luke just cast a skeptical, inquisitive glance towards Minka as if his intuition somehow knew she’d been up to something.
“Yeah I Did.” Luke just nodded, but the conversation was interrupted when the conversation on the podcast got a little more intense.
“If there is a God. If there is truly justice in this world. Crissy Gardner will knock this punk’s block off and send him back into the obscurity he deserves so SCW will never, EVER, have to talk about him and his WORST FUCKING GIMMICK EVER IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING EVER AG- AAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHH!” Hearing OxBig scream in pain like that reminded of her Jablowmen’s heartache.
“Ox?” Dover called out as both Luke and Minka wondered what was going on.
“AW, FUCK!” The sound of someone banging his head on a counter could be heard through the speakers. “BRRRRRAIN FREEEEEEEZE! AARRRRRGGHHHHHH!
At that point Minka finally heard enough and clicked on the ‘X’ and the You Tube site disappeared from her computer screen.
She could get over the fact that she was placed in match with a walking dildo, but she couldn’t believe what she was seeing. The team of Kandis and Tommy Valentine, the very team that Chance of Pain beat in their last tag team match up. They were getting a tag team title match against Redemption before Chance of Pain. Normally, Minka wouldn’t get worked up over such a thing, but to her it seems that Kandis is getting “gifted” title shots she doesn’t deserve. Minka thinks back to the elimination chamber match… the last match that Chance of Pain has had to deal with the tag team titles. Since Taking Hold of the Flame saw the Truelove Twins (another team that was given more shots than one team deserved) go down in flames. Minka thought that maybe, just maybe that they would finally get their shot at the gold.
They were just coming off a victory in tag team action against Kandis and Valentine, but more importantly… they had history with one half of the tag team champions. There was a story to tell there, but out of the blue the losers of their match get a title shot before them. Something wasn’t right about that. Minka picked up her phone and feverishly texted Samantha who was probably sleeping at the moment given the fact that later tonight she was finally having her singles match against Andrew Raynes.
Sent: 06/19/19 7:30am.
Can you believe it? That whore and has been are getting a tag title shot before us. We beat them!
Received: 06/19/19 7:32am.
Minka, calm down everything happens for a reason.
Minka, calm down everything happens for a reason.
Minka knew that she was right, but she couldn’t stop thinking about it. As it’s been quite a while since the last time that she was in a title match. She’s had the tag contenders match up, but outside of that the only other chance she’s had was nearly a year ago when she took on AJ Helms for a chance at the Television title. She didn’t want to stop and think that maybe she was starting to care a little too much about becoming a champion, but at the same time it’s been more than good while that she held a championship. She just might be starting to develop a case of gold fever.
Sent: 06/19/19 7:33am.
I know.
Received: 06/19/19 7:40am.
Everything is going to work out how it is intended to. Besides they are probably getting the shot to make up for Tommy getting taken out of the battle royal and because of Kandis’ performance in it.
Everything is going to work out how it is intended to. Besides they are probably getting the shot to make up for Tommy getting taken out of the battle royal and because of Kandis’ performance in it.
Minka could only scoff at her friend’s reply, but she knew that she was right about the situation. Defeated she tossed her phone down on to the couch in her living room. She was more than likely end up tearing the house up later to find it, but for now that was a fine place for it. She walked in to the kitchen and poured her a cup of her freshly brewed tea. She had never been much of a tea drinker, because quite frankly it wasn’t her cup of tea. However, in the last couple of months since she’s started trying to ground herself more she’s taken to it with the help of Luke Dallas.
He’s done a fantastic job of remodeling the barn slash gym by himself to where Minka is almost certain that the job he was on when her grandfather passed away was either a construction or carpenter job, because he’s definitely get the skills to do either one of them. He’s also become a very close friend in the short time that they have known one another, but if you were to ask Ashe she’d swear up and down that the renter and a land lord were having very personal bank deposits between the two of them for the rent.
With the cup of tea in her hand, she exited the kitchen, walked down the hallway a little bit and found herself in the room that she’s turned into her personal study. It’s where she goes to unwind, but at the same time where she goes to research her opponents. Right now she just really wanted to forget about this week’s Breakdown for a little bit. So she sat down at her desk that held a brand new HP Pavilion Desktop Intent Core i5 with: custom 12 gigabytes of memory, a 1 terabyte hard drive plus a 128GB Solid State Drive. It was really something to marvel at, but more importantly it was one of the few luxuries that Minka has spoiled herself with since finally having a decent place to call home.
She just sits there for several moments sipping her tea trying to decide what to do. She despite the fact that it might remind her of her opponent decides she’s going to watch Spider-man: Far From Home on her computer. She places the cup of tea down on the desk and opens open FireFox on her computer after turning on the monitor. She then clicks on her favorites tab and finds the link to her favorite torrent site. Once the page is loaded she looks for and finds a link to one of the uploads for the movie claiming to have the best visual and audio quality.
She was going to be the judge of that, but after she clicked on the link she had to wait for the movie to download. As if someone upstairs was looking out for her a notification popped up on her screen that Mike OxBig had posted a new podcast. The Mike OxBig show wasn’t the most original name in the world nor was it the greatest podcast either. However, Minka listened to it from time to time, because OxBig was the color commentator partner to Dan “Heywood” Jablowme’s play by play for the XWL.
‘The Mike OxBig Show’ was a weekly pro wrestling podcast taped and then uploaded to the internet by… you guessed it, Mike OxBig. The description on the page reads: Mike OxBig is not only a legendary color commentator and former wrestling manager, but he is one of the business’ most outspoken minds and mouths, hitting you with his big Ox and blunt and uncensored take on Professional wrestling.
Minka just looked at the page for a few moments with the hundreds of previous shows listed in front of her. However, she was on a mission to find the latest one. After scrolling down the page a far bit she finally finds the newest addition to the site. After she picks up her cup of tea with her left hand she uses her right hand to click the mouse to click on the link. The page changed slightly to show a picture of a cartoon caricature of OxBig along with his co-host Ben Dover along with the show’s number and title of the episode which is “What the Hell?!”
“Hello again everybody and welcome to another edition of The Mike OxBig show. I’m Mike “The girl’s marvel at my size when I’m between their thighs” OxBig. With me as always my partner in the crime… Ben Dover!” Bellowed OxBig’s voice from the speakers of the computer. Minka reclined a little bit in her computer chair as she took another sip of her tea.
“Aloha Ox, and hello to everyone on this new insufferable episode of the Mike OxBig show. Where Howard Stern and Don Imus have nothing on this host that’s the grossest! What’cha eating tonight, Ox?” Ben Dover, once upon a time was a referee for the XWL, but due to a serious back injury he suffered while being brutalized by Michael and Josh Stevens he can no longer perform those duties.
“I’ve got myself a Oreo and M&M Blizzard from Dairy Queen.” Minka could only scowl at the screen, because now thanks to OxBig she wanted one. She placed her cup down on to the desk again and started to pat around her clothing trying to find her phone. She could text Luke to see if he could pick her up one before he comes back from the hardware store, but she can’t for the life of her find or remember where she left her phone.
“Dairy Queen, eh?” Ben wasn’t the biggest fan of anything that wasn’t healthy. So the fact that his boss was sitting in front of him eating something like that didn’t sit well with him. Minka was on the verge of tuning out of the podcast as she continued to look for her phone.
“I love plowing through her drive thru.” Hearing OxBig say something like that is more than every podcast thing. Minka knew that wasn’t the kind of man he is in real life thanks to her dad working with him in the XWL and AWA, but he loved playing the perverted outlaw character.
“Of course you do,” Minka could just see Ben rolling his eyes at the comment, because he’s always been straight laced. From there and in between bites of his Blizzard, OxBig would take the next few minutes to preview the episode before getting to the subject at hand. Which was the reason why Minka was particularly interested in this podcast compared to the others.
“-now, I’m sure you all know my feelings over years on the subject of Supreme Championship Wrestling and their particular brand of plain Jane wrestling.” Minka just had to shake her head a little bit at that board stroke that he was trying to paint the SCW in, because really SCW wasn’t as plain Jane as he was trying to make it. However, in terms of what he is comparing it to… she couldn’t argue too much about it. “Where’s Rick Young craving up some pregnant lady’s stomach? Or how about when he ripped that teen model with foot fetish toe nails with needle nose pliers? Where’s the pillaging and raping? And my favorite, when Chris Pressler was sucked off by a baby and he exploded…”
OxBig didn’t get a chance to finish the sentence before he was interrupted by Dover shocked and an octave higher voice clamoring: “Whoa, whoa, whoa. WHAT?” Dover had been a referee through most of the things that were mentioned, but that one… was before his time. Minka nearly spit her tea out over her computer upon hearing OxBig bring it up and she knew the whole story behind it. Not the controversial sound bite of click bait goodness that he was trying to make it in to. Minka was about to look for her phone again to call OxBig to give him a piece of her mind for doing that to her dad. She’s hoped that he was going to explain it before moving on. “I’m sorry, but I don’t think that I quite heard that right.”
“You’ve never heard about that?” OxBig paused, as he was probably shoving more of the Blizzard down his mouth. Minka just sat there sipping her tea still hoping that he was going to give more context to what he is talking about. Minka was still really too young to really all the details of the edition of Sunday Night Extreme that they are talking about.
“Ah… no. You’re kidding right, right? Seriously no company would allow something like that to happen!” Which for the most part Minka had to agree with Ben on that. There probably will never be a company that will ever allow something like that in the way that has currently been hyped up as to have happened.
“No, I mean it… just not in the literal sense.” Minka could swear she could hear him smirking behind the microphone in the moment.
“You ass! You really had me thinking that a criminal act on a child had taken place.” Ben’s outrage was genuine from what Minka could hear in his voice as she knew that many of OxBig’s listeners were probably in the same boat. Minka wasn’t too happy about it, but she could appreciate it… a little bit, because at that point in her father’s career that was the biggest storyline he had been in at the moment.
“Let me explain before the pitchforks are brought out.” OxBig said, before he’s interrupted by a sound bite from one of the many monster movies that have had scene where the town’s villagers are hunting down the monster with their torches and pitchforks. Which it was obvious in the moment to Minka that Ben was one that played the bite, because when it quiet and OxBig could speak again he sounded a little pissed at his co-host. “At the times Vampires were the hot ticket item. Pressler along with Ryan Singer were ‘vampires’ along with a couple other douches, but more importantly along with Tyra Burke and Josh Stevens who was going as La Magra at the time.”
“Actually, that’s starting to sound familiar… maybe I have heard of it before.” Dover had to really stop and think about it in the moment. It was possible he had blocked it from his memory because of the connection to one of the men took his lively hood away from him. Not to mention the fact that after the incident that they are talking about… Minka’s father was the laughing stock of the locker room and was even fired from the company, because he ruined the illusion of the characters they were trying to bring to life.
“Burke and La Magra, had just given “magically” birth to their daughter after a week pregnancy. Already, you can see where this going…” He paused again to eat a couple more bites of his dessert. “So the idea was for this baby to “feed” off Pressler or suck his blood if you will and then by the next show be an eighteen year old indy wrestler who was to debut, because XWL was cheap stakes and couldn’t find “filler” fill ins to age the baby slower… they wanted it all in one go.”
“I have a feeling that this ended badly.” Ben said, and he didn’t have the foggiest clue of how it ended.
“Badly doesn’t do it justice… it was a shit storm.” OxBig bellowed, with a hearty laugh, but Minka didn’t find any of it funny, because for the longest time her father couldn’t find work as a serious wrestler. “We had the FCC on our backs over it, but the worse part was the storyline was ruined. Singer and Pressler were supposed to be the kid’s bodyguard and doing one of the skits the kid is to bite Pressler’s thumb to suck his blood. To make that happen without it seeming to be forced… Pressler dipped his finger in to some milk that was hidden in the crib to trick the baby into thinking that it was her mother’s tit.”
“That’s not too bad. I mean you made it seem a million times worse.” Dover was right it was like apple and oranges compared to how he was hyping it up as.
“HOWEVER, what we didn’t know at the time was that Pressler was suffering from diarrhea and had to go to the bath room when we were filming. We also didn’t know that the kid was teething at the time.” You could pause the podcast at that every moment and have a pretty good mental image of what happened. “So everything was going according to plan till all of the sudden the kid decides to actually bite Pressler. Pressler freaked out and how do you put it…”
“Shit hit the fan?” Dover interjected before he played another sound bite and the best way to put it. It sounded like shit hitting a fan. However, when the clip ended there was a ‘moment of silence’ on the podcast as OxBig had to catch his breath between laughing too hard and shoveling down another couple spoonful’s of his Blizzard while the taping continued. Minka took another sip from her tea as she was glad that he told a much truer account of the event, but she wished that he didn’t have to mock her father so much.
“That’s the kind of shit that I like, but that’s not SCW. They focus more on the competition than over the top gimmicks like that. So I’m a little shocked at their recent decision on who they want to be challenging for the tag titles.” Minka’s ears perked back up a little bit, because she couldn’t believe that he was having the same feelings about the tag team title match that she was.
“Really? I thought you would be all over it like white on rice.” Ben quipped, and Minka had to admit that she was wondering the same thing.
“Normally, I’d be all for the Mary Sues of all T.H.O.T.s or twitter hoe over there for you Simon Limens out there. They lost to Chance of Pain a team that has been in the tag team division for months. The Jackass and Big Ass Connection are barely infants in the tag team division… hell they are more akin to the swimmers I rubbed out looking at Kandis’ last twitter post.” There is a momentarily a pause as the sound effect of someone saying “EWWW” cuts in to the podcast. Minka definitely had to agree, because she didn’t like the visual that she was just given by OxBig. “However, that’s not the thing that I’m upset about. Crissy Gardner, the daughter of the man I just made revisit one of the shittiest times of his career. Along with her partner, Samantha Raine, who should be in the tag title match is getting wasted in a throw a way match.”
“How do you figure? She’s on the card for the show isn’t she?” By Dover’s logical Minka knew that she should be happy to have a match on the show. However, she just couldn’t help but side with OxBig that her talent is being wasted in the match that she was given.
“Normally I’d have no problem with her opponent because it’s the kind of shit that I like, but the SCW is about competition and I feel that he doesn’t belong on the roster.” Colored Minka a little impressed that OxBig is going against something he normally loves. “Crissy, has done some crazy shit in the past. I mean she murdered someone in selfdefense, but you can’t deny her talent. So who do you think her opponent is?”
“Giovanni Aries?” Minka raised an eyebrow at the thought of going one on one with The Savior of Wonderland. It be different… hell it would be better than her current opponent.
“Fuck no. Besides, I don’t know what the fuck Giovanni has done with himself, but he comes off as a Dr. Seuss Villain… if Dr. Seuss had villains.” Minka chuckled a little bit at that one.
“So okay, who is it?” The impatient of the co-host was palpable and probably for the fans that don’t actively follow the SCW. However, Minka didn’t need to know who her opponent is, because she already knew his name.
“It’s another one that debuted during Taking hold of the flame. I love the guy, but he probably has the worst fucking gimmick ever possible for a serious company like SCW. Some putz by the name of Zero.” The podcast is broken up by a little more silence as OxBig eats more of his frozen treat. “Just by looking at him… I say he’s an average wrestler, butt ugly because he hides behind a mask, that can’t make up his fucking mind if he’s Megaman’s sidekick, which ever Marvel hero he’s supposed to look like DareSpiderPoolman, or if he’s the main character from the video game INFAMOUS.”
“That’s harsh… even coming from you. I think you mean Daredevil, Spiderman, and Deadpool.” Minka had to agree.
“You can’t make this shit up.” Minka had to disagree, because someone made this shit up. “He’s a career mid-carder at best in EMERGE and is at best enhancement talent on the main roster.”
“Maybe that is why they have having him wrestle Crissy? Have you through of that?” Point noted to Ben on that one, because even she didn’t think of that as a possibility. However, having a match against someone to just make you look good when you could be a in a title match are two different things. Minka took another sip of her tea and then looked in to cup to see that it was just about empty. She’s down to the last couple sips as she could sear she could her the very disconcerting sound of OxBig cramming more of his Blizzard in to his mouth. However, her attention is taken away from the podcast as she hears the front door open and close.
“Minka, I’m back.” Luke’s voice carried through the house easily, because he just had one of those very masculine deep voices that traveled far. For a moment it caused Minka to sit up a little straighter to pause the podcast for a moment.
“I’m in the study.” As she then resumed the podcast. It was funny, after Blake she wasn’t looking for a new relationship, but Luke kind of just fell in her lap so to say and while they aren’t official by any sense of the word… it feels like it might be something.
“You better not be watching Far from Home! You promised we’d see it in the theaters.” Luke yelled, and Minka could only mentally cry out ‘shit’ as she swiveled around to check the room to make sure he wasn’t lurking behind her. Once she was sure that she was in the clear as she whistled casually and trying to be cool, she took the mouse to the right of the keyboard and moved the cursor over the FireFox tab for her torrent site and then to her download. Two windows appeared. She deftly ‘X’d out the window on the right and the box with the potentially offending website disappeared- just as Luke walked into the study. Luke was wearing a black t-shirt with Metallica written across the front of it, a pair of black running shorts, and his favorite pair of NIKEs.
“Get everything you need?” Luke just cast a skeptical, inquisitive glance towards Minka as if his intuition somehow knew she’d been up to something.
“Yeah I Did.” Luke just nodded, but the conversation was interrupted when the conversation on the podcast got a little more intense.
“If there is a God. If there is truly justice in this world. Crissy Gardner will knock this punk’s block off and send him back into the obscurity he deserves so SCW will never, EVER, have to talk about him and his WORST FUCKING GIMMICK EVER IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING EVER AG- AAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHH!” Hearing OxBig scream in pain like that reminded of her Jablowmen’s heartache.
“Ox?” Dover called out as both Luke and Minka wondered what was going on.
“AW, FUCK!” The sound of someone banging his head on a counter could be heard through the speakers. “BRRRRRAIN FREEEEEEEZE! AARRRRRGGHHHHHH!
At that point Minka finally heard enough and clicked on the ‘X’ and the You Tube site disappeared from her computer screen.