09-14-2018, 04:51 PM
[Scene opens. The newest addition to the EMERGE roster Tyler Jackson, is sitting o a bench, inside a gym of sorts. He's sporting a gray shirt with black shorts. He looks at the camera.]
Tyler: There's this idea....this...thing that man and machine don't mix. It's like peanut butter and ketchup. Obi-Wan, when he's talking about Darth Vader, when he's talking about Anakin. About what he's become; how much has he fallen. He simply says "He's more machine than man now. He's twisted and evil."
[Tyler shrugs his shoulders.]
Tyler: Of course, Vader didn't turn out so bad did he he not? When it came down to it, he sacrificed himself and saved his son from death. He saved Luke from the Emperor, proving that there was still a heart there. There was still a soul there. He may have slaughtered some children but besides that, the machine hadn't taken over the man.
[He looks around and pauses. Then he laughs.]
Tyler: Why am I giving all of you a history on what happened at the end of the first Star Wars trilogy? It's been thirty years. And all of you know the story.
[Tyler laughs.]
Tyler: But what I'm trying to say is, if you look at Star Wars, or the Terminator movies, mainly 1 and 2 because the rest are quite depressing to bring up. No offense if you like the rest of those movies but still. There's this idea that man and machine can't mix. That they both desire to be the other. The Man wants to be as precise and effective and as flawed free as the machine and the machine wants to feel the heart, the soul, the emotions of a man. The two desire to be one another.
[Tyler pauses.]
Tyler: But no one ever wonders whether or not they can be the same.
Think about that ladies and gentleman.
What if someone could be all man and all machine at the same time?
It sounds crazy, I know. By definition, a man is a man. It's covered in flesh. A machine is a robot. It's made out of steel. It doesn't have blood inside it or a heart. I get it. And I know this sounds crazy coming for someone you're not familiar with. But, everyone, you are looking at the first man who is all man, all machine.
[Tyler looks on.]
Tyler: I mentioned Terminator earlier. There's a reason for that. The past year, I've wrestled in the Bay Area scene and I learned, I took my lumps, I dished out my fair share and each and every time I got stronger, I got smarter, I grew faster. Everything I learned in the last match, I applied it to the next. Every mistake, I corrected it. Every victory, I focused on what worked and what didn't and made sure I could grab another one. In that ring, I don't get fancy ladies and gentleman. I don't wine and dine my opponents before I take them to the dance. I don't whisper sweet nothings in their ear. No...I prefer a more direct approach. A more universally clear approach. I just make them pull up their fist and fight because when they're in the ring with me, there's going to get a fight. I hit HARD. I hit OFTEN. I move QUICKLY. There's no wasted motion when the bell rings.
All I see in the ring is my target.
And so naturally, they gave me a name. The T-1000. And it's stuck. But EMERGE, I have to humble myself here because I have to admit, it wasn't always like this. I wasn't always like this. In fact, it wasn't that long ago when I was flunked out of a little school you may or may not have heard called Golden Gate Wrestling Academy. The same school that produced Collin Cole, Dante McCaffery, Queen Mamba..
[Tyler pauses.]
Tyler: Alexis Quinne.
[He nods as he strokes his beard.]
Tyler: And I was told by Alexander Grayson and Sharon Rose that even though I had the tools physically, even though I could perform the drills, mentally, I didn't have it. My mind wasn't sharp enough to even become a professional wrestler and they failed m because of it. All my life, I've played basketball, football, baseball...I'm a sports guy, what can I say? And I did all of those sports pretty well but this was the first time where that wasn't good enough. It's humiliating. It's eye opening. And for a moment, I thought about just throwing in the towel and just sticking to college.
However...
[Tyler throws up one finger.]
Tyler: Lady Luck was smiling down on me because it just so happened that Golden Gate had recently opened this thing, this idea called MAX. And it was for people like me, who failed Golden Gate proper. And guess who was running it at the time? Alexis Quinne. Christy Matthews. And so, I was given the option to spending my Monday nights training with them as a last chance opportunity to make it. And so I took it, knowing it was my final chance. So I dedicated myself, I told myself, I don't need to just improve this...
[He points to his biceps.]
Tyler: but I need to improve this..
[He points to his head.]
Tyler: So I studied the game. I studied people who wrestled like me, who were successful. I took everything Alexis and Christy gave to me. I picked their brains. i asked a lot of questions. Sometimes to the point where I annoyed both of them and El Rudo but I did it anyways. i became obsessed with information. I didn't want to just have it physically. I wanted to have it mentally, too. And I soaked everything up. I prepared. And long and behold, last summer, I graduated and it was off and running.
And that took me to World Hazard this year. Some of you saw it on supremecw.com. I personally I had to live it, inside that arena that was like one hundred degrees inside. I almost died.
[Tyler chuckles.]
Tyler: But I knew, on that day, what I would need to do in order to mentally prepare myself to get a spot in the Top 8 and then to win it all. I knew the others that were there with me. I've wrestled them before. I've seen them. I studied them. I watched their moves. I pulled all nighters observing what I could do to improve myself. I thought about when Alex failed me the first time ad thinking about how hard I had to work to even graduate, let along how hard i had to work and train in order to even get to World Hazard. I had become a wrestling computer. I had become a machine. But...I made sure I remembered who I was as a man. I remembered my family, all my siblings, I am the middle child of five, which is insane right? I remembered the nights I spent with Saddie, the youngest, who is also trying to do this and how Sads encouraged me, challenged me to keep moving, to not take any shortcuts.
I didn't allow my ego to cloud my preparation and I didn't allow my knowledge to blind me from the fact that I could still fail.
I locked in. I remembered who I was. Who I am now. And who I wanted to be. And the rest is history.
The winner of the Top 8 tournament. And now EMERGE's newest superstar.
[Tyler pauses.]
Tyler: And the newest superstar finds his way to Texas. Invasion. My debut. In a battle royal in which the winner gets a contract to have any match they want. Any match. So many possibilities. So much power it could corrupt someone. I know everyone wants to gt their hands on it. Everyone. Mika Kozlov, Serotonin, Kandis, Jason Dillinger, all of my new peers. All the people I haven't introduced myself to yet. A lot of big names. A lot of big hitters, all in this match. I'm thinking, there's probably not a better way to introduce myself then throwing a few shots and tossing people around.
[Tyler chuckles a bit.]
Tyler: Because this is not Kansas anymore. I no longer sharing my lockers with people inside a dingy building. I'm now wrestling in front of the entire world. I'm now wrestling where all eyes are watching. SCW management, EMERGE management, the people in the back. Everyone;s watching. Battle Royals are pretty unpredictable but the one thing I can depend on is what got me here. Many people think you gotta change it up once you get to the big dance. But if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I got here by swinging and thinking. I got here by grinding and putting my time into watching what's on film. I know there's going to be a few surprises, a few people who'll pull some tricks underneath their sleeves. Alliances will be made. All that good stuff. But like I said...
I don't go into anything without a plan.
And I do have a plan to win this thing. After everything that I've gone through to get here, with the people I care about supporting me, knowing how hard I've worked to get my body and my mind in the right place, I'm ready for anything. And I'm ready to dish out my version of a welcoming handshake to each and every person in that match. Though there won't be words exchanged.
Just fists.
At Invasion, my eyes are on the prize. I'm fighting for that contact but I also fighting to make a lasting impression. Because at the end of the day, i'm here. I'm in EMERGE now. This isn't Kansas. i'm here. And I'm ready. I'm ready to use this opportunity, this platform, to turn some heads. I'm ready to step into that ring for the first time as an EMERGE superstar.
[Tyler pauses.]
Tyler: I am the T-1000.
My name is Tyler Jackson.
I am All Man, All Machine.
And I got my target in sight.
And I won't stop until everyone is terminated and the prize is mine. That contract.
And if I don't make it, i'm going to give them hell trying to put me down.
See you all there.
[Tyler nods before he walks off.]
Tyler: There's this idea....this...thing that man and machine don't mix. It's like peanut butter and ketchup. Obi-Wan, when he's talking about Darth Vader, when he's talking about Anakin. About what he's become; how much has he fallen. He simply says "He's more machine than man now. He's twisted and evil."
[Tyler shrugs his shoulders.]
Tyler: Of course, Vader didn't turn out so bad did he he not? When it came down to it, he sacrificed himself and saved his son from death. He saved Luke from the Emperor, proving that there was still a heart there. There was still a soul there. He may have slaughtered some children but besides that, the machine hadn't taken over the man.
[He looks around and pauses. Then he laughs.]
Tyler: Why am I giving all of you a history on what happened at the end of the first Star Wars trilogy? It's been thirty years. And all of you know the story.
[Tyler laughs.]
Tyler: But what I'm trying to say is, if you look at Star Wars, or the Terminator movies, mainly 1 and 2 because the rest are quite depressing to bring up. No offense if you like the rest of those movies but still. There's this idea that man and machine can't mix. That they both desire to be the other. The Man wants to be as precise and effective and as flawed free as the machine and the machine wants to feel the heart, the soul, the emotions of a man. The two desire to be one another.
[Tyler pauses.]
Tyler: But no one ever wonders whether or not they can be the same.
Think about that ladies and gentleman.
What if someone could be all man and all machine at the same time?
It sounds crazy, I know. By definition, a man is a man. It's covered in flesh. A machine is a robot. It's made out of steel. It doesn't have blood inside it or a heart. I get it. And I know this sounds crazy coming for someone you're not familiar with. But, everyone, you are looking at the first man who is all man, all machine.
[Tyler looks on.]
Tyler: I mentioned Terminator earlier. There's a reason for that. The past year, I've wrestled in the Bay Area scene and I learned, I took my lumps, I dished out my fair share and each and every time I got stronger, I got smarter, I grew faster. Everything I learned in the last match, I applied it to the next. Every mistake, I corrected it. Every victory, I focused on what worked and what didn't and made sure I could grab another one. In that ring, I don't get fancy ladies and gentleman. I don't wine and dine my opponents before I take them to the dance. I don't whisper sweet nothings in their ear. No...I prefer a more direct approach. A more universally clear approach. I just make them pull up their fist and fight because when they're in the ring with me, there's going to get a fight. I hit HARD. I hit OFTEN. I move QUICKLY. There's no wasted motion when the bell rings.
All I see in the ring is my target.
And so naturally, they gave me a name. The T-1000. And it's stuck. But EMERGE, I have to humble myself here because I have to admit, it wasn't always like this. I wasn't always like this. In fact, it wasn't that long ago when I was flunked out of a little school you may or may not have heard called Golden Gate Wrestling Academy. The same school that produced Collin Cole, Dante McCaffery, Queen Mamba..
[Tyler pauses.]
Tyler: Alexis Quinne.
[He nods as he strokes his beard.]
Tyler: And I was told by Alexander Grayson and Sharon Rose that even though I had the tools physically, even though I could perform the drills, mentally, I didn't have it. My mind wasn't sharp enough to even become a professional wrestler and they failed m because of it. All my life, I've played basketball, football, baseball...I'm a sports guy, what can I say? And I did all of those sports pretty well but this was the first time where that wasn't good enough. It's humiliating. It's eye opening. And for a moment, I thought about just throwing in the towel and just sticking to college.
However...
[Tyler throws up one finger.]
Tyler: Lady Luck was smiling down on me because it just so happened that Golden Gate had recently opened this thing, this idea called MAX. And it was for people like me, who failed Golden Gate proper. And guess who was running it at the time? Alexis Quinne. Christy Matthews. And so, I was given the option to spending my Monday nights training with them as a last chance opportunity to make it. And so I took it, knowing it was my final chance. So I dedicated myself, I told myself, I don't need to just improve this...
[He points to his biceps.]
Tyler: but I need to improve this..
[He points to his head.]
Tyler: So I studied the game. I studied people who wrestled like me, who were successful. I took everything Alexis and Christy gave to me. I picked their brains. i asked a lot of questions. Sometimes to the point where I annoyed both of them and El Rudo but I did it anyways. i became obsessed with information. I didn't want to just have it physically. I wanted to have it mentally, too. And I soaked everything up. I prepared. And long and behold, last summer, I graduated and it was off and running.
And that took me to World Hazard this year. Some of you saw it on supremecw.com. I personally I had to live it, inside that arena that was like one hundred degrees inside. I almost died.
[Tyler chuckles.]
Tyler: But I knew, on that day, what I would need to do in order to mentally prepare myself to get a spot in the Top 8 and then to win it all. I knew the others that were there with me. I've wrestled them before. I've seen them. I studied them. I watched their moves. I pulled all nighters observing what I could do to improve myself. I thought about when Alex failed me the first time ad thinking about how hard I had to work to even graduate, let along how hard i had to work and train in order to even get to World Hazard. I had become a wrestling computer. I had become a machine. But...I made sure I remembered who I was as a man. I remembered my family, all my siblings, I am the middle child of five, which is insane right? I remembered the nights I spent with Saddie, the youngest, who is also trying to do this and how Sads encouraged me, challenged me to keep moving, to not take any shortcuts.
I didn't allow my ego to cloud my preparation and I didn't allow my knowledge to blind me from the fact that I could still fail.
I locked in. I remembered who I was. Who I am now. And who I wanted to be. And the rest is history.
The winner of the Top 8 tournament. And now EMERGE's newest superstar.
[Tyler pauses.]
Tyler: And the newest superstar finds his way to Texas. Invasion. My debut. In a battle royal in which the winner gets a contract to have any match they want. Any match. So many possibilities. So much power it could corrupt someone. I know everyone wants to gt their hands on it. Everyone. Mika Kozlov, Serotonin, Kandis, Jason Dillinger, all of my new peers. All the people I haven't introduced myself to yet. A lot of big names. A lot of big hitters, all in this match. I'm thinking, there's probably not a better way to introduce myself then throwing a few shots and tossing people around.
[Tyler chuckles a bit.]
Tyler: Because this is not Kansas anymore. I no longer sharing my lockers with people inside a dingy building. I'm now wrestling in front of the entire world. I'm now wrestling where all eyes are watching. SCW management, EMERGE management, the people in the back. Everyone;s watching. Battle Royals are pretty unpredictable but the one thing I can depend on is what got me here. Many people think you gotta change it up once you get to the big dance. But if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I got here by swinging and thinking. I got here by grinding and putting my time into watching what's on film. I know there's going to be a few surprises, a few people who'll pull some tricks underneath their sleeves. Alliances will be made. All that good stuff. But like I said...
I don't go into anything without a plan.
And I do have a plan to win this thing. After everything that I've gone through to get here, with the people I care about supporting me, knowing how hard I've worked to get my body and my mind in the right place, I'm ready for anything. And I'm ready to dish out my version of a welcoming handshake to each and every person in that match. Though there won't be words exchanged.
Just fists.
At Invasion, my eyes are on the prize. I'm fighting for that contact but I also fighting to make a lasting impression. Because at the end of the day, i'm here. I'm in EMERGE now. This isn't Kansas. i'm here. And I'm ready. I'm ready to use this opportunity, this platform, to turn some heads. I'm ready to step into that ring for the first time as an EMERGE superstar.
[Tyler pauses.]
Tyler: I am the T-1000.
My name is Tyler Jackson.
I am All Man, All Machine.
And I got my target in sight.
And I won't stop until everyone is terminated and the prize is mine. That contract.
And if I don't make it, i'm going to give them hell trying to put me down.
See you all there.
[Tyler nods before he walks off.]