The One vs. Konrad Raab

[TheOne]

{PROMO}

In the shadow of Apocalypse, when The One looked to aspire to become something "big" in the eyes of the "regulars," she was only able to come up just a bit short, while watching someone else stretch the limit of one's self and achieve the Underground Championship.  She, deep down, felt she would be able to sink her teeth deeper than anyone else, but what happened was the polar opposite of what she expected.  This opposition of events has created a more and more boiling fire within the gut of her stomach, which contradicts what she wanted to bring to the organization.

But giving up, giving up is not something she believes in.  She doesn't believe that she is a failure.  She doesn't believe that she can't be someone who changes the way many view Supreme Championship Wrestling.  That's why she has accepted the loss, accepted the reality, but then accepted the next steps in her journey...

Hardcore... Evil... Vile... Throat slashing... Everything you can think I wanted to embrace, walking into Apocalypse.  I wanted to walk in there and do EVERYTHING possible to, as another superstar says, "MDK," anyone and everyone who crossed my path.  But the more and more I fought, the more and more I saw what the "Underground" represented, I started to think that maybe I was wrong.  Maybe I wasn't.  I don't know.  What I know is that doubt crept into my head.  I began to wonder if going to such extremes were truly worth the risk.  I truly began to wonder if it would be that moment that I sought...

And yeah... It would have been...

The Underground Championship is everything people say it is.  The Underground Championship is something that people always talk about, and yeah, I had my moment to walk out there as a challenger, and completely raise my vile ways to come out on top.  But I didn't.  I didn't rise to that occasion and that moment.  And that's not to say anyone who did rise to that moment is above or beneath me, but they will forever be seen as on another plane of existence.  I wasn't right for that victory.  I wasn't able to do what others were.  I tried my best, and I tried my damnedest to do what I believed was necessary to walk out with a championship over my shoulder, and a destructive and painful win under my belt.

And I didn't... And I wasn't...

Congrats to those who were.  Congrats to those who were able to walk out there and play a lot dirtier than I was.  It was a first for me.  I never thought it was possible.  It completely contradicts the way I became The One, because I was willing to skirt every rule and expectation and find the way to win.  But at Apocalypse, I wasn't.  And I'm strong enough, woman enough, everything enough, to admit that I wasn't.  I am not someone who will make excuses.  I am not someone who will lie to the world.  I am here to achieve a goal, and for a moment, I thought that hurting, defiling, destroying, defacing, whatever-ing, would be my path, and honestly, it wasn't.  And I am not going to magically say, "geez, guys, guess what, this next step is going to be what I thought the Underground Championship was!"  

The fact is, I'm done assuming...

I am done predicting...

SCW is a place that I view as the place where I have a shot to do something special, and that is plain and simple.  What it is, I don't know.  I don't know if it is a title... I don't know if it is some underdog victory... I don't know if it is my mentality convincing others to begin to accept the change that I believe is necessary for the future...

I just don't... Fucking... Know...

The One sighs.

But here we are, aren't we?  We are all here looking at The One as either another person who everyone looks at as someone who never wins a big one, and kind of fills in where she fits, or she begins her ascension to relevancy.  And I don't know what the answer to that is.  I don't know where the world leads me anymore.  I'm back to where I Was before I was even The One.  I look around, and I see just a jumbled world.  I see what I wish the world could be, and then I see the world for what it is.  What it is, I don't know what the options are.  I don't know what is gonig to magically make everything go my way.  I don't know what I have to do anymore.  I thought I had to be more vile, more evil, more villainous, than anyone else.  It turns out that predicting the future isn't something that I am good at... But what I am good at, is doing what I believe is right...

In a nutshell, I am looking for my ikigai (生き甲斐),,,

Now that's something that probably sounds off from me.  It sounds like I am finding some new "trope," but do you know the meaning of ikigai?  Do you understand what it actually translates to, when you translate it from Japanese to English?  It's everything I have spoken about.  It's everything I have argued for.  It's everything I have said what I am here to do...

Ikigai's definition is that which defines a person's sense of purpose or sense of being!

And yes, Supreme Championship Wrestling...

The One is someone who DOES have a purpose AND a sense of being!

So what does that mean for, The One?  What does it mean that I have a sense of purpose and being?  What does it mean that I am now focused on my ikigai versus that of what I think the world wants or needs for me to achieve me goal?  It's simple... It's my job to go out there and be The One.  I don't have to define myself by anyone else's definition.  I don't have to pretend to be something special.  I am who I am.  I am The One.  I was created in the shadows of shitty human behavior, and now it's time for me to just be me, and quit thinking about what SCW needs me to be in order to win, but instead focus on who and WHAT I am, and focus on my person ikigai!

So, again, let's ask that question, what does that mean?

It means that I am focused on whatever is next.  It means that I am done trying to fit into a mold of what I think Supreme Championship Wrestling would need me to be for me to be the change I want to be.  And after thinking, I don't blame them.  They have found their comfort zone.  They have found where their comfort level is to be.  Those who felt true to the "Underground" world, they showed themselves to the world at Apocalypse, and the best of the best emerged victorious.  But now, I look at my career and my life in Supreme Championship Wrestling and realize that sometimes it isn't the fact you have to create one memory for people to remember you.  In the Underground world, you are creating one volatile memory after another.  Think about Rachel Foxx... Every time she went out there she had to one up her performance beforehand in the aspect of destruction.  It is a mindset that I realize, now, is not what I need for my goals in SCW.  And that's why whatever is next, means I have to look at it as something that doesn't just represent a "moment," but instead as something that begins a story in my SCW lore that people talk about behind the scenes.  And, while yes, the Underground could have been that moment, while Apocalypse could have been that moment, in hindsight, with everything in front of me, I see what may be a better step, rather than trying to shock and awe my way to the top...

Maybe I WORK my way to the top?!

Maybe I go out there and outwork, outhustle, and ultimattely, OUTSMART everyone who is thrown in my way, rather than resort to anything gimmicky?

When you break it down... That's who I am, anyway!

Which leads us to Breakdown and, honestly, somewhat of a surprise for me.  I had a chance to become a champion at Apocalypse and I came up short and to those in charge, it could have been a moment where I was cast to the side.  I could have been a figment of everyone's imagination and become someone relegated to the land of the forgotten and wannabes of SCW past.  Instead, my next match, another championship opportunity, and this one, as I stated going into Apocalypse, is a title that defines the "workers" of this organization because there are no days off.  You go out there, you fight, you compete, you prove yourself time after time, and in the end, you have to PROVE to the world that you aren't going to be a short term champion, but instead establish yourself as a someone who will never give up, and always push yourself to the limits.  This doesn't mean you have to resort to pain and suffering, but it means exactly what I defined myself as when I showed up...

Able to OUTWRESTLE EVERYONE!

And this opportunity is one that, to a point, I put myself on a path for from the beginning when I called out Beard.  I had hoped he would have still been the champion when he and I crossed paths.  But he wasn't, and when our paths crossed, I simply did what I said I was going to do.  But now, the Television Championship and I still get to cross paths, and do so with a champion who's name I have said represents something I actually respect in SCW.  Konrad Raab is someone who started out a lot like I have so far.  He began as someone who was up and down in his career beginning, but as time has progressed, he has become someone who is a staple in SCW, through its good and bad times.  He has always shown a desire to improve his abilities.  Now he stands as the Television Champion, and is now standing in my way of doing the same thing he had done.  And while I respect his abilities and everything he has done to become a somebody in SCW, I am ready to not only follow his example, but also do so in a much more expedited manner.

You hear that, Konrad?

You paying attention?

I am walking into Breakdown with a mission to take you down and show the world that, my slow start is nothing to be taken at face value.  Wins and losses have never been what I have said will define me.  It's the WHAT I succeed at that will ultimately define me in this business, and what I succeed at will be facing another SCW legend, like I did with Katie Steward, and not just beating them, but taking something of value away from them.  Why?  Because I said I was here to start a new era of SCW.  I mistakenly looked at it as something I could bum-rush into without being methodical.  I was naive in that regard, but now that I know what I have to do, how I have to do it, and where I should have continued to put my eyes from the start even after Beard was out of the picture, you're going to be recognized as an integral character, when someone tells this story in the future.  When pen goes to paper, and people recount the history of SCW, and this specific era, they will see The One as slowly emerging from obscurity and Konrad Raab as the name that catapulted her through that first glass ceiling.

You see, my naive ways, my misalignment of my goals, all of that, has allowed me to open my eyes and become smarter.  I can face the reality of how this plan of mine may not be one I can execute in the matter of days or weeks, but will take months and months to truly have the foundation needed for the next steps.  Big pictures can't matter for me right now, anymore.  I have to look at a granular and more isolated level.  I have to first find the land before I ever lay my cornerstone and build my legacy.  And this may be the moment I finally get to survey that land.  This may be where I finally begin to take steps forward.  But regardless of if any of that is true, what Breakdown WILL be is the end of your resign as Television Champion.

Because when I win, I will begin a new phase of my career and it will be one where people have to come to me.  People will have to CHALLENGE me.  People will have to outright BEAT me, if they want to get their hands on the Television Championship.  It will mark the beginning of a reign that shows why it takes a workhorse to defend it and defend it with longevity.  It's no knock on you... But this is a title that was written with someone like me in mind.  So I'm planning on taking it, and OWNING it, like nobody in the history of SCW ever has... And that includes any Streets, Taylors, or Valentines that may have staked their claim as "the best" before I ever entered the picture.

Face it... I've lived my life being considered "down and out," but The One IS defined as The One who can defy all odds, all trials and tribulations, and all comers and challengers to HER rightful name.  So this is no different... But you will be different in that, you'll be the champion who fails, falls, and presents me with the honor of SCW Television Champion.

With those final words, The One turns and exits, knowing that her initial plans of ransacking everything SCW has been used to isn't as logical or probable as it may have looked on paper.  Her new point of view, her ikigai, as she called it, is to focus on what's ahead.  Focus on what drives HER to succeed at what she wants, and not what she feels she "has" to do.  The Television Championship is one that seems to represent her history of becoming The One, and paralleling the struggles and fights she's had to continue to face off with in order to continue to own the moniker.  Now the question is, can she topple an SCW veteran and stalwart, who has proven that, where his early start may have not been memorable, he has become a definite mainstay among the SCW upper echelon of talent.