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Post by Shaun Hart on Mar 27, 2023 18:59:18 GMT
( Max Stone war against The Mecca continues as Shaun Hart forces him to defend his UK Championship against their monster Goliath. With Worlds Collide on the horizon can Max make a statement with a win over another Mecca member or will Goliath weaken Team Osh before they collide? ) Match Seven IIW UK Championship Standard Singles Match Goliath vs Max Stone ©
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Post by Goliath on Mar 31, 2023 0:42:53 GMT
An empty wooden chair sits in the middle of an almost dark room if it wasn't for the flickering light above. For a moment it's quiet until we hear a squeaky door open and close as quick as it opened, a few seconds later we hear giant footsteps heading towards the chair. As the footsteps get louder a large shadow is cast from behind and then disappears as the monster known as Goliath comes into camera view and takes a seat. For a moment he remains silent, only looking towards the camera with a fierce look on his face but then his lips begin to move.
I've been in IIW for a good little minute now but this is the first time you've heard me speak. I guess I've never really had anything to say really until now, I've been a quiet giant that does what he told, but don't get me confused for some lap dog! I'm a beast ready to strike when called upon. I've been someone else's weapon of destruction since I can remember.
Goliath smirks.
I learned early in school that the weak ones will pay for a giant to protect them from the strong but the thing is I learned what is strong to the weak is weak to me. I could take your strongest jock and put him down as if he was the nerd that was paying me to protect him. Many saw people as a protector but what I was really a hired mercenary that would take anyone out if the price was right.
Goliath makes a money gesture with his hands.
So once I graduated from School I choose to take my talents to an industry that would use me well. I enter the United States military and became their weapon on the battlefield, what I did in other countries would haunt the average man at night but for me I just sleep like a baby because I accepted what I was a long time ago.
Goliath cracks his knuckles.
I threw away my moral compass the day I put on a military uniform, I accepted that the government enemies would become my enemies and then my enemies would become my victims. I carried that with me once I left the military and into my next career as a bouncer where I racked up more knockouts on dumb bastards than Mike Tyson did in his boxing career.
Goliath punches the concrete and it ceunbkes under his fist.
Now I bring that same brutality here to IIW and you all got a chance to witness my destruction against Mr.Intensity and he had weapons at his disposal and he still couldn't get the jump done and he's not the only body I've broken here in IIW. I've had many victims so far and Max Stone you will be no different!
Goliath smiles sinisterly.
When Shaun Hart told me I would get my chance to snap the necks of more of our enemies I felt such joy and then when he told me it was you I couldn't help but smile like I am now. I've seen the run you've had here in IIW. You've a true underdog story, no matter who they put in front of you, you defy the odds… Well maybe not against our World Champion Joe Montouri because last time you two met he smoked you and Eoin in one go. I look forward to being the one that gets to claim the head of the man that's given The Mecca some problems lately.. But lucky for The Mecca I'm a problem solver and I'm looking forward to solving it!
Goliath laughs.
You might have gotten by Fred and Bam of The Mecca but you will be crushed by ME! I will not make the same mistakes as my comrades and take you lightly. I know how much heart and fight you have in you but do not mistake my respect for you as a warrior gives you false confidence and start thinking these are the biblical times. There will be no slingshot to help you or any weapon that could put me down to give you a three-count. Make no mistake Champ I'm going to that ring to hurt you and punish you for your actions against The Mecca and take the UK Championship from you.
Goliath stands up out of the chair.
I know you might think of me as just another number on your stupid clock but I can assure you Max I am nobody's victim I am the victimizer and come Mayhem you're going to feel pain in a way that you never knew was possible. So pray to whatever God you believe in and prepare yourself to be dominated into submission. I am not coming to have a wrestling match with you Max. I'm going to be your executioner!!!
Cut throat sign at the camera and then walks off as the scene fades out.
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Post by Max Stone on Apr 5, 2023 16:04:59 GMT
STATE OF THE UNION
We find ourselves in an apartment living room focused on an OLD BOX TV. Staticy snow fills the frame of the TV set but it’s slowly starting to dissipate and form an image that we can make out. The audio is now becoming clearer and before we know it, we’ve jumped into the TV and in a brand new scene.
TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK
We now find ourselves in a room lit only by candles. Twelve GRANDFATHER CLOCKS are arranged side by side each making mechanical ticking noises. A familiar type of scene if you've been an IIW fan the past 8 months. A man dressed in all black enters the room and walks in front of the clocks, patting each one as he crosses. To nobody's surprise, the man shows his face and is revealed to be Max Stone. He paces purposefully around the room and begins to speak.
Max: It all started with a simple idea. 12 hours on a clock to represent 12 different opponents to clench victory over. It started as an exercise to see if Max Stone could still do this at a high level in 2022. With each passing hour I felt myself becoming even stronger than I was when I had the world by the balls. I took down every challenger that was thrown at me and before I knew it, the clock was already approaching the end. After I didn't get the job done at Explosion, the table was set perfectly for the entire wrestling world to celebrate the clock striking 12 at the Ice Crown Rumble where I would stand proudly as the last man in that ring and a new focus on the World Championship. You all know what happened there… a precursor of what was to come a few weeks later.
Max walks over to the right most clock in the room.
Max: The night the clock struck 12 was the night that changed the entire trajectory of my career. The Stone Age was finally ushered in and for the first time since my return, I truly felt like I could now go toe to toe with every single competitor this business has to offer. Call it arrogance, call it confidence, call it foolishness but now not one person could deny that Max Stone is one of the top wrestlers this business has to offer and if you don't believe it… just wait.
Max smiles a cocky smile.
Max: The 12th opponent was defeated and the first part of my mission had been seen to completion. An unanticipated, but welcome, side effect of this process was the support that I started to receive from these passionate IIW fans. They accepted the Stone Age and rained down their support more and more each and every week and it’s this support that I’ve carried over with me into the second part of my mission. Mere minutes after my first mission ended, my second one began and a new set of challenges presented itself.
Max’s expression quickly turns to one of anger.
Max: This was the night that Shaun Hart assembled the Mecca and laughed it up as he congratulated himself for a plan well executed. He made his message known to all the IIW fans and to every single person in the back that this is his world and we’re all just living in it. The dark timeline was now here and it was made clear that this company now just exists to placate Shaun Hart’s ego and he’s going to pay off all his little friends to surround him and make himself feel like he's actually important in this business. Everything went according to Shaun's plan but he made one fatal miscalculation and that was picking ME as the guy to knock down and set this all in motion. Had Shaun done his research, he would have realized that I was absolutely the wrong person to fuck with. He would have learned that Max Stone has never been one to forgive and he certainly has never been one to forget.
Max laughs to himself.
Max: Shaun thought I would get outta town or just sit idly by while him and his fake friends wiped their asses with this company. But unlike 80% of the people you'll find in this industry, Max Stone doesn't take his ball and go home when things don't go his way. As I lay in that ring incapacitated on that fateful evening, I looked up at the people standing over me laughing and I burned the image of their shit eating grins and the sound of their boisterous laughing into my brain. No more clocks. No more passing hours. No more ticks. No more tocks.
Max puts both hands on the Grandfather Clock and SHOVES IT. It topples over and CRASHES into the one next to it. A CHAIN REACTION of discordant thudding and mechanical metallic noise fills the room as each giant clock topples over like a set of dominos. The chaotic mixture of sounds reverberates through the room.
Max: On January 16th, 2023 my new mission began. My mission to take down every single person standing in that ring and make them pay for their sins. Eight names added to my list.
Axel Shaw Stacey York Justin York Bam Miller
Fred Debonair Goliath Joe Montouri Shaun Hart
Max: Five down three to go. The first three got a glimpse of the rage that was heading their way and immediately tucked tail and haven't been seen since. Bam Miller thought he could take me out in a hardcore match and severely underestimated what I was willing to do to cross out his name. And then that takes us to Fred Debonair….
Max exits the camera frame and returns holding his IIW United Kingdom Championship belt.
Max: The former United Kingdom Champion. I have to admit that I expected a lot more tomfoolery from Fred in our match. At least this time he was respectable enough to not resort to having Shaun Hart come out and restart the match again. I watched this past Monday as the Mecca all stood in the ring to congratulate Joe Montouri for stealing the IIW World Championship away from John Cavanagh and couldn't help but think that maybe Fred only had enough in the tank to be a part of one gutless victory for the night and he saved his efforts to help his master J Mont so he could be a good little second banana. As the Mecca members looked at each other lovingly and laughed once again about the heist that they had pulled, it was apparent that all was not perfect because conspicuous by its absence was THIS.
Max holds the United Kingdom championship belt out in front of him.
Max: That’s right. All would have been right in the Mecca world if Fred Debonair was standing next to J Fraud and proudly showing off his title too but it didn’t work out that way and they couldn't help but acknowledge that their collection had gotten smaller. No amount of reality bending and political spin could cover the fact that Mecca took a massive blow at Keys 2 Success and I consider this a huge victory in this war; the first of many. I will not stop until I feel satisfied that Mecca has paid the price for putting a target on my back. The more celebrations I can ruin, the better. Every time the Mecca takes a step forward, I will make sure they take three steps back until they no longer have any fucking legs to walk on. I will be there at every turn making sure that these guys remain checked because I’m the only person who has the guts to do so. We’re kicking up this war another notch and the temperature is going to get a little hotter this upcoming Monday when I carve a big line through Goliath’s name and cross him off my list.
Max puts his finger point towards the camera and makes a motion as if he's writing a horizontal line.
Max: Goliath, Goliath, the big nasty bastard Goliath. Up until now he was a strong silent type like Gary Cooper and then he opened his mouth and ruined all his mystique. You’re the most menacing of the bunch here and don’t think for a second that I have forgotten about the role you played in Fred beating my ass down with that barbed wire baseball bat.
Max places his hand on the lower part of his back where Fred Debonair drove down the baseball bat.
Max: I still feel the pain from that and it serves as a course correction for whenever I start to get distracted in my mission to rid wrestling of you and your Mecca friends. You held me down as Fred Debonair violently attacked me and he's paid his price for that and now it's time for you to pay yours. You mentioned your time in the military and your time as a bouncer where you racked up a huge list of victims. Did any of those on the receiving end of your fury ever place a target on you first? I'm not like the drunks you threw out onto the cold streets or the unsuspecting soldiers you may have faced on the battlefield. You're facing a guy that has put a big red X on your forehead and has vengefully studied you in anticipation of the moment we will find ourselves in come next Monday. I guarantee you have never faced an opponent the likes of me. The kids like to say “fuck around and find out.” and you will be finding out for the first time in your life what happens when you fuck around. You’re bigger and you’re stronger but what you don’t have is that desire to rip me limb from limb. I’m just a paycheck to you since you’re just a hired gun. A big evil brute that Shaun Hart keeps employed to do his bidding because he can’t cash the checks that his mouth constantly writes. It doesn’t matter if you hate me or not because Daddy Warbucks still stuffs your pockets regardless. But I hate you, Goliath and I will be damned if I’m going to let a big dumb oaf like you take my United Kingdom championship.
Max slings the belt over his shoulder.
Max: I’ve gone through too much to get this and there’s no way in hell I’m giving it up to a guy who uses this sport that I love as a personal piggy bank. If you want to take this championship from me, you better make sure that I’m dead first because that’s the only way you’re going to walk away with that belt. As long as I’m breathing and I have a pulse I’m going to fight with every fiber of my being to defeat you. You said these are not biblical times and there will be no slingshot to help me out and it may be the only true statement you said. I won’t need a slingshot or any weapons to take you down, Goliath. I’m going to do it with my bare hands and my wrestling skills and show the IIW fans that it is possible to still see someone win a match without cheating and getting others to help them out. I'm going to remind the people that pay good money to watch this show that real fighting champions do exist still in this day and age and there's no better way than slaying a huge nasty giant. After I defeat you, nobody will ever talk about that old David again because Goliath will forever be known as the guy that was taken down by MAX STONE.
Max smiles and removes his belt from his shoulder and moves it towards the camera.
Max: Get a good look at this championship and get used to removing the word "underdog" from your vocabulary when it comes to talking about Max Stone. There's nothing that screams "underdog" about what I'm doing here anymore. I said I was going to run that clock up to 12 and I did it. I said I was going to become United Kingdom Champion and I did it. I said I was going to get my payback on Mecca and now five of the eight are crossed off my list. And now I am saying that I will defeat Goliath and come next Monday Night I'm going to DO IT.
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