Above & Beyond II
Aug 31, 2013 22:30:55 GMT -5
Post by FGA Office on Aug 31, 2013 22:30:55 GMT -5
Kevin Clement: This has been one HELL of a night!
Evan Grayson: It ain't over yet...I don't think...
Clement: No, it is not...we still have that Scramble Tag Team title match for the Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Champions...
Grayson: But first, I guess we've got two idiots on video chat who wanna talk to us first.
Clement: Those two idiots happen to be the newest members of Frontier Grappling Arts' exploding tag team division, fresh off a victory at FRONTIER vs. FGA II!
Grayson: They're idiots who might be good at what they do, then.
Clement: Madman Szalinski, and Graham Clauson...the Shoot Kings, joining us live...
Cutting from a pan of the Baltimore audience the scene fades into a scene set on some kind of concrete balcony, somewhere in a commercial strip. A logo in the corner reads "Live Via Satellite". Madman Szalinski, standing at the railing's edge with his custom GFC UnCommonwealth Championship title belt over a shoulder, stops running his fingers over his blue and red lucha mask to point out at something on the street below, giving us a good view of his blue Mario shirt (with the caption "Down Since '85" as he yells excitedly.
Szalinski: Aw! He's gonna hit 'em! Brawl in the Denny's parking lot! Can't have nothin' nice in the city no' more, man...
Graham Clauson, in a white Cheap White Foam shirt and matching white bandana over his head, snaps his fingers and points to the empty lawn chair adjacent to his in the camera's shot.
Clauson: Sit your ass down before somebody sees you...we got work to do.
Madman mumbles the entire time he takes his seat, with a two-way audio system set up (through the arena's PA system and a small screen at the top of the ramp, as well as Madman and Graham tuning in live to the show via a nearby laptop on a TV tray) so that the commentary team can speak with the Shoot Kings, and the conversation can be heard (and seen) by all. Even when Szalinski sits down, he continues ranting out loud seemingly to no one.
Szalinski: Probably a bunch of damn WARPED fans, too...stupid anarchist crap. Just like ya boys Johnny B. Blayzed and Chathstick...if there's no structure of order and law, there's no type of position for you to claim in order to be better than anybody else, which ruins the point of professional wrestling and government in general...I've about had it with these idiots, man. I wish you'd just let me throw something at 'em. I really do. This chair's made of recycled Tupperware lids. Couldn't hurt that bad.
Clement: Can you guys hear me?
Clauson: Loud and clear.
Graham sits up straight, with Madman finally going silent.
Clement: Thank you for giving us a moment of your time.
Clauson: Yeah, we're both scheduled in a couple of singles matches tomorrow night for FRONTIER in Phoenix, and our manager Brydon - who is in Baltimore right now meeting with FGA's people finalizing our deal - advised that we ask not to be booked to compete so soon for FGA. We didn't like it either, but it looks like we won't get to show some of FGA's more...how shall I say this...
Szalinski: Insipid fuck tandems.
Graham pauses, only to shrug and continue. The crowd boos briefly when they learn the Shoot Kings will not debut tonight at Above & Beyond II, but quiet their disappointment and allow the interview to continue.
Clauson: Insipid fuck tandems what we can do in tag team competition. Not tonight, at least.
Szalinski: So we thought we'd take a few minutes to check out what happens tonight...get a good idea of what we bit off here in FGA.
Clement: I'm sure a lot of people are wondering this right now...what are you guys intending to do in FGA?
Graham and Madman look at each other, and nod in perfect synchronization. Continuing this, they turn back to the camera.
Clauson: Whatever we wanna do.
Szalinski: Whatever we gotta do.
Clauson: We've never held a Tag Team championship in our two years.
Szalinski: But honestly...we're still doing pretty darn good!
Szalinski nods, while Graham smirks a little bit.
Grayson: After all that pro-FRONTIER talk, it's a bit gutsy for you two to be coming here, isn't it?
Szalinski: Not really. You notice how I did one thing that Chandler Scott failed to do? I showed respect. We BOTH showed respect...and respect has been shown to us. I never said that I held anything against FGA. I merely showed my pride for FRONTIER, as their Commonwealth Champion. We knew from the second we got to Monroe and met everybody in person that we had to try it out. I mean...you guys do seem to run right in our backyard! We're America's team. We're the dream team. Straight off the Ohio River...two guys with everything you should ever need to succeed in the pro wrestling business. Graham, tell 'em.
Clauson: You got this guy right here...
Clauson points to his partner, pretending to be shy and modest briefly before smiling, refraining from making any type of cocky smirks or gestures.
Clausom: A veteran of TWELVE YEARS, nine of them full-time on a touring pro circuit. The first day he had his driver's license at sixteen, he drove his brothers and girlfriend from Parkersburg, West Virginia all the way to Frostburg, Maryland to get paid ten bucks to job the curtain-jerker match - AFTER HE GOT OUT OF SCHOOL AND TOOK THREE FINALS EXAMS, WHICH HE PASSED!
Szalinski: I got honors in History, I might add. Hey, I got a question...why'd you take Charleston off the schedule? Put it back on. Somebody. I'll pay for it. I got the money.
Almost like he is ignoring his partner, Graham ventures onto his next point.
Clauson: Twelve years. Over a dozen titles. Not even old enough to run for President. And he's indestructible. Break his leg? He'll keep going. Break his face? He'll just get a mask. Break his pancreas? He'll take his insulin shot as he walks through the curtain! That's who this man right over here is. And he's just half of this team...
Szalinski claps slowly, shaking his head with a chuckle.
Szalinski: Thanks, Graham. You know, for the rookie of the team, this man here ain't so bad either. While I was trained by two well-accomplished wrestlers who happened to be my family, Graham was trained by two well accomplished wrestlers, one well-accomplished MMA/cage fighter who is also homosexual, both of whom still train wrestlers and fighters to this very day. The Armed Forces wanted to send their guys to him for "combat conditioning", which is the hell that he put us both through on camera when Graham debuted in FRONTIER. He might only have three years of the road under his belt, but he's had as much wisdom as a man can get without the corresponding experience. And his body isn't jacked up like mine is. He can do a backflip off the top rope and actually land it. He can fling you onto his shoulder and carry you around the ring. I gotta be smart, pick the quickest route from standing toe-to-toe and you-on-the-mat. Graham Clauson once wrestled a sixteen man tournament and won it - FOUR MATCHES IN ONE NIGHT - and them wrestled a FIFTH match, going to a time limit draw in a title match with the world champion! If you dare call me the brains of the Shoot Kings, then have the respect to call this n**** right here the Brawny Man, because that is what he is, my friends!
Clauson: And that's how we work together. Two men, tougher than a Mongol's leather jacket! One man a road warrior since the days of 1.50 a gallon! The other genetically risen for combat! Friends through hell, friends through heaven, we are a team if there ever was one!
Both men lean forward, Graham first, pointing into the camera to enunciate their words through volume.
Clauson: You wanna know what we're doing in FGA? We're wrestlers, here to wrestle, because we're hungry and we hear that it's open season for tag teams around here. We came to get our limit and whatever else we can stuff in the bag.
Szalinski: Basically, FGA is our Coin Ship, and we're about to ransack this motherfucker for each and every piece of gold that we can get our hands on. We said it before, and we'll say it again. We're the REAL super brothers of professional wrestling...
Clauson:...and we don't need no super star to go right through you.
Szalinski: Hope that answers your questions, gentlemen.
Madman leans back, calmly reaching into his pants pocket, cupping but not removing the item. Graham continues to lean forward, waiting to speak again. He raises a hand to interrupt Kevin when he goes to end the interview.
Clement: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen...
Clauson: Excuse me...we'll handle this part. Unlike most people, we like to actually finish what we start.
Graham lifts his fingers up to mimic a pistol in his hand. Madman, now putting a cigarette into his mouth, turns to see Graham and quickly lights it with a Zippo, then gets his opposite hand out to mirror.
Clauson: Ladies and gentlemen...your newest tag team in Frontier Grappling Arts...and future Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Champions...the Shoot Kings.
Both men point their "pistols" at the camera.
Clauson: Shoot's over.
With static, the scene cuts away and back to the arena.
Evan Grayson: It ain't over yet...I don't think...
Clement: No, it is not...we still have that Scramble Tag Team title match for the Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Champions...
Grayson: But first, I guess we've got two idiots on video chat who wanna talk to us first.
Clement: Those two idiots happen to be the newest members of Frontier Grappling Arts' exploding tag team division, fresh off a victory at FRONTIER vs. FGA II!
Grayson: They're idiots who might be good at what they do, then.
Clement: Madman Szalinski, and Graham Clauson...the Shoot Kings, joining us live...
Cutting from a pan of the Baltimore audience the scene fades into a scene set on some kind of concrete balcony, somewhere in a commercial strip. A logo in the corner reads "Live Via Satellite". Madman Szalinski, standing at the railing's edge with his custom GFC UnCommonwealth Championship title belt over a shoulder, stops running his fingers over his blue and red lucha mask to point out at something on the street below, giving us a good view of his blue Mario shirt (with the caption "Down Since '85" as he yells excitedly.
Szalinski: Aw! He's gonna hit 'em! Brawl in the Denny's parking lot! Can't have nothin' nice in the city no' more, man...
Graham Clauson, in a white Cheap White Foam shirt and matching white bandana over his head, snaps his fingers and points to the empty lawn chair adjacent to his in the camera's shot.
Clauson: Sit your ass down before somebody sees you...we got work to do.
Madman mumbles the entire time he takes his seat, with a two-way audio system set up (through the arena's PA system and a small screen at the top of the ramp, as well as Madman and Graham tuning in live to the show via a nearby laptop on a TV tray) so that the commentary team can speak with the Shoot Kings, and the conversation can be heard (and seen) by all. Even when Szalinski sits down, he continues ranting out loud seemingly to no one.
Szalinski: Probably a bunch of damn WARPED fans, too...stupid anarchist crap. Just like ya boys Johnny B. Blayzed and Chathstick...if there's no structure of order and law, there's no type of position for you to claim in order to be better than anybody else, which ruins the point of professional wrestling and government in general...I've about had it with these idiots, man. I wish you'd just let me throw something at 'em. I really do. This chair's made of recycled Tupperware lids. Couldn't hurt that bad.
Clement: Can you guys hear me?
Clauson: Loud and clear.
Graham sits up straight, with Madman finally going silent.
Clement: Thank you for giving us a moment of your time.
Clauson: Yeah, we're both scheduled in a couple of singles matches tomorrow night for FRONTIER in Phoenix, and our manager Brydon - who is in Baltimore right now meeting with FGA's people finalizing our deal - advised that we ask not to be booked to compete so soon for FGA. We didn't like it either, but it looks like we won't get to show some of FGA's more...how shall I say this...
Szalinski: Insipid fuck tandems.
Graham pauses, only to shrug and continue. The crowd boos briefly when they learn the Shoot Kings will not debut tonight at Above & Beyond II, but quiet their disappointment and allow the interview to continue.
Clauson: Insipid fuck tandems what we can do in tag team competition. Not tonight, at least.
Szalinski: So we thought we'd take a few minutes to check out what happens tonight...get a good idea of what we bit off here in FGA.
Clement: I'm sure a lot of people are wondering this right now...what are you guys intending to do in FGA?
Graham and Madman look at each other, and nod in perfect synchronization. Continuing this, they turn back to the camera.
Clauson: Whatever we wanna do.
Szalinski: Whatever we gotta do.
Clauson: We've never held a Tag Team championship in our two years.
Szalinski: But honestly...we're still doing pretty darn good!
Szalinski nods, while Graham smirks a little bit.
Grayson: After all that pro-FRONTIER talk, it's a bit gutsy for you two to be coming here, isn't it?
Szalinski: Not really. You notice how I did one thing that Chandler Scott failed to do? I showed respect. We BOTH showed respect...and respect has been shown to us. I never said that I held anything against FGA. I merely showed my pride for FRONTIER, as their Commonwealth Champion. We knew from the second we got to Monroe and met everybody in person that we had to try it out. I mean...you guys do seem to run right in our backyard! We're America's team. We're the dream team. Straight off the Ohio River...two guys with everything you should ever need to succeed in the pro wrestling business. Graham, tell 'em.
Clauson: You got this guy right here...
Clauson points to his partner, pretending to be shy and modest briefly before smiling, refraining from making any type of cocky smirks or gestures.
Clausom: A veteran of TWELVE YEARS, nine of them full-time on a touring pro circuit. The first day he had his driver's license at sixteen, he drove his brothers and girlfriend from Parkersburg, West Virginia all the way to Frostburg, Maryland to get paid ten bucks to job the curtain-jerker match - AFTER HE GOT OUT OF SCHOOL AND TOOK THREE FINALS EXAMS, WHICH HE PASSED!
Szalinski: I got honors in History, I might add. Hey, I got a question...why'd you take Charleston off the schedule? Put it back on. Somebody. I'll pay for it. I got the money.
Almost like he is ignoring his partner, Graham ventures onto his next point.
Clauson: Twelve years. Over a dozen titles. Not even old enough to run for President. And he's indestructible. Break his leg? He'll keep going. Break his face? He'll just get a mask. Break his pancreas? He'll take his insulin shot as he walks through the curtain! That's who this man right over here is. And he's just half of this team...
Szalinski claps slowly, shaking his head with a chuckle.
Szalinski: Thanks, Graham. You know, for the rookie of the team, this man here ain't so bad either. While I was trained by two well-accomplished wrestlers who happened to be my family, Graham was trained by two well accomplished wrestlers, one well-accomplished MMA/cage fighter who is also homosexual, both of whom still train wrestlers and fighters to this very day. The Armed Forces wanted to send their guys to him for "combat conditioning", which is the hell that he put us both through on camera when Graham debuted in FRONTIER. He might only have three years of the road under his belt, but he's had as much wisdom as a man can get without the corresponding experience. And his body isn't jacked up like mine is. He can do a backflip off the top rope and actually land it. He can fling you onto his shoulder and carry you around the ring. I gotta be smart, pick the quickest route from standing toe-to-toe and you-on-the-mat. Graham Clauson once wrestled a sixteen man tournament and won it - FOUR MATCHES IN ONE NIGHT - and them wrestled a FIFTH match, going to a time limit draw in a title match with the world champion! If you dare call me the brains of the Shoot Kings, then have the respect to call this n**** right here the Brawny Man, because that is what he is, my friends!
Clauson: And that's how we work together. Two men, tougher than a Mongol's leather jacket! One man a road warrior since the days of 1.50 a gallon! The other genetically risen for combat! Friends through hell, friends through heaven, we are a team if there ever was one!
Both men lean forward, Graham first, pointing into the camera to enunciate their words through volume.
Clauson: You wanna know what we're doing in FGA? We're wrestlers, here to wrestle, because we're hungry and we hear that it's open season for tag teams around here. We came to get our limit and whatever else we can stuff in the bag.
Szalinski: Basically, FGA is our Coin Ship, and we're about to ransack this motherfucker for each and every piece of gold that we can get our hands on. We said it before, and we'll say it again. We're the REAL super brothers of professional wrestling...
Clauson:...and we don't need no super star to go right through you.
Szalinski: Hope that answers your questions, gentlemen.
Madman leans back, calmly reaching into his pants pocket, cupping but not removing the item. Graham continues to lean forward, waiting to speak again. He raises a hand to interrupt Kevin when he goes to end the interview.
Clement: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen...
Clauson: Excuse me...we'll handle this part. Unlike most people, we like to actually finish what we start.
Graham lifts his fingers up to mimic a pistol in his hand. Madman, now putting a cigarette into his mouth, turns to see Graham and quickly lights it with a Zippo, then gets his opposite hand out to mirror.
Clauson: Ladies and gentlemen...your newest tag team in Frontier Grappling Arts...and future Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Champions...the Shoot Kings.
Both men point their "pistols" at the camera.
Clauson: Shoot's over.
With static, the scene cuts away and back to the arena.