Pedro Gonzales Does the Evolution
Sept 15, 2016 10:08:23 GMT -5
Post by Anna on Sept 15, 2016 10:08:23 GMT -5
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...
If one were to view Shakespeare's words in the frame of a wrestling career, it could be assumed that Pedro Gonzales has already played a few roles already. At the beginning, he was the mewling infant who knew nothing and was thrust into the limelight with his stomach doing flips. Then with the short lived appearances of his first and second trainer, he became the schoolboy who learned unwillingly until gradually accepting the teachings. It continued in North Carolina until he sighed at his mistress' eyebrow.
Now as he sits on an actual stage with the spotlight on him, the New Pride of Mexico slowly but surely inches his way towards a brand new role. The one that inevitably becomes a part of the wrestler psyche. First things first though.
"Glitz, glamour, and glory. They're not the words many would apply to what we do. But I suppose they fit in their own way. Especially in Los Angeles where the first two are here in spades. If you overlook some things anyway.
I don't think the Mayor of Hollywood--whoever that may be--has any clue what exactly they were booking other than a pretty solid card for the first ever Challenge. And far too many people are worried about who's in the main event and who should belong there. Ash Scion shrugs, Adam Adonis cackles, Jensen Banks is all up in arms...
...and just below the two matches that vie for that spot is myself and Ethan Thompson II."
He smiles.
"If you base the happening of the match on what we used to be as people, you would see us as polar opposites. And honestly, why wouldn't you? The smug aristocrat heel from New Zealand who falsifies cowardice in order to find openings is very much the antithesis of a Mexican face who just wants to fight hard without any true shenanigans. Thus the colliding of those two totally different people is virtually guaranteed to create fireworks that, if nothing else, jazzes up the card just that much more."
A beat.
"Further more, if you're basing this match solely on that, you would be a complete idiot."
It's a bluntness that is foreign coming from his lips. Yet it's truthful all the same.
"I can never claim to speak for him. But at a moment where most of us would tried to keep wrestling in order to not think so much, Señor Thompson did what a lot of people don't have the balls to do: he took a few months off. He took the time to reevaluate himself, to find the piece of something that makes him keep going. He tore himself down and built himself back up.
And shortly before the closing of LDFC, I've had to do the same. Chris Bond was a good teacher when he wasn't injured or snapping at people due to his own personal torment. Riley Owens was adequate at his job. I came into the trainer center as a student willing to be molded and tested with an insatiable need to do things their way. Yet no matter how much I tried to scrub and scratch a lot of things out of me, I could never be a blank slate. I could never be the one thing I wanted to be.
Señor Thompson looked to his friends and to the future in order to grow and change.
I went inside myself to the past to recover some of the things I have misplaced.
He did it in order to survive and carry a legacy while becoming his own man.
I did it because I had to accept what I was before acknowledging what I could be."
El sigh.
"I realize that there are many people watching this, including Señor Thompson, who will confuse my honesty for weakness. Maybe I'm reading too much into this. Maybe I'm too sentimental. I don't know. One thing I do know is that it doesn't matter what path we took to come here. What matters in the long run is what we've learned from it. Looking into the previous power structure and how it supported the bloodthirsty and vain made me see the light.
I have to do what I must in order to thrive. This means reclaiming a title I have felt uneasy in using before and letting my previous training speak for itself. I don't want to end another man's career, but--"
A memory flashes in Pedro's brain that he shakes off.
"So while everybody else is squawking about who belongs where, I'm going to be in the ring proving it.
Because I live for the glory."
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...
If one were to view Shakespeare's words in the frame of a wrestling career, it could be assumed that Pedro Gonzales has already played a few roles already. At the beginning, he was the mewling infant who knew nothing and was thrust into the limelight with his stomach doing flips. Then with the short lived appearances of his first and second trainer, he became the schoolboy who learned unwillingly until gradually accepting the teachings. It continued in North Carolina until he sighed at his mistress' eyebrow.
Now as he sits on an actual stage with the spotlight on him, the New Pride of Mexico slowly but surely inches his way towards a brand new role. The one that inevitably becomes a part of the wrestler psyche. First things first though.
"Glitz, glamour, and glory. They're not the words many would apply to what we do. But I suppose they fit in their own way. Especially in Los Angeles where the first two are here in spades. If you overlook some things anyway.
I don't think the Mayor of Hollywood--whoever that may be--has any clue what exactly they were booking other than a pretty solid card for the first ever Challenge. And far too many people are worried about who's in the main event and who should belong there. Ash Scion shrugs, Adam Adonis cackles, Jensen Banks is all up in arms...
...and just below the two matches that vie for that spot is myself and Ethan Thompson II."
He smiles.
"If you base the happening of the match on what we used to be as people, you would see us as polar opposites. And honestly, why wouldn't you? The smug aristocrat heel from New Zealand who falsifies cowardice in order to find openings is very much the antithesis of a Mexican face who just wants to fight hard without any true shenanigans. Thus the colliding of those two totally different people is virtually guaranteed to create fireworks that, if nothing else, jazzes up the card just that much more."
A beat.
"Further more, if you're basing this match solely on that, you would be a complete idiot."
It's a bluntness that is foreign coming from his lips. Yet it's truthful all the same.
"I can never claim to speak for him. But at a moment where most of us would tried to keep wrestling in order to not think so much, Señor Thompson did what a lot of people don't have the balls to do: he took a few months off. He took the time to reevaluate himself, to find the piece of something that makes him keep going. He tore himself down and built himself back up.
And shortly before the closing of LDFC, I've had to do the same. Chris Bond was a good teacher when he wasn't injured or snapping at people due to his own personal torment. Riley Owens was adequate at his job. I came into the trainer center as a student willing to be molded and tested with an insatiable need to do things their way. Yet no matter how much I tried to scrub and scratch a lot of things out of me, I could never be a blank slate. I could never be the one thing I wanted to be.
Señor Thompson looked to his friends and to the future in order to grow and change.
I went inside myself to the past to recover some of the things I have misplaced.
He did it in order to survive and carry a legacy while becoming his own man.
I did it because I had to accept what I was before acknowledging what I could be."
El sigh.
"I realize that there are many people watching this, including Señor Thompson, who will confuse my honesty for weakness. Maybe I'm reading too much into this. Maybe I'm too sentimental. I don't know. One thing I do know is that it doesn't matter what path we took to come here. What matters in the long run is what we've learned from it. Looking into the previous power structure and how it supported the bloodthirsty and vain made me see the light.
I have to do what I must in order to thrive. This means reclaiming a title I have felt uneasy in using before and letting my previous training speak for itself. I don't want to end another man's career, but--"
A memory flashes in Pedro's brain that he shakes off.
"So while everybody else is squawking about who belongs where, I'm going to be in the ring proving it.
Because I live for the glory."