Respect the Shooters & Hookers (Intro)

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(As a die-hard Hip Hop addict, I strongly believe in the art of "Mash-Up Radio" IE: taking two completely different genres or sounds and blending (or "mashing") them together to form something new. This Press Conference skit is an example of MSD's "MASH-UP" wrestling. What you are about to read is word-for-word answers (unless bolded) from the mouth of the UNDISPUTED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. Credit for the orginal interview at the end).

“BROKEN CITY CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING” (BCCW) is the newest Pro Wrestling endeavor to be launched in the North East – territorial hotbed and home to some of the most illustrious history in the game.

The return of the art to Broken City couldn’t have come at a more crucial time, as the recession continues and Television ratings stagnate. We’re in the home of gangsta rap, firearms and crack rocks – a place where we respect the HOOKERS and the SHOOTERS.

Joining us tonight for the first pre-show press conference, the legend LOU THESZ – who has held the Undisputed World Championship for a combined total of 10 years, 3 months and nine days (3,749 days total) – longer than anyone in HISTORY.

Among his many accomplishments, he is credited with inventing a number of professional wrestling moves such as the belly to back waistlock suplex (later known as the German suplex due to its association with Karl Gotch), the Lou Thesz press, STF and the original powerbomb. He is the UNDISPUTED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION.



MSD: Mister THESZ? Welcome to BCCW. Can you tell us a little bit about the belt you currently hold?

LOU THESZ: The first time I won the Title it was the Undisputed Heavyweight Championship - not the NWA because the NWA didn't exist at that time. Anyway, there was a National Wrestling - not an Alliance - but a National Wrestling Association and that was composed of Athletic Commissioners appointed by the respective governing bodies of each State and this was known as the National Wrestling Association and they had a lot of clout - if you were suspended in California then you were also suspended in New York.

MSD: Well you’re here today in Money Massachusetts, and the man around these parts is a young brother by the name of JOHN CENA. What are your thoughts on him as a championship contender?

LOU THESZ: Well, with the advent of TV and so forth, the hype began and the rest of the story you know.

MSD: No, I don’t. Are you saying JOHN CENA is just TV hype?

LOU THESZ: Well, overexposure could be a problem, particularly with TV because its on the tube and they (World Wrestling Entertainment) run it over and over again kind of like a broken record. But so far as traveling internationally, you really kind of evade the problem because you're in so many different places like in India and Australia and they didn't have the TV situation like we do in this country, they do now but 25-30-40 years ago they didn't. But over-visibility is a real problem. Jack Dempsey once said, "...the wrestling game is going to hurt itself because you show it over and over again on TV", and he said, "How much rice can a Chinaman eat?" And it's true, you know. It's a repetition thing.

MSD: Now, pro wrestling sports entertainment is broadcast in more than 145 countries and 30 languages.

LOU THESZ: Traveling internationally is a very challenging thing especially with foreign referees, because you get a local boy and the referee's got to live in that town and no matter what happens you're not going to get preferential treatment, he is. That happens frequently. So that's when we had to come in with that rule about "No Title change under disqualification". They could disqualify you for using a legitimate hold. But anyway, it was a real adventure running around the world wrestling the local Champion. By the time we would get in with the local guys, the local Champion we knew if he was a wrestler or not because we hustled and worked out with some of the people he trained with, so it was an adventure and it was an exploration. Every one of them was a little different until video came out...



MSD: JOHN CENA is a 9-Time World Champion, 3x US champion and 2x Tag Team Champion. Surely that kind of impressive track record is evidence enough of his titanic wrestling abilities?

LOU THESZ: I didn't disagree with what he was doing at all as a matter of fact he was not a bad wrestler, a lot of people didn't know that, he was a pretty good heavyweight wrestler.

So far as publicity and stuff, I thought the guy did a fantastic job of hyping himself and if anybody had challenged him at ringside they'd have made a big mistake because he’s like a buzzsaw. I saw him deck a lot of people. People think that because they wear a fancy robe and do something like show business, and you know, milking the people as it were that they don't have ability.

MSD: He’s also a big time Hollywood action film star too. I don’t know if you had a chance to view “The Marine” yet? Classic material.

LOU THESZ: Absolutely because it's mutual respect because when you get down to fine sand, which is an old expression they used to use, but it's the way we play the game. You can meet some great people, there'll be some movie people there … some of them are really the cream of the crop, really great people. People in the movie industry, we have a lot of big names, I think Kirk Douglas is going to be at my table this year.



MSD: We’ve had some tough negotiations with the various wrestling deities throughout the time spectrum as we laid out the Broken City Throwdown – some were not man enough to accept the challenge. What are your thoughts on young champions like JACK SWAGGER and DESMOND WOLFE (aka NIGEL MCGUINNESS) accepting the Broken City Throwdown?

LOU THESZ: They came along just about ten years after I came off the road, I was still wrestling some matches but I didn't go on the road. Both of them are great athletes, both of them are damn good wrestlers and great all around athletes and I'm very good friends with both of them and I admire both of them a lot.

MSD: Let me get some of your thoughts on the wrestlers not man enough to make the trip…

LOU THESZ: Oh well sure, I wrestled them all. I wrestled Funk and also Race in Japan. And Terry, Terry Funk I wrestled him somewhere in Texas.

MSD: How about KURT ANGLE?

LOU THESZ: KURT ANGLE? The wig-wearing, McMahon-kissing circus clown? People call him a great wrestler… please... Now GEORGE TRAGOS - he was a great wrestler, three time Olympian, and the greatest in this country from Greece and represented Greece in two Olympics and the United States in one.  A super wrestler and learned a little bit later by taking on all comers in carnivals and circuses and so forth, he learned the art in this country and they all exchanged these things and just to perpetuate the sport in this country why they would torture each other. And little by little, in England they had some very good wrestlers at that time and they'd just go up and down the road with the carnivals and circuses and clean everybody's plow because they'd have a good wrestler and a good fighter with each show.  And I really wanted to get into that when I was a youngster about 17 - 18 but that when Ed "Strangler" Lewis and Ray Steele and George Tragos they counseled with me and told me not to do it because it would lower my image. Looked like I had something coming because at that time there was a kind of pecking order with the wrestlers and, I don't want to say this boastfully, but the people who could really wrestle were the ones who emerged. Today that's another story...



MSD: Now let's talk about BRUNO SAMMARTINO for a moment...

LOU THESZ: When I was NWA Champion I wrestled him in Toronto, Canada… (Frank) Tunny was the promoter.

MSD: What type of match?

LOU THESZ: It was a wrestling match, it lasted about 30 minutes and I pinned him.

MSD: Wow, so you’ve done it all so far. Except compete in the Broken City Slaughterhouse, where true wrestling reigns. Where we respect the Hookers and Shooters.

Lou Thesz: I'd say about a halfway shot. The ones that you mentioned are not really died-in-the-wool wrestlers, and they may be advertised as such, but if you're talking about hookers, well no...

MSD: Have you ever been to Broken City?

Lou Thesz: Studio City, at the Sportsman's Lodge. And this is kind of a coincidence, when I used to wrestle out there 35-40 years ago I used to go to the Sportsman's Lodge for dinner - it was the favorite place for the movie stars, but I didn't go there for that, I went there because they had the best food in town. They had, like a moat and it was filled with rainbow trout, so you would catch your own trout, give it to your waiter, he would give it to the chef and fifteen minutes later you'd have it on the table.

MSD: Verne Gagne and his team came to Broken City to discuss his possible involvement in the Throwdown- they took one look at the Sportsman Lounge - hightailed it back to the tundra. 

Lou Thesz: Oh yeah, sure, up around Minnesota. Sure, if you didn't have any money and nowhere else to go you'd go to work for the carnivals. You could feed the elephants or wrestle... (laughs)

MSD: Can you tell us the difference between men of your breed, and softer guys - the "carnival people" - who lack heart, like BROCK LESNAR or GOLDBERG?

LOU THESZ: Well, the carnival people were there to entertain people, not to lose money. They were not too fond of that idea, but nevertheless they would take on all comers and as I said earlier, they would always have one knockout fighter in there and one wrestler who really knew how to take care of himself, they were called "Hookers" - they knew how to hurt people is what I was trying to say.  They could go in there and have an exhibition with someone and if he wasn't too tough they could have a real nice match and entertain the people and so forth, but if it was a heads up contest, and it became a matter of who could take care of themselves and who could not, and some of these people were really tough customers, and they'd break your arm or a leg in a heartbeat without taking a deep breath because they may have lost $2, you know?

MSD: I do. Life or death, one shot to call.


Lou Thesz: It could be a tough call...

MSD: Well you’re back, you’re in the best physical condition of your life and you have a lot to prove by accepting the Broken City Throwdown to compete at "RESPECT THE SHOOTERS & HOOKERS". How will your story end?

LOU THESZ: Well it’s my life of running up and down the road, formerly an amateur wrestler and then somebody offered to pay me for doing what I liked doing most, and I went ahead and did it. It's just the story of a young wrestler who survived living in the Depression. The Depression was a very difficult time, this country was in big trouble and a man with a family, if he could get a $10 a week job he was lucky, you know.

MSD: Speaking of depressing, we lived through the grungy original ECW era, with slobs like Raven or Sandman who looked like he just rolled out of bed.  Like they took no pride in their craft or this business.  That's another reason Broken City Championship Wrestling is top notch entertainment. 

LOU THESZ: Oh yes, and these people took a lot of pride in what they did and they would give you the knowledge, it was unbelievable because you could not pay them to do it, they either wanted to do it or they did not, and to use that word "professional wrestling' is what they wanted to do... It gets to be your livelihood...

MSD: Nowadays, guys like THE MIZ and RANDY ORTON are considered top-shelf talent. Neither one of them has your track record, or respect in the game.

LOU THESZ: Nevertheless we went up and down the road, we look back now and in retrospect we say it was tough, but we didn't think so because that's the way it was... and I’m about to show these young bucks just how it is.

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Suddenly, the press conference is thrown into a tizzy when a belligerent (and slightly buzzing) BOBBY “the BRAIN” HEENAN makes his way into the press row. At first he’s talking on a cellphone.



BOBBY “the BRAIN” HEENAN:
That’s right, tickets are going on sale.
Well don’t get smart with me, I’ll slap you in the mouth.
Do you want me to knock ya down???
…I’ll talk to you later mom”.

MSD: What are YOU doing here, HEENAN???

HEENAN: How about THIS? (holds up a second title, indistinguishable from afar). This happens to be the REAL championship belt!!!

MSD: That’s not LOU THESZ’s Undisputed Heavyweight Championship!!!

HEENAN: You’re right. Comparing THIS belt to LOU THESZ’s belt would be like comparing ice cream to horse manure.

(Nervous gasps of shock and awe are exchanged throughout the hall)

HEENAN: Comparing the men who wear these belts would ALSO be like comparing ice cream to horse manure.

(LOU THESZ becomes visibly angry)

HEENAN: See, the man who holds this belt right now is under contract to another organization. But in the very near future he may be coming to BROKEN CITY CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING. This man is also a longtime, dear personal friend of mine.

MSD: Does he have a name???

HEENAN: YES, he has a name! This man has challenged you, THESZ, on many occasions – unanswered – may I add. You wanna compare them? Fine. Then let’s compare LOU THESZ… to…

(HEENAN’s mic is abruptly cut off when a power surge knocks out the electricity in the hall. Minor chaos ensues as LOU THESZ must be physically restrained from knocking over the press conference table and throttling HEENAN, who thumbs his nose at authority and is ushered out of the building through the back door (still cradling the “REAL” world championship belt)

Later that same day, JOHN CENA tweeted his response to LOU THESZ’s comments:
 


Social networks were formed so people would have a voice, and an opinion. I know you all have your own, theories and whatnot. I respect that. I have never asked any of you to feel a certaint way about me. I agree with the majority of you who are caught off guard by this choice. I know I'm not exactly appreciated by all, nor do I care to be, but I believe what I believe. I was taught to stand up for what I beileve in. I tried and failed, so I could use some help. Tell me how to sign and I will. If for nothing else, to at least have a chance to have a match with him after what was done. I know that seems a bit more fair. Give me a chance to have a fair match with him. Sorry for the long message, I know I am probally way out of line, I am sorry if I have offended anyone. But like me or not That is what Hustle. Loyalty. And most importantly Respect means to me.

CREDITS:


(LOU THESZ quotes: Copyright 1998 - Jeremy Hartley and Jump City Productions.

JOHN CENA quotes: Twitter reaction to release of DANIEL BRYAN)

The Champ Is Here

BCCW in co-production with GDT Inc and Dutch Oven Enterprises will be promoting an International 3-Way Dance. Appealing to action sports enthusiasts and wrestling purists around the globe, this epic-level Main Event clash will feature 3 legends of their respective crafts.

Representing Americana, and the Hollywood Slam Bang style of pro wrestling, is none other than WWE World Heavyweight Champion JOHN CENA. JOHN is an American actor, hip hop musician, and professional wrestler. Cena is a nine-time world champion, 3x US champion and 2x Tag Team Champion. Cena also won the 2008 Royal Rumble and the 2009 Superstar of the Year Slammy Award.





JOHN CENA: The franchise doin big bidness – I live this. It’s automatic I win this… oh you hear those horns? You’re finished.

One of his opponents in the International 3-Way Dance is coming all the way live from Mexico City. He is a fellow thespian himself, appearing in countless films. A legend in his homeland and representing the Heavyweight style of Luche Libre, he… is…

MIL MASCARAS





MIL MASCARAS (through translator): Hahahaha it’s a pleasure to hear that.

Cena was born April 23, 1977 in West Newbury, Massachusetts. Graduating from Cushing Academy, Cena attended Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. In college he was a Division III All-American center on the college football team. He graduated from Springfield in 1998 with a degree in exercise physiology, after which he pursued a career in bodybuilding and also worked as a chauffeur for a limousine company. Now he is one of the most recognized and decorated pro wrestlers in the game’s history.

Mil Máscaras made his professional wrestling debut in April 1965 in Guadalajara. Máscaras became popular in Mexico for being one of the best conditioned luchadores in the heavyweight division (which was dominated by foreigners at the time). It was his size that permitted him to wrestle in the US and Japan under the heavyweight division. Máscaras was one of the first masked luchadores outside of Mexico to play a non-heel role. He rarely resorted to rule breaking, instead relying on his repertoire of moves and counter-moves. Máscaras was also one of the first wrestlers to introduce the high-flying moves of lucha libre, such as the plancha and tope suicida, to Japanese fans. This brought him international fame as one of the first high-flyers - something he was not considered in Mexico where he fell under the mat-power category. A year after his wrestling debut, Mil Máscaras starred in his first film, a self-titled picture.

MSD: Gentleman, welcome to the Broken City Slaughterhouse – where we respect the SHOOTERS & HOOKERS. We’re going to open up the floor now for questions from the press.

REPORTER #1: You are both highly-regarded fan favorites (some more so than others), how hard have you been training for this match and how far will you go to attain the victory?

JOHN CENA: It's one of those things where you can stop wherever you want to, but sometimes I'm blind with pride and I take my profession very seriously and I know people paid good money to see me perform that night.

MIL MASCARAS : Fans always look at my flying moves only, but I don’t want them to miss the moves of other disciplines that I use in mat wrestling and suplexes.

REPORTER #2: Yeah, you’re both loosely considered “fan favorites”, but JOHN you’ve been getting a much more divided – shall I say “heated” – reaction from the proper wrestling community…

JOHN CENA: “Proper wrestling???”

REPORTER #2: What do have to say to your critics and haters?

JOHN CENA: They pay good money to do whatever the hell they want. I don't care what I hear, as long as its noise. If you want to tell me to go to hell, it doesn't mean I'm going to stop believing in what I believe in. I respect the business, I respect the profession, I also think the business needs to grow, I think we should always be pushing forward, try to do bigger events, try to do more spectacular things and if I'm hated for that, I don't care. It's not going to change my belief on what I am or what I'm trying to do. I would be MORE hated if I listened to those guys or girls and switched up my behavior because it's up to the fans. The fans dictate what they would like to see on our program. At this point there are a lot of people who wish I was buried under 12 feet of concrete next to Jimmy Hoffa… but there are also a lot of people who still believe in what I do and I think when it comes time for the last person to say "alright, Cena can go to hell" then I'll tell the rest of the people to go to hell.

MIL MASCARAS: That’s probably a good judge.





REPORTER #1: How much calculation has gone into your respective preparations? Any cutting edge new training techniques?

MIL MASCARAS: I never calculated my moves. However, it’s really hard to copy them because they are just naturally coming from me.

JOHN CENA: You succeed through hard work, through discipline, through getting your hands dirty and getting shit done. I'm not cutting edge, I'm not 'today' I'm none of those buzzwords. I'm an old-fashioned, punch the fucking clock, go to work type of guy.

MIL MASCARAS (in response to the sudden burst of profanity): I remember you as a young man with good manners.

JOHN CENA: I just think it's something that visibly shows people who genuinely love what they do and there are those that don't.

REPORTER #3: Mister Mascaras, have you studied any of CENA’s previous work?

MIL MASCARAS: Yes, I had opportunity to watch his matches on video because the press constantly compared me and him. I thought he was a great wrestler. Animal-like jumps, stiff moves and a lot of ideas. His suplexes were very original. I couldn’t even copy many of them (laughs). It’s natural that we had different fight styles. I was conscious of him, but I already had my established style and didn’t even think about changing it.

JOHN CENA: If you can pull it off, that's the sign of someone who demands respect in this business.

MIL MASCARAS: Maybe so. I might have said that. He was already speedy and having scientific matches. I believe he already had enough elements to be… the future.

JOHN CENA: The match is the match, it will be what it will be, but it's the lead up to the match that I enjoy, trying to get people interested in what I have to say. "Why do I want to see the next John Cena match?" It's because "I don't like what he's saying, I want him to get his ass whipped" or "Man, that's my guy and I want to see him hit the ring and kick some ass". I love doing that.





REPORTER #4: Speaking of the lead-up to a match, just the other day Undisputed Wrestling Champion LOU THESZ had some choice words to say about you, JOHN CENA. Any response beyond what you twittered later in the evening?

JOHN CENA: Not at all. Those "proper wrestling" fans are the ones that stick around when the business is bad. It's a very tough dichotomy. For our business to grow, we need to attract the casual fan. But when our business is in the skids, it's the quote/unquote "proper wrestling" fan that's always going to stick behind us. It's not that I don't care [when they] say I can't wrestle, I'm just glad that they are watching. I'm glad that they are analyzing my stuff so much that I'm under the microscope that much. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and none of that stuff offends me. All I can do, all anyone can ask of me, is go out every night and give everything I got, that's exactly what I do.

REPORTER #5: Mister Mascaras, you’re a legend in the game. Cena, you’re legend is steadily growing. How will your respective legacies be impacted by this match, win or lose?

MIL MASCARAS: Masked wrestlers should always keep something mysterious. Even with your friends. El Santo and I could keep our status by doing so.

JOHN CENA: I am a true explanation of myself - I am me. This is not ballet, it's a contact business. I hit like a mac truck and I don't do any of that stuff. I don't have any elaborate uniforms, I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts. I don't use fake tan. Sometimes I'm fat, sometimes I'm skinny, sometimes I'm white as a ghost, sometimes I got a good tan, it's just a matter of how much sun I can get that week. I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am. Like I said before, I can't stress this enough, that's either in a negative or a positive, because either way is a result.





REPORTER #7: Máscaras, you made your international wrestling debut in 1968 at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, getting involved in great rivalries against the likes of Ernie Ladd, John Tolos, Black Gordman, and Goliath. In Mexico City, you unmasked El Halcon in a triangular tournament that included Alfonso Dantés in the 1970s…

MIL MASCARAS: That kind of story makes me realize my own long history! (laughs)

REPORTER #7: Did you know at the time what kind of impact you were having on the game, on such a global level?

MIL MASCARAS: Those plancha (diving body attack) and tope (flying cross chop) were copied from someone else by me.

REPORTER #7: Really???

MIL MASCARAS: Yes. There used to be a wrestler named Gorilita Flores, who did plancha from the second rope. I made it better jumping off the top rope. I studied how to jump. Spreading my arms and make my body like a bow. Even as a compliment, I could never say Gorilita Flores’ plance was beautiful. Plancha suicidak - jumping off the ring - is also my original. It’s same for the tope, too. The man who started using tope in Mexico is said to be Black Shadow, but I copied it with my own idea.

REPORTER #4: Back to the “lead-up” of a match, if I may. There are many “proper wrestling” purists who actually despise this portion of the build. They consider it too melodramatic and showbiz phony for this sport. Is this just another example of why you seem to generate such hatred, John? Have you seen any of Mister Mascaras’ previous work?

JOHN CENA: I got to watch it all, but the stuff that really intrigued me - I mean I watched everything; I watched World Class, I watched NWA, I watched AWA because that's what they broadcast on ESPN in the states. I watched GLOW. The stuff that really intrigued me was the more character based, the more drama set story of the World Wrestling Federation. I just liked the fact that these guys were superheroes and I could look up to a superhero and it was a real-life person. You know, you could go and see them live. As much as I dug guys in the NWA like Dusty Rhodes - Dusty was always one of my Dad's favourites because here was a superhero that was a common dude too. You could tell he was a common dude. A child's mind is so unobstructed by anything and they just get so caught up in wanting to cheer for someone and wanting to hate someone. To me that's what drives our business. At the end of the day it's not if you can do a majistral cradle or a 450 reverse double plancha dive. It's not that, it's "do I give a shit about this guy or do I not?" and I think that's the most important thing in our business.

REPORTER #6: MIL, you were the first masked wrestler to compete in Madison Square Garden.

MIL MASCARAS: It’s true that I worked more in American than in Mexico, especially in Florida and Texas. However whenever I was requested by those organizations, I tried to work for them as much as possible.





REPORTER #8: Mister Mascaras, you’ve paid your dues all over the globe wrestling for every major company in the universe. You’ve also experienced your fair share of hatred, notably from guys like MICK FOLEY, CHRIS JERICO and SUPERSTAR BILLY GRAHAM. Surely you can relate to the dueling dichotomy of JOHN CENA’s fanbase?

MIL MASCARAS: Yeah, I’m the only wrestler who toured not only Mexico, America and Japan… but also Central & South America, Australia, Europe and Africa… all over the world. So, I had opportunity to wrestle unknown opponents in unknown countries. In my case, I was always a limpio (an old lucha term for babyface) anywhere I go, and there were many wrestlers who were jealous. So, in 30 years, I have experienced so many cement attempts. It was necessary to know martial arts in those cases. I remember the matches against Jose Assali in Guatemara and Corazon Grande de Africa in Nigelia were cement from the beginning. I had such experiences in America and Europe as well.

REPORTER #8: You know martial arts?

MIL MASCARAS: I learned juijitsu too. In Mexico, I learned kendo, aikido, karate, judo and other martial arts. I’m as good as black belt in everything. I learned juijiitsu from a student of Konde Koma (Mitsuyo Maeda, the man who introduced juijitsu to Brazil) and also from Professor Tanaka. I was interested in juijitsu as “judo with striking”. Sitting on the opponent, pinning him choking and punching… I was already interested in the Oriental martial arts, but I learned them more for anti-cement.

REPORTER #4: JOHN, is it safe to say many of the “proper wrestling” fans issues with you may stem from the idea you “never paid your dues” and came up easy in the WWE Developmental territories?

JOHN CENA: Absolutely. Nobody liked me. Everybody thought I was just another big guy, I had no skills. It was a time where I went through a lot of change. Like I said I had a lot of success doing the Jim Cornette style of wrestling which is the complete opposite of the then-WWE style so it was like I was thrown into the deep end but I'm glad that I almost didn't make it because if I didn't make it I'd probably be back at Gold's Gym cleaning the toilets. You hear so much about the series of tests that so much of the talent go through. I just think maybe that I was given the 'sink or swim' ultimatum then started to do the hip-hop thing, and at least showed everyone that I could speak. From then on, match after match, progressively worked on my craft and then hit a point in my career where I said "I actually want to stop speaking and start wrestling." And that's exactly what I did.

MIL MASCARAS: In my case, I arranged the tirabsons (Mexican submissions) and other moves in my own way.

REPORTER #2: John, what are some of the dream fantasy match-ups you hope to accomplish in BCCW?

JOHN CENA: This is my take on The Rock, and he's a genuinely nice guy. I've met him; he's a fantastic human being. What I kind of get peeved about, and I guess this is my flaw, my Achilles heel, I hear it every day with young talent, with midcard talent, with people aspiring to make it in this business; I hear "I've wanted to do this my whole life." Rock falls into that category. He, at one point, loved wrestling and wanted to do this all of his life. Explain to me why he can't come back for a 15th Anniversary show or why he can't make an appearance at Wrestlemania. Simply put it's because he wants to be an actor. There's nothing wrong with that, there's nothing wrong with that. He's a very good actor, he's very successful, he's done very well for himself and associating with sports entertainment doesn't do much for his acting career. It only helps out the sports entertainment audience so I get why he doesn't come back. Just don't f*** me around and tell me that you love this when you are just doing this to do something else. That's the only thing that gets me really pissed off.

REPORTER #8: This upcoming International 3-Way Dance is going to be the biggest match in Pro Wrestling time/space/history. Without even knowing your 3rd opponent yet, can you guarantee this will be one match for the ages? MIL MASCARAS is arguably the biggest name in Lucha Libre.

JOHN CENA: It'd be fantastic. The people would go nuts, and that's the thing, he has so much admiration from our audience. One thing I've learned from being a wrestler, or being on the other side of the barricade and being a fan, you almost don't realize it as a fan because you are a fan so much, you just go to everything. Being on the other side I learned how much of their hard earned dollars are spent on our product. But like I said, he (MIL MASCARAS) is a great guy, but we all know now that he wants to be an actor. There's nothing wrong with that because he's truly found another passion. He's good at acting, his films make money (laughs)

MIL MASCARAS shifts uneasily in his seat.

REPORTER #1: Final question: MIL you’re in remarkable shape. What’s your secret?

MIL MASCARAS: My body has natural muscles. I never take any drugs. I have kept this shape only with good meals and training for 30 years. Those wrestlers who use steroid can temporarily keep good shape but it’s bad for health (stares hard at JOHN CENA). Also their bodies can shrink soon. I made my body only with training, so my muscle is really soft and I can keep it with a daily adjustment.

JOHN CENA (angrily interrupting): That question is real easy to answer because you have to consider the source. When the source is ignorant to how things operate now, let's say even if they were a successful star, even if the situation was they got a superstar from the early 90s or late 80s that was a success. Our entity has changed. We truly now are a global phenomenon, much more of a business than we ever have been before. Our athletes come up, not only athletically savvy, but business savvy.

REPORTER #4: But in the 80’s, HULK HOGAN said he wasn’t on steroids. And he was. In the 90’s ULTIMATE WARRIOR said he wasn’t on steroids. And he was. How do we know you’re being truthful right now?

JOHN CENA: I've tried to make this point a million times, you never know if it's truthful. Basically, it's a matter of opinion; it always has been and always will be. An athlete's best defence is his record. If there is a drug testing policy and you pass every drug test, as an athlete that's the best you can do to say "Look guys, I'm clean." I can go on air and say "Hey, I'm not on steroids." And prove it with it with 6 clean test s last year, 8 the year before - I'm clean. But as soon as I say that, there's people on the Internet going 'No, he's on steroids, I know he's on this and that." That's an argument that I've been fighting since I was 16 years old, that I know for a fact I can never win so I'll never get in a screaming match, I'll never get in an argument. Performance enhancing drugs work, they will always be in any aspect of athleticism that has to do with performance. They make the drugs, the drugs work, it basically comes down to an athlete's personal choice, now, whether they want to go up on the stand and lie about it, that's also their personal choice, that they have to deal with. Hulk Hogan had to really, really, backpedal himself into a series of apologies and telling everybody that it wasn't the right thing to do, so you take it upon yourself as an athlete, if you're on some s*** and you go out there and say I'm clean, and you get busted, your integrity, your word, which is pretty much in this business all you have to stand on, is f***ed.

MSD: Thank you very much gentleman, this officially concludes…

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

The ear-piercing screech of microphone feedback cuts through the air, drawing everybody’s attention to the back of the hall… where BOBBY “the BRAIN” HEENAN has reappeared! He holds aloft that same unknown title belt.





REPORTER #6: Look what he’s carrying!

MSD: What are you doing here???

BOBBY “the BRAIN” HEENAN: What I would like you to feast your eyes on… matter of fact, I want the WHOLE world to take a good look… holds the title high for the gathered reporters to see… at the belt that belongs to the REAL world champion! You see… the belts that belong (to THESZ and CENA), as far as I’m concerned - and the world’s concerned – is CHEAP! It’s an imitation of the real thing!

Sure (CENA), you’re WWE World Champion… but you’re not the REAL world’s champion. Comparing what you own, the belt you have, and the title you have, is like comparing prime rib to lunch meat! You know, there’s a lot of people with big mouths. There’s a lot of people like Hulk Hogan (HI thegenerator!!!) who run and hide and dodge people…

JOHN CENA starts to speak up.

HEENAN: Your opinion means NOTHING to the REAL worlds champion! Let me tell you something, if the real worlds champion were standing here right now, he would have you on your hands and knees shining the belt!

CENA springs to action, knocking over the press conference table and scattering reporters. MIL MASCARAS along with his translator, remove themselves from the fracas as notebooks, pencils and recorders are strewn about. Security makes a grab for HEENAN while holding CENA back. MSD presides over the chaos.

MSD: Who is HEENAN’s “real worlds champion???” Who will be the 3rd man in our International 3-Way Dance? And what of the rumors of a mystery man from LOU THESZ’s past who is reportedly interested in coming to BCCW for the sole purpose of seeing him destroyed??? Check back for future updates as soon as they become available!!!

CREDITS: John Cena: THE SUN
By JOEL ROSS and SIMON ROTHSTEIN
Published: 03 Mar 2008

MIL MASCARAS: WEEKLY GONG, August 3rd 1995
Translated by Hisaharu Tanabe

BOBBY “the BRAIN” HEENAN: Funeral Parlor circa 1991

The REAL World's Champion

We are interrupting your regularly scheduled Draft Viewing to bring you LIVE from Broken City where BOBBY "the BRAIN" HEENAN has called together an impromptu press conference.



HEENAN: Right now I've heard enough from CENA & THESZ! Right now I'm gonna introduce The Man.

The Man that put wrestling on the map! The man who has made everyone in BROKEN CITY CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING shake! The man who has made everyone here sit on the edge of their chairs waiting for his arrival...

Now if you'll all stand, and show the proper respect... (you dummy, go get the carpet - the red one). Roll it out let's do it right this time. What am I doing? Relax. It's not like MSD coming out.. where everybody's just "here's MSD!" Whoopee, big deal. I'm gonna show you the proper way to introduce somebody. This is the royal treatment.

(harasses the stage hand unfolding the red carpet further) You got it clean? K' move off the set.

Now it's time...

LIVE and in living color, the GREATEST world's heavyweight champion in the history of this great sport...and it's my pleasure to introduce... you got it... the REAL worlds champion...

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS!!!!!

(stand up! There ya go, stand! Everybody stand!)



The strut!
The feathered robe!
The bleached blond hair and California tan!

You've seen it before, but you've never seen it like this. The O.G. of the game. The real Nature Boy. Hailing from the Murder Capital, Camden NJ. Here in BCCW to answer the Broken City Throwdown. Holla @ your boy! The REAL World's Champion:

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS!!!!!!

6'4", dressed to the nines, everything custom tailored, Calloused hands manicured, with a huge diamond pinkie ring. He is smoking a Cohiba Behike cigar.

BUDDY ROGERS was born in Camden, New Jersey (he is fluent in the German he learned from his immigrant parents) and began wrestling at the local YMCA when he was 8. Ten years later in 1939 he won his professional debut at the Garden Pier in Atlantic City, and proceeded through victories in his first 47 matches before losing to Ed "Strangler" Lewis in Philadelphia in 1941. Rogers captured scores of sectional titles in his 24-year career before he won the NWA heavyweight title before a packed Comiskey Park on June 30, 1961. Two years later he captured the first championship of Vince McMahon, Sr.'s fledgling World-Wide Wrestling Federation.

Accompanying HEENAN and "NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS to the press conference is this man:
WADE BARRETT



HEENAN (still playing to the crowd, crowing about his accomplishment): Do you think this "Brain" thing is a gimmick???

BUDDY ROGERS isn't here to answer questions. He's here to make a statement. BOBBY "the BRAIN" HEENAN rests Rogers' World Title on the press conference table and begins dispensing a 3-page laminated BUDDY ROGERS brochure to the press. Get up on your game, rookies.

view brochure here:
http://madstepdad.tripod.com/nature_boy_buddy_rogers_brochure/index.album/buddy_rogers_1?i=0



REGARDING THE BROKEN CITY THROWDOWN

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS (in his rolling southern NJ accent): This particular war will end up with... you see, there's too many Caesars in Rome. And Rome has to fall apart - or the Caesars have to eat each other up in order to accomplish what they set out to do. The worst that can come out of this .... we'll get the whole East Coast.

HEENAN: If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS: See, Thesz won't let Cena get any bigger than Thesz is, and Cena won't let Thesz get any bigger than Cena is. They both want to devour Mil Mascaras, but instead of uniting -- saying, 'Hey man, the hell with this personality struggle, let's eat that son of a bitch up' -- which they're very capable of doing -- well, daddy, you take it from me: Cena and Thesz will be at each others throats the moment one gets bigger than the other.

HEENAN: If a guy sticks his hand out to you, shake it..and then kick him real hard when he's not looking.

WADE BARRETT nods in agreement




REGARDING JOHN CENA

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS: He came out with the flash. And we were all ticked off at him, but see, he'd never wrestle guys like myself, or Lou Thesz, or Bobby Managoff -- you know, great names. He stayed away from us. We wanted to wrestle him, but -- see, he's like the WWE is doing now, putting Cyndi Lauper, Mickey Rourke and Mr. T in there. See? You're mixing the batch. What happens when Mr. T says to you, 'I'm not going to lose a fall, I can't afford to lose a fall in Madison Square Garden?' What are you gonna do, beat him up? Like hell you are....  John Cena has a big fantasy world around him. Every promoter wants him, because he can pack the house. But, see, when you put bullshit into the house, remember what's comin' out -- it ain't gonna be wine and roses. After three years, the bullshit waned away, and there wasn't anything left -- and guess what? He has to resort to that good old word called - "Wrestling".  He's just overexposed, he doesn't use television well. Let me tell you something, the way he has handled T.V., it hasn't done wrestling any good. Where does rock-and-roll fit in with wrestling? Wouldn't you have to be pretty stupid to inhale what he's putting across -- and have a love for wrestling? How long do you think what he's doing is going to resemble wrestling? "What does it say on the canopy over the Garden, 'Wrestling,' or 'Rock and Roll'? The two don't mix. Can you imagine if Cyndi Lauper managed Muhammad Ali? How long would it last before the public would say, 'Bullshit, what are they doing?'

HEENAN: It'll take a good man to beat him... it just won't take him very long.

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS: What's he creating? You're never going to get me -- and I've got as much ability in wrestling as anybody living -- to believe that rock-and-roll is the salvation of wrestling. They're thriving on bullshit. How long do you think Floyd Mayweather is going to jump in the ring and take a punch at a 280-pound wrestler, and he flies eight rows out into the seats? You know, there's such a thing as insulting even an idiot's ability to think. If you're trying to educate suckers, you'd better make sure you have an answer for them when they wake up and find out.  We never got along. I basically admire John Cena for the chutzpah that he had, to create what he did, but I can't admire him because he is invoking this bullshit into my business, that I made a livelihood out of. In other words, 'You build a stew, and I'm going to piss in it.' He was pissing in my stew. I know it can't last long, in fact I am highly surprised that he's lasted as long as it has.

HEENAN: It's a dog eat dog world. And JOHN CENA is a Milk Bone.

WADE BARRETT chuckles knowingly



ON WHO THE MOVIE "THE WRESTLER" IS REALLY BASED ON:

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS: Gorgeous George. He was managed by a guy on the West Coast named Johnny Doyle, and when Doyle -- see, when you got flesh-peddlers like McMahon, Crockett, guys like that, they only utilize you when you're hot. Look at Bob Backlund -- greatest example in the world. When he was hot, boy, they were for him. The minute that sucker couldn't draw, they couldn't grind him up fast enough.  When George went, he went altogether. His name was George Wagner, he came out of Columbus, Ohio, a little farm area. Died on the Coast. The day that he died, the next day we wrestled in Dallas, and they passed a hat around to the guys that could afford it, and we all contributed to bury him. He passed away at a bar that he once owned -- he'd owned a bar, a motel, everything in this whole complex -- bumming drinks from the bartender that he had once hired. True story. He died insolvent. A very sad, sad ending.  You see, they leave out the real meaty things that the public should know about. Here's a guy, when times were tough to make a buck, he made millions -- I watched him light cigars with hundred-dollar bills -- not once, several times -- and I thought to myself, 'Boy, there'll come a day when he'll wish he had that hundred.' And that day came, and I lived to watch when that day came.



REGARDING HIS OWN GANGSTA CREDENTIALS

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS: I had more riots that any one wrestler in the 'fifties. In Washington, D.C., I got knifed in the back. Remember Bobby Davis? He was my road manager, Bobby Davis. I said, 'Bobby, get that hot cigar off my back!' He said, 'What do you mean?', and so he came around the other side of me, and there's a big knife, just a wooden handle sticking out.

Rogers pulls down his collar to show the scar on his back

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS: I got stabbed in Mexico, St. Louis -- in fact it goofed up my ulnar nerve. Well, hey, I didn't mind fighting and riots, just so I didn't get stabbed in the eyes and get blinded. . . . It was a lot of fun. I wouldn't trade my life for any other athlete, for a lot of people I knew from day one. And I knew that I'd be the best at what I did, and even till this day I know that I was the best at what I did. I feel that, and no one can ever erase that thought.

HEENAN: The two things that scare me most about wrestling fans is that they're allowed to vote and allowed to reproduce.

WADE BARRETT laughs condescendingly



REGARDING LOU THESZ- HIS "UNDISPUTED" CHAMPIONSHIP & HIS COMMENTS REGARDING HIGH-DEFINITION TV

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS: [He] didn't have any idea that T.V. was going to make wrestling so big. All of us were very anti-television at the start, because we thought we were giving away our livelihood. We all thought that people would not come to the arena to watch the matches when they could get it for free at home. And a lot of us were reluctant to -- I was reluctant to sign up for the next 13 weeks. But after I got going about six or seven weeks, I'd walk into towns, and everyone would know me, whereas before only a wrestler would know me. And the longer it went on, the stronger it got.

WADE BARRETT smugly adjusts his Brioni necktie



REGARDING WHY HE'S HERE IN BCCW

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS: I locked up with a guy that's one of the most popular (or unpopular) guys in wrestling, MSD. The MADSTEPDAD -- when he fought for you, boy he was all blood and guts. I had everyone and his brother come up to me and say, 'Buddy, why don't you leave that son of a bitch, he's no good.' My answer to them was, 'Hey, he's working for me, and I know he's a son of a bitch, but remember he's my son of a bitch.' "He came to me. We never signed a contract, never had an ounce of ink. We shook hands. And we both lived by the sword, and we did what was right.

HEENAN: This guy makes coffee nervous.

"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS: See, you don't have fidelity in this business today. And it stems from the promoters on down. The promoters are flesh-peddlers, overrated whores. You can't go by what somebody promises, you're only going to be utilized, and used when you're hot. And the moment you're not, you'd better say a prayer, and hope for something new, because they don't warn you, they just knock it out from under you. To a nicer guy, it couldn't happen.




Immediately as the surprise press conference began, the Internet and Twitter-verse were alive with a flurry of activity and breaking news updates.

World renowned IWC scribe CHIP CHIMNEY was the first to receive word from LOU THESZ:



CHIP CHIMNEY: Bobby Heenan unveiled his "Real World's Champion" today, "NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS. You two had a pretty intense rivalry. Could you comment on the match which culminated in some of the North Eastern promoters breaking off and forming the World Wide Wrestling Federation? They said Rogers had beat you but in reality all Title matches were supposed to be two out of three falls...

LOU THESZ: Never happened...

CHIP CHIMNEY: Never happened..?

LOU THESZ: Never happened...you can check all of the records...we had a situation out in California where he was DQ'd for throwing me over the top rope and they changed the publicity because they couldn't handle it financial-wise and I wanted my money, you know from the promotion. So they decided they were going to try and bury me so they try to play a little gitchie-goo game but it didn't work. And as far as Rogers is concerned, the last time I won the NWA Title it was him I beat for it in Toronto, Canada. And I was over 50 at the time.

CHIMNEY also broke news on WADE BARRETT's surprise arrival in BCCW:

CHIP CHIMNEY (world renowned IWC reporter): Wade Barrett, leader of RAW's Nexus stable, has been pulled from WWE TV and live events because his work visa has expired and he's no longer eligible to work in the United States. It has been said Barrett returned to the UK where he's waiting on a new visa to be cleared, but as we saw today he is currently keeping it underground in or around Broken City... could he be part of the stable Bobby Heenan is said to be creating?





Twitter and Facebook comments released shortly after the breaking news conference:

"The figure-four leglock (used by many wrestlers, most notably Ric Flair these days) was popularized in the 'forties by "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers, the postwar era's greatest skilled rulebreaker".
*Ray Tennenbaum, author


"Buddy Rogers wasn't vicious, but he could mix it up, and if a wrestler started in with dirty tricks, he could give it right back to him. He was a very strong, athletic wrestler."
*Al Wrobel of Wrestling's Main Event Magazine


"Buddy Rogers kept himself in perfect physical condition, knew how to handle each opponent, and probably was one of the most intelligent wrestlers in the ring. He was very colorful, with his golden blond hair, and the 'Strut.'"
* Bill Apter, of T.V. Sports Magazines


"Buddy Rogers. There's another guy I don't like. He's a no-good ass. He couldn't beat my wife. He was lucky, though, in wrestling. He had a great body. He really had a nice, pleasing body. He was no Mr. America, but a damn good body, probably one of the best workers in the ring. I don't mean a good wrestler, I mean he couldn't beat my wife. But in the ring he was so convincing. He did great things in the ring. "Oh, hey, -- I'm gonna tell you somethin' about Rogers, he ain't got a gut in his fuckin' body, he couldn't -- he didn't know a hammerlock from a padlock; he was a connivin', cutthroat sonofabitch when he was in the business. As a person he was a no-good bastard. Around him -- aw, greatest guy in the fuckin' world, you know, 'Ho, hey man!'-- anything you'd say he'd go for. But he'd stab you behind your fuckin' back. But the thing that he had -- in the fuckin' ring, he was the greatest in the fuckin' business in the ring. A great performer."
*Roy Shire, Wrestling Promoter


"You ask me what kind of man was Nature Boy Buddy Rogers. He was not only a great man but a major influence on my life. I would definitely not be who or where I am in my life if it where not for the influence of The Nature Boy.
* Blare Rogers, Nature Boy's grandson


"Buddy Rogers was an out-and-out star. He Had a knack for what we call ring showmanship. No One was better than Buddy Rogers. Buddy Rogers... Owned every moment in the ring. You'd watch him and forget he had an opponent"
* Fabulous Moolah, from her 2002 autobiography "The Fabulous Moolah: First Goddess of the Squared Circle"


"Buddy was so flamboyant. He had a great physique and was very charismatic. Buddy was also very reliable. A tremendous athlete - Buddy was far and away one of the best athletes ever in the business. And very smart, in the ring and outside the ring."
* Vincent K. McMahon the book "WWE Legends" released 2006


"I'm not sure a lot of stories about Buddy Rogers are true. But I'm glad to say that THAT Nature Boy did the right thing for THIS Nature Boy. The one thing I learned from the experience (Of working with him) was to judge people by the way they treat you."
* Ric Flair in his autobiography "To Be The Man..." released 2004


"I invented the book of the rulebreaker."
* "NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS


 

CREDITS:

BOBBY HEENAN: Prime Time Wrestling (1991)

BUDDY ROGERS: "Sleeper Hold" by Ray Tennenbaum

NEWSWIRE

CHIP CHIMNEY
Wrestling Urban Newz Line



Hi guys.

Award-winning IWC journalist Chip Chimney back in the house for another illuminating edition of Wrestling Urban Newz Line - where we shine the lit of a blunt on the dark, shady underbelly of this sport. There's a lot of talk on the streets about this new thing called "BCCW" - Broken City Championship Wrestling. Plymouth County, the 6th largest city in Massachusetts, home to Marvin Hagler and Rocky Marciano, the so-called "City of Champions". Allot is known about Brockton, MA aka "Broken City". Any Ghetto USA. But not much is known about this "BCCW", or it's founding entities.

WHAT WE KNOW

It has been said seed money for this capital venture came from interstate drug trafficking and cigarette smuggling in Canada, but this is thus far unproven. There are also rumors that "BCCW" was founded to operate as a front for money laundering, or a place for bookies to make millions off back door gambles. The men and women hired to help promote this endeavor (the BCCW Street Team) are all legendary SHOOTERS and HOOKERS. Their first card will allegedly be held in the Broken City Slaughterhouse, a deserted warehouse renovated into a sports cathedral.  Whoever it may be, the initials "GDT Inc." have been registered on all the official paperwork.

MSD has taken to the airwaves with a sea of press conferences. The first, to announce the signing of Undisputed Heavyweight Champion LOU THESZ. The second to declare the main event for their inaugural card, an International 3-Way Dance featuring JOHN CENA, MIL MASCARAS and a thus far undisclosed 3rd opponent. Even more recently, esteemed Broadcast Journalist and wrestling manager extrodinaire BOBBY "the BRAIN" HEENAN revealed his signing of the original "NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS to an exclusive contract. Then, shortly after WADE BARRETT was removed from WWE programming, he showed up alongside HEENAN and ROGERS at another press conference, heralding the return of the "REAL World's Champion".



WHAT I THINK

Speculation continues to run rampant as to what angle HEENAN & ROGERS (w/ WADE BARRETT) are hoping to pursue. He's already taken shots at JOHN CENA after CENA signed the International 3-Way Dance contract, and reignited the flame of contention with LOU THESZ - a dispute that literally ripped the wrestling world in two when it happened. Does the "Nature Boy" have designs of declaring himself the ONLY World Champion? Or is there something more sinister afoot? I think Naitch is here to stake his claim in the title scene while mentoring some of the next Gen blue chippers in his championship ways. We'll see where the greatest Mind in pro wrestling - Bobby Heenan - will unleash this freight train soon.

Speaking of LOU THESZ, word on the streets says a dark shadow from his past may be conspiring to throw a pall over his triumphant comeback. In response to these thus far unsubstantiated rumors, LOU THESZ has been looking toward his closest allies to form a potentially crippling tag team combination. No word yet on who THESZ may have in mind to watch his back.

Meanwhile, University of Oklahoma two-sport athlete and All American All American JACK SWAGGER has signed on the dotted line to compete on BCCW's inaugural card. When asked why he had chosen to come to the toughest division on the planet, JACK SWAGGER responded "because if there's one thing my daddy taught me - cheaters never win, and winners never cheat". Who will be SWAGGER's opponent? I think the big guy is taking umbrage with all this "shooter" talk...

I'm also hearing talk that the Chain Gang - an offshoot of C.W.B. (Crazy White Boys), both founded in the penal system, have been mobilized to provide back-up for the Franchise JOHN CENA. Is there truth to the rumor that a high-profile member of the Chain Gang is also being recruited by BCCW? On a more sour note, I'm hearing whispers that the infamous Brockton street gang "Black MOB" have been trying to extort their way onto the payroll. Allegedly linked to the Almighty RSO, Made Men and Ray Dog "the Jackal" (aka BENZINO) - we all know their track record of inside destruction and sabotage (see NWO and the fall of THE SOURCE magazine). I think they're looking for a way to hold the World title hostage. John Cena better check himself, before he gets fucked in the ass and thrown off a bridge.

Who will be the 3rd man in the International 3-Way Dance? My sources say he may come from the Far East, and is a Television ratings mega star. Further along the draft spectrum, I am told to anticipate the arrival of a few local hotties. I've seen MSD with dem east coast bunnies and if he can pull a few of those on stage we may ALL be in a for a pleasant treat. And are we in the market for an EXTREME reunion in BCCW??? My sources say the gospel of hardcore will be spread along the gutters of Broken City.

WHAT's NEXT

The next stop along their promotional hype tour is going to be a live exhibition in the old Paramount Drive-In Movie Theater parking lot, as BCCW touts the arrival of international superstar DESMOND WOLFE (aka Nigel McGuinness). With their track record of interruptions and controversy so far, God knows WHAT will happen when BCCW comes together for a live outdoor exhibit. I'm told to expect some big developments as further draft picks have ground to a halt.

On thing is for certain - talent continues to pour in from around the globe and through time for the chance to compete on BCCW's hallowed ground. The same earth Spartacus was said to have spilled his last drop of blood. I'll be reporting all the news as it breaks - LIVE from Broken City - where we respect the SHOOTERS & HOOKERS.

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Credit: Chip Chimney (renowned IWC Journalist)

Hype Show @ the Paramount Drive-In Parking Lot

1) MSD presiding. Hypes up BCCW's upcoming debut card "RESPECT THE HOOKERS & SHOOTERS". Introduces local jobber. Enter EVAN BOURNE!!! Quick squash, Shooting Star Press.






2) "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers w/ Heenan & Barrett to the ring. Coin themselves the "Diamond Dynasty". Are looking to complete their quartet with a final associate. 4th member to be named later...

3) Interrupted by LOU THESZ.



LOU THESZ: If you want to do a good job at something, you may succeed if you're lucky. Luck has a lot to do with it, because a major injury at the wrong time.... (clearly referencing the time KARL GOTCH confronted BUDDY ROGERS backstage in Columbus and broke his hand). It just slows you up, and you've got to kind of start all over again. When you get into competitive wrestling, not just show business, there isn't any time or any day that you're not hurting somewhere. Unless you can work around that and live with it, and try to enjoy your life along with that discomfort, you're in the wrong business.

(throws a nod toward WADE BARRETT)

You don't have dedicated [students] these days. They're tough to come by. They see this crap on TV, and that's what they think wrestling is. They're fans. They aren't athletes, they're fans. They come off the street, and they say, "I think I can do that," or, "I'd like to do that. I want to be a champion."

When I hear things like that, like, "I don't want to learn how to wrestle. What kind of a robe can I have, and what kind of a belt you got for me?"

I say [making a fist], "I've got one right here for you."

Security rushes ring and breaks up the wrestlers. Diamond Dynasty retreats, cursing and swearing all the way. LOU THESZ left shaking his fist in the ring.



4) JACK SWAGGER interrupts. Promo serenading shooters, before segueing into a spiel about his own athletic accomplishments. New School versus Old School. LOU THESZ I'm calling you OUT.

SWAGGER: "You didn't earn anything! You never have. You simply capitalized on the misfortune of others. More specifically, you capitalized on the misfortune of the Nature Boy Buddy Rogers. You see, Lou, while you were in Tijuana drinking cervezas, I was back in Oklahoma WINNING. I was back in America perfecting the art of wrestling. I studied for thousands of hours, running countless drills... cuz I knew one day...

LISTEN TO ME, PEOPLE!

Because I knew one day I was gonna be destined for the WORLD. HEAVYWEIGHT. CHAMPIONSHIP.

BOOM."

With security separating the two wrestlers, MSD into the ring with a mic where LOU THESZ accepts the challenge. At "RESPECT THE HOOKERS & SHOOTERS" it will be JACK SWAGGER versus LOU THESZ.

5) It takes a few moments to clear out the ring and get things settled down. Meanwhile, "C.R.E.A.M." by Wu-Tang Clan plays over the speakers. Suddenly, we realize DESMOND WOLFE is in the audience. He has been the whole time, and is shaking his head in disgust.



DESMOND WOLFE:  Until I’m in that situation where I’m booking the show it’s almost impossible to say which way is better.  They [BCCW] asked for the match so they got the match. There are certain limitations to what you can do on TV and what you can’t do. I’m not sure what I’d have done in the same situation, because they have storylines that are ongoing.  I think one of the best things about BCCW is that they listen to the fans to a certain extent but they try and figure things in with the right direction of company. That’s not always easy to do...

6) MSD wraps up show... "RESPECT THE SHOOTERS & HOOKERS" coming soon... have a wonderful night...
 
interrupted by TRIPLE H!!!!



Immaculately dressed, with a sledgehammer and a briefcase. Ultra-heel 2000ish.

Takes to the podium in the center of the ring, resting both the sledgehammer and the briefcase upon it. In Boston, Irish-mob related. McMahon Family Jewels. Staking his claim, taking over the game.

TRIPLE H: People say the power I have puts me in a position of dominance but, if I lost that power... (he snarls). It's all about what benefits the business for me. As for criticism? I think that if you go through life and no one hates you, then that means you're not good at anything. The critics I listen to are the ones I can hear when I walk into the arena. When people aren't caring about me anymore, I'll know. Look at John Cena. People say, "Who does Vince push him so much?" He sells so much (merchandise) and he sells out arenas. It's all about what benefits the business. The new stars have to rise on their own. What big star ever laid down for me? That's never been how business is done. Bret Hart didn't put Shawn Michaels over and refused to get beat (at Survivor Series 1997); he wouldn't lose the title. Now, that's a knock: that's what happened. Look at Steve Austin. I remember when Vince said they were bringing Austin in, and he said, "He'll be a good hand, to help the other guys." Then, they made him The Ringmaster, and gave him those plain trunks to wear. We used to say the "marks" were the fans who believed wrestling was all real -- not choreographed -- but now the smart fans, the ones who think they know everything, have became the marks. I know the majority of them don't know the business, they've never been in the business or wrestled in their lives."

He is King of Kings, Barbarian at the Gate. McMahon Empire, master of all memory. And if there is a territorial war to be won, his Junior McMahon Mafia will be the one to win it. With TRIPLE H - their handpicked shogun, the Greatest Wrestler of ALL TIME. The gauntlet has been laid. The only title worth a DAMN around here is this one (unveils belt from within the briefcase):

THE WWWF BELT



Come to the Broken City Slaughterhouse for "RESPECT THE HOOKERS & SHOOTERS!!!!!!!" CREDITS

TRIPLE H: Powerslam Magazine interview (November 2009 issue)
LOU THESZ: The LEE BENAKA interviews
JACK SWAGGER: 6/18/10 Smackdown
DESMOND WOLFE: Sun Wrestling Interview July 2010

BCCW Teleconference

CHIP CHIMNEY: We’re here today with the public face and commissioner of Broken City Championship Wrestling, the MadStepDad: MSD.

MSD: Hi Chip.

CHIP CHIMNEY: The debut card from BCCW, “RESPECT THE HOOKERS & SHOOTERS” is shaping up to be epic-level.

MSD: Thank you, Chip. A lot of hard work went into securing the talent and guaranteeing this card. We’re promising one of the biggest nights in fight history.

CHIP CHIMNEY: The main event will be Beantown’s own JOHN CENA in an International 3-Way Dance opposite MIL MASCARAS and a thus far unnamed opponent. Any idea who will fill that 3rd spot?

MSD: Oh absolutely. We’ve had this scenario mapped out since Day One. Currently our target is under strict contractual rule and the BCCW legal team is working diligently to liberate him and allow entry in what will undoubtedly be the most lucrative gate in pro wrestling history. Trust me; the people that work for and around this guy are no joke. They will follow the money.

CHIP CHIMNEY: Mil Mascaras, it has been said, is notoriously hard to work with. How were you able to secure his cooperation?

MSD: Well Mil is the best known masked-luchadore in the world. He was Most Popular Wrestler of the Year in 1975, and is credited for bringing the high-flying style to Japan…

CHIP CHIMNEY: That’s right, even TIGER MASK himself has said there would have been no Jushin Liger, Ultimo Dragon or Great Sasuke without Mascaras’ influence.

MSD: Right, he’s a very important, influential piece of wrestling history – especially in Mexico where he is a native deity. So I simply appealed to his ego and his ingrained desire to be the best Heavyweight wrestler in the world. I set up the parameters of the match with him, explained the ratings dynamic and what we’re expecting to draw, dollar-wise, and he simply couldn’t say no.

CHIP CHIMNEY: John Cena too, I’d presume?

MSD: Actually, with John it’s a little bit different. It’s not all about the money to him. He’s more interested in securing his legacy, and becoming “bigger” than wrestling… kind of like what LeBron James is doing with basketball. John Cena wants his “Cenation” to be the biggest brand in the game. And he’s on his way. John’s actually my boy from way back. He went to college with Esoteric (legendary Cambridge MC) and I partied with him at the release party for “U Can’t See Me” at Virgin Records in Boston (2005 when the album was released). So I know the competitiveness that drives him, and when the opportunity came up to secure a match with two of the biggest names in International Pro Wrestling history he didn’t even think twice. He was the first guy to sign a BCCW contract.

CHIP CHIMNEY: He’s also drawn a lot of resentment from the “proper wrestling” crowd – LOU THESZ included. Sort of like yourself in the Fantasy Promotion game. I heard there was some drama that went down at the Draft Wheel. Care to elaborate?

MSD: Not really. There’s been some short-sightedness with a few of the promoters in the game, and some disagreement with the way we do business here in Broken City. I can’t help it if the biggest talent in the industry wants to come to the City of Champions. You can call me whatever names you want, but I keep it just like my city does – grimy.

CHIP CHIMNEY: Yes, you seem to amassed quite a large conglomerate of men claiming to be “champions”.

MSD: It fits the motif of my city. We are the official “City of Champions”. Boston tried to take the title from us after a few Red Sox and Patriots victories, but we said “HELL NO”. You can’t take our title. Even if it does represent faded glory. But BCCW is bringing back that championship glow, hence the influx of gold belts in our streets. I have a feeling though eventually these title disputes will have to be settled, and we will recognize ONE World Champion...

CHIP CHIMNEY: What of the rumors I’ve heard about the Madman of the Sudan promising to make the streets of Brockton run red with blood???

MSD: (laughs) That’s just Ernie and his big mouth. I have no idea if it’s true or not. But I can say the BCCW legal team is actually working on a package deal for them, that I’ve heard could be quite explosive. If the legends are to be believed.

Phone rings

CHIP CHIMNEY: Looks like we’ve got our first call-in.

(Checks Caller ID)

“MCI-Cedar Junction???” ”This phone call is being recorded. You have received a collect call from an inmate at MCI-Walpole…”
“NEW JACK, bitch.”
“Do you accept charges?”

CHIP CHIMNEY: Yes. Jerome, is that you?



NEW JACK: Yeah! Hell yeah!

MSD: What up, killa??? Are you ready to be one of the main stars in BCCW???

NEW JACK: Ah no, I'm not one of the main stars, I am THE main star. Let's get this right, sheeeet…[laughs] You're talking about one of the, who on there is bigger than me? Nobody. Thank you!

CHIP CHIMNEY: But how will you find an opponent??? Isn’t everybody in the industry scared of you???

NEW JACK: Yeah, hell yeah. [laughs] I'm going to tell you one story. I'm not going to mention no names, I'll just throw my name out there, but sometimes we'd get high before a show. I came in the locker room one day and what Paul E. thought was cocaine on my nose…(and actually it was that time), but this one time after that, me and Sandman made a big joke out of it and got these powdered donuts before the show, and we'd take these powdered donuts and run them on our noses and our lips. We'd walk in the locker room like we were all high and shit. We'd look all crazy and out of our mind, so when the guys would look at me, they'd be like, “I'm not getting in the ring with him after he's been snorting that shit!!!” I was so convincing that people would watch my matches and couldn't tell if I was really sticking someone with a fork or not. There were a lot of times where we'd get done with a match and Paul E. would run in between me and the cat that I was in the ring with because everyone in the locker room thought we were about to fight for real because the shit in the ring was so convincing. So a lot of guys from other companies, they see me, and they can't tell if what I'm doing is a work or not. I try to protect people, but I'm just so good at what I do, and all the horror stories that have been told about me, people just don't want to work against me. I actually had this one cat come up to me before a match and say: "Jack, I have a wife and kids at home and I have a day job, so please don't try to kill me in the ring." It got to a point where he didn't even get into the ring. He ran out into the parking lot and left. He was out there arguing with the promoter, talking about how I look sneaky and was going to fuck him up in the ring. He just got in his car and left. There have been a lot of times where guys come in the locker room and look at the lineup sheet and see their names next to mine and there was a problem.

MSD: New Jack is the biggest gangsta in the history of pro wrestling. There’s no better home for him than here, in the Broken City Slaughterhouse. Where we respect the HOOKERS & SHOOTERS. And I know New Jack knows how to clap the hammer and throw them ‘bows…

NEW JACK: Everybody who knows me knows, and I'm not about bragging about myself, but I will. I can fight. I can fight for real. This ain't no bullshit, I can fuckin throw these things. That's why I don't watch the WWE. I'll throw up if I watch that shit. It makes my stomach upset.



CHIP CHIMNEY: Why are you in Walpole prison now?

NEW JACK: (Sitting at the Morabeza) bar and somebody comes up. "Hey, New Jack!" Then they start getting smart, they start getting drunk, and the next thing you know, they're trying to prove a point to somebody. Well, I'm not the type of guy to argue when I feel like I'm being threatened. There were a few times where I went to court on some shit where I just got up and knocked the fuck out of somebody. I had this one guy come up to me and hit me across the back of my neck, slap me on my neck really hard. I can't stand that shit. Don't touch the back of my neck or my head. I beat the shit out of him in a bar in Philly. People will talk how it's all fake on TV, well on TV I don't have my gun, but now I do. It's happened a few times, so fuck it, I say let's go for broke. Out of all the characters people have in the locker room, why fuck with me? Out of all the people in the locker room you see walking around the hotel, why would you come bother me?

CHIP CHIMNEY: You don’t even have to be around to court controversy. I don’t know if you heard, but there was an issue at the OO draft regarding you and D-Von Dudley…

NEW JACK: D’Von is a white man dressed as a n***a!!! Bubba is the biggest pussy on the planet. Bubba is a bitch. We was in a building one night and Bubba was fighting a fan, and he fights like a girl. He dropped his head and was whipping his arms around like a windmill. Bubba's a bitch. He's influenced Devon a lot to do some of the dumb shit that they've gone out and done. But still, the fact remains the same, without me, there would be no them. They copied my shit. For whatever they ever bought, for whatever they own, for everything their kids put on their back, they have to look back and say it's because of New Jack. They know it because neither one of them can wrestle for shit. Both of them were doing Paul E. when they were in ECW, that's how they got where they are. Then he took all of his boys with him Taz, that gay fucker Tommy Dreamer, I never had a problem with you know what I mean, they were all his boys, know what I'm saying. They went on and they tried to screw everybody they could, but bro it's cool, I'm still surviving, I'm still making money, so fuck them.

CHIP CHIMNEY: Any final words regarding “RESPECT THE SHOOTERS & HOOKERS”?

NEW JACK: I'm going to tell you something. Everybody that I've ever hurt in the ring, I tried to. There have been a few people that I hurt, and it was a known fact that I was going to hurt them because before I ever went into the ring, I had already made up my mind that there was something they had done to me that pissed me off, and I was going to get them. Eric Kulas, he knew I was going to cut him before I cut him, he just didn't know how deep I was going to cut his ass. Paul E. knew I was going to cut him, but to this day he denies it. I told him: "I'm going to try to cut the top of his fuckin head off. Chad Austin, when I broke his leg, he came up to me before the match and said he wanted to have a match like we had against Public Enemy. He was talking about how he wanted this, that, and the other, blood and gut, and I was like, who is this guy? What ended up happening is I broke his leg with a chair. The good part about this, though, was he pissed me off so bad that that's how I came up with my finish. They call it a 187, diving off of the top rope with the chair. Chad is the reason I came up with that because I wanted to do something to him that people would really remember. I needed something that I thought would kill that motherfucker with, so I dove off with the chair and smashed him in the face with the chair. That's how I started doing that as my finish.

CHIP CHIMNEY: Any type of match stipulations or opponents you would prefer?

NEW JACK: Eventually, everyone is going to have to walk down South Central Blvd. and come to my house. And when you get to my house, if I could choose a type of match, I'd want to see a cage with a roof so you can't get out. Where I could just beat the fuck out of you and there's nothing you could do about it but complain like a little bitch. Or make it outside in like a football stadium and it's really dark so you can't really see, so I could just walk up and knock your ass out, then go run and hide. Just keep popping up and beating the shit out of you, cutting your arms off, shit like that. [laughs] Cut your arms and your legs off so you have to hop around and complain, complain until you almost die and then I resuscitate your ass and beat you some more. [laughs] I'm want to have one of those electric shock things like they have in the hospital…Clear! Then I beat the fuck out of you again. Ice picks, I'll stick them in your eyes. I want to fight in somebody's front yard, and you're down, then all of a sudden I climb on top of somebody's house with a lawn mower. I'll crank that motherfucker up and instead of diving off with a chair, I'll dive off with a lawn mower and cut your ass up!!!



CHIP CHIMNEY: Well thank you for your time guys, we’ll see you in Broken City soon enough.

MSD: “RESPECT THE HOOKERS & SHOOTERS”. Buy the muthaphuckkin PPV.

3rd man in the Main Event...

We are LIVE at Logan Airport in Boston MA, where we have been told the 3rd participant in the BCCW International 3-Way Dance is set to arrive in this country!!! I’m Chip Chimney, intrepid IWC reporter, first on the scene.

We have been told this man can compete with JOHN CENA and MIL MASCARAS on all levels – ring work, merchandising and multimedia platforms. For what Cena and Mascaras mean to America and Mexico (their native countries), this man means just as much if not MORE to the Nation of Japan and the art of puroresu (Japanese Pro Wrestling), which he created.

Ladies and gentleman, the man – the myth – the legend – the “rugged mountain road”… RIKIDOZAN!!!!



5’10”
230 lbs
The FATHER of Puroresu
The GREATEST wrestler in Japanese history

RIKIDOZAN!!!

For the uninitiated, I pulled together a press packet detailing some of his greatest accomplishments and his serious Championship goals here in BCCW:

1) He’s an Icon in Japan. He has bronze statues erected in his honor much like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Red Auerbach. Here, a Tibetan monk stands guard around the statue 24/7 and will immediately slay anyone who attempts to desecrate or curse the sacred area.



2) After training as a sumo for most of his formative years, he quit that sport for financial reasons. He made his official pro wrestling debut on October 28th 1951 in Tokyo, wrestling to a 10 minute draw against Bobby Bruns. After losing World War II, the Japanese were in a state of depression and searching for a hero. RIKIDOZAN emerged as the figure-head of a brand new spectacle in Japan called “pro wrestling” or “puroresu”.

3) RIKIDOZAN won the World Heavyweight Championship on August 27th 1958 by beating BCCW legend LOU THESZ, and validated his greatness in the eyes of this sport worldwide. He beat THESZ again in the Final Round of the 4th Annual World League Tournament on May 25th 1962.

4) He laid the blueprint for Japanese wrestling for years to come, by training and initiating such luminaries as GIANT BABA and ANTONIO INOKI into the puroresu fold.

5) RIKIDOZAN has won countless championships… the Pacific Coast Tag Team title in 1952, the Japanese Heavyweight title in 1954, the Hawaiian Tag Team championship, the All-Asian Heavyweight title in 1955, the N.W.A. World Tag Team title (w/Koukichi Endo) in 1956, the N.W.A. International Heavyweight title (from Thesz) in 1958, the All-Asian Tag Team title four times between 1960-1963, and the W.W.A. World Heavyweight title (Los Angeles) in 1962. He also won 5 prestigious tournaments is Japan, defeating the likes of Thesz, Killer Kowalski, and others.

6) Much like Cena and Mil Mascaras, RIKIDOZAN has had his own feature film and successful line of action figures, stamps and other lucrative merchandising.

 


7) Not only that, RIKIDOZAN is also a very successful businessman. He has amassed a vast empire which includes his wrestling and boxing promotions, as well as hotels, golf courses, night clubs, and real estate holdings.

When asked for a comment regarding RIKIDOZAN’s arrival in the States, Mil Mascaras declined to answer. John Cena on the other hand, has promised a hellacious main event to BCCW’s inaugural card “RESPECT THE SHOOTERS & HOOKERS”.




JOHN CENA: [Expect] a classic adrenaline-pumping, rugged and raw action flick straight out of the 80's. It's going back to the days of the real, get your hands dirty action hero, pushing everything to the limit, and there aren't any gimmicky special effects tricks that make it unbelievable. This [match] really goes back to the days of grit and ass-kicking fun.

LOU THESZ also spoke grimly of Rikidozan’s arrival, promising to hit the gym even harder in retaliation.



LOU THESZ: I'm going to be spending at least one week a month up there and we're going to have a little theater there, we'll have video there and we'll have some instructive stuff on the videos. I'll be doing some coaching, and other people will as well.

BCCW’s public figure head MSD has alluded to this signing for weeks, but couldn’t release any particular information due to the GDT Inc Policy. But now that he’s here in the States, MSD has said of RIKIDOZAN:



MSD: He is an integral part of our international appeal, and our plans for global expansion. I don’t think you understand the significance of RIKIDOZAN’s legacy in pro wrestling. Two of Rikidôzan's matches were rated in the top ten television programs of all time in Japan! His October 6, 1957 sixty-minute draw with Lou Thesz for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship drew an 87.0 rating (!!!!!), and his May 24, 1963 sixty-minute two out of three falls draw with The Destroyer drew a 67.0 rating (!!!!), but a larger viewing audience (the largest in Japanese history) than the previous match, since by 1963 more people had television sets. Talk about a ratings draw! The others fantasy promoters would castrate themselves and sell their first born for ratings like that!!!
 
Regardless of popular opinion or a bookies spread sheet, this is shaping up to be the most unpredictable 3-Way Dance in pro wrestling history. MSD & BCCW have no doubt topped themselves with this acquisition. I'll be releasing more information about the league and "RESPECT THE HOOKERS & SHOOTERS" as it arrives.

* CHIP CHIMNEY








CREDITS: JOHN CENA: IGN interview February 18, 2005

LOU THESZ: Interview conducted by Jeremy Hartley for TWC Online