Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 19:03:29 GMT -5
BOISE CITY, OKLAHOMA
Sunday, June 4, 2017
“What am I doing here?”
This was the question I asked myself as I stared up at the hanging log attached to the barn rafter with a thick rope above me. It slowly rotated as a warm gentle breeze blew through the barn of the farm I recently purchased with my girlfriend and fellow Union Battleground competitor, Cheyenne Walker. As I contemplated how I was going to do a pull up on this crude exercise apparatus that Cheyenne suggested, I wondered if Douglas Armatage, the Bearded Father, had the same question in mind as he prepared for our match at L!GHTS OUT #12.
Recently the so-called Bearded Father had lost a five-person clusterfuck in Xtreme Honor Wrestling for their Legacy Championship then debuted in Union Battleground only to come up on the losing end once more. He had to be asking himself this question plus a dozen more while he licked his wounds back at home. Could it be that he’s too enraptured with his beard and this Bearded Army he likes to tout on Twitter that he’s lost focus of the task at hand in Union Battleground?
I jumped up and grabbed the smooth whittled down surface of the log and realized instantly the difficulty of the challenge. The pull-up was easy. It was doing it while the rope rotated and engaged muscles not accustomed to the combination of the pull-up and stabilization. I completed ten pull-ups as quickly as I could before the searing pain of exertion began to take its toll during the next fifteen.
I hope Armatage is more than just his beard. I caught a couple of his matches at XHW and he has some talent. But a lot of his matches were multi-person matches. So who knows what he is like one-on-one? He’s got talent. But so did a lot of the curtain-jerkers in IPWA. Maybe that’s the reason for the beard. I read somewhere, Esquire Magazine I think, that full beards are used as a distinguishing device for average males to stand out. Insecure much, Douglas? I hope he realizes that I have no problem using his beard against him in our match. If I have to pull chunks of facial hair off his face to get his to submit that’s exactly what I’m going to do. And he picked the wrong business to sport all that hair. It’s a liability. Maybe a sport with less contact than professional wrestling would suit him? Like synchronized swimming. Regardless, whether literally or figuratively, I’m going to mop the ring mat with his face at L!GHTS OUT. I’m here to fight the best wrestlers in the world, not wannabe trendsetters.
I had Cheye help me with my Rocky IV-inspired “air-ups” instead of sit-ups or crunches. Air-ups are those sit-ups Rocky did in Siberia in a barn very similar to the one on our property. Cheye held my feet down from the loft in the barn as I dangled upside down between the loft and the barn floor. I would then use all my core muscles to lift myself up, perpendicular to the loft floor.
“Why are you here, Douglas?”
I know why I’m here. I’m in this barn training because no matter my circumstances I was taught by Xandor Kalel to do whatever is necessary to embody justice in the wrestling ring. This match isn’t about good and evil. This match at L!GHTS OUT is about who is the better man. Douglas Armatage is not an evil man. He’s a guy looking to ply his trade just like me. But I don’t need some gimmick or overgrown facial hair to make me distinct. What makes me distinct is what I do and accomplish in the wrestling. I’m not stepping into the ring to right some wrong. But I would do the wrestling ring a dishonor if I don’t give Armatage the match of his life.
“Hey Douglas...you like to mention your Bearded Army. It’s cool if you want to believe that they are going to will you past me at L!GHTS OUT. Just remember that your Bearded Army can just as equally be Xion Ben-Judad fans. And when you step into the ring with me? I don’t see the Bearded Army. I see you and only you. More like an Army of None. I hope getting defeated by me doesn’t send you further into an emotional turmoil. That’s not why I’m here. But maybe to get clarity on the direction of your career, why don’t you ask yourself the question…”
“What am I doing here?”
Sunday, June 4, 2017
“What am I doing here?”
This was the question I asked myself as I stared up at the hanging log attached to the barn rafter with a thick rope above me. It slowly rotated as a warm gentle breeze blew through the barn of the farm I recently purchased with my girlfriend and fellow Union Battleground competitor, Cheyenne Walker. As I contemplated how I was going to do a pull up on this crude exercise apparatus that Cheyenne suggested, I wondered if Douglas Armatage, the Bearded Father, had the same question in mind as he prepared for our match at L!GHTS OUT #12.
Recently the so-called Bearded Father had lost a five-person clusterfuck in Xtreme Honor Wrestling for their Legacy Championship then debuted in Union Battleground only to come up on the losing end once more. He had to be asking himself this question plus a dozen more while he licked his wounds back at home. Could it be that he’s too enraptured with his beard and this Bearded Army he likes to tout on Twitter that he’s lost focus of the task at hand in Union Battleground?
I jumped up and grabbed the smooth whittled down surface of the log and realized instantly the difficulty of the challenge. The pull-up was easy. It was doing it while the rope rotated and engaged muscles not accustomed to the combination of the pull-up and stabilization. I completed ten pull-ups as quickly as I could before the searing pain of exertion began to take its toll during the next fifteen.
I hope Armatage is more than just his beard. I caught a couple of his matches at XHW and he has some talent. But a lot of his matches were multi-person matches. So who knows what he is like one-on-one? He’s got talent. But so did a lot of the curtain-jerkers in IPWA. Maybe that’s the reason for the beard. I read somewhere, Esquire Magazine I think, that full beards are used as a distinguishing device for average males to stand out. Insecure much, Douglas? I hope he realizes that I have no problem using his beard against him in our match. If I have to pull chunks of facial hair off his face to get his to submit that’s exactly what I’m going to do. And he picked the wrong business to sport all that hair. It’s a liability. Maybe a sport with less contact than professional wrestling would suit him? Like synchronized swimming. Regardless, whether literally or figuratively, I’m going to mop the ring mat with his face at L!GHTS OUT. I’m here to fight the best wrestlers in the world, not wannabe trendsetters.
I had Cheye help me with my Rocky IV-inspired “air-ups” instead of sit-ups or crunches. Air-ups are those sit-ups Rocky did in Siberia in a barn very similar to the one on our property. Cheye held my feet down from the loft in the barn as I dangled upside down between the loft and the barn floor. I would then use all my core muscles to lift myself up, perpendicular to the loft floor.
“Why are you here, Douglas?”
I know why I’m here. I’m in this barn training because no matter my circumstances I was taught by Xandor Kalel to do whatever is necessary to embody justice in the wrestling ring. This match isn’t about good and evil. This match at L!GHTS OUT is about who is the better man. Douglas Armatage is not an evil man. He’s a guy looking to ply his trade just like me. But I don’t need some gimmick or overgrown facial hair to make me distinct. What makes me distinct is what I do and accomplish in the wrestling. I’m not stepping into the ring to right some wrong. But I would do the wrestling ring a dishonor if I don’t give Armatage the match of his life.
“Hey Douglas...you like to mention your Bearded Army. It’s cool if you want to believe that they are going to will you past me at L!GHTS OUT. Just remember that your Bearded Army can just as equally be Xion Ben-Judad fans. And when you step into the ring with me? I don’t see the Bearded Army. I see you and only you. More like an Army of None. I hope getting defeated by me doesn’t send you further into an emotional turmoil. That’s not why I’m here. But maybe to get clarity on the direction of your career, why don’t you ask yourself the question…”
“What am I doing here?”