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Interview

"I can't help who I am"

Excerpt From: The Beaten Path

Andrea Williams:

Honestly Jonny, I can't help you.

Fly turns back to Andrea.

Jonny Fly:

Then I'll just have to help myself. I'll be seeing you..

Fly turns, and begins to make way out of the room. Andrea pleads with him as he moves for the door..

AW:

Jonny...Jonny!

Fly disappears out the door as the scene cuts away.

-Begin Scene-

The scene fades in, inside an empty studio. Two chairs are set up in the room in the middle of the path of outlying camera's. In one chair sits TNT Wrestling's long-time interviewer slash commentator, Cole Mathews. In the other chair, to the likely suprise of everyone, sits Jonny Fly. Fly is, as we remember him in his last moments in TNT, clean cut, dressed in a suit and tie, very professional, businesslike. Not the Fly we've come to know from before, whose general lack of concern for appearance became a trademark. Fly fidgets in his chair, likely nervous, as the camera lights flicker on illuminating the room and signaling the beginning of this unexpected interview. Cole Mathews begins..

Cole Mathews:

Ladies and Gentleman, we have a special guest for you all tonight. He is a former owner of TNT Wrestling..Jonny Fly. Jonny, great to see you.

Jonny Fly:

Thanks Cole, it's good to see you as well.

Let's jump right into this, because we have a lot to cover. The last time we seen you on TNT Television you got into a..fight..for a lack of a more proper term, with Andrea Williams. This was never really explained to us, what happened?

Ah, it was nothing, really. They were kind of taken aback that I was in the building. Shocked, maybe, that I was even walking, much less talking about a return. I mean let's face it, the things I've done in the past divided this company, and just my presence in the building became a distraction. Brought back some old memories nobody wanted. Nobody wanted to see my face around anymore, not at that time, and I understand that. Andrea was just trying to nip a problem in the bud before it started.

I assume your talking about the fact that it's been discovered that your career was a "fake." Of course, the reaction by the company was pretty rough for you.

They feel betrayed. Or, felt, because this was so long ago, most of that's probably gone and forgotten about. There's nothing I can say or do. I was helpless to the situation, not even I knew that there were other forces deciding my fate, deciding my opponents fate. I went out and competed for this company every night and gave it my all. I re-wrote the record books here, they built a statue in front of TNT Headquarters for me, hell, they put me in the Hall of Fame. When people in the wrestling circles would bring up TNT, I was the focal point of the conversation. When people tried to stack rival companies against TNT, they always gave us the edge, because it would be Jonny Fly going in that Main Event, and baby, when you had that on your side, it's all but in the bad.

Fly, after regaining some of that trademark swagger from his older days, calms down, and continues with the original question.

  I can't control what happened, I can only apologize, and continue doing that. I had no idea, and certainly I don't feel like I needed people fixing my matches. I tried to prove that it didn't matter, that I was still a dominant wrestler, but I failed..miserably..before Nicky Mills put me out of my misery. Those were rough times physically for me. I had gotten myself involved in some of Nicky's problem's not too long before that, I had my own problems out of the ring, of course, I had just taken a beaten. I would of never been wrestling under normal circumstances, but the competitive fire in me, and I'm sure some ego, got to me..and told..get back in the ring..show everyone that the help wasn't needed.

Despite all of your accolades, your career will always be defined by what happened outside of the ring. Jonny, you were always involved in something. Always. Trouble was always around you, no matter where you went. How lucky are you to be sitting here today?

When you've lived the life I have, you tend to not believe in luck, because it never came my way. Not once. I can't help who I am. I don't shy away from conflict. You guys know my background. I've always had to outsmart everyone around me to stay alive, I always had to keep a close eye on the people around me, and you know what, go down through the list of people that have died in this business, look at them and compare them to me. Can it be luck? No. No fuckin' way! I've been through so much shit that luck couldn't even touch it. But rest assured, everything's is in the past. I have had no problems since the day Nicky Mills nearly crippled me.

Ever thought of coming back?

Every day. Every day.

What's getting in the way of you doing that?

Well, a lot of shit. For one, I haven't won a wrestling match in nearly a year. I still work out every day, but the layover has been long. I still have age on my side, but everything else is against me. The dynamic of TNT has changed completely, the landscape is unfamiliar. Starting over is not something I'm interested in. I'd love to be able to jump back in at the top of the game, like I've always been able to do, but I couldn't do that now. There isn't a person backstage that thinks I'm half the wrestler I've been played up to be over my career. I don't know how patient I'll be at working my way up, and I really don't want to cause conflict in the ranks. I haven't received a phone call from anyone in TNT since the day they wheeled me out of the arena in a stretcher, so I'm not really sure I'd even be welcomed.

With all of that said, if you could iron out some of that, would you return to TNT and help to bolster the roster?

I'd think long and hard about it, but I can't say for sure. They seem to have pieced together some familiar faces in Rollin' Thunder, Segrada, Crak and so on. But this is they're company. These are the people TNT needs to cater to. A return to TNT by me would be for me, not TNT. They would just sit back and watch what happens. It'd be no risk, high reward for them. For me? Getting back to doing what I love. I mean let's face it, who creates "heat" better than me? What Owner wouldn't like to shut up a rival companies mouth by just saying "Jonny Fly." I mean, TNT could gain a lot, that's why I'm surprised I haven't received a call. But I know it'd be about me. If I suck, it's my reputation that sinks. If I'm as good as I'm telling you I still am, then they TNT could have another legitimate main eventer.

Sounds like a sales pitch, Jonny.

You've been around me too long Cole. You know I'm a businessman. People forget I used to own this whole TNT thing..

Fly laughs.

Any final comments, Jonny??

The swagger comes back.

I've been counted out my whole career. I would never survive on the streets. I would never make it off the streets. I would never get into UWA. I would never go far in UWA. I would never beat this person, or that person, I would never win a World Title, I would never be able to separate my personal life from my professional life. It's always been "Jonny Fly will never.." It's absolutely foolish to count a man like me out. I don't live off my World Titles like others do, they happened, whatever. It's a new time, they're is different competition. But what I do live off is people always doubting me. They've always looked for every little thing to get me on.

Keep it coming, guys. If you don't think I can return back to form, if you think everything I've done in this business, all the titles, the records, the fame, if you think it would have never happened without my matches being fixed, please, let me know. It will go on the wall of my gym. And I will shove it in your face when I return to the top of TNT Wrestling. I'm a once in a generation talent. I'm still the kid that would go 6 or 7 months at a time without a loss. I don't need any help to win a World Title. Shit happens, it's just a bump in the road. Just a big enough bump to everyone doubting me again, or in essence, making me better. You thought I was good before?

You just wait.

All I need is that door to be opened ajar, and I'll kick that shit all the way off the hinges.

The scene fades out on the stern expression cast upon Fly's face.

Scene Fade

Former World Champion (5x)

..Perfection..