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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, in 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 surprise of the entire world 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'd known before, whose general lack of concern for appearance became a trademark. Fly fidgets in his chair 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.

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 kinda 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, what I've done in the past divided this company, and just my presence in the building became a distraction. Nobody wants to see my face around anymore, I understand that, doesn't mean I accept it, but I do understand. Andrea was just trying to nip a problem in the bud before it started. I was extremely saddened to hear about her death, TNT shouldn't have to lose good people like her. It hurts.

I assume your talking about the fact that it came out in public 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. 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. I can't control what happened, I can only apologize, and continue doing that. 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.

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. 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 just the past year, start with Andrea Williams and Nicky Mills, and then ask yourself how the hell I'm still alive. Can it be luck? No. No fuckin' way. I've been through so much shit that luck couldn't even touch it.

Ever thought of coming back?

Every day. Every god damn day.

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

Way too many obstacles. For one, I haven't won a wrestling match in over 8 months. I don't want to keep running myself out there and tarnish my career even more. I'd have to have some pretty big balls, and block out a lot of things to strap up the boots again.  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.

With all of that said, with the state of the company today, if you could iron out some of that..would you return to help TNT??

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..TO BE CONTINUED..

Former World Champion (5x)

..Perfection..