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| Voice: It is time for another installment of Beyond The Mat. This month's feature presentation recalls some of the great and not so great moments of the career of the current and reigning World Heavyweight Champion of the Classic Wrestling Federation, "The Flawless One" Brian Adams. Several of Brian's peers will join us on on this hour long journey brought to you exclusively on the Pro Wrestling Network.
**As the man finished his audio segment he exits the studios as Osbourne gets seated at the anchor's desk to be interviewed by PWN's legendary Ira Huffingpaint** IRA: Throughout the years, Brian Adams has competed in several different promotions over the years. My next guest has shared the ring and locker room with "The Flawless One" in several of those organizations. Joining me at this time is the current reigning CWF National Champion, and some would say future Hall of Famer, "The Nitemare" Rob Osbourne. Mr. Osbourne, thank you for joining me. I understand you are Mr. Adams next opponent in the CWF. When you are a superstar of your caliber, what goes into the preparation to face a tactician like Brian Adams? NRO: Well Ira, thanks for having me here. That is right, I will be facing the self-proclaimed "Flawless One" this Saturday Night at Showdown in a non-title Champion versus Champion match. As for your question, I always prepare for an opponent the same way. I study every match I can find on film - learn every habit and trend. For instance, when I wrestle against Pledge Alligence, I know what Pledge is going to do before Pledge does. I have wrestled him - and won - so many times I lost count...yet I still go back and watch the old tapes. To beat someone who, quite honestly, is just as good as you are, you have to have an edge. IRA: So they key to the guys out there climbing the ladder is to study your opponent....the greats in all sports are students of their game, and they watch as much prior footage of their opponent as possible, correct? NRO: Exactly. In the NFL it's Peyton Manning, in the NBA it's Kobe Bryant, in the PGA its Tiger Woods, in the MLB its Derek Jeter, and in the world of professional wrestling, it is Rob Osbourne. IRA: But Mr. Osbourne, can you explain to the fans and the younger guys in the industry, how does studying old tapes help you learn more about an opponent, specifically Brian Adams? NRO: Well Ira, guys like Adams himself, and others like Jimmy Washington will say that the past should be left in the past and that it has no bearing on the here and now or the future. I disagree. If you study what made the man before you what he is, only then can you know how to destroy that man. IRA: Rob, we do have another special I am hosting called "Becoming the best" which features several world famous champions, and your wife had already suggested former CWF Tag Team champions Donovan and Vincent Torigianni, a.k.a., Degradation, Brian Adams, Pledge Alligence, Paul Blair, Jeff Jericho Sr., Maniac, Mike Stewart, Jimmy Blast, Tige, The MOD....as well as yourself....we can use this footage for that special and give us something to work off of, is that okay with you? NRO: Sure. IRA: Now, go on please.... NRO: Okay....let me give you a parable to consider. I will use my beloved Pittsburgh Steelers as an example. Every year the Steelers face the Baltimore Ravens in one of the most heated rivalries in all of sports. Last season they faced each other on three different occasions. Each time the Steelers won...but by a larger margin. When I talked to the Defensive Coordinator Dick LeBeau, who played his college ball with my father, he told me that his defense, specifically Troy Polamalu, watched every clip of the Baltimore offensive players available going back to little league when possible. Even for guys who had been with other eams in the past. Troy studied so much game film of the Ravens offense that he KNEW when Flaco was going to try and dump it off to Todd Heap in the flat because he studied them. He knew the body language, the look in the eyes of Joe Flaco and when Flaco released the ball, Polamalu was already between Flaco and the intended receiver and he not only picked them off, but he returned it for a touch down. He was able to do that, and Pittsbugh was able to defeat the Ravens a third time in one season and they went on to win an unprecedented NFL record 6th Super Bowl victory. Why? Because they knew their opponent inside and out. IRA: So footage is the key? NRO: Don't get me wrong Ira, at Night of Champions 2: Lord of the Ring, it won't matter how much Jimmy Washington studies me, some things are just inevtiable. His ceasing to exist in the CWF is one of those very inevtiable things. But no, watching and studying your opponents nuances won't be the only difference maker. You have to spar with someone who has a similar style to your opponent. You have to drill them applying their finisher at different spots from different angles, at different times of the match...and learn how to counter it. Adams is a very gifted individual, but you can guarantee when he faces me, that I will show him what it is like to be second best. IRA: But, technically Rob, in rankings, OFFICIALLY you are second best. You are the 2nd tier champion whereas Brian Adams is the top of the food chain, as it were, as the world's heavyweight champion. Now remember, I work for your wife and I am as impartial as they come, you Badd Dream me and I'll have a team of lawyers on you so fast, you won't know what hit your bank accounts. Now, answer this question.....WHY WILL YOU WIN AT SHOWDOWN? NRO: That is the million dollar question isn't it Ira? The truth of the matter is, I will win this insignificant battle of ego's for one reason and one reason only. Because I'm just plain better. Period. IRA: Well folks, there you have it. Rob Osbourne will defeat Brian Adams simply because he's better than him. How uncouth of you. Now, let me ask you a bit about Brian Adams history and reputation in the places you've both been employed at at the same time. NRO: Well Ira, we were obviously in the old CWF together, he was one of 19 other men I defeated to win a shot at Z-Pac's World Championship. He was also in the IoA, where I don't recall us ever actually facing. He was also in Christina's organization, the AIW.... IRA: Really? I hadn't recalled that. NRO: Well, it was a very short lived relationship. He didn't call himself "The Flawless One" back then. Back then, he was "Primetime" Brian Adams, but you get the drift. He was always the guy who showed up late to production meetings, usually the only guy more ripped and reeking of alcohol than myself. He typically had a pretty shitty attitude. He always complained that he didn't get a big enough push that the suits were holding him back. You gotta understand Ira, in the wreslting ndustry alot of what happens behind the scenes determines what happnes in front of the camera. Adams now though, he has grown up, as much as guys like him and me can grow up. He realized he had to play the game if he wanted to climb the ladder up then up instead of up then down then up then down. You have to play the backstage politics the right way, it is key to evolving in this business. IRA: I think they key to what you are saying is that Brian Adams works the system now instead of letting the system work him? NRO: In essence, yes. But, he still gets worked some because he still doesn't have that temper under control. and one thing that always happens to a guy like Adams when they first get the big strap...they get paranoid....VERY paranoid. Did you catch his latest promo? Instead of the movie The Wrestler, he was seeing replays of the last time he was in a ring with me. And then what happened? He thought I was there. The guy is cracking up... IRA: But I thought I heard you say earlier on PWN that his associate Milton had purchased the hoobastank he got from you, from your "personal reserves"? NRO: Of course, like I said, I'm always a step ahead Ira. Always. Listen, I appreciate you having me here today and I appreictae the support of the fans and I hope you all will tune in to see me take the Champ to school Saturday night! IRA: Ladies and gentlemn, for the Pro Wrtestling Network, I am Ira Huffingpaint. Good night. **The scene fades as Osbourne and Huffingpaint shake hands and Osbourne heads to his wife's office....FTB** |
| **The scene opens to find Rob Osbourne sitting at his desk in his office at his beach house in Cocoa Beach, Florida. He is reading the stock market report on one tab and in another minimized window he is watching a podcast of Brian Adams most recent promo. As it begins Osbourne is visibly brought to anger and nearly seethes in his chair. As the promo segues, Osbourne realizes who the guy was that had called him a few nights ago about the "special reserves" it was rumored he kept for his trademark dream sequences. The buyer had offered top dollar, and Rob, not knowing who the buyer was procuring the stuff for, sold a bit of the Vision Quest away. As the promo fades to black Osbourne closes his laptop and flips on his uplink to PWN and begins to address the camera.**
NRO: Alot can be said about what we all just saw there Brian. I for one will see it for what I know it to be. A realization that you are a marked man with a huge target on your back. I don't need to use you of all people, World Title or not, to take myself the next level pal. I think you have me confused with some two bit piece of white trash just off the farm still green behind my ears. There is no advantage of me having this match with you Mr. World Champion. No reason other than to slap you around and teach you the kind of lesson you need to learn. A lesson of respect. Your paranoia is not unfounded though. I for one have been there - hell, I wrote the book on paranoia. Watching you Brian, amuses me immensely. I see myself 10 years ago and realize by watching you, all that I did wrong. The poor choices, the bad advice i listened to and the good advice I ignored. I am NOT trying to give you advice champ, hell the title around your waist proves you don't need my advice, right? I asked for this match with you this week because I thought I saw something in you. i thought I saw greatness yet to be tapped. I could be wrong. If that little bit of poking and prodding got you that worked up pal, maybe you aren't the Uber Super Heel I thought you were.... Please, when trying to close me on why you are, don't reference your shenanigans out of the ring. I have done some of the most diabolical and vile things your putrid mind could barely conceive. I have had even more aweful things done to me. You can't close me on being the best until you beat me. Plain and simple. All of the talk until your hand is raised in victory, no matter how eloquently stated, is a festering pile of horse shit until you land the 1,2, 3 on me, and ask around sonny jim, don't take my word for it...pinning me is not a very easy thing to do. Let me ask you this Brian...when a prospective opponent lands a suplex on you and your hair flips in your eyes and your equilibrium is off balance...and then he is on you quicker than Chemical X on an Asian hooker, and you know he is right there...the ropes are 2 feet away, the turnbuckle is 4 feet away...he weighs about 256 pounds, and is about six foot four ...if the velocity of his fall is at just the right angle, could it in fact create an impact zone that would render him unconcious? Can you think that fast? A quarter inch to the left or a quarter inch to the right off and you don't get the same effect. Can you be that precise and on point with your timing like I can be? Can you feel based on your opponents movements what his next move will be? Can you anticipate the angle of which you will fall as you are having a move done to you? Do you know where your body will hit, and what you will counter with most effectively? I do Brian. It's what I live for. I have been in a wrestling ring all my life. You see my very dear friend, we walk the similar paths, you and I. It's like that Sandra Bullock and Keaneu Reeves movie. Same path, but years apart. You will fall Brian. It MUST happen. The only way we grow, the only way we get bigger is to first be refined in the fire and made pure again. Are you ready to feel the flames that a match between two names like ours is destined to create? Can you make it through the fire and flames and emerge a better man? I think you can...even in defeat I think you will come out better. And make no mistake about it Brian, defeat is what will happen for you at Showdown. You have been resting in that dream world you have been in since winning that title. It's time for me to turn you dream world upside down and throw you into an all out frenzied Nitemare. But there is a light at the end of that tunnel...when I Badd Dream you Saturday, it will alleviate so much of the pressure that was on you. Hopefully it will also bring your big head you have developed back into reality. You will then realize that Life is paiN. I got a funny feeling that somethings wrong with you Brian Adams. I think you are hiding something under that tough guy exterior. Are you Catholic? Is that it? Show me on the doll where Father McFinnigan touched you son...it's okay...or....or....OR.....is your given name really Ibraheim Ahmed? THAT'S IT ISN'T IT??! WHEN YOU SAY YOU'RE FROM PHILLY, YOU DON'T MEAN PHILADELPHIA DO YOU??? YOU'RE NOT FROM PHILADELPHIA....YOU'RE FROM PHILISTINE...or in modern day translation, Palestine. You're a damned dirty Palestinan Terrorist aren't you? Are you with Hamas or the PLO? Hmm, which is it Tommy Tough Guy? I'll show you, you silly towel head. I'm serving notice right now, CWF locker room, you thought my brother Pledge's bounty on Adams was high, I will pay $5.2 million to whoever can bust this terrorist cell apart and being me the turbaned head of this terrorist, this member of the axis of evil, Ibraheim Ahmed! Seriously though...you are a terrorist. A homegrown full fledged criminal of the mind. When nurses see you in hospitals now, they run the other way. I hear you aren't even allowed on the pediatric cancer wards of most major US hospitals and that the Make a Wish foundation has blacklisted you. But I digress. The mud-slinging and name calling is beneath us both Adams. When we meet this Saturday in our first ever one on one match there will be fireworks and there will be more tension in that arena than you could cut with a knife. The atmosphere created alone by the combined presence of the two of us will be enough to rip the roof off of the place. This may be the biggest non-title match Showdown has had in this era of the CWF. I can almost feel that chill, that slight shiver I get down the midle of my back that makes the hair on my neck stand up, my nipples get hard, and I get goose bumps all over...after 15 years one would think that feeling would have passed, yet still each and every time I walk through that curtain, I get it. This week, we put it to the test Adams, and find out how this chapter of the CWF history books will be written....we will set the stage for the next chapter as well. They say Brian, that history is written by those who win and as Winston Churchill said, "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." When I write my history, in it you are the second best heel in the world of sports entertainment. Second best. Get used to it smart ass. **Osbourne switches off the uplink and grabs his keys and shades. He hops in the Maserati Quattroporte and backs out of the driveway and heads for Daytona Beach and the offices of Pro Wrestling Network, owned and operated by his wife, Christina Danky. He arrives to the building and heads inside. In the main studio his wife and the production team are overseeing the set for a PWN Special Osbourne is set to record a segment of. A guy doing the voiceover work sits down at the microphone and records his intro before Osbourne records his segment to be used at the end of the special.** |
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