Yep, it's me again. Back with another tale from this crazy world of professional wrestling. I headed back to Rampage Pro yesterday to train again. I have always heard that the things you don't have are a reflection of the things you don't know. Simple stuff I haven't been taught is shown to me everytime I go there. Trying to work on my chain wrestling and a bunch of other stuff.
Anyway, I tagged with DeMarco Knight yesterday (I think he used to call himself Flatline or something) against A.J. Steele and Murder-1. The new resident bad asses of RPW didn't hold back. I got in a couple of shots and tagged out. DeMarco was pinned not to long afterward. And what was my reward. A.J. slammed me on the floor!! Oh, I will remember that one. Keep your eyes open, "Black Superman". There is a receipt coming your way straight from Brick City!!!!
Laterz.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Reprogrammed
Anybody that knows anything about this great sport of pro wrestling knows that no matter what you know, you will never know it all. That's why some excel in this sport and others just stay stagnant. And wrestling is one of those "do-it-youreself" sports. If you wanna get better, then YOU should find the means to that end. No matter how long I have been wrestling and whatever I have been taught, I still want to be the best Velvet Jones that I can be.
That is why I am so happy Rampage Pro Wrestling opened up Rampage University. I was invited to come down there and train. I have been trying to make the most of it. There were a lot questions I had but no one could answer them for me. Not only am I learning new stuff or tweaking things in my arsenal, but I am also learning why I should do them. A lot of people can say the word psychology and a few people can actually spell it. Not everyone knows how to apply it. I am learning so much there and I can't wait to learn more.
If you think you have seen the best of Velvet Jones, you are fooling yourself. I have only been scratching the surface for the last four years and I still have been consistently ranked among the top wrestlers in the state. Just you wait. The best is yet to come.....
That is why I am so happy Rampage Pro Wrestling opened up Rampage University. I was invited to come down there and train. I have been trying to make the most of it. There were a lot questions I had but no one could answer them for me. Not only am I learning new stuff or tweaking things in my arsenal, but I am also learning why I should do them. A lot of people can say the word psychology and a few people can actually spell it. Not everyone knows how to apply it. I am learning so much there and I can't wait to learn more.
If you think you have seen the best of Velvet Jones, you are fooling yourself. I have only been scratching the surface for the last four years and I still have been consistently ranked among the top wrestlers in the state. Just you wait. The best is yet to come.....
Monday, May 4, 2009
Full circle
Wow. What a wrestling weekend I had. Statred off early Saturday afternoon with an outside show against Jake Slater. We had a decent, solid match. In the end, Jake Slater (with Mike Money in his corner) defeated me with a roll-up and his feet on the ropes for leverage. That daen greaseball!!! I can't say damn because we wrestled in front of a church. LOL
Later on that day, I wrestled Scott Cage in a defense of the GIWA championship. The match was going well and in my favor until Cage tried to hit me with a chain. Part-owner KSL ran out and tried to stop him. When I went to see about Cage, KSL turned on me and hit me in the back with a tennis racket. Cage rooled me up for the pin untilo the match was restarted by Mad Mac Davis. In the end, Mike Stratus interfered in the now no-DQ match, levelled me with an ironing board, and knocked me out cold. Cage made the cover and won the title. Cage, KSL, Stratus - you days are all coming.
Sunday morning saw me go to Rampage University for some training. There are a lot of simple things about wrstling that I didn't know. Why? Simple: I was never taught those things. Here's some advice for wrestlers - if you wanna get better, take the opportunity to do so when it comes up. Just as I had the option of saying "I wrestled twice a day earlier" as a reason not to go to Rampage, I didn't. I woke up at 8 Sunday morning, jumped in my ride at 9, and wound up there a little after ten in the morning. Wanting to be better at anything is about more than talking the talk. Still, I stayed and I worked Cru Jones (he's a meanie like Stratus). Good solid match, but I lost it too. 0-3 this weekend. That sucks. I'm ranting. That's sucks too. I'm out. Peace and hair grease...
Later on that day, I wrestled Scott Cage in a defense of the GIWA championship. The match was going well and in my favor until Cage tried to hit me with a chain. Part-owner KSL ran out and tried to stop him. When I went to see about Cage, KSL turned on me and hit me in the back with a tennis racket. Cage rooled me up for the pin untilo the match was restarted by Mad Mac Davis. In the end, Mike Stratus interfered in the now no-DQ match, levelled me with an ironing board, and knocked me out cold. Cage made the cover and won the title. Cage, KSL, Stratus - you days are all coming.
Sunday morning saw me go to Rampage University for some training. There are a lot of simple things about wrstling that I didn't know. Why? Simple: I was never taught those things. Here's some advice for wrestlers - if you wanna get better, take the opportunity to do so when it comes up. Just as I had the option of saying "I wrestled twice a day earlier" as a reason not to go to Rampage, I didn't. I woke up at 8 Sunday morning, jumped in my ride at 9, and wound up there a little after ten in the morning. Wanting to be better at anything is about more than talking the talk. Still, I stayed and I worked Cru Jones (he's a meanie like Stratus). Good solid match, but I lost it too. 0-3 this weekend. That sucks. I'm ranting. That's sucks too. I'm out. Peace and hair grease...
Monday, April 13, 2009
Heard about the Rampage show this past Friday at Mcon City Auditorium. Wish I had the chace to be a part of it. However, the occupation that pays the bills came first. Don't really know all of the results but I did hear that Dr. Johnny Gayton still has his hair. "All-Star", can't wait to see ya buddy. Can you say chrome dome?
Well, I was scheduled to wrestle for the upstart UPW promotion out of Cochran this weekend. Only one problem: I heard nothing else from the fed or its promoter. So much for that idea. Even still, I did wrestle for AWN this weekend and took on "The Natural" (yep, another!) Steve Stiles. Not a bad match. However, fans did get to see a sneak peek at Velvet 2.0 last night. I dusted off a few moves and threw more suplexes than I can count.
Just for the record, lemme say this: WHEN IT IS UNIVERSALLY AGREED THAT YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO PHYSICAL ABILITY WHATSOEVER, YOU SHOULD GET THE HELL OUT OF THE SPORT.
Well, the first three months of the year are history. The year has not been great for me so far - personally and professionally. I have heard its not how you start but how you finish and what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. If that's the case, I challenge life and the rest of the year to bring it on! I'm ready for whatever it has to offer!
Well, I was scheduled to wrestle for the upstart UPW promotion out of Cochran this weekend. Only one problem: I heard nothing else from the fed or its promoter. So much for that idea. Even still, I did wrestle for AWN this weekend and took on "The Natural" (yep, another!) Steve Stiles. Not a bad match. However, fans did get to see a sneak peek at Velvet 2.0 last night. I dusted off a few moves and threw more suplexes than I can count.
Just for the record, lemme say this: WHEN IT IS UNIVERSALLY AGREED THAT YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO PHYSICAL ABILITY WHATSOEVER, YOU SHOULD GET THE HELL OUT OF THE SPORT.
Well, the first three months of the year are history. The year has not been great for me so far - personally and professionally. I have heard its not how you start but how you finish and what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. If that's the case, I challenge life and the rest of the year to bring it on! I'm ready for whatever it has to offer!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Rampage and WrestleMania Ramblings
Wassup, one. Wassup, all.
This past weekend, I teamed with Ron Stalker to take on the Cash Vault - Kyle Matthews and Frankie Valentine in a tag team match in Rampage Pro Wrestling. We wound up losing after I submitted due to a beatdown of my left arm. One word: OUCH!!!
Now, I know I have been mad critical of what wrestling organizations are doing wrong. I went to Rampage and finally got to see an organization doing everything right. A lot of people make the argument about money. If they had it, they could be doing what Rampage is. My say is they could probably afford what Rampage could afford. Do what they do? That's another argument to be made. I have wrestled there only three times. Still, you get the feeling they are trying to build something. So far, it is top notch. Wonder why Rampage gets the press it does? Look at the locker room. It is a WHO'S WHO in Georgia wrestling today. And while I didn't get the chance to meet her, I would like to meet the 6' 10" Isis. From what I hear, the videos do not do her justice. Just to be part of that makes me feel like I have made some serious strides in wrestling. And although I am from this area, I feel kinda bad for feds in the Middle Georgia area. The staff at RPW has set the bar so high, it's crazy. Onward and upward, Rampage. You have quickly become the state's wrestling barometer.
I did watch WrestleMania and I enjoyed it aplenty. The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels had a hell of a match. John Cena wins the World title and a fan cusses him out to his face. Priceless. But the surprise moment of the year was Ricky Steamboat turning back the clock and stealing the show like he did in '87. That had me on the edge of my seat.
One thing that did disappoint me was the Money In The Bank ladder match. These matches are starting to get like War Games matches in Georgia: redundant and pretty fucking predictable. I say they do away with it for a year. And Santina rules!!!
Glad to see my workouts are actually paying of. The biggest reasons are that I have boosted my cardio and eliminated red meat from my diet. Hopefully, I can take care of some scheduling conflicts and wrestle in other places this year. But that's the biggest dilemma. Everyone wants rankings and recognition. Those things are a by-product of exposure. So with all the feds in GA, which ones will provide the most? I'll be back. I gotta scratch my head on this one....
This past weekend, I teamed with Ron Stalker to take on the Cash Vault - Kyle Matthews and Frankie Valentine in a tag team match in Rampage Pro Wrestling. We wound up losing after I submitted due to a beatdown of my left arm. One word: OUCH!!!
Now, I know I have been mad critical of what wrestling organizations are doing wrong. I went to Rampage and finally got to see an organization doing everything right. A lot of people make the argument about money. If they had it, they could be doing what Rampage is. My say is they could probably afford what Rampage could afford. Do what they do? That's another argument to be made. I have wrestled there only three times. Still, you get the feeling they are trying to build something. So far, it is top notch. Wonder why Rampage gets the press it does? Look at the locker room. It is a WHO'S WHO in Georgia wrestling today. And while I didn't get the chance to meet her, I would like to meet the 6' 10" Isis. From what I hear, the videos do not do her justice. Just to be part of that makes me feel like I have made some serious strides in wrestling. And although I am from this area, I feel kinda bad for feds in the Middle Georgia area. The staff at RPW has set the bar so high, it's crazy. Onward and upward, Rampage. You have quickly become the state's wrestling barometer.
I did watch WrestleMania and I enjoyed it aplenty. The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels had a hell of a match. John Cena wins the World title and a fan cusses him out to his face. Priceless. But the surprise moment of the year was Ricky Steamboat turning back the clock and stealing the show like he did in '87. That had me on the edge of my seat.
One thing that did disappoint me was the Money In The Bank ladder match. These matches are starting to get like War Games matches in Georgia: redundant and pretty fucking predictable. I say they do away with it for a year. And Santina rules!!!
Glad to see my workouts are actually paying of. The biggest reasons are that I have boosted my cardio and eliminated red meat from my diet. Hopefully, I can take care of some scheduling conflicts and wrestle in other places this year. But that's the biggest dilemma. Everyone wants rankings and recognition. Those things are a by-product of exposure. So with all the feds in GA, which ones will provide the most? I'll be back. I gotta scratch my head on this one....
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Back again...
Wassup, peeps.
It has been a minute since I've benn here. Blame it on the economy. Blame it on Facebook. Blame it on the A-a-a-a-a- alcohol.
So what have I been up to? Well, I have been wrestling quite a bit in Fort Valley. My win-loss record has been average at best. I have gained a few victories over the likes of Brokishi, Berserko, and Ron Stalker. I have taken on Paul Warfield and came up short on two occasions. Warfield has changed. He has turned on the fans who made him what he is - the AWN champion. If he didn't have that cheating cowboy in his corner, he wouldn't be that. Maybe I will get a shot at the championship - or some championship - in the Valley, but I doubt it.
I did defend my GIWA title against Jake Slater successfully thsi past weekend. It was our first one-on-one meeting and it was exactly what I though it would be. Next up for me, it UPW in Cochran on April 11th. As for April 25th, I won't be wrestling because that is my birthday!!! Yeah, I only have one scheduled match in the month of April. But there is always AWN.
I'm out. Holler...
It has been a minute since I've benn here. Blame it on the economy. Blame it on Facebook. Blame it on the A-a-a-a-a- alcohol.
So what have I been up to? Well, I have been wrestling quite a bit in Fort Valley. My win-loss record has been average at best. I have gained a few victories over the likes of Brokishi, Berserko, and Ron Stalker. I have taken on Paul Warfield and came up short on two occasions. Warfield has changed. He has turned on the fans who made him what he is - the AWN champion. If he didn't have that cheating cowboy in his corner, he wouldn't be that. Maybe I will get a shot at the championship - or some championship - in the Valley, but I doubt it.
I did defend my GIWA title against Jake Slater successfully thsi past weekend. It was our first one-on-one meeting and it was exactly what I though it would be. Next up for me, it UPW in Cochran on April 11th. As for April 25th, I won't be wrestling because that is my birthday!!! Yeah, I only have one scheduled match in the month of April. But there is always AWN.
I'm out. Holler...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A-Roid.
Wow. Performance enhancing drugs. Why do people do it? For a variety of reasons.
As much as I love pro wrestling, I am not about to risk my livelihood messing with that stuff. Have I ever taken steroids? No. HGH? No. I have taken supplements that you can buy from GNC when I first started working out. Protein powders and amino acids were all I ever took. I have been off of supplements for about two years now. Why did I stop using them? Listen carefully....
Whenever you read a supplement ad, look on the bottom. In the fine print, you will see something that say something like "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration....". Why is that? We all know supplements are not food. When the manufacturers are asked if they are drugs, they say no. When they are asked what supplements are, they respond by saying they "cannot be clearly defined". If someone makes a product that you ingest and cannot define it as either a food or drug, why in the fuck would you want to put it in your body? And these are the legal supplements we are talking about!
Sports culture is big in this country. Now, so is supplemental culture. MMA is starting to make waves. Through the pages of MMA mags, there are supplement ads. In every field of competition, every athlete is looking for an edge, a shortcut, or a little boost. Even on the indy level, some of the most well-known wrestlers are jacked-up roid monsters.
What message does this send to the kids? Work kind of hard, pop a few pills, and you too can be a star? Hey, this is just my opinion, folks. I know I can't stop guys from doing roids. It just pisses me off that taking performance enhancers - as dangerous and life- threatening and life-shortening as they can be - has become acceptable. It unevens the playing field and tarnishes accomplishments. It sucks. And thanks to A-Rod, Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and a bunch of other guys, America's past time has become a joke.
As much as I love pro wrestling, I am not about to risk my livelihood messing with that stuff. Have I ever taken steroids? No. HGH? No. I have taken supplements that you can buy from GNC when I first started working out. Protein powders and amino acids were all I ever took. I have been off of supplements for about two years now. Why did I stop using them? Listen carefully....
Whenever you read a supplement ad, look on the bottom. In the fine print, you will see something that say something like "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration....". Why is that? We all know supplements are not food. When the manufacturers are asked if they are drugs, they say no. When they are asked what supplements are, they respond by saying they "cannot be clearly defined". If someone makes a product that you ingest and cannot define it as either a food or drug, why in the fuck would you want to put it in your body? And these are the legal supplements we are talking about!
Sports culture is big in this country. Now, so is supplemental culture. MMA is starting to make waves. Through the pages of MMA mags, there are supplement ads. In every field of competition, every athlete is looking for an edge, a shortcut, or a little boost. Even on the indy level, some of the most well-known wrestlers are jacked-up roid monsters.
What message does this send to the kids? Work kind of hard, pop a few pills, and you too can be a star? Hey, this is just my opinion, folks. I know I can't stop guys from doing roids. It just pisses me off that taking performance enhancers - as dangerous and life- threatening and life-shortening as they can be - has become acceptable. It unevens the playing field and tarnishes accomplishments. It sucks. And thanks to A-Rod, Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and a bunch of other guys, America's past time has become a joke.
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