Post by Victor Phillips on Jun 9, 2013 5:47:44 GMT -5
The scene begins with a shot of Victor Phillips in his locker room alone. He is running through his prematch ritual, before getting his gear on and getting his head together. Raven is not by his side, she is resting her back before the big match on Primetime. He seems focused as ever and perhaps even more so because this is his first singles match since coming out of retirement. He knows that this first contest will set the tone for things to come, he knows that it is a “Statement Match”
!-Victor Phillips-!
15 long months have passed since I stepped into a GZWA ring on Primetime. 15 months ago, I walked away from the business I love and at the time I thought it was for good. What’s that famous Al Pacino line?
Victor thinks for a moment before chuckling as it comes to him
!-Victor Phillips-!
“Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in.” I was convinced that I had accomplished enough and that I had nothing left to prove. I mean, I held four world titles under the ZXWWF banner and checked every personal accomplishment off my bucket list. But that wasn’t enough.
Victor shakes his head to acknowledge that he hasn’t done enough in his mind
!-Victor Phillips-!
It took a special person to remind me that I still had more to accomplish..more to prove...enough level to reach. She came to visit me the day after I announced my retirement and had my final match against Kane, Randy Orton and The Hall Bros. She brought a tape with her of my final match where not only did I lose, I was pinned.
Victor Phillips cringed at the thought of the image
!-Victor Phillips-!
I’ve been pinned many times in my career, so that wasn’t the issue. But Raven constantly asked me...
“Is that the image you want to leave in their heads?”
“Is that the image you want to leave in their heads?”
“Is that the image you want to leave in their heads?”
!-Victor Phillips-!
For 15 months, Raven asked me that question. For 15 months she asked me if after all these years, did I want to go out a loser in front of all the people that supported me. For 14 months, I told her...
“They’ll remember the good times, the times that we all sat on top of the mountain. The memories of us, on the throne”
!-Victor Phillips-!
Those memories seem so far away now....
Victor Phillips zones out as he thinks about, where he has fallen from
!-Victor Phillips-!
For 14 months I denied, myself and my fans...my family, that has supported me....I denied us the chance to do what is in our blood. What we were put on this earth to do. But in that 15th month, Raven came to me one last time....
“Vic, the opportunity is there. I’ll ask you one last time, do you want them to remember you as a loser or do you want them to remember the champion that you were...that you are?”
!-Victor Phillips-!
Something clicked in my head in that moment...I realized that the man that everyone saw walk away 15 months ago was not me. That man that everyone saw was a ghost, a shell of a man that once was. The man that stands here today and the man that will walk out to the ring and face Leon Torres, is a man reborn. I am a man that has experienced a low that you can only experience after coming down from the highest of highs. I am the man that with the only woman I need by my side, will climb back to the mountain top that I once sat at the pinnacle of.
An intensity that has been long removed can be seen slowly flickering in the eyes of Victor Phillips.
!-Victor Phillips-!
I looked into Raven’s eyes and told her to make it happen, as long as she would be at my side every step of the way. I few days later, I stood engulfed by the roar of my people. The ones that remembered and knew that this wasn’t a retread of what they experienced 15 months ago. The watched as I fought with the passion and desire that many thought had left me.
!-Victor Phillips-!
But on the night of Riot Control, I came up short and though I am not a man that has ever made excuses, I felt that my focus was shifted due to one person’s actions....Amber. She got involved with someone who wasn’t involved in the match and in doing that, she crossed me. So that brings me to where I stand right now.
Victor Phillips clinches his fist as that flame continues on the inside of him continues to grow
!-Victor Phillips-!
I am came back to wrestling with my goal already set. But now I have the final pieces to the equation, motivation and a purpose. As it stands, I will be facing Amber’s man Leon in my first match back on Primetime and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Leon you and Amber are the first obstacles that stand in my way on my road back to the top, and what’s better is that you’ve made it personal.
Victor Phillips cracks his trademark smirk
!-Victor Phillips-!
So when I step into that ring and look into the eyes of my opponent, I am delivering a message and that is....I am “The Statement” Victor Phillips, and I’m Back!
FADE TO BLACK
