Promo "New Beginnings, Old Friends"

[Stephen Joseph 0]

Josh Matthews, de facto OAOAST backstage interview announcer, is standing outside the Lightning Crew locker-room door. A black LC in jagged fonts adorn the oaken wood.

 

JOSH MATTHEWS

Fans, I'm standing outside the Lightning Crew locker-room for a request that hasn't been made for quite some time. Several months ago, Stephen Joseph stepped down as an active wrestler, citing irreconciable differences with OAOAST Creative, Corporate, and in particular, one Zack Malibu (fans pop). Since then, he has been managing and guiding the career of our current 24/7 Champion, Tha Puerto Rican.

 

With the OAOAST going through a very tumultous time, it seems that even Stephen Joseph has to get back into the action. On Tuesday, July 12th, Stephen Joseph Popick reactivated his wrestling contract, a power he gave himself when he was an OAOAST commissioner and IntenseZone producer back in 2003. We'll find out very shortly just what this OAOAST veteran has to say about the brewing storms between GPX and Zack Malibu, Some Guy, CWM, and the rest of the Originals. Fans, we haven't heard Stephen Joseph speak his mind on anything other than Tha Puerto Rican for months!

 

::Josh Matthews knocks on the Lightning Crew door. The CUBAN WALL opens the door, and the camera shows an empty chair, a desk, and another chair occupied by a 2-time former OAOAST World Tag Team Champion, Cruiserweight Champion, United States Television Champion ... Stephen Joseph.::

 

::Stephen Joseph smirks from his desk and becons Josh w/cameradude into the Lightning Crew lockerroom::

 

Stephen Joseph

Josh my boy. Won't you come in? Don't mind Cuban Wall sitting over there, he's just here to make sure you stick to the matters at hand. You know, no personal questions or anything there. You wouldn't want your adoring fans to find out about your "backalley" transgressions now would you?

 

Josh Matthews.

Umm... ::motions cautiously to the CameraDude:: Stephen, let's not go there okay? You asked OAOAST Corporate for this time, and the only question I have is, "Why are you speaking now?"

 

Stephen Joseph

Why are you speaking now? THAT's your question. Wow, you're as brilliant as that Maria girl, did you go to the same announcing school? Figures...some money and some clothes and your brains goes to mush. Why the hell do you think I'm speaking now Monkey?

 

Josh Matthews

Well, I ...

 

Stephen Joseph

You're a backstage interviewer. Do some investigating, especially with such a high profile wrestler as myself.

 

Josh Matthews

You haven't won a match in months, and you're leeching off Tha Puerto Rican while trying to stay relevant in a business that clearly wishes you would just go away. How's that, Popick?

 

Stephen Joseph

Wall...

 

Josh

 

Stephen Joseph

Meet Wall.

 

Tha CUBAN WALL picks up Josh Matthews by the shirt (well, the neck really), and spins around, slamming Josh's face into the plaster wall, Josh hangs, there, balanced by alabaster, some wood, and framing, legs twitching.

 

Cuban Wall

Heh. Wall.

 

Stephen Joseph

Very...nice...Wall. CameraDude, mind focusing in on me? Thanks. Okay. Listen up OAOAST fans, wrestlers, and all you other simpletons. BPP's going to explain this real simple. I got my ass kicked for about 2 years after being quite the phenomenon in this company. Hell, I helped build this company. So, when they're searching for this new Commisioner, do I get a contact, since I was one...? No, because they're all like, you let IntenseZone rating's sag too much. F'ing corporate board, not seeing the real reason why IntenseZone faltered.

 

So here's why I'm here, why I'm talking, and why YOU need to pay attention. See, BPP, he can be knocked down, but never out. I've bided my time, helped Tha Puerto Rican become something, someone. And unlike the rest of the OAOAST ingrates, Tha Puerto Rican has STOOD BY ME no matter what. Now that's loyalty.

 

I'm here to talk about a matter of extreme importance. There's this "storm" brewing, we've all heard Zack talk about it. Well, okay, people have told me Zack's talking about it, because I don't speak to him. He's beneath me, on that level of being a downright honest person. Hell, I may have bad intentions, but I don't mislead people, right Zack? Right Dan?

 

There's these "Originals" guys I've known for years. Some of them are okay, some of them...not so much. Then these other fellows, GPX and Drek, who seem to well, not like the old Establishment too much. Can't say I blame them, especially since Zack Malibu's the one drawing the ire.

 

But I'm here to say this. I don't give a flying f*ck about who is doing what, when, or where, unless it impacts me, The Puerto Rican, or the Lightning Crew. You see, this is MY family now, and family looks out after one another.

 

And I find that, because of all the chaos now, its the best damn time for ole BPP to step back into the ring. So I'm calling out anyone, and I mean anyone, who wants to step into that squared circle, give it a go, and try to match me, pound for pound the best technical and flying wrestler in this business. I'm putting up a challenge for a match at License to Pin.

 

And afterwards? Well, we'll just have to wait and see about all that. Because now that I'm with Family, there's no where but up, up, up for Stephen Joseph to go.

 

::CameraDude beings to fade out...::

 

Stephen Joseph

Eh. Did I say you were done? Was I done? No! I just hit a dramatic pause, that's all!

 

Remember kiddos, Fuck me, Fuck you!

 

Now I'm done... Wall?

 

Cuban Wall

Yeah boss?

 

::The camera turns swiftly around and we're presented with an image of furious bobbing up and down as the CameraDude takes off running out of the LC locker room... ::

 

Stephen Joseph

What's his deal... I was just asking for my Bacardi Silver.

Edited July 19, 2005 by Stephen Joseph

[Hoff 0]

Not to step on your flavor, but PR is no longer the Puerto Rican champ. I know you're reading through the old shows, so I won't spoil it for you, but he lost it recently. So, there you go.

[Stephen Joseph 0]

Thanks Hoff. He is still the 24/7 champ correct?

 

Yeah, I've got a few shows to go...

[Hoff 0]

Ayup.

[Stephen Joseph 0]

Promo Done.