PROMO: The Last Straw

[King Cucaracha 0]

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An SWF.com Exclusive~!

 

 

In the usually unseen areas of the Croke Park Stadium, it's a scene of calm. Silence. Tranquility even. Smarkdown has so far passed off, more or less, without incident. With only the faint sounds of the fans cheering on Wildchild in his battle with Spike Jenkins out in the ring to be heard, the scene is quiet. Almost, too quiet.

 

 

"No No No NO NO NO NO NO!"

 

Silence broken, Landon Maddix limps through the hallways fresh off his beating at the hands of Danny Williams, barging past anything even remotely resembling an obstacle. Maddix's eyes are filled with fire as he reaches the end of the corridor, looking down either turning that he's faced with. Until finally, he spots what he's looking for and takes off to the left.

 

"SOAPDISH!"

 

As the camera peers down the hallway, Soapdish notices Maddix lumbering towards him and thinks about making a run for it, but decides against it.

 

"Soapdish! What the HELL was that!?!"

 

"Landon, I know you're upset..."

 

"You're god-damn right I'm upset!!" Maddix snaps, not letting Soapdish get a chance to explain himself. "You might very well be stupid, but I know for a fact you're not blind! He had the chain! You saw the chain, you saw him about to hit me and you did NOTHING about it!! You screwed me Soapdish!"

 

"Bu..."

 

"I had Danny beat! I had him on the ropes, he was DONE!"

 

"Bu..."

 

"Damn it Nicky, you've been on my case so many damn times in the past about nothing little things and yet, Danny can bring a chain into the ring!?!"

 

"But...you were the one who brought the chain in."

 

Maddix pauses.

 

"Well...yea...THAT'S BESIDES THE POINT!!" yells the increasingly fuming Maddix, while Soapdish rolls his eyes. "I didn't USE the chain!"

 

"Neither did Danny."

 

Hands on hips, Maddix pauses again.

 

"...okay, okay. Look, you made a bad call, I can understand that. And it's okay. See, there's still time for you to go out there and sort it out before the show ends. I don't know what you think'd be best. Reversing the decision, for threatening to use a steel chain. Restarting the match. I don't mind what..."

 

"I can't do that Landon."

 

"Look...the only reason I came to you was because I know Flesher won't do squat about this. He'll just give me the bullshit, 'referee's decision is final, none of my business, excuse me while I prise Allison off my balls' excuse for why he won't lift a finger to help me out. So, I want the referee...to change his final decision."

 

"Like I said, I can't do tha..."

 

"Nicky..."

 

"You lost." Soapdish finally states bluntly. "I'm sorry, okay. I did my job, that's all I can do. Now, if you don't mind, I've got to go call my girlfriend...you'll have to take it up with Tom."

 

Soapdish sighs and leaves, leaving Maddix to stare on with arms folded.

 

"What girlfriend? Do you EVER stop lying!?!" Maddix calls out after Soapdish, before sitting on a nearby equipment case to continue his sulking. There he sits for a few seconds, before glancing up and noticing the camera that has been following him for the first time. "Oh, great. As if things couldn't get any worse, now I've got the frikkin' Blair Witch Project following me around. What is this, an internet thing? An exclusive chance to laugh it up at Landon Maddix's expence some more? Well, great. Go ahead, laugh it up, Landon Maddix gets embarassed again. Another dream of success and making history flushed down the tube."

 

Staring down, Maddix looks into his hands solemnly.

 

"I was one away. ONE away. I know that every single fan in that arena was dying to see me upstaged. They couldn't bare for me to have any sort of success. And they got their wish. Danny Williams beat me. But to do so, he needed to pull my hair, pull my tights, use lowblows, threaten to hit me with a chain and then tell his crooked buddy referee to count a pinfall that shouldn't stand! Fact is, the loss shouldn't even count...I should be back here with the champagne popped, the streamers flying, the celebrations kicked off for my big trio of tapout victories. I..got...SCREWED!! But do any of you care? Of course not. You're happy to see me kicked while I'm down, so long as it's by one of the 'nice guys'. Let's face it...the only reason any of you people jumped onto my bandwagon was because I was beating all your enemies. You cheered me against Chris Card, you cheered me against The Suicide King. You LOVED me when I was going after Toxxic. It's all the same with you people. 'Oh, yeah, Landon Maddix, I've always been his biggest fan, he's so l33t'. Where were you when I was part of The Unnamed? Where were you when I was carrying the SJL on the back despite it's impending death. Where are you NOW!?!"

 

Looking into the camera, a sour look comes over Maddix's face.

 

"None of you ever gave a crap about me. This past year has been a complete farce. I came out, you cheered me...and for some reason, I loved it. It'd been so long since people gave me anything other than abuse when I walked out into an arena, that for some reason it seemed like a breath of fresh air. Now though, I can finally see that it was a breath of steaming crap. De-facto Niceguy isn't my thing. So, I'm going back to the old days. The old Landon Maddix. The one who ended my SJL career on a 10-0 streak. The Landon Maddix that doesn't give a crap if you people are booing me or cheering me. I'm going back to what works."

 

A smile slowly creeps onto Maddix's face, as he stands up.

 

"Enjoy your laughter while you can. Because soon enough...I'm gonna cram it down each and every one of your throats! See, I might not be able to make you people like me. But when I'm done, I'll be damned if you people aren't forced to respect me! Now, get the hell out of my face."

 

Maddix turns and storms off (limping slightly, wobbling a little to the left and with his hands held out in front of him due to the gradual swelling in one eye), as the feed fades out.

[jwpeer 0]

I really enjoyed this promo. In fact after reading up on some of the past

matches (I'm a new guy here) I have to say this is the best promo (at least to me entertainment wise) that I've read yet. Very good stuff, I can't wait to see Landon in action next!

[Toxxic 0]

You LOVED me when I was going after Toxxic.

 

See? EVERYTHING REVOLVES AROUND ME! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

But seriously - good promo. It goes a little further to explaining the changes in Landon's character and about how he was the 'de facto' face, and personally I think the fact that he now thinks the fans only ever cared about the fact he was against heels is a good reason to fully cement the heel turn in his eyes - before he was feeling hard done by with Todd and Megan and justified in his actions, now he's a DELIBERATE heel. So it's all good.

 

Todd vs Landon is going to kick all kinds of ass.