Post by 1jasonriggs1 on Jul 23, 2020 11:58:20 GMT -5
Nurse: Mr. Riggs your brother just called, he said he’d be here to get you in an hour.
Jason Riggs: Thank you Linda, really for EVERYTHING!
Nurse Linda: You’re welcome Jason, let’s just hope this is the last time HuH?
Jason Riggs: YES MAM! I know I’ve said this every time, but for real this is the last time you’re going to see me!
Nurse Linda: Ohh for real this time is it?
Jason Riggs: Yeah, like “FOR REAL, for real” ya know?
Nurse Linda: If you say so Jason. I really hope you are right this time!
Jason RIggs: I am! I know I am. ...So really Linda, I’m serious this is the last time you are going to see me!
(awkward silence)
Jason Riggs: In this type of setting anyway!
Nurse Linda: So I am curious why are you so confident this time is going to work?
Jason Riggs: You mean other than the fact that I almost died out there last time? And I am sick and tired to winding up back here with nothing but the clothes on my back when my family is one of the most prominent and wealthy families in this entire country?
Nurse Linda: Well yeah, I was kinda hoping you’d give at least one more reason other than the same ones you have given us the last four times you were here?
Jason Riggs: Well, as you know my brother Damon has been by a lot. He’s come more this one time than he has my other stays combined. Something has changed in him, he used to be an unbearable prick, but I don’t know something about him has really changed. He would come and visit me on Sudays and talked to me about it not being too late for me. That there was stil enough time for me tol carve out my place in our families legacy, and so just like him I have decided to return to the ring.
Nurse Linda; You mean pro wrestling?
Jason Riggs: YUP! Exactly!
Nurse Linda: Are you sure that’s the right environment for you? Pro wrestling is riddled with drug users and abusers. Not to mention all the lingering mommy and daddy issues. It’s just a constant set up for disappointment which could lead to another relapse, and like you said Jason I am not sure if you can survive another one!
Jason Riggs: I appreciate your concern Linda I really do. But I’ll be with my brother, and the rest of our PACK?
Nurse Linda: Oh MY GOD, please tell me you aren’t going to OPW!
Jason Riggs: Wait hold on YOU watch pro wrestling?
Nurse Linda: No my sons do, and they are not allowed to watch OPW!
Jason Riggs: WHHAAAATTTTT? That sounds like some nonsense to me! OK fine so they are a bit edgy, one of the guys that owns it owns like the majority of BRAZZERS so he does have two porn stars that work there. But ya gotta go where the talent is if you want to make it, and I am going to carve out a legacy, not be some small fish in an even smaller pond ya know?
Nurse Linda: I guess? I’ll be sure to pray for you!...And I just want you to be safe. I um, I just really care about you.
Jason Riggs: Thank you, but really I’ll be fine...I really am done, I have no desire to put anymore of that nasty crap in my body. And even if I did I’ll be running with my old crew the Wolfpack! It’s like an extended part of my family. Damon and my niece Allison will be there with me. VooDoo and her husband Vincent.
Nurse Linda: Yes, yes I know the whole motley crue!
Jason Riggs: So you do watch?
Nurse Linda: OK maybe a little. But I swear to God if I ever turn my television on and see you standing next to that Johnny Stylez character I’ll find out where you are and I’ll cut your nuts off!
Jason Riggs: Well that was...Specific?
Nurse Linda: Certain crimes require certain punishments!
Jason Riggs: Aint that the truth?
Nurse Linda: Jason look I am really happy for you. And I am glad you have decided to take on some lofty goals like the ones you have set for yourself. But just be careful because you of all people know how...slippery it can be out there!
Jason Riggs: Yeah I know, I know believe me I already got the 3rd, 4th, and 5th degree from Dr. Malfoy
Nurse Linda: I know I just...I
Jason stops packing and walks up and grabs the young attractive dirty blonde hair nurses’ hand and looks into her eyes as she gazes at him with a vulnerable helplessness.
Jason Riggs: I know…
Jason then makes his move and presses his lips against Nurse Lindas. Suddenly we see Damon Riggs walk into the room. He sees whats going on and has a DEER CAUGHT IN HEADLIGHTS look on his face. Jason pulls away from her, being ever mindful that if it were anyone else who would have just strolled through that door Linda could loose her job and that would probably be just the beginning of it. Jason looks at Linda and the two share an awkwardly cute smile.
Jason Riggs: You can come in now Damon!...I thought you said we had an hour?
Nurse Linda: I guess I forgot that was thirty minutes ago when he called.
Damon Riggs: And in whoevers defense I am a bit early! But uhhhhh yeah, I’ll just give you guys a minute. Take your time Jason, we’ve got a few hours to kill anyway.
Damon awkwardly smiles and even does one of those little awkward waves and then disappears into the hall.
Jason Riggs: Well if there is one thing I can say about my older brother, he knows how to make an entrance don’t he?
Nurse Linda: I….I think I’m gunna go. Good luck Jason, I….I mean we’re...WE’RE going to miss you around here!
Jason Riggs: Of course Linda...And again thank you for everything. But you have my number right?
Nurse Linda: Yeah uh-huh, sure do.
Jason Riggs: OK well call me sometimes, or maybe like tonight or whatever.
Nurse Linda: Bye Jason, stay strong, and remember I am here if you need me!
Jason Riggs: Bye Linda.
She turns to walk out the door but stops herself as she looks to her right and then to her left. She then spins around and looks at me with a crazy flirty smile and then lunges into my arms and presses her lips against mine. It was like one of those moments at the end of Grey’s Anatomy where they play some weird Lifehouse song at the end. I’m not sure how much time went by, but I did know that if this carried on much longer things were going to get really out of hand. So apparently knew that as well because she slowly pulled away and looked up at me with a coy smile. I kissed her on the forehead and we hugged and then she turned and left.
Not five minutes later Damon walks in carrying his briefcase and a clipboard.
Damon Riggs: 13 Steppin already...But then again I guess at this point you are a pro or something right?
Jason Riggs: Fuck you Damon! What’s with the briefcase?
Damon Riggs: Ohh well I went ahead and had your OPW contract drawn up and I even negotiated for your first match to be against one of those Syndicate assholes. So sign here, here….initial there….And then sign here….And you are once again officially a professional wrestler and a card carrying member of The Wolfpack!
Jason Riggs: Damon, I….I just.
Damon Riggs: WAIT...STOP! Don’t go getting all mushy on me, because I’m not gunna kiss ya like your little Candy Striper Girlfriend a few minutes ago slick!
Jason Riggs: Damon, just shut up for a second and listen man. I don’t think I would be here if it wasnt for you. I don’t think I would have made it this time. Because for the first time I am leaving this building with a sense of purpose. I have goals and ambitions, and I just want you to know I won’t let you or Voo or Vinny or Ani….I won’t let any of you down.
Damon Riggs: I know. That is exactly why I am allowing this to happen. I know what you are capable of, I always have. That’s why every time you were brought back to this place kicking and screaming it was me who drug you here! But I’m serious Jason, hear me on this now. If you do slip up if you do let us down I don’t think I have enough in me to drag you here again. This is your last second chance baby brother. It’s piss or get off the pot time man. So I just want to say don’t sign this just yet. You sit and think long and hard and if there is even the smallest inkling of a doubt in there, don’t sign it. Because we are at WAR and this is my last run, and I can’t stop and worry about dragging your deadweight as well. Only do this if you believe in yourself as much as I do. DO you hear me?
Jason Riggs: You are damn right I do Damon! I don’t have to think about it anymore as a matter of fact. It’s all I have been thinking about since you brought it up a month ago. I’m serious about all of it. And I am serious about catching your back, if they fuck with you they fuck with me.
Damon Riggs: Well alright then little bro, you need a pen? Look at you, of course you need a pen! You’d probably loose your dick if it wasn’t attached to you!
Jason Riggs: Aint no probably about it that sucker would be long gone!
We share a laugh as I lean over against what used to be my nightstand, and then we walked out of the St. Christopher Drug and Wellness REHAB center for what I promise you was the last time. The moment the door opened I was hit with a breathe of fresh air that I have never tasted before. I felt like I did when I first broke into the business around the WFnW days for those of you that can remember back that far. So I open the door to Damon’s rented Range Rover, and we drove into town to grab a bite to eat because we still had roughly two and a half hours until the jet was fueled and ready.
So we were sitting at this little diner about fifteen miles from where we were, and about thirty minutes from where we eventually needed to be. Damon Mr. Health nut ordered a salad, but not me I was going to EAT (especially since Damon was picking up the tab). SO I ordered a philly cheesesteak sandwich, some onion rings, some jalapeno poppers, and some spinach dip...And also not counting the piece of strawberry cheesecake I was going to get for deseret.
So for the first time in what seemed like forever my older brother and I just sat there and shot the shit about absolutely nothing. I am surprised he didn’t wanna talk shop. I remember once upon a time that was all this guy ever wanted to talk, think, of hear about was pro wrestling. He was probably the most driven and angry man I’ve ever known and that is probably why he was as successful as he was. But still that’s how you create enemies for life, and I always warned him about that shit, but of course he didn’t listen. No one ever listens to The BLACK SHEEP JASON RIGGS.
But maybe that’s what has changed? Because now that I am siting here talking to him...Like really talking to him, I can tell he’s not nearly as angry as he used to be. But then again he had been away from the ring for over a decade and found just as much success out of the ring as he did inside of it. His daughter, my niece, Allison was carrying the Riggs banner into the future and doing a damn good job of it at that. But still like I said, not a word of any of this fell from his mouth, that’s just what I found my mind drifting to whenever it would get quiet or while one of us would be in between stories or whatever.
The waitress brought our food and Damon cursed me out when she sat all of it down.
Jason Riggs: Now Damon I understand you’re trying to watch your girlish figure and everything but have a jalapeno popper!
Damon Riggs: Do you have any idea how horrible those things are for you?
Jason Riggs: Well using the context clue of your tone I’m guessing pretty bad? But ya know lately I have given up a lot of things like this jalapeno popper that may be utterly horrible for you, but when you try it...You think mannnnn there is no way this can be bad for you!
Damon Riggs: Jason what in the hell are you even talking about man?
Jason Riggs: Look I think what I’m trying to say is...It’s all bad for you, but maybe...Just maybe since I’ve had to give up a good portion of my daily diet, we not put delicious jalapeno poppers on the list just yet!
Damon Riggs: OK Fair ENOUGH….But I’m telling you bro...Those little fried DEVILS will put you on the road to relapse!
Jason Riggs: Well then in that case you had better help me with em!
Damon reaches over onto the plate and grabs one, not bothering to dip it in the ranch he shoves it in his mouth, and grabs another one. He at least had the decency and respect to chew and swallow before he looked at me as seriously as he ever has and says…
Damon Riggs: WAYYYYY AHEEADDDDD of ya BABY BRO!...WAY AHEAD OF YA!
We laughed a loud as we then dug in and enjoyed our lunch. Yet still we didn’t even almost talk about pro wrestling. He was telling me about his grandchildren, and his son-in-law Dane whom he had struggles getting along with in the beginning, but things were seemingly getting better. I was seemingly as hungry as I thought I was, as I polished off most of the good I ordered, with Damon helping here and there. But I decided to get a to-go box for what I didn’t finish and save room for cheesecake. Damon and I ordered some coffee as well, and while the waitress brought us our cups I couldn’t take anymore, so I finally brought it up.
Jason Riggs: So you gunna tell me about it or what?
Damon Riggs: Tell you about what?
Jason Riggs: Come on Damon you know what I’m talking about man!
Damon Riggs: Look I know you are pumped up about getting back in the ring, and I’m happy for you and all that hoopla, but you might wanna temper your expectations a little bit little bro. I mean the place is owned by a sniveling piece of shit like LA Johnny Stylez, and what’s worse is some how that asshole talked X into turning on his brother. And don’t even fucking get me started on Xavier! Because of him they have Ani now too!
Jason Riggs: No shit? He finally caved in and tapped that huh?
Damon Riggs: No, the asshole was supposed to face her for the OPW CHampionship at the last pay per view, but right before he signs his contract for the match, says he doesn’t want the title untul this little war is over, and instead changes the stipulations to where if he won she had to join them...And well the rest as they say! And to make matters even worse it’s my understanding that some how X was able to get Kal and a few of the others to look at things from his perspective and they are actually considering backing he and Stylez over Vin and the rest of us, because some how they are convinced that Vincent was in the wrong.
Jason Rigg: WHAT? How the? What kind if parallel universe are we living in now man?
Damon Riggs: That is what I’m trying to tell you little bro, the game has changed and I’m not quite so sure if its for the better or not. But my first match back your niece and I take the OPW Tag Team Titles from Johnny and X’s wife Le’Andra….Then seven days later that got damn piece of shit walks out and says that since Allie pinned him when he wasn’t the legal man, forced us to return the titles right after we got finished defending them on pay per view, and I haven’t been back in the ring since.
Jason Riggs: Why the hell not? Sounds like they need you!
Damon Riggs: NO that’s why we need YOU! Look between me and you, I got a lil banged up in the first match back. I’m not as young as I used to be. I mean I’m still in ring shape, but I dunno I got a little dinged up is all and I took some time, because you know me I’m not going to do something, especially get in that ring and compete unless I am a hundred percent! But they do need some back up I am not going to lie. Loosing Ani was a huge shot in the nuts, but at least Vin, Roger, and VooDoo were able to gain a little ground with their victory on Showcase this passed week.
Jason Riggs: SO wait who in the hell is this Roger guy?
Damon Riggs: He is Ani’s new beau! They have been together for almost a year now, they live with us on the compound. He has a little girl that Ani treats like she is hers...When actually the kid actually belongs to Roger and the chick who is married to Johnny Stylez, do you remember Blair Buchannan?
Jason Riggs: You mean that skank that’s on NETFLIX?
Damon Riggs: Yeah that’s the one, well she married Johnny about a year ago, signed away her parental rights over to Roger and he and Ani have been playing house on the compound up until two weeks ago when Roger accidentally cost Ani the match...I’ll let you watch it when we get on the plane I really don’t wanna get into what actually happened because it’s just gunna fucking piss me off. But Roger is a good dude you will like him, and he owns half of the company too so that is a huge plus for us!
Jason Riggs: SO wait hold on, VooDoo is back wrestling, I thought you told me she was doin commentary or some shit?
Damon Riggs: SHE WAS! But that’s how badly Stylez, Xavier and the rest of their little merry band of fuckin douche bags have been getting underneath our skin! She aint stepped foot inside of a wrestling ring almost since the last time you did!
Jason Riggs: GOOT DAMMMNNNN!
Damon Riggs: Exactly! But look J, you need to be on your A game. When we hit the gym from now on you need to push yourself. We have spoken about the things you want to accomplish, and I am here to tell ya if that’s what you really want you are going to fight extra hard for it because aint no one gunna give you shit around here! And well, there is somethin else I haven’t told you yet…
Jason Riggs: What? Shane magically showed up and introduced some other mysterious faction with a hidden agenda or some shit?
Damon Riggs: WOW….That was almost like a freaky good guess!
Jason Riggs: Almost?
Damon Riggs: Well it aint Shane!
Jason Riggs: NO FREAKIN WAY!?! You’re telling me Michelle is back too?
Damon Riggs: Brother not only is she back, she is the got damn commissioner! She has the power to veto Roger and Johnny as far as the weekly shows go because she technically works for HBO and not OPW!
Jason Riggs: Well that’s great news….isn’t it? I mean…?
Damon Riggs: NO...I mean you’d think, but she has been in office for going on three weeks now and I can’t get in to see her and she aint returning my calls, and if I know her like I know I do, that mans she is up to something! SHe probably knows who is behind whatever jerk off is sending me those letters?
Jason Riggs: Wait...Letters? Like secret admirer letters?
Damon Riggs: NO I mean like letters..Like the ALPHABET...Last week.
Jason Riggs: Well then that automatically rules Michelle out right? I mean I love our dear sister as much as a brither should, but God Bless her the alphabet isn’t exactly her strong suit!
Damon Riggs: STOP!
Jason Riggs: No, but seriously all joking aside...If it was Michelle why would she show up and then do it? Ya know? Like since you already know where she is and what she is doing for the most part she isn’t the type to sneak around and do the whole CLoak and Dagger nonsense...Our sister is a savage go for the jugular kinda lady.
Damon Riggs: I suppose you’re right , but still I can’t cross her name off the list quite yet. Not until I know for sure. She has avoided me so far but she can’t keep it up much longer and we both know that so…
Jason Riggs: So, which ones?
Damon Riggs: Come again?
Jason Riggs: Which letters of the alphabet did you get?
Damon Riggs: “C” and “U”
Jason Riggs: Well hell that’s not help that could be anything...This is like the worst game of Wheel of Fortune EVER!
Damon Riggs: NO SHIT! But when I get to the bottom of it, I’ll probably pound their face into their skull just for the aggravation. But I mean Kristian Oss just showed his face in OPW last week too so you never know who that slimy bastard Johnny Stylez has negotiated with to try and come knock the King off of his THRONE, if you catch my drift?
Jason Riggs: Yeah, but don’t tell me you are worried about Johnny Stylez? He has never been on your level and of all the changes in this business that you have mentioned me since we have been sitting here I doubt that’s one of em!
Damon Riggs: No, but I won’t underestimate him either and neither should you. And that’s another thing. Now that you are here watch out for guys trying to lash out at you trying to get to me. I’m not being cocky, but…
Jason Riggs: Yeah Damon, I know….I knew that before you said anything. I thought about that the minute you dropped me off the first time you mentioned anything about returning to the ring to me...Big Brother I’m telling you your faith in my this go round is not misplaced I am going to surprise you and a whole ot of other people. Before it’s all said and done with OPW and all of PRO WRESTLING in general will know and fear the name RIGGS ONCE AGAIN, and I will pump everything I’ve got into achieving that end..I give you my word on that.
Damon Riggs: Good to hear man, and it’s good to see you doin well again. Although you are really going to regret eating that cheesecake.
Jason Riggs: Bullshit, it was DELICIOUS!
Damon Riggs: OK well then I hope it tastes as good coming up as it did going down!
Jason Riggs: WHy would it...Wait….You wanna go grab a work out? What are you NUTS?
Damon Riggs: I’ve been called worse! I told ya didn’t I? THis isn’t going to be easy and I warned you about ordering all of that food!
Jason Riggs: Yeah ten minutes after I ordered it!
Damon Riggs: Ohh quit being such a baby Jason, it’s not flattering at all!
Jason Riggs: FUCK what did I get myself into!
Damon Riggs: A world of trouble baby brother….A big nasty world of TROUBLE!
Boy he wasn’t playing. The man is an absolute freak! When we got to the gym he went to town. I tried my best to keep up, but the jalapeno poppers and spinach dip and I had a difference of opinion as far as that was concerned.. So naturally when one has a disagreement with their lunch the two parties agree to part ways. Which is why you are looking at me crouching over a waste basket puking my guts up. While Damon is in the back ground calling me an assortment of names refering to female sex organs. This is gunna be one long ass day.
...30 Minutes Later
Damon hit the shower, but he arranged for a camera crew to be there so I could cut my first promo in years. So I walked over to the backdrop they had set up that had the RIGGS LEGACY logo all over it. I drained the rest of my bottle of FIJI and popped my neck, as I took a few deep breathes and then stood in the center of the back drop just like the director told me to and I nodded my head. The man yelled action...And that’s what I gave em.
Jason Riggs: So they told me a little while ago that I am to have my first match in almost a decade against a man I am actually quite familiar with. What are the odds huh? Almost ten years pass and I climb back into the ring with a man that is more than some acquaintance from way back in the day. This guy used to be one of us. For those of you not up on your wrestling history let me tell yall some facts about the walking turn coat money grubbing piece of shit named Adrian Black.
Adrian it woud seem you and I are two sides of the same coin huh? Two guys in almost the exact same situation. Sure we won our fair share of matches back in the day, but neither of us ever really had the careers our other family members did. Damon and Michelle in my case, Vincent and Xavier in yours. But you came back and instead of sticking by your family’s side you decide to show up and on your first night back assist Johnny Stylez in defeating Vincent Wolf. Casting your lot with probably the biggest piece of shit in the history of this business. Well Adrian you know what they say you are the company you keep, and well the fact that you break bread with an asshole like LA Johnny Stylez makes that statement the truest statement not found in the BIBLE!
SO what have you been up to Adrian? Where have you been for ten years? You know what? Don’t answer that because I don’t care. The moment you showed your face in OPW and willing choose to stand on the opposite side of the family that once protected you and gave you every opportunity you could ever hope for...Only for ten years down the line you choose to betray that for what?
“A COUPLE EXTRA BUCKS?”
I hope you invested Adrian, I hope you still have that money because when I send your sorry ass back into retirement you are going to wish you kept it and didn’t splurge and buy shit you don’t need, because medical bills as I’m sure you recall are anything but cheap. SO while I don’t really know what you did with your time while you were away from the ring, I can see clearly what you have done with it since you have been back.
Doing Johnny’s dirty work while bullying the younger generation? Tossing em around, beating them senseless. Does it make you feel good Adrian? You really feel like you are their superior because you were trained by some of the very best this business has ever seen? Yet you mock everything they ever taught you by beating up people way below your pay grade. No one likes a bully, and so I am going to do what someone in OPW should have stepped up and done weeks ago, and I am going to serve you up a nice tasty slice
OF HUMBLE FUCKING PIE!!!
But you know what I think Adrian? I think you come up in here and beat up on these cats that you think are beneath you on purpose. I think you come in here and beat up on them because you are afraid to push yourself against a real challenge? Because truth be told you are unequivocally are the worst in ring competitor out of your family. So you probably have every right to be afraid. But then that forces me to wonder...Perhaps you always knew this day was going to come. Where you are forced against your will to face someone from your past to expose you for the slimy, slithering, back stabbing piece of shit you always have been.
Maybe you thought it would be Damon, Vincent, or perhaps even Anicka Swan. Well I’m sorry to disappoint you but the person they have given this partiular task is someone who is coming back loking to use your worthless carcass to create the first rung on my ladder as I begin my ascension straight to the top. You can claim to be insutled they sent me, but I assure you Adrian I won’t ddge or duck any challenge from anyone. As a matter of fact as soon as I am done handing you your ass I am looking for the next one. Because that is what ultimately separates me from you Adrian!
I welcome the challenge, I want to be pushed because I know this is my last shot to make something of myself. And unlike you I am not going to sit around and beat up a bunch of people who are beneath me and pretend like I am. IN this business there is one saying that stands above them all. To be the man YOU GOTTA BEAT THE MAN! Well in order to get to the man, I am going to have to go through you. SO mark my words now ya fuckng PUSSY THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE FUCK I AM GOING TO DO! The RIGGS LEGACY WILL LIVE ON...AND IT WILL BE BUILT ON YOUR GRAVEPLOT!
Just know you earned every single second of this ass whooping you’ve got coming live on Monday Night SHOWCA$E! See ya then asshole! Jason OUT!
ANd with that I walked off the camera and had to catch my breathe as I let my emotions ge the better of me. BUt as Damon walked up and saw me bent over he pulled me up to see if I was ok, and I stood up smiling...Smiling so wide it turned into a laugh. Damn it felt good to be back. Damn it felt even better to have my brother at my side. Outlaw Pro Wrestling had a revolution coming. OPW was in desperate need of CHANGE..and so as always MY BROTHER and I were going to do everything in out power to give it to them! BELIEVE THAT! Guess I’ll see yall on MONDAY!~
Jason Riggs: Thank you Linda, really for EVERYTHING!
Nurse Linda: You’re welcome Jason, let’s just hope this is the last time HuH?
Jason Riggs: YES MAM! I know I’ve said this every time, but for real this is the last time you’re going to see me!
Nurse Linda: Ohh for real this time is it?
Jason Riggs: Yeah, like “FOR REAL, for real” ya know?
Nurse Linda: If you say so Jason. I really hope you are right this time!
Jason RIggs: I am! I know I am. ...So really Linda, I’m serious this is the last time you are going to see me!
(awkward silence)
Jason Riggs: In this type of setting anyway!
Nurse Linda: So I am curious why are you so confident this time is going to work?
Jason Riggs: You mean other than the fact that I almost died out there last time? And I am sick and tired to winding up back here with nothing but the clothes on my back when my family is one of the most prominent and wealthy families in this entire country?
Nurse Linda: Well yeah, I was kinda hoping you’d give at least one more reason other than the same ones you have given us the last four times you were here?
Jason Riggs: Well, as you know my brother Damon has been by a lot. He’s come more this one time than he has my other stays combined. Something has changed in him, he used to be an unbearable prick, but I don’t know something about him has really changed. He would come and visit me on Sudays and talked to me about it not being too late for me. That there was stil enough time for me tol carve out my place in our families legacy, and so just like him I have decided to return to the ring.
Nurse Linda; You mean pro wrestling?
Jason Riggs: YUP! Exactly!
Nurse Linda: Are you sure that’s the right environment for you? Pro wrestling is riddled with drug users and abusers. Not to mention all the lingering mommy and daddy issues. It’s just a constant set up for disappointment which could lead to another relapse, and like you said Jason I am not sure if you can survive another one!
Jason Riggs: I appreciate your concern Linda I really do. But I’ll be with my brother, and the rest of our PACK?
Nurse Linda: Oh MY GOD, please tell me you aren’t going to OPW!
Jason Riggs: Wait hold on YOU watch pro wrestling?
Nurse Linda: No my sons do, and they are not allowed to watch OPW!
Jason Riggs: WHHAAAATTTTT? That sounds like some nonsense to me! OK fine so they are a bit edgy, one of the guys that owns it owns like the majority of BRAZZERS so he does have two porn stars that work there. But ya gotta go where the talent is if you want to make it, and I am going to carve out a legacy, not be some small fish in an even smaller pond ya know?
Nurse Linda: I guess? I’ll be sure to pray for you!...And I just want you to be safe. I um, I just really care about you.
Jason Riggs: Thank you, but really I’ll be fine...I really am done, I have no desire to put anymore of that nasty crap in my body. And even if I did I’ll be running with my old crew the Wolfpack! It’s like an extended part of my family. Damon and my niece Allison will be there with me. VooDoo and her husband Vincent.
Nurse Linda: Yes, yes I know the whole motley crue!
Jason Riggs: So you do watch?
Nurse Linda: OK maybe a little. But I swear to God if I ever turn my television on and see you standing next to that Johnny Stylez character I’ll find out where you are and I’ll cut your nuts off!
Jason Riggs: Well that was...Specific?
Nurse Linda: Certain crimes require certain punishments!
Jason Riggs: Aint that the truth?
Nurse Linda: Jason look I am really happy for you. And I am glad you have decided to take on some lofty goals like the ones you have set for yourself. But just be careful because you of all people know how...slippery it can be out there!
Jason Riggs: Yeah I know, I know believe me I already got the 3rd, 4th, and 5th degree from Dr. Malfoy
Nurse Linda: I know I just...I
Jason stops packing and walks up and grabs the young attractive dirty blonde hair nurses’ hand and looks into her eyes as she gazes at him with a vulnerable helplessness.
Jason Riggs: I know…
Jason then makes his move and presses his lips against Nurse Lindas. Suddenly we see Damon Riggs walk into the room. He sees whats going on and has a DEER CAUGHT IN HEADLIGHTS look on his face. Jason pulls away from her, being ever mindful that if it were anyone else who would have just strolled through that door Linda could loose her job and that would probably be just the beginning of it. Jason looks at Linda and the two share an awkwardly cute smile.
Jason Riggs: You can come in now Damon!...I thought you said we had an hour?
Nurse Linda: I guess I forgot that was thirty minutes ago when he called.
Damon Riggs: And in whoevers defense I am a bit early! But uhhhhh yeah, I’ll just give you guys a minute. Take your time Jason, we’ve got a few hours to kill anyway.
Damon awkwardly smiles and even does one of those little awkward waves and then disappears into the hall.
Jason Riggs: Well if there is one thing I can say about my older brother, he knows how to make an entrance don’t he?
Nurse Linda: I….I think I’m gunna go. Good luck Jason, I….I mean we’re...WE’RE going to miss you around here!
Jason Riggs: Of course Linda...And again thank you for everything. But you have my number right?
Nurse Linda: Yeah uh-huh, sure do.
Jason Riggs: OK well call me sometimes, or maybe like tonight or whatever.
Nurse Linda: Bye Jason, stay strong, and remember I am here if you need me!
Jason Riggs: Bye Linda.
She turns to walk out the door but stops herself as she looks to her right and then to her left. She then spins around and looks at me with a crazy flirty smile and then lunges into my arms and presses her lips against mine. It was like one of those moments at the end of Grey’s Anatomy where they play some weird Lifehouse song at the end. I’m not sure how much time went by, but I did know that if this carried on much longer things were going to get really out of hand. So apparently knew that as well because she slowly pulled away and looked up at me with a coy smile. I kissed her on the forehead and we hugged and then she turned and left.
Not five minutes later Damon walks in carrying his briefcase and a clipboard.
Damon Riggs: 13 Steppin already...But then again I guess at this point you are a pro or something right?
Jason Riggs: Fuck you Damon! What’s with the briefcase?
Damon Riggs: Ohh well I went ahead and had your OPW contract drawn up and I even negotiated for your first match to be against one of those Syndicate assholes. So sign here, here….initial there….And then sign here….And you are once again officially a professional wrestler and a card carrying member of The Wolfpack!
Jason Riggs: Damon, I….I just.
Damon Riggs: WAIT...STOP! Don’t go getting all mushy on me, because I’m not gunna kiss ya like your little Candy Striper Girlfriend a few minutes ago slick!
Jason Riggs: Damon, just shut up for a second and listen man. I don’t think I would be here if it wasnt for you. I don’t think I would have made it this time. Because for the first time I am leaving this building with a sense of purpose. I have goals and ambitions, and I just want you to know I won’t let you or Voo or Vinny or Ani….I won’t let any of you down.
Damon Riggs: I know. That is exactly why I am allowing this to happen. I know what you are capable of, I always have. That’s why every time you were brought back to this place kicking and screaming it was me who drug you here! But I’m serious Jason, hear me on this now. If you do slip up if you do let us down I don’t think I have enough in me to drag you here again. This is your last second chance baby brother. It’s piss or get off the pot time man. So I just want to say don’t sign this just yet. You sit and think long and hard and if there is even the smallest inkling of a doubt in there, don’t sign it. Because we are at WAR and this is my last run, and I can’t stop and worry about dragging your deadweight as well. Only do this if you believe in yourself as much as I do. DO you hear me?
Jason Riggs: You are damn right I do Damon! I don’t have to think about it anymore as a matter of fact. It’s all I have been thinking about since you brought it up a month ago. I’m serious about all of it. And I am serious about catching your back, if they fuck with you they fuck with me.
Damon Riggs: Well alright then little bro, you need a pen? Look at you, of course you need a pen! You’d probably loose your dick if it wasn’t attached to you!
Jason Riggs: Aint no probably about it that sucker would be long gone!
We share a laugh as I lean over against what used to be my nightstand, and then we walked out of the St. Christopher Drug and Wellness REHAB center for what I promise you was the last time. The moment the door opened I was hit with a breathe of fresh air that I have never tasted before. I felt like I did when I first broke into the business around the WFnW days for those of you that can remember back that far. So I open the door to Damon’s rented Range Rover, and we drove into town to grab a bite to eat because we still had roughly two and a half hours until the jet was fueled and ready.
So we were sitting at this little diner about fifteen miles from where we were, and about thirty minutes from where we eventually needed to be. Damon Mr. Health nut ordered a salad, but not me I was going to EAT (especially since Damon was picking up the tab). SO I ordered a philly cheesesteak sandwich, some onion rings, some jalapeno poppers, and some spinach dip...And also not counting the piece of strawberry cheesecake I was going to get for deseret.
So for the first time in what seemed like forever my older brother and I just sat there and shot the shit about absolutely nothing. I am surprised he didn’t wanna talk shop. I remember once upon a time that was all this guy ever wanted to talk, think, of hear about was pro wrestling. He was probably the most driven and angry man I’ve ever known and that is probably why he was as successful as he was. But still that’s how you create enemies for life, and I always warned him about that shit, but of course he didn’t listen. No one ever listens to The BLACK SHEEP JASON RIGGS.
But maybe that’s what has changed? Because now that I am siting here talking to him...Like really talking to him, I can tell he’s not nearly as angry as he used to be. But then again he had been away from the ring for over a decade and found just as much success out of the ring as he did inside of it. His daughter, my niece, Allison was carrying the Riggs banner into the future and doing a damn good job of it at that. But still like I said, not a word of any of this fell from his mouth, that’s just what I found my mind drifting to whenever it would get quiet or while one of us would be in between stories or whatever.
The waitress brought our food and Damon cursed me out when she sat all of it down.
Jason Riggs: Now Damon I understand you’re trying to watch your girlish figure and everything but have a jalapeno popper!
Damon Riggs: Do you have any idea how horrible those things are for you?
Jason Riggs: Well using the context clue of your tone I’m guessing pretty bad? But ya know lately I have given up a lot of things like this jalapeno popper that may be utterly horrible for you, but when you try it...You think mannnnn there is no way this can be bad for you!
Damon Riggs: Jason what in the hell are you even talking about man?
Jason Riggs: Look I think what I’m trying to say is...It’s all bad for you, but maybe...Just maybe since I’ve had to give up a good portion of my daily diet, we not put delicious jalapeno poppers on the list just yet!
Damon Riggs: OK Fair ENOUGH….But I’m telling you bro...Those little fried DEVILS will put you on the road to relapse!
Jason Riggs: Well then in that case you had better help me with em!
Damon reaches over onto the plate and grabs one, not bothering to dip it in the ranch he shoves it in his mouth, and grabs another one. He at least had the decency and respect to chew and swallow before he looked at me as seriously as he ever has and says…
Damon Riggs: WAYYYYY AHEEADDDDD of ya BABY BRO!...WAY AHEAD OF YA!
We laughed a loud as we then dug in and enjoyed our lunch. Yet still we didn’t even almost talk about pro wrestling. He was telling me about his grandchildren, and his son-in-law Dane whom he had struggles getting along with in the beginning, but things were seemingly getting better. I was seemingly as hungry as I thought I was, as I polished off most of the good I ordered, with Damon helping here and there. But I decided to get a to-go box for what I didn’t finish and save room for cheesecake. Damon and I ordered some coffee as well, and while the waitress brought us our cups I couldn’t take anymore, so I finally brought it up.
Jason Riggs: So you gunna tell me about it or what?
Damon Riggs: Tell you about what?
Jason Riggs: Come on Damon you know what I’m talking about man!
Damon Riggs: Look I know you are pumped up about getting back in the ring, and I’m happy for you and all that hoopla, but you might wanna temper your expectations a little bit little bro. I mean the place is owned by a sniveling piece of shit like LA Johnny Stylez, and what’s worse is some how that asshole talked X into turning on his brother. And don’t even fucking get me started on Xavier! Because of him they have Ani now too!
Jason Riggs: No shit? He finally caved in and tapped that huh?
Damon Riggs: No, the asshole was supposed to face her for the OPW CHampionship at the last pay per view, but right before he signs his contract for the match, says he doesn’t want the title untul this little war is over, and instead changes the stipulations to where if he won she had to join them...And well the rest as they say! And to make matters even worse it’s my understanding that some how X was able to get Kal and a few of the others to look at things from his perspective and they are actually considering backing he and Stylez over Vin and the rest of us, because some how they are convinced that Vincent was in the wrong.
Jason Rigg: WHAT? How the? What kind if parallel universe are we living in now man?
Damon Riggs: That is what I’m trying to tell you little bro, the game has changed and I’m not quite so sure if its for the better or not. But my first match back your niece and I take the OPW Tag Team Titles from Johnny and X’s wife Le’Andra….Then seven days later that got damn piece of shit walks out and says that since Allie pinned him when he wasn’t the legal man, forced us to return the titles right after we got finished defending them on pay per view, and I haven’t been back in the ring since.
Jason Riggs: Why the hell not? Sounds like they need you!
Damon Riggs: NO that’s why we need YOU! Look between me and you, I got a lil banged up in the first match back. I’m not as young as I used to be. I mean I’m still in ring shape, but I dunno I got a little dinged up is all and I took some time, because you know me I’m not going to do something, especially get in that ring and compete unless I am a hundred percent! But they do need some back up I am not going to lie. Loosing Ani was a huge shot in the nuts, but at least Vin, Roger, and VooDoo were able to gain a little ground with their victory on Showcase this passed week.
Jason Riggs: SO wait who in the hell is this Roger guy?
Damon Riggs: He is Ani’s new beau! They have been together for almost a year now, they live with us on the compound. He has a little girl that Ani treats like she is hers...When actually the kid actually belongs to Roger and the chick who is married to Johnny Stylez, do you remember Blair Buchannan?
Jason Riggs: You mean that skank that’s on NETFLIX?
Damon Riggs: Yeah that’s the one, well she married Johnny about a year ago, signed away her parental rights over to Roger and he and Ani have been playing house on the compound up until two weeks ago when Roger accidentally cost Ani the match...I’ll let you watch it when we get on the plane I really don’t wanna get into what actually happened because it’s just gunna fucking piss me off. But Roger is a good dude you will like him, and he owns half of the company too so that is a huge plus for us!
Jason Riggs: SO wait hold on, VooDoo is back wrestling, I thought you told me she was doin commentary or some shit?
Damon Riggs: SHE WAS! But that’s how badly Stylez, Xavier and the rest of their little merry band of fuckin douche bags have been getting underneath our skin! She aint stepped foot inside of a wrestling ring almost since the last time you did!
Jason Riggs: GOOT DAMMMNNNN!
Damon Riggs: Exactly! But look J, you need to be on your A game. When we hit the gym from now on you need to push yourself. We have spoken about the things you want to accomplish, and I am here to tell ya if that’s what you really want you are going to fight extra hard for it because aint no one gunna give you shit around here! And well, there is somethin else I haven’t told you yet…
Jason Riggs: What? Shane magically showed up and introduced some other mysterious faction with a hidden agenda or some shit?
Damon Riggs: WOW….That was almost like a freaky good guess!
Jason Riggs: Almost?
Damon Riggs: Well it aint Shane!
Jason Riggs: NO FREAKIN WAY!?! You’re telling me Michelle is back too?
Damon Riggs: Brother not only is she back, she is the got damn commissioner! She has the power to veto Roger and Johnny as far as the weekly shows go because she technically works for HBO and not OPW!
Jason Riggs: Well that’s great news….isn’t it? I mean…?
Damon Riggs: NO...I mean you’d think, but she has been in office for going on three weeks now and I can’t get in to see her and she aint returning my calls, and if I know her like I know I do, that mans she is up to something! SHe probably knows who is behind whatever jerk off is sending me those letters?
Jason Riggs: Wait...Letters? Like secret admirer letters?
Damon Riggs: NO I mean like letters..Like the ALPHABET...Last week.
Jason Riggs: Well then that automatically rules Michelle out right? I mean I love our dear sister as much as a brither should, but God Bless her the alphabet isn’t exactly her strong suit!
Damon Riggs: STOP!
Jason Riggs: No, but seriously all joking aside...If it was Michelle why would she show up and then do it? Ya know? Like since you already know where she is and what she is doing for the most part she isn’t the type to sneak around and do the whole CLoak and Dagger nonsense...Our sister is a savage go for the jugular kinda lady.
Damon Riggs: I suppose you’re right , but still I can’t cross her name off the list quite yet. Not until I know for sure. She has avoided me so far but she can’t keep it up much longer and we both know that so…
Jason Riggs: So, which ones?
Damon Riggs: Come again?
Jason Riggs: Which letters of the alphabet did you get?
Damon Riggs: “C” and “U”
Jason Riggs: Well hell that’s not help that could be anything...This is like the worst game of Wheel of Fortune EVER!
Damon Riggs: NO SHIT! But when I get to the bottom of it, I’ll probably pound their face into their skull just for the aggravation. But I mean Kristian Oss just showed his face in OPW last week too so you never know who that slimy bastard Johnny Stylez has negotiated with to try and come knock the King off of his THRONE, if you catch my drift?
Jason Riggs: Yeah, but don’t tell me you are worried about Johnny Stylez? He has never been on your level and of all the changes in this business that you have mentioned me since we have been sitting here I doubt that’s one of em!
Damon Riggs: No, but I won’t underestimate him either and neither should you. And that’s another thing. Now that you are here watch out for guys trying to lash out at you trying to get to me. I’m not being cocky, but…
Jason Riggs: Yeah Damon, I know….I knew that before you said anything. I thought about that the minute you dropped me off the first time you mentioned anything about returning to the ring to me...Big Brother I’m telling you your faith in my this go round is not misplaced I am going to surprise you and a whole ot of other people. Before it’s all said and done with OPW and all of PRO WRESTLING in general will know and fear the name RIGGS ONCE AGAIN, and I will pump everything I’ve got into achieving that end..I give you my word on that.
Damon Riggs: Good to hear man, and it’s good to see you doin well again. Although you are really going to regret eating that cheesecake.
Jason Riggs: Bullshit, it was DELICIOUS!
Damon Riggs: OK well then I hope it tastes as good coming up as it did going down!
Jason Riggs: WHy would it...Wait….You wanna go grab a work out? What are you NUTS?
Damon Riggs: I’ve been called worse! I told ya didn’t I? THis isn’t going to be easy and I warned you about ordering all of that food!
Jason Riggs: Yeah ten minutes after I ordered it!
Damon Riggs: Ohh quit being such a baby Jason, it’s not flattering at all!
Jason Riggs: FUCK what did I get myself into!
Damon Riggs: A world of trouble baby brother….A big nasty world of TROUBLE!
Boy he wasn’t playing. The man is an absolute freak! When we got to the gym he went to town. I tried my best to keep up, but the jalapeno poppers and spinach dip and I had a difference of opinion as far as that was concerned.. So naturally when one has a disagreement with their lunch the two parties agree to part ways. Which is why you are looking at me crouching over a waste basket puking my guts up. While Damon is in the back ground calling me an assortment of names refering to female sex organs. This is gunna be one long ass day.
...30 Minutes Later
Damon hit the shower, but he arranged for a camera crew to be there so I could cut my first promo in years. So I walked over to the backdrop they had set up that had the RIGGS LEGACY logo all over it. I drained the rest of my bottle of FIJI and popped my neck, as I took a few deep breathes and then stood in the center of the back drop just like the director told me to and I nodded my head. The man yelled action...And that’s what I gave em.
Jason Riggs: So they told me a little while ago that I am to have my first match in almost a decade against a man I am actually quite familiar with. What are the odds huh? Almost ten years pass and I climb back into the ring with a man that is more than some acquaintance from way back in the day. This guy used to be one of us. For those of you not up on your wrestling history let me tell yall some facts about the walking turn coat money grubbing piece of shit named Adrian Black.
Adrian it woud seem you and I are two sides of the same coin huh? Two guys in almost the exact same situation. Sure we won our fair share of matches back in the day, but neither of us ever really had the careers our other family members did. Damon and Michelle in my case, Vincent and Xavier in yours. But you came back and instead of sticking by your family’s side you decide to show up and on your first night back assist Johnny Stylez in defeating Vincent Wolf. Casting your lot with probably the biggest piece of shit in the history of this business. Well Adrian you know what they say you are the company you keep, and well the fact that you break bread with an asshole like LA Johnny Stylez makes that statement the truest statement not found in the BIBLE!
SO what have you been up to Adrian? Where have you been for ten years? You know what? Don’t answer that because I don’t care. The moment you showed your face in OPW and willing choose to stand on the opposite side of the family that once protected you and gave you every opportunity you could ever hope for...Only for ten years down the line you choose to betray that for what?
“A COUPLE EXTRA BUCKS?”
I hope you invested Adrian, I hope you still have that money because when I send your sorry ass back into retirement you are going to wish you kept it and didn’t splurge and buy shit you don’t need, because medical bills as I’m sure you recall are anything but cheap. SO while I don’t really know what you did with your time while you were away from the ring, I can see clearly what you have done with it since you have been back.
Doing Johnny’s dirty work while bullying the younger generation? Tossing em around, beating them senseless. Does it make you feel good Adrian? You really feel like you are their superior because you were trained by some of the very best this business has ever seen? Yet you mock everything they ever taught you by beating up people way below your pay grade. No one likes a bully, and so I am going to do what someone in OPW should have stepped up and done weeks ago, and I am going to serve you up a nice tasty slice
OF HUMBLE FUCKING PIE!!!
But you know what I think Adrian? I think you come up in here and beat up on these cats that you think are beneath you on purpose. I think you come in here and beat up on them because you are afraid to push yourself against a real challenge? Because truth be told you are unequivocally are the worst in ring competitor out of your family. So you probably have every right to be afraid. But then that forces me to wonder...Perhaps you always knew this day was going to come. Where you are forced against your will to face someone from your past to expose you for the slimy, slithering, back stabbing piece of shit you always have been.
Maybe you thought it would be Damon, Vincent, or perhaps even Anicka Swan. Well I’m sorry to disappoint you but the person they have given this partiular task is someone who is coming back loking to use your worthless carcass to create the first rung on my ladder as I begin my ascension straight to the top. You can claim to be insutled they sent me, but I assure you Adrian I won’t ddge or duck any challenge from anyone. As a matter of fact as soon as I am done handing you your ass I am looking for the next one. Because that is what ultimately separates me from you Adrian!
I welcome the challenge, I want to be pushed because I know this is my last shot to make something of myself. And unlike you I am not going to sit around and beat up a bunch of people who are beneath me and pretend like I am. IN this business there is one saying that stands above them all. To be the man YOU GOTTA BEAT THE MAN! Well in order to get to the man, I am going to have to go through you. SO mark my words now ya fuckng PUSSY THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE FUCK I AM GOING TO DO! The RIGGS LEGACY WILL LIVE ON...AND IT WILL BE BUILT ON YOUR GRAVEPLOT!
Just know you earned every single second of this ass whooping you’ve got coming live on Monday Night SHOWCA$E! See ya then asshole! Jason OUT!
ANd with that I walked off the camera and had to catch my breathe as I let my emotions ge the better of me. BUt as Damon walked up and saw me bent over he pulled me up to see if I was ok, and I stood up smiling...Smiling so wide it turned into a laugh. Damn it felt good to be back. Damn it felt even better to have my brother at my side. Outlaw Pro Wrestling had a revolution coming. OPW was in desperate need of CHANGE..and so as always MY BROTHER and I were going to do everything in out power to give it to them! BELIEVE THAT! Guess I’ll see yall on MONDAY!~