Post by Carmen Cambridge on Oct 26, 2016 15:43:09 GMT -5
"Resilience.
That's a word that will define everyone that competes in the division that I'm in. The ability to get back up when that last bit of adrenaline has left the body. This is the division that will be looked at as the workhorse division of A.W.E. and who better to represent it as champion, other than the Darkhorse, the woman that has been putting in WERK for a minute now?
Benny Stevens had the nerve to call me generic, when half of his arguments were generic statements. This fool said 'whatever the injury was' like he can't do a lil' research and figure out what I've dealt with. I even mentioned having concussions and a neck injury in my first video, that's a real shake my head moment when you make such a generic, sweeping statement like 'whatever the injury was' when I told you what it was. Then he went for the generic insults about my hair, what he thinks I do with my mouth on the streets, and he called me nothing. But I'm generic?"
Carmen clicks the remote in her hand as the camera moves to a large tv in the otherwise modest, one story home she shares with her fiancé, Bruce better known as B.Epic, in Vallejo, California. On the screen we see a nineteen year old Carmen Cambridge with light brown hair, lime green ring gear and performing moves at lightning speed, but nowhere near the tact she has now. Her days in Mexico were spent learning to better her overall ring game, something she has proven time and time again since returning to the United States.
"What you see on that screen is a girl who had a dream. I never had the nicest things growing up, but I knew from the moment I could walk that I wanted to wrestle. This isn't something I decided to do after a career in motocross, or after working on a few stunts, nah boo boo, this is what I've always wanted, but it wasn't easy. I got knocked down more times than I could count but I always got back up. My lip was busted open almost every night by a kick to the face, or a clothesline where my opponent tried knocking my head off my shoulders, but guess what? I got back up and brushed my shoulders off. When everyone wanted to see me cry, I smiled in their face. That's what I did and that's what I DOES!
You try to paint a picture of the past being irrelevant, but that's cray cray. We all have a past, it makes us who we are. If everything was in the here and now, then tomorrow, today wouldn't matter. I take each day, each match, each experience, good or bad, and put it towards preparing myself for the FUTURE.
Which brings me back to that word, RESILIENCE.
Resilience is working in front of 300 people a night in Mexico for the equivalent of twenty dollars, six nights a week and not complaining but coming back for more.
Resilience is suffering a concussion in a match and continuing to wrestle because you want it that dang bad!
Resilience is taking those verbal shots someone like Benny throws, standing up tall and giving them right back!"
She stands up from the couch, a look of determination on her make-up less face.
"You brag about wrestling five star matches, and maybe that's true, but you aren't a better wrestler than me and that's a FACT. Your style is based around flying, something I can do, but my A-Game is my technical wrestling. So for you to say I can do NOTHING in a ring is a straight up lie. Let's not pretend like I'm not in your head either. For someone that doesn't care about me, my past, or what I does, you sure DID talk about me a lot. You said appearances don't matter and then went to talk about mine anyways, what's up with that?
The time for talking will be over in a few days and we get to see who can back their mouth up. Spoiler alert boo boo, I've been backing it up since the elementary school days when I was handing out L's in dodgeball.
The difference between us is I acknowledge what you're capable of, and know you're a threat in the ring. I've studied your strengths and weaknesses and know you're in A1 shape. I know you take risks, and I know you're quick, but I also know you can't multi-task well, your past matches have showed that. If you can't focus on more than one thing at once, how are you going to focus on two opponents at the same time? You lack experience, and despite you trashing my past accomplishments and even your own, those companies all gave me valuable experience, and the confidence to enter any match and know I can walk out with my hand raised.
At Massacre I'm walkin' in fresh, fly, and ready to get things POPPIN in A.W.E. The ultimate test of resilience will be outlasting two opponents in my first match, and making it to that final match and outlasting my opponents there...and then leaving DC with the Resilience championship around my waist.
Resilient when failing, but more resilient in chasing my goals.
I'm ready. I got this. Can ya'll say the same?"
Carmen struts out of the room as the camera catches her pink, yellow and green Nikes just as she shuts the door. The camera then moves towards two tablets that were sitting next to her on the couch, each tablet has highlight videos of each of her opponents playing, on mute. A resilient student never stops learning. Carmen Cambridge was ready to make her triumphant return to the ring, and she wasn't coming to lose.