Colton: So pops you going to help me get ready for my match huh? Thank god at least that will get Cass off my back. So what are we going to do first? Break out the bats, pipes, or trash cans? Come on pops lets play.
Colton jumps and starts looking around. Steven leans up and grabs him by the shirt collar and pulls him back to his seat. He looks at him with a stern look. Steven pulls a smoke out and lights it. Colton reaches across and pulls it out of his mouth snuffing it out on the bottom of his shoe. Steven’s eyes get big.
Colton: Pops I told you that you need to quit those.
Steven turns around and walks to a little fridge and grabs a couple beers and tosses one to Colton. They both open them and take a drink wiping their mouths on their arms.
Steven: Son listen there is more than weapons to a hardcore match. Weapons are for two reasons only. One is because you lack the skill to do anything else. The second reason is to even the odds. If you are going to be a true hardcore wrestler you have to be willing to use your biggest weapon that you have. That is your mind; it will do more damage than any pipe or bat. You need to always think one step ahead of everyone in the match. This division is not for everyone. Some think that anyone can step into a hardcore match and it is no big deal.
A real hardcore wrestler lives and breathes it. It is in his soul and it is what drives him to be what he is. You have to be will to be broken and still come back and finish the match. Son I have been through a lot in my days in the ring and you know what it is like when I get up in the morning. You have seen all the meds I have to take just to get myself going.
If this is what you want to be then I will do every thing I can to teach you all that I know. It is not easy. Things this hard never are, but I will say if you make it in hardcore then people will know you. Not only that they will fear you. That is how you make it in this sport. You get the others to fear you. Make them afraid to step into the ring with you. When they get pissed when they see you name with theirs in a match then you know you have them.
Colton sits there listening to his father talk. He leans back and takes a drink of his beer and looks into his father’s eyes.
Colton: Pops listen I did not want to be this, but like you I have no choice. They put me in this match and I will be damned if I don’t win it. You are right I have something none of them have; I have the true Icon of Hardcore showing me the way. I have the most feared man to ever step in the ring I have the hardcore legend himself Steven “Hunter” Hurst.
I have watched all you matches from the early days till the night Mom and that bunch tossed you off the rafters through the ring. Why would she do something like that to you pops?
Steven: Don’t worry about that it is in the past.
It is time to start working on your match. You have to get your mind around the fact that you are going to get hurt in this match. The key to winning is to hurt the other guy more. You are going to have to be the last man standing in this match to walk away with the title.
Just the phone rings and Colton opens it and puts it to his ear..
Colton: Slow down Mom …….
Yeah he is right here hold on…
Colton hands the phone to Steven.
Steven: Yes Dear…..
Oh God who is it now?
You are kidding me right?
Damn that is funny as hell. That girl of yours will kill poor Shooter. I wonder what she will do to that black and white chicken of his.
Steven hangs up the phone and tosses it back to Colton. Steven is laughing as Colton looks at him with a puzzled look on his face.
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