Did we hit a nerve

::Neil and Gideon are in the Core arena. They are laughing as they head to cut a promo.::

Gideon: I think that Jason Hughes is a bit annoyed at us Neil.

Neil: Big F$%kin deal. What is he going to do? Whine and cry or pretend to have a set.

Gideon: My goodness he doesn’t like me. I think I’ll lose all of 15 seconds sleep. Why don’t we stir the pot a bit.

Neil: Nah. I’m not going to bother. I’m just going to pull his punk card.

Gideon: Excellent. I have some interesting legal information about Finale.

Neil: Anything good?

Gideon: Yes but it isn’t likely to be important.

::Neil and Gideon wait patiently for the interview area to be set up. After a few minutes they are given the countdown. 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…………::

Neil: Let the trash talking begin. Hey Jason you want to talk shit look at us. Do we look like we give a shit what you think?

Gideon: Lets go to the hypocrite highlight of the week. Jason I’ve heard that you said something along these lines "Masters knew I was right there…I never snuck up behind him. It’s not my fault that he had the balls to turn his back on me.".

Neil: So you attacked a guy from behind that had the balls to turn his back to you. What’s wrong kid? Never had the nerve to do it face to face until he dismissed you as a whining little bitch.

Gideon: I know about spin doctoring. You are trying to figure out how to make it look like you weren’t an opportunistic coward striking from behind. You are trying to figure out how to play up the fact that you are doing the dirty work of Matt Lanier but you aren’t really doing it because you hate him.

Neil: Then there is the shit about knowing Finale’s age. There is a reason it has been kept secret.

Gideon: Allow me to introduce you to a bit of legal knowledge Jason. When a person fraudulently enters a contract it is generally null and void. Do you have any comprehension of how that can affect his life and career? Let us say certain parties in his old wrestling federations found out about it. They could contest the legality of the contract and get it nullified. They would have the full rights to everything Jake Finale has done during that time since there was no legally appointed guardian. It is the same as any other child actor. They have people that are able to handle the legal aspects of their career until they reach adulthood in the eyes of the law. Then there is the insurance companies who could sue him for falsifying contracts in an attempt to defraud their respective companies. In the eyes of the law the intent is almost as damning as actually following through with the fraud. This is reality and why his age was hidden. It could potentially rip apart everything he has ever done as a wrestler.

Neil: How do you think it feels to know any day that someone like you me or Gideon can say "Jake we will destroy your life and take everything you ever worked from away from you."

Gideon: Reality is something you have difficulty dealing with. Neil and I have called you an opportunistic coward. You have disputed it sure but how have you proven us wrong? You attacked Masters from behind because he proved something that everyone in Core already knew. You simply were not worth his time anymore. You don’t like Lanier but you are perfectly willing to be his stooge in a match against us. We don’t like Matt Lanier because he is an evil petty little man who enjoys ruining lives. We have stood against him. We publically make his life hell because we are willing to fight the good fight whatever the consequences. Jason you are nothing more then the flavor of the month lackey of Matthew Lanier.

Neil: You faced me once. I ain’t going to BS here. Regardless of the other BS you beat me.

Gideon: Of course this was when he was drinking and had taken painkillers with Codeine AND Morphine. As you may have noticed Neil isn’t a highflier but he still went for a Springboard Legdrop and he hit it. That must have struck you as a little unusual considering your claims of researching you opponents before a match.

Neil: This week on Smash you are going to face me and Gideon in a tag match. These tag belts aren’t on the line because even in a federation with no tag teams you don’t deserve to be in the same ring with us.

Gideon: Now it has come down to credibility. Here is mine. I made Daniel Adams tap to the Crippler Crossface. Neil and I beat Ted Masters with classic tag team wrestling. Powers tapped to the Painkiller. Krask tapped to the Painkiller. Finally I lost by DQ to Skill Willie. That is 3 tap outs out of 4 wins. Your greatest opponent Chris Kanyon…

Neil: I think it was Kanton.

Gideon: Who bothers to keep track of every low level indy wrestler. The most important point here is not that you broke the Fujiwara armbar. It is who applied it. I’m sure against lower caliber men Chris is deadly but it is not the same as being locked in a Painkiller applied by me. Here is one very important difference right off the bat. Here is a description of the Fujiwara Armbar. The victim is laying on the mat face first, the attacker is to one side of the victim with their back to their body. The attacker locks their arms around one of the victim's arms so that the victim's elbow is locked. The attacker keeps the elbow locked and applies pressure to the arm, but also pulls backwards, that is, leans back across the victim's body, and applies pressure to the victim's shoulder as well. It is a variation of the Wakigatame armbar.

Neil: That isn’t the way that we do the Painkiller.

Gideon: The focus for my version is to hyperextend the elbow and tear ligaments and crack cartilage in the elbow joint. I don’t focus on the shoulder preferring to have most of the weight just focusing on keeping my opponent down. That allows me to focus on ripping the elbow. It doesn’t take very long. Though in some cases I have been known to take my time letting it sink in to my opponents head how badly out classed they are as I increase the pressure.

Neil: You have been talking an awful lot of shit Hughes and eventually it gets back to us.

Gideon: You claim we are little in talent. I am unbeaten for 8 titles and have gotten 6 other titles. My WKBA record is 43 wins, 1 loss, 39 wins by knockout. I have a record in No Holds barred fights in Thailand of 94 wins, 0 losses, 81 wins by knockout. I have set 6 world records in the Martial arts that have yet to be beaten.

Neil: Then you have me. Unbeaten for 9 titles and I took 7 other titles. I’m the Worlds Strongest Man for 2001. In No Holds barred fights in Thailand I’m 76 wins, 3 losses, 33 wins by knockout. The other 43 were by tapping out some chump.

Gideon: Hardly what most men would call little talent but this is the complete absence of reality that is the daily life of Jason Hughes. In case you want our credentials in Core we are the tag champions.

Neil: Here is another witty remark from the chump. "I earned every cent that I have made. "You got yours from daddy.".

Gideon: A valid spin but really would it have pained you to spend the $39.99 to actually read my biography rather then get what little facts you found over the internet? My brother was killed in a skiing accident when I was 25. I was living quite comfortably at that time on the money I made doing movies and fighting in the WKBA before then. Sure my childhood and adolescence were paid for but it was hardly any altruism on my father’s part. He wanted a bodyguard that wouldn’t turn on him. That was my sole role to him and why he shipped me off to Japan. He was protecting his investment like any other person that uses people for personal gain. I was not going to be his puppet, which led to our relationship being somewhat less then cordial.

Neil: The funniest thing was when we hard you were talking shit about dealing with Alan Fontaine.

Gideon: You were born in 76. He died in 95. Doing the math quickly that would place you at 19 dealing with a Billionaire and being able to out smart him stealing business opportunities from him. Does this strike you as being a tad too far fetched? I’m sure if we changed the federations name from Core to the WWE you could make quite a claim for the task of writer but I would rather deal with facts then fiction.

Neil: Speaking of fiction. Gideon was telling me some rumors off the net that there were some kids killed and the police have no leads but your name came up.

Gideon: Personally I doubt it. $35,000 is too small a sum to soil your hands over. Besides one man was stabbed while tied to a chair defenseless. It seems kind of cowardly to attack a defenseless man with a knife. His other associate for that much matter was pretty much done in with the same MO stomping on a prone man’s head after he has been tied up. Some people seem to need a person helpless before they can do anything so mabye the police were Core wrestling fans following Jason Hughes’s career when they thought of him as a suspect.

Neil: You might be wondering why we are spending all this time making fun of Jason Hughes. The reason is because he is like an annoying poodle that won’t stop yapping.

Gideon: Yap Gideon this. Yap I’m not a coward. Yap I was robbed. Yap I don’t like Gideon. Yap I got screwed out of a match. Yap yap yap yap yap. It does get tedious and boring after a while Jason. I really hope you get a better gimmick then just Yap yap yap in the back anytime things don’t go your way in Core.

Neil: On Smash you have the chance to shut us up Jason.

Gideon: Or you could do what you do best. Yap yap yap yap yap yap yap. In layman’s terms for those not quite quick enough mentally to understand. I’m saying that Jason Hughes is 80% talk and 20% hype. Mabye someday there will be more to it but sadly he is coasting on some street fighting with some submissions thrown in.

Neil: Look to my left. It’s been done already with a lot more style and class.

Gideon: As well as talent, charisma, intelligence, showmanship, athleticism, and many more qualities you are lacking. You can claim to be great in submissions. The truth of the matter is I don’t have to say I am good I have proven it. I have gotten 5 titles by submission. Simply put I made the other man say "Here is my belt let me go."

Neil: Other guys I just beat the living F$%k out of. Good thing about tag wrestling is you have me just wanting to maul you. Then you have Gideon who wants to rip apart a limb. We can even mix it up if we have to with Gideon going with a power game or me working the joint lock.

Gideon: We are not only the Core tag team champions. We are the tag champions of NEW, Titan Wrestling and PPW. That is 4 different federations with people thinking they can take our belts and no one able to take the belts from our waists. You haven’t got the slightest clue how big a mismatch this is Jason. It is such a shoo in under normal circumstances that it takes Matthew Lanier being the referee to give you a chance.

Neil: Now I’m going to get some beer. Consider the interview over.

::Neil walks off and Gideon bows to the camera and walks off. The camera fades to black.::