Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 23:30:37 GMT -8
The shot is of a simple studio where Hayley Halsey sits on a director’s chair of sorts. The shot isn’t exactly the most professional in the world as it’s being filmed with Hayley’s own digital camcorder and not with any official film equipment. She looks a little tense and nervous, which is understandable considering that she’s in a Hollywood setting for the first time, a setting that she’s not used to, and that she has very little mainstream experience in her own right. Still, she puts herself in a sort of zen mode with a deep breath, just enough to gather the courage to speak to the camera.
Hayley: So… um… hello! I’m Hayley Halsey and I’m that new girl that was signed to California Wrestling after they noticed my #WillWrestleForFood hashtag on Twitter. Somehow. You can say that I’m here partially on good fortune but at the same time, I do kind of need it. I haven’t been able to gain much traction in the business but that’s through no fault of my own. The last two companies I tried to wrestle for went belly up so I haven’t had the chance to really put myself out there. But, I guess I’ve done okay. I did win a title in my first one even if that company went broke like the next day so… I’m kind of good. That and when I left the Seattle Wrestling Academy, I was their top prospect… somehow. But… don’t take this weird, awkward vibe coming from me as a sign of weakness. I can go! I’m that smalltown girl that’s been able to come up big time in the small sample size that I’ve put into this business and here in California Wrestling… I may be one of the least experienced people on the roster and I may be like… the biggest shrinking violet ever and all but that doesn’t mean I can’t be on the Walk of Fame myself someday…
Ugh.. that was such a LAME segway into talking about my debut, wasn’t it?
Hayley pauses and sighs, showing how much cutting a promo is quite awkward for her.
Hayley: Moving on… I am making my debut in California Wrestling against this guy named Jordan Ayers. I’m surprised it’s not the opening match but okay… I’ll take not having to worry about the pressure of setting the tone. I don’t know much about Jordan. At the same time, nobody knows anything about Jordan because when he went out there at Starrpower to compete in that cluster match to determine who was going to get a shot at the Hollywood Heritage championship, it was the first match he ever competed in on the wrestling scene if my sources are right. He seemed to do okay from what I saw, but at the end of the day Jordan, effort wasn’t good enough for you two weeks ago because you didn’t win that match. And there were some spots in there where you clearly looked overmatched.
Like...when you got springboard forearmed in the face… you looked like you were a deer blinded by headlights and had little clue as to what you were doing in there. The facebuster on Seth Lawless may have been wicked and all but he kicked out unfortunately for you and Olivia Areano wound up winning it. I’m definitely not saying that if it was me in there instead of you, I would have won. You did face stiff competition and it was your first match to be completely fair, but you’re far from flawless. I don’t like this mentality you mentioned in your promo about how it’s about survival and not winning. You know? It comes off as like you have no confidence to win… at least to me, it does. What I learned during training is that winning should be the number one priority, always! And in my book, having the “survival” mentality cost you your debut match under the lights.
I mean really… what’s up with that? I got a glimpse of that promo you had going into that match to study your attitude, your focus and all these other things and you didn’t really wow me. You didn’t seem like the kind of guy that had any sort of passion for this like… you just seemed happy to be there while you talked about surviving and talked about how testing your skills was was what you were focusing on pretty much and I just don’t think that with the mentality that you portrayed going into that match, you’re going to have the success that you want to have. Now, I know I’m shy and I’m quiet and I have this tendency to get nervous and all of these silly little quirks that I have but I never go into a match, no matter who the opponent is, without thinking that I can win because if I’m focused on anything else but winning, I know I am going to fail. If I settle for the moral victory of “well, I survived right?” or “At least I got to test my skills, ya know?” then I’ve already lost the match long before I ever stepped into the ring and you, Jordan Ayers, did just that.
You talked up your opponents and talked about their reputation and why they may be the favorites but you never talked about how YOU could possibly compete in that match and possibly win. And it sucks getting that vibe from you because I can relate to you on a couple of levels. Small town kid? Check. Wrestling nerd? Yeah, I’d check that too. And to be honest, I feel kind of bad dressing you down like this but in this business, you have to do what you have to do.
I’m not going into our match with a “survival” mentality. I’m not arriving to my CW debut against you to show off or to showcase my skills. I don’t need to do that because despite my shrinking violet personality when I step into that ring, I feel like a completely different person. I go in there feeling like I got this and that on any given night against any given opponent, I can win and against you, one of the few people in the business that I am going to encounter at this stage of my career that’s even less experienced than me, I know I can beat you. If I can win a championship in PHW in just my fourth match there, I can beat you. If I can beat a former world champion as I did in my third match in PHW, I can beat you. I’m not here in CW just to have a job, or to wrestle for food or to just be happy to be here.
I want that Level 2 contract and I’m going to bust my ass and prove myself as a contender and hopefully a champion to get there.
Eventually, I want that super special job security that comes with that Level 1 contract. I may be some small town girl from Puyallup, Washington… a town you’ve never heard of until now… but I’ve got the biggest heart and the biggest dreams to find my way here, under the bright lights, under the stresses and pressures of Hollywood… to turn nothing into something. I know in my heart I can do that… even if I have to convince myself of it sometimes and will probably have to do so on the regular until I stop being so darn shy.
That’s why I’m here in California Wrestling, Jordan.
Hayley takes a brief pause to collect herself after pouring out some of her heart just now.
Hayley: I hope you learn from me when we face off. I hope you have some kind of fire lit within you to be able to show me something in there. Because like I just said, I didn’t come here to just be here. I came here to show the world how far the daughter of a carpenter and an elementary school teacher and the only girl and the youngest child of four children can go in this world. I came here to prove to myself that I can be better than what I feel I am and that I deserve to give myself more credit than I typically do. Now you know what brings me here, Jordan Ayers. So I pose that question to you.
Why are you here in California Wrestling?
Is it to achieve some big dreams yourself?
Or is it just to be here and call yourself a professional wrestler?
Either way Jordan, when we face off… I’m stepping into that ring to make you…
SO RIDICULOUS!
Hayley gives a wink to the camera before she shuts it off and lets out a soft sigh.
Hayley: I’m such a geek…
Hayley: So… um… hello! I’m Hayley Halsey and I’m that new girl that was signed to California Wrestling after they noticed my #WillWrestleForFood hashtag on Twitter. Somehow. You can say that I’m here partially on good fortune but at the same time, I do kind of need it. I haven’t been able to gain much traction in the business but that’s through no fault of my own. The last two companies I tried to wrestle for went belly up so I haven’t had the chance to really put myself out there. But, I guess I’ve done okay. I did win a title in my first one even if that company went broke like the next day so… I’m kind of good. That and when I left the Seattle Wrestling Academy, I was their top prospect… somehow. But… don’t take this weird, awkward vibe coming from me as a sign of weakness. I can go! I’m that smalltown girl that’s been able to come up big time in the small sample size that I’ve put into this business and here in California Wrestling… I may be one of the least experienced people on the roster and I may be like… the biggest shrinking violet ever and all but that doesn’t mean I can’t be on the Walk of Fame myself someday…
Ugh.. that was such a LAME segway into talking about my debut, wasn’t it?
Hayley pauses and sighs, showing how much cutting a promo is quite awkward for her.
Hayley: Moving on… I am making my debut in California Wrestling against this guy named Jordan Ayers. I’m surprised it’s not the opening match but okay… I’ll take not having to worry about the pressure of setting the tone. I don’t know much about Jordan. At the same time, nobody knows anything about Jordan because when he went out there at Starrpower to compete in that cluster match to determine who was going to get a shot at the Hollywood Heritage championship, it was the first match he ever competed in on the wrestling scene if my sources are right. He seemed to do okay from what I saw, but at the end of the day Jordan, effort wasn’t good enough for you two weeks ago because you didn’t win that match. And there were some spots in there where you clearly looked overmatched.
Like...when you got springboard forearmed in the face… you looked like you were a deer blinded by headlights and had little clue as to what you were doing in there. The facebuster on Seth Lawless may have been wicked and all but he kicked out unfortunately for you and Olivia Areano wound up winning it. I’m definitely not saying that if it was me in there instead of you, I would have won. You did face stiff competition and it was your first match to be completely fair, but you’re far from flawless. I don’t like this mentality you mentioned in your promo about how it’s about survival and not winning. You know? It comes off as like you have no confidence to win… at least to me, it does. What I learned during training is that winning should be the number one priority, always! And in my book, having the “survival” mentality cost you your debut match under the lights.
I mean really… what’s up with that? I got a glimpse of that promo you had going into that match to study your attitude, your focus and all these other things and you didn’t really wow me. You didn’t seem like the kind of guy that had any sort of passion for this like… you just seemed happy to be there while you talked about surviving and talked about how testing your skills was was what you were focusing on pretty much and I just don’t think that with the mentality that you portrayed going into that match, you’re going to have the success that you want to have. Now, I know I’m shy and I’m quiet and I have this tendency to get nervous and all of these silly little quirks that I have but I never go into a match, no matter who the opponent is, without thinking that I can win because if I’m focused on anything else but winning, I know I am going to fail. If I settle for the moral victory of “well, I survived right?” or “At least I got to test my skills, ya know?” then I’ve already lost the match long before I ever stepped into the ring and you, Jordan Ayers, did just that.
You talked up your opponents and talked about their reputation and why they may be the favorites but you never talked about how YOU could possibly compete in that match and possibly win. And it sucks getting that vibe from you because I can relate to you on a couple of levels. Small town kid? Check. Wrestling nerd? Yeah, I’d check that too. And to be honest, I feel kind of bad dressing you down like this but in this business, you have to do what you have to do.
I’m not going into our match with a “survival” mentality. I’m not arriving to my CW debut against you to show off or to showcase my skills. I don’t need to do that because despite my shrinking violet personality when I step into that ring, I feel like a completely different person. I go in there feeling like I got this and that on any given night against any given opponent, I can win and against you, one of the few people in the business that I am going to encounter at this stage of my career that’s even less experienced than me, I know I can beat you. If I can win a championship in PHW in just my fourth match there, I can beat you. If I can beat a former world champion as I did in my third match in PHW, I can beat you. I’m not here in CW just to have a job, or to wrestle for food or to just be happy to be here.
I want that Level 2 contract and I’m going to bust my ass and prove myself as a contender and hopefully a champion to get there.
Eventually, I want that super special job security that comes with that Level 1 contract. I may be some small town girl from Puyallup, Washington… a town you’ve never heard of until now… but I’ve got the biggest heart and the biggest dreams to find my way here, under the bright lights, under the stresses and pressures of Hollywood… to turn nothing into something. I know in my heart I can do that… even if I have to convince myself of it sometimes and will probably have to do so on the regular until I stop being so darn shy.
That’s why I’m here in California Wrestling, Jordan.
Hayley takes a brief pause to collect herself after pouring out some of her heart just now.
Hayley: I hope you learn from me when we face off. I hope you have some kind of fire lit within you to be able to show me something in there. Because like I just said, I didn’t come here to just be here. I came here to show the world how far the daughter of a carpenter and an elementary school teacher and the only girl and the youngest child of four children can go in this world. I came here to prove to myself that I can be better than what I feel I am and that I deserve to give myself more credit than I typically do. Now you know what brings me here, Jordan Ayers. So I pose that question to you.
Why are you here in California Wrestling?
Is it to achieve some big dreams yourself?
Or is it just to be here and call yourself a professional wrestler?
Either way Jordan, when we face off… I’m stepping into that ring to make you…
SO RIDICULOUS!
Hayley gives a wink to the camera before she shuts it off and lets out a soft sigh.
Hayley: I’m such a geek…
