Post by Deleted on May 29, 2016 1:38:00 GMT -5
When I was walking home from the gym tonight, a local sports reporter stopped me, wanting to know if I'd heard Patrick Parker's comments on TMZ. I told him that I hadn't, and he proceeded to give me the basics of Persephone's father had said earlier in the evening. I thanked the reporter, and told him that I still had no comment.
So, now I'm here, in my apartment in Indy, looking into my webcam... and I'm sure some of you are expecting me to gloat about the fact that even Triple P's daddy is betting against her this Monday night. But I won't. I won't for two reasons. First, it's not my style, and secondly, I just don't care. I don't care about her daddy issues. I don't care about her love life. I don't care about the fact that she spent the whole week dancing and drinking and celebrating her title victory in Vintage instead of focusing on Monday night, instead of focusing on the IPW Conflict Main Event and Aura Embers.
And I know, some of you are out there right now thinking that maybe I'm the one who should be careful right now. That even though Persephone has underestimated and brushed of the threat of Aura Embers all week, that maybe this obvious betrayal by her father will be just the thing to light a fire under Persaphone's ass and get her in the right mindset to come down to that ring and actually put up the fight that I know she's capable of. The fight I've been saying she would put up if she wasn't overlooking me and selling my abilities so short, as she has been since this match was announced.
But that's not going to happen.
Because I don't think Persephone is a liar, I don't think she's evil and I don't think that she's necessarily stupid. What I do think is the very thing that I've been saying since the beginning. I think that Persephone believes her own hype. So when Persephone says that she doesn't think I've proven myself, that she doesn't think that I belong here in IPW, and that she doesn't think that I represent any kind of threat to 'her' Spotlight Championship... despite how she felt and what she said about herself when she was facing Jenson Idol with the same 2-1 record that I have now... I think she believes it's true. And when Persephone spits on the fans, disrespects the fans, dismisses the fans and tells the fans that they don't belong or that they don't deserve her, only to then publicly bemoan the fact that no one supports her or cries wondering why the fans are all siding with me... I don't think she's putting on an act, I really and honestly don't think that she gets it. And when she spends the whole week celebrating and dancing and chilling with Maddux only to then turn around and claim that she's the hardest working athlete in IPW? She's not playing games... she believes it with all of her heart.
Persephone doesn't know that she's wrong. That's all. She's not evil. She's not sinister. She's lost.
Triple P hasn't taken me seriously this week because she doesn't believe she has to. At all. She doesn't think I'm in her league, doesn't think that I belong here, doesn't for a second believe that there's even a chance that she could lose to me on Monday night. It's a mistake. And the sad truth is, no eleventh-hour comments from dear old dad is going to change that. Persephone believes, at the core of her being, that I'm not worth the effort. She said so all week, I've pointed out that she's been saying so all week, and nothing is going to change that in her head.
When Persephone was coming up in IPW, she had a chip on her shoulder. She had something to prove, and that, combined with her skill, made her dangerous. But now, she's had a few big victories, got a couple of titles and it's gone to her head in the most dangerous of ways. She thinks she's better than she is, that she's untouchable, unbeatable. She's put herself on so high a pedestal that she'd looking down at me and not even realizing that I'm exactly who she was just a few short weeks ago, with the only real difference being that I have the fans on my side because I never put myself above them... Hell, I'm one of them, through and through.
Persephone is Little Girl Lost. She came up quick and hungry, but as soon as she got a little taste of what she wanted, she forgot that she wasn't the only shark in the sea. She got complacent, lazy. She spent too much time celebrating her victories and too little time preparing to defend them. And she got unlucky. She got unlucky because at the very moment it all came together for her and she believed that she'd made it and could let down her guard, it was in that moment that the biggest, hungriest, most determined shark of them all swam along.
I respect Persephone, and if that respect was mutual, I'd be in for one hell of a fight. But it's not. Persephone doesn't respect me, she doesn't fear me, and for those very reasons, she hasn't prepared for me. And on Monday night, it's going to cost her.
Big time.