“What are you
doing here?”
His voice is
a low menacing growl, not unlike anything else young Destiny had heard from him
before. The legendary father of MCW Hall
of Famer Glory Braddock had always been a very strict and very tough trainer in
the same mold as an R. Lee Emory drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket. But this time is different. While the voice is still the same, his
demeanor seems off. This doesn’t appear
to be the same Glenn Braddock she knew from when she was in training. It is for this reason that Destiny approaches
the rugged veteran ever so cautiously.
“I need your
help.”
“No one
needs my bloody help.” He turns around
in his swivel chair, so that his back is turned to her. “Not anymore.”
“That’s not
true.” Destiny remarks. “You have helped so many people. So many world champions and hall of famers
have come out of your school.”
“Lot of good
that did.”
“It DID a lot
of good,” she begins again, attempting to console her former trainer “Sophie
and Mark are in IWC right now and they already won the tag titles there. That’s not to mention Sophie’s past
accomplishments as a four time world champion.”
Destiny pats
herself on the chest. “I am a former SWC Heavyweight Champion, I won it so
early in my career and I was proud of my title reign and I owe it all to you.”
“What about
Glory?”
Destiny
hesitates to answer. Glory’s career is
golden with pure undefiled perfection.
Glory Braddock, the daughter of Glenn Braddock, is arguably his most successful
student having become a thirteen time world champion, not to mention being
inducted into the GDW and MCW Halls of Fame.
It is hard to discount or discredit her accomplishments and it is hard
to argue with her when she calls herself The Best in the World. Glory even, at one time, wanted to enter the
Olympics and compete for her country.
Unfortunately
that dream has been put on hold and Destiny knows it. Glory lost her freedom to Aphrodite Noel as a
result of losing a match in GCW. There
were lots of shenanigans involved, it was a controversial ending, but by hook
or by crook Noel won and now Glory has to serve her. Glenn Braddock has been on a depression ever
since.
“Glory is…”
Destiny pauses as she attempts to find the right words “…she is the best in the
world.”
“Best in the
World, and serving Aphrodite Noel hand and foot.” Glenn sneers angrily. “What
good my training did her, eh? The
Braddock legacy is dead.”
“The
Braddock legacy is not dead.”
He spins
around in his swivel chair to face Destiny.
His eyes are flaring up with an intensity Destiny remembers oh so well
during her years of training with this man.
“It is
dead! My niece Julia has been
brainwashed by Noel and now the same is being perpetrated to my own
daughter! All that’s left is me! What the hell can I do?!”
“Plenty!”
Destiny
never felt quite right about standing up to her former mentor, she would even
feel frightened in situations like this, but a strange urge has come over her
right now, an urge to help this man, to help him fight back and reclaim his
legacy.
“I’m sorry,
Mr. Braddock, but your daughter is NOT the end all be all to your legacy. Anyone and everyone you helped train is a
part of your legacy…Sophie and Mark, Matthew Bowden, even me…we all share in
the Braddock legacy because it was the Braddock family that made us who we are
today as pro-wrestlers.”
Glenn
frowns, looking unconvinced by her strong motivational speech. “What are you
getting at?”
“I want you
to help me…I just signed with Motor City Wrestling, a place where your daughter
has forever etched her name, a place that knows the Braddock legacy very well…what
better place to start reclaiming that legacy from the likes of Aphrodite Noel
than in a place that respects and admires the Braddock name?”
There is a
long tense pause as Destiny stares down her former trainer. As he stands up, she braces herself, not quite
knowing what he has in mind now. She
breathes a sigh of relief as Glenn, the grizzled veteran, smiles, nodding his
head.
“You know,
you have a good idea…” he pats her on the shoulder “…and you have a lot of
guts. I like that.”
“I was
taught by the best.”
“Maybe you’re
right, maybe I can continue my work without my daughter. I have other students after all.”
Destiny nods
her head. “That’s right and hopefully Glory will see what we do together and it
will inspire her to fight back.”
A smirk
crosses Destiny’s lips. “We can make magic together, Glenn. I guarantee it.”
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Glenn
Braddock
On Camera
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When you
look into my eyes I hope that each and every one of you realize that you are looking
into the eyes of Britain’s Best Wrestler.
I beat people going through the amateur circuits, I even trained others
on how to wrestle, both in amateur and professionally, and I was well on my way
towards winning a gold medal in the Olympics for my country until an injury ended
my active wrestling career.
But that was
not the end for the Braddock legacy. The
Braddock legacy lived on through my students at the Braddock Wrestling
School. It was there that I whipped
young pieces of shit into shape. It was
there that I worked my real magic. I
took worthless piles of garbage and turned them into killing machines, killing
machines that I would then set loose upon the sport of professional wrestling.
A legacy,
you see, isn’t just built up by one man.
A legacy also continues on through that man’s protégés. I have built up quite a legacy for the
Braddock name over the years and two names should spark a strong memory for you
people in Motor City Wrestling.
Sophie O’Brian
is a former MCW World Heavyweight Champion but what makes her unique in your
company is that she won it in her MCW debut.
She went on to defend that title against some of the best the company
had to offer, including Kirsta Lewis.
Then there’s
Glory Braddock. Glory Braddock is not
just a hall of famer in MCW and she isn’t just a former multiple time MCW World
Heavyweight Champion. Glory Braddock is
my daughter. You ought to remember her
as the woman who ran roughshod over this company for years.
The Braddock
name is already indelibly etched into the hearts and minds of MCW history
forever but now another chapter in the Braddock story here in MCW is about to
be written by another student of mine.
Her name is Destiny Skye.
She’s young
and new to this business but if you think she’s naïve you have another thing
coming. Destiny is street smart, which
is a valuable asset in a cutthroat industry like this. And she knows how to get the job done inside
the ring, as evidenced by her recent reign as Heavyweight Champion of the Southeastern
Wrestling Conference.
I’m not here
to steal her thunder, I’m just here to serve as a subtle but ever so intense
reminder of what The Braddock Legacy has done once before in MCW and what it
can do once again.
So basically…run…
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Destiny Skye
On Camera
==========
I did not
come from a famous wrestling family like the Braddock family but I do respect
the industry and what it stands for. I
respect everything about this sport and especially those who bust their asses
each and every time they climb into this squared circle. I respect those who have come before me and
have given back something to this industry to make it better. That’s what I aim to do. Wrestling has done a lot for me and I hope to
leave it better than I found it.
Glenn
Braddock left this sport too soon due to an injury but he was not going to let
that stop him from trying to improve it the best he knew how and the best way
he knew how contribute to the betterment of the sport was to introduce new
blood and new faces to this sport, people like Sophie and Mark O’Brian and his
daughter Glory Braddock.
And now
there’s me, Destiny Skye.
There have
been others who contributed in their own way.
One of those men was Whitecloud.
He
contributed through not only the sharing of his great talents in the ring but
also in the creation of Motor City Wrestling itself. People like me weren’t around at that time…heck,
even Glory and Sophie weren’t around during hi s time…but he left his mark, he
left his own footprint in the history of professional wrestling, because
without him there wouldn’t have been an MCW, and without an MCW Glory Braddock
would not have won her first world title and Sophie would not have won her
first world title.
I intend to
enter the Whitecloud Memorial and I intend to contribute in the only way I know
how…busting my ass for the fans, for MCW, and for the memory of the man who
gave us this great place. Will I
win? Maybe, maybe not, but I guarantee
you one thing, if I lose, I’m damn sure taking a few of you with me.
