Post by Dan White on Apr 27, 2009 21:18:20 GMT -5
It was February 2006 when I returned, interfering in a match between RDK/AK and Jonny Spade/Jake Cheng for the tag titles, picking up the win for The Untouchables. It wouldn't be the first time I would pop up out of nowhere to help the stable win the titles. But I quickly became engaged in a feud with Kudo Yasuda. It was an interesting feud, as strangely enough although we were battling for the Entertainment Title, the feud was based around the fact that I believed I was a better Junior Heavyweight than Kudo. But the feud was also at problems because the R-3 Armada (Kudo, Jearus, Bre Double T and Fallen Souls) were feuding as well, so Kudo would be in two matches at Bloody Valentine's.
The first match was a ladder match between myself and Kudo. I don't mean to be rude or anything, but for what it's worth I think it's the best ladder match ACW has ever seen. I didn't write the match, so you can't call it narcissism. I'd actually won the match on calcs, I think, but Kudo, who had broken an ACW-wide record for the longest time as a champion (which still remains to this day, at 212 days or something) thought it would be best to drop the title to somebody else. So we arranged a Fatal Fourway for the Meltdown after the PPV, involving us two, Tornado, and Riot McConnell (who was basically one of those guys who wrote for about a month then disappeared without a trace). Tornado won the belt, Kudo and I saw it as a good job well done, and we moved on to different things.
Also on that show, I had a mini feud that can only be described as “calc whoring”. I basically wrote a feud between the interviewer Kevin Anderson, and Gary, with Kevin's job as an interviewer on the line. It was a really silly feud, and nothing should really have been made of it, but I thought it was pretty fun to write at the time. Ultimately it would lead to one of my biggest downfalls a couple of months later...
March, I was in a bizarre feud, teaming with the CBK (Scott Andrews and Lex de la Rocha) against Torak and a new character called Angelus Kincaird. I was asked if our team would job, and I reluctantly agreed. It was like the third time in a row I jobbed on PPV, and I never really minded it, but I began to think it was showing me in a different light. As somebody who wasn't actually very good, because I kept losing. I remember Sarin asked me why I kept jobbing, as she couldn't understand why I wanted to. To be fair, and I have a lot of respect for Torak, I felt like we shouldn't have agreed to losing that match. I felt even more cheated when I found out it was all for trying to push Kincaird, who not only turned out to be Lex's new character, but also ended up just fading into obscurity without writing. Damn.
So April came and I really felt like I had a chance to win Fallen Heroes. During this time, a couple of friends from school had joined the fed. The first was Jonny Hughes, who you all know is still in the fed. The other person was a friend of ours called Jack Lingard, aka jackofheartz and The Prince. As The Prince he looked like a very formidable writer, but back then, he was basically like me when I joined, only about ten times worse, and the fed having became ten times more intolerant. But either way, I wanted to try and put him over somehow, and I think I wrote a 4,000 word match for a Warfare or Meltdown.
Anyways, I wanted to win Fallen Heroes. I wanted to win it bad. I had the idea that by writing as many segments as I could, I would get a good chance. Problem is, doing the “Flower Power” method only works if you keep the quality up. I didn't keep it up, and had, by what I thought I was going to do, a pretty poor performance. Speaking of Flower Power, those Spring months of 2006 brought a lot of intensity between me and the two members of that tag team out of character, which became pretty well-known throughout the fed. I'm not going to go into details, but instead I'll just say that the resulting fallout made me feel like my days were strongly numbered in ACW, and that if I was going to be forced out, I might as well do it in style.
