Post by Konrad Raab on Apr 6, 2018 17:09:40 GMT
Visiting his mum/talking about having psychotic lessons/WWH/Finn. Cologne, Germany. Saturday 24th March. (Off Camera)
It was very unusual Konrad going to visit his mum on top of visiting his daughters from his previous marriage and his grandson, however, he needed her more than ever after he tried to kill himself last week. Konrad was losing who he was as earlier in the day, he hugged his mother very tightly, knowing how much he valued her as his mum. He already told her about it after she asked why he hugged her so hard and it was precious time he needed on top of talking to somebody else other than Fizz and his cousin Jake about wrestling and his opponent.
He already talked about his times in the other three companies he’s in with being champion to standing up for wrestlers being viciously attacked to standing up against the tag champions sitting on a title reign for months doing nothing of willing to defend the titles to even his struggles of dealing with Fizz’s pregnancy and them having twin boys with psychological problems.
So there’s been a lot going on when it came to talking about many different things, except for one company they haven’t talked about since Konrad arrived at his mother’s house a few hours ago as his mum brings it up which of course speaking in German since she didn’t know a single word in English due to her upbringing of not having English lessons at school with the fireplace on.
Ingrid Raab: “What about things in WWH?”
Konrad Raab: “What about them?”
Ingrid Raab: “Like what’s been going on with your career there, regarding what you’ve done since the title win against Pharoah Pierce?
Konrad Raab: “Honestly, not very much, considering I’ve been in a tag match against Oliver Quinn and Carson Campbell, singles matches against Oliver Quinn, Lex Collins and defending my Wildcard title against Phantom.”
Ingrid Raab: “Did you retain your title?”
Konrad Raab: “Yes after I noticed the title being on the hotel room floor.”
It was the only time he’s ever won as the other side, although his mum was looking very confused at her son on what he said just now as she takes a sip of her tea she’s drinking as the house was very old fashioned which it would be, but Konrad knows she has been struggling a lot with money to keep the house now, but he, Markus and Renate help her with the finance side of things and she speaks to Konrad.
Ingrid Raab: “What do you mean after you saw your title on the floor?”
Konrad Raab: “I wasn’t the Konrad you’re speaking to right now. You’re right about something I only discovered myself in October.”
Ingrid Raab: “You mean when I told you that you’re a psychopath early last year?”
Konrad Raab: “Not one hundred percent, but more I have tendencies to be a psychopath. I had to tell the entire world two weeks ago I have it because I get out of control, having a blackout until somebody tells me or I watch videos of what I said and done cos I don’t remember any of it when I take this special power off my face.”
Ingrid Raab: “That’s nothing to worry about at all son. Your dad may not have worn something to release the other side of himself, but he, however, could explode at any minute which he did, but he never hit me. He went to hit other objects. He also was speaking to the voice you mentioned you hear sometimes.”
Konrad Raab: “Yes, but I also found out at times, Erik, the voice I hear helped me out with the Phantom match. He said I should unleash that other power I’ve been trying to hide from everyone in WWH to protect myself and Fizz mostly in case the same happened again. Luckily, he didn’t.”
At first, when he mentioned about facing Phantom,, even Ingrid got scared that Konrad would’ve done something stupid again. Of course, she doesn’t know as she asks him the question that’s been on her mind since the incident almost two years ago.
Ingrid Raab “You didn’t use cocaine again, did you?”
Konrad Raab: “No because I didn’t need to. That’s partly why I think Erik said for me to go as the other side because he knows what happened the last time I fought Phantom, although of course, Markus has changed a big deal since then.”
Ingrid Raab: “I’m proud that you didn’t resort to that again cos it’s dangerous. What does it feel like fighting Phantom with your other side?”
Konrad Raab: “I can’t tell you that cos it’s something I can’t explain unless I wear a special mask to answer the question”
Ingrid Raab: “Have you got this special mask on you?
Konrad Raab: “Yes.”
Ingrid Raab: “Can you wear it?”
Konrad shook his head because he knows he’ll go way too far with the comments he’ll say with it on and she sees Konrad’s lack of confidence of her seeing her other son’s side and he hides his face.
Ingrid Raab: “Son, I need to see you’re dark side because I want to help you combat this issue you’re fighting. I know you feel you will disrespect me, but I won’t get hurt by what you say. Trust me.”
It reassured him a bit, knowing she was right, his mum did need to see his other side, especially she has never seen it as Konrad goes upstairs and digs through his wrestling gear and finds his black and blue mask. He puts it on his face, looking at his hands and clenches his fist before he finds that power. He comes downstairs two minutes later and his mum sees Konrad wearing the mask he shows his other side that he feels makes him weak as a person and asks him again.
Ingrid Raab: “What did it feel like fighting Phantom?”
Black Ice Raab: “I had unlimited power, doing anything I could to crush that motherfucker’s skull with my feet and hands, ripping his body to pieces, busting him wide open. I don’t regret a damn thing I did to that monster because it felt fucking good to hear him cry and scream in pain. I had blood on my chest and tasted flesh off his body. I wanted to attach his back with a C4 to blow him up to pieces, instead, I speared him through a table for an explosion to take off. I stabbed him many times with thumbtacks which made me a lot better to make him squirmish, haha.”
Ingrid sees why Konrad hated this other side because she saw how scared he was when he took the mask off, shaking off off the cobwebs off his body from shaking as he was back to himself and she asks him this.
Ingrid Raab: “I really notice a massive difference in that Konrad and the Konrad I see now.”
Konrad goes on the floor on his knees and literally cries in front of her to say this.
Konrad Raab: “Sorry I hurt you, please forgive me.”
Ingrid Raab: “You didn’t. It’s very clear you don’t remember what you say or do without that power on your face. It’s very different to your dad’s power because he does remember what he says and does, but that’s not a bad thing because it makes it easier for you to hide. I see you being scared of it, but in no time, you will get used to it.”
Konrad’s relieved that he didn’t hurt his mother’s feelings as she passes a tissue to him and wipes the tears off his face and she knew he hadn’t used that power often if at all as she at least saw how psychotic Konrad spoke with her along with a very deep voice she never heard from him before and speaks.
Ingrid Raab: “You need lessons from me on tampering that more often. How many times did you use it to release the madman?
Konrad Raab: “Three times.”
Ingrid Raab: “I want you to come to me each time you’re in Germany because you need a lot of work of getting used to it until you do. I can help you with this because it’s very clear to me you don’t know how to cope with it, being apart of you for the rest of your life, especially with your twin sons will have the same problems as you.”
Konrad Raab: “I don’t want to. I want to get rid of it for good.”
Ingrid Raab: “You can’t Konrad, it’s with you for life and with your twin sons on the way as well as well, you have to help them know how to cope with what you have.”
Konrad Raab: “No.”
Ingrid Raab: “What happens if your sons get out of control and you can’t handle it because you don’t know how to handle the situation? You can’t hide this from them.”
Konrad Raab: “Shut up.”
Ingrid knew Konrad would take the news very hard when he suddenly fainted on the floor from shouting so much, but she needed to tell him that he can’t hide it from his kids, needing the training straight away. He eventually gets up from the floor and sits down, drinking some water he had all along before she says this.
Ingrid Raab: “I’m sorry for scaring you like that, but I had to tell you the truth of the situation. I need to work on it with you because you’re finding it hard to cope and you shouldn’t ever feel scared about it.”
Konrad Raab: “Well I am.”
Ingrid Raab: “That’s why you need that training too cos then you wouldn’t anymore on top of needing to tamper it more than three times. Please accept my help.”
Konrad Raab: “I accept.”
At least it was something for Konrad to accept her help, however, she did want to move on and focus on the most important thing that’s coming up for Konrad on Thursday.
Ingrid Raab: “Who are you facing on WWH Showdown on Thursday?”
Konrad Raab: “WWH champion Finn Whelan.”
Ingrid Raab: “Tell me about him.”
Konrad Raab: “He’s worked his butt off, that’s what I can tell you. Before me, he was the Wildcard champion, winning every match, except against Kaden Kessler. What gets to me the most is people don’t take him seriously as a WWH champion, regardless of the hard work he’s done to get where he is.”
Ingrid Raab: “Why's that?”
Konrad Raab: “I have no idea, but although his attitude is changed, one thing I can admit is its other wrestler's fault for not giving him the respect he earns from everyone. At least I do and that’s down to his work in the ring. There’s one thing I disagreed with was when he attacked Lex Collins with a cheap shot. Other than that, I can’t say anything else bad about him.”
Ingrid Raab: “Wow, you do have your work cut out for you on Thursday.”
Konrad Raab: “It’s Lex Collins match all over again because I don’t know what else to truly say about him since he’s a much bigger threat than anybody I’ve faced against recently. He faced a better opponent for the title than I have, he’s captured the WWH title before me and he’s achieved everything before me too.”
Ingrid Raab: “Do you think you deserve to face him?”
Konrad Raab: “No I don’t, but I know Roselyn feels I do. I don’t know how I deserved to face Finn, but here we are and I even class Finn as a friend actually. I never had issues with the guy, but I got to do something big to get the win out of the bag cos I want to produce the best match I can with Finn and nobody is going to stop me from doing so.”
Ingrid Raab: “I say you deserve to face him because you want to make changes to your Wildcard title and it may not have happened now, but they will work into your favour pretty soon on top of getting better as a wrestler too.”
A bit of a break as Konrad takes a sip of water before he responds again.
Konrad Raab: “I always wanted to face Finn because I respect what the guy can do in the ring and his achievements and I know he can bring the best out of me like I will with him, but while I respect him as a wrestler and as a person, I will expose the mistakes he makes against me in the match and get him beat for the three count, leaving the fans saying it’s one of the best Showdown matches they’ve seen this year.”
Ingrid Raab: “I completely agree you and Finn will have a great match and I hope you win because you have the huge amount of ability to. Anyway, I leave things there since you need to sleep due to you leaving early to Canada in the morning. I will see you soon.”
Konrad stands up from the sofa as he picks up his black and dark blue mask and goes upstairs to his room since he was staying with his mum for tonight due to the airport being nearer to her house than Konrad’s apartment. He places the mask in his suitcase before placing his bedclothes on and turns out the lights to get into his bed to sleep.
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Champion vs champion match round two youtube.com shoot. (On Camera)
“Once again, I find myself in a very difficult situation this week mainly because my opponent has also achieved greater and better things than I have in WWH. The WWH Champion, Finn Whelan. He has also won against the top stars here in WWH so I can’t even touch that part of Finn’s career because he’s achieved so much more than I have and we can certainly say he was a much better Wildcard champion than I. Why? Because unlike me who still is trying to evolve and mold myself to fit in it, he already has proven to be a deathmatch/violent fighter.
I know a lot of people have questioned about Finn taking time off because he got bored with the division which is something I can understand because I’ve been in that situation before when I was the WEW Universal champion where it was great for a while, until you realise staying in one division gets boring after a while when you have done everything, you’re left with no choice, but to vacate the title. A lot of people got pissed off at Finn for it, but I couldn’t because I was in the same situation a few years ago, but WEW suddenly closed before I got the chance to drop the title and move up to bigger and better things.
I also get his arguments about egos running around the business. I’m one of the least Egotastic people you could meet in the business because I always point out my faults and weaknesses which I’m sure Finn will not have a problem doing and I’d agree with him as well. I can’t argue against that. However, despite his success from being in the company to being the WWH champion, there’s only a couple of things that leave me questioning things. One of those things was attacking Lex Collins from behind after our match. I get you wanted to tell Lex that you want his title, but did you really need to attack him for it? I never attacked anybody to tell them I’m facing them for the belt cos to me, it’s a little and god I hate saying this in such a negative way, cowardly.
It was a dick move along with some dickish comments I didn’t agree with like our match will be better than all other matches on the show. Of course, I’d disagree because I love seeing the future of wrestling to succeed here and Jason Sensation, Desmond Masters and Danny Colt show a ton of potential and I even said that to them on twitter cos wrestling can’t succeed without the future of wrestling growing. I want to see Jason Sensation showing his full potential against Kat cos I believe he can grow and gain a lot of experience from the match and I certainly want to see how Dexter Anthony gets on with Aerynn Donnelly and Caleb facing against Desmond Masters cos I could very well face Caleb and Dexter at Headquarters Mania.
I know we’re main eventing for a reason, but I could never disregard talent. That’s not who I am, although I agree that our match will be one of the top matches of the show hence why it’s the main event of the show along with us being champions. I understand why you changed because, after all, too many wrestlers showed disrespect to you, despite winning the Wildcard title, Shogun, and WWH title fairly and with hard work as well.
I also know what it’s like not wrestling in your hometown cos of a wrestler not showing up. I get that because it could’ve happened to me last year in SCW where I wouldn’t compete in Germany at all, crying my eyes out in the locker room cos I was eliminated last from the rumble, only I was told I was and had my TV title match against Ravyn Taylor in Berlin, Germany Breakdown show. I lost, but at least I was able to compete
I regret not stepping myself up earlier before you went on vacation and I beat myself up for that because of my lack of confidence at the time to face you as the Wildcard champion due to having barely any experience with the division and I still do which I admit to this day unlike some who’d be scared to pinpoint their own weaknesses.
I can’t believe I saw some death threat comments on some wrestlers wishing you’d die in a fire because of comments have taken the wrong way. I could never stoop that low towards anybody because that’s disgusting. I never dare to cross those lines with anybody, not even to wrestlers I hate or have no respect for because nobody deserves to die, certainly not a talented wrestler like yourself and certainly not where I can understand where you're coming from as I mentioned on Twitter plenty of times before
See Finn, I take you seriously because of the massive threat you pose towards me, especially the thought of me beating you could very well happen as I’ve not once beaten a top name in the business. That needs to change for me at least because I need to have an achievement I can be proud of other than overcoming everything against me to be the Wildcard champion and beating you will be it.
I may have been in Germany from Thursday night until Sunday morning, but regardless of meeting my daughters from my previous marriage, my grandson, my mum on top of wrestling in the Junior Heavyweight title rumble in Vancouver on top of looking Damian Angel in the eye tonight as I’m in New York at the moment, I’ve been in the gym two hours every day preparing for this matchup because this match means a whole big deal to me.
I’ve always wanted to face you because of your talent along with your skills in the ring because we almost have the same in ring styles now and that I want to face the top wrestlers in the business and right now, you’re one of those stars and you’ll see just exactly what I’m capable of tomorrow night in Los Angeles because I will find a way to do anything to beat you, tearing the house down in front of the fans who expect us to bring our A game, making the fans remember our fantastic match.
I’m ready to expose any sort of mistakes you’ll make against me for me to encounter them because I need to do anything in the rules, of course, to take you down for the three count and it will be by pinfall because I respect you too much to hurt you and besides, I want to face you at your best and you will get the best of Konrad Raab and you’ll certainly be facing The Iceman tomorrow night in the ring. Good luck Finn and may the best man win.”
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Konrad’s mindset thoughts on facing Finn (Off Camera)
How on earth am I going to beat a guy who’s on an undefeated streak since that one loss in August against Kaden? I don’t know if I’m going to be able to beat Finn Whelan, especially how he’s so much better than me. I felt I was quite arrogant in the video I did for the upcoming match, but I hate feeling that way.
I always hated being selfish and arrogant to myself, but how else could I come into the match and not make shit up? This is the second time I’m facing somebody better than me and somebody who clearly would shit on my achievements because he’s certainly a better Wildcard champion than me, but I had to start somewhere with being hardcore and placing myself out of my comfort zone, right?
I just don’t know if I’ll beat the guy. If Lex Collins who defeated me could do it, what makes me think I can? I feel very threatened by Finn’s game, especially how he’s already gotten inside my head without even watching his video about me. I just know the mindset Finn has. I got to force him to make mistakes in the match to have any chance of beating him to win.
I come so far to get where I am and I haven’t thought much about the sticky situation I’m in, but I got to go through this match because if I don’t, I let myself, Finn, Roselyn and the fans down. I’m literally panicking about this match cos of how dangerous Finn is. I know I have to be confident about this because I also know he’ll use my mistakes to win the match too.
I can imagine that it’ll be a massive upset if I somehow beat Finn in front of the Los Angeles crowd tomorrow night. Will it be the time for Wildcard Division to be noticed because I defeated Finn tonight? Who knows, but I’m going to try my best, if Dexter doesn’t assist Finn to beat me that is because I know Dexter will try to do something tonight and I would be pissed off about it because I’m not letting him cheap shot me tonight because Finn and I want to have a fair clean match for both of us to win and lose fairly, but I will win.
It’s time for me to go to the arena and see what I can do on overcoming the odds stacked against me like it’s been every single time I’ve wrestled against anybody since I’ve become Wildcard champion and show Finn who the better champion and wrestler is tonight.
It was very unusual Konrad going to visit his mum on top of visiting his daughters from his previous marriage and his grandson, however, he needed her more than ever after he tried to kill himself last week. Konrad was losing who he was as earlier in the day, he hugged his mother very tightly, knowing how much he valued her as his mum. He already told her about it after she asked why he hugged her so hard and it was precious time he needed on top of talking to somebody else other than Fizz and his cousin Jake about wrestling and his opponent.
He already talked about his times in the other three companies he’s in with being champion to standing up for wrestlers being viciously attacked to standing up against the tag champions sitting on a title reign for months doing nothing of willing to defend the titles to even his struggles of dealing with Fizz’s pregnancy and them having twin boys with psychological problems.
So there’s been a lot going on when it came to talking about many different things, except for one company they haven’t talked about since Konrad arrived at his mother’s house a few hours ago as his mum brings it up which of course speaking in German since she didn’t know a single word in English due to her upbringing of not having English lessons at school with the fireplace on.
Ingrid Raab: “What about things in WWH?”
Konrad Raab: “What about them?”
Ingrid Raab: “Like what’s been going on with your career there, regarding what you’ve done since the title win against Pharoah Pierce?
Konrad Raab: “Honestly, not very much, considering I’ve been in a tag match against Oliver Quinn and Carson Campbell, singles matches against Oliver Quinn, Lex Collins and defending my Wildcard title against Phantom.”
Ingrid Raab: “Did you retain your title?”
Konrad Raab: “Yes after I noticed the title being on the hotel room floor.”
It was the only time he’s ever won as the other side, although his mum was looking very confused at her son on what he said just now as she takes a sip of her tea she’s drinking as the house was very old fashioned which it would be, but Konrad knows she has been struggling a lot with money to keep the house now, but he, Markus and Renate help her with the finance side of things and she speaks to Konrad.
Ingrid Raab: “What do you mean after you saw your title on the floor?”
Konrad Raab: “I wasn’t the Konrad you’re speaking to right now. You’re right about something I only discovered myself in October.”
Ingrid Raab: “You mean when I told you that you’re a psychopath early last year?”
Konrad Raab: “Not one hundred percent, but more I have tendencies to be a psychopath. I had to tell the entire world two weeks ago I have it because I get out of control, having a blackout until somebody tells me or I watch videos of what I said and done cos I don’t remember any of it when I take this special power off my face.”
Ingrid Raab: “That’s nothing to worry about at all son. Your dad may not have worn something to release the other side of himself, but he, however, could explode at any minute which he did, but he never hit me. He went to hit other objects. He also was speaking to the voice you mentioned you hear sometimes.”
Konrad Raab: “Yes, but I also found out at times, Erik, the voice I hear helped me out with the Phantom match. He said I should unleash that other power I’ve been trying to hide from everyone in WWH to protect myself and Fizz mostly in case the same happened again. Luckily, he didn’t.”
At first, when he mentioned about facing Phantom,, even Ingrid got scared that Konrad would’ve done something stupid again. Of course, she doesn’t know as she asks him the question that’s been on her mind since the incident almost two years ago.
Ingrid Raab “You didn’t use cocaine again, did you?”
Konrad Raab: “No because I didn’t need to. That’s partly why I think Erik said for me to go as the other side because he knows what happened the last time I fought Phantom, although of course, Markus has changed a big deal since then.”
Ingrid Raab: “I’m proud that you didn’t resort to that again cos it’s dangerous. What does it feel like fighting Phantom with your other side?”
Konrad Raab: “I can’t tell you that cos it’s something I can’t explain unless I wear a special mask to answer the question”
Ingrid Raab: “Have you got this special mask on you?
Konrad Raab: “Yes.”
Ingrid Raab: “Can you wear it?”
Konrad shook his head because he knows he’ll go way too far with the comments he’ll say with it on and she sees Konrad’s lack of confidence of her seeing her other son’s side and he hides his face.
Ingrid Raab: “Son, I need to see you’re dark side because I want to help you combat this issue you’re fighting. I know you feel you will disrespect me, but I won’t get hurt by what you say. Trust me.”
It reassured him a bit, knowing she was right, his mum did need to see his other side, especially she has never seen it as Konrad goes upstairs and digs through his wrestling gear and finds his black and blue mask. He puts it on his face, looking at his hands and clenches his fist before he finds that power. He comes downstairs two minutes later and his mum sees Konrad wearing the mask he shows his other side that he feels makes him weak as a person and asks him again.
Ingrid Raab: “What did it feel like fighting Phantom?”
Black Ice Raab: “I had unlimited power, doing anything I could to crush that motherfucker’s skull with my feet and hands, ripping his body to pieces, busting him wide open. I don’t regret a damn thing I did to that monster because it felt fucking good to hear him cry and scream in pain. I had blood on my chest and tasted flesh off his body. I wanted to attach his back with a C4 to blow him up to pieces, instead, I speared him through a table for an explosion to take off. I stabbed him many times with thumbtacks which made me a lot better to make him squirmish, haha.”
Ingrid sees why Konrad hated this other side because she saw how scared he was when he took the mask off, shaking off off the cobwebs off his body from shaking as he was back to himself and she asks him this.
Ingrid Raab: “I really notice a massive difference in that Konrad and the Konrad I see now.”
Konrad goes on the floor on his knees and literally cries in front of her to say this.
Konrad Raab: “Sorry I hurt you, please forgive me.”
Ingrid Raab: “You didn’t. It’s very clear you don’t remember what you say or do without that power on your face. It’s very different to your dad’s power because he does remember what he says and does, but that’s not a bad thing because it makes it easier for you to hide. I see you being scared of it, but in no time, you will get used to it.”
Konrad’s relieved that he didn’t hurt his mother’s feelings as she passes a tissue to him and wipes the tears off his face and she knew he hadn’t used that power often if at all as she at least saw how psychotic Konrad spoke with her along with a very deep voice she never heard from him before and speaks.
Ingrid Raab: “You need lessons from me on tampering that more often. How many times did you use it to release the madman?
Konrad Raab: “Three times.”
Ingrid Raab: “I want you to come to me each time you’re in Germany because you need a lot of work of getting used to it until you do. I can help you with this because it’s very clear to me you don’t know how to cope with it, being apart of you for the rest of your life, especially with your twin sons will have the same problems as you.”
Konrad Raab: “I don’t want to. I want to get rid of it for good.”
Ingrid Raab: “You can’t Konrad, it’s with you for life and with your twin sons on the way as well as well, you have to help them know how to cope with what you have.”
Konrad Raab: “No.”
Ingrid Raab: “What happens if your sons get out of control and you can’t handle it because you don’t know how to handle the situation? You can’t hide this from them.”
Konrad Raab: “Shut up.”
Ingrid knew Konrad would take the news very hard when he suddenly fainted on the floor from shouting so much, but she needed to tell him that he can’t hide it from his kids, needing the training straight away. He eventually gets up from the floor and sits down, drinking some water he had all along before she says this.
Ingrid Raab: “I’m sorry for scaring you like that, but I had to tell you the truth of the situation. I need to work on it with you because you’re finding it hard to cope and you shouldn’t ever feel scared about it.”
Konrad Raab: “Well I am.”
Ingrid Raab: “That’s why you need that training too cos then you wouldn’t anymore on top of needing to tamper it more than three times. Please accept my help.”
Konrad Raab: “I accept.”
At least it was something for Konrad to accept her help, however, she did want to move on and focus on the most important thing that’s coming up for Konrad on Thursday.
Ingrid Raab: “Who are you facing on WWH Showdown on Thursday?”
Konrad Raab: “WWH champion Finn Whelan.”
Ingrid Raab: “Tell me about him.”
Konrad Raab: “He’s worked his butt off, that’s what I can tell you. Before me, he was the Wildcard champion, winning every match, except against Kaden Kessler. What gets to me the most is people don’t take him seriously as a WWH champion, regardless of the hard work he’s done to get where he is.”
Ingrid Raab: “Why's that?”
Konrad Raab: “I have no idea, but although his attitude is changed, one thing I can admit is its other wrestler's fault for not giving him the respect he earns from everyone. At least I do and that’s down to his work in the ring. There’s one thing I disagreed with was when he attacked Lex Collins with a cheap shot. Other than that, I can’t say anything else bad about him.”
Ingrid Raab: “Wow, you do have your work cut out for you on Thursday.”
Konrad Raab: “It’s Lex Collins match all over again because I don’t know what else to truly say about him since he’s a much bigger threat than anybody I’ve faced against recently. He faced a better opponent for the title than I have, he’s captured the WWH title before me and he’s achieved everything before me too.”
Ingrid Raab: “Do you think you deserve to face him?”
Konrad Raab: “No I don’t, but I know Roselyn feels I do. I don’t know how I deserved to face Finn, but here we are and I even class Finn as a friend actually. I never had issues with the guy, but I got to do something big to get the win out of the bag cos I want to produce the best match I can with Finn and nobody is going to stop me from doing so.”
Ingrid Raab: “I say you deserve to face him because you want to make changes to your Wildcard title and it may not have happened now, but they will work into your favour pretty soon on top of getting better as a wrestler too.”
A bit of a break as Konrad takes a sip of water before he responds again.
Konrad Raab: “I always wanted to face Finn because I respect what the guy can do in the ring and his achievements and I know he can bring the best out of me like I will with him, but while I respect him as a wrestler and as a person, I will expose the mistakes he makes against me in the match and get him beat for the three count, leaving the fans saying it’s one of the best Showdown matches they’ve seen this year.”
Ingrid Raab: “I completely agree you and Finn will have a great match and I hope you win because you have the huge amount of ability to. Anyway, I leave things there since you need to sleep due to you leaving early to Canada in the morning. I will see you soon.”
Konrad stands up from the sofa as he picks up his black and dark blue mask and goes upstairs to his room since he was staying with his mum for tonight due to the airport being nearer to her house than Konrad’s apartment. He places the mask in his suitcase before placing his bedclothes on and turns out the lights to get into his bed to sleep.
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Champion vs champion match round two youtube.com shoot. (On Camera)
“Once again, I find myself in a very difficult situation this week mainly because my opponent has also achieved greater and better things than I have in WWH. The WWH Champion, Finn Whelan. He has also won against the top stars here in WWH so I can’t even touch that part of Finn’s career because he’s achieved so much more than I have and we can certainly say he was a much better Wildcard champion than I. Why? Because unlike me who still is trying to evolve and mold myself to fit in it, he already has proven to be a deathmatch/violent fighter.
I know a lot of people have questioned about Finn taking time off because he got bored with the division which is something I can understand because I’ve been in that situation before when I was the WEW Universal champion where it was great for a while, until you realise staying in one division gets boring after a while when you have done everything, you’re left with no choice, but to vacate the title. A lot of people got pissed off at Finn for it, but I couldn’t because I was in the same situation a few years ago, but WEW suddenly closed before I got the chance to drop the title and move up to bigger and better things.
I also get his arguments about egos running around the business. I’m one of the least Egotastic people you could meet in the business because I always point out my faults and weaknesses which I’m sure Finn will not have a problem doing and I’d agree with him as well. I can’t argue against that. However, despite his success from being in the company to being the WWH champion, there’s only a couple of things that leave me questioning things. One of those things was attacking Lex Collins from behind after our match. I get you wanted to tell Lex that you want his title, but did you really need to attack him for it? I never attacked anybody to tell them I’m facing them for the belt cos to me, it’s a little and god I hate saying this in such a negative way, cowardly.
It was a dick move along with some dickish comments I didn’t agree with like our match will be better than all other matches on the show. Of course, I’d disagree because I love seeing the future of wrestling to succeed here and Jason Sensation, Desmond Masters and Danny Colt show a ton of potential and I even said that to them on twitter cos wrestling can’t succeed without the future of wrestling growing. I want to see Jason Sensation showing his full potential against Kat cos I believe he can grow and gain a lot of experience from the match and I certainly want to see how Dexter Anthony gets on with Aerynn Donnelly and Caleb facing against Desmond Masters cos I could very well face Caleb and Dexter at Headquarters Mania.
I know we’re main eventing for a reason, but I could never disregard talent. That’s not who I am, although I agree that our match will be one of the top matches of the show hence why it’s the main event of the show along with us being champions. I understand why you changed because, after all, too many wrestlers showed disrespect to you, despite winning the Wildcard title, Shogun, and WWH title fairly and with hard work as well.
I also know what it’s like not wrestling in your hometown cos of a wrestler not showing up. I get that because it could’ve happened to me last year in SCW where I wouldn’t compete in Germany at all, crying my eyes out in the locker room cos I was eliminated last from the rumble, only I was told I was and had my TV title match against Ravyn Taylor in Berlin, Germany Breakdown show. I lost, but at least I was able to compete
I regret not stepping myself up earlier before you went on vacation and I beat myself up for that because of my lack of confidence at the time to face you as the Wildcard champion due to having barely any experience with the division and I still do which I admit to this day unlike some who’d be scared to pinpoint their own weaknesses.
I can’t believe I saw some death threat comments on some wrestlers wishing you’d die in a fire because of comments have taken the wrong way. I could never stoop that low towards anybody because that’s disgusting. I never dare to cross those lines with anybody, not even to wrestlers I hate or have no respect for because nobody deserves to die, certainly not a talented wrestler like yourself and certainly not where I can understand where you're coming from as I mentioned on Twitter plenty of times before
See Finn, I take you seriously because of the massive threat you pose towards me, especially the thought of me beating you could very well happen as I’ve not once beaten a top name in the business. That needs to change for me at least because I need to have an achievement I can be proud of other than overcoming everything against me to be the Wildcard champion and beating you will be it.
I may have been in Germany from Thursday night until Sunday morning, but regardless of meeting my daughters from my previous marriage, my grandson, my mum on top of wrestling in the Junior Heavyweight title rumble in Vancouver on top of looking Damian Angel in the eye tonight as I’m in New York at the moment, I’ve been in the gym two hours every day preparing for this matchup because this match means a whole big deal to me.
I’ve always wanted to face you because of your talent along with your skills in the ring because we almost have the same in ring styles now and that I want to face the top wrestlers in the business and right now, you’re one of those stars and you’ll see just exactly what I’m capable of tomorrow night in Los Angeles because I will find a way to do anything to beat you, tearing the house down in front of the fans who expect us to bring our A game, making the fans remember our fantastic match.
I’m ready to expose any sort of mistakes you’ll make against me for me to encounter them because I need to do anything in the rules, of course, to take you down for the three count and it will be by pinfall because I respect you too much to hurt you and besides, I want to face you at your best and you will get the best of Konrad Raab and you’ll certainly be facing The Iceman tomorrow night in the ring. Good luck Finn and may the best man win.”
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Konrad’s mindset thoughts on facing Finn (Off Camera)
How on earth am I going to beat a guy who’s on an undefeated streak since that one loss in August against Kaden? I don’t know if I’m going to be able to beat Finn Whelan, especially how he’s so much better than me. I felt I was quite arrogant in the video I did for the upcoming match, but I hate feeling that way.
I always hated being selfish and arrogant to myself, but how else could I come into the match and not make shit up? This is the second time I’m facing somebody better than me and somebody who clearly would shit on my achievements because he’s certainly a better Wildcard champion than me, but I had to start somewhere with being hardcore and placing myself out of my comfort zone, right?
I just don’t know if I’ll beat the guy. If Lex Collins who defeated me could do it, what makes me think I can? I feel very threatened by Finn’s game, especially how he’s already gotten inside my head without even watching his video about me. I just know the mindset Finn has. I got to force him to make mistakes in the match to have any chance of beating him to win.
I come so far to get where I am and I haven’t thought much about the sticky situation I’m in, but I got to go through this match because if I don’t, I let myself, Finn, Roselyn and the fans down. I’m literally panicking about this match cos of how dangerous Finn is. I know I have to be confident about this because I also know he’ll use my mistakes to win the match too.
I can imagine that it’ll be a massive upset if I somehow beat Finn in front of the Los Angeles crowd tomorrow night. Will it be the time for Wildcard Division to be noticed because I defeated Finn tonight? Who knows, but I’m going to try my best, if Dexter doesn’t assist Finn to beat me that is because I know Dexter will try to do something tonight and I would be pissed off about it because I’m not letting him cheap shot me tonight because Finn and I want to have a fair clean match for both of us to win and lose fairly, but I will win.
It’s time for me to go to the arena and see what I can do on overcoming the odds stacked against me like it’s been every single time I’ve wrestled against anybody since I’ve become Wildcard champion and show Finn who the better champion and wrestler is tonight.