Post by Konrad Raab on Sept 11, 2019 21:26:44 GMT
Mental training day six. Orlando, Florida. Monday 18th June (Off camera)
It was time for Konrad to get back to work where he was going to prepare for his biggest test to date, facing against Justin for a title match. Whether Justin had a match before that, Konrad doesn't know, but today was about training and match hype talks. Everyone was asleep until the alarm went off at six in the morning as they all woke up and got themselves dressed and changed. Usually, they get their breakfast, but because Konrad hadn't been around for a few days due to his matches against Cosmo Cooper and Jenson Idol in England, Dwayne who was now the leader of the bedroom pack stopped everyone because of mainly introducing Konrad to a new room buddy who was a big guy with long blond hair.
Dwayne: “This is Konrad I was telling you about and Konrad, this is our new room buddy, Benjamin.”
Benjamin: “I've been looking forward to meeting you Konrad after hearing Dwayne saying you're my room buddy.”
Dwayne: “Yeah, he was shocked to know he was sharing a room with you as he knows about your success in the wrestling business.
Konrad Raab: “Good to know I have another fan. Nice to meet you, Benjamin.”
Both guys shook hands and patted around the back as they didn't forget about Steven being in the room with him being in the background, watching everything happening around them as he says this.
Steven: “How did your matches go with Cosmo Cooper and Jenson Idol?”
Konrad Raab: “I wish the win I had against Cosmo Cooper weren't in the assist of Quinn Castillo. It didn't do anything for my confidence at all. A win is a win, but my performance in the tournament stinks, and I don't know how the hell I can come back from it.”
Dwayne: “That's why you're here to motivate yourself to be better hopefully.”
Konrad Raab: “I don't know dude if only that win against Cosmo Cooper was me beating him for a three count without Quinn doing the work for me, I'd be happy with it. It's not the way I envisioned coming back here at all.”
Steven: “It's not your fault. It happens in the wrestling business, and you need to find a way to be positive with yourself. I'm guessing you lost the match against Jenson Idol, right?”
Konrad Raab: “Yes, but let's go and eat breakfast before it's too late.”
Dwayne, Steven and Benjamin nodded at Konrad as they see him being off, even if he did see his family yesterday and even if Dwayne and Steven knew about his wife is heavily pregnant, there was still a lot to discuss with the lads with that and his triplet kids being able to speak. They eat their breakfast and as soon as Justin sees Konrad, he goes over to him and winds Konrad up.
Konrad Raab: “I'm not in the mood so go away and I'll see you later.”
Justin: “Aww, is the little bitch grumpy because I'm a champion? Too bad little bitch because you won't take the belt away from me. Look at you, you're pathetic.”
Konrad Raab: “I said go away.”
Steven: “Leave him alone Justin. He said he's not in the mood for your games.”
When Steven stepped in to save his room buddy, Justin walked away and left Konrad to it as he wasn't going to tell Justin as to why he was in a bad mood with his wrestling performance, although he was only happy yesterday cos of his family. Konrad continued eating his breakfast in peace as Benjamin begins to see what Steven and Dwayne meant by Konrad being a nice guy and the Justin guy bullying him.
Steven: “As if you need anymore kicking when you're down.”
Dwayne: “After all, he doesn't dare to challenge you to a damn match. All it is with Justin is playing mind games with you.”
Konrad Raab: “I'm sick of it. I'll prove everything he says in the ring on Wednesday night on top of my words to address him in his face later on as well.”
Benjamin: “I don't understand this, you're wrestling Justin?”
Konrad Raab: “On Wednesday yes as it's my final test before I get out of here. I need to forget about my matches and performances against Cosmo Cooper and Jenson Idol before it affects me in the ring.”
Dwayne: “Well said.”
They continued to eat breakfast for a while as they were the last people left in the large dining room as they finished up and put the plates in the large bowl and they head towards their room to play some games for a while with Konrad and Benjamin trying to get used to one another as Konrad says this.
Konrad Raab: “So what are you in here for?”
Benjamin: “My coach says I need more work on being mentally stronger and how I approach my matches as well.”
Konrad Raab: “Like me.”
Benjamin: “Not at all. I'm a terrible behaved person in my wrestling school as I do trash talk a lot and being all about my shit. He said I'm a disgrace and I need to change my behaviour or I'm out of the sport forever.”
Konrad Raab: “I've been down that road in the early days of my career. I was a badly behaved wrestler, doing things nobody has done with me getting drunk and burning an American flag on TV amongst other things I've done. It's things I regret doing to this day.”
Benjamin: “Wow, no wonder why you changed to be this nice guy you are.”
Konrad nodded as it kills him to talk about his wrestling past because he wants to forget about it and now takes wrestling seriously. It also helps him to remind himself as to why he will never turn bad ever again, and he says this to Benjamin and others while they were playing ludo with Konrad being red, Benjamin being blue, Steven being yellow and Dwayne being green.
Konrad Raab: “I had to; otherwise I would've been banned from ever being in the wrestling business. I got someone in my school who does that, but he knows what I went through to get to be the wrestler I am today. It reminds me never to go back to that vile human being I was.”
Steven: “I remember you saying it was down to your wife leaving you if you didn't change.”
Konrad Raab: “Yes, that as well. I was taken to rehab before I trained to be a wrestler and learned so much in StarrDome school how respecting the wrestling business was important and to change as I did was very difficult.”
Benjamin: “Glad to hear this story as it'll help me behave and treat wrestling the right way. I'm still a young kid of nineteen years old."
Dwayne: “You're here to learn to behave to shape you into a wrestler they know you can be. Just keep your arrogance and behaviour down.”
Konrad nods in agreement as they are all focusing on who gets all their plastic pawn pieces to the centre of their colours. It was fun for everyone to play games for a bit in their rooms just for food to go in their systems for two hours. After Konrad just about won the game, the alarms went off, and everyone went to do what they told whether it was for social media training, behavioural training or gym training. However, Konrad wasn't told cos yesterday he wasn't at the course, and Peter comes in and says this.
Peter Lawley: “Glad to see your back.”
Konrad Raab: “Me too after a disastrous time in Manchester.”
Peter Lawley: “I heard what happened. I know you wanted to be happy after winning against Cosmo, but you need to know you did everything you could in the match and I'm proud of you for it, even if Quinn assisted you to win.”
Konrad Raab: “What am I doing first, gym training or match hype?”
Peter Lawley: “Match hype in the afternoon. Today, we're not doing any training because we'll spend all of that on tomorrow, but you need this training more than everything else, social media training.”
Konrad Raab: “I do.”
Peter Lawley: “I haven't got all day, forget about Cosmo Cooper and Jenson Idol matches, we still got work to do.”
Konrad nods, knowing it made him want to get better today as he moves from his room and enters in the social media training room with Justin waiting on him, already giving him some trash about Konrad being weak earlier. At first, Konrad wasn't doing anything as he was thinking of what to say, something that's a big weakness for him. He responded to the threats about his family and was looking quite comfortable to know that it was in a way promoting the match before they address it with their mouths later.
Peter Lawley: “Not too bad at all.”
Konrad Raab: “I'm beginning to make a breakthrough here.”
Peter Lawley: “Have you learned something?”
Konrad Raab: “Yes.”
Peter Lawley: “What's that?”
Konrad Raab: “I've learned these threats Justin's giving me doesn't mean a damn thing. Just because he says them to me, doesn't mean he'll do those actions.”
Peter Lawley: “That's right. You've been fooled into people's mind games for too long, and the only way you can combat them is by ignoring them. It's not always possible, but also being yourself is another way you'll overcome this. Don't get wound up, just back it up in the ring and if you lose, you'll learn from it.”
Konrad nods as it was a vital lesson for him that after all this time of being put in this room today because it was work he needed to learn and Peter didn't need to tell Konrad, it was from Konrad's mouth of him thinking right and gained a lot out of it, and Peter wants to say this to Konrad.
Peter Lawley: “You must always go into matches, knowing you can win, that's very important, even if you've lost to many opponents and this is also for later, you must feel like your confident and thinking about winning the match.”
Konrad Raab: “Even if odds are stacked against me?”
Peter Lawley: “Yes because at the end of the day, that's going to give you the win instead of getting angry and pissed off at everything people say to you. You should take Owen Cruze's advice as I know he was brutally honest with you when I watched his video, but he's not wrong. You need to stop letting things get to you and focus on things in the ring.”
It was clear to Konrad, Peter had been watching videos of his opponents on what they said to Konrad, but the Owen Cruze video was the one that stuck out for Peter the most as he saw Owen helping him and pointing out faults Peter didn't know about Konrad. It was vital to get this sorted out, and it was clear it had, even with Konrad hitting back at Justin with him talking about winning and being champion on Wednesday morning.
The alarm sounded as two hours were up, even if Justin and Konrad were still at it, it was valuable for them to talk on the keyboard as much as they did all for match hype and Peter talks to Konrad to see Justin looking so different now than before and he pats him on the back.
Peter Lawley: “Good job Konrad. Now you go and get something to eat, while me and Justin's coach find a room where you both will come face to face to talk for a bit before doing your videos for the upcoming match with you seeing Justin with a title around his shoulder or waist.”
Konrad Raab: “I'm curious, what title belt is it?”
Peter Lawley: “I don't know to be truthfully honest as I've not seen it. You'll know later.”
Konrad had no clue what he was going to be in for other than doing videos he was used to doing because he does them a lot with SCW anyway, but he knows he's prepared to do anything to care about himself and it made him happy that Konrad knew Owen was trying to help, but he just didn't care at the time because Konrad was trying to give up his wrestling career because of what's gone on in the business and with Fizz's pregnancy. He goes down to eat lunch to sit with his room buddies before they head back to their rooms to write down their diaries which didn't take Konrad very long. After they've finished writing in their diaries, Dwayne asks a question while they get a game of monopoly out.
Dwayne: “How come you didn't do training today?”
Konrad Raab: “Because I'm going to spend all the time in the world, training tomorrow likewise with Justin as well. I needed to do the training I did today, and I learnt a lot from it. I'm beginning to feel myself, feeling confident and happy on the fact I can beat Justin.”
Steven: “Seriously, just from that training alone, you've learned something? I didn't expect that.”
Konrad Raab: “I knew why after all Justin was picking on me, and he did pretty bad again with family and death threats, but I reverted to the present me stating things like I'm going to beat you on Wednesday morning in the ring and know I can do it and can be champion.”
Dwayne: “I'm glad you've made a real breakthrough.”
Benjamin: “While I was told in the classroom, I need a lot of work before I can leave.”
Konrad Raab: “It was the same for me when I started here, but you'll take time to think to yourself and state to your coach what you've learned because that's what I did today. This afternoon I have to state what I said and look at Justin in the face before doing a video for the match.”
Benjamin only started here on Friday, so he didn't get many lessons as of yet, but he hopes the story he told Benjamin would make him think twice about his behaviour and to work on being a respected wrestler Konrad knows he can be. He knows he can because he was helpful to Konrad and everyone in the room. Steven brings up a topic that's not discussed much after buying a house.
Steven: “What about the pregnancy?”
Konrad Raab: “The babies are due to be born this week, heck Fizz told me herself she could very well be giving birth right at this minute. That's how far along she is.”
Dwayne: “Oh shit yeah, I forgot you went home to see her. How was it?”
Konrad Raab: “It was great, got to see and spend time with my kids to take them to Disneyland as it's about ten minutes from where I live to go on the rides with them, even hearing my triplet kids speak in person. It made me so happy when they spoke to me.”
Benjamin: “I wondered why you weren't here yesterday. That's nice of them to allow you to go home on fathers day.”
Konrad Raab: “It wouldn't have been the case if Fizz wasn't due to give birth. How was fathers day for you Steven, Dwayne and Benjamin?”
Benjamin: “Well I have a dad who came to see me and giving me a telling off for my actions. I have a girlfriend because I'm not a trustworthy guy.”
It gave Steven time to think about Konrad's question after the news he gotten with his wife, but Dwayne says his part of what happened yesterday on Father's Day while they were drinking water and eating a protein bar they were given in their rooms.
Dwayne: “Well I just been training all day as my parents are dead and I don't have a girlfriend either. I have a girl I'm seeing and got in contact with yesterday, but we still don't know each other well enough to have a relationship yet.”
Konrad Raab: “I feel you, you need to open yourself up to her, and she'll be the luckiest lady you've met. How was your day, Steven?”
Steven: “My girlfriend gave me some news I was not expecting. She told me she's pregnant.”
Konrad Raab: “Wow, congratulations.”
Steven: “Thanks I guess. She said she's eight weeks in her pregnancy, but I don't know if I'm ready to be a dad.”
It was the same feeling Konrad had when he had Aldetruda his eldest daughter for the first time of the fear Steven showed, and the whole idea of being a father would scare any first time parents, and he says this.
Konrad Raab: “I was the same of being scared of being a dad for the first time with my ex-wife, but we worked things together and ended up being great parents. You must always put your kid first before everyone else. Go to parenting classes, so you're prepared for the expected comes at you.”
Steven: “Yes, you're right, I should get parenting classes with my girlfriend. Little does she know as soon as I get out of this course, I'm going to propose to her. I got a ring already, but I wasn't able to propose because I was told to be on the course straight away.”
Dwayne: “Even if you didn't mean for this to happen, life doesn't give a damn about your plans. It happens, and you need to be ready to take care of the kid when it grows up. It should give you something to look forward to when you get home.”
Konrad Raab: “Yeah and at least you know she's not gonna give birth when you here, unlike me with the chances are high and got enough time to prepare yourselves to be parents.”
They continued playing the game as it was good advice from Konrad and Dwayne as Benjamin wasn't able to talk about it as he didn't care for other people's lives cos he doesn't really have one and he did win monopoly by having the most money, right when the bell rang, and everyone went to do their thing with going to the social media room for Benjamin and Steven and Dwayne doing some training again.
Konrad stood up and waits out of the room for Peter as he drinks some more water before he met up with him to take him to a special room where Justin was waiting for him, and straight away, they looked right in each other's eyes, having cameras capturing the moment of them looking at each other.
Justin: “This belt will never be yours. You are a pathetic old man who cannot get this title off my waist.”
Konrad had to take a quick look of the belt of seeing it wasn't a TV title or anything; it was the top belt of it being the Heavyweight belt which did throw him off a bit and said this.
Konrad Raab: “Oh, but it will be because I'm going to beat you in the ring Wednesday morning with you looking up the lights with me standing over your body with that title around my waist. I'm not leaving this damn course until I win.”
Justin: “We'll see little bitch because you can't trash me down. You're pathetic; you can't shit talk for anything. Your family are going to witness you to see what they always see, a worthless father and husband. You're not even considered to be a man.”
Konrad Raab: “At least I care and put my family first on knowing what being a man means, unlike you who's nothing more than a little boy. I find it funny when you weren't the one to challenge me for a match. I did, and that takes more guts than brains you don't have other than trashing me down, but I'm bigger than that. I'm bigger than falling to your shit talking scheme.”
Justin: “Since when little bitch? You aren't worth lacing my boots for, that's why I didn't want to fight you because you're an absolute joke.”
Konrad Raab: “We'll see who the joke is on Wednesday, won't we? I know you're just coming out with useless threats you won't deliver on. I know your game, and it may have worked when I came in, but it doesn't now because I'm confident to beat you.”
Justin was laughing on Konrad being so serious all of a sudden, even mocking him crying which was trying to get Konrad to hit him, but has no effect as Peter and Justin's coach was listening to every word they were saying to one another, even if it did get a little heated, but it showed they really wanted to fight with picture cameras, video cameras, and voice recorders all over the room.
Peter Lawley: “Let's go and do your videos for the match now.”
As they do as Justin goes in first with Konrad sitting outside, thinking everything Justin might say to Konrad other than just what he said, and it did affect him a bit with family comments mentioned, but he had to realize none of what he was saying was true, and then Justin comes out and does the two finger treatment to Konrad along with Justin pointing to his dick before he leaves to go to his room.
Now it was Konrad's turn as he goes in the video room and states everything he says about Justin and the belt he was holding which took him almost 5 minutes to say what he feels about the match and what he aims to do on winning the match, and he comes out, being proud and goes to his room, while the coaches watch both videos of their clients talking about their match.
Konrad goes to write in his diary on what he's done this afternoon which was all about hyping their match and talking to Justin's face to face for the first time that he was unable to do all the time he was here along with his room buddies as well and Steven says this after they finished writing in their diaries.
Steven: “You're right on how they twist people's minds in there. No wonder why you were frightened at first Konrad.”
Konrad Raab: “End of the day, you'll be mentally stronger. I know I am after saying everything I said to Justin and saying things in his face.”
Dwayne: “I want to see that match, that's for damn sure.”
Konrad Raab: “I don't know if you guys are going to watch it or not, but I got Justin on the run. I'm beating him and making sure he'll regret everything he's done and said to me by taking that world title from him.”
Benjamin: “It was easy for me to do that social media training cos I was able to act like how I'd usually do. They said I do have problems with my mentality, but not as bad as some of the others, but they said my main problem is I insult people way too far.”
Steven: “You shouldn't because it will affect you gaining respect from others. Nobody wants to see you be a shithead towards people and not give a damn about you, trying to get you banned from the sport. Nobody wants to see wrestlers acting like a piece of shit.”
Konrad nods to see how wise Steven was, even if he's only been here for a week now as Konrad sees Benjamin not that bad of a guy, just had to learn to behave better when it comes to wrestling sport, bit like Konrad had to learn. Alarms go off for the lads to eat their dinner before they were allowed to go and have social time with others where a lot of people were waiting for Konrad, those who were new as he took autographs and pictures. After they've gone away, John came towards Konrad who was sitting down to watch sports on TV to say this.
John: “You want to play pool with me?”
Konrad Raab: “Sure as I haven't done that here yet.”
John and Konrad walked towards the pool area and played a game together. It was great for Konrad to feel so much better mentally with himself as he feels right at home with friends he could gain out of the whole experience and then he and John went to play on the Moto GP machines they just brought in as John sees how good Konrad was at racing bikes.
John: “Oh damn, I almost got you.”
Konrad Raab: “Well that's cos Mattheus is a racer after all, although I didn't know anything about bike racing until I met with Fizz. I'm more of a car's guy as I was good at racing in Germany.”
John: “I figured that, although you played a lot of ice games too.”
Konrad Raab: “Even invented a few of my own like cooking woks used as sleighs and ice football with football shoe skates and even demolition derby. I was a TV entertainer before I did wrestling. I wanted to do something new, and wrestling was it.”
They had a go on NASCAR racing where although Konrad was an excellent driver, John beat him in an easy race, but only just as John doesn't just see Konrad as a wrestler anymore, he saw him being fun and a good person as many others discovered too as he knows it's not going to be the same when he heads back to picking off pieces where he left off and bettering himself and the alarms sound as John says this.
John: “It's nice to spend time with you today, showing me you're just a normal person.”
Konrad Raab: “Likewise. Just because I'm a celebrity, doesn't mean I'm different, and I don't want to be treated any differently because I'm a pro wrestler. Anyway, need to go and have a shower now.”
John waved as it's been an overall great day for Konrad who was beginning to learn so much from the course and it was perfect for SCW bosses to place him back here with all the training he got, and it was unfortunate he was going home on Wednesday, but at the same time, he needed to get back to wrestling, even if he was in the tournament, but to show SCW wrestlers and staff how much he's changed and that starts sooner than later. He has a shower before he places his bedclothes on and goes straight to sleep without a single fear or worry in his mind about the match against Justin on Wednesday morning.
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My biggest match to date regarding showing my mentality improvement youtube.com shoot (On camera)
“I fought against my dream opponent of Alistaire Allocco at Fatal Fortunes with Andrew Raynes involved too, but after that match, Alistaire Allocco gained a ton of my respect more than before for giving me a fight he knew he wanted against me and down to him wanting to do the right thing. I'm glad I got the chance when I did and showing Andrew how much I've changed regarding my mentality and aggression I showed in the match.
Moving on, I'm going to be serious about this; it's my biggest match I've had in SCW purely because of who I'm facing with my opponent's strength being something I've had to take time off to work on a heck of a lot, Ruby Amarant. I know what she can do as she, after all, has a win over Cassidy Carter in the past for a TV title contention match, so I know her skills are excellent in the ring.
But the problem I have is she'll think I'll be the same old Konrad that I was in May. She will expose everything I've done wrong in the past, but the truth is, I need to face you for the mind games you play on opponents. Go ahead and point out my faults, but you have flaws as well as your tag partner obsessed with Aaron Blackbourne for some reason. I know you've been annoyed at her, you've even said it. Have you ever told Scarlet to get her head straight and focus on the goal of you both being tag champions?
Have you told her to focus on her goals strictly in wrestling? I guess not, considering you didn't do anything to stop that and I know you didn't advise Aaron, you pretended to and I'm not stupid to spot that. You only care to support Scarlet just because you were too cowardly to tell Scarlet to stop stalking on Aaron and focus on wrestling. Tell me why you can't say that to her?
It's why I improved as much as I have because I only care what I do in the ring than out of it and getting better each time I step in the ring. Unlike you, I care about this business and can tell Cassidy in her face that she was a disgrace of a person because she stole a belt she took the piss on with Josh not giving a damn about it for some reason, and I'll get it back at Under Attack. You haven't really done very much for yourself, and I may have lost the TV title match, but I learned from it, while you didn't because the only thing you've done is what you've achieved as a team with winning matches which granted, you both can win the tag title contention match, but not at the moment with Scarlet's head being plastered all over Aaron.
I don't care what you'll say to me because it doesn't get me down anymore and it's all in the past and you need to get out of being in a team with Scarlet and focus on your own goals because while you're a great wrestler, Scarlet's love for Aaron is only getting in the way of your success as a wrestler and I know you have that ability in you to be a successful solo's wrestler yourself or find a tag partner who gives a damn about winning titles than chasing a man for no reason whatsoever.
That's why I will win the match because I've moved on from that and it'll be me proving to everyone that I don't care for comments that don't mean a damn thing and overcoming this as it is going to be my biggest achievement because I can do it, while I don't see a whole lot going for you in the long run and claiming the win will mean nothing to you, this win will mean a whole big deal and I do respect for your skills in the ring and view you as a threat, but only if people take your mind games seriously which nobody does.
I've got confidence and self-esteem in myself to say that, while you can continue speaking crap about me with my past actions and lack of achievements because I know I've done more than you, even with losses and will focus defeating you in the ring with my skills and getting the win I need to do. Tomorrow night, prepare to be Iceinated by The Iceman as I'll have my hand raised in the air and not just by psychically, but overcoming your mind games mentally as well.”
It was time for Konrad to get back to work where he was going to prepare for his biggest test to date, facing against Justin for a title match. Whether Justin had a match before that, Konrad doesn't know, but today was about training and match hype talks. Everyone was asleep until the alarm went off at six in the morning as they all woke up and got themselves dressed and changed. Usually, they get their breakfast, but because Konrad hadn't been around for a few days due to his matches against Cosmo Cooper and Jenson Idol in England, Dwayne who was now the leader of the bedroom pack stopped everyone because of mainly introducing Konrad to a new room buddy who was a big guy with long blond hair.
Dwayne: “This is Konrad I was telling you about and Konrad, this is our new room buddy, Benjamin.”
Benjamin: “I've been looking forward to meeting you Konrad after hearing Dwayne saying you're my room buddy.”
Dwayne: “Yeah, he was shocked to know he was sharing a room with you as he knows about your success in the wrestling business.
Konrad Raab: “Good to know I have another fan. Nice to meet you, Benjamin.”
Both guys shook hands and patted around the back as they didn't forget about Steven being in the room with him being in the background, watching everything happening around them as he says this.
Steven: “How did your matches go with Cosmo Cooper and Jenson Idol?”
Konrad Raab: “I wish the win I had against Cosmo Cooper weren't in the assist of Quinn Castillo. It didn't do anything for my confidence at all. A win is a win, but my performance in the tournament stinks, and I don't know how the hell I can come back from it.”
Dwayne: “That's why you're here to motivate yourself to be better hopefully.”
Konrad Raab: “I don't know dude if only that win against Cosmo Cooper was me beating him for a three count without Quinn doing the work for me, I'd be happy with it. It's not the way I envisioned coming back here at all.”
Steven: “It's not your fault. It happens in the wrestling business, and you need to find a way to be positive with yourself. I'm guessing you lost the match against Jenson Idol, right?”
Konrad Raab: “Yes, but let's go and eat breakfast before it's too late.”
Dwayne, Steven and Benjamin nodded at Konrad as they see him being off, even if he did see his family yesterday and even if Dwayne and Steven knew about his wife is heavily pregnant, there was still a lot to discuss with the lads with that and his triplet kids being able to speak. They eat their breakfast and as soon as Justin sees Konrad, he goes over to him and winds Konrad up.
Konrad Raab: “I'm not in the mood so go away and I'll see you later.”
Justin: “Aww, is the little bitch grumpy because I'm a champion? Too bad little bitch because you won't take the belt away from me. Look at you, you're pathetic.”
Konrad Raab: “I said go away.”
Steven: “Leave him alone Justin. He said he's not in the mood for your games.”
When Steven stepped in to save his room buddy, Justin walked away and left Konrad to it as he wasn't going to tell Justin as to why he was in a bad mood with his wrestling performance, although he was only happy yesterday cos of his family. Konrad continued eating his breakfast in peace as Benjamin begins to see what Steven and Dwayne meant by Konrad being a nice guy and the Justin guy bullying him.
Steven: “As if you need anymore kicking when you're down.”
Dwayne: “After all, he doesn't dare to challenge you to a damn match. All it is with Justin is playing mind games with you.”
Konrad Raab: “I'm sick of it. I'll prove everything he says in the ring on Wednesday night on top of my words to address him in his face later on as well.”
Benjamin: “I don't understand this, you're wrestling Justin?”
Konrad Raab: “On Wednesday yes as it's my final test before I get out of here. I need to forget about my matches and performances against Cosmo Cooper and Jenson Idol before it affects me in the ring.”
Dwayne: “Well said.”
They continued to eat breakfast for a while as they were the last people left in the large dining room as they finished up and put the plates in the large bowl and they head towards their room to play some games for a while with Konrad and Benjamin trying to get used to one another as Konrad says this.
Konrad Raab: “So what are you in here for?”
Benjamin: “My coach says I need more work on being mentally stronger and how I approach my matches as well.”
Konrad Raab: “Like me.”
Benjamin: “Not at all. I'm a terrible behaved person in my wrestling school as I do trash talk a lot and being all about my shit. He said I'm a disgrace and I need to change my behaviour or I'm out of the sport forever.”
Konrad Raab: “I've been down that road in the early days of my career. I was a badly behaved wrestler, doing things nobody has done with me getting drunk and burning an American flag on TV amongst other things I've done. It's things I regret doing to this day.”
Benjamin: “Wow, no wonder why you changed to be this nice guy you are.”
Konrad nodded as it kills him to talk about his wrestling past because he wants to forget about it and now takes wrestling seriously. It also helps him to remind himself as to why he will never turn bad ever again, and he says this to Benjamin and others while they were playing ludo with Konrad being red, Benjamin being blue, Steven being yellow and Dwayne being green.
Konrad Raab: “I had to; otherwise I would've been banned from ever being in the wrestling business. I got someone in my school who does that, but he knows what I went through to get to be the wrestler I am today. It reminds me never to go back to that vile human being I was.”
Steven: “I remember you saying it was down to your wife leaving you if you didn't change.”
Konrad Raab: “Yes, that as well. I was taken to rehab before I trained to be a wrestler and learned so much in StarrDome school how respecting the wrestling business was important and to change as I did was very difficult.”
Benjamin: “Glad to hear this story as it'll help me behave and treat wrestling the right way. I'm still a young kid of nineteen years old."
Dwayne: “You're here to learn to behave to shape you into a wrestler they know you can be. Just keep your arrogance and behaviour down.”
Konrad nods in agreement as they are all focusing on who gets all their plastic pawn pieces to the centre of their colours. It was fun for everyone to play games for a bit in their rooms just for food to go in their systems for two hours. After Konrad just about won the game, the alarms went off, and everyone went to do what they told whether it was for social media training, behavioural training or gym training. However, Konrad wasn't told cos yesterday he wasn't at the course, and Peter comes in and says this.
Peter Lawley: “Glad to see your back.”
Konrad Raab: “Me too after a disastrous time in Manchester.”
Peter Lawley: “I heard what happened. I know you wanted to be happy after winning against Cosmo, but you need to know you did everything you could in the match and I'm proud of you for it, even if Quinn assisted you to win.”
Konrad Raab: “What am I doing first, gym training or match hype?”
Peter Lawley: “Match hype in the afternoon. Today, we're not doing any training because we'll spend all of that on tomorrow, but you need this training more than everything else, social media training.”
Konrad Raab: “I do.”
Peter Lawley: “I haven't got all day, forget about Cosmo Cooper and Jenson Idol matches, we still got work to do.”
Konrad nods, knowing it made him want to get better today as he moves from his room and enters in the social media training room with Justin waiting on him, already giving him some trash about Konrad being weak earlier. At first, Konrad wasn't doing anything as he was thinking of what to say, something that's a big weakness for him. He responded to the threats about his family and was looking quite comfortable to know that it was in a way promoting the match before they address it with their mouths later.
Peter Lawley: “Not too bad at all.”
Konrad Raab: “I'm beginning to make a breakthrough here.”
Peter Lawley: “Have you learned something?”
Konrad Raab: “Yes.”
Peter Lawley: “What's that?”
Konrad Raab: “I've learned these threats Justin's giving me doesn't mean a damn thing. Just because he says them to me, doesn't mean he'll do those actions.”
Peter Lawley: “That's right. You've been fooled into people's mind games for too long, and the only way you can combat them is by ignoring them. It's not always possible, but also being yourself is another way you'll overcome this. Don't get wound up, just back it up in the ring and if you lose, you'll learn from it.”
Konrad nods as it was a vital lesson for him that after all this time of being put in this room today because it was work he needed to learn and Peter didn't need to tell Konrad, it was from Konrad's mouth of him thinking right and gained a lot out of it, and Peter wants to say this to Konrad.
Peter Lawley: “You must always go into matches, knowing you can win, that's very important, even if you've lost to many opponents and this is also for later, you must feel like your confident and thinking about winning the match.”
Konrad Raab: “Even if odds are stacked against me?”
Peter Lawley: “Yes because at the end of the day, that's going to give you the win instead of getting angry and pissed off at everything people say to you. You should take Owen Cruze's advice as I know he was brutally honest with you when I watched his video, but he's not wrong. You need to stop letting things get to you and focus on things in the ring.”
It was clear to Konrad, Peter had been watching videos of his opponents on what they said to Konrad, but the Owen Cruze video was the one that stuck out for Peter the most as he saw Owen helping him and pointing out faults Peter didn't know about Konrad. It was vital to get this sorted out, and it was clear it had, even with Konrad hitting back at Justin with him talking about winning and being champion on Wednesday morning.
The alarm sounded as two hours were up, even if Justin and Konrad were still at it, it was valuable for them to talk on the keyboard as much as they did all for match hype and Peter talks to Konrad to see Justin looking so different now than before and he pats him on the back.
Peter Lawley: “Good job Konrad. Now you go and get something to eat, while me and Justin's coach find a room where you both will come face to face to talk for a bit before doing your videos for the upcoming match with you seeing Justin with a title around his shoulder or waist.”
Konrad Raab: “I'm curious, what title belt is it?”
Peter Lawley: “I don't know to be truthfully honest as I've not seen it. You'll know later.”
Konrad had no clue what he was going to be in for other than doing videos he was used to doing because he does them a lot with SCW anyway, but he knows he's prepared to do anything to care about himself and it made him happy that Konrad knew Owen was trying to help, but he just didn't care at the time because Konrad was trying to give up his wrestling career because of what's gone on in the business and with Fizz's pregnancy. He goes down to eat lunch to sit with his room buddies before they head back to their rooms to write down their diaries which didn't take Konrad very long. After they've finished writing in their diaries, Dwayne asks a question while they get a game of monopoly out.
Dwayne: “How come you didn't do training today?”
Konrad Raab: “Because I'm going to spend all the time in the world, training tomorrow likewise with Justin as well. I needed to do the training I did today, and I learnt a lot from it. I'm beginning to feel myself, feeling confident and happy on the fact I can beat Justin.”
Steven: “Seriously, just from that training alone, you've learned something? I didn't expect that.”
Konrad Raab: “I knew why after all Justin was picking on me, and he did pretty bad again with family and death threats, but I reverted to the present me stating things like I'm going to beat you on Wednesday morning in the ring and know I can do it and can be champion.”
Dwayne: “I'm glad you've made a real breakthrough.”
Benjamin: “While I was told in the classroom, I need a lot of work before I can leave.”
Konrad Raab: “It was the same for me when I started here, but you'll take time to think to yourself and state to your coach what you've learned because that's what I did today. This afternoon I have to state what I said and look at Justin in the face before doing a video for the match.”
Benjamin only started here on Friday, so he didn't get many lessons as of yet, but he hopes the story he told Benjamin would make him think twice about his behaviour and to work on being a respected wrestler Konrad knows he can be. He knows he can because he was helpful to Konrad and everyone in the room. Steven brings up a topic that's not discussed much after buying a house.
Steven: “What about the pregnancy?”
Konrad Raab: “The babies are due to be born this week, heck Fizz told me herself she could very well be giving birth right at this minute. That's how far along she is.”
Dwayne: “Oh shit yeah, I forgot you went home to see her. How was it?”
Konrad Raab: “It was great, got to see and spend time with my kids to take them to Disneyland as it's about ten minutes from where I live to go on the rides with them, even hearing my triplet kids speak in person. It made me so happy when they spoke to me.”
Benjamin: “I wondered why you weren't here yesterday. That's nice of them to allow you to go home on fathers day.”
Konrad Raab: “It wouldn't have been the case if Fizz wasn't due to give birth. How was fathers day for you Steven, Dwayne and Benjamin?”
Benjamin: “Well I have a dad who came to see me and giving me a telling off for my actions. I have a girlfriend because I'm not a trustworthy guy.”
It gave Steven time to think about Konrad's question after the news he gotten with his wife, but Dwayne says his part of what happened yesterday on Father's Day while they were drinking water and eating a protein bar they were given in their rooms.
Dwayne: “Well I just been training all day as my parents are dead and I don't have a girlfriend either. I have a girl I'm seeing and got in contact with yesterday, but we still don't know each other well enough to have a relationship yet.”
Konrad Raab: “I feel you, you need to open yourself up to her, and she'll be the luckiest lady you've met. How was your day, Steven?”
Steven: “My girlfriend gave me some news I was not expecting. She told me she's pregnant.”
Konrad Raab: “Wow, congratulations.”
Steven: “Thanks I guess. She said she's eight weeks in her pregnancy, but I don't know if I'm ready to be a dad.”
It was the same feeling Konrad had when he had Aldetruda his eldest daughter for the first time of the fear Steven showed, and the whole idea of being a father would scare any first time parents, and he says this.
Konrad Raab: “I was the same of being scared of being a dad for the first time with my ex-wife, but we worked things together and ended up being great parents. You must always put your kid first before everyone else. Go to parenting classes, so you're prepared for the expected comes at you.”
Steven: “Yes, you're right, I should get parenting classes with my girlfriend. Little does she know as soon as I get out of this course, I'm going to propose to her. I got a ring already, but I wasn't able to propose because I was told to be on the course straight away.”
Dwayne: “Even if you didn't mean for this to happen, life doesn't give a damn about your plans. It happens, and you need to be ready to take care of the kid when it grows up. It should give you something to look forward to when you get home.”
Konrad Raab: “Yeah and at least you know she's not gonna give birth when you here, unlike me with the chances are high and got enough time to prepare yourselves to be parents.”
They continued playing the game as it was good advice from Konrad and Dwayne as Benjamin wasn't able to talk about it as he didn't care for other people's lives cos he doesn't really have one and he did win monopoly by having the most money, right when the bell rang, and everyone went to do their thing with going to the social media room for Benjamin and Steven and Dwayne doing some training again.
Konrad stood up and waits out of the room for Peter as he drinks some more water before he met up with him to take him to a special room where Justin was waiting for him, and straight away, they looked right in each other's eyes, having cameras capturing the moment of them looking at each other.
Justin: “This belt will never be yours. You are a pathetic old man who cannot get this title off my waist.”
Konrad had to take a quick look of the belt of seeing it wasn't a TV title or anything; it was the top belt of it being the Heavyweight belt which did throw him off a bit and said this.
Konrad Raab: “Oh, but it will be because I'm going to beat you in the ring Wednesday morning with you looking up the lights with me standing over your body with that title around my waist. I'm not leaving this damn course until I win.”
Justin: “We'll see little bitch because you can't trash me down. You're pathetic; you can't shit talk for anything. Your family are going to witness you to see what they always see, a worthless father and husband. You're not even considered to be a man.”
Konrad Raab: “At least I care and put my family first on knowing what being a man means, unlike you who's nothing more than a little boy. I find it funny when you weren't the one to challenge me for a match. I did, and that takes more guts than brains you don't have other than trashing me down, but I'm bigger than that. I'm bigger than falling to your shit talking scheme.”
Justin: “Since when little bitch? You aren't worth lacing my boots for, that's why I didn't want to fight you because you're an absolute joke.”
Konrad Raab: “We'll see who the joke is on Wednesday, won't we? I know you're just coming out with useless threats you won't deliver on. I know your game, and it may have worked when I came in, but it doesn't now because I'm confident to beat you.”
Justin was laughing on Konrad being so serious all of a sudden, even mocking him crying which was trying to get Konrad to hit him, but has no effect as Peter and Justin's coach was listening to every word they were saying to one another, even if it did get a little heated, but it showed they really wanted to fight with picture cameras, video cameras, and voice recorders all over the room.
Peter Lawley: “Let's go and do your videos for the match now.”
As they do as Justin goes in first with Konrad sitting outside, thinking everything Justin might say to Konrad other than just what he said, and it did affect him a bit with family comments mentioned, but he had to realize none of what he was saying was true, and then Justin comes out and does the two finger treatment to Konrad along with Justin pointing to his dick before he leaves to go to his room.
Now it was Konrad's turn as he goes in the video room and states everything he says about Justin and the belt he was holding which took him almost 5 minutes to say what he feels about the match and what he aims to do on winning the match, and he comes out, being proud and goes to his room, while the coaches watch both videos of their clients talking about their match.
Konrad goes to write in his diary on what he's done this afternoon which was all about hyping their match and talking to Justin's face to face for the first time that he was unable to do all the time he was here along with his room buddies as well and Steven says this after they finished writing in their diaries.
Steven: “You're right on how they twist people's minds in there. No wonder why you were frightened at first Konrad.”
Konrad Raab: “End of the day, you'll be mentally stronger. I know I am after saying everything I said to Justin and saying things in his face.”
Dwayne: “I want to see that match, that's for damn sure.”
Konrad Raab: “I don't know if you guys are going to watch it or not, but I got Justin on the run. I'm beating him and making sure he'll regret everything he's done and said to me by taking that world title from him.”
Benjamin: “It was easy for me to do that social media training cos I was able to act like how I'd usually do. They said I do have problems with my mentality, but not as bad as some of the others, but they said my main problem is I insult people way too far.”
Steven: “You shouldn't because it will affect you gaining respect from others. Nobody wants to see you be a shithead towards people and not give a damn about you, trying to get you banned from the sport. Nobody wants to see wrestlers acting like a piece of shit.”
Konrad nods to see how wise Steven was, even if he's only been here for a week now as Konrad sees Benjamin not that bad of a guy, just had to learn to behave better when it comes to wrestling sport, bit like Konrad had to learn. Alarms go off for the lads to eat their dinner before they were allowed to go and have social time with others where a lot of people were waiting for Konrad, those who were new as he took autographs and pictures. After they've gone away, John came towards Konrad who was sitting down to watch sports on TV to say this.
John: “You want to play pool with me?”
Konrad Raab: “Sure as I haven't done that here yet.”
John and Konrad walked towards the pool area and played a game together. It was great for Konrad to feel so much better mentally with himself as he feels right at home with friends he could gain out of the whole experience and then he and John went to play on the Moto GP machines they just brought in as John sees how good Konrad was at racing bikes.
John: “Oh damn, I almost got you.”
Konrad Raab: “Well that's cos Mattheus is a racer after all, although I didn't know anything about bike racing until I met with Fizz. I'm more of a car's guy as I was good at racing in Germany.”
John: “I figured that, although you played a lot of ice games too.”
Konrad Raab: “Even invented a few of my own like cooking woks used as sleighs and ice football with football shoe skates and even demolition derby. I was a TV entertainer before I did wrestling. I wanted to do something new, and wrestling was it.”
They had a go on NASCAR racing where although Konrad was an excellent driver, John beat him in an easy race, but only just as John doesn't just see Konrad as a wrestler anymore, he saw him being fun and a good person as many others discovered too as he knows it's not going to be the same when he heads back to picking off pieces where he left off and bettering himself and the alarms sound as John says this.
John: “It's nice to spend time with you today, showing me you're just a normal person.”
Konrad Raab: “Likewise. Just because I'm a celebrity, doesn't mean I'm different, and I don't want to be treated any differently because I'm a pro wrestler. Anyway, need to go and have a shower now.”
John waved as it's been an overall great day for Konrad who was beginning to learn so much from the course and it was perfect for SCW bosses to place him back here with all the training he got, and it was unfortunate he was going home on Wednesday, but at the same time, he needed to get back to wrestling, even if he was in the tournament, but to show SCW wrestlers and staff how much he's changed and that starts sooner than later. He has a shower before he places his bedclothes on and goes straight to sleep without a single fear or worry in his mind about the match against Justin on Wednesday morning.
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My biggest match to date regarding showing my mentality improvement youtube.com shoot (On camera)
“I fought against my dream opponent of Alistaire Allocco at Fatal Fortunes with Andrew Raynes involved too, but after that match, Alistaire Allocco gained a ton of my respect more than before for giving me a fight he knew he wanted against me and down to him wanting to do the right thing. I'm glad I got the chance when I did and showing Andrew how much I've changed regarding my mentality and aggression I showed in the match.
Moving on, I'm going to be serious about this; it's my biggest match I've had in SCW purely because of who I'm facing with my opponent's strength being something I've had to take time off to work on a heck of a lot, Ruby Amarant. I know what she can do as she, after all, has a win over Cassidy Carter in the past for a TV title contention match, so I know her skills are excellent in the ring.
But the problem I have is she'll think I'll be the same old Konrad that I was in May. She will expose everything I've done wrong in the past, but the truth is, I need to face you for the mind games you play on opponents. Go ahead and point out my faults, but you have flaws as well as your tag partner obsessed with Aaron Blackbourne for some reason. I know you've been annoyed at her, you've even said it. Have you ever told Scarlet to get her head straight and focus on the goal of you both being tag champions?
Have you told her to focus on her goals strictly in wrestling? I guess not, considering you didn't do anything to stop that and I know you didn't advise Aaron, you pretended to and I'm not stupid to spot that. You only care to support Scarlet just because you were too cowardly to tell Scarlet to stop stalking on Aaron and focus on wrestling. Tell me why you can't say that to her?
It's why I improved as much as I have because I only care what I do in the ring than out of it and getting better each time I step in the ring. Unlike you, I care about this business and can tell Cassidy in her face that she was a disgrace of a person because she stole a belt she took the piss on with Josh not giving a damn about it for some reason, and I'll get it back at Under Attack. You haven't really done very much for yourself, and I may have lost the TV title match, but I learned from it, while you didn't because the only thing you've done is what you've achieved as a team with winning matches which granted, you both can win the tag title contention match, but not at the moment with Scarlet's head being plastered all over Aaron.
I don't care what you'll say to me because it doesn't get me down anymore and it's all in the past and you need to get out of being in a team with Scarlet and focus on your own goals because while you're a great wrestler, Scarlet's love for Aaron is only getting in the way of your success as a wrestler and I know you have that ability in you to be a successful solo's wrestler yourself or find a tag partner who gives a damn about winning titles than chasing a man for no reason whatsoever.
That's why I will win the match because I've moved on from that and it'll be me proving to everyone that I don't care for comments that don't mean a damn thing and overcoming this as it is going to be my biggest achievement because I can do it, while I don't see a whole lot going for you in the long run and claiming the win will mean nothing to you, this win will mean a whole big deal and I do respect for your skills in the ring and view you as a threat, but only if people take your mind games seriously which nobody does.
I've got confidence and self-esteem in myself to say that, while you can continue speaking crap about me with my past actions and lack of achievements because I know I've done more than you, even with losses and will focus defeating you in the ring with my skills and getting the win I need to do. Tomorrow night, prepare to be Iceinated by The Iceman as I'll have my hand raised in the air and not just by psychically, but overcoming your mind games mentally as well.”