Post by Jon Pryor on Mar 31, 2009 14:29:51 GMT -5
John Bazztard may have called it when he proclaimed that Jon Pryor outsmarted his opponents in his impressive defense of the GCW World Championship last Sunday at Ascension. He was thought to have let his opponents get to him mentally, yet he prevailed by taking advantage of an open situation, and scoring the pin fall over Jack Jyndal. Now, he answers our questions on the match, his career, and where the GCW World Championship goes from here.
GCW.com: First off, congratulations on your title defense.
Pryor: None needed. I did what I had to do and what I do best.
Noted, and it's been like that for most of your career, hasn't it? Thinking back to your first ever World Championship reign, you proved to be nigh invincible when it came to the World Championships that you carry. You're seemingly unable to drop the championship without insurmountable odds placed before you, or, as you've loudly proclaimed in the past, tampering with the system to lose your title belt... tell us, was MayheM's pinfall loss to Jack Jyndal just a fluke in your eyes?
More or less like good strategy. Let Remmy tire himself out. Let Jyndal overexert himself to try to prove that he belongs... the addition of him to our match was just another variable that I cancelled out. More for Remmy to get on his high horse about... more for him to try to gloat and taunt his way out about... yet when the chips are down? I've shown that once again, and forever always... you can't break me. You can't get to me. And you can't stop me.
And it would appear to be true... even through death.
You know, some of that was a lot closer to reality than anybody thinks. Here it is, here are the facts as the casual fan sees them. I died. Twice to everybody's accord. See, time number one was nearly true. I was put down with a broken neck, forced into retirement. My ex-wife ups and leaves, and I'm left alone. And yeah, my house caught on fire, and I barely escaped. I was further injured in there, and had to be pried out of a vehicle I used to escape in, to be taken in again. This time, critical condition, and I actually died on the table. Thankfully, they brought me back, but to you guys? I had the advantage of the quick diagnosis, and I paid good money to keep it that way. I did have quite a bit of cash left, that a check didn't have to be written, and that money could go off to those that I willed it to... namely Amanda Wallace, who I can see used that money to start this company.
But you were to appear to face Bryan Colombain in a match last year, after surprisingly being alive still...
True. I'd managed to make my new home in Manchester, England, with Elizabeth Knight. As most of you know, I have extensive history with the Knight family, and had been in two previous relationships with Elizabeth... one when I was training under her late brother, and then what blossomed last year when I came to her. Unfortunately, it was painfully obvious that I couldn't be left alone, as it took one lone nut to hear that I was still alive, to drag me out of any rehab and moving on that I was in the middle of. Drastic measures had to be taken, and unfortunately, Elizabeth couldn't take it anymore. I was written off as dead again, this time with an actual grave set up, and she wouldn't have anything to do with me anymore. So, in the middle of healing and rehabbing my neck so that I could lead a normal life, I was once again exiled from society.
And it was around this time that you decided to return to the ring?
Months before, actually. Wrestling becomes a part of your blood very fast, and it held true to me as well. As much as I wanted to, I couldn't find a single damn thing to support myself with in this damn economy. Taking what money I had, I hired an agent, and moved to Central America to start working off the ring rust. A stupid little costume and a signed contract later, I was set to appear in GCW's Gold Rush tournament to capture my GCW World Championship as Turbo Negro.
And the rest is history.
More like history in the making. See, GCW has had nothing but BS for champions. Redundantly boring, quitters, and hell, people looking to hand the belt off in just a month and being content with being transitional champions. See, that's crap, and that's no way to have any type of prestige for the championship. Hell, I think that even the redundantly boring champion had the belt for less than a month, so... there you go. I'm currently the longest reigning GCW Champion that has NO intention ever of leaving, and hell, I've even beat the odds of having a multi-man match and still retaining my belt. It's been proven before, that when you want a belt elevated? You look for me. I took my first belt, the first, World Champion in the entire company, and I held it for the entire year, making that THE belt to have in the industry. So much so, that when the controversy that happened happened? It made a massive ripple throughout all of the industry that we even still see effects of this very day.
You want the notoriety, you come to me. You want prestige, you come to me. Hell, if you want to make someone famous? You send them in my direction. I'm as good for this business as I've been called a cancer to it, and I dare you to debate me on that.
That's not part of our line of questioning, so I'll let you debate it another time, Mr. Pryor. Finally, where do you see the GCW Championship going from here?
To be up for grabs against the next poor soul that I deem worthy. Remmy's done and over with, his time to shine with my belt is gone. It's time for someone else to climb into the spotlight, or someone else to keep their death grip on my coattails if they hope to succeed. It's already looking like we're getting a pool of decent challengers, from Jyndal, to Haven, to Justice, Starr... former champion in Sylas Styles... and hell, we even have another "Legend" that has decided to show up... no doubt to try to relive past glories. Any of those future losers want a shot, it's their time to step up... because, hell... don't think that I've forgotten about Jack Jyndal's little crusade just yet either.
I think Jack Jyndal vs Jon Pryor could be a good pay per view main event, but we'll just have to see what comes about for Mindgames. With that being said, we'd like to thank Jon Pryor for the interview today, and for all of you fans reading this... prepare for the month of MindGames... and stay tuned to GCW.com for all of your favorite superstars' updates.