A reason as to why

(A camera starts up and we see Reno Dumont, he is dressed in a very respectable all black suit, and he is looking somewhat nervous but serious as he runs a hand over his bald head for a moment)

Reno: A lot of people have been asking about my actions during the six man tag at Wrestleworld’s chapter one. Why did I act like a complete and utter tool at some points and the skilled veteran at others...what made me just up and steal the pin away from Christopher Sabertooth like that?

Lots of questions based around that one question...WHY.

*WHY* did I steal the glory from my team that night, *WHY*...was I THAT hungry for a past glory that I couldn’t stand the thought of someone else getting that victory?!

He stops and lowers his hand for a moment before taking a deep breath and letting back out.

Reno: In order for me to properly answer that, let’s go back in time four years, shall we? Four years ago, I dropped the Frontier Wrestling Alliance International heavyweight title after a long and very bloody match but instead of throwing a fit or bemoaning my loss, I instead purposed to the love of my life in the middle of that same very ring in Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro North Carolina and happily walked away from professional wrestling.

You see up to that point, all I could see was proving that I was the biggest, toughest, and the best wrestler out there because since my debut match I have been a champion and everywhere I went, I felt the pressure and that pressure cost me a lot over the years and it wasn’t until I had to undergo surgery on my neck that someone came up to me and made me realize that I was going to drive myself into the ground.

That was someone that I wake every morning to, drop to my fucking *KNEES* and thank anything and everything that I get to call her my wife.

Reno stops and runs a hand over his bald head again for a moment before he nods, the serious staying in place as the nervous look slowly disappears.

Reno: So there I was, living with my future wife and my son happily at our home in Toronto. I walked away from the sport of professional wrestling without a second thought because I had already done everything that there was to do in this sport. I had my loved ones and family, my friends, and everything in between.

I sure as shit wasn’t hurting for money because unlike a lot of young guys out there, I never spent my money on stupid shit and the first thing that I did was buy myself a house and I filled it with what I needed, but I never spent a cent on shit that I didn’t need.

Reno stops and shakes his head for a moment, chuckling for an instant as well before growing serious again.

Reno: Fast forward to a few months ago and quite a few promotions were inquiring if I wanted to come out of retirement. Each one of them had their own little enticements but not one of them felt right or was right because they kept appealing to a vanity that I no longer had.

That was something that none of them couldn’t figure out.

But one man did.

You see Jaywalker had done his homework, he didn’t reach out to me...he reached out to Cassandra instead and he didn’t try to manipulate her or get her to trick me but he did ask her to ask me one question.

Had I been keeping track of the current crop of talent?

Later that same day, Cassandra came to me and asked me that same question and to be honest, no I hadn’t because I was done with professional wrestling but she encouraged me to look into the current crop of wrestlers and when I did, I saw hundreds of newer and much more tremendous talents that had emerged onto the scene since I’d been retired.

So I spent some time watching the Omega Network, watching everyone from top to bottom and to say that I was impressed was putting it mildly and that’s when my wife handed me that contract from Wrestleworld and at which point I felt like something inside of me had woken up, I felt hungry again for the first time in a very long time.

At this point, Reno smiles a rather devilish smile.

Reno: So I started working out like I used to but this time, I had my wife and our two children cheering me on..hell, my oldest son Chris actually started working out with me and he constantly gave me encouragement to work even harder.

Then I signed the contract and then I met with Jaywalker and the others at Wrestleworld, signed that last contract and then I waited for my first match and when it came…

Reno closes his eyes and shakes his head happily for a moment before opening his eyes again.

Reno: I won’t lie and say that I wasn’t nervous as all fuck because I was. A lot of people who knew about me were really respectful and the fact that people were reassured that they had an honest to god veteran on the roster seemed to help bring some form of legitimacy to the whole card.

Cassandra and our kids tried to calm me down and when it was time, I saw my family and our friends at ringside...cheering me on and anxious to see if I could still go in that ring.

Most importantly, my children got to see their father wrestle for the first time and in the case of my younger son, Freddie, he’d been born after I had retired and as such he didn’t understand why his older brother was so proud about...so if anything that night I felt even more pressure on my shoulders because my youngest son was going to see his father wrestle for the very first time.

Now from the get go, I understood exactly how a lucha tag rules match worked because I had been in one numerous times in the past and I did my best to help guide my team through it and yes, I pulled Jessica Rose out because I could see how things were going to start and not because I was being a “glory hog” or some shit like that.

But as the match wore on and the cheers from the crowds started to get louder ...yes, I felt like I was losing myself more and more into the roar of the crowds and when the time came, I will admit that is what lead me to yanking you off of Matsuda, Christoper.

There it is, I got lost in the moment and it went to my head. Nothing more or less.

And there you have it, the reason for why what I did at Wrestleworld’s chapter one, the whole reason and not some half assed one… so take it as you may, but it’s the whole truth without anything taken out of it.

And this week, at Chapter Two it seems that I will have to face the piper in the form of Christopher Sabertooth to which I can only say good luck, Chris.

(The screen fades to black)