Post by Jillie on Mar 16, 2010 23:31:49 GMT -6
“Give It To Me” by Timbaland ft Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake starts playing on a black screen. We see white letters fade onto the screen…
Everyone’s Favourite Canadian Lady
…and the screen fades to a shot of the aforementioned sitting in front of an SNW banner.
Nothing compares to the sound of the crowd cheering for you. It doesn’t matter if it’s 10 people or 10s of thousands of people. It’s that sounds that drives me to do this every day.
The pattern continues.
The Assassin
I am alvays vatchink, alvays vaitink for the next opportunity to get the upper hand. I do vhatever it takes to give my team the vin. The end justifies the means.
The Other Girl
I’m not like any Diva or Knockout. I’m not even like me teammates. But I’m also a work in progress – I learn somethin’ new every time I step into that ring – practice ‘r not.
The scene switches to some scenes of the members of Y Kores’ various recent entrances down to the ring as a female voice with a posh British accent narrates.
Y Kores. The name in Greek means “the daughters,” and Adriana Samu, Rory Kotch and Petrina Rotchester certainly are daughters of the squared circle. All three built on the knowledge and experience of the men that taught them their trade, and all three have represented women in the ring successfully for many years.
During the next speech, old photos of Samu growing up and starting her wrestling training are seen on the screen as “I Love Myself Today” by Bif Naked plays.
“Everyone’s Favourite Canadian Lady” Adriana Samu’s journey began when she was invited by Bret Hart to join the talented group of students of the Dungeon and graduated with flying colours. Her career got a giant boost when she joined the roster of Full Contact Wrestling.
A few clips of footage of Samu with Canada’s Greatest Stable members celebrating after a win and competing in the FCW ring are shown.
Citing Bret Hart, Chris Benoit and FCW owner Scott “CGH” Anderson as her greatest influences in her mastery of technical wrestling and the “business side of things”, Samu is also known for her high-flying antics, which she perfected by sparring with the likes of Teddy Hart.
More footage shows Samu lifting various titles and awards over her head from throughout her career.
Samu has been Tag Team and Women’s Champion in FCW, and held the World and Television Championships in NAWA. She was voted by NAWA fans as Best Face in 2005, and as having the Most Shocking Moment and Best Feud with Pandora in 2006.
I feel like my career has been great so far – very fulfilling – but there is still a lot left in me, and I don’t intend to sit back and let history claim me. I still want to make a dent in this business.
Next we see old photos and video clips of Rory Kotch as she grew up, “Beautiful People” by Marilyn Manson playing in the background.
“The Assassin” Rory Kotch comes from the other side of the Iron Curtain, where she started her career as an amateur wrestler. She left Russia to pursue her sport in Europe and North America, and fell into professional wrestling, immediately showing potential.
FCW footage again flashes across the screen, showing Kotch’s evolution in that promotion, including her as a member of the Wolfpack and CPR.
Like Samu, Kotch’s big break came in the FCW, where she was a notable member of many stables, and, as she is quick to point out proudly, the reason why they all collapsed.
Footage of Kotch in the ring plays, including wearing some titles and accepting an award.
Her 6 feet and 200 pounds of technical prowess make her a formidable opponent for both women and men. Kotch became the first female Tag Champion in FCW when she shared the title with Viper, and also held that promotion’s Women’s Championship. In NAWA, she and fellow Y Kores member Petrina Rotchester became the first female team to win a non-female Tag Team Championship, and in 2006 the wWo, of which Kotch was a member, was voted as Best Stable by the NAWA fans.
I have a passion for this business I never vould have guessed I vould have had vhen I started. It is my goal to make a name for myself in the vorld of pro-wrestlink. I vant to be referenced as vone of the influential people in the rink.
Finally, photos of a growing Rotchester hit the screen, and “Let Down” by Bif Naked is playing along.
“The Other Girl” Petrina Rotchester’s path to the wrestling ring was different from her stable mates’ altogether. After her family relocated Northern Ireland to Ontario, Canada, Rotchester found herself succeeding in the kickboxing ring. Her further advancement in that arena was halted by her refusal to give up her two loves, drinking beer and smoking, so she went out in search of someone to teach her how to be a professional wrestler. She found Rory Kotch and her husband, Xander Nova, who had just opened a wrestling school in Vancouver that specialized in teaching competitive fighters of all kinds how to make the switch to the pro-wrestling world.
Footage of Rotchester’s early WRF and NAWA days play.
Her strategy most days is to come at her opponent with fists flying, throwing in the odd high-risk manoeuvre and well placed chair shot, in order to shock him or her with her balls-to-the-walls style.
Footage of Rotchester’s antics plays, including a match with Emily Rutherford.
Besides sharing the boundary-breaking NAWA Tag Team Title Championship with Rory Kotch, Rotchester is also a self-proclaimed NAWA Television Champion.
With me fellow Y Kores ladies by me side, me future looks bright in this business. I’m finally able show all the folks out there what I’m capable of, and I have more fun doin’ this than any person should be allowed t’have.
Footage now shows of the various stare downs and matches shared by Samu and Kotch.
The ladies were not always pals. Samu and Kotch were at each other’s throats almost from the day Kotch debuted at FCW.
Footage shows Kotch and Rotchester having it out.
When they moved to NAWA, Rotchester got in Kotch’s hair there.
Footage of the three ladies’ entrance plays.
However, the ladies were driven together by one common denominator – the desire to break records and win titles. The three women don’t always agree, but they have learned to put the team first and have found great success as a trio.
“You Better Pray” by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus sounds and various clips of Y Kores competing and interacting with fans in SNW flashes across the screen, including several clips of Y Kores facing off against Age of SIN.
Now that Y Kores has been reunited in SNW, they face new challenges. The Age of SIN has recently been a thorn in the side of the trio since their reformation here. With that stable out of their way, Y Kores thought the path was clear for potential title contention in the singles or tag team categories. However, a new problem has immerged – The Sports Authority.
Various clips of the various combinations of Y Kores vs Sports Authority is shown, corresponding to the speech.
It all started on February 6th’s Guys Night Out when, due to the interference of their respective managers, Sports Authority’s “The Intellectual” Manny Saul and Y Kores’ “The Assassin” Rory Kotch were both disqualified in their match, causing a stable brawl to erupt.
I can’t tell you vhether or not I vould have von that match. My husband did vhat the had to do and the ref, in turn, did his job. But the damage vas done and the bad feelinks vere there after that night.
The following week, “Everyone’s Favourite Canadian Lady” Adriana Samu lost her match to Vinny Appice after Coach Tom Foolery threw a football at her head.
Like, seriously. A football. How the ref didn’t see it I will never know. What a stupid way to lose a match though, eh? I always knew there was a reason I didn’t like football…
On February 20th at Saturday Night Onslaught, “The Other Girl” Petrina Rotchester had a chance at redemption against Tony Manzetti.
I wasn’ gonna let those incidents get me down. I could see that the Authority’s strategy was to win by any means necessary, so I took it to ‘eart.
Ve started to realize that if these men could only beat us by cheatink, they must not be confident in the rink against us.
Rotchester tried her strategy the next week at Guy’s Night Out against Manny Saul once again.
It was clear to us after that match that we could try to avoid their cheating, but in the end they would find a way. The only way to get the upper hand was to take away their advantage, and that meant we would have to stoop to their level.
With that in mind, Y Kores teamed up for the first time together against all members of the Sports Authority on March 6.
It worked. We mapped out all the slimy thin’s they could do an’ we thought of a counter for ‘em all.
The only vay they can beat us is by cheatink and assumink that ve von’t do the same. Now that ve know that, they are not goink to get the upper hand on us again.
It’s not the first time we’ve had to set aside our scruples to win a match, and I’m sure it won’t be the last, especially with the rubber match coming up.
Footage of the aforementioned matches continues to play.
The last paragraph of this chapter has a plot twist, however. Due to the friendship between “The Excellent Gordie” Gordon Heath and Coach Tom Foolery, The Sports Authority were able to influence the SNW management to demand that Xander Nova, Y Kores’ manager, get back into the ring 15 years after suffering a career ending neck injury in order to team up with the ladies of Y Kores against Manny Saul, The CIA and Coach Tom Foolery.
We see Xander Nova speaking in Russian, with English subtitles translating.
It is unfair and uncalled for that I should be required to wrestle in this match. It is not safe for me to be in the ring, the doctors do not recommend it, and it is an abuse of powers to insist that the match go forward as planned. However, I will meet this challenge for the sake of the ladies, and I will put all of my skills, both in wrestling and in slyness, to work in order to give Y Kores the advantage in this match.
Although this match will essentially be a handicap match in The Sports Authority’s favour, The Canadian Lady, The Assassin, The Other Girl, and their manager are not worried.
Ve have them figured out. They can try to make the match lopsided if they like – it’s not goink to make a difference. Ve know their game, and ve are prepared to play it.
It’s quite simple, really. We’re in control an’ they know it – they’re tryin’ to pull aces outta their sleeves, but they don’t realize that we’ve got a pile of ‘em up our sleeves, too.
We might look like we’re the underdogs, certainly. I can’t tell you how many times any or all of us have been called the underdogs. But we always come out in the end. It’s going to be a hard match, of that I’m sure. But we will put to use everything Sports Authority has taught us about them and we will prevail.
On March 27, 2010 in Arlington, Texas, Y Kores will be facing Sports Authority one more time at SNW’s biggest show of the year. The stable that wins the match will be the stable that has the speed…
A shot of Samu flying from the turnbuckle with a Tornado Kick plays.
…the brawn…
Kotch man-handling an old opponent with an Iron Curtain is shown.
…the spunk…
The shot of Rotchester Dublin DDTing Manzetti replays.
…and the brains…
Xander Nova is again shown distracting the ref from the apron while Kotch nails Manzetti with her pipe.
…to take away the only advantage their opponent has over them. The Sports Authority will try every trick in their book, no doubt, but when they run out of tricks, it will be Y Kores who walks out of the ring at Wrestlstock II.
The final scene shows a silhouette of Y Kores raising each others’ hands in victory.
In very small, but still legible print, at the bottom of the screen, we can see the following:
Directed, produced, and paid for by Y Kores
The scene ends.
Everyone’s Favourite Canadian Lady
…and the screen fades to a shot of the aforementioned sitting in front of an SNW banner.
Nothing compares to the sound of the crowd cheering for you. It doesn’t matter if it’s 10 people or 10s of thousands of people. It’s that sounds that drives me to do this every day.
The pattern continues.
The Assassin
I am alvays vatchink, alvays vaitink for the next opportunity to get the upper hand. I do vhatever it takes to give my team the vin. The end justifies the means.
The Other Girl
I’m not like any Diva or Knockout. I’m not even like me teammates. But I’m also a work in progress – I learn somethin’ new every time I step into that ring – practice ‘r not.
The scene switches to some scenes of the members of Y Kores’ various recent entrances down to the ring as a female voice with a posh British accent narrates.
Y Kores. The name in Greek means “the daughters,” and Adriana Samu, Rory Kotch and Petrina Rotchester certainly are daughters of the squared circle. All three built on the knowledge and experience of the men that taught them their trade, and all three have represented women in the ring successfully for many years.
During the next speech, old photos of Samu growing up and starting her wrestling training are seen on the screen as “I Love Myself Today” by Bif Naked plays.
“Everyone’s Favourite Canadian Lady” Adriana Samu’s journey began when she was invited by Bret Hart to join the talented group of students of the Dungeon and graduated with flying colours. Her career got a giant boost when she joined the roster of Full Contact Wrestling.
A few clips of footage of Samu with Canada’s Greatest Stable members celebrating after a win and competing in the FCW ring are shown.
Citing Bret Hart, Chris Benoit and FCW owner Scott “CGH” Anderson as her greatest influences in her mastery of technical wrestling and the “business side of things”, Samu is also known for her high-flying antics, which she perfected by sparring with the likes of Teddy Hart.
More footage shows Samu lifting various titles and awards over her head from throughout her career.
Samu has been Tag Team and Women’s Champion in FCW, and held the World and Television Championships in NAWA. She was voted by NAWA fans as Best Face in 2005, and as having the Most Shocking Moment and Best Feud with Pandora in 2006.
I feel like my career has been great so far – very fulfilling – but there is still a lot left in me, and I don’t intend to sit back and let history claim me. I still want to make a dent in this business.
Next we see old photos and video clips of Rory Kotch as she grew up, “Beautiful People” by Marilyn Manson playing in the background.
“The Assassin” Rory Kotch comes from the other side of the Iron Curtain, where she started her career as an amateur wrestler. She left Russia to pursue her sport in Europe and North America, and fell into professional wrestling, immediately showing potential.
FCW footage again flashes across the screen, showing Kotch’s evolution in that promotion, including her as a member of the Wolfpack and CPR.
Like Samu, Kotch’s big break came in the FCW, where she was a notable member of many stables, and, as she is quick to point out proudly, the reason why they all collapsed.
Footage of Kotch in the ring plays, including wearing some titles and accepting an award.
Her 6 feet and 200 pounds of technical prowess make her a formidable opponent for both women and men. Kotch became the first female Tag Champion in FCW when she shared the title with Viper, and also held that promotion’s Women’s Championship. In NAWA, she and fellow Y Kores member Petrina Rotchester became the first female team to win a non-female Tag Team Championship, and in 2006 the wWo, of which Kotch was a member, was voted as Best Stable by the NAWA fans.
I have a passion for this business I never vould have guessed I vould have had vhen I started. It is my goal to make a name for myself in the vorld of pro-wrestlink. I vant to be referenced as vone of the influential people in the rink.
Finally, photos of a growing Rotchester hit the screen, and “Let Down” by Bif Naked is playing along.
“The Other Girl” Petrina Rotchester’s path to the wrestling ring was different from her stable mates’ altogether. After her family relocated Northern Ireland to Ontario, Canada, Rotchester found herself succeeding in the kickboxing ring. Her further advancement in that arena was halted by her refusal to give up her two loves, drinking beer and smoking, so she went out in search of someone to teach her how to be a professional wrestler. She found Rory Kotch and her husband, Xander Nova, who had just opened a wrestling school in Vancouver that specialized in teaching competitive fighters of all kinds how to make the switch to the pro-wrestling world.
Footage of Rotchester’s early WRF and NAWA days play.
Her strategy most days is to come at her opponent with fists flying, throwing in the odd high-risk manoeuvre and well placed chair shot, in order to shock him or her with her balls-to-the-walls style.
Footage of Rotchester’s antics plays, including a match with Emily Rutherford.
Besides sharing the boundary-breaking NAWA Tag Team Title Championship with Rory Kotch, Rotchester is also a self-proclaimed NAWA Television Champion.
With me fellow Y Kores ladies by me side, me future looks bright in this business. I’m finally able show all the folks out there what I’m capable of, and I have more fun doin’ this than any person should be allowed t’have.
Footage now shows of the various stare downs and matches shared by Samu and Kotch.
The ladies were not always pals. Samu and Kotch were at each other’s throats almost from the day Kotch debuted at FCW.
Footage shows Kotch and Rotchester having it out.
When they moved to NAWA, Rotchester got in Kotch’s hair there.
Footage of the three ladies’ entrance plays.
However, the ladies were driven together by one common denominator – the desire to break records and win titles. The three women don’t always agree, but they have learned to put the team first and have found great success as a trio.
“You Better Pray” by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus sounds and various clips of Y Kores competing and interacting with fans in SNW flashes across the screen, including several clips of Y Kores facing off against Age of SIN.
Now that Y Kores has been reunited in SNW, they face new challenges. The Age of SIN has recently been a thorn in the side of the trio since their reformation here. With that stable out of their way, Y Kores thought the path was clear for potential title contention in the singles or tag team categories. However, a new problem has immerged – The Sports Authority.
Various clips of the various combinations of Y Kores vs Sports Authority is shown, corresponding to the speech.
It all started on February 6th’s Guys Night Out when, due to the interference of their respective managers, Sports Authority’s “The Intellectual” Manny Saul and Y Kores’ “The Assassin” Rory Kotch were both disqualified in their match, causing a stable brawl to erupt.
Foolery rushed into the ring and smashed Kotch in the head with his clipboard. Not to be outdone, Nova grabbed Kotch's pipe and entered the ring, slugging Saul from behind with the pipe. The referee looked seriously confused, and called for the bell as all of a sudden Tony Manzetti and Vinny Appice ran down and start to beat down Kotch and Nova. The fans booed as Nova got hit with the Atlantic City Plunge by the CIA. As they set Kotch up for the same treatment, Adriana Samu and Petrina Rotchester quickly ran down the aisle to the ring carrying steel chairs, causing the Sports Authority to bolt out of the ring. Rotchester threw her chair at the quartet, but missed by about a foot as they scattered like cockroaches
I can’t tell you vhether or not I vould have von that match. My husband did vhat the had to do and the ref, in turn, did his job. But the damage vas done and the bad feelinks vere there after that night.
The following week, “Everyone’s Favourite Canadian Lady” Adriana Samu lost her match to Vinny Appice after Coach Tom Foolery threw a football at her head.
Coach Tom Foolery rared back and threw a perfect spiral, the football blasting Samu in the back of the head and knocking her off the top ropes and down onto the canvas.
Like, seriously. A football. How the ref didn’t see it I will never know. What a stupid way to lose a match though, eh? I always knew there was a reason I didn’t like football…
On February 20th at Saturday Night Onslaught, “The Other Girl” Petrina Rotchester had a chance at redemption against Tony Manzetti.
I wasn’ gonna let those incidents get me down. I could see that the Authority’s strategy was to win by any means necessary, so I took it to ‘eart.
Rotchester tried to go for a spear again but Manzetti moved and Rotchester stopped short in the corner. Manzetti charged in with a kick, but Rotchester ducked and got hung up on the turnbuckle. Rotchester quickly took advantage, hooking up Manzetti and spiking him with the Dublin DDT. She hooked the leg 1...2...3!
Ve started to realize that if these men could only beat us by cheatink, they must not be confident in the rink against us.
Rotchester tried her strategy the next week at Guy’s Night Out against Manny Saul once again.
The match turned in the favor of Saul when he was able to force a break of a Boston crab using the ropes. When Rotchester went to get him up, he thumbed her in the eye and temporarily blinded his opponent without the referee being able to see the maneuver. With Rotchester reeling, Saul was able to clinch her and slam her down to the mat with Intellectual Property. Saul hooked her leg, and one three count later he was announced the winner.
It was clear to us after that match that we could try to avoid their cheating, but in the end they would find a way. The only way to get the upper hand was to take away their advantage, and that meant we would have to stoop to their level.
With that in mind, Y Kores teamed up for the first time together against all members of the Sports Authority on March 6.
Coach Tom Foolery tried to climb onto the ring apron, only for Xander Nova to run around to his side of the ring and tackle Coach Tom Foolery off the apron, punching away at him on the ground. With the ref distracted, yelling at Nova to get off Foolery, Rory Kotch blasted Tony Manzetti with her pipe, then went for the cover. Nova got off Foolery, and referee Mike Croft turned around to see Kotch pinning Manzetti as Samu and Rotchester both knocked Saul and Appice out of the ring. The ref had forgotten who the legal teammates were and counted the 1-2-3 as the fans erupted with a huge pop for Y Kores.
It worked. We mapped out all the slimy thin’s they could do an’ we thought of a counter for ‘em all.
The only vay they can beat us is by cheatink and assumink that ve von’t do the same. Now that ve know that, they are not goink to get the upper hand on us again.
It’s not the first time we’ve had to set aside our scruples to win a match, and I’m sure it won’t be the last, especially with the rubber match coming up.
Footage of the aforementioned matches continues to play.
The last paragraph of this chapter has a plot twist, however. Due to the friendship between “The Excellent Gordie” Gordon Heath and Coach Tom Foolery, The Sports Authority were able to influence the SNW management to demand that Xander Nova, Y Kores’ manager, get back into the ring 15 years after suffering a career ending neck injury in order to team up with the ladies of Y Kores against Manny Saul, The CIA and Coach Tom Foolery.
We see Xander Nova speaking in Russian, with English subtitles translating.
It is unfair and uncalled for that I should be required to wrestle in this match. It is not safe for me to be in the ring, the doctors do not recommend it, and it is an abuse of powers to insist that the match go forward as planned. However, I will meet this challenge for the sake of the ladies, and I will put all of my skills, both in wrestling and in slyness, to work in order to give Y Kores the advantage in this match.
Although this match will essentially be a handicap match in The Sports Authority’s favour, The Canadian Lady, The Assassin, The Other Girl, and their manager are not worried.
Ve have them figured out. They can try to make the match lopsided if they like – it’s not goink to make a difference. Ve know their game, and ve are prepared to play it.
It’s quite simple, really. We’re in control an’ they know it – they’re tryin’ to pull aces outta their sleeves, but they don’t realize that we’ve got a pile of ‘em up our sleeves, too.
We might look like we’re the underdogs, certainly. I can’t tell you how many times any or all of us have been called the underdogs. But we always come out in the end. It’s going to be a hard match, of that I’m sure. But we will put to use everything Sports Authority has taught us about them and we will prevail.
On March 27, 2010 in Arlington, Texas, Y Kores will be facing Sports Authority one more time at SNW’s biggest show of the year. The stable that wins the match will be the stable that has the speed…
A shot of Samu flying from the turnbuckle with a Tornado Kick plays.
…the brawn…
Kotch man-handling an old opponent with an Iron Curtain is shown.
…the spunk…
The shot of Rotchester Dublin DDTing Manzetti replays.
…and the brains…
Xander Nova is again shown distracting the ref from the apron while Kotch nails Manzetti with her pipe.
…to take away the only advantage their opponent has over them. The Sports Authority will try every trick in their book, no doubt, but when they run out of tricks, it will be Y Kores who walks out of the ring at Wrestlstock II.
The final scene shows a silhouette of Y Kores raising each others’ hands in victory.
In very small, but still legible print, at the bottom of the screen, we can see the following:
Directed, produced, and paid for by Y Kores
The scene ends.
