vs. Jacob Laymon

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Off Camera

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We open in a hotel room in Detroit, Michigan.  The room was huge and didn't look like a hotel room at all, more like a guest suite.  The bed was king-sized with pure white sheets.  There was a desk, a thirty-six-inch TV with video and DVD, a sprawling leather sofa, and floor-to-ceiling windows.   It isn’t long before Jessica Jones emerges from the bathroom.  She is wearing black denim jeans and a black “Archangel Jessica Jones” t-shirt.  Her long red hair hangs unrestrained to shoulder length.  This young woman, better known in the pro-wrestling world as The Archangel, is carrying an Apple iPad in her hand as she walks over to the king size bed. Jones hops up onto the bed and flips her iPad open.  She begins pressing a few buttons, until Face Time pulls up.  Jones waits patiently until a familiar face emerges on the screen…

…her mother and MCW legend, former MCW World Champion Angelica Jones.

“Hi mom,” Jessica says as she forces a polite smile onto her lovely face “how are you?”

“I’m fine, Jess, but I have to say this was kind of a surprise.  I haven’t heard from you in a while.”

Jessica sighs. “I’ve been busy.”

“Always cryptic, just like your father.”

Jessica rolls her eyes. “I get it honestly, mom. Besides, you’ve been known to be cryptic yourself in the past.”

“Not as much as your father.  I never could get any straight answers out of that man.”

“You just have to know how to read him, mom.  That’s all.”

Angelica frowns. “Like you know how to read him?”

Jessica shakes her head. “No, I don’t know how to read him.”

Angelica laughs. “So tell me, Jess, where are you anyway?”

“My hotel room in Detroit.”

“Why would you be in Detroi…” Angelica’s voice fades off as she ponders the question, then her face lights up as the light bulb goes off in her head “…oh yeah, you’re in MCW now, aren’t you?”

Jessica nods her head. “That’s right, and that’s why I called.  I need some advice against an acquaintance of yours.”

“Oh?”

“Jacob Laymon.”

Angelica nods her head with a serious gaze etched across her face.  She recalls her time in MCW and her dealings with Jacob Laymon.  She was a three time MCW World Champion during Jacob’s run as the owner of the company but rarely were things smooth and easy going for them.  They fought before, verbally and even physically.  There was even an instance of Jacob playing a role in Angelica being hospitalized.  If anyone knows about how dangerous Jacob Laymon can be, it is Angelica Jones.

“What do you need to know about Laymon?”

“Anything you can tell me, mom.  He’s my next opponent on Mayhem.  I expect a tough challenge.”

Angelica sighs and nods her head. “Yeah, it will be a tough challenge.  One word to describe Jacob is cerebral.  He is a thinking man’s wrestler and he will try to outwit you.”

“What can I do to fight against him?”

“First of all you are faster than him, plus he has aged a great deal since he was last in the ring.  Use that to your advantage.  And while he is a good technical wrestler, I would dare say you are much better.  You’ve received training from three of the best technical wrestlers I know…Glory Braddock, Randal Williams, and of course your father Andreas Lasiewicz.”

“So you think going hold for hold with him is a good move?”

Angelica nods her head. “I think you can go hold for hold with him, yes.”

“Anything else I should know?”

“Just know that Jacob Laymon is dangerous and will do whatever it takes to win.”

Jessica smirks knowingly. “Good, because I will do whatever it takes to beat him.”

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Promo

On Camera

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Jacob Laymon, the name is legendary within the annals of Motor City Wrestling.  Never let it be said that The Archangel does not give credit where credit is due.  The fact is Jacob Laymon more so than the fraud that came before him helped build up MCW to what it was and kept it alive for so long.  You did well for yourself and for professional wrestling based upon your work with MCW and for that I do applaud you.

Now you’re back, not as the executive but as the competitor, trying to become world champion once more…

…but things didn’t work out in your favor.  You lost to Trinity Street and lost your chance to be in the Purgatory main event against Rayne Young.

That must really hurt, especially considering the trash talk you threw his way about how he doesn’t have it in him anymore, how he’s through, how he’s done.  Fact is, Jacob, you’ve been around the pro-wrestling world for quite awhile yourself.    I remember matches you had against my mother, MCW Hall of Famer Angelica Jones, and her cousin, also a former MCW World Champion Glory Braddock.  I was still a child when you were feuding with them.

I’m all grown up now, Laymon.  Time has done well by me, giving me experience, knowledge, skills, and ability that I learned from my mother, my father, and my entire family.  You claim time hasn’t done well by Rayne Young, and while he may not be a saint by any stretch of the imagination, let us be completely fair here and ask the same question of you…

…has time been fair to you?

Trinity defeated you, Jacob.  She defeated you and took you out of the world title picture.

Now granted that was just one loss, and it was one loss to a spectacular competitor, but a loss is a loss and you now have to consider the possibility of adding yet another loss to your record.

If I lose it doesn’t hurt me.  I’m no legend yet, I’m no icon, I’m just an Archangel trying to do right by professional wrestling.  I’m still learning and still growing, still honing my craft.  Being defeated by the likes of the great Jacob Laymon would be no surprise to anyone.

But if you lose a second straight match, this time to “The Archangel” Jessica Jones, the spotlight will then be shining on you and not in the way you wanted it.  No longer will people be questing if Rayne Young still has it, but they’ll be questioning if you still have it.

I can see into your soul, Jacob.  For you this isn’t about redeeming MCW or bringing it back to glory.  That isn’t to say you don’t care about MCW, because I’m sure you do.  But you do have something more important than that on your mind.  This is about your own personal glory, proving that you still have it, and the ultimate proof of that is the MCW World Championship.

That’s where I come in, isn’t it?  At least as far as you’re concerned.  To you, I’m just a means to an end; a way of proving that last Mayhem was just a fluke and that you still have what it takes to be a contender.

Your reality is that I am no stepping stone and last Mayhem was no fluke.  I am The Archangel and while I know that deep down you’d rather be focusing on the world title situation, I am hereby warning you that I am not someone you should be looking past.  You’re taking a dangerous gamble if you choose to look past me, Jacob, because I will tear you apart.

Come and place your bets…