The Gospels of Hardy: Book One Chapter One
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:35 pm
Jeff Hardy a name that comes to mind whenever you talk about extreme matches in the wrestling industry. A name that can be identified with doing whatever it takes to secure a victory or doing whatever it takes to put on a show for the fans in attendance or sitting at home. Though this time it won't be about going to the extreme. It will be about survival. Surviving and outlasting 29 other superstars to claim the EBWF World Championship. For the first time ever the EBWF World title will be on the line in the 30-man Royal Rumble match. 30 of the top superstars in EBWF all vying for a shot at greatness. Nothing is guaranteed this year. No one is guaranteed a shot at Wrestlemania. This is for everything. This match is for the richest prize in the business and there is only one man who will be taking that shot and it is JEFF HARDY!
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The scene fades in on a dak room. Not much can be seen but a small chuckle can be heard coming from the darkness. The camera tries to focus on it before a green spotlight shines down in the middle of the room. Stepping from out of the shadows is a man in a hooded cloak. His arms raise up and he lowers the hood revealing himself to be none other then Jeff Hardy who is making his return to EBWF in the Royal Rumble match. Jeff gives a little smile before looking to the camera.
Jeff Hardy: It has been two years since I was last here in EBWF. I had a few issues in my last run but that didn't stop me from securing the Breakout Championship for the first time in my career. Now I have made my way back and I only have one goal in mind at the moment and that is to win the EBWF Royal Rumble and take the EBWF World Championship home with me. I am a man who has been known to defy the odds, take things to the limit and sometimes even go over those limits in order to get what I want. This Royal Rumble match will be no different. I will do whatever it takes to win but the key here is not going all out just to win a match. It is going all out in order to survive. In order to outlast 29 other men to take the top prize in EBWF. This just a fair warning to all of you that I am stepping into that ring with. I will be the only survivor, I will be the last man standing and I /WILL/ be the EBWF World Champion!
Jeff gave off a small chuckle. His hands pushing his hair back just a little bit his eyes staying focused on the camera and looking around every once in a while.
Jeff Hardy: You see things are different now for me. I have nothing to lose and everything to gain in this match. I will take this opportunity I have been given and I will walk out as a winner. I was given the number 17 and I am ready and willing to wait it out and take on the 13 other men who will enter the ring after me. I am willing to give it everything I have to toss them all over the top rope. I am not a force to be taken lightly and most people know that. I have done everything to get where I am today and I will continue to do so until I take my final breath. I am the man who needs no deserves to be the EBWF World Champion. I am the savior that this company has been looking for and I will bring retribution and redemption to EBWF and the World title. The former champion did a commendable thing. He knew that taking a Wrestlemania moment from someone was wrong and he vacanted the title to give other people a shot. CM Punk the two of us have never really seen eye to eye but I applaud you for what you did. And I am sure I will see you in the future. What he did was an act of selflessness and that is something that any people need to learn. To be a man willing to give up the World title cause he felt he didn't deserve it is an amazing thing. Now I will be the one to move forward and take the title. I will be the one to walk and stand here in the company as the visionary champion. Some may say the next CM Punk but no I will be the one and only Jeff Hardy!
Jeff kept his eyes on the camera. He was focused and ready to prove to the EBWF Universe that he was going to be the champion that they deserved to have.
Jeff Hardy: Through my career I have been known by many names. Jeff Hardy, Brother Nero, The evil and maniacal Willow the Wisp. The comedic Itchweed. The self proclaimed Anti-Christ of Professional Wrestling. I am here to tell you that I am all of those things but now I am something much more. I am a prophet. I am the prophet that will bring forth the utopia here in EBWF. We are at a cross roads here. No World Champion means there is no leader. There is no one for the locker room to look up to and model themselves after or not after depending on the superstar. At the Royal Rumble I will become that leader it says so in the gospels that I have been compelled to write down and teach by a higher power. Though my journey here has been a rough one filled with failures and mishaps I am ready to accept them and to accept this higher power who has pointed me on the correct path. The path to the World title. The path to the top and the path that will take me to Wrestlemania!
Reaching into the sleeve of his pocket Jeff pulled out a leather bound book. He held it up and flipped through the pages before finding the right page as he read.
Jeff Hardy: I have walked with angels, I have walked with demons. I have fought men and I have fought monsters. I am not afraid of Monsters among men, people claiming to be the best, a-listers, or phenomenal ones. I have danced with the devil himself and walked away unharmed. I have been in the presence of the holy one himself and looked him dead in the eyes. I have been on the brink of death and I have lived on the edge of life. I am Jeff /FUCKING/ Hardy and there is not a damn thing in this world that I cannot do. I have taken out dreams, I have destroyed nightmares from the swamp. There is not a man, monster, demon, or god who can stand face to face with me and back me down. I do not stray from a fight. I have no fight or flight reflex because it is always fight. It is fight with everything I have until I am battered and bruised and then I fight even more. I do not fear the unknown because I am the unknown. No one knows what I will and I am unpredictable. I call myself a wild card and I will make sure that the Royal Rumble is my stage to shine. You 29 other men want to fight then bring it on. I do not care who I have to stare down in the end because I am the rightful winner of this match. I am the future of this company and I will be the man around here.
Jeff looked through the book again, flipping through the pages before stopping and looking to the camera once again.
Jeff Hardy: Do not mistake my confidence for disrespect because I respect every single one of my opponents in this match but they do not have why I have. I have the power of the divine power behind me and thou shalt not fail him. I have worshiped false ideals before and have been punished for it before but now the truth is here. Now I am where I belong and my loyalty is going to take me to the top. The fact of the matter is I am the man that you all want to be. I am the ultimate comeback story rebounding from a life of substance abuse to be here with you know. I have found a holy spirit to walk with me on this journey we call life and that spirit has shown me the truth. It has shown me that when the dust all settles there will only be one man left standing. There will be no one that can stop that man and that man will be Jeff Hardy. The future is here and now. I will put the past where it belongs and take EBWF into the future with my World title win. To my opponents I hope you are ready because at the end of the night the championship is mine and the rest of you will fall like the titans when the mighty Zeus struck them down. Like the Germans in World War II and those are the gospels according to HARDY!!!!
Jeff smirked and placed the book back in his sleeve. Placing the hood back over his head. His arms would come up and the light would immediately turn off. The camera tried to focus and in the moment the lights would return but there would be only an empty room. The camera looking everywhere before finally fading away.