Me: Thanks man I appreciate the tip, so its Edge then huh, anyway good to
see you. You too Christian, Chris, and Lance.
We all exchanged pleasantries and they told me where to find Vince, and JR for my meeting. I thanked them and I was on my way.
2:15 P.M.- I stood outside the room that would serve as Vince's office for Television tonight, for about fifteen minutes waiting for him and Good ol' J.R. to be ready to meet with me. Finally Jim opened the door and invited me in, Vince asked me take a seat and of course I did.
Vince: Maven, you're looking great, and I am hearing good things about your last few weeks in OVW. Jim said tonight should be the night, and after seeing you and seeing how ready you look, I couldn't agree more. Tonight you join our active roster, and you take your place in the superstar's locker room. I am now giving what some of the guys refer to as the upward mobility speech.
I just kind of nodded along at the appropriate spots so far.
Vince: If you work hard, you do as I say, you do what's good for the company and what's good for your story lines, You bust your ass, you show up on time, and you always impress, you'll only move up in this business. Tonight you work against RVD, he can make anybody look good, but I ask you not to just let him make you look good, make yourself look good, take some of the work load off of him. Jim, he's all yours.
J.R.: Maven it's great to see you working so hard and moving up to the show already. Your match tonight took a lot of planning, at first we decided you should work heel, but we also figured anybody who watched tough enough wouldn't buy that just yet. So we came up with something else. Al Snow will be in your corner and he will be working heel. He wants you to win your first match at all costs, he'll cheat, he'll distract the ref., and he'll even attack Rob when he gets the chance. Close to the end of the match, your ganna take Al out with the chair, later citing your need to win on your own, when you turn around though, Rob will capitalize on your distraction and hit you with the Van Daminator to win. Afterwards though he's going to help you up and you and him will leave together holding each other's arms in the air, as a sign of respect.
Maven: I like the way this all sounds will this lead to a full feud or is it just a one-shot, leading to something completely different later?
J.R.: On Smackdown you and Rob will team together against Al Snow and Tazz, Tazz turning on Al at the end of the match and leaving. His explanation being that you showed true talent and heart, standing up for yourself and trying to win on your own. This should all culminate in a match at No Way Out between you and AL and maybe a short Hard-core title feud between you and him all next month up to Wrestlemania.
Maven: Well this all sounds great, what do I do now?
J.R.: Al and Rob are meeting at 3:30 to discuss the match, they said for you to meet them in the gorilla position, you know where that is from your previous appearances. Good luck tonight kid, show us and them what you got.
3:30- Al and Rob were that at exactly 3:30 on the dot, ready to map this match out. We came up with some great spots; my favorite being a spot where Rob double clotheslines Al and me over the top rope, and I, supposedly dazed, drop kick Al over the barrier before returning to the ring. The ending was booked perfectly, in my eyes, Al and Rob worked this out brilliantly. Al would swing the chair at Rob hitting Tim white, the ref., with it instead, knocking him out. I grab the chair from Al and blast him with it, when I turn around Bam! Van Daminator! Rob rolls Al and the chair out of the ring, and revives the ref., 1..2..3. And it's over.
We all exchanged pleasantries and they told me where to find Vince, and JR for my meeting. I thanked them and I was on my way.
2:15 P.M.- I stood outside the room that would serve as Vince's office for Television tonight, for about fifteen minutes waiting for him and Good ol' J.R. to be ready to meet with me. Finally Jim opened the door and invited me in, Vince asked me take a seat and of course I did.
Vince: Maven, you're looking great, and I am hearing good things about your last few weeks in OVW. Jim said tonight should be the night, and after seeing you and seeing how ready you look, I couldn't agree more. Tonight you join our active roster, and you take your place in the superstar's locker room. I am now giving what some of the guys refer to as the upward mobility speech.
I just kind of nodded along at the appropriate spots so far.
Vince: If you work hard, you do as I say, you do what's good for the company and what's good for your story lines, You bust your ass, you show up on time, and you always impress, you'll only move up in this business. Tonight you work against RVD, he can make anybody look good, but I ask you not to just let him make you look good, make yourself look good, take some of the work load off of him. Jim, he's all yours.
J.R.: Maven it's great to see you working so hard and moving up to the show already. Your match tonight took a lot of planning, at first we decided you should work heel, but we also figured anybody who watched tough enough wouldn't buy that just yet. So we came up with something else. Al Snow will be in your corner and he will be working heel. He wants you to win your first match at all costs, he'll cheat, he'll distract the ref., and he'll even attack Rob when he gets the chance. Close to the end of the match, your ganna take Al out with the chair, later citing your need to win on your own, when you turn around though, Rob will capitalize on your distraction and hit you with the Van Daminator to win. Afterwards though he's going to help you up and you and him will leave together holding each other's arms in the air, as a sign of respect.
Maven: I like the way this all sounds will this lead to a full feud or is it just a one-shot, leading to something completely different later?
J.R.: On Smackdown you and Rob will team together against Al Snow and Tazz, Tazz turning on Al at the end of the match and leaving. His explanation being that you showed true talent and heart, standing up for yourself and trying to win on your own. This should all culminate in a match at No Way Out between you and AL and maybe a short Hard-core title feud between you and him all next month up to Wrestlemania.
Maven: Well this all sounds great, what do I do now?
J.R.: Al and Rob are meeting at 3:30 to discuss the match, they said for you to meet them in the gorilla position, you know where that is from your previous appearances. Good luck tonight kid, show us and them what you got.
3:30- Al and Rob were that at exactly 3:30 on the dot, ready to map this match out. We came up with some great spots; my favorite being a spot where Rob double clotheslines Al and me over the top rope, and I, supposedly dazed, drop kick Al over the barrier before returning to the ring. The ending was booked perfectly, in my eyes, Al and Rob worked this out brilliantly. Al would swing the chair at Rob hitting Tim white, the ref., with it instead, knocking him out. I grab the chair from Al and blast him with it, when I turn around Bam! Van Daminator! Rob rolls Al and the chair out of the ring, and revives the ref., 1..2..3. And it's over.