The club was fun, it was all a blur because I had a lot of fun. That tends to happen a lot to me lately, weird. But there were some things about last night that I remember. I remember Mike and Alex talking and looking at me a lot. Then once Mike left the table to get something to drink or whatever Alex asked me to dance like that first night at a club. But what he asked midway through dancing kind of shocked me. You see that moment finally happened, the one that Mike told me was going to happen. Alex Riley had finally asked me out, just like I was waiting for. We arranged the date to be this weekend when we're in the next city, because with NXT tonight, and then leaving the next day we wouldn't have time.
The whole day I spent in my hotel room, but I also invited Mike and Alex, because I missed the Jersey Shore last week and I wanted to watch it on my computer. I hooked the computer to the Tv and played the latest episode.
"You know Mike, you should've been on the Jersey Shore, I can see you on it." I point out.
"Yeah, well I'd much rather be wrestling than on another reality show on Mtv."
After Jersey Shore, Alex and I go to the gym for him to work out before the show, but Mike wasn't coming out tonight, because he had to fly out to Asia real quick. So I was filling in for him. We got to the arena and did the usual stuff we do before the show. We watch backstage and see the promo for tonight's episode, then the opening of NXT, showing the rookies and pros. Then Jamie Keys the co-host starts talking, and announces the pros and rookies. Me and Alex rush to the curtain for him to come out.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your remaining NXT rookies."
First was Husky Harris, Kaval, Michael McGillicutty.
"Alex Riley, with Carly."
We walk out together and he was all pumped up and excited. I was standing next to him clapping and then walk down the ramp with him, and get into the ring with him. Next to come out was Percy Watson, doing his little dance which was hilarious. Matt Striker grabs a mic from one of the staff outside the ring to talk.
"Ladies and gentlemen, as you are aware, tonight we will have a double elimination. Which means that, by the end of tonight three of you will be one step closer to our season finale in two weeks and one step closer to becoming the WWE's next breakout star. But the pressure is on. So we'd like to give you an oppurtunity to speak your mind. We're going to give you one minute to talk about anything you want with the exception of why you should not be eliminated. So Showtime Percy Watson, why don't you step forward."
He steps forward doing that little dance again, that just gets funnier everytime.
"Tell me what your topic is."
" 3D."
"Topic is 3D, very interesting. Go right ahead, you got one minute. Go."
"Okay look here. Now I didn't say double d, because that would take a little long. You know
what I'm saying? A little more than a minute, you know what I'm saying? But yeah, 3D is this. The way I live my life. Desire, determination, and dedication. Desire, you got to know what you want. And you got to be dedicated to the crowd baby. You got to put the time in, you know what I'm saying. And you got to be able to go get it, and you better believe that Showtime Percy Watson has desire, determination, dedication to win season two NXT. You better believe that baby, you know what I'm saying!"
I stand there shaking my head, saying no. Percy does that little dance and says 'Oh yeah!', and hands the mic back to Matt.
"Thank you Showtime. Alex Riley, let's keep this moving. What's going to be your topic?" Matt
asks as I walk up with Alex and people are booing him.
"Really? Well this will help you guys out. My topic is Alex Riley. Now I know that my behavior this year on NXT might not of uh... come correct with the WWE Universe. And I can't help but thinking that maybe I made a mistake on the way I approached this contest on being ranked 5th tonight. I mean, maybe...maybe I shouldn't have picked on poor little Kaval all season. I mean he can barely even defend himself in real life. And maybe...maybe I shouldn't have thrown a rabbit's foot at a guy named Lucky Cannon, I mean that's a little disrespectful. And lucky if you're watching, don't worry about not having the job thing man. The world needs plenty of bartenders." Alex says smiling into the camera.
"And Matt, I definately shouldn't have called you a nerd on national television. Actually you know what? That was pretty funny actually, I don't regret that one." He adds laughing, which caused me to laugh.
"But what I'm trying to say here is, I guess what I'm trying to say is that if I didn't do these things, then I wouldn't be... I wouldn't be uh..." He trails off as the buzzer goes off signaling the end of a minute.
"Well I wouldn't be Alex Riley! You can..." he ends after hearing the buzzer and Matt taking the mic from him. I walk back with him into the line.
"Thank you Alex Riley. Michael McGillicutty, what's your topic?" Matt asks.
"My topic is, my competition behind me."
"Alright, you got one minute. Go."
"First of all, let's look at Percy Watson. I mean, I'm confused. Are you smiling, or are you scared? I think you're scared. No you're scared. Then take a look here, we have Kaval. The man that says it's not about the size of the dog in the fight, it's about the size that a fight that the dog brings on, duh duh. Have you ever seen a chiuaua in a fight? It's not good. We got Husky Harris. Sorry buddy, but I'm winning this thing. And then we have Alex Riley, the David Otunga of NXT two."
Alex just laughs at that comment, and I just roll my eyes.
"The guy talks a lot, but he can't wrestle for a lick. Ladies and gentlemen, you're looking at the winner of NXT. You're looking at the most talented rookie in this competition. And you're looking at a future WWE Heavyweight Champion." he finishes as the buzzer then goes off.
I say to myself yeah right to that WWE Heavyweight Champion remark.
"Kaval, please step forward. What's your topic?" Matt asks Kaval.
"Hey man, I'm just going to have some fun tonight. The topic is going to be NXT. Alright, behind every great man is a great, great woman. The problem for them is I got two of them. No offense Riley, but your girl isn't even wrestling like mine are."
"Oh he did not just go there." I say outloud.
"It's alright, don't do anything." Alex says holding me back.
"You're supposed to be chosen huh? The pick of the litter except, I'm going to be the hottest trending topic running twitter. Go get em', boy is set." He says to McGillicutty.
"I'm going to go far, because what I do is leaving people standing in awe. Showtime you're too kind. Riley, you just whine and Joe...I mean Michael. You'll be a star in time, but Husky's breaking molds and breaking all labels. But what he breaks best are called buffet tables."
I crack up laughing.
"So go ahead, call me rookie, find out what I'm packing. Because I'm the only reason, for some total nonstop action." and with that hands the mic to Matt.
"Whoa! Husky Harris, you got one minute big boy. What's your..." Husky takes the mic away.
"Cowboy boots. You see cowboy boots. If you grew up in the south like I did, well then you know that if you don't have a pair of cowboy boots, you just aren't tough. Naturally for me, I always had a pair of cowboy boots. You see these pair of cowboy boots right here? Check it out, get a nice little close up. These were Barry Windham's championship cowboy boots. When I put these on, I turn into something different. I turn into a monster. I turn into the army tank with the ferrari engine. And you may know this, you may not know this, but the devil wears cowboy boots. What a coincidence, so do I." Then he hands the mic back to Matt.
"Okay, we've heard from the rookies. Actually there's one thing I failed to mention to you guys. You know we're having a double elimination tonight right? We're going to have our first elimination right now actually."
Oh crap.
"Just so you know many of the wwe superstars are out on a blockbuster tour of Asia, but they have sent in their absentee ballots. So in conjunction with you the WWE Universe, you've been voting all week on WWE dot com. Let's find out who will be eliminated."
We all look up at the titantron to see who will be the first person going home. Please not Alex, please not Alex, please not Alex. The buzzer sounds as Percy Watson is shown as eliminated. Ha ha yes!
"Ohhh. Percy, man. You know what? Why don't you take this time to address the universe, address the pros, show's yours man." Matt says handing the mic to Percy.
"Well first of all, I'd like to thank all of you out there in the WWE Universe for your support, you know what I'm saying. For all your votes, for Showtime Percy Watson baby. You know what I'm saying. Thank you very much, oh yeah! And secondly, I want to thank my man right here. My pro, my mentor, Mr. MVP. I've learned so much from that man and I really appreciate it. The hardest working man in the business right there man. Hey you know I can't be angry, I can't be bitter, because I have worked hard each and everyday of my life to get to where I am. And I'm going to continue to do so. So I guess now I'm just going to take this time to evaluate myself and continue to get better. But I tell you what, Showtime Percy Watson is going to continue to have fun, he's going to continue to have a good time baby. You know what I'm saying, because you best believe that if you got that dime, I got the good time. Let me hear you one more time, let me hear you say it baby. Uh, uh, uh oh yeah! Thank you all."
I clap.
"One more time for Showtime Percy Watson! Let's not forget we got one more elimination coming later on tonight! Who's going to be the WWE's next breakout star?"
The camera pans on each of our faces and you can hear Alex talking.
"Take a walk, take a walk."
Then they all confront Percy as it goes to commercial break.
