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Candid Clay Krueger Interview; [Clay Krueger]
Topic Started: Jul 29 2010, 02:58 PM (43 Views)
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Jonathan Hitchen is sat in something of a makeshift interview set. A desk and chair have been pushed aside into in the far corner of the room to make way for a comfortable sofa and matching single chair separated only by a round glass coffee table. The table has two cups of steaming coffee on it. Hitch is checking over some notes as a door opens, footsteps are head and a pair of legs limp past the camera, a shiny World Tag Team Championship belt dangles alongside the right leg. We pan out to reveal that it belongs to none other than Clay ‘Chainsaw Krueger. Clay walks to the table, Hitch looks up and sees him coming. He then stands up before offering his hand. Krueger looks down at his hand, he switches the belt over to his left and then extends his hand and shakes. Hitchen sits down and offers Clay a place on the sofa, which he takes with a surprising lack of expression on his face.

Hitch: “Have a seat, Clay.”

Clay: “Don’t mind if I do.”

Both the Sophisticated Sniper and the commentator make themselves comfortable in their chairs. Alongside Hitchen’s notes on the desk lies a single piece of paper, which he picks up and looks over before handing it to Clay.

Clay: “What's this?”

Hitch: “It’s a document given to me by Mr. Tanaka, it contains the matches listed for this week’s ReVolt card just in case you haven’t had chance to see it while you were being treated in the medical bay by Jim McCoy and his team. Do you know what match you’re in?”

Clay’s eyes scan over the match listing and locates his own, he raises his eyebrows and then offers it back to Hitchen. Jonathan reaches out for it and like a petulant school boy, Clay shifts it away from his grasp. With a smirk adorning his face, Clay scrunches it up and tosses it over Hitchen’s head.

Hitch: “We must begin by talking about your match at Summer of Sin…”

Clay sighs.

Clay: Must we?”

Hitch: “Of course! Clay, you have promoted this as a ‘Candid’ offering and now it sounds like you’re dodging the difficult questions. I’m afraid you can’t move the goalposts so late in the game.”

Krueger shoots Hitchen a stern glare. To be honest that could mean anything from ‘Clay doesn’t want to talk’ to ‘ask better questions’.

Hitch: “So let’s start with your health. Earlier this week you were under the care of Dr. Jim McCoy, Seras Silver and other medical staff. What is your injury status?”

Clay: “I have a fractured wrist, concussion and my eye sockets are on the brink of caving in. I lost litres of blood from an open wound on my head. Yet I stand and I will be back in the ring just seven days later. Say what you like about me but I don’t lay down for long, I don’t play the sympathy card and beg off fighting people because I’m hurt. My name is Clay Krueger and I’m legit.”

Summer of Sin was the home of a fair few injuries, surely the most brutal and health-damaging pay-per-view to affect the FIW roster for some time.

Clay: “A normal man would be out of action for months, me… I’m back in the ring this week as part of this dangerous six-man tag match you just informed me of. Lucky for me I'm a natural leader and those other two boys will just fall in line. Terry Cane twists an ankle and he demands to be left off the shows, Rurik Krychek has internal bleeding and he could be on the shelf for months. Chris Cage is still wandering around here unable to wrestle.”

Hitch: “Your injuries were of course caused by a match with the ‘Milehigh Madman’ Drake Love and for several moments following the match it appeared that he had indeed lived up to his ‘Career Killer’ moniker as you were left unconscious in a pool of your own blood. Can you remember the match and what are your thoughts on how it went?”

Clay: “You saw it. It is what it is. Drake Love pounded on me without relent for about 25 minutes of a 30 minute match. He’s a tough guy, no doubt. You won’t get me to sit here and deny him respect but I won’t kiss his ass either. Everybody knows what happened and I’m not proud, nor am I ashamed.”

He eyes up the cup of coffee that has been prepared for him, although he hesitates in picking it up.

Clay: “But you know, I’d like to apologise to my adoring fan base here on FIW.com (*cheap pop*) for my severe beating suffered at this annual tradition known as Summer of Sin. All I have to say for myself is… the money is good. Quite good.”

Clay gives a cheesy grin and a THUMBS UP! I guess he’s not through ‘borrowing’ phrases from famous wrestlers.

Hitch: “Would you consider the match to give credibility to the claim by Drake Love that you are a tag team specialist and nothing more?”

Clay: “Maybe that’s true. Maybe Summer of Sin and Drake Love proved what he said was true. Maybe I am a tag team wrestler who will never achieve success in the singles ranks. I suppose I should be on my knees praying to the Lord that he provides me with a careers’ worth of good tag team partners.”

Krueger reaches out with his right hand for the cup of coffee, a move he has been building up to but he draws back as the pain from his fractured wrist kicks in. He retracts and reaches out with the other hand.

Hitch: “While you took on Drake Love at Summer of Sin, your Tag Team Championship partner Keith Williams competed for the Dual Crown Championship and didn’t have a very positive outcome.”

Clay: “Are you trying to stir up trouble? Keith is one half of the best tag team in this entire world and a man I look up to, to boot. Keith deserved a one-on-one rematch, not some crapshoot Roll The Dice affair with two other guys looking to dethrone the Cyclops. Neither myself or Keith are happy about the outcome, as far as we’re concerned Pyotr Sadovsky has had his multiple chances before and failed. Ash Koopa was sat at home on his ass when the ‘Hollywood Playboy’ was racking up great performance after great performance. Keith deserves a one-on-one title shot and we all know it. Peers, fans and the people backstage here. Now the rumour is Koopa will get the singular opportunity. It’s a slap in the face to the entire Hollywood Chainsaw Massacre unit!”

Hitch: “Keith has now elected to take some time off as reported on FIW.com, Williams is going through a contract dispute and has decided to step away while it is resolved. Forgive me, but doesn’t that leave you in a poor position?”

Krueger recognises the stirring nature of the question and pauses for a moment before responding.

Clay: “Keith’s got issues with management and I support him through all of his problems, as he did me while I was struggling through the grief of losing our Tag Titles. He feels that he was placed in the match for his name alone to sell tickets and he’s right. All that momentum he built, lost in the shuffle of a four-way melee. Going back to S-Neo upsetting us for the belts, it seems like the management want to try new things and take advantage of the name value of Hollywood Chainsaw Massacre to do it. Then when thinks turn sour, like Snake getting injured, they go back to the tried and tested success of HCM. Keith is taking a little time to cool off and regroup, whether that’s a month or just week I will stand beside him. HCM are 4-Life.”

He even adds a famous ‘four finger’ gesture, which the marks and sure to shit all over. He doesn’t care though, Clay loves to whip up controversy and get people talking about Hollywood Chainsaw Massacre.

Hitch: “Are you concerned that a lengthy absence by Keith will mean that the FIW President strips you of the Tag Team Championships?”

Clay: “I don’t want to lose this belt for the second time. You have no idea how difficult it was for me to watch Snake or Neo walk around with my title for a month, every day I felt a void that only was filled when I pinned Snake to regain them for the team. I’d hate to see all we have built up tore down by an administration decision but if so, so be it. When Keith is ready to return, we’ll be focused to get them back and prove once again we are the best tag team in professional wrestling today.”

Hitch: “This has somewhat jeopardised his reported match with Drake Love, who must feel like he earned a crack at Williams by defeating you and now probably feels cheated that Williams is on hiatus.”

Clay scoffs.

Clay: “Yes, Hitchen. What Drake Love wants is top of my priority list. I told Keith this and I’ll tell you, he should look after himself first and foremost. You know, I’ll admit that it’d be a shame not to see Keith put ol’ Drake in his place after what he did to me… but life goes on. He’ll survive. I’ve pitched a lucrative match to the booking staff for ReVolt Against The Champions involving myself and Drake Love, so we’ll see if they bite. I won’t hold my breath though, could end tragically.”

Hitch: “Is it fair to say you have your own issues with management? Sounds like it.”

Clay: “Perhaps. My issues are rather less complex and less spoken about than that of Keith, though. I sometimes feel less of a professional athlete and more of a commodity to the suits in charge. A commodity who is about to get pushed down the card and thus earn less money if the dirt sheets are correct in the story of Ethan Adams returning to FIW. I work my ass off every single week no matter what match I’m in or opponent I have to face, yet somebody who sat at home for months like Ash Koopa or somebody who was flitting in the FSC contendership a few weeks ago like Sadovsky or this Ethan Adams come in and Clay Krueger gets bumped further down into the midcard. Look at Krueger, Neo Carner and Max Rowley. We fight tooth and nail for everything we have and yet it’s others who benefit from favouritism. HCM should be on top every week but I guess tag teams don’t sit atop the card most weeks. I’m more likely to be jerking the curtain next week than taking on somebody in a notable match. Maybe I want to distance myself from those that I have battled -- Drake Love and the likes of Neo Carner or Rurik Krychek but I expect Tanaka won’t let me. In fact, it wouldn’t shock me to see me paired with one, two or hell even all three of them soon. I say time for new blood to rise and face me. Bring me Mike Harrison, Tursas and Bo-Jack.”

Time to change tact and a delay ensues as Clay swigs some of the coffee provided by the FIW support staff. His face turns sour as he tastes it and he hurriedly returns the mug to the table. Clay reaches into his pocket to pull out a small plastic bottle of Popsi to clear the horrid taste.

Clay: “Hundreds of people on staff and nobody could make a Starbucks run? Christ, what is happening around here???”

Hitch: “Back to matters of the squared circle. There appears to be tag teams coming out of the woodwork and talking about Tag Team Title shots. The Bad Girls have mentioned it, now Havok and Jenny Chennault could develop into a regular partnership…”

… or they will if Havok has his way :)

Clay: “Bring them on. Bad Girls seen to have new members or maybe old members. It’s Blink and Catherine, Catherine’s dead to Stratfield steps in. Now there’s talk of Roxie Galanoochie and Catherine’s alive again. Bitch! I went down that ramp out here and stood for her ten bell salute. I want my ten seconds back! Because of them, Lara is at home recovering from being defeated by them at Summer of Sin. And Havok is talking about my belts??? I thought he was sound as a pound! A bit of all right! He’s just like all the others. Selfish. But as I said, if you want to challenge then HCM will be happy to accept when we are back at full strength.

Hitch: “You saw your match for this week’s ReVolt offering, thoughts?”

Clay: “Oh, I can’t wait! Teaming with the worst Brotherhood member and a man I put out of action. Makes sense. I’ve not even heard of three people in this match (decide yourselves which three). But I ain’t booking shit. The worst thing is that suddenly Quincy and Shaun Wilson have rocked back up after I took them out! They spend six months at home and recover, now they come back. Have they no shame??? Well I say this, if either one of them gets in my way then I will put them back into retirement. In fact, if either one of them utters my name JUST ONCE then I will go out to that ring and call them out. Fact.”

Clay is not a happy bunny, he has a look of thunder on his face and he curses the Wilson name under his breath.

Clay: “Speaking of two wrongs not making a right, I must thank Neo Carner for making my Monday following Summer of Sin the day before a little better with the news that he got Rebecca Hunter up the duff. Actually, what is a duff? Is it a cross between a duck and a puff? A gay mallard, one might say. Rest assured that the reporter assigned to the task is well on with the case, Buckminster from the Wrestling Obtrusive website is a very good friend of mine and he smells a big story. He did mention to me that he will be interviewing Neo very soon to find out what he knows but he already has some evidence to present. But that’s just what I hear…”

Hitch: “You’ve always felt that you are the recipient of a lack of respect in FIW. Is that still the case?”

Clay: “Did things suddenly change around here and I didn’t get informed?! Of course I’m still not being respected! Case and point, last Sunday I was carted off backstage and I only regained consciousness during the Undisputed International Championship match. By the time I was able to get to my feet and stagger through the backstage area to the medical bay, I came across Neo Carner having a photoshoot with his new belt. He looked down at me, the blood caked on my face and upper body. He smirked at the sight of my battered body amid the flashes of photographers’ cameras and he called me over. He leaned towards me and whispered in my ear, he said “You know, you’re still a pussy. So what if you’ve got an iron jaw. That’s all you are.” Even in my pain, he managed to turn what I thought was a good showing of my toughness into another little insult. A cheap little jab at the broken man. And if things couldn't possibly get any worse, I get word at my annual appraisal that the higher-ups think that I don’t ‘talk about psychiatry enough’… I just went through 5 stages of grief last month! What more do they want?!”

Clay stands and makes a fist in his frustration, he then realises that poor Hitchen hasn’t really done anything to warrant getting his ass kicked. Krueger sits back down in his chair and speaking through gritted teeth.

Clay: “You know Hitchen, I’m not greedy for money or titles but I am greedy for respect.”

Hitch: “Wrapping this interview up, what does the future hold for Clay ‘Chainsaw’ Krueger?”

Pause. Krueger is deep in thought.

Clay: “All I want is not to be cannon fodder, not just a name to elevate others. I should be in receipt of more recognition but don’t get me wrong, I’m not interested in gold other than what it around my waist right now and the eventual Dual Crown Championship. I’ve given it some thought, as it happens. On, 5th of December 2010, on the night of Violence Fetish I will have performed for this company for one year. On that night I will emerge victorious from the Condemned Fetish and I will earn myself a Dual Crown opportunity. Anything that happens before then, is just progress.”

Interview over. Fade.
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