Monroe: Well, wrestling fans, tonight sure looks like being am exciting night! First we have the hardcore title on the line, and we close the night with a six-man tag match, The Bastardo family vs. Grimm, Sammitch and a mystery competitor...
Marcum: Grimm and Sammitch have no chance! The Bastardos are champs!
Monroe: Maybe, maybe not. But tonight also sees a battle between some very promising newcomers. Mexican tag team Los Monstrous Azules will face up-and-coming British Star Charlie in a one on two hardcore handicap match, which Charlie himself requested!
Fat Retard: SLOBBERNOCKER!
LL: Do you think the mexicans would agree to a threesome
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Monroe: After Charlie's surprise defeat of Nowhereman last week, he agreed to an interview with me in his home, in which he talked about his background and his plans for the future.
The interview comes up on the cheese-o-tron, and the crowd falls silentMonroe: Charlie, thanks for agreeing to the interview
Charlie: Hey, no problem. I figure people deserve to know about my past, and what the hell, this sounds like fun.
Monroe: So, how'd you get started out in wrestling.
Charlie: Well, it's a long story. Over in England wrestling never really caught on like it did in the states, and there's not very many big promotions. I started out on the only big one there was north of London, Northern Championship Wrestling.
Monroe: Sounds like a big deal.
Charlie: Not really. The promoter was a guy named Mike Small, and he didn't really know much about wrestling. He signed me not long after I dropped out of sixth form, on the basis of some good grades in physical sciences. Anyway, I hooked up with these two sisters who'd been wrestling for a while as the Ruby Twins. They'd actually held the NCW tag title for a while, so they were a pretty big deal. I became their little brother Gem.
Monroe: Must've been fun.
Charlie: It was, for a while. But Mike went bust, and he had to sell NCW. Went to this big Japanese businessman. He ploughed a lot of money into it, but the atmos wasn't the same, so me and the girls moved on.
Monroe: From what you said earlier, it doesn't sound there were many places for to go.
Charlie: Not up north, but one of the girls had got an offer from a big promotion in London called International Extreme Wrestling. Originally it had just been for her, but she managed to talk the promoter into signing us up as well.
Monroe: Wasn't the IEW run by Jerry McPryde?
Charlie: (grinning) Yeah, it was. Not a lot of americans know this, but Jerru McPryde is probably the biggest english promoter/wrestler there's ever been. He was good to us.
Monroe: So, did you keep wrestling with the Ruby twins?
Charlie, Nah, we dropped that. The senior girl, who called herself Emerald, she wanted to keep on with that, but me and the younger one were bored with that, so the team split. Emerald kept going the same, but I changed pretty much into what I am today. The younger girl started calling herself the Extreme Queen, and we continued tagging up.
Monroe: I imagine the fights were pretty rough.
Charlie: (laughs) well, it wasn't called Extreme for nothing, was it? Nah, the fights weren't too bad. That was really when I got into hardcore matches though, 'cos the money was better. In IEW, the hardcore title was pretty much the most prestigious one, though there weren't many belts to choose from.
Monroe: Did you ever get your hands on the title?
Charlie: I bagged the British Champion title twice, and me and the queen held the tag title for months, but I never managed to bag the hardcore title. After a while I got frustrated about that, and me and the Queen split up. She started managing some rookies, among whom was one Jimmy Marks, better know as James Fantastic!
Monroe: No way! Your ex tag partner managed James Fantastic?
Charlie: I kid you not. Back then he was called 'Mr. Intelligence' cos he was still in college, but he was pretty lethal. As for me, I fell in with a veteran called Howler. He had this whole 'werewolf' thing going on, and he'd formed this team of guys around him. We were sorta heels, but that was never a big part of the team's identity.
Monroe: Sounds like it was quite the team.
Charlie: Oh it was, it was. As well as me and Howler, there was this one guy called The Highwayman, who was probably the biggest heel of the lot. Then there was Mad Dog and Glory, they were tag partners from Scotland, and this chines guy called the Orsonville Dragon. Me and him partnered up for a while, and we won the hardcore tag champions' belt. Those were great times.
Monroe: What happened?
Charlie: McPryde had been forming this rival team to us called the Crusade, sort of the goodies to our baddies. We faced off against them in a huge 12 man tornado tag match, and we lost. Part of that deal was that the team had to split, so we went our separate ways. Mad Dog and Glory reinvented themselves as big-league Faces, and the Dragon went back to Japan to wrestle there. I stuck around for a while, but it didn't feel right, so McPryde helped me to get a job wrestling over here with a promotion called West Coast Superwrestling. I was there for about a year, and that was really when I switched sides and became a good guy. Then The Doc signed me to RDCW.
Monroe: Have you kept in contact with any of your old compatriots?
Charlie: Well, Emerald had been in WCS for a while when I got there, so we hung out for a while, but I lost track of most of Howler's gang. Last I heard, The Dragon was in chop sockey movies.
Monroe: Well, Charlie, thanks for the interview and goodbye!
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