The Rise of an Icon

Part XII: Dominance

June 25, 2017, Monday Night RAW (Draft Night)

Tonight is the official WWE Draft of 2017 where RAW and SmackDown Live are getting a huge shake-up. All world, tag, and women's champions are excluded, but the IC and U.S. champions are getting traded. SD Live has the U.S. Championship, and RAW has the IC Championship, just like it was in the Ruthless Aggression Era. Also, Kurt Angle, the new RAW GM, has given me the opportunity to throw away the Universal Championship and reinstate the old World Heavyweight Championship, because the World Heavyweight Championship is more prestigious. SD Live will keep their WWE World Championship belt, but it will simply be called the WWE Championship from now on. 

Kurt Angle puts me in a non-title match against a new RAW draft pick, The Miz. I end up beating him with his own finisher, the Skull-Crushing Finale. Welcome back to RAW, Miz.  

July 2, 2017, Monday Night RAW

The new RAW roster is on stage and I am delivering an open challenge to anyone who wants a shot at my World Heavyweight Championship. Not surprisingly, Dean Ambrose steps up and answers the challenge. As he slides into the ring along with a referee, I stomp him, pick him up, and hit him with a hard right hand, sending him into the corner. I go to the corner across from him and attempt to do a clothesline, but he rolls through, runs to the ropes, and fires back with a flying lariat, and goes for the pin. I kick out. A few minutes pass, and Dean catches my foot as I try to hit him with an Enziguri, hits me with a knee to the face, hits the Dirty Deeds, and goes for the cover. 1....2......nope! Later, as Dean ascends to the top rope, I push the referee into the ropes so Dean can fall. Both him and the referee are down. I roll to the outside. As he eventually gets up and executes a suicide dive, I grab a chair from ringside and nail him with it when he is in mid-air. Dean is knocked out cold. I taunt so the fans can admire my greatness. I toss him back in the ring so I can pin him. I realize that the referee is still out from what happened earlier, and a new referee rushes to the ring to count the pin. Dean kicks out. He tries to go for Dirty Deeds again but I push him off; he goes towards the ropes and goes for a clothesline, but I counter it into a rear naked choke which forces him to tap out. 

Throughout this story, I have only talked about my life in the ring. Being a wrestler is more than just winning championships, and putting on matches. Even though I am a quiet guy backstage, I have managed to gain the respect of my fellow peers. I play a dominant heel on TV, but I am a swell guy outside of the ring. 

July 4, 2017

I get a message from Xavier Woods, inviting me to be on Up Up Down Down (his YouTube series, which is very popular). I don't know what game we're going to be playing, however. I am a huge gamer guy, by the way: I own 7 consoles, and 300+ video games. I try to find time to play video games when I'm on the road (which is always), whether I'm not on the card for RAW or on the plane heading to the next city. 

All of you Up Up Down Down fans may know that Xavier asks newcomers to his channel to come up with a nickname to be referred to as. Well, mine is simply, "Chosen One," because that is who I am. Xavier, Sasha Banks (bae), Bayley, Big E, Kofi Kingston, AJ Styles, Becky Lynch, and I are playing Mortal Kombat X. We decide to do a tournament in which the winner gets to be the UUDD MKX champion. It comes down to Sasha and I. She is EXTREMELY competitive at Mortal Kombat (at any game, period); I defeat her with my go-to guy, Liu Kang, and she plays as Kitana. I get my moment of gloating in, and Sasha says:

"I'll get you back, dude! You cheated, anyway!" She laughs. 

Not only am I the World Heavyweight Champion, but I am the UUDD MKX Champion. Get on my level. 

July 9, 2017, Monday Night RAW

There is a huge number 1 contender's fatal-4-way match tonight on RAW for a shot at my World Heavyweight Championship at Bad Blood. The competitors are AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose, Cesaro, and Bobby Roode. This is an action-packed, slobberknocker of a main event. I'm doing commentary.