Discovering Kendo fighting.

["The Iceman" Konrad Raab]

Discovering Kendo Fighting. Tokyo, Japan. Thursday 28th April

Scene opens to a place where you see a lot of students doing some sort of fighting called Kendo where you use a lot of different techniques with swords that's well known here in Japan and it happens to be that Konrad was apart of the audience to watch the fantastic fighting he's witnessing in front of him as he begins to speak towards the NJFC camercrew in a Kendo dojo.

Konrad Raab: "I'm looking at this fantastic display of Kendo martial arts style, seeing the passion these guys have for the sport. I've been here since Monday and all I've done is decorating my new apartment I brought and doing some gym and appearing on Supreme Championship Wrestling's Breakdown show because just like New Japan Fighting Championships, they are also on a tour here in Japan so it's good to see both companies I'm apart of be in the same country and location at once. That's for another day, now I go down the main point of this upcoming match against Luke Wolfe and Eric Darkthrone who've not said respectful things about me and I can understand because well, I've not been impressing much people recently and I've tied with both of the last time out.

I try and acknowledge the threat these two have against me which has proven to be a lot more than I expected since both of them are talented individuals which last time out did give me a very tough fight when we faced in the ring and I have nothing, but respect for them, especially Luke Wolfe who's proven to be a serious threat over in Extreme Wrestling Corporation after a very tough fight against Xplode at the PPV. He lost the title match, but someone who's proven to be a threat in NJFC as well. Eric Darkthrone is someone who's suited for the Heavyweight division as I forgot to mention that one of us could have a surprise at some point, maybe a title match."

Konrad went into deep thought for a bit while watching the Kendo display of fighting.

Konrad Raab: "But you made me not like you so much Eric, calling me a joke because I haven't won since I've been in Japan. How do you think I got a title shot against Johnny Bonecrusher? By defeating three people of course and yes I've lost to Jason P Davidson and Johnny Bonecrusher, but they are champions here and I made them work to beat me and in Johnny's case, retain the title and he even said that recently so you might want to be quiet in future because your win against Ronin was nowhere near memorable to my loss against Johnny Bonecrusher because we stole the show with competitive wrestling and I didn't even use a ladder as a weapon to try to win either. Maybe pay attention to that title match cos you'd see that I'm a serious threat to you."

Konrad groans at what he said, but had to focus on another person as well.

Konrad Raab: "I don't recommend wanting to bust people open Luke Wolfe like there's enough of that in the wrestling world at the moment. You can blame people for your past, but in the end you have to get through life with them. Yes I've got a lot of life problems myself recently, but I know at the same time, I have to work through them and continue with my job. The thing is Luke after the match I saw against Explode, I do take you extremely seriously as a wrestler, but I don't respect the attitude of causing others to give them pain. I don't know what caused you to be like this, but I want to wrestle for the respect I have for this sport which is by using our skills to be competitive and not treat this sport as a place to hurt people."

He knows what he's talking about from how he's dealing with that in SCW at the moment, but focuses back on the match.

Konrad Raab: "Yes you'll see Japanese fighters using swords, but I learned they aren't there to hurt each other and give others pain, what the display is the fact they are fighting to defend themselves from violent people like my opponents in the match and I will defend myself with every cost I can get, but at the same time because I refuse to use weapons towards my opponents, I wrestle to my best of my abilities because that's what got me here and I got a lot of fans too which mean a lot to me. The special prize match of course could sign for our dedication to the sport we both have given our lives for and the tie was just simply because we didn't finish the match since we extended the time because we were too competitive to have one of us winning the match.

Now we have this in place that one of us has to win and since both of you have made yourselves known for winning, I need to get back on track of being competitive with you both, but at the same time, making sure that I will capture the win from both of you because the loss against Johnny Bonecrusher has only made me stronger as a wrestler. I've earned this because I've taken Jason and Johnny to their limits and you can expect the same with you both as well, even with the violence you'll exploit on me, I focus on following the rules and standing up to show my colours I have for NJFC to go out there and win because everyone expects me to lose when I'll see that not happening. Prepare to be Iceinated by The Iceman."

Konrad leaves the Kendo gym to go to wrestle in a house show for SCW before he goes to the apartment to get himself some sleep.