On this past Saturday's edition of Vertigo, Johnny Karma vented on his frustrations on the FGA landscape. Karma has never been described as fake. However, his words from this past Saturday night may just be the most passionate we've ever heard him in his two years in FGA. Take a look:
Vertigo 10.03.15
Johnny Karma: As you may have seen at the start of the show, we already had Chandler Scott waltz out here to tell himself how great he is while mentioning in passing that he retained the FWA Championship at Above & Beyond. I'm also going to guess that...that...
Karma pauses for a second, putting a finger to the side of his head as he tries to remember
Johnny Karma: No, sorry, their name's slipped my mind. Maybe you'll have better luck remembering than I do: runs his mouth a lot, brings shame and degradation to the Pride Championship, shouldn't be permitted to wrestle on our shows as New York State Athletics Commission guidelines clearly state that adolescents are not permitted to wrestle on shows, has to pay women to stand near him because all right-minded women find him disgusting…? Either way, we've probably heard a few words from him at some point in the evening...but I wasn't paying attention, because I have better things to do than listen to some momzer try to string a sentence together without sounding like some teenager playingCall of Duty. Seriously, does this description not ring any bells?
But back to something that's important and relevant: my title match - although apparently I wasn't even in it. You see, the morning after I checked my Twitter feed, and all I could see were people telling Chandler Scott "Great match last night" and congratulating him on retaining...but do you know what I didn't see? I didn't see a single person say "Hey, Johnny, great match last night", not one. Now, unless my parents have some explaining to do, I'm not a broom so it's not like Chandler was having to make the best of a bizarre situation, so why is it he gets all the credit and I get none of it? It wasn't The Chandler Scott Show in the ring, but because Chandler won apparently that doesn't matter. Heck, the only reason I'm here is because I live at the other end of the Taconic State Parkway, because it's not like I have a match tonight or anything.
For a second Karma lowers the mic as he thinks about what he's going to say next
Johnny Karma: You know what? It might not matter to some people who made up 50% of a title match, but it sure matters to me that I was the other 50% of the match, just as it matters that the main event of a show in my hometown won’t involve me, but also be the equivalent of western civilization ending as a slow motion train wreck that unfolds in front of our eyes which we are powerless to stop. The fact is that I wrestled the match of my life out there, and I thought my pride was at its lowest when I walked out of the ring without the title - and then found out it could drop that little bit lower when I find out that nobody cares. And that's the thing that gets me: ever since I first walked through the doors here I have stolen the show from under the noses of the so-called "stars" by having the best match time after time after time, I've done more to make a show worth watching by saying a few words on the microphone than a whole army of people who promised big things but delivered nothing, and I've got to where I am not with some gimmick or by buddying up to the right people or thinking that setting fire to the ring was the best way to make a first impression, but because being Johnny Karma is more than good enough to rise through the ranks and if people can’t see that for themselves then it’s not my problem, but theirs. And because it’s their problem, I’m going to say this: I didn’t have a match for this show, but I showed up because that’s the sort of guy I am – but the next show? I’ve got a whole bunch of stuff that I need to get straight in my head right now, so…sorry White Plains, but I’m taking my first show off in over a year.
Karma holds up a hand to hold the crowd’s attention
Johnny Karma: I just hope for everyone’s sake that when I come back, there’s actually a Frontier Wrestling Arts to come back to, because the last I saw at Above & Beyond, it was looking like a triage unit backstage because some beardy weirdy took out Cordy Stevenson and Sean Sands during the night, some yutzi took out Shunkeeti and Izzy Anders, and that’s not what I signed up for. I signed up because I want to prove myself to be the best wrestler this company can offer, instead we’ve got a couple of people deciding they want to recreate The Warriors on our shows and they’re fighting amongst themselves to see who gets to be the Baseball Furies while everyone who happens to be standing within ten feet of them gets to be The Orphans – and what gets me is that it doesn’t seem to matter that they dumped various people with actual talent on the injured list, because they’re walking around like nothing happened. In short, rather than walk in the door and do my thing only to find myself getting ignored, instead I’m standing here telling you that I’m mad as heck and I’m not going to take it any more - and if taking a couple of shows off is what it takes for people to realise what they’re missing, that’s what I’m going to have to do.
Having said his piece, Karma crouches down and places the microphone in the middle of the ring, before he steps through the ring ropes and walks up the ramp and heads out of the arena
