>>19957202>"Like many of you, I've been dealing with this stuff. I've had personal relationships strained to the breaking point, I've had to change and adapt my own life, and accept things that I never wanted to have happened, even as professionally, I was riding higher than I ever have been. I've beaten people here in the WWA that nobody, least of all myself, ever expected me to defeat. And it all led up to me in front of the biggest crowd in WWA history, wrestling my greatest opponent yet to date: Colby Jefferson versus Kelly Omega! The event was promoted with POSTERS made of us! Second from the top, one of the biggest, most-hyped matches on the biggest show of all time. And if I'd won, if I'd added Kelly Omega's name to the list of names I've beaten..... I might have even had to take a long look at Priscilla Divine, and the WWA World Championship."Colby Jefferson smiles sadly and looks down.
>"But that..... didn't happen."Colby looks up at the crowd again.
>"One thing about the WWA that I've noticed, is it's very easy to look at all of the might-have-beens, the maybe-ifs, the almosts. All of the things that never happened, and all of the things that never will. Our greatest stories here are nonetheless overshadowed by the greatness that could have been. And so there's the very real possibility that I could look over this career I've had, culminating in that match with Kelly Omega, as a disappointment. I lost in the first match of my career. I never held any titles, nor topped the charts of any fan polls. And that first loss is now bookended as I've lost in the greatest match of my career, at the pinnacle of a winning streak that could have established me as an enduring legend of the WWA."