Post by Travis Pierce on Dec 10, 2016 18:45:11 GMT -5
The Horizons We Need (But Not The One We Deserve)
By Rob Cartwright
In just a matter of days, the historic tenth Horizons will be upon us. You’re going to read a lot this week about the great matches and moments from Horizons past, such as the wars between Donovan Hastings and Travis Roberts, or the moments such as the unmasking of Prince Rudo or the return of Mickey Dragon, or people are going to talk about what they are excited about most about this year’s Horizons, such as the epic rubber match between Travis Roberts and ‘Vain’ Alan Roberts, the vicious feuds between Donovan Hastings and Killian King, or between Eden Morgan and Phrixus Deimos, or about if the event will mark the relentless full arrival of the Engine of Chaos as the dominant force to end all dominant forces, but the piercing truth is that the single most important event that is going to happen in Chicago this week is Travis Pierce becoming the new number one contender to the World Heavyweight Championship. I do not write this as a hopeful fan. I write it as the person telling you not what we should want, but what we need.
A year ago saw the closing of Travis Pierce’s tenure as the Creative Director of the UGWC Consortium. It was a year of global expansion and domination, simmering with new concepts and opportunities. One year later, and UGWC is mired in chaos under the reign of Cypress Morgan. Where Pierce took us around the world, Cypress brought us to bars and bike shows. Pierce illuminated us with brilliant vistas and the greatest arenas in the world, and Cypress emceed a wet T-shirt contest. Travis Pierce presented an era of innovation and imagination, and Cypress Morgan booked a pay-per-view event on the fly as the night unfolded. Travis Pierce gave you ‘Vain’ Alan Wallace versus Martin ‘The Mainstreamer’ Graber. Cypress Morgan gave you Travis Roberts versus the Crazed Anarchist. Whereas Pierce always presented you with the new and exciting, Cypress presents you with a recycled main event to headline what should be the biggest show in history.
With the Engine of Chaos on the rise, a lot of people are speculating that they have the potential to be the most powerful faction in UGWC history, with the naysayers pointing back at the Syndicate and their run of dominance. Yet I would posit that the greatest and most entertaining faction to grace our screens were the Human Resources Department. Duncan Ryder, Johnny Blake, Gabrielle Montgomery, and most importantly, Travis Pierce. The Thames Valley Hit Squad forged a legacy and foundation in the cooperative division that paved the way for the Piercing Weapons to later follow, Gabrielle proved herself a spectacle that drove headlines, yet it was Travis Pierce that set the tone and led the way, and all of that began the previous December at, you guessed it, Horizons, when Pierce won the Carnage Match that started his momentum towards the World Heavyweight Championship.
2016 should have been the year of Travis Pierce. It was not, but clearly that was through no fault of his own. That was the fault of people such as the lazy Cypress Morgan and the backstabbing Jet Somers. Soon, Cypress will be gone and there will be a new era.
Horizons X is where the phenomenon of UGWC is set to begin again. Time and again, UGWC has needed the silent hero that is Travis Pierce to save it from itself, and he thanklessly has. The time has come for him to do so again. Join me in watching this Monday as Travis Pierce becomes the new number one contender to the World Heavyweight Championship, not because we deserve that. He does. But it is simply what we need.
