A Harold interview:

Harold: Today I am having a sit down interview with "The Beast" Dameon. Thank you Dameon for finally giving me the time to do this interview.

Dameon: Thank you for finally allowing me to speak my mind to all these imbeciles.

Harold: You came back a few weeks ago, and you seem to have a bit of a pissed off demeanor if I may say so. And you seem to be taking it out on whoever is unlucky to be matched up against you, who or what are you trying to hurt exactly?

Dameon: You see Harold, when I left this company about six months ago I was having some "issue's" you could say, and I realized that the time had come to return home as it were to the SFT. But when I got home all I saw was a bunch of idiots running around flaunting falsly acquired titles saying they are the best, and this is not true, you and I both know this. The simple reason I am hurting these people, and the reason I am hurting the people I am hurting, it's about respect, and about the drive and ability to progress in this industry that we have chosen to live as a part of.

Harold: Well different people have different definitions about what it means to get or have respect. What must someone do to acquire your respect? If not by titles then is it by wins? Or does someone have to take your beatings and give them back in order to get your respect?

Dameon: Taking my beatings, well that is expected of almost any wrestler that encounters me now isn't it Harold? Think back to all the times when you have seen a bloodied individual laying down at my feet, unable to move from the pain I have inflicted upon them. I assume one could gain my respect though if they hand me a good enough beating back or maybe even show enough fight during out battle, but other than that, I would kill to see that drive come out of some of these mental "kids" when it comes to wrestling, they need to show me they are really worth my time and effort.

Harold: Time and efforts are two things which are rare commodities now days. Well for those who are new to SFT or those who have been under a rock, please give our readers some history on yourself, where you got your start, how long you been at it, important titles you've won, give us Dameon 101 please.

Dameon: Dameon 101, I like the sounds of that, maybe which will appear in a wrestling college one day down the road. Well, pretty much we begin the story in my hometown of Seattle, Washington. Abusive Alcoholic father with the I.Q. of Connor Macdaddy on downers accompanied by a gambling addict mother, leaving those idiots was easy and done by the age of sixteen where I then quickly got myself a job while jumping from couch to couch. After earning enough money I sent myself to Japan where I ran into an individual we will just call "Ken" for now, Ken let me stay with him in Japan while I was taught the ART of wrestling by some of the best, and I WAS TAUGHT RESPECT THERE HAROLD! (slams fist on chair) And after a few years of training and doing shows in front of one hundred person crowds I got into some of the indy companies gaining some recognition... Then one day I got a call from the states, it was SFT Management. They were offering me a contract; they had seen some videos that had been handed to them by my one time good friend, Daniel "Rayn" Kalis. Now the rest is history, with title reigns from hardcore to television, to tag team, to even the United States Title.

Harold: Well you seem to have come full circle, from the states to Japan and back again. I have some questions about Japan but we'll touch on that later. For now tell me how long you’ve actually been pro wrestling and some of your more memorable matches in any federation, just a few you remember fondly or violently as is your case.

Dameon: I have been in the ring for just about four years all together now, or... Ya, that's about right. Me and Rayn fought three years ago in one of the most brutal ladder matches I have been apart of, we were in front of five-hundred people, he was taking a break from the states to tour Japan and just so happened to be offered the same fifty-thousand dollars in a briefcase I had been. We beat the hell out of eachother that night Harold, I threw myself, uncaringly off of a turnbuckle through a table covered in barbed-wire and glass, just to try to get an advantage, that definately haulted my advance in the match momentarily. The night ended with one of my more perfectly executed "Gallow's End" Fisherman Buster's off the ladder onto a set-up steel chair, it was absolutely amazing, if only you could have been there, the blood was flowing. (adding more)

Dameon: But as far as the SFT goes I have fought some of the best we have had to offer over the past two years, from the likes of feuding the with entire Blood Money faction, and coming out on top in that situation, to being apart of what I still consider the most dominant force in SFT history and that is Dangerous X, none could stop the likes of myself, Big T, and The Guyver when we worked as a cohessive unit, no one, and I seem to vaguely remember a Stable Cup that was violent and intense as all hell, but the concussion I recieved that night mildly altered my memory of it.

Harold: Well you said you got a call from the SFT Staff about coming to the states, so I can only assume it was Shadow, he's the one staff member that never changes, so what I want to know is how long is your current contract with SFT? What are your long term and short term goals here? And how do you get along with the mythical Shadow?

Dameon: As far as me and Shadow are concerned, I think that is a mutual respect held, because you are right, I did get the call from Shadow. But it wasn't a "Will you please work for us?" sort of thing, it was a would you like an opprotunity in the US sort of thing, and I jumped all over that. Shadow and I seem to have some sort of I guess what you would call, unspoken understanding with eachother that has grown ever since. Concerning my goals, well my first goal is definately to raise myself up that ladder once again, and grasp the world title for myself, other than that, we already spoke of respect Harold, and that is something that is more of a personal mission than just a goal...

Harold: You speak of missions, and goals, you seem to speak a little like a soldier, but some would see your methods as things the bad guy would do? Do you see yourself as the "bad guy"? Or do you see yourself as the hero? If SFT were a comic book or a movie, what role do you play here?

Dameon: Please Harold, I ask you this once, never refer to me as a soldier, I am no holy crusader, I am no camo-ridden "trained" peon of death, I am more than either of the two, I am myself, a self-proclaimed "Revolutionary in the Art of Pain" and that is what I consider wrestling, and that is what I consider "Hardcore" it is all just an art in the form of violence being expressed upon another individual. Some would call this crazy, but I just call it a way to express one's self. If someone want's to consider me a "bad guy" then so be it, you hear it when I step out onto that stage, and you hear it when I demolish someone in front of those people, the one's that know why I am out there, and RESPECT ME for what I do will cheer, others will cower in fear, or even scowl in disgust, my favorite of course being the mother covering her weaping childs eye's because "Tommy scared mommy...!"

Dameon: Hero's, comic books, movies? You enjoy the media too much it seem's Harold, you can't believe the majority of it you know. But if I have to be a hero, let me consider myself much like Spawn, but with altered goals. Because I have seen hell, I have witnessed it first hand, instead of leaving and wanting to then destroy it, I have decided to simply go on my own path of destruction, unlike that weakling

Dameon: The role I now play in the SFT is much different than my original role, I came here initially to conquer all that stand in my way and get to the top, that hasn't much changed, but the fact that, once again, there is no respect amongst this shallow cesspool of a locker room has broughten something that lie dormant deep inside me since I returned to the states from Japan, figuring the wrestlers here might have held some respect for their peer's and higher up's. But no Harold, what do you get constantly in this company, stabbed in the back, let's see if I can end that shall we?

Harold: Some would say change comes at a high price, are you going to be the man paying that price of the one collecting it? All change comes with some sort of big change, SFT is in the middle of such change, and yet now in its most downward spirals it in these times we've had our most consistent world champions, a title that has been avoiding you so far. I like to ask this one question, why do you think it is so hard for any World Champion to keep that title? Is it they get complacent or lazy or that the talent in the upper tier is just that good?

Dameon: Change comes at an immense cost, but I pay no prices when it comes to being in that ring, I have paid my "dues" as it were in that ring for the past two years both in SFT and the defunct, special ed filled, kiddy pool of talent known as the RWA, getting screwed by "friends", taking beatings at the hands of TRUE champions, and always standing back up in the end and giving them an ass kicking right back. Take for example me and the aformentioned Connor Macdaddy, me and Connor have NEVER seen eye to eye, we respect eachother though, because we have beaten the living hell out of eachother, must I name more? Jeff "Nirvana" King, taken out in a HARDCORE MATCH. Aidan Morag, dominated on multiple occasions. Rayn, Kyle Murphy, Shawn Walsh, Nathan Gust, I could go on Harold...

Dameon: A title this time has avoided me so far, but as of Bad Chemistry we need not worry about that Harold, for I will have no problem decimating the newly proclaimed "Maniac" of the SFT, Daniel Jacobson, we all witnessed his "victory" or should we say lucky night, two weeks ago at Breakdown, we all also witnessed the after match "Krosstika" I gave him through the table, but let's worry about that come Sunday. World Champion's, they fail to hold their titles for long because they continue to make nothing but enemies, and fail to realize that they can't handle the caliber of enemies attacking them each and every week, it simply breaks an individual down. But you see, that is where I differentiate from the rest, I am ready to take on all those who stand in my way each and every week.

Dameon: (3:25:02 AM): For I don't fear a man that stands in that locker room as we speak Harold, because I know from past experience that they are all water under the bridge compared to the tsunami that has just hit the SFT in my return.

Harold: I have interviewed hundreds of people in SFT over the last decade, and I can honestly say you are starting to scare me, and I don’t scare very easily.

Dameon: (3:28:03 AM): Harold, you need not worry, even if you are afraid, you I consider one that I would not attack unless my job is at stake, I enjoy your company, and you have never wronged me. Need I mention that you actually have respect both for the industry and in this industry from wrestlers and managment alike.

Dameon: (3:28:36 AM): But let me remind you, it only takes a moment for anyone to step out of line, but I still believe you need not worry.

Harold: If you could have 3 dream matches, who would it be and why? It can be anyone from the past or present from any federation.

Dameon: (3:35:41 AM): First and foremost, our Intercontinental Champion at the moment, Dave Van Dam, and myself have never been across that ring from eachother, and no matter the match type I believe that would be a match for the ages, maybe even match of the year? Second, I would love to step into the ring with Kyle Murphy for another go around, me and Kyle have had our battles, and have always come out battered and bruised, frankly we just hurt eachother. And I will never want to stop kicking Rayn's ass, that piece of... Well, I will leave that subject alone for now Harold, let's go on shall we? This is all considering that I still don't know much about the stateside feds Harold.

Harold: Hmm interesting choices, and all are likely to happen in time. Lets get back to Japan, you’ve wrestled in both countries, and Japan wrestling fans are quite different than American wrestling fans, what did you love and hate about wrestling in Japan and what do you see as the biggest difference as far as wrestling business and entertainment area goes.

Dameon: Besides the fact that Japan is absolutely beautiful all year round, the fans are the most passionate fans you will run into on the planet, and this I would put money on Harold. Love and Hate are both strong emotions for me in the Land of The Rising Sun, the love for the ring, the roar of the crowd, the blood, sweat, and tears, it made every moment worth it. But hate comes into play when you speak of the hours of in ring abuse in training, getting continually hit by one of these, would you wanna get beat with this if you didn't land a bump right Harold? (Dameon slaps his kendostick down on the table) And yes, that is exactly why I carry it around with me. This is an instrument of respect, a device used to beat respect into those that have none prior to the moment of impact.

Dameon: I was just like half the little punks in the locker room, disrespectful and full of myself, which honestly, I still am full of myself in a sense, but that is because I believe I have earned the right to be! Because I have been through fire, glass, sharpened steel, wood, I have been through it all, and I have EARNED the right to be called a true "Beast". The business itself also is completely the opposite, people work together to better eachother, feuds are handled in the ring and not needed to be dragged out of the ring, like all seem to be accustom to here. You see Harold, I didn't always run down to the ring after people's matches or even attack backstage after they get done taking a piss.

Dameon: But I have had to adapt to this due to the way the United States companies run themselves, and what they allow the wrestlers to get away with, if you attacked and brutalized a fellow competitor all because they beat you fair and square in that ring, well then you deserve to be beat three times as bad, so you go down to that ring and fight the person you beat, in a ring, wrapped in barbed-wire, with weapons handed to both of you, have fun boys. Here we have all these politics backing everything, and whiny champions such as "The Acidic One" Rayn, that get their way all by whimpering to the people, the wrestlers, and the staff alike. Frankly, it makes me sick to my stomach.

Harold: Well since you’re sort of bringing it up, tell me a few people you get along well with backstage and someone you may totally just avoid like the plague who do you currently in SFT get along well with and who do you hate with a passion?

Dameon: I believe it to be fairly true that me and the members of Blood Money have come to terms with our past disagreements, me and Daniel Jacobson of course have some issues that need to be handled, and well Dave Van Dam and I don't speak much, but also if we come across eachother there is no hard feelings. I am not sure if it is true but I hear that Lionel Kingston has come back and if that is true, well then I am not to sure how to approach that, I don't hate the man, I just tried to show him LONG ago that he could be more than he had previously ever desired, maybe this time around he will listen, and if that is the case, who knows, there are vacant tag titles I do believe. True hate though, I can't say I really HATE anyone, its more of just a universal disgust I equally divide amongst them all.

Harold: Ok let’s change it up a little, whose work do you follow? By that I mean, most wrestlers have a bit of an ego, that goes without saying, in this business no ego means most times no drive. So whose work do you follow? Whose work do you say oh man I gotta see what this guy had to say. Or if that’s too much of a stretch lets say if you were a fan who would you be keeping an eye besides yourself of course.

Dameon: I spoke of both Lionel Kingston and Dave Van Dam in high regard, if I had to choose anyone to really "cheer" for and "admire" it would probably be them, if Josh Konnely can hold onto that World Title though, I may change my mind about him and nod my head in recognition to a true champion, but first, I need to see some respect from that possible "faux-champion", and not just towards myself, but towards everyone in this industry, and the industry itself.

Harold: Well, I have to say Dameon this has been quite an hour, I didn’t know what to expect and you didn’t disappoint, it is by far one of the most interesting if not different interviews I have ever done. Thank you for doing this with me.

Dameon: Thanks for having me Harold, and let me just say before we go, and this isn't just to you Harold, if any of you little idiots step in my way, or try to stop me from my goals, or show me a complete lack of respect... Let's just say, (picks up the kendo stick) your day is going to be filled with a little bit... of respect... Good night folks, sleep tight, don't let the beasties bite.(begins to laugh... camera fades/interview ends)