Cindy Chavez is a mexican-born journalist for 410wrestling.com, a website dedicated to bringing the latest news and updates from all around the professional wrestling world. She writes articles, attends various shows, and on occasion, hosts a live-streaming podcast on YouTube.

Cindy sits near the closing section of one of these podcasts, a question and answer session where fans can call in and discuss any wrestling-related topic choose to they present her. She’s positioned behind a desk, wearing a headset, and talks into a studio mic affixed to the desk on a boom stand. The greenscreen behind her proudly displays the 410wrestling logo as well as the topic of tonight’s discussion.

“…well thank you for calling in. Up next we have… CJ from Baltimore calling in with a question about Carnage Wrestling. CJ, can you hear me? You’re on the air.”

“Hello…?”

“CJ?”

“This is he.”

“Hi. Cindy Chavez with 411 Wrestling, and you’re now live on the 411wrestlecast podcast. I understand you have a question for me?”

The ‘callers’ voice comes through a bit muffled and laced with static.

“Uhh, hi Cindy… yeah. I just had a question about what your thoughts are… I’m a big Maggie Lockheart fan – well, I became one recently – and I heard that she’s going to go compete for that uhh… Rischel guys place… the uhh… CWF or something?”

“Yes, that is correct. Magdalena Lockheart is set to compete in the Championship Wrestling Federation’s Alpha and Omega Supershow this coming up Tuesday. My sources tell me that she plans to be in Germany at the time of the show so all signs point to this being a fact… yes.”

“Yeah, well, my question would be… I guess a two-part question if that’s alright.”

“Sure, go on.”

“Alright. One, do you think that Maggie competing in the CWF has something to do with the fallout between her and Jason Bridges and, two… what do you think her chances are in that Make an Impact Melee or whatever it’s called?”

Cindy purses her lips and chuckles at the mere mention of Bridges name. She’s gone on record, voicing her vibrant disdain for the Carnage Wrestling President in the past; an opinion that has not changed in the weeks that followed.

“So you’re asking me if I think Maggie was sent over to CWF as some kind of punishment?”

“Uhh, yeah, that-” The caller replied, “Or is she done with Carnage completely? Like do you know what the circumstances are and what are your thoughts on it?”

The corners of Cindy’s lips turn upward. She readjusts herself in eagerness and pulls the microphone closer.

“Do I know the circumstances? No, I do not. Do I think that this is Jason Bridges exacting a form of punishment? As crazy as it may sound, no, that I also do not think is true… and I’ll tell you why. As much as I LOATHE the man, he is quite shrewd in the business sense. He knows that sending one of his biggest stars over to compete in CWF will only bring Carnage that much more exposure. And where they sit with their current business model, it seems almost like Magdalena Lockheart would be doing Carnage Wrestling a favor by representing them in front of such of a wide-viewing audience… not to mention the event is happening abroad, so, include the international audience as well. That’s… a lot of exposure. But no, what I think is happening is this… and if I’m being completely honest with you, this is just my conjecture on the ‘situation’… is that maybe Maggie Lockheart is finally taking a stand for herself and looking at other options… and if that’s what she is doing… I wouldn’t… and couldn’t blame her.”

“So you think Maggie might end up jumping ship then?”

“Hey, if she did… if Jaden Rischel and his people treat her better than Jason Bridges has, I don’t see why not. And it’s not exactly hard to do, either. I mean, that would ultimately come down to a lot of factors, such as if CWF is even willing to offer a full-time contract to someone currently employed by Carnage, and ultimately what Maggie wants for herself of course. Maybe she doesn’t want to work at CWF full-time, who knows? But she is competing for a championship, and she always competes to win. So if she wins it I don’t see her giving up the title due to a technicality. I’d see her taking this opportunity at full force and kind-of seeing how it all plays out in the end.”

“Well, yeah,” The caller chuckles nervously. “I hope she does win. But even if sh does I hope she still shows up for Season of the Witch, too. I’ve already bought the tickets… and I really want to see her kick Lynwood’s ass. Haha.”

Cindy laughs.

“Well, let’s say she does win, the uhh… Impact Championship… It wouldn’t be the first time that Maggie has held two championships for two different federations simultaneously. But I think that gets into the second part of your question… what are Maggie’s chances of winning? There’s obviously some big names already slated for the event… Dreamcatcher Ariel Shadows, Sean Fuller, even Johnny Graves just announced his return from injury to compete in the Melee. Anyone could really win, but I honestly think that they’ve got to keep an eye out for Maggie in this one. I mean, the CWF faithful don’t know what they don’t know, and regardless of the stipulation… I think someone like her could easily make her impact felt right away.”

“Yeah, I was a bit concerned considering it’s like… last man standing or whatever…”

“Elimination style.”

“Oh-”

“It’s elimination style, fatal-four way rules, but there can be more entrants adding themselves into the melee… and pinfalls and submissions eliminate competitors until only one is left standing at the end.”

“Yeah, that’s what I meant. My mistake.”

“…and you’re concerned?” Cindy asks. “What exactly did you mean by that?”

“Well, yeah… I mean… a little bit. I mean… Maggie isn’t the biggest competitor in the world… and match like this… you know… size advantage might be a big deal.”

“It could be, yes. But let me say this: I actually think that the stipulation works more in Maggie’s favor than anything else… and for probably anyone else in the matchup… except Sean Fuller… maybe… he’s pound-for-pound one of the toughest around, too. But so is Maggie. It’s just, what’s different between them is that Maggie has a history of doing things her way and getting result after result after result when nobody else thought that she could pull it off. It’s kind-of her thing, to be the underdog, but even that isn’t what I mean because… of her background in UltraViolence and the fact that she finds ways to win these things that other people just don’t see…”

“Yeah…”

“She was crowned the second Queen of Anarchy last year on an incredible run and topped that off with a big UltraViolent Championship win against… James Ceno I think it was… and granted… she’s not the same Magdalena Lockheart that she was since being incarcerated, but she’s real close… real close. She’s stacked up wins in Carnage Wrestling in some of the toughest matches I’ve seen as of late and I think she’s just one step away from perhaps not just gaining back her old self and her old ways… but perhaps becoming something even more than that. Do you get what I’m saying?”

“Uh-huh,” The caller replies. “I agree with you on that, Cindy, completely.”

“And that’s crazy that I’m even talking like that considering her age. She’s what, 23? 24? It really doesn’t even matter though, because Magdalena Lockheart, to me, is someone very special in this industry. ”

“Really? I thought she was 18 to be honest.” CJ adds. “She doesn’t look that old at all but she fights like she’s been doing it for years.”

“Haha, yeah. That’s the thing. No one really expects her to do much, and yet everywhere she goes she breaks whatever glass ceiling they have for her and she just keeps going upward. I think when you think about the kind of talent that she is… she could very well be considered… generational? Transcendent? I mean, barring injury she’s presumably got most of her career yet ahead of her and yet I still can’t see why she couldn’t be a major player in CWF or Carnage or even in EWC or UGWC for that matter. She’s dangerous… a truly dangerous competitor and if you tell her that all she needs to do is to be the last one standing… I’m sure Maggie will figure out a way.”

“Yeah, she is tough.” The caller states emphatically. “That’s why I like her.”

“She’s definitely one of the toughest I’ve ever seen and one of the smartest when it comes to… I don’t know how you would say it… manipulating the rules? No… more like… making the rules and the situation work in her favor. She’s sneaky… cunning in a way… and that’s what she has always done better than… I’d say… ninety-nine percent of all of the locker rooms of all of the promotions, past and present and probably future, combined. And no, that is not an exaggeration.”

“I guess somebody of her size has to be.”

“Yeah. But I really don’t see that as much of a hindrance to her. I mean, that’s always going to be a thing when you have females competing in the same ring as males, but Maggie is like the one chick who has proven she can be as tough as the toughest men. With that being said, I’m going to go ahead and put my prediction out on a limb here, CJ. I’m going to say that CWF already has their new Impact champion in Magdalena Lockheart… and Tuesday she shocks the world, minus me of course… because I’m picking her to win. And if they… the CWF… could bring her into their fold… sign her long-term I mean… I don’t see how the CWF could have a bigger impact than that.”

“Yeah. I agree.”

“If they really want someone to make an impact… I think they’re going to get a lot more than they bargained for by opening their doors to her. But hey, that’s just my opinion. Thanks for your call, CJ!”

 

 

The Diary of Magdalena Marie Lockheart
Supplemental

I’ve got to admit… I did not want to make this trip alone.

But it was something that I wanted to do… had to do. I don’t expect the CWF folks to understand what I’ve been through, but my journal is open and available for all… if they care to take the time they’d understand what I’ve been thinking lately… what I’ve been feeling lately.

I’m not about to spit out sour grapes about how Jason Bridges doesn’t respect me or even treat me fairly. I’m not the judge. You be the judge. In all honesty I’m beyond the point of giving a shit – things will be the way that they will be and I feel as though I have less and less control over that. I guess that’s why I’m leaning more towards taking this invitation to make an impact (elsewhere) as a necessity rather than a simplistic desire. I mean everyone who has either signed up or those that will step in last-minute all want to become the first CWF Impact Champion since its re-creation. I would love to be the CWF Impact Champion… but so would everyone else… so what exactly does that prove?

No, this is more about Carnage Wrestling than I’d like to admit… more about, being booked near the bottom of the card on the shows that I’m even booked at all… being chopped down to size after winning the number-one contendership to the CW UltraViolent championship against a woman who never really wanted the belt to begin with. And I couldn’t care less about that, either – the paychecks may be small but they’re still coming in – and I’ve always been more about the fight than who gets to call themselves what at the end of the day. I am a champion, I know I’m a champion because I’ve always done my damndest to conduct myself as a champion, even when I’m not… technically… one. Do you think Jason Bridges gives a shit? No? How about the CWF folk? Nah. Forgive me if I’m being a bit cynical here, but they know what they’re getting out of the deal… and who knows if I’ll even win the damn belt or not?

I hated flying across the ocean alone, in a cramped coach seat… to a place where the best English spoken is still as broken as my patchwork self-worth (at times)… but hey… like I said… this was something that I needed to do. I don’t really care if Jason Bridges understands the message that I’m trying to send here… he thinks that I’m powerless in a situation where I’m clearly not. Jason Bridges thinks that no one else would hire me… no other corporate entity would desire me… and for a second there, I’ll have to give him credit… I kinda felt the same way, too. But CWF just so happened to have an event where they needed warm bodies, and I checked my pulse earlier… and it came back positive, so I gave it a shot. I hated swallowing my pride because of how much it reminds me how badly I’ve fucked up my life and my career in the past… but Twitter says that it’s National Gratefulness Day… so here goes nothing.

Thanks, Mister Rischel.

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to make an impact.

Now stand back and watch a professional work.

First thing’s first… I didn’t fly to Germany to represent Carnage Wrestling for jack shit, okay? So miss me with that entirely. I came to participate in this Make Your Impact Melee for one reason and one reason alone, and that was to represent myself. To show, and to prove, to not just the asshole sitting back in Baltimore but to everyone watching around the world that Maggie Lockheart is back and that she means business. I’m tired of sitting back, tired of watching the same old stupid crap and boring promos from the lackluster hacks all the way down to the newbies trying to cut their teeth all fishing for the same result. If I’ve got to fly all the way out to Cologne, Germany to make my voice heard, so be it. If I’ve got to stomp a few skulls into the canvas, or the concrete floor, or the asphalt on the Hohenzollern Bridge, so be it.

But I’m damn sure as hell not going to waste that opportunity, with my one voice, my one moment, yapping about being a better wrestler than everyone else and how I’ve “come to take that title”.

No, you see, I’m not like that. I’m an artist, and I like to have a little bit of meaning in my life. A little bit of purpose. Call me an existentialist if it makes you feel better, I don’t mind. But I’m not going to yammer off a list of accomplishments like I’m reading off of a goddamned grocery list. For fucks sake. If you don’t know what I’m capable of by now, then it’s your collective loss. And as far as this Impact Melee is concerned… what have I got to lose? For most of my potential opponents… hell it could be the entire CWF roster by the time the bell rings… I’ve never faced them before; so all I could do was study the tapes. Granted, I have a little bit of extra insight, but for the better part of the last few weeks I’ve been a CWF fan… just like most of you who decided to peruse my journal today. But the thing that separates me from the pack… well… that you’ll find out soon enough, too. 

Since the plane touched down, it’s been officially listed as a fatal-fiveway, with one new addition being Iceman Raab joining in… I guess because losing only once per night is getting a bit tiresome and he wants to change it up a bit. Now here’s a man whom I’ve faced before, beat before, in a little place that no one would know existed unless I took you there by hand and showed you myself. Newsflash, it doesn’t really matter anyway, much like him taking on this second match in what may be the most underwhelming homecoming ever. As far as I’m concerned, it’s still a four-way until Raab proves he stay awake for “what comes after two”. This match will almost certainly end up being more about Dreamcatchers and Graves and Fullers and how they don’t stand a chance in hell of making an impact like I do.

I guess I should touch on Graves, since he’s coming back to the CWF and back from injury… and the feel-good story he would like to create by recapturing the Impact championship. And yeah, that would be quite the story, for him and the CWF… and for the title. But it just doesn’t work that way… ask Ariel Shadows about how she feels about one match being different than the next if you want to know my opinion. Truth: Johnny Graves is a former Impact Champion. Lie: That gives him any kind of edge going into this match. He may have been the champion of this particular title before, and might even be “all healed up” like he claims… but the one thing he hasn’t yet done is step into the ring with the Queen of UltraViolence.

Oh, and there’s still Fuller and Madman Szalinski’s widow to deal with, too.

Dreamcatcher, currently sitting four points deep in the Omega bracket… and Sean Fuller currently sitting about four bottles deep in whatever German bar carries cheap American whiskey these days. This match is going to be a clusterfuck of the highest order with underachievers hoping to make something of themselves… hoping that the impact that they make is somehow making themselves a champion through sheer luck, or in Fuller’s case, the sheer determination of his liver and his lack of a will to survive. At least I can understand Dreamcatcher’s deal, still dealing with grief and trying to move on from that. It’s touching, and tragic all the same… but she’s another one pulling double-duty and it’s going to end up costing her. Two people so determined to rectify their past by means of winning this and then hoping to forget that they’ve ever had anything to worry about in the first place. It’s sad, pathetic, and I don’t really feel sorry for either one of these two… and I’ll tell you why:

We all signed up for this… presumably speaking, of course.

So what if Shadows could really use the Impact championship to boost her spirits? So what if Sean Fuller could use the championship belt as a coaster for his? And so what about the returning Johnny Graves feelgood former champion…? And see, that’s where the problems lie… that’s where the bubbling, festering shit in this fetid pool of misery rises to the surface… because I’m going to be in a CWF ring chock full of CWF dreamers… and I’m all out of fucks to give. There isn’t a damn person in this match it seems that doesn’t already have the Impact championship lined up as their next crutch… and by that I mean they just need something to prop up their fragile, fevered egos until a few weeks later when they inevitably lose the damn thing… and I quite honestly don’t see the point. But I’m not here to judge, all I’m saying is that these four assholes are going to kill each other trying to be the last person standing because they think they need to be… and I’m gonna let ’em. As a matter of fact, I’m gonna help em. I’m going to help them hurt each other until there’s only one left to hurt… and then I’m gonna finish the job.

I don’t need to pin Raab, and Dreamcatcher, and Fuller, and Graves… I’ve just got to survive. And that’s what my opponents will inevitably fail to understand… just like they fail to understand that winning a championship and making an impact aren’t always one in the same. They want to win, and I want to survive. The winner will be the sole survivor… and I will survive.

All I really need is to be in the last two…

Then I know I’ll be the one.

…and if you think that I’m just going to stand around and take a breather… well, maybe. But my gut tells me that you’d be wrong. I want to compete, I want to show the world what exactly it is that I’m capable of. But I’m gonna do that not by trying to eliminate the most people… just the one person that matters most.

I’m gonna pick my spots. I’m going to be patient. I’m going to be doing what needs to be done with the precision that it needs to be done with. Because I’m not here to elevate myself with the Impact Championship. I’m here to elevate the Impact Championship and the CWF by making the biggest fucking impact that the CWF has ever seen!

…and I’ll do it as an Outsider. 

I’ll be… your survivor.

I’m not here for the points, or the glory, or to make myself feel better because I might have something to strap around my waist.

But, if by the end of the night, I do have something shiny and gold to strap around my waist… it’ll look damn good being in a place, with a woman, who knows what making an impact truly means.

CWF, consider this your notice.

Look at what you just made me do.