My name is Steve Corino and I am an Evil person.
You know this. The ROH world knows this. I am just who I am. I can not help it but I am trying every day to get better. Every day is a fight to stay on the right path.
How you may ask? How is it that in today’s world of professional wrestling that you can not just be the person you are at home? I understand the questions. I live with them. I ask them to myself. Outside of the ring I like me. Inside the ring I feel like I am a Monster sometimes. After being a certain way for 17 years, it is tough to change. But I try.
I filmed a promo in Chicago at the first ROH TV tapings of the season and in that segment I told ROH officials and fans that I would do anything to prove my loyalty to Ring Of Honor.
Never in a million years did I think they would test my loyalty by signing a match against El Generico at Death Before Dishonor, live on iPPV, September 17 from New York City. Never.
Why though? Hasn’t the last nine months shown ROH that I am a man that is in recovery? Although I have not been successful in the win department, I have resisted the urges that come to me every show. The cheer of the fans are my wins.
I am not under contract to ROH. I am fighting for one. They refused to sign me because of my past and I don’t blame them. With every match, I try and show the fans, officials, and wrestlers that I am a man of honor.
Do you know how it feels to dress outside the locker rooms? Neither the fan favorites nor rulebreakers want anything to do with me. I go up to the ROH officials and ask for help but am always looked upon as a nuisance. It is like ROH wants me to fall off the wagon.
Only Jimmy Jacobs has been in my corner. He is a sponsor that has felt the pain of addiction. He is my advisor and my only friend in professional wrestling.
I am sorry ROH fans if it seems like I am whining but I am not ready for a match with El Generico. It was less then a year ago when I planned and help execute his demise from professional wrestling. And in that process I created a Monster. A Monster, who not only lives in my head, but lives in the form of a human. A Monster so Evil that even walking down the street, I look around for it.
It is going to get me. ROH can not stop the Monster from destroying me. ROH can not help me. It is in my head. It will get me.
Booking me vs. El Generico will only summon it. It has said so. This can only turn out bad for me, El Generico, and the state of ROH.
The Monster is Evil. Do the right thing ROH and cancel this match. I have been off the wagon for less than a year. I am not ready for this challenge.
Jimmy Jacobs told me that he would talk to Jim Cornette and the ROH Officials about this match.
Maybe Death Before Dishonor in 2012 can feature a clean match between El Generico and Steve Corino. Maybe I would be ready then. But until that time, you don’t put cocaine in front of a drug addict and you don’t put whiskey in front of a alcoholic, why would you put El Generico and that mask in front of me?
Help me ROH.
Steve Corino
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