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From there real life began to take over. I was working a lot, gotten engaged, got my masters, and I never really put my heart and sole into the UCA. I would try my hardest with a standard effort but it really wasn't the same as when I was in college and those first two reigns. Hell I even managed to become champion one more time. I was here but it just wasn't the same and I had this bad stigma about myself that I kept losing at the end of every big opportunity I got. It was until I started running shows again that I realized that it was my effort that I was putting into the UCA that made me popular in the first place and likely what I was missing.

I think my lowest of lows was in the feud against Steiner though. I just didnt get Steiner and his popularity. The way he spoke to me and Sultan I didn't respect and yet people not only enjoyed it but they supported it. And people would try and tell me to stop getting worked by the story but the things he was saying were just straight out nasty. And I had dealt with some bullying in real life and on the board so I just didn't want to take it anymore more. To top it off, it was really coming at a time where there were a lot of questions were happening in my real life. I was 6 months away from my wedding, my job was asking me to work 60 hours a week, and my fiancee and I found out that we were having a baby. So was it all for show? Maybe but at the time I had so much going on that it felt too real and upsetting to me.

So after I got crushed in votals by someone who I thought was a horrible person. I asked myself, what do I need this for? I believe I even posted a topic about it but thanks to a heart to heart with the man who crushed my original dreams, Stifled, I was able to turn my mindset on the board around and I continued to stick around. Which was a good thing because Steiner sure as heck didn't.

Late 2016 comes around and I lose my job, which turned out to be a good thing, because I got a new job that had a lot more freedoms and gave me more time to do other things during the work day and it just came at the same time as a dark point for XIII. As I remembered it, XIII was done. Life was getting to him and being replaced had already failed him once and despite being adamant about not wanting to run the UCA. I decided to take up the booking job. The thing that ended up causing our confusion a month ago though was, I didn't think XIII was coming back. I thought this was me until we closed it. But during the last couple months, my UCA spirits had been revitalized and I had the time to commit to it as well and I just enjoyed making everyone else's UCA dreams come true. It is something I should have considered doing sooner.

I want to circle back to saying that while it seems that I only talked about the bad stuff, or at leas that is how it feels rereading it, I did enjoy doing UCA. Especially, the tag team stuff because I wasn't a huge planner when it came to tag teams. But the fact that I would say, "We are one" and GTM would follow it up with a "We are one" was hilarious to me and the small things were the things I think made me the happiest outside of my big UCA Accomplishments.

So this is the part of the speech I tag and thank everyone. Thank you @Eddv, for bringing me in. (out of character) @TheSultanOfSlam for being the most dangerous faction in the UCA. @XIII_rocks for all of the opportunities given even when we didn't get a long. @Tom_Bombadil for basically being my confidant and partner this past year. @Strife2 for being my eternal rival. @StifledSilence for the smart words you gave me that one day in 2016. And those thanking me in topic, thank you for dealing with me.

Since having my son, I have trying to be less selfish and more giving to others so for those of you that I have helped on the way I hope I made the UCA just a little better for you like others have done for me. Monday I will book my last Ruin and I hope you all enjoy it and this last 2 weeks of UCA. eaed out
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