Claira St. Sure: A Retrospective and Fan Perspective
Submitted by: CCDEF on 4/8/13, 12:17 a.m.

My name is Carl Calton.

Several years ago, back when the WfWA was still open, during the final days of Defiance as a matter of fact, I was working for the WfWA in the office.  Specifically, I worked on the catering budget.  I was as much of a faceless drone as you can imagine.

One day, my boss, and I don’t even remember his name now, asked me to talk to one of the wrestlers. 

I didn’t care about wrestling, not even a little bit.  I thought it was stupid, and homoerotic.  But when I asked my boss why he wanted me to talk to this particular wrestler, he clammed up and got evasive.  Because I was young, I was more scared of disobeying my boss than I was of any wrestler, no matter how large and growly, and so I went to see this wrestler and talk to him.

His name was Kai Scott.

It turned out that Chance Wolfington wanted to get him on the WfWA’s side for their battle against Defiance, and he wanted me to try and sell Scott on the idea.

Instead, Scott ended up interviewing me, staying neutral in the whole battle between Defiance and the WfWA, and ‘flakebailing’ on Def 1.0.  He told me how at this point in his career he was more interested in the welfare of his ‘Truly Untouchables’ – he was always really vague about what exactly they were to him – and that he didn’t care whether Defiance or the WfWA won, that he wasn’t going to pick sides, that the better one would win and he would join it neither as a loyalist or a traitor, just as a manager.

One thing I learned from him was that Claira St. Sure was always supposed to be his crown jewel.  Jonny Booya and Cole Christenson were the bodyguards, the dumb muscle.  The problem was that he ran into one boss after another that wasn’t interested in taking St. Sure seriously.

She’s different, and this is from my non-fan perspective when I first met her.  She’s right in this sort of grey area between your usual wrestling girl and the she-beasts they sometimes bring in to make the fans say boo. She’s got abs instead of fake breasts, but she’s got a pretty face. And funny thing is, the more popular she gets, the more dudes are willing to say they think she’s hot even if it’s not conventional-hot.

I know how Def 2.0 happened, and Jonny Booya got faddishly popular because the whole thought of a wrestler pretending to be Johnny Bravo was funny.  But it was a one track joke, and Booya’s star waned, and the attention finally ended up to Claira, almost by default, and then she took off.

After that, Claira just went rampaging and won everything until she ran into Christian Light.  And she came back from that by winning War Games and then beating two guys who she hadn’t managed to beat in the regular season on the way through the playoffs, only to come up short in the finale, yet again at the hands of Christian Light, but because he pinned someone else.

Then the shit hit the fans.  Kai was faking being injured and infiltrating ESEN, Jeff Andrews backstabs Eric Dane, and Claira St. Sure gets dragged backstage by her new manager before she can do anything.  And ever since that shit hit the fan, it’s been all about grabbing sides in Defiance.

Tom Sawyer puts The Good Fight together, Justin Voss joins them.  Mike Sloan brings in two trainees to team with him, and when he gets hurt, a third one.  Bronson Box and Edward White, not liking the feel of not being the biggest and baddest bad guys, team up with each other.  And now Team Danger reunites.  Between the trios division and the factionalization, it’s pretty well established who’s one what side – with a few glaring exceptions.

And the two big glaring exceptions are matched up against each other for the Untouchable payperview.

Dan Ryan’s completely different from Claira St. Sure.  There’s a level of detachment on his part.  He’s more akin to a force of nature rather than someone who cares about the political stratification of Defiance. 

As for Claira, though…

Kai Scott doesn’t lie, I don’t think.  He’s too smart for that.  He tells half-truths, partial truths, or tells the truth but not the whole truth.  He said he tried to get Claira into The Untouchables, but that she didn’t get the votes she needed.  I believe that.  He never explained why she didn’t receive the usual 4 Horsemen style group stompdown when she failed to get that vote, or why she wasn’t included one way or another at the end of Masters of Wrestling.

Maybe Kai didn’t want to throw his project under the bus.  Maybe he’s got genuine feelings of affection for Claira and Diane, and is really willing to try to not hurt them.  Maybe he’s hoping that if The Untouchables fail, he can reunite with Tres Brujas and use them to get back on his feet.  Maybe he doesn’t care about them at all, but doesn’t want to make enemies of them.  Whichever way, The Untouchables have been going out of their way to avoid all 3 members of Tres Brujas.

Right now, though, Claira’s good enough that she can stand up to the Blood Diamonds and snatch a title belt away from Edward White on the eve of his triumph, good enough that Jeff Andrews has gone out of his way to awkwardly compliment her, in the interest of keeping her attention on the FIST of Defiance and not on the World Title.

And she at least seems to have integrity.  All those things that Kai Scott might have taught her to do, that he was teaching her to do back in the days of Old Line Wrestling and International Influence… they aren’t happening.  No cheating for Claira, no shortcuts. She’s a self-sufficient wrestler.

But maybe the reason someone like Tom Sawyer hasn’t pressed her to pick a side is because, no matter what, Kai Scott is still her mentor, and you have to at least worry that if Claira gets pushed into a corner, told she has to side with The Untouchables or against them, that she’ll side with them.

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