Post by Sang Réal on May 13, 2015 12:18:05 GMT -6
Monday Night Mayhem has come to an end. The fans are leaving, still reeling from the huge announcement that at the next Monday Night Mayhem, Sentinel will team with Arsenal members Jeszika Gautier, the woman who has accused him of stalking her, and the current UWA World Champion Bethany Kenyon, who Sentinel is set to face at the upcoming pay-per-view to face the UWA Television Champion Lacey Roberts and the UWA Tag Team Champions Sang Réal, Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown, with the added stipulation that should Sentinel lose control, he will also lose his title shot. For many of those competitors, however, tonight was not their night. Matches were lost and things did not go as planned.
Stephanie Miller stands outside a locker room door texting on her phone and holding a mic in her other hand. Her camera man clears his throat a few times to get her attention. After a moment, Stephanie looks up and puts her phone away.
Stephanie: “Ladies and gentlemen, my guests at this time; the UWA World Tag Team Champions Sang Réal.”
Stephanie looks around for a moment, like she expected Sang Réal to just walk up and appear next to her. She finally knocks on the door. The door opens and out steps Sang Réal, Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown. The two men are no longer in their wrestling gear, but are now wearing their usual suits and ties that they wear when not competing. Murphy has his title around his waist, under his suit jacket. Krown is carrying his title on his right shoulder. The two do not look particularly happy at the moment, despite the announcement that they will be in a main event match.
Stephanie: “Connor Murphy, Gabriel Krown, tonight obviously did not go as planned as the Cornbread Mafia was able to pick up a victory against you…”
Grabbing the title off his shoulder, Krown holds it up like he is going to throw it down, but decides against it at the last minute. He tries to get his jacket off, but is still holding the title in his hand, which makes it a little more difficult. He stops, leaving the jacket partially on.
Krown: “We did not lose! I did not tap out. I was trying to reach for the ropes and because my hand hit the mat, the referee declared it was a tap out and gave them the victory. This is exactly what happened at Spring Slaughter last year when we were screwed out of our victory. We should have won tonight and we would have if the referee hadn’t arbitrarily decided to give it to a couple of hicks who show up every few months.”
Nodding his head in agreement, Murphy takes the title from Krown, who puts his jacket back on, buttoning it up and adjusting his tie. He turns away; taking a few steps off camera and slides his hands through his hair. Murphy shoulders the title.
Murphy: “This is another example of the disrespect we have received since we became the UWA Tag Team Champions. We get to listen to everyone talk about how great Ashley, Bethany and Lacey are, but where are our praises? Where is our kudos? We beat every damn team in the UWA to become champions and do we hear any congratulations? Do we hear anyone singing our praise? No, we do not. We hear people run us down or question how we won it. We have an announcer that just showed up one day without an explanation as to why he was allowed to fill in for people and suddenly appears to work here giving us crap. We are the UWA Tag Team Champions, and we deserve respect, but not one seems to want to give it to us. They hand it out to everyone else like candy at Halloween, but not us.”
Krown: “Georgio Oliver throws us in a main event match for the next Monday Night Mayhem like we are some sort of second thought, like he was trying to pronounce the name of Aerynn, Pauly and Shonn’s trio, or was wondering if Danaka Bayne would let Bene Elohim stop being background extras or was trying to think of any other team to pair up with Lacey Roberts against Sentinel, Bethany Kenyon and Jeszika Gautier. Is that any way to treat the UWA Tag Team Champions?”
Walking back from off camera, Krown takes his title from Murphy and drapes it over his shoulder.
Murphy: “Let me stop you there, because it is not. Neither of us wants to actually touch Lacey Roberts to tag her in. Do you know how long I was in the shower after the one time I had to compete against her? Do you know how many tests I had to have after that match? I literally had everything, hair, blood, urine, stool, whatever I could get tested was tested after wrestling that skank. Now Georgio Oliver expects us to tag with her? I do not own that many scrub brushes to clean myself after tagging her in.”
Krown: “People say she missed a match because of a flight or something? Ha! Yeah right. Lacey was probably too stoned or buried under too many guys to actually make her match, because apparently, the two people who live the lifestyle that would imply they are snorting cocaine with hundred dollar bills off the breast of thousand dollar hookers, namely us, are the only people not snorting cocaine with hundred dollar bills off the breast of thousand dollar hookers. So we have to trust some drugged up skank is going to actually make it to this match when she did not make it to the last one.”
Murphy: “Look at us. I mean honestly look at us. We show up wearing suits and ties, looking like champions, and what is more, we act like champions. We carry these titles with pride and dignity.”
Spreading his arms, Murphy does a little spin to show off the suit he is wearing.
Krown: “We are not some pack of mercenaries throwing our lives out for everyone to see in some sort of reality show, going on about all our personal crap, like who is sleeping with my girlfriend or who is snorting what off of whose boobs or the baby murdering boyfriend. Nor are we almost always doing something sexual or drugs while on camera talking about an upcoming match. And we are certainly not unstable, ready to lash out at anyone. But those are the people the UWA praises. Not us, the only respectable champions the UWA has.”
Murphy: “And really, no one cares about this match. All anyone is watching this match for is to see if Sentinel snaps, kills everyone, and loses his title shot. Lacey Roberts and ourselves are just collateral damage, so he can have more people to beat the hell out of when and if he snaps, which is not how you treat champions like us.”
Krown: “Sure it is how you treat someone like Lacey, because she’s either going to overdose or die in a drug deal gone bad or just end up killed by some guy, but unlike her, we don’t have daddy issues, and we have self-confidence and reasons to live, so why are we being treated like lambs to slaughter?”
Murphy: “And it is complete bull anyway. Sentinel is clearly not sending flowers to Jeszika Gautier or being a creepy stalker guy, because it’s not his style. Sentinel is more a silent but violent type, and if he doesn’t like you, or he wants to kick your ass, you are going to know it. We know this from experience. He wouldn’t do it unless Talon ordered it; he’s far too loyal to her. But clearly we all just want to assume the worst of Sentinel, because he’s a man and Jeszika is a woman, and that’s all the proof we apparently need to tell us Sentinel is stalker her for no reason.”
Krown nods, agreeing with that statement his partner just made.
Krown: “Yeah, it would make more sense for Joshua McBride to be doing it in order to frame Sentinel. Not a lot of sense, I will grant you, because it is a convoluted and stupid plan, but still a plan. In fact, there are far more likely suspects to be Jeszika’s stalker than Sentinel, such as Joshua McBride, Tedman on a bender, Oblivion if he’s still a thing, the zombie of John Wilkes Booth, Bowser King of the Koopas, a ninja, the entire cast of Swamp People, the Ice King, a random Muppet or a houseplant. All of these are far more likely suspects than Sentinel. But I guess it’s more fun to accuse him and wait and see if he just tears a person in half than to actually bother investigate this.”
Sighing, Krown shakes his head.
Murphy: “And then we have Jeszika and Bethany. I mean sure, they are friends, but Bethany did beat Jeszika for the UWA Championship, and Bethany is dating Broderick, who Jeszika did marry, then publicly humiliate and claimed not to love him but clearly still has feelings for him, then divorced and I guess now they are all just the best of friends, because as everyone knows, the ex and current girlfriend are always the best of best friends. Please, if those two don’t have issues, I would be amazed.”
Krown: “Seriously. I have tag teamed with this guy for years and I have spent less time carpooling with him than Jeszika seems to spend at the Kenyon’s place. Does she live there?”
Stephanie shrugs.
Stephanie: “I don’t know.”
Murphy: “I think she does. I mean she seems to be there all the time.”
Stephanie: “Well uh..”
Murphy: “But that is not the point. The point is that once again we are being disrespected by the UWA. We are the UWA Tag Team Champions. People should show us respect. They should be showering us with praise, rather than seemingly ignoring everything we have done. We beat every team in the UWA to become champion and yet, they show us no respect for that accomplishment.”
Krown: “No, it’s much easier to either completely ignore it or to praise every other champion in this company. And it all seemed to have started with some pathetic, sniveling little nobody who apparently just stumbled into the UWA, sat down at the announce table and no one questioned it at all, but apparently works here.”
Murphy: “He’s not a general manager, or commissioner, or some executive from “the network”, or whatever other name you can use for a pointless, highly replaceable and ultimately ineffective authority figure. And I really doubt he’s some sort “investor” or “majority share holder” or whatever. No, Mikey is nothing, and will always be nothing.”
Krown: “He thinks he’s so tough, so cool, but let us see how tough and how cool he really is. We may have plans for Monday Night Mayhem, what with having to team with Lacey against Sentinel, Bethany and Jeszika in the latest episode of “let’s see if Sentinel goes on a killing spree this week”, but we have no plans for our next pay-per-view, so why doesn’t Mike go find himself a tag team partner and he face us in the ring if he’s so tough?”
Murphy: “And we know he’s not going to, because he’s all talk and no stones. But again, this is the UWA, and we’re pretty sure we can beat the hell out of him and get away with it.”
Krown: “After all, assaulting a pregnant lady just gets you a medical leave, so smacking around a guy who no one is sure really works here or why he is even here probably doesn’t even rate a fine. This just makes it legal.”
Murphy: “So yeah, let’s see “Mr. Third Wheel” find anyone willing to tag with him and they can step in to the ring with us, and everything we do inside those ropes, in that match is all perfectly legal. And we know he’s going to be at Monday Night Mayhem, so we definitely know he’s more than capable of answering this little challenge, and it should be easy for him, because apparently, he’s awesome enough to just walk into the arena, take a seat at an announce table and somehow has a job here.”
Krown: “If anyone here is walking out and calling a match, it is us. That’s our thing.”
Murphy and Krown suddenly look off camera. The two do not look happy to see whatever, or whoever it is that they see approaching.
Murphy: “What the hell do you want?”
Stephanie Miller backs away as Kyle Travis walks up. “The Canadian Legend” is still carrying the crowbar he used to threaten the Children of Nephilim.
Travis: “Seriously? You guys are really challenging an announcer to a match? And you are making excuses for the fact that you lost? And it is not even a good excuse. Nearly everyone has used the "I was reaching for the ropes" excuse. You do things like this, and yet you wonder why no one respects you? It is because you do things like this.”
Murphy: “Hey, we are the UWA Tag Team Champions. We are the most dominant team in the UWA today.”
Travis: “You walked out of a match a few weeks ago and just lost another one tonight. That domination seems to be slipping.”
Krown: “Oh yeah?”
Travis: “Yeah.”
Travis raises the crowbar a bit. Krown glances down at the weapon.
Krown: “Okay.”
Stephanie still looks scared of Travis, but still, in a quiet voice, tries to do her job.
Stephanie: “Uh not to interrupt here, but Kyle Travis, Danaka Bayne challenged you and has demaned you answer by Monday Night Mayhem. Do you have an answer for her?”
Travis: “Of course the answer is a yes. I mean I called her out like four weeks ago, and she sort of backed down from it. Now, I threaten her, and in an attempt to save face in the eyes of some “dark master” that I don’t even think exists, she decides to challenge me like it was all her idea and I am the one that backed down.”
For a moment, Sang Réal seems to forget their issues with Kyle Travis, and try to understand Danaka's logic.
Murphy: “That doesn’t make sense.”
Krown: “Yeah. There’s really no logic in that one. You challenged her, and then she, what, thought that challenging you would show she’s not scared? But why didn’t she just answer the challenge the first time?”
Travis: “No idea. So obviously, I have to answer her challenging my challenging her by saying yes. I don’t care if it’s her, Bene Elohim, Miako, Danaka’s “dark master”, McBride or this “twin” of Danaka’s, my answer is yes.”
Krown looks like he is trying to think of something, seeming confused. He holds up a finger, shaking it a bit, lowers it, and then turns away from Murphy, Travis and Stephanie for a moment. He then turns back to the three of them.
Krown: “Danaka has a twin?”
Murphy: “Not that I am aware of. Did you know this?”
Sang Réal looks at Stephanie Miller.
Stephanie: “No. Did you?”
Murphy: “We wouldn’t be asking if we knew, now would we?”
“The Once and Future King” nods in agreement.
Travis: “That does make sense actually.”
Stephanie: “Point taken.”
Krown: “Thank you.”
Travis: “I really don’t care if her “twin” is a clue she’s sending Bene Elohim or she’s going to claim to be her own sister or she’s going to dress as a guy and claim to be her brother or if she’s just going to show up with some sort of puppet she thinks is a person or she shows up as her own evil twin brother or sister, I am still stepping into the ring with whoever Danaka or her “master” wants to sent in against me.”
Krown: “Wouldn’t her evil twin be a good twin?”
Murphy: “Maybe?”
Travis: “I don’t think it really matters all that much.”
Stephanie: “But why challenge them in the first place?”
Travis: “That is not important.”
Murphy: “No, it seems like it is kind of important.”
Krown: “Yeah, it does seem rather important as we are on that topic of conversation.”
Travis: “No, we are here to talk about you two and why no one respects you.”
Murphy: “I don’t see you getting a lot of respect around here, and Lord knows you’ve complained about it enough, so really, I think you are the last person who should be giving us advice on getting respect around here.”
Travis: “Maybe I am, and maybe I am not, but I don’t exactly see how calling an announcer out and challenging him to a match is going to earn you respect. Maybe Ashley and Bethany have issues, maybe they let people get more of a view into their personal lives than the Kardashians, but they have climbed that ladder to the top. And maybe Lacey is not exactly a role model, but she’s a tough competitor and is more than capable of getting to the main event level. Can anyone say any of that about either of you two? I don’t think so.”
Murphy: “We are Sang Réal, and we…”
Before Murphy can finish whatever he is about to say, Travis cuts him off by holding up the crowbar. Murphy stops talking. His eyes, as well as Krown’s eyes move towards the crowbar. Stephanie backs away a bit further.
Travis: “And there was a time when you being Sang Réal actually meant something. But you, Connor, are not your brother, and you are definitely not your father. Mark had his demons, but strip away the ego, the drugs, the drinking, the barely legal girls, and you still had a great wrestler. Yeah, he had demons and they eventually ended that career, but he still made it. Your father was one of the great brawlers of the golden age. You don’t have Mark’s charisma or Shameus’ talent.”
“The Canadian Legend” then points the crowbar towards Krown.
Travis: “And you, Krown, are not your brother or your father. Yeah, your brother was insane, but he became a world champion. He was a great technical wrestler. Your father was even better. All you have done is play the fool to Murphy’s straight man, and that’s all anyone will know you for. They do not care that you’re a capable technical wrestler.”
Murphy: “At least we have a title.”
Murphy lifts his jacket to expose more of the title belt underneath while Krown taps the title on his shoulder.
Travis: “And exactly what have you done with those titles? You mock Silver Baron about acting like two wins made him and Sharpe the greatest tag team of all time, and you pointed out that K.I.S.S. won the titles for over a hundred days and yet, after stopped team and that neither team defended the titles or did anything with them, but I do not see you two doing anything with those titles either.”
Travis points the crowbar at Murphy.
Travis: “That’s Murphy’s Law.”
He then moves the crowbar way from Murphy and points his signature tool towards Krown.
Travis: “That’s Checkmate.”
Travis moves the crowbar between the two men, who keep their eyes on it, like watching a cobra in the basket, almost expecting it to strike.
Travis: “You two are Sang Réal, and you may have been born better, but you have done nothing to prove that you are better, and right now no one cares that you are Sang Réal and that you were born better or that you two are UWA Tag Team Champions, so shut up because no one wants to hear a couple of brats whine all day.”
With that, Travis backs away from Sang Réal, who have a look that seems a mix of insulted, angry and relieved that did not end with getting whacked with a crowbar. Before Stephanie can ask any follow up questions or say anything, the UWA Tag Team Champions storm back into their locker room, slamming the door behind them. Stephanie looks a little confused, but seems more relieved that she was not just stuck in middle of the fight that seemed about to break out.
Stephanie: “Well uh…there you have it, I guess. I’m not really sure what actually just happened here. Wow.”
The scene fades out on Stephanie breathing a sigh of relief.
Stephanie Miller stands outside a locker room door texting on her phone and holding a mic in her other hand. Her camera man clears his throat a few times to get her attention. After a moment, Stephanie looks up and puts her phone away.
Stephanie: “Ladies and gentlemen, my guests at this time; the UWA World Tag Team Champions Sang Réal.”
Stephanie looks around for a moment, like she expected Sang Réal to just walk up and appear next to her. She finally knocks on the door. The door opens and out steps Sang Réal, Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown. The two men are no longer in their wrestling gear, but are now wearing their usual suits and ties that they wear when not competing. Murphy has his title around his waist, under his suit jacket. Krown is carrying his title on his right shoulder. The two do not look particularly happy at the moment, despite the announcement that they will be in a main event match.
Stephanie: “Connor Murphy, Gabriel Krown, tonight obviously did not go as planned as the Cornbread Mafia was able to pick up a victory against you…”
Grabbing the title off his shoulder, Krown holds it up like he is going to throw it down, but decides against it at the last minute. He tries to get his jacket off, but is still holding the title in his hand, which makes it a little more difficult. He stops, leaving the jacket partially on.
Krown: “We did not lose! I did not tap out. I was trying to reach for the ropes and because my hand hit the mat, the referee declared it was a tap out and gave them the victory. This is exactly what happened at Spring Slaughter last year when we were screwed out of our victory. We should have won tonight and we would have if the referee hadn’t arbitrarily decided to give it to a couple of hicks who show up every few months.”
Nodding his head in agreement, Murphy takes the title from Krown, who puts his jacket back on, buttoning it up and adjusting his tie. He turns away; taking a few steps off camera and slides his hands through his hair. Murphy shoulders the title.
Murphy: “This is another example of the disrespect we have received since we became the UWA Tag Team Champions. We get to listen to everyone talk about how great Ashley, Bethany and Lacey are, but where are our praises? Where is our kudos? We beat every damn team in the UWA to become champions and do we hear any congratulations? Do we hear anyone singing our praise? No, we do not. We hear people run us down or question how we won it. We have an announcer that just showed up one day without an explanation as to why he was allowed to fill in for people and suddenly appears to work here giving us crap. We are the UWA Tag Team Champions, and we deserve respect, but not one seems to want to give it to us. They hand it out to everyone else like candy at Halloween, but not us.”
Krown: “Georgio Oliver throws us in a main event match for the next Monday Night Mayhem like we are some sort of second thought, like he was trying to pronounce the name of Aerynn, Pauly and Shonn’s trio, or was wondering if Danaka Bayne would let Bene Elohim stop being background extras or was trying to think of any other team to pair up with Lacey Roberts against Sentinel, Bethany Kenyon and Jeszika Gautier. Is that any way to treat the UWA Tag Team Champions?”
Walking back from off camera, Krown takes his title from Murphy and drapes it over his shoulder.
Murphy: “Let me stop you there, because it is not. Neither of us wants to actually touch Lacey Roberts to tag her in. Do you know how long I was in the shower after the one time I had to compete against her? Do you know how many tests I had to have after that match? I literally had everything, hair, blood, urine, stool, whatever I could get tested was tested after wrestling that skank. Now Georgio Oliver expects us to tag with her? I do not own that many scrub brushes to clean myself after tagging her in.”
Krown: “People say she missed a match because of a flight or something? Ha! Yeah right. Lacey was probably too stoned or buried under too many guys to actually make her match, because apparently, the two people who live the lifestyle that would imply they are snorting cocaine with hundred dollar bills off the breast of thousand dollar hookers, namely us, are the only people not snorting cocaine with hundred dollar bills off the breast of thousand dollar hookers. So we have to trust some drugged up skank is going to actually make it to this match when she did not make it to the last one.”
Murphy: “Look at us. I mean honestly look at us. We show up wearing suits and ties, looking like champions, and what is more, we act like champions. We carry these titles with pride and dignity.”
Spreading his arms, Murphy does a little spin to show off the suit he is wearing.
Krown: “We are not some pack of mercenaries throwing our lives out for everyone to see in some sort of reality show, going on about all our personal crap, like who is sleeping with my girlfriend or who is snorting what off of whose boobs or the baby murdering boyfriend. Nor are we almost always doing something sexual or drugs while on camera talking about an upcoming match. And we are certainly not unstable, ready to lash out at anyone. But those are the people the UWA praises. Not us, the only respectable champions the UWA has.”
Murphy: “And really, no one cares about this match. All anyone is watching this match for is to see if Sentinel snaps, kills everyone, and loses his title shot. Lacey Roberts and ourselves are just collateral damage, so he can have more people to beat the hell out of when and if he snaps, which is not how you treat champions like us.”
Krown: “Sure it is how you treat someone like Lacey, because she’s either going to overdose or die in a drug deal gone bad or just end up killed by some guy, but unlike her, we don’t have daddy issues, and we have self-confidence and reasons to live, so why are we being treated like lambs to slaughter?”
Murphy: “And it is complete bull anyway. Sentinel is clearly not sending flowers to Jeszika Gautier or being a creepy stalker guy, because it’s not his style. Sentinel is more a silent but violent type, and if he doesn’t like you, or he wants to kick your ass, you are going to know it. We know this from experience. He wouldn’t do it unless Talon ordered it; he’s far too loyal to her. But clearly we all just want to assume the worst of Sentinel, because he’s a man and Jeszika is a woman, and that’s all the proof we apparently need to tell us Sentinel is stalker her for no reason.”
Krown nods, agreeing with that statement his partner just made.
Krown: “Yeah, it would make more sense for Joshua McBride to be doing it in order to frame Sentinel. Not a lot of sense, I will grant you, because it is a convoluted and stupid plan, but still a plan. In fact, there are far more likely suspects to be Jeszika’s stalker than Sentinel, such as Joshua McBride, Tedman on a bender, Oblivion if he’s still a thing, the zombie of John Wilkes Booth, Bowser King of the Koopas, a ninja, the entire cast of Swamp People, the Ice King, a random Muppet or a houseplant. All of these are far more likely suspects than Sentinel. But I guess it’s more fun to accuse him and wait and see if he just tears a person in half than to actually bother investigate this.”
Sighing, Krown shakes his head.
Murphy: “And then we have Jeszika and Bethany. I mean sure, they are friends, but Bethany did beat Jeszika for the UWA Championship, and Bethany is dating Broderick, who Jeszika did marry, then publicly humiliate and claimed not to love him but clearly still has feelings for him, then divorced and I guess now they are all just the best of friends, because as everyone knows, the ex and current girlfriend are always the best of best friends. Please, if those two don’t have issues, I would be amazed.”
Krown: “Seriously. I have tag teamed with this guy for years and I have spent less time carpooling with him than Jeszika seems to spend at the Kenyon’s place. Does she live there?”
Stephanie shrugs.
Stephanie: “I don’t know.”
Murphy: “I think she does. I mean she seems to be there all the time.”
Stephanie: “Well uh..”
Murphy: “But that is not the point. The point is that once again we are being disrespected by the UWA. We are the UWA Tag Team Champions. People should show us respect. They should be showering us with praise, rather than seemingly ignoring everything we have done. We beat every team in the UWA to become champion and yet, they show us no respect for that accomplishment.”
Krown: “No, it’s much easier to either completely ignore it or to praise every other champion in this company. And it all seemed to have started with some pathetic, sniveling little nobody who apparently just stumbled into the UWA, sat down at the announce table and no one questioned it at all, but apparently works here.”
Murphy: “He’s not a general manager, or commissioner, or some executive from “the network”, or whatever other name you can use for a pointless, highly replaceable and ultimately ineffective authority figure. And I really doubt he’s some sort “investor” or “majority share holder” or whatever. No, Mikey is nothing, and will always be nothing.”
Krown: “He thinks he’s so tough, so cool, but let us see how tough and how cool he really is. We may have plans for Monday Night Mayhem, what with having to team with Lacey against Sentinel, Bethany and Jeszika in the latest episode of “let’s see if Sentinel goes on a killing spree this week”, but we have no plans for our next pay-per-view, so why doesn’t Mike go find himself a tag team partner and he face us in the ring if he’s so tough?”
Murphy: “And we know he’s not going to, because he’s all talk and no stones. But again, this is the UWA, and we’re pretty sure we can beat the hell out of him and get away with it.”
Krown: “After all, assaulting a pregnant lady just gets you a medical leave, so smacking around a guy who no one is sure really works here or why he is even here probably doesn’t even rate a fine. This just makes it legal.”
Murphy: “So yeah, let’s see “Mr. Third Wheel” find anyone willing to tag with him and they can step in to the ring with us, and everything we do inside those ropes, in that match is all perfectly legal. And we know he’s going to be at Monday Night Mayhem, so we definitely know he’s more than capable of answering this little challenge, and it should be easy for him, because apparently, he’s awesome enough to just walk into the arena, take a seat at an announce table and somehow has a job here.”
Krown: “If anyone here is walking out and calling a match, it is us. That’s our thing.”
Murphy and Krown suddenly look off camera. The two do not look happy to see whatever, or whoever it is that they see approaching.
Murphy: “What the hell do you want?”
Stephanie Miller backs away as Kyle Travis walks up. “The Canadian Legend” is still carrying the crowbar he used to threaten the Children of Nephilim.
Travis: “Seriously? You guys are really challenging an announcer to a match? And you are making excuses for the fact that you lost? And it is not even a good excuse. Nearly everyone has used the "I was reaching for the ropes" excuse. You do things like this, and yet you wonder why no one respects you? It is because you do things like this.”
Murphy: “Hey, we are the UWA Tag Team Champions. We are the most dominant team in the UWA today.”
Travis: “You walked out of a match a few weeks ago and just lost another one tonight. That domination seems to be slipping.”
Krown: “Oh yeah?”
Travis: “Yeah.”
Travis raises the crowbar a bit. Krown glances down at the weapon.
Krown: “Okay.”
Stephanie still looks scared of Travis, but still, in a quiet voice, tries to do her job.
Stephanie: “Uh not to interrupt here, but Kyle Travis, Danaka Bayne challenged you and has demaned you answer by Monday Night Mayhem. Do you have an answer for her?”
Travis: “Of course the answer is a yes. I mean I called her out like four weeks ago, and she sort of backed down from it. Now, I threaten her, and in an attempt to save face in the eyes of some “dark master” that I don’t even think exists, she decides to challenge me like it was all her idea and I am the one that backed down.”
For a moment, Sang Réal seems to forget their issues with Kyle Travis, and try to understand Danaka's logic.
Murphy: “That doesn’t make sense.”
Krown: “Yeah. There’s really no logic in that one. You challenged her, and then she, what, thought that challenging you would show she’s not scared? But why didn’t she just answer the challenge the first time?”
Travis: “No idea. So obviously, I have to answer her challenging my challenging her by saying yes. I don’t care if it’s her, Bene Elohim, Miako, Danaka’s “dark master”, McBride or this “twin” of Danaka’s, my answer is yes.”
Krown looks like he is trying to think of something, seeming confused. He holds up a finger, shaking it a bit, lowers it, and then turns away from Murphy, Travis and Stephanie for a moment. He then turns back to the three of them.
Krown: “Danaka has a twin?”
Murphy: “Not that I am aware of. Did you know this?”
Sang Réal looks at Stephanie Miller.
Stephanie: “No. Did you?”
Murphy: “We wouldn’t be asking if we knew, now would we?”
“The Once and Future King” nods in agreement.
Travis: “That does make sense actually.”
Stephanie: “Point taken.”
Krown: “Thank you.”
Travis: “I really don’t care if her “twin” is a clue she’s sending Bene Elohim or she’s going to claim to be her own sister or she’s going to dress as a guy and claim to be her brother or if she’s just going to show up with some sort of puppet she thinks is a person or she shows up as her own evil twin brother or sister, I am still stepping into the ring with whoever Danaka or her “master” wants to sent in against me.”
Krown: “Wouldn’t her evil twin be a good twin?”
Murphy: “Maybe?”
Travis: “I don’t think it really matters all that much.”
Stephanie: “But why challenge them in the first place?”
Travis: “That is not important.”
Murphy: “No, it seems like it is kind of important.”
Krown: “Yeah, it does seem rather important as we are on that topic of conversation.”
Travis: “No, we are here to talk about you two and why no one respects you.”
Murphy: “I don’t see you getting a lot of respect around here, and Lord knows you’ve complained about it enough, so really, I think you are the last person who should be giving us advice on getting respect around here.”
Travis: “Maybe I am, and maybe I am not, but I don’t exactly see how calling an announcer out and challenging him to a match is going to earn you respect. Maybe Ashley and Bethany have issues, maybe they let people get more of a view into their personal lives than the Kardashians, but they have climbed that ladder to the top. And maybe Lacey is not exactly a role model, but she’s a tough competitor and is more than capable of getting to the main event level. Can anyone say any of that about either of you two? I don’t think so.”
Murphy: “We are Sang Réal, and we…”
Before Murphy can finish whatever he is about to say, Travis cuts him off by holding up the crowbar. Murphy stops talking. His eyes, as well as Krown’s eyes move towards the crowbar. Stephanie backs away a bit further.
Travis: “And there was a time when you being Sang Réal actually meant something. But you, Connor, are not your brother, and you are definitely not your father. Mark had his demons, but strip away the ego, the drugs, the drinking, the barely legal girls, and you still had a great wrestler. Yeah, he had demons and they eventually ended that career, but he still made it. Your father was one of the great brawlers of the golden age. You don’t have Mark’s charisma or Shameus’ talent.”
“The Canadian Legend” then points the crowbar towards Krown.
Travis: “And you, Krown, are not your brother or your father. Yeah, your brother was insane, but he became a world champion. He was a great technical wrestler. Your father was even better. All you have done is play the fool to Murphy’s straight man, and that’s all anyone will know you for. They do not care that you’re a capable technical wrestler.”
Murphy: “At least we have a title.”
Murphy lifts his jacket to expose more of the title belt underneath while Krown taps the title on his shoulder.
Travis: “And exactly what have you done with those titles? You mock Silver Baron about acting like two wins made him and Sharpe the greatest tag team of all time, and you pointed out that K.I.S.S. won the titles for over a hundred days and yet, after stopped team and that neither team defended the titles or did anything with them, but I do not see you two doing anything with those titles either.”
Travis points the crowbar at Murphy.
Travis: “That’s Murphy’s Law.”
He then moves the crowbar way from Murphy and points his signature tool towards Krown.
Travis: “That’s Checkmate.”
Travis moves the crowbar between the two men, who keep their eyes on it, like watching a cobra in the basket, almost expecting it to strike.
Travis: “You two are Sang Réal, and you may have been born better, but you have done nothing to prove that you are better, and right now no one cares that you are Sang Réal and that you were born better or that you two are UWA Tag Team Champions, so shut up because no one wants to hear a couple of brats whine all day.”
With that, Travis backs away from Sang Réal, who have a look that seems a mix of insulted, angry and relieved that did not end with getting whacked with a crowbar. Before Stephanie can ask any follow up questions or say anything, the UWA Tag Team Champions storm back into their locker room, slamming the door behind them. Stephanie looks a little confused, but seems more relieved that she was not just stuck in middle of the fight that seemed about to break out.
Stephanie: “Well uh…there you have it, I guess. I’m not really sure what actually just happened here. Wow.”
The scene fades out on Stephanie breathing a sigh of relief.