Post by Sang Réal on Aug 8, 2015 6:24:20 GMT -6
The UWA Tag Team Champions, Connor Murphy and Gabriel Krown, collectively know as Sang Réal, Old French for “royal blood”, stand in front of a backdrop bearing the UWA logo. As it has been weeks since their last match, they are not dressed to compete. Rather they are dressed in the suits and ties they usual dress in when backstage, trying to capture that air of royalty, or social elite, that look of champions they try to capture. Murphy is wearing those gold, round framed sunglasses of his.
Helping the look, of course, is the fact that the two men have the UWA Tag Team Championships. Krown’s title is around his waist, while Murphy has his title over his shoulder.
Murphy: “We stand here as the most dominant tag team in the UWA today!”
Krown: “Damn right we are. We beat every other team here. You name them, we beatthem. In one night, we beat Bene Elohim, which to be honest, is pretty much meaningless, the Cornbread Mafia, which we have done before and can do again, and K.I.S.S., the team everyone says is the best. And then, we follow that by beating the Sin City Knights, which is actually a meaningless and worthless accomplishment considering it wasn’t the originals, just Silver Baron and whoever is on the team that month, but we still won.”
Murphy: “And apparently, because of that domination, we are much feared because we have yet to have a single team challenge us for these titles.”
The younger brother of former world champion Noah Krown takes the title from around his waist and holds it up. He looks at it and taps the plate with a finger.
Krown: “This feels like a real championship, ergo, we must be champions, which would mean we should have challengers. But that does not seem to be the case. It is a puzzler.”
Krown shoulders the title.
Murphy: “I say this because it is the only explaination why we have been the UWA Tag Team Champions for months and for all those months, we and these championships have been ignored.”
Krown nods in agreement.
Krown: “They really have.”
Murphy: “No team has come forth to challenge us.”
Krown: “Not a single one.”
Murphy: “No two random people we offended have joined forces to try and beat us.”
Krown: “And we have offended a lot of people. Have you heard us on commentary? There is no way we have yet to offend someone.”
Murphy: “And not a single number one contendership match has been made.”
Krown: “And we have asked. We practically begged, we said do a battle royal or something like that, find us a challenger, but the UWA had other stuff.”
Murphy: “We have sat on the sidelines as we watched whatever is going on with the Television Championship. We stood by, forgotten, as we saw all the shenanigans with the UWA Kenyon Sister Championship…sorry, I meant the UWA North American Championship, which it is nice to see is being kept in the family.”
Krown: “Anyone know if Tedman is still alive? Did he overdose or did he do something stupid like drive through a mall or something he saw on Family Guy and was stoned enough to think was a good idea to try an imitate or did Ashley just kill him? You would have thought Ashley versus Tedman to settle the matter would have happened, but I guess not.”
The heir to the Murphy wrestling legacy shrugs.
Murphy: “Clearly.”
Krown: “When did attacking someone and taking their title make you a champion? I mean Bob Brooks did it with the Television Championship and Ashley seems to have done it with the United States Championship. If we had only just taken the titles after beating the hell out of Silver Baron and Quentin Sharpe, we’d apparently have been champions last year, like right after they won the titles, we’d have been champions apparently.”
Murphy: “And of course, we get to see all the fun around the UWA World Heavyweight Championship.”
Krown leans in, his eyes wide, holding a finger up. As he speaks, he sounds like the crazy old person in a horror movie who tells the protagonist of the local evil legend that they will eventually poke with a stick and then be shocked and horrified as they wonder what went wrong.
Krown: “Tis an evil title that is. Holding it goes and makes thems what holds it go evil it do. Like the One Ring, it is a tool of evil, bringing those that claim it into the shadows. Winning it means you start smashing it into the faces of ring announcers, or punching fans or leaving submission holds on too long. So far, only Bethany Kenyon has resisted the evil of the UWA Championship, which means she be a hobbit. Only she can throws it into the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged.”
Murphy turns to Krown, lowering his sunglasses and raising an eyebrow.
Murphy: “What?”
Krown stands up and looks at his teammate.
Krown: “Too much?”
Murphy: “A little, yeah.”
Krown: “It is true though. It seems like everyone who holds the title does something people consider horrible.”
Murphy: “Well that is true.”
Krown: “Exactly.”
The two turn to face the camera again. Krown adjusts the title on his shoulder and Murphy slides his sunglasses back on.
Murphy: “What people seem to forget though is that the UWA has Tag Team Championships. We are Tag Team Champions. We want to defend these titles.”
Krown looks up and takes the title off his shoulder, holding it up a bit, like a guy playing Hamlet holding up Yorik’s skull.
Krown: “Why won’t you let us defend them? We really, really, really do want to defend them. Please let us defend them. Why won’t you let us defend these titles? Why?”
Murphy ignores this latest outburst from his partner, who is shouldering the title again.
Murphy: “The UWA Tag Team Championships are considerably the least prestigious titles in the UWA. The first team to win these titles, Silver Baron and the Protector or Quentin “Razor” Sharpe, never should have won them.”
Krown: “It’s been a year, and yet no one, absolutely no one can explain how exactly a team that had never teamed up before, a team of some guy off the street and a wrestler who had been wrestling singles matches for months, somehow qualified to be in a Tag Team Championship match over any other qualified team or even people who had been in the UWA for awhile, like the random team of J-Shades and Bob Brooks, or Skylar and Craven, or Jerry, the camera man and Steve in marketing. I mean even Steve in marketing would have been more qualified that Sharpe, who I am pretty sure is dead, or retired. It’s been awhile since he’s been here.”
Murphy: “But everyone looked at us as whiners when we called the UWA out on this. And how great was the reign? How great was the team of Silver Baron and Quentin Sharpe?”
Krown: “According to Silver Baron, greatest team ever. Compare them to teams like Razor’s Edge, Frenzy, or any other great team and clearly, the thrown together at the last minute team was better than all of them on the merit of winning only two matches.”
Sarcastically, Krown gives to thumbs up and an over the top smile for the title reign of the Sin City Knights.
Murphy: “And when it finally came time to defend the titles, when Silver Baron told Sharpe that they had found a team he deemed worthy enough to have the honor of standing in the ring with them, after he proved how much a coward and how pathetic he was by denying our challenge, a fight he said would be easy, they lost the titles to K.I.S.S.”
Krown: “We all saw that coming really. I don’t think anyone was shocked or surprised that K.I.S.S. beat the Sin City Knights for the titles. Even Helen Keller would have seen it coming.”
Murphy: “And the Kenyons are fighters. We all thought that when they won the titles, we would see a change in the division. We all thought we would see the titles brought to prestige and prominence. We thought we would see a revolution of tag teams.”
Krown: “We were wrong.”
Murphy: “As soon as K.I.S.S. won the titles, Ashley and Bethany went on to never team for over two hundred days. From the day they won the titles to the day they lost the titles, Ashley and Bethany Keyon never teamed. They would both go on to compete for singles titles, but use the UWA Tag Team Championships as decorations in their home.”
Shaking his head, Krown makes a “tsk tsk” sound.
Krown: “That is really sad.”
Murphy: “Before we won these titles, we called both those teams out on just sitting on the titles, and we have done the same thing.”
The heir to the Krown wrestling family legacy looks and sounds angry for a moment.
He claps sardonically.
Krown: “Way to go guy who makes the matches here in the UWA! Way to make us look like hypocritical assholes. Newsflash for you, we don’t need your help to do that. We can do that perfectly fine on our own, thank you very much!”
That anger quickly fades. Murphy ignores it.
Murphy: “Now, it appears that the UWA has decided to do a Supershow of some sort, and they let the gates open. Anyone who wants a match can get a match. Well, we want a match.”
Krown: “We do. We really do.”
Murphy: “We do not care who this match is against. We do not care if it is some tag team in the UWA or two people who just want to join up and start tag teaming. We do not care who it is. We want a match.”
Krown: “Who wants to step up and face the best damn team in the UWA today, the most dominant team in the UWA, the reigning and defending UWA Tag Team Champions, Sang Réal? Who wants the chance at glory?”
Murphy: “Now, we are more than willing to sweeten the deal.”
Krown: “And really, we think it is a pretty good deal.”
The son of Irish wrestling legend Shameus Murphy takes the title off his shoulder and holds it in front of him.
Murphy: “Beat us and earn a shot at the UWA Tag Team Championships at Monday Night Mayhem.”
Murphy pulls the title back and shoulders it again.
Krown: “You can’t beat a deal like that. Beat the champion and actually earn a title shot. Who would have thought of such a thing except for every other wrestling company in the world, but that is neither here nor there.”
Murphy: “If the UWA is not going to bother finding us people to compete against, finding challengers to face us, then we will do it ourselves.”
Krown: “Who is it going to be? Will the Cornbread Mafia show up to face us and prove they deserve a title shot? Can Fraser Freeman recover from his beat down to reform the REAL Sin City Knights, if Vince Jones allows him, to reclaim the team’s former glory and prove that the Sin City Knights are not just limping along? Could Ashley and Bethany Kenyon put aside their differences and forget about their upcoming match for the North American Championship to shut us up? Or maybe two random people will just team up, form a team and get lucky and beat us in a major upset? Will it be two guys tired of waiting around for their opportunity and thinking they can take it? Will it be some new team? We don’t know and we don’t care. We are just throwing the challenge out there and seeing what happens.”
Murphy: “Step up and face the UWA World Tag Team Champions, Sang Réal, the most dominant team in the UWA today, and prove to the entire world why you deserve to be here, and why you deserve to be the UWA Tag Team Champions.”
Krown: “Step up ladies and gentlemen. All you have to do is beat the best team in the UWA today and you win a prize. One shot at a chance at glory, a chance to earn the opportunity of a lifetime. You know you want it. The only question is are you going to take it?”
Murphy: “We are tired of sitting on the sidelines, tired of being ignored even though we are champions. These are titles. They are meant to be defended, to be desired and competed for. And if you can beat us, you will earn that opportunity. Who will try? That’s Murphy’s Law.”
Krown: “We said time and time again that the UWA Tag Team Champions are held by paper champions. We had every single intention of not being paper champions, but apparently, Georgio and fatboy don’t care about the UWA tag team division or these titles. We do. The team that beats us will earn themselves a shot and we will put that in writing. That’s Checkmate.”
Murphy: “We are Sang Réal.”
Krown: “And at the UWA Supershow, we are going to show everyone why we are the UWA Tag Team Champions if anyone is willing to step up to the best.”
Murphy and Krown take the titles off their shoulders and raise them high above their heads. The scene fades out on the UWA Tag Team Championships.
Helping the look, of course, is the fact that the two men have the UWA Tag Team Championships. Krown’s title is around his waist, while Murphy has his title over his shoulder.
Murphy: “We stand here as the most dominant tag team in the UWA today!”
Krown: “Damn right we are. We beat every other team here. You name them, we beatthem. In one night, we beat Bene Elohim, which to be honest, is pretty much meaningless, the Cornbread Mafia, which we have done before and can do again, and K.I.S.S., the team everyone says is the best. And then, we follow that by beating the Sin City Knights, which is actually a meaningless and worthless accomplishment considering it wasn’t the originals, just Silver Baron and whoever is on the team that month, but we still won.”
Murphy: “And apparently, because of that domination, we are much feared because we have yet to have a single team challenge us for these titles.”
The younger brother of former world champion Noah Krown takes the title from around his waist and holds it up. He looks at it and taps the plate with a finger.
Krown: “This feels like a real championship, ergo, we must be champions, which would mean we should have challengers. But that does not seem to be the case. It is a puzzler.”
Krown shoulders the title.
Murphy: “I say this because it is the only explaination why we have been the UWA Tag Team Champions for months and for all those months, we and these championships have been ignored.”
Krown nods in agreement.
Krown: “They really have.”
Murphy: “No team has come forth to challenge us.”
Krown: “Not a single one.”
Murphy: “No two random people we offended have joined forces to try and beat us.”
Krown: “And we have offended a lot of people. Have you heard us on commentary? There is no way we have yet to offend someone.”
Murphy: “And not a single number one contendership match has been made.”
Krown: “And we have asked. We practically begged, we said do a battle royal or something like that, find us a challenger, but the UWA had other stuff.”
Murphy: “We have sat on the sidelines as we watched whatever is going on with the Television Championship. We stood by, forgotten, as we saw all the shenanigans with the UWA Kenyon Sister Championship…sorry, I meant the UWA North American Championship, which it is nice to see is being kept in the family.”
Krown: “Anyone know if Tedman is still alive? Did he overdose or did he do something stupid like drive through a mall or something he saw on Family Guy and was stoned enough to think was a good idea to try an imitate or did Ashley just kill him? You would have thought Ashley versus Tedman to settle the matter would have happened, but I guess not.”
The heir to the Murphy wrestling legacy shrugs.
Murphy: “Clearly.”
Krown: “When did attacking someone and taking their title make you a champion? I mean Bob Brooks did it with the Television Championship and Ashley seems to have done it with the United States Championship. If we had only just taken the titles after beating the hell out of Silver Baron and Quentin Sharpe, we’d apparently have been champions last year, like right after they won the titles, we’d have been champions apparently.”
Murphy: “And of course, we get to see all the fun around the UWA World Heavyweight Championship.”
Krown leans in, his eyes wide, holding a finger up. As he speaks, he sounds like the crazy old person in a horror movie who tells the protagonist of the local evil legend that they will eventually poke with a stick and then be shocked and horrified as they wonder what went wrong.
Krown: “Tis an evil title that is. Holding it goes and makes thems what holds it go evil it do. Like the One Ring, it is a tool of evil, bringing those that claim it into the shadows. Winning it means you start smashing it into the faces of ring announcers, or punching fans or leaving submission holds on too long. So far, only Bethany Kenyon has resisted the evil of the UWA Championship, which means she be a hobbit. Only she can throws it into the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged.”
Murphy turns to Krown, lowering his sunglasses and raising an eyebrow.
Murphy: “What?”
Krown stands up and looks at his teammate.
Krown: “Too much?”
Murphy: “A little, yeah.”
Krown: “It is true though. It seems like everyone who holds the title does something people consider horrible.”
Murphy: “Well that is true.”
Krown: “Exactly.”
The two turn to face the camera again. Krown adjusts the title on his shoulder and Murphy slides his sunglasses back on.
Murphy: “What people seem to forget though is that the UWA has Tag Team Championships. We are Tag Team Champions. We want to defend these titles.”
Krown looks up and takes the title off his shoulder, holding it up a bit, like a guy playing Hamlet holding up Yorik’s skull.
Krown: “Why won’t you let us defend them? We really, really, really do want to defend them. Please let us defend them. Why won’t you let us defend these titles? Why?”
Murphy ignores this latest outburst from his partner, who is shouldering the title again.
Murphy: “The UWA Tag Team Championships are considerably the least prestigious titles in the UWA. The first team to win these titles, Silver Baron and the Protector or Quentin “Razor” Sharpe, never should have won them.”
Krown: “It’s been a year, and yet no one, absolutely no one can explain how exactly a team that had never teamed up before, a team of some guy off the street and a wrestler who had been wrestling singles matches for months, somehow qualified to be in a Tag Team Championship match over any other qualified team or even people who had been in the UWA for awhile, like the random team of J-Shades and Bob Brooks, or Skylar and Craven, or Jerry, the camera man and Steve in marketing. I mean even Steve in marketing would have been more qualified that Sharpe, who I am pretty sure is dead, or retired. It’s been awhile since he’s been here.”
Murphy: “But everyone looked at us as whiners when we called the UWA out on this. And how great was the reign? How great was the team of Silver Baron and Quentin Sharpe?”
Krown: “According to Silver Baron, greatest team ever. Compare them to teams like Razor’s Edge, Frenzy, or any other great team and clearly, the thrown together at the last minute team was better than all of them on the merit of winning only two matches.”
Sarcastically, Krown gives to thumbs up and an over the top smile for the title reign of the Sin City Knights.
Murphy: “And when it finally came time to defend the titles, when Silver Baron told Sharpe that they had found a team he deemed worthy enough to have the honor of standing in the ring with them, after he proved how much a coward and how pathetic he was by denying our challenge, a fight he said would be easy, they lost the titles to K.I.S.S.”
Krown: “We all saw that coming really. I don’t think anyone was shocked or surprised that K.I.S.S. beat the Sin City Knights for the titles. Even Helen Keller would have seen it coming.”
Murphy: “And the Kenyons are fighters. We all thought that when they won the titles, we would see a change in the division. We all thought we would see the titles brought to prestige and prominence. We thought we would see a revolution of tag teams.”
Krown: “We were wrong.”
Murphy: “As soon as K.I.S.S. won the titles, Ashley and Bethany went on to never team for over two hundred days. From the day they won the titles to the day they lost the titles, Ashley and Bethany Keyon never teamed. They would both go on to compete for singles titles, but use the UWA Tag Team Championships as decorations in their home.”
Shaking his head, Krown makes a “tsk tsk” sound.
Krown: “That is really sad.”
Murphy: “Before we won these titles, we called both those teams out on just sitting on the titles, and we have done the same thing.”
The heir to the Krown wrestling family legacy looks and sounds angry for a moment.
He claps sardonically.
Krown: “Way to go guy who makes the matches here in the UWA! Way to make us look like hypocritical assholes. Newsflash for you, we don’t need your help to do that. We can do that perfectly fine on our own, thank you very much!”
That anger quickly fades. Murphy ignores it.
Murphy: “Now, it appears that the UWA has decided to do a Supershow of some sort, and they let the gates open. Anyone who wants a match can get a match. Well, we want a match.”
Krown: “We do. We really do.”
Murphy: “We do not care who this match is against. We do not care if it is some tag team in the UWA or two people who just want to join up and start tag teaming. We do not care who it is. We want a match.”
Krown: “Who wants to step up and face the best damn team in the UWA today, the most dominant team in the UWA, the reigning and defending UWA Tag Team Champions, Sang Réal? Who wants the chance at glory?”
Murphy: “Now, we are more than willing to sweeten the deal.”
Krown: “And really, we think it is a pretty good deal.”
The son of Irish wrestling legend Shameus Murphy takes the title off his shoulder and holds it in front of him.
Murphy: “Beat us and earn a shot at the UWA Tag Team Championships at Monday Night Mayhem.”
Murphy pulls the title back and shoulders it again.
Krown: “You can’t beat a deal like that. Beat the champion and actually earn a title shot. Who would have thought of such a thing except for every other wrestling company in the world, but that is neither here nor there.”
Murphy: “If the UWA is not going to bother finding us people to compete against, finding challengers to face us, then we will do it ourselves.”
Krown: “Who is it going to be? Will the Cornbread Mafia show up to face us and prove they deserve a title shot? Can Fraser Freeman recover from his beat down to reform the REAL Sin City Knights, if Vince Jones allows him, to reclaim the team’s former glory and prove that the Sin City Knights are not just limping along? Could Ashley and Bethany Kenyon put aside their differences and forget about their upcoming match for the North American Championship to shut us up? Or maybe two random people will just team up, form a team and get lucky and beat us in a major upset? Will it be two guys tired of waiting around for their opportunity and thinking they can take it? Will it be some new team? We don’t know and we don’t care. We are just throwing the challenge out there and seeing what happens.”
Murphy: “Step up and face the UWA World Tag Team Champions, Sang Réal, the most dominant team in the UWA today, and prove to the entire world why you deserve to be here, and why you deserve to be the UWA Tag Team Champions.”
Krown: “Step up ladies and gentlemen. All you have to do is beat the best team in the UWA today and you win a prize. One shot at a chance at glory, a chance to earn the opportunity of a lifetime. You know you want it. The only question is are you going to take it?”
Murphy: “We are tired of sitting on the sidelines, tired of being ignored even though we are champions. These are titles. They are meant to be defended, to be desired and competed for. And if you can beat us, you will earn that opportunity. Who will try? That’s Murphy’s Law.”
Krown: “We said time and time again that the UWA Tag Team Champions are held by paper champions. We had every single intention of not being paper champions, but apparently, Georgio and fatboy don’t care about the UWA tag team division or these titles. We do. The team that beats us will earn themselves a shot and we will put that in writing. That’s Checkmate.”
Murphy: “We are Sang Réal.”
Krown: “And at the UWA Supershow, we are going to show everyone why we are the UWA Tag Team Champions if anyone is willing to step up to the best.”
Murphy and Krown take the titles off their shoulders and raise them high above their heads. The scene fades out on the UWA Tag Team Championships.