Post by Sang Réal on Aug 20, 2014 14:16:28 GMT -6
At one of the many lounges in Las Vegas, Nevada, the red curtains are closed. The stage lights swirl around the red carpet. There are people in the audience with waitresses moving through to serve drinks.
The curtains are drawn back to reveal a pair of high backed leather chairs and what looks like the interior of a private library with a fireplace. There is a small table between the chairs with a lamp on it. The whole set has a Masterpiece Theater feel to it. However, off to other sides of the chairs are two large monitors that are presently turned off. Above the stage is one of those signs TV shows use to tell their studio audience what to do.
Off to the side of the stage is a band that begins to play “Sinfonies de Fanfares: Rondeau”. The lights dim. Two spot lights hit the stage on either end. The monitors come on to show the emblem of Sang Réal: a drop of blood with a clover leaf with a crown around it in the center.
Announcer: “Ladies and gentlemen…please welcome Connor Murphy…”
From the left side of the stage comes Connor Murphy. He is dressed in a black tuxedo and his signature gold round-framed sunglasses. He is holding a glass of scotch. There is applause as he walks out.
Announcer: “And Gabriel Krown…”
From the right side of the stage, Gabriel Krown walks out. Like Murphy, he too is wearing a tuxedo.
Announcer: “Sang Réal!”
The two men meet in the middle of the stage. Murphy takes a drink of the glass.
Murphy: “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Las Vegas and this very special edition of our hit Internet show “Roll Call”. I am Connor Murphy.”
Krown: “And I am Gabriel Krown.”
Murphy: “It is great to be here in Las Vegas, where anyone can either make a fortune or lose everything, all with a showgirl on his arm. This is a great town founded on mob money and now a glittery family vacation sport filled with gambling and prostitutes.”
Krown: “Where singers who have not had a new song in decades perform, and singers whose careers are nearly over try to reclaim their magic and where tigers maul magicians and should maul more take the stage. Where show quality has gone downhill since the Rat Pack broke up. But we are here to fix that.”
The crowd boos a little.
Murphy: “Tonight we take a special look at the UWA Tag Team Championship title match at Raising Hell.”
Krown: “That’s right ladies and gentlemen, and wrestling fans of all ages, because what better way to crown the first champions than having a team that only wrestles on pay-per-view and a team randomly thrown together in a match with no hype or backstory and nothing?”
Murphy: “I can’t think of one. Can you?”
Krown: “What? Like having legitimate teams or something like a tournament or something like they did with the other two titles?”
Murphy: “Yes. Exactly like that.”
Krown: “That’s just crazy talk that is.”
There is a mix of laughter and applause from the audience. Murphy raises the glass and takes another drink.
Murphy: “So let’s take a look at the first team, the most dominant tag team in UWA today, Sin City’s own the Protector and the Silver Baron.”
There is applause for the hometown team. The image of the Silver Baron inside the ring during his entrance, in his entrance attire with his entourage appears on the left. On the right is a picture from the Protector’s profile on UWA.com as he has yet to actually debut in a match.
The two cocky and arrogant second generation wrestlers move to the high backed leather chairs and take their seats. Krown nods to the crowd as Murphy takes a drink from the glass.
Krown: “That’s right, you should cheer them. They have totally torn through all the teams they have faced. Who could forget their epic feud with K.I.S.S.? How could anyone forget the amazing victory they had over us and the Cornbread Mafia inside the cage? And who could forget how they decimated the team of Bene Elohim? And who wasn’t watching as the two of them totally owned every combination of Dark Camelot all in one epic gauntlet match? Or how they beat the Rising Sun Dynasty in like a mniute?”
Murphy: “All proof that Silver Baron and Protector are the greatest team of all time according to at least three or four people on the Internet and we all know how great and completely not full of fickle, whiny know-it-alls the Internet wrestling community is.”
Krown: “Sure, K.I.S.S. has been busy for the last few weeks, and sure I am pretty confident Dark Camelot left and sure the Rising Sun Dynasty probably committed seppuku after their first and only match here, which was a losss, and sure neither we or the Cornbread Mafia or Bene Elohim have not been in a match since Searing Agony, and sure the Protector has not even officially wrestled his first match, and they have never actually teamed, but that does not mean that the Protector and Silver Baron are not the most dominant team in UWA. They are, after all, undefeated.”
Murphy: “I am sure that the fact that they are both from Las Vegas and Raising Hell being in Las Vegas has nothing to do with their getting a title shot. It’s probably just a coincidence.”
Krown: “Technically, as we are in the Orleans, we are in Paradise, Nevada, but it is part of Las Vegas I guess. It’s at least closer than saying Lowell, Massachusetts is part of Boston or the Boston area like some people we know. It is close enough, just like saying pairing the Silver Baron and the Protector makes them a team is close enough for them to get a title shot without ever having wrestled as a tag team before.”
Murphy: “And this about what this means if they win. This could open up an entire division of randomly thrown together people to work as a team and challenge for the titles over real teams like us or K.I.S.S. or anyone else. We could get such great combos as Rino Kirlos and Nathan Caraway or Jeszika Gautier and Amy Zing or or Quintin Saint and Kyle Northman, or Pauly O’Connor and the Garbage Man, or Broderick Montgomery III and Trent Paige, I mean he is not a wrestler, but he’s been here longer than the Protector.”
Krown: “You know, it is amazing how many people on that list you named that I have not seen in months and I am not even sure if they still work here or not.”
Murphy: “Well that’s because the only people allowed to be on Monday Night Mayhem are Aerynn Donnelly, K.I.S.S., the Sin City Knights, with backstage and in ring shenanigans from the Children of Nephilim, Jeszika Gautier and Broderick Montgomery III. The rest of the show is filled with special guest wrestlers like Vince Jones, Kyle Travis, us. And of course, the Cornbread Mafia wrestles only on pay-per-view because they are the greatest thing to happen to cornbread since sliced cornbread.”
There is a bit of laughter from the crowd that has everything to do with the sign telling them what to do.
Krown: “Spoiler alert, that’s pretty much every episode of Monday Night Mayhem. Thank God we have a contract and we are not paid by appearance or else I’d be here trying to sell everything I own to Rick Harrison at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop.”
The mention of one of the stars and location of History’s Pawn Stars generates an actual burst of cheers and applause from the locals.
Murphy: “You’d want Chumlee, because he’s an idiot, and you’d get more.”
Krown: “True.”
Murphy: “Now sure, if it was Fraser Freeman AND Silver Baron, there really wouldn’t be any issue. They are on every show, but Fraser is busy with one of the many guest stars on UWA. We’re just saying the Sin City Knights are a legitimate team with a lot of momentum because they get to be on every show. Instead, it is Silver Baron and the Protector.”
Krown: “Hey, isn’t this a handicap match because Silver Baron is possessed by some dark, evil sadistic monster and you shouldn’t get him angry because you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry?”
Murphy: “I am sure that all went away when he beat the leader of the carnie folk who came off less scary than the Addams Family.”
Krown: “Ah. Well that seems like it was a huge waste of effort and time on the part of everyone involved in that affair. So glad that was the reason Silver Baron was one every single show as part of the regular cast.”
Murphy: “And of course, we have them team that Sang Réal made famous, the team no one cared about before they fought us, two brothers from the same mother-sister-daughter-aunt-third cousin, Shawn and Cameron Worley, the Cornbread Mafia.”
On the left and right monitors is the same image of Shawn and Cameron Worley as they walk down to the ring for their tag team match at Tragic Engagement.
Krown: “How awesome is this team? I mean they seem to only work on pay-per-views, rarely show up as part of the special guest wrestlers on Monday Night Mayhem and still they rate a championship match. Clearly, they truly are the greatest thing to happen to cornbread since sliced cornbread.”
Murphy: “At least, at least of the Cornbread Mafia we can say that they are an actual tag team. Yes, they may not wrestle as often as most of the other special guest wrestlers and sure, they may only show up at pay-per-views while their opponents do all the work to make anyone care about them, but at least they are an actual tag team. That is a lot more than we can say for the Silver Baron and the Protector.”
Krown: “We do not like the Cornbread Mafia, which is no secret. We never have and we never will. However, we have to admit that the match we had at Searing Agony was pretty damn awesome. And next time will go our way.”
There is another burst of applause for the mention of the steel cage match at Searing Agony, which many said was the match of the night.
Murphy: “This should be the next time. If anyone deserves to be in this match, if anyone deserves to have a match with the Cornbread Mafia, then it is us, not some pimp and a guy who has not even wrestled a single match and who are getting the title shot because they happen to be from Las Vegas and that’s where the pay-per-view is. That is just sad that the UWA feels so little confidence in its tag team division that it needs to make people give a crap about the first ever Tag Team Championship title match by playing to a hometown crowd with a pimp and a man who has yet to even officially debut.”
Krown: “Yeah, there is nothing like that to serve as a good old slap in the face and feel like everything you worked for is just totally unnoticed and a complete waste of time. Our feud was only the one of the hottest in the UWA. I mean can you imagine if it was us, Sang Réal versus the Cornbread Mafia with a title on the line? Consider what we did to each other without championships involved, from the intensity of our matches, to nearly killing each other inside a steel cage, to all the attacks backstage.”
Murphy: “Yes, clearly none of those things generated any buzz or interest. I am sure the steel cage tag team match was only considered the match of the night because all the other matches on the card were horrible and not because we spend almost a half hour trying to kill each other inside a steel cage.”
As Murphy takes another drink, Krown nods in agreement.
Krown “Yeah, making Sang Réal versus the Cornbread Mafia to determine the first ever UWA Tag Team Champions would clearly be a match no one cares about. It’s probably better to go with the Cornbread Mafia versus the Silver Baron and the Protector, because while those two have never teamed and neither Silver Baron or the Protector have ever faced the Worleys in any kind of match, be it tag or singles, and the Protector has yet to even debut in UWA, and hope the fact that the Silver Baron and the Protector are from Las Vegas to generate any interest will work much better than two teams with history and multiple attempts to destroy each other every could.”
Murphy: “It is that kind of sound match making that tells me someone needs to be fired.”
Krown: “And soon, because I really don’t know how long shows composed entirely of Aerynn Donnelly, K.I.S.S., members of the Sin City Knights, the Children of Nephilim and backstage shenanigans staring Jeszika Gautier and Children of Nephilim, with special guest wrestlers is going to keep the doors open.”
Murphy: “Oh come on, who does not love an entire company of paper champions, from a world champion who’s been a little too busy dealing with a cult to defend, to a guy who thinks because he won a title it makes him great of all time while his opponent has been slapping him around like a bitch, to a belt about to be won by one of four people randomly chosen to Tag Team Champions who will either a team that wrestles bi-monthly and a team that is just been put together from someone in an actual team and a guy just making his debut?”
Krown: “The Unchained Wrestling Alliance: A paper champion is still a champion right? Sure it is.”
Murphy nods in agreement with his partner and takes another drink from the glass. He looks at the little bit left inside before he looks back at the crowd. He gets to his feet, rising out of the chair. After a moment, Gabriel Krown gets out of the chair and adjusts his tie.
Murphy: “Protector, Silver Baron, Cornbread Mafia, you two can bet that no only are we going to be there at Raising Hell, and not only are we going be there on commentary, but we will be first in line to challenge whoever wins, and we are going to do it a hell of a lot sooner than the next pay-per-view. That is Murphy’s Law.”
Krown: “It should be us, not some team randomly thrown together because they happen to be from Vegas trying to win those titles. That’s Chekmate.”
Murphy: “We are Sang Réal.”
Krown: “And this has been Roll Call.”
The band plays “Sinfonies de Fanfares: Rondeau” again. Murphy raises his glass and then finishes off his drink. He throws the glass down, where it shatters on the stage floor. As the two members of Sang Réal walk off the stage as the curtains close.
The curtains are drawn back to reveal a pair of high backed leather chairs and what looks like the interior of a private library with a fireplace. There is a small table between the chairs with a lamp on it. The whole set has a Masterpiece Theater feel to it. However, off to other sides of the chairs are two large monitors that are presently turned off. Above the stage is one of those signs TV shows use to tell their studio audience what to do.
Off to the side of the stage is a band that begins to play “Sinfonies de Fanfares: Rondeau”. The lights dim. Two spot lights hit the stage on either end. The monitors come on to show the emblem of Sang Réal: a drop of blood with a clover leaf with a crown around it in the center.
Announcer: “Ladies and gentlemen…please welcome Connor Murphy…”
From the left side of the stage comes Connor Murphy. He is dressed in a black tuxedo and his signature gold round-framed sunglasses. He is holding a glass of scotch. There is applause as he walks out.
Announcer: “And Gabriel Krown…”
From the right side of the stage, Gabriel Krown walks out. Like Murphy, he too is wearing a tuxedo.
Announcer: “Sang Réal!”
The two men meet in the middle of the stage. Murphy takes a drink of the glass.
Murphy: “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Las Vegas and this very special edition of our hit Internet show “Roll Call”. I am Connor Murphy.”
Krown: “And I am Gabriel Krown.”
Murphy: “It is great to be here in Las Vegas, where anyone can either make a fortune or lose everything, all with a showgirl on his arm. This is a great town founded on mob money and now a glittery family vacation sport filled with gambling and prostitutes.”
Krown: “Where singers who have not had a new song in decades perform, and singers whose careers are nearly over try to reclaim their magic and where tigers maul magicians and should maul more take the stage. Where show quality has gone downhill since the Rat Pack broke up. But we are here to fix that.”
The crowd boos a little.
Murphy: “Tonight we take a special look at the UWA Tag Team Championship title match at Raising Hell.”
Krown: “That’s right ladies and gentlemen, and wrestling fans of all ages, because what better way to crown the first champions than having a team that only wrestles on pay-per-view and a team randomly thrown together in a match with no hype or backstory and nothing?”
Murphy: “I can’t think of one. Can you?”
Krown: “What? Like having legitimate teams or something like a tournament or something like they did with the other two titles?”
Murphy: “Yes. Exactly like that.”
Krown: “That’s just crazy talk that is.”
There is a mix of laughter and applause from the audience. Murphy raises the glass and takes another drink.
Murphy: “So let’s take a look at the first team, the most dominant tag team in UWA today, Sin City’s own the Protector and the Silver Baron.”
There is applause for the hometown team. The image of the Silver Baron inside the ring during his entrance, in his entrance attire with his entourage appears on the left. On the right is a picture from the Protector’s profile on UWA.com as he has yet to actually debut in a match.
The two cocky and arrogant second generation wrestlers move to the high backed leather chairs and take their seats. Krown nods to the crowd as Murphy takes a drink from the glass.
Krown: “That’s right, you should cheer them. They have totally torn through all the teams they have faced. Who could forget their epic feud with K.I.S.S.? How could anyone forget the amazing victory they had over us and the Cornbread Mafia inside the cage? And who could forget how they decimated the team of Bene Elohim? And who wasn’t watching as the two of them totally owned every combination of Dark Camelot all in one epic gauntlet match? Or how they beat the Rising Sun Dynasty in like a mniute?”
Murphy: “All proof that Silver Baron and Protector are the greatest team of all time according to at least three or four people on the Internet and we all know how great and completely not full of fickle, whiny know-it-alls the Internet wrestling community is.”
Krown: “Sure, K.I.S.S. has been busy for the last few weeks, and sure I am pretty confident Dark Camelot left and sure the Rising Sun Dynasty probably committed seppuku after their first and only match here, which was a losss, and sure neither we or the Cornbread Mafia or Bene Elohim have not been in a match since Searing Agony, and sure the Protector has not even officially wrestled his first match, and they have never actually teamed, but that does not mean that the Protector and Silver Baron are not the most dominant team in UWA. They are, after all, undefeated.”
Murphy: “I am sure that the fact that they are both from Las Vegas and Raising Hell being in Las Vegas has nothing to do with their getting a title shot. It’s probably just a coincidence.”
Krown: “Technically, as we are in the Orleans, we are in Paradise, Nevada, but it is part of Las Vegas I guess. It’s at least closer than saying Lowell, Massachusetts is part of Boston or the Boston area like some people we know. It is close enough, just like saying pairing the Silver Baron and the Protector makes them a team is close enough for them to get a title shot without ever having wrestled as a tag team before.”
Murphy: “And this about what this means if they win. This could open up an entire division of randomly thrown together people to work as a team and challenge for the titles over real teams like us or K.I.S.S. or anyone else. We could get such great combos as Rino Kirlos and Nathan Caraway or Jeszika Gautier and Amy Zing or or Quintin Saint and Kyle Northman, or Pauly O’Connor and the Garbage Man, or Broderick Montgomery III and Trent Paige, I mean he is not a wrestler, but he’s been here longer than the Protector.”
Krown: “You know, it is amazing how many people on that list you named that I have not seen in months and I am not even sure if they still work here or not.”
Murphy: “Well that’s because the only people allowed to be on Monday Night Mayhem are Aerynn Donnelly, K.I.S.S., the Sin City Knights, with backstage and in ring shenanigans from the Children of Nephilim, Jeszika Gautier and Broderick Montgomery III. The rest of the show is filled with special guest wrestlers like Vince Jones, Kyle Travis, us. And of course, the Cornbread Mafia wrestles only on pay-per-view because they are the greatest thing to happen to cornbread since sliced cornbread.”
There is a bit of laughter from the crowd that has everything to do with the sign telling them what to do.
Krown: “Spoiler alert, that’s pretty much every episode of Monday Night Mayhem. Thank God we have a contract and we are not paid by appearance or else I’d be here trying to sell everything I own to Rick Harrison at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop.”
The mention of one of the stars and location of History’s Pawn Stars generates an actual burst of cheers and applause from the locals.
Murphy: “You’d want Chumlee, because he’s an idiot, and you’d get more.”
Krown: “True.”
Murphy: “Now sure, if it was Fraser Freeman AND Silver Baron, there really wouldn’t be any issue. They are on every show, but Fraser is busy with one of the many guest stars on UWA. We’re just saying the Sin City Knights are a legitimate team with a lot of momentum because they get to be on every show. Instead, it is Silver Baron and the Protector.”
Krown: “Hey, isn’t this a handicap match because Silver Baron is possessed by some dark, evil sadistic monster and you shouldn’t get him angry because you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry?”
Murphy: “I am sure that all went away when he beat the leader of the carnie folk who came off less scary than the Addams Family.”
Krown: “Ah. Well that seems like it was a huge waste of effort and time on the part of everyone involved in that affair. So glad that was the reason Silver Baron was one every single show as part of the regular cast.”
Murphy: “And of course, we have them team that Sang Réal made famous, the team no one cared about before they fought us, two brothers from the same mother-sister-daughter-aunt-third cousin, Shawn and Cameron Worley, the Cornbread Mafia.”
On the left and right monitors is the same image of Shawn and Cameron Worley as they walk down to the ring for their tag team match at Tragic Engagement.
Krown: “How awesome is this team? I mean they seem to only work on pay-per-views, rarely show up as part of the special guest wrestlers on Monday Night Mayhem and still they rate a championship match. Clearly, they truly are the greatest thing to happen to cornbread since sliced cornbread.”
Murphy: “At least, at least of the Cornbread Mafia we can say that they are an actual tag team. Yes, they may not wrestle as often as most of the other special guest wrestlers and sure, they may only show up at pay-per-views while their opponents do all the work to make anyone care about them, but at least they are an actual tag team. That is a lot more than we can say for the Silver Baron and the Protector.”
Krown: “We do not like the Cornbread Mafia, which is no secret. We never have and we never will. However, we have to admit that the match we had at Searing Agony was pretty damn awesome. And next time will go our way.”
There is another burst of applause for the mention of the steel cage match at Searing Agony, which many said was the match of the night.
Murphy: “This should be the next time. If anyone deserves to be in this match, if anyone deserves to have a match with the Cornbread Mafia, then it is us, not some pimp and a guy who has not even wrestled a single match and who are getting the title shot because they happen to be from Las Vegas and that’s where the pay-per-view is. That is just sad that the UWA feels so little confidence in its tag team division that it needs to make people give a crap about the first ever Tag Team Championship title match by playing to a hometown crowd with a pimp and a man who has yet to even officially debut.”
Krown: “Yeah, there is nothing like that to serve as a good old slap in the face and feel like everything you worked for is just totally unnoticed and a complete waste of time. Our feud was only the one of the hottest in the UWA. I mean can you imagine if it was us, Sang Réal versus the Cornbread Mafia with a title on the line? Consider what we did to each other without championships involved, from the intensity of our matches, to nearly killing each other inside a steel cage, to all the attacks backstage.”
Murphy: “Yes, clearly none of those things generated any buzz or interest. I am sure the steel cage tag team match was only considered the match of the night because all the other matches on the card were horrible and not because we spend almost a half hour trying to kill each other inside a steel cage.”
As Murphy takes another drink, Krown nods in agreement.
Krown “Yeah, making Sang Réal versus the Cornbread Mafia to determine the first ever UWA Tag Team Champions would clearly be a match no one cares about. It’s probably better to go with the Cornbread Mafia versus the Silver Baron and the Protector, because while those two have never teamed and neither Silver Baron or the Protector have ever faced the Worleys in any kind of match, be it tag or singles, and the Protector has yet to even debut in UWA, and hope the fact that the Silver Baron and the Protector are from Las Vegas to generate any interest will work much better than two teams with history and multiple attempts to destroy each other every could.”
Murphy: “It is that kind of sound match making that tells me someone needs to be fired.”
Krown: “And soon, because I really don’t know how long shows composed entirely of Aerynn Donnelly, K.I.S.S., members of the Sin City Knights, the Children of Nephilim and backstage shenanigans staring Jeszika Gautier and Children of Nephilim, with special guest wrestlers is going to keep the doors open.”
Murphy: “Oh come on, who does not love an entire company of paper champions, from a world champion who’s been a little too busy dealing with a cult to defend, to a guy who thinks because he won a title it makes him great of all time while his opponent has been slapping him around like a bitch, to a belt about to be won by one of four people randomly chosen to Tag Team Champions who will either a team that wrestles bi-monthly and a team that is just been put together from someone in an actual team and a guy just making his debut?”
Krown: “The Unchained Wrestling Alliance: A paper champion is still a champion right? Sure it is.”
Murphy nods in agreement with his partner and takes another drink from the glass. He looks at the little bit left inside before he looks back at the crowd. He gets to his feet, rising out of the chair. After a moment, Gabriel Krown gets out of the chair and adjusts his tie.
Murphy: “Protector, Silver Baron, Cornbread Mafia, you two can bet that no only are we going to be there at Raising Hell, and not only are we going be there on commentary, but we will be first in line to challenge whoever wins, and we are going to do it a hell of a lot sooner than the next pay-per-view. That is Murphy’s Law.”
Krown: “It should be us, not some team randomly thrown together because they happen to be from Vegas trying to win those titles. That’s Chekmate.”
Murphy: “We are Sang Réal.”
Krown: “And this has been Roll Call.”
The band plays “Sinfonies de Fanfares: Rondeau” again. Murphy raises his glass and then finishes off his drink. He throws the glass down, where it shatters on the stage floor. As the two members of Sang Réal walk off the stage as the curtains close.