Post by Kyle Travis on Sept 12, 2014 5:37:49 GMT -6
::Once again, the UWA logo is placed upside down and is being used as a backdrop. Once again, it is meant to declare the belief that the UWA is in a state of distress.::
::“The Canadian Legend” Kyle Travis stands in the center with his arms behind him. He is once again wearing his new attire of red and black camouflage pants, black boots and a black t-shirt. To the left of Travis is Connor Murphy, who is also dressed in his new attire of red and black camouflage pants and his gold round-framed sunglasses. On Travis’s right is Gabriel Krown, who is also wearing black and red camouflage, a black tank top and red and black bandana. The red and black are referencing the song “ABC/Red and Black” from Les Miserables, specifically to represent “Red, the blood of angry men” and “Black, the dark of ages past”.::
::Despite the setbacks of the previous Mayhem, Kyle Travis does not look too upset.::
Travis: “Last week did not go entirely as planned. A victory would have been nice.”
::Krown shrugs.::
Krown: “We tried.”
Travis: “But, I think the moral victory serves just as well, don’t you Bethany.”
Travis: “And it is so nice to see that a rookie, a man with only one match under his belt became a champion. I mean I could point out that it’s pretty much what tanked NEW, but no one listened to me then, so why would they listen to me know, Silver Baron, or is it Oblivion?”
Krown: “Pretty sure it’s Oblivion.”
Murphy: “That sounds right this week.”
Travis: “Yes, I forgot you went insane and allowed this long dormant part of you to take over. So Oblivion, you think you are a monster? You think you are evil? I say prove it. Show me something. Show me anything other than what you called a beating at Mayhem. Where was the blood? Where was the carnage? Once again, much like McBride, you disappoint me.”
Travis: “I know monsters.”
Murphy: “That’s true.”
Travis: “I know evil.”
Murphy: “Also true.”
Krown: “Yeah.”
Travis: “I am the man who has spent a career proving that you do not need to be seven feet tall, three hundred pounds to be a monster, just the will to act; the will do to what others deem horrible and walk away feeling good about it. You, Oblivion do not have that. And the simple reason I can say that is because you stopped before finishing the job. But I suppose it explains why the members of Dark Camelot are back in action, because you just can’t finish.”
::“The Once and Future King” smirks a bit.::
Travis: “Though I admit, it was not bad. I have had worse. I mean, I still walked out and did commentary right after. You don’t see my victims getting up and doing commentary right after I beat them down. And I still had enough left over to repay Bethany Kenyon for a few weeks ago.”
::With a smirk and a look of satisfaction, Travis pulls out the crowbar he has used on so many victims. He looks at the curved end of the weapon, the same end he drove into Bethany Kenyon on Mayhem.::
Travis: “If you were so driven by revenge, so driven by a bloodlust, then why do you not do the one thing, really the only thing that guarantees your chance at revenge, and grant Sang Réal, a far more deserving team than you and the Protector, a shot at the UWA Tag Team Championships?
::Travis gestures to Sang Réal, to which both members nod in agreement.::
Murphy: “We’ve pretty much come out and said if you want us, give us the opportunity you stole from us, what should have been ours before you two someone convinced management to give it to a team that had never teamed before, one of whom had only ever wrestled once before.”
Krown: “It would be the quickest way. And we deserve those titles a lot more than you and your rookie partner deserve them.”
::Slowly, “the Canadian Legend” looks away from the crowbar.::
Travis: “It really is just that simple. Add them to your match with K.I.S.S. or meet them in the ring before. I really do not care, but I am sure Skylar, and Craven and Freeman and his little buddy Sharpe care, because I have no problem making Skylar’s injury a little more permanent.”
Travis: “Oblivion, you think you are evil, you think you are a demon, but we both know the truth. You are weak, pathetic, and you are nothing compared to me. If you managed to wrestle for the next thirty years, you would not even be able to accomplish half the terrible things I have done. You have been weighed, you have been measured and you have been found wanting.”
::Travis once again looks at the crowbar in his hands.::
Travis: “Why did we choose the name Ragnarok?”
Murphy: “Valid question.”
Krown: “Indeed.”
Travis: “Well, do you know the story of Ragnarok? It’s a Norse myth, their apocalypse, Armageddon. Often translated as the “twilight of the gods” or “fate of the gods”, it is the epic battle of the gods and the giants, where these great powers fight to the death and in the end, from the ashes a new world is born. That is what we are after, a new world; a new UWA where I am not watching the same eight people every week while the rest of the roster sits at home or where those that earn an opportunity and put in the work gain the reward. I will not see this place become go the way of New Era Wrestling. Not as long as I have the ability to stop it. If we have to take down K.I.S.S., the Sin City Knights and even the Children of Nephilim to accomplish that goal, then so be it. It has nothing to do with a sense of jealousy or entitlement. It is the knowledge that I have seen this before, and we have every intention of stopping it.”
Murphy: “His idea sounds better than what we have now.”
::Gabriel Krown nods.::
Krown: “It really does.”
Travis: “Joshua McBride once told me that his goal was the chaos, the anarchy, the destruction. Once again, that is disappointing. Anarchy is a state of government. It is not effective, but it is still a form of government. I will admit that our name sounds a bit nihilistic, but it is not. We will destroy everything, tear the old world down, but we will build a new world, we will rebuild and make it better, what the UWA can be, what it should be.”
Murphy: “We had hoped to be taken serious.”
::Krown shrugs.::
Krown: “Maybe we need to tell stories and abduct people and be a hillbilly rape cult. Clearly that’s how to prove you are all scary and serious, the constant abduction of people.”
Murphy: “Someone you know been abducted? Ask the Children of Nephilim, they may have them in the basement or attic.”
Travis: “You cannot cure stupid. I have seen this before and I refuse to see it again, but like Cassandra telling the people of Troy that bringing the giant wooden horse into the city is a bad idea, no one ever believes me.”
Krown: “Then some Greeks come out of the horse, kill a bunch of Trojans, open the gates to let the Greek army inside, which results in killing a lot more Trojans and the conquest of the city, thus winning the Trojan War.”
::Travis lowers the crowbar in his hand and looks ahead.::
Travis: “Well I am done giving the warnings. I am done not being heard. This time, Cassandra is just going to set the horse on fire and let the Greeks inside burn to save the city.”
Travis: “But enough about me, how are you Pauly? It’s been awhile. Where did you disappear to? I have not seen you since, Spring Slaughter when you lost to Areynn. It was so nice to see you and her are still friends, even though she seemed less concerned about your wellbeing and where you were than she did about Broderick Montgomery. But then again, he paid her while you are only her life long friend. That really doesn’t mean much I suppose.”
Travis: “I would like to say welcome back, but I have no intention of throwing you a welcome home party.”
Travis: “Now I am not going to stand here and say something as cliché as your first match back will be your last. Nor do I doubt you need some payback upon Children of Nephilim for what they have done to your best friend. However Pauly, I really do not care about your need for revenge or justice.”
Travis: “What I care about is that this company is going the exact same way as New Era Wrestling, Tiger Wrestling Nation and everyone seeing cool with it. I see the same things happening here that I saw there. Wrestlers being prompted up as favorites, or the same people getting the shot, or people who just walk through the door getting shots other people have worked for without any justification.”
::There is a mix of anger and irritation in the Travis’s tone.::
Travis: “How does a rookie just walk through the door and immediately get a shot at the UWA Tag Team Championships?”
Murphy: “It was a question we wondered about.”
Travis: “How long is this company going to keep giving the same eight people the spotlight while the rest of us struggle to find a place on Mayham?”
Travis: “Whether they want to admit it or not, and I will be the first to admit I was wrong about them, but the Children of Nephilim have run their course. When they first joined up, I was right there, believing that they would be huge. Instead, all we got was a creepy hillybilly rape cult that cannot deliver in a big match. UWA can deny it all they want, but there’s more than likely nothing left the Children can give us in their playbook.”
Krown: “They could abduct someone.”
Murphy: “They do that a lot. It’s pretty much their one trick.”
Krown: “True.”
::That tone of anger in the voice of “the Canadian Legend” starts to become more prominent as he speaks.::
Travis: “I was promised a lot when I joined the Unchained Wrestling Alliance. I was promised respect. I was promised opportunities. I was promised to get what I deserve. And those promises were soon broken.”
Murphy: “We came here to be the best tag team in the UWA and we gave this company one of its hottest rivalries and a match of the year candidate, and rather than get anything for the effort, we get pushed aside for a rookie and a nutcase.”
Krown: “Hardly seems fair. It should have been us and the Cornbread Mafia, not the Sin City Knights.”
Travis: “I made no secret that I was unhappy in New Era Wrestling. Every time I seemed to get somewhere, it would never pan out. I would see a person walk through the door and be handed a title shot for no more than just showing up and stringing a few sentences together. I saw the same damn people pushed to the top of the ladder again and again and again while everyone else had to fight and claw for a place on that ladder. It got so bad that I would walk in, wrestle, shower and leave for home. And on the weeks I was off the show I would not even watch it at home. I was unhappy, but I was very well paid to be that unhappy.”
Travis: “And then Georgio Oliver calls me and I accepted his offer and a lot less money. Now I see the exact same things happening here, now I see everything repeating itself and I am once again unhappy and I am not even that well paid for it.”
Travis: “You can say it is jealousy or my belief that I deserve better, but you know what? I do believe I deserve better because I do deserve better. I have sacrificed too much, given too much to just sit on the sidelines and wait for my turn, because every time I wait for it, I never get it or I watch it go to lesser wrestlers. I am done waiting for it. I am done sitting on the sidelines wrestling maybe one or two matches every month while I watch the same damn eight people go out to the ring every single episode of Mayhem.”
::Travis spreads his arms in a “what’s with that?” or a “come on?!” sort of gesture as best he can while still holding a crowbar in his left hand.::
Travis “How many people have to join up, get one match and then never wrestle again and leave does the UWA need to see before someone in management realizes that their current method of operation just does not work? I am the last person to care about the fans, but how many times is UWA going to fail to give the fans what they want to see, and just focus on what the UWA believes the fans want to see?”
Murphy: “That’s just crazy. Clearly we need more Children of Nephilim versus Arsenal and Aerynn Donnelly or those same eight people on every show.”
Travis: “We just laid out K.I.S.S. and does anyone make a match? No. Apparently my need to go Ryan Rice on a defenseless manager and her charges is perfectly acceptable. It is just like no one thought to make anything happen between Ragnarok and the Sin City Knights. Apparently, management is just going to ignore the fact that we decided to make them our first targets and would, as always, focus on the continual disappointment that is Joshua McBride and friends, and the remaining other chosen ones who get to be on every Mayhem. I fail to see how our laying two of the members of Sin City Knights and then my getting attacked just ends every issue between us, but apparently UWA wanted to thank K.I.S.S. for helping beat the Children of Nephilim, which honestly does not seem that hard a task.”
Murphy: “They do lose a lot for an “unstoppable horde”.”
Krown: “Oh they need to stop.”
Travis: “I want what I was promised, what I deserve and if I have to break each of those elite eight, if I have to orphan the Children of Nephilim, bust open K.I.S.S. bi-weekly, or beat Silver Baron with a crowbar again and again until he uses up all his multiple personalities and starts to believe that he is really Molly, a 6-year old little girl from Duluth, Iowa, then you can damn well believe I am going to make that happen to the best of my ability.”
Travis: “If I have to go to that ring and make Georgio wish he was back with McBride repeating all his favorite scenes from Deliverance than being in the ring with me, or I have to beat a few pounds out of Samuel, who’s been running this show, then I am going to do it with a smile on my face.”
Travis: “And that is the great irony of all of this Pauly.”
::That tone of anger leaves his voice as Travis chuckles and smiles. He runs his right hand, his free hand, through his hair.::
Travis: “This is your first match back. Let’s say you win and beat me. I have no doubt that, by the virtue of that one victory, you will be rocketed to challenge Aerynn Donelly again or Vince Jones or even Amy Zing. They may even just hand you some rookie and let you face whoever wins K.I.S.S. versus Sin City Knights.”
Krown: “Totally fair.”
Travis: “Now if I win, I probably will not be on television until after the next pay-per-view. But I am sure UWA will promote the hell out of some new person and their elite eight chosen ones. That hardly seems fair, but that’s just the way it is. We need to quickly push out that new guy so he can have one match and we never see him again until he just disappears. Our list of inactive or released wrestlers is nearly the size of our roster because most of them just were not allowed more than one or two matches and left for someplace that would actually let them work.”
Krown: “I think our released or inactive roster is the same size as our actual roster.”
Murphy: “I think that they are pretty close.”
::Krown shrugs, but neither of his partners seem to be paying attention.::
Travis: “I don’t have a place to go back to Pauly. When I came here to the UWA, I told myself that I would do whatever I had to in order to make this place successful. There is the UWA we have now and the one I know can be. I am not saying it is one with me as the UWA World Champion, but I believe in the UWA that can be. If I have to tear what is down to make what will be, then it will happen. It is not something we want to do Pauly, but something we need to do because no one else will.”
Travis: “So Pauly, let us see what happens this week at Monday Night Mayhem. I have a few things to do this week; chief among them is facing you in the ring and beating you. I have had almost a month off for no reason what so ever and it annoys me. I have no intention of allowing my return match end in a loss to you.”
Travis: “What we, what Ragnarok is going to do, what we have to do, we are going to do for the greater good. We may be called monsters. We may be condemned. But, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. One man’s traitor is another man’s patriot. One man’s criminal is another’s hero. We do this for the greater good.”
::Murphy holds out his right fist.::
Murphy: “For the greater good.”
::Krown holds out right fist.::
Krown: “For the greater good.”
::Travis switches his crowbar off to his right hand and holds his left fist out between Murphy’s and Krown’s, which touch the sides of his.::
Travis: “For the greater good.”
::The scene fades out on the image of Ragnarok’s signature pose.::
::“The Canadian Legend” Kyle Travis stands in the center with his arms behind him. He is once again wearing his new attire of red and black camouflage pants, black boots and a black t-shirt. To the left of Travis is Connor Murphy, who is also dressed in his new attire of red and black camouflage pants and his gold round-framed sunglasses. On Travis’s right is Gabriel Krown, who is also wearing black and red camouflage, a black tank top and red and black bandana. The red and black are referencing the song “ABC/Red and Black” from Les Miserables, specifically to represent “Red, the blood of angry men” and “Black, the dark of ages past”.::
::Despite the setbacks of the previous Mayhem, Kyle Travis does not look too upset.::
Travis: “Last week did not go entirely as planned. A victory would have been nice.”
::Krown shrugs.::
Krown: “We tried.”
Travis: “But, I think the moral victory serves just as well, don’t you Bethany.”
Travis: “And it is so nice to see that a rookie, a man with only one match under his belt became a champion. I mean I could point out that it’s pretty much what tanked NEW, but no one listened to me then, so why would they listen to me know, Silver Baron, or is it Oblivion?”
Krown: “Pretty sure it’s Oblivion.”
Murphy: “That sounds right this week.”
Travis: “Yes, I forgot you went insane and allowed this long dormant part of you to take over. So Oblivion, you think you are a monster? You think you are evil? I say prove it. Show me something. Show me anything other than what you called a beating at Mayhem. Where was the blood? Where was the carnage? Once again, much like McBride, you disappoint me.”
Travis: “I know monsters.”
Murphy: “That’s true.”
Travis: “I know evil.”
Murphy: “Also true.”
Krown: “Yeah.”
Travis: “I am the man who has spent a career proving that you do not need to be seven feet tall, three hundred pounds to be a monster, just the will to act; the will do to what others deem horrible and walk away feeling good about it. You, Oblivion do not have that. And the simple reason I can say that is because you stopped before finishing the job. But I suppose it explains why the members of Dark Camelot are back in action, because you just can’t finish.”
::“The Once and Future King” smirks a bit.::
Travis: “Though I admit, it was not bad. I have had worse. I mean, I still walked out and did commentary right after. You don’t see my victims getting up and doing commentary right after I beat them down. And I still had enough left over to repay Bethany Kenyon for a few weeks ago.”
::With a smirk and a look of satisfaction, Travis pulls out the crowbar he has used on so many victims. He looks at the curved end of the weapon, the same end he drove into Bethany Kenyon on Mayhem.::
Travis: “If you were so driven by revenge, so driven by a bloodlust, then why do you not do the one thing, really the only thing that guarantees your chance at revenge, and grant Sang Réal, a far more deserving team than you and the Protector, a shot at the UWA Tag Team Championships?
::Travis gestures to Sang Réal, to which both members nod in agreement.::
Murphy: “We’ve pretty much come out and said if you want us, give us the opportunity you stole from us, what should have been ours before you two someone convinced management to give it to a team that had never teamed before, one of whom had only ever wrestled once before.”
Krown: “It would be the quickest way. And we deserve those titles a lot more than you and your rookie partner deserve them.”
::Slowly, “the Canadian Legend” looks away from the crowbar.::
Travis: “It really is just that simple. Add them to your match with K.I.S.S. or meet them in the ring before. I really do not care, but I am sure Skylar, and Craven and Freeman and his little buddy Sharpe care, because I have no problem making Skylar’s injury a little more permanent.”
Travis: “Oblivion, you think you are evil, you think you are a demon, but we both know the truth. You are weak, pathetic, and you are nothing compared to me. If you managed to wrestle for the next thirty years, you would not even be able to accomplish half the terrible things I have done. You have been weighed, you have been measured and you have been found wanting.”
::Travis once again looks at the crowbar in his hands.::
Travis: “Why did we choose the name Ragnarok?”
Murphy: “Valid question.”
Krown: “Indeed.”
Travis: “Well, do you know the story of Ragnarok? It’s a Norse myth, their apocalypse, Armageddon. Often translated as the “twilight of the gods” or “fate of the gods”, it is the epic battle of the gods and the giants, where these great powers fight to the death and in the end, from the ashes a new world is born. That is what we are after, a new world; a new UWA where I am not watching the same eight people every week while the rest of the roster sits at home or where those that earn an opportunity and put in the work gain the reward. I will not see this place become go the way of New Era Wrestling. Not as long as I have the ability to stop it. If we have to take down K.I.S.S., the Sin City Knights and even the Children of Nephilim to accomplish that goal, then so be it. It has nothing to do with a sense of jealousy or entitlement. It is the knowledge that I have seen this before, and we have every intention of stopping it.”
Murphy: “His idea sounds better than what we have now.”
::Gabriel Krown nods.::
Krown: “It really does.”
Travis: “Joshua McBride once told me that his goal was the chaos, the anarchy, the destruction. Once again, that is disappointing. Anarchy is a state of government. It is not effective, but it is still a form of government. I will admit that our name sounds a bit nihilistic, but it is not. We will destroy everything, tear the old world down, but we will build a new world, we will rebuild and make it better, what the UWA can be, what it should be.”
Murphy: “We had hoped to be taken serious.”
::Krown shrugs.::
Krown: “Maybe we need to tell stories and abduct people and be a hillbilly rape cult. Clearly that’s how to prove you are all scary and serious, the constant abduction of people.”
Murphy: “Someone you know been abducted? Ask the Children of Nephilim, they may have them in the basement or attic.”
Travis: “You cannot cure stupid. I have seen this before and I refuse to see it again, but like Cassandra telling the people of Troy that bringing the giant wooden horse into the city is a bad idea, no one ever believes me.”
Krown: “Then some Greeks come out of the horse, kill a bunch of Trojans, open the gates to let the Greek army inside, which results in killing a lot more Trojans and the conquest of the city, thus winning the Trojan War.”
::Travis lowers the crowbar in his hand and looks ahead.::
Travis: “Well I am done giving the warnings. I am done not being heard. This time, Cassandra is just going to set the horse on fire and let the Greeks inside burn to save the city.”
Travis: “But enough about me, how are you Pauly? It’s been awhile. Where did you disappear to? I have not seen you since, Spring Slaughter when you lost to Areynn. It was so nice to see you and her are still friends, even though she seemed less concerned about your wellbeing and where you were than she did about Broderick Montgomery. But then again, he paid her while you are only her life long friend. That really doesn’t mean much I suppose.”
Travis: “I would like to say welcome back, but I have no intention of throwing you a welcome home party.”
Travis: “Now I am not going to stand here and say something as cliché as your first match back will be your last. Nor do I doubt you need some payback upon Children of Nephilim for what they have done to your best friend. However Pauly, I really do not care about your need for revenge or justice.”
Travis: “What I care about is that this company is going the exact same way as New Era Wrestling, Tiger Wrestling Nation and everyone seeing cool with it. I see the same things happening here that I saw there. Wrestlers being prompted up as favorites, or the same people getting the shot, or people who just walk through the door getting shots other people have worked for without any justification.”
::There is a mix of anger and irritation in the Travis’s tone.::
Travis: “How does a rookie just walk through the door and immediately get a shot at the UWA Tag Team Championships?”
Murphy: “It was a question we wondered about.”
Travis: “How long is this company going to keep giving the same eight people the spotlight while the rest of us struggle to find a place on Mayham?”
Travis: “Whether they want to admit it or not, and I will be the first to admit I was wrong about them, but the Children of Nephilim have run their course. When they first joined up, I was right there, believing that they would be huge. Instead, all we got was a creepy hillybilly rape cult that cannot deliver in a big match. UWA can deny it all they want, but there’s more than likely nothing left the Children can give us in their playbook.”
Krown: “They could abduct someone.”
Murphy: “They do that a lot. It’s pretty much their one trick.”
Krown: “True.”
::That tone of anger in the voice of “the Canadian Legend” starts to become more prominent as he speaks.::
Travis: “I was promised a lot when I joined the Unchained Wrestling Alliance. I was promised respect. I was promised opportunities. I was promised to get what I deserve. And those promises were soon broken.”
Murphy: “We came here to be the best tag team in the UWA and we gave this company one of its hottest rivalries and a match of the year candidate, and rather than get anything for the effort, we get pushed aside for a rookie and a nutcase.”
Krown: “Hardly seems fair. It should have been us and the Cornbread Mafia, not the Sin City Knights.”
Travis: “I made no secret that I was unhappy in New Era Wrestling. Every time I seemed to get somewhere, it would never pan out. I would see a person walk through the door and be handed a title shot for no more than just showing up and stringing a few sentences together. I saw the same damn people pushed to the top of the ladder again and again and again while everyone else had to fight and claw for a place on that ladder. It got so bad that I would walk in, wrestle, shower and leave for home. And on the weeks I was off the show I would not even watch it at home. I was unhappy, but I was very well paid to be that unhappy.”
Travis: “And then Georgio Oliver calls me and I accepted his offer and a lot less money. Now I see the exact same things happening here, now I see everything repeating itself and I am once again unhappy and I am not even that well paid for it.”
Travis: “You can say it is jealousy or my belief that I deserve better, but you know what? I do believe I deserve better because I do deserve better. I have sacrificed too much, given too much to just sit on the sidelines and wait for my turn, because every time I wait for it, I never get it or I watch it go to lesser wrestlers. I am done waiting for it. I am done sitting on the sidelines wrestling maybe one or two matches every month while I watch the same damn eight people go out to the ring every single episode of Mayhem.”
::Travis spreads his arms in a “what’s with that?” or a “come on?!” sort of gesture as best he can while still holding a crowbar in his left hand.::
Travis “How many people have to join up, get one match and then never wrestle again and leave does the UWA need to see before someone in management realizes that their current method of operation just does not work? I am the last person to care about the fans, but how many times is UWA going to fail to give the fans what they want to see, and just focus on what the UWA believes the fans want to see?”
Murphy: “That’s just crazy. Clearly we need more Children of Nephilim versus Arsenal and Aerynn Donnelly or those same eight people on every show.”
Travis: “We just laid out K.I.S.S. and does anyone make a match? No. Apparently my need to go Ryan Rice on a defenseless manager and her charges is perfectly acceptable. It is just like no one thought to make anything happen between Ragnarok and the Sin City Knights. Apparently, management is just going to ignore the fact that we decided to make them our first targets and would, as always, focus on the continual disappointment that is Joshua McBride and friends, and the remaining other chosen ones who get to be on every Mayhem. I fail to see how our laying two of the members of Sin City Knights and then my getting attacked just ends every issue between us, but apparently UWA wanted to thank K.I.S.S. for helping beat the Children of Nephilim, which honestly does not seem that hard a task.”
Murphy: “They do lose a lot for an “unstoppable horde”.”
Krown: “Oh they need to stop.”
Travis: “I want what I was promised, what I deserve and if I have to break each of those elite eight, if I have to orphan the Children of Nephilim, bust open K.I.S.S. bi-weekly, or beat Silver Baron with a crowbar again and again until he uses up all his multiple personalities and starts to believe that he is really Molly, a 6-year old little girl from Duluth, Iowa, then you can damn well believe I am going to make that happen to the best of my ability.”
Travis: “If I have to go to that ring and make Georgio wish he was back with McBride repeating all his favorite scenes from Deliverance than being in the ring with me, or I have to beat a few pounds out of Samuel, who’s been running this show, then I am going to do it with a smile on my face.”
Travis: “And that is the great irony of all of this Pauly.”
::That tone of anger leaves his voice as Travis chuckles and smiles. He runs his right hand, his free hand, through his hair.::
Travis: “This is your first match back. Let’s say you win and beat me. I have no doubt that, by the virtue of that one victory, you will be rocketed to challenge Aerynn Donelly again or Vince Jones or even Amy Zing. They may even just hand you some rookie and let you face whoever wins K.I.S.S. versus Sin City Knights.”
Krown: “Totally fair.”
Travis: “Now if I win, I probably will not be on television until after the next pay-per-view. But I am sure UWA will promote the hell out of some new person and their elite eight chosen ones. That hardly seems fair, but that’s just the way it is. We need to quickly push out that new guy so he can have one match and we never see him again until he just disappears. Our list of inactive or released wrestlers is nearly the size of our roster because most of them just were not allowed more than one or two matches and left for someplace that would actually let them work.”
Krown: “I think our released or inactive roster is the same size as our actual roster.”
Murphy: “I think that they are pretty close.”
::Krown shrugs, but neither of his partners seem to be paying attention.::
Travis: “I don’t have a place to go back to Pauly. When I came here to the UWA, I told myself that I would do whatever I had to in order to make this place successful. There is the UWA we have now and the one I know can be. I am not saying it is one with me as the UWA World Champion, but I believe in the UWA that can be. If I have to tear what is down to make what will be, then it will happen. It is not something we want to do Pauly, but something we need to do because no one else will.”
Travis: “So Pauly, let us see what happens this week at Monday Night Mayhem. I have a few things to do this week; chief among them is facing you in the ring and beating you. I have had almost a month off for no reason what so ever and it annoys me. I have no intention of allowing my return match end in a loss to you.”
Travis: “What we, what Ragnarok is going to do, what we have to do, we are going to do for the greater good. We may be called monsters. We may be condemned. But, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. One man’s traitor is another man’s patriot. One man’s criminal is another’s hero. We do this for the greater good.”
::Murphy holds out his right fist.::
Murphy: “For the greater good.”
::Krown holds out right fist.::
Krown: “For the greater good.”
::Travis switches his crowbar off to his right hand and holds his left fist out between Murphy’s and Krown’s, which touch the sides of his.::
Travis: “For the greater good.”
::The scene fades out on the image of Ragnarok’s signature pose.::