Post by Kyle Travis on Oct 23, 2014 14:46:59 GMT -6
::The scene opens to the familiar image of the UWA logo hanging upside down. This is symbolic as an upside down flag is used as a symbol of distress. The upside down logo of the UWA has a stylized R over it. This is a symbol of the group known as Ragnarok, who believe that the UWA is in a state of distress right now.::
::On the left side of the screen is Connor Murphy, the son of Irish wrestling legend Shameus Murphy, younger brother of former world champion Mark Murphy and a member of the tag team known as Sang Réal, as well as a former champion in both singles and tag team competition. Murphy, as always has on those gold, round framed sunglasses of his.::
::On the left is Murphy’s tag team partner Gabriel Krown, the son of legendary wrestler Michael Krown, brother of Noah Krown, a former world champion, and half of Sang Réal. Like his partner, Gabriel Krown is also a former champion.::
::In the center, between the two men, is the man known as “the Canadian Legend”, “the Once and Future King”, Kyle Travis. The multiple time champion and former UWA North American Champion holds his crowbar in his left hand. Travis takes a deep breath and exhales before he begins speaking.::
Travis: “There are thirty-four wrestlers on the roster right now. Of those thirty-four, about seven are pretty much going to be on every single show be it a Mayhem or a pay-per-view. That leaves roughly twenty-eight wrestlers that may or may not get matches on Mayhem or a pay-per-view. And then you have the people that never seem to get put on television, or are still on the roster but have seemingly disappeared or just never seem to be in matches at all like Sentinel, who should be at least recovered from his injuries enough to grant an interview or Kaylyn James Evans, who seeming wrestled a few weeks and then vanished from ever being put in a match again, or the Rising Sun Dynasty who had one match and then vanished complete, never to be placed in a match again.”
::Krown moves this fingers through the air in front of him, like he is doing math on a board that only he can see.::
Krown: “The math does not work for that. The numbers are not divisible. It really does not. Seven is not a factor of thirty-four. Thirty-five yes, but not thirty-four. But twenty-eight is as it goes into twenty-eight four times.”
::Krown stops moving his fingers and shakes his head with a shrug. Murphy raises an eyebrow but says nothing about it::
Travis: “Each episode of Monday Night Mayhem usually contains five to seven matches. Now, that guarantees that each one of the chosen ones will have a match and the rest of the show will be filled up by names management and the booking committee picks from a hat and actually answers the phone to show up and wrestle. It’s not like one or two of those seven could take a week off and let someone else wrestle.”
Krown: “Seriously! There are so many people on the roster that maybe, just maybe, one or two nights out of the bi-weekly shows, the rest of us can wrestle and not just be used to elevate the elite or as filler. Crazy idea I know, but sometimes, crazy works.”
::Murphy nods in agreement.::
Murphy: “It has been over a month since our last match. Ironic when one considers that we actually said we probably wouldn’t have a match after our match with K.I.S.S. Meanwhile, guys like K.I.S.S. and Silver Baron and the other chosen elite had a match every show. I really do not see why we could have maybe given one or two of them off and let us wrestle.”
::Krown mimics the action of climbing.::
Krown: “Can’t climb the ladder to the top if we can’t get matches on television. I mean it is not like UWA is just going to hand the title opportunities to us, like they did you two.”
Murphy: “And then you look at the eleven wrestlers on the Injured/Inactive/Released list, and honestly, you have to wonder how any of them could get injured in the ring when most of them only wrestled one or two matches. We’re under the theory that they were all released or asked to be when they realized that they would only get to work once every two months or so.”
Travis: “There is no reason why we had to wait so long to get on television or for our fight with the Sin City Knights to happen. There is no reason why any of us three could not have had matches all these last two months. Instead, they passed me off to other people and kept Sang Réal off television while they acted like you were innocent victims of an unwarranted attack.”
::Krown smirks a bit.::
Krown: “Nope, it was totally warranted.”
Murphy: “You had three weeks as the UWA Tag Team Champions and, honestly, that was three weeks too long considering you never should have won the titles. But then again, as we have said, the UWA clearly does not care about the tag team division, otherwise Sang Réal versus the Cornbread Mafia inside the steel cage would have been the first Tag Team Championship match, and it would have made sense, it would have brought a legitimacy and hype to the titles. But then there would be a chance one of the elite wouldn’t be the first champion, and that can’t happen. Half surprised one of the elite was not in the Television Championship match, but I guess they were busy. Oh wait, that’s right, they all had matches, like they do every show.”
::Murphy shakes his head.::
Travis: “So really, in the span of those weeks, Connor Murphy versus Quentin Sharpe, or Silver Baron versus Kyle Travis or Craven versus Gabriel Krown, or Travis versus Craven or Murphy versus Silver Baron or Krown versus Sharpe could not have happened? There was absolutely no way at all to have any member of Ragnarok face any member of the Sin City Knights? I fail to see how exactly that is possible considering Sang Réal had a free schedule and I was just thrown into random matches. But, then again, I suppose we cannot risk the elite looking bad.”
Murphy: “We had a lot of free time these past few weeks and, our phones never rang to tell us we had a match against anyone in Sin City Knights. We showed up, wrestled K.I.S.S. and got nearly two months off. I mean, we had some free time. One of us could have fought someone in Sin City Knights, you know, hype a match, like this place seems to do for only one or two matches on the show.”
Krown: “Considering how often we wrestle, it is amazing we don’t forget everything and have tons of ring rust. I mean really, as often as we wrestle, you’d think we’d forget how to do anything in that ring. I mean honestly!”
Murphy: “We didn’t come here to do commentary. We didn’t come here to try and sell t-shirts. We came here to wrestle. And yet the one thing we want to do is the one thing no one seems to want to let us do because they have to fill the show with the same people every single time.”
Travis: “Is it jealousy? Maybe it is. Is it frustration? You are absolutely right that we are frustrated. We did not come here to sit on the sidelines. We came here to wrestle. And we would like to do that more than once every two months. Do you realize that if we had not attacked you, we probably would maybe have had one match each and UWA would then give us two months off?”
Krown: “Even if we win, there’s a good chance we do not get on television after, which would be disappointing when you consider that this would be a huge win for us.”
Murphy: “Win, lose or draw, we will probably not be on television, but we have no doubt that Silver Baron and the other elite will have all the matches on Mayhem and maybe if we are very lucky, we get to see the Sin City Knights in a rematch for belts they never truly deserved.”
Travis: “Thirty-four wrestlers and a grant total of seven are pretty much guaranteed to be on television every single show with a remaining twenty-eight maybe, maybe, getting the occasional token match just to remind people that they still work here. Does that sound fair to anyone? I am willing to bet more than half the roster can count how many matches they have had on one hand. But hey, as long as the chosen ones are happy and protected, and make no mistake about it Silver Baron, you are protected.”
Murphy: “Remind me again who did the Protector or Quentin Sharpe or whoever he is and Silver Baron beat prior to their debut as a tag team?”
::Murphy leans in a little, moving closer to the camera like he expects to hear an answer to his question.::
::Krown starts to rib his chin.::
Krown: “I believe it was no one at all.”
::Murphy moves back from the camera and snaps his fingers.::
Murphy: “Ah yes! And with no tag team matches under their belt as a team and never having teamed before, somehow, they were able to be in the UWA Tag Team Championship match and the only reason we can think of is because they happen to be from Las Vegas, Nevada where the match was held, or at least close to it.”
Krown: “That sounds fair. Wrestle near or in your home town and get a title shot for no reason other than you are a local.”
Murphy: “Now we will give you that Silver Baron had some pretty good singles wins, but we fail to see why that didn’t put him in for the first Television Championship match. That would have made sense. The Protector or Sharpe had wrestled one match, and, unless it was the most dominating performance in UWA history, we also fail to see how this meant he should challenge for the UWA Tag Team Championships. Is that a new thing? Debut and get a title shot, because that hardly seems fair to the rest of us. Then again, half of us barely wrestle enough to earn a title shot, so maybe it just easier to give them away.”
Krown: “A paper champion is still a champion, but Silver Baron and Sharpe did not look like good champions on paper. They say there are no guarantees in life, no such thing as a sure thing, but I think we all say K.I.S.S. taking the titles.”
Murphy: “And it is nice to see Ashley having a chance to hold two championships. Now all UWA needs to do is give Bethany a shot at the Television Championship and hope Jeszika Gautier defeats Aerynn Donnelly and we can officially change our name from UWA to AWA, Arsenal Wrestling Alliance.”
::Krown nods in agreement with that.::
Travis: “Silver Baron, whether you want to admit it or not, you are protected by this company. For whatever reason, the UWA has decided you need to be on every show, regardless of how flimsy and excuse they have to make. Aerynn Donnelly threatens to walk, take her ball and go home like a child, and the UWA caves in. Joshua McBride makes demand after demand with literally nothing to back up his credibility and his failure to make the minion squad he keeps with him seem like anything other than cannon fodder and again, the company caves in. That is because they are elites, chosen ones. We make demands and we are ignored or told to sit down and shut up.”
Krown: “The Krown and Murphy families have not given everything it can to this business for us, the heirs to the throne, and this guy, one of the best in the business, to say something and have people react like on Family Guy with a “shut up Meg”. I did not come here to be Meg Griffin. No one wants to be Meg Griffin. Why would you make treating someone like Meg Griffin a thing that you do?”
::Krown runs his fingers through his hair like he is about to snap, then manages to calm himself down.::
::Murphy takes his sunglasses off and thrusts them towards the camera, like he is poking someone with them.::
Murphy: “We are Sang Réal, Old French for “royal blood”. The Murphy and Krown families have given so much to this business and we expect that to actually mean something, but clearly, being second generation wrestlers means nothing anymore. What happened to the days when being born into this business meant something? Clearly those days are gone as we are simply given a token match and sent on our way. This is a business that is supposed to reward hard work, sacrifice and dedication, and yet, all we see is chosen ones getting the chances and the ability to gain opportunities while the rest of us are given our token match and sent on our way.”
Travis: “We did not have to resort to hit and run tactics Silver Baron, but it does seem to be the only way to get anything done around here. You look at the war between the Children of Nephilim and the alliance of Arsenal, Aerynn Donnelly and Jeszika Gautier and later Broderick Montgomery III and you realize that no member of those groups actually fought one-on-one until after it was over. We had Jeszika Gautier versus Joshua McBride, but what about Bene Elohim versus K.I.S.S. or something like that? Those matches never happened. It was supposed to be the biggest rivalry in the company and neither side seemed to engage the other before the pay-per-views. Just like, it seems, the UWA did not want either of us facing one another until the pay-per-view. And we tried to make it happen, but you ducked the fight.”
::The normally calm Murphy sounds a bit agitated as he gestures with the sunglasses in his hand.::
Murphy: “It was a simple proposition. Face us for the UWA Tag Team Championships. A win would have legitimized your reign. It would have probably shut us up about calling you paper champions. But no, you acted like you were the greatest team in history, like you, a lowly pimp form a mafia founded city in the middle of the desert that once had class, elegance and charm and is not only really known as a family entertainment vacation spot where celebrities go to spend whatever time their career has left and that it has a pawn shop, were somehow better than us because you, a guy who gets to be on every damn show, stumbled his way into a match he never deserved to be in and won. The simple fact of the matter is, Sin City Knights, you are not better than us. You never have been. When, and it is a matter of when, not if, but when, we finally become UWA Tag Team Champions, we are going to actually show you who to carry a title with class and dignity like a real champion. You were paper champions at worst and placeholder champions at best.”
Krown: “We are not saying we will be UWA Tag Team Champions because it sounds good. That is why we are here. We are not saying Silver Baron and Sharpe didn’t deserve to be in the UWA Tag Team Championship match or that the whole thing was treated as a slap in the face to the tag teams here or that the UWA doesn’t care about its tag teams because we’re bitter. No. We’re saying it because it is true.”
::Travis spins the crowbar in his hand slowly, letting it go in small and controlled circles.::
Krown: “You have to love how the UWA treats most of its wrestlers like most teenage guys treat their girlfriends, making them wait around for a phone call. Really nice to know that’s what they think of us.”
Murphy: “The point is, that ring will be surrounded by people who get to wrestle maybe once or twice every two months because people like you Silver Baron and the rest of the elite the UWA keeps shoving down people’s throats won’t give up your spot so the rest of us can maybe climb that ladder to become elite. Do you really think people like Lacey Roberts, J-Shades, Avalon, and even the Cornbread Mafia like to sit at home for weeks on end while the same people wrestle week after week? We know we don’t, because we are on that list. I can’t imagine Craven enjoys working maybe one night every two months or so while his girlfriend, who by the way, really knows what she is doing in the bedroom and is a fine prostitute, and I speak from experience, brings home the money. Yes Craven, I nailed Skylar, because she’s a prostitute and it seemed like a good idea during Raising Hell weekend. Live with it.”
::As Murphy slips his sunglasses back on, Krown shakes his finger as if remembering something or trying to remind someone of something.::
Krown: “He will. Remember, he seems totally cool with the love of his life screwing other guys for money because he and Silver Baron are the best of friends.”
::For a moment, Murphy pauses and then nods.::
Murphy: “Oh right.”
Travis: I actually have no idea why they put me on television after the Raising Hellpar-per-view. Maybe to try and shut me up or just because they needed someone to work those shows, I have no idea. But I can guarantee after this, even if we win, we’ll probably be off until December or January while we see you Silver Baron on the first Mayhem after Fearless, like you are every Mayhem, or we’ll have one match in November and be on our way.”
Krown: “Because that seems fair.”
Travis: “They talk about how this match is all about the Sin City Knights getting revenge. They talk about it like you are innocent victims at our mercy. Once again, you are protected, because the UWA does not want to hear our message, or wants to play down what we have to say. This is not about your revenge. This is about ours. This is about every broken promise made to us when we signed. This is about us claiming our spot on the roster. This is about us going out to the ring and breaking you in front of half the roster, who the UWA hardly seems to want to let wrestle.”
Krown: “Because this company can survive with just seven people, because one of them has a squad of minions that are about as effective as henchmen from an 80's cartoon. Sure they look tough, but they are kind of bitches in a real fight.”
::With that, Krown throws out two thumbs up and flashes a big, obviously fake smile and then winks.::
Travis: “The system is corrupted Sin City Knights and the only way to fix it is to tear it down. For a company to survive, it needs to build stars. I cannot rely on a few chosen ones or even a chosen one to carry it while ignoring the potential those on the roster have. We’re tired of sitting at home waiting for the phone call to tell us we can wrestle. We’re tired of seeing the same damn people every damn show. We want our turn. We want our opportunities and the only way we will get that is to tear everything down and start from scratch.”
Krown: “It works if you think about it.”
Travis: “That is what Ragnarok does. It is the destruction of the old world, where it is all torn down and laid to waste. But, it is the promise of a glorious future as the survivors rebuild. You are not the first person to say that they will end my career Silver Baron, nor will you and your plucky sidekicks be the last. But, you already tried and failed. You got lucky last time. This time, this time, you will not be so lucky. This time, we go to that ring at Fearless to break the Sin City Knights, to take down one of the chosen ones and to rebuild. And we will do it for the greater good.”
Murphy: “We are tired of having to sit back and let the same damn people get everything while we just get to call the action. It has to change and we are going to make it change. That’s Murphy’s Law.”
Krown: “Our time is now. It is time for us to climb that ladder and time for us to show you what a real tag team can do. That’s Checkmate.”
Travis: “The idea of Ragnarok is to destroy the world to rebuild it. The thing is Sin City Knights, we do not plan to survive this fight. The simple fact of the matter is, we literally have nothing to lose because UWA seems to have no interest in anyone that is not one of its chosen ones. The only way to fix things is to take everything down and start from scratch. To quote another legend in this business “Everything burns”. Challenge and learn Sin City Knights.”
::Murphy extends his arm forward with his fist out.::
Murphy: “For the greater good.”
::Krown extends his arm forward with his fist out now.::
Krown: “For the greater good.”
::Travis holds is arm out, his fist between the other two and glares into the camera with those cold predatory eyes of his.::
Travis: “For the greater good.”
::The scene fades out on the salute of Ragnarok.::
::On the left side of the screen is Connor Murphy, the son of Irish wrestling legend Shameus Murphy, younger brother of former world champion Mark Murphy and a member of the tag team known as Sang Réal, as well as a former champion in both singles and tag team competition. Murphy, as always has on those gold, round framed sunglasses of his.::
::On the left is Murphy’s tag team partner Gabriel Krown, the son of legendary wrestler Michael Krown, brother of Noah Krown, a former world champion, and half of Sang Réal. Like his partner, Gabriel Krown is also a former champion.::
::In the center, between the two men, is the man known as “the Canadian Legend”, “the Once and Future King”, Kyle Travis. The multiple time champion and former UWA North American Champion holds his crowbar in his left hand. Travis takes a deep breath and exhales before he begins speaking.::
Travis: “There are thirty-four wrestlers on the roster right now. Of those thirty-four, about seven are pretty much going to be on every single show be it a Mayhem or a pay-per-view. That leaves roughly twenty-eight wrestlers that may or may not get matches on Mayhem or a pay-per-view. And then you have the people that never seem to get put on television, or are still on the roster but have seemingly disappeared or just never seem to be in matches at all like Sentinel, who should be at least recovered from his injuries enough to grant an interview or Kaylyn James Evans, who seeming wrestled a few weeks and then vanished from ever being put in a match again, or the Rising Sun Dynasty who had one match and then vanished complete, never to be placed in a match again.”
::Krown moves this fingers through the air in front of him, like he is doing math on a board that only he can see.::
Krown: “The math does not work for that. The numbers are not divisible. It really does not. Seven is not a factor of thirty-four. Thirty-five yes, but not thirty-four. But twenty-eight is as it goes into twenty-eight four times.”
::Krown stops moving his fingers and shakes his head with a shrug. Murphy raises an eyebrow but says nothing about it::
Travis: “Each episode of Monday Night Mayhem usually contains five to seven matches. Now, that guarantees that each one of the chosen ones will have a match and the rest of the show will be filled up by names management and the booking committee picks from a hat and actually answers the phone to show up and wrestle. It’s not like one or two of those seven could take a week off and let someone else wrestle.”
Krown: “Seriously! There are so many people on the roster that maybe, just maybe, one or two nights out of the bi-weekly shows, the rest of us can wrestle and not just be used to elevate the elite or as filler. Crazy idea I know, but sometimes, crazy works.”
::Murphy nods in agreement.::
Murphy: “It has been over a month since our last match. Ironic when one considers that we actually said we probably wouldn’t have a match after our match with K.I.S.S. Meanwhile, guys like K.I.S.S. and Silver Baron and the other chosen elite had a match every show. I really do not see why we could have maybe given one or two of them off and let us wrestle.”
::Krown mimics the action of climbing.::
Krown: “Can’t climb the ladder to the top if we can’t get matches on television. I mean it is not like UWA is just going to hand the title opportunities to us, like they did you two.”
Murphy: “And then you look at the eleven wrestlers on the Injured/Inactive/Released list, and honestly, you have to wonder how any of them could get injured in the ring when most of them only wrestled one or two matches. We’re under the theory that they were all released or asked to be when they realized that they would only get to work once every two months or so.”
Travis: “There is no reason why we had to wait so long to get on television or for our fight with the Sin City Knights to happen. There is no reason why any of us three could not have had matches all these last two months. Instead, they passed me off to other people and kept Sang Réal off television while they acted like you were innocent victims of an unwarranted attack.”
::Krown smirks a bit.::
Krown: “Nope, it was totally warranted.”
Murphy: “You had three weeks as the UWA Tag Team Champions and, honestly, that was three weeks too long considering you never should have won the titles. But then again, as we have said, the UWA clearly does not care about the tag team division, otherwise Sang Réal versus the Cornbread Mafia inside the steel cage would have been the first Tag Team Championship match, and it would have made sense, it would have brought a legitimacy and hype to the titles. But then there would be a chance one of the elite wouldn’t be the first champion, and that can’t happen. Half surprised one of the elite was not in the Television Championship match, but I guess they were busy. Oh wait, that’s right, they all had matches, like they do every show.”
::Murphy shakes his head.::
Travis: “So really, in the span of those weeks, Connor Murphy versus Quentin Sharpe, or Silver Baron versus Kyle Travis or Craven versus Gabriel Krown, or Travis versus Craven or Murphy versus Silver Baron or Krown versus Sharpe could not have happened? There was absolutely no way at all to have any member of Ragnarok face any member of the Sin City Knights? I fail to see how exactly that is possible considering Sang Réal had a free schedule and I was just thrown into random matches. But, then again, I suppose we cannot risk the elite looking bad.”
Murphy: “We had a lot of free time these past few weeks and, our phones never rang to tell us we had a match against anyone in Sin City Knights. We showed up, wrestled K.I.S.S. and got nearly two months off. I mean, we had some free time. One of us could have fought someone in Sin City Knights, you know, hype a match, like this place seems to do for only one or two matches on the show.”
Krown: “Considering how often we wrestle, it is amazing we don’t forget everything and have tons of ring rust. I mean really, as often as we wrestle, you’d think we’d forget how to do anything in that ring. I mean honestly!”
Murphy: “We didn’t come here to do commentary. We didn’t come here to try and sell t-shirts. We came here to wrestle. And yet the one thing we want to do is the one thing no one seems to want to let us do because they have to fill the show with the same people every single time.”
Travis: “Is it jealousy? Maybe it is. Is it frustration? You are absolutely right that we are frustrated. We did not come here to sit on the sidelines. We came here to wrestle. And we would like to do that more than once every two months. Do you realize that if we had not attacked you, we probably would maybe have had one match each and UWA would then give us two months off?”
Krown: “Even if we win, there’s a good chance we do not get on television after, which would be disappointing when you consider that this would be a huge win for us.”
Murphy: “Win, lose or draw, we will probably not be on television, but we have no doubt that Silver Baron and the other elite will have all the matches on Mayhem and maybe if we are very lucky, we get to see the Sin City Knights in a rematch for belts they never truly deserved.”
Travis: “Thirty-four wrestlers and a grant total of seven are pretty much guaranteed to be on television every single show with a remaining twenty-eight maybe, maybe, getting the occasional token match just to remind people that they still work here. Does that sound fair to anyone? I am willing to bet more than half the roster can count how many matches they have had on one hand. But hey, as long as the chosen ones are happy and protected, and make no mistake about it Silver Baron, you are protected.”
Murphy: “Remind me again who did the Protector or Quentin Sharpe or whoever he is and Silver Baron beat prior to their debut as a tag team?”
::Murphy leans in a little, moving closer to the camera like he expects to hear an answer to his question.::
::Krown starts to rib his chin.::
Krown: “I believe it was no one at all.”
::Murphy moves back from the camera and snaps his fingers.::
Murphy: “Ah yes! And with no tag team matches under their belt as a team and never having teamed before, somehow, they were able to be in the UWA Tag Team Championship match and the only reason we can think of is because they happen to be from Las Vegas, Nevada where the match was held, or at least close to it.”
Krown: “That sounds fair. Wrestle near or in your home town and get a title shot for no reason other than you are a local.”
Murphy: “Now we will give you that Silver Baron had some pretty good singles wins, but we fail to see why that didn’t put him in for the first Television Championship match. That would have made sense. The Protector or Sharpe had wrestled one match, and, unless it was the most dominating performance in UWA history, we also fail to see how this meant he should challenge for the UWA Tag Team Championships. Is that a new thing? Debut and get a title shot, because that hardly seems fair to the rest of us. Then again, half of us barely wrestle enough to earn a title shot, so maybe it just easier to give them away.”
Krown: “A paper champion is still a champion, but Silver Baron and Sharpe did not look like good champions on paper. They say there are no guarantees in life, no such thing as a sure thing, but I think we all say K.I.S.S. taking the titles.”
Murphy: “And it is nice to see Ashley having a chance to hold two championships. Now all UWA needs to do is give Bethany a shot at the Television Championship and hope Jeszika Gautier defeats Aerynn Donnelly and we can officially change our name from UWA to AWA, Arsenal Wrestling Alliance.”
::Krown nods in agreement with that.::
Travis: “Silver Baron, whether you want to admit it or not, you are protected by this company. For whatever reason, the UWA has decided you need to be on every show, regardless of how flimsy and excuse they have to make. Aerynn Donnelly threatens to walk, take her ball and go home like a child, and the UWA caves in. Joshua McBride makes demand after demand with literally nothing to back up his credibility and his failure to make the minion squad he keeps with him seem like anything other than cannon fodder and again, the company caves in. That is because they are elites, chosen ones. We make demands and we are ignored or told to sit down and shut up.”
Krown: “The Krown and Murphy families have not given everything it can to this business for us, the heirs to the throne, and this guy, one of the best in the business, to say something and have people react like on Family Guy with a “shut up Meg”. I did not come here to be Meg Griffin. No one wants to be Meg Griffin. Why would you make treating someone like Meg Griffin a thing that you do?”
::Krown runs his fingers through his hair like he is about to snap, then manages to calm himself down.::
::Murphy takes his sunglasses off and thrusts them towards the camera, like he is poking someone with them.::
Murphy: “We are Sang Réal, Old French for “royal blood”. The Murphy and Krown families have given so much to this business and we expect that to actually mean something, but clearly, being second generation wrestlers means nothing anymore. What happened to the days when being born into this business meant something? Clearly those days are gone as we are simply given a token match and sent on our way. This is a business that is supposed to reward hard work, sacrifice and dedication, and yet, all we see is chosen ones getting the chances and the ability to gain opportunities while the rest of us are given our token match and sent on our way.”
Travis: “We did not have to resort to hit and run tactics Silver Baron, but it does seem to be the only way to get anything done around here. You look at the war between the Children of Nephilim and the alliance of Arsenal, Aerynn Donnelly and Jeszika Gautier and later Broderick Montgomery III and you realize that no member of those groups actually fought one-on-one until after it was over. We had Jeszika Gautier versus Joshua McBride, but what about Bene Elohim versus K.I.S.S. or something like that? Those matches never happened. It was supposed to be the biggest rivalry in the company and neither side seemed to engage the other before the pay-per-views. Just like, it seems, the UWA did not want either of us facing one another until the pay-per-view. And we tried to make it happen, but you ducked the fight.”
::The normally calm Murphy sounds a bit agitated as he gestures with the sunglasses in his hand.::
Murphy: “It was a simple proposition. Face us for the UWA Tag Team Championships. A win would have legitimized your reign. It would have probably shut us up about calling you paper champions. But no, you acted like you were the greatest team in history, like you, a lowly pimp form a mafia founded city in the middle of the desert that once had class, elegance and charm and is not only really known as a family entertainment vacation spot where celebrities go to spend whatever time their career has left and that it has a pawn shop, were somehow better than us because you, a guy who gets to be on every damn show, stumbled his way into a match he never deserved to be in and won. The simple fact of the matter is, Sin City Knights, you are not better than us. You never have been. When, and it is a matter of when, not if, but when, we finally become UWA Tag Team Champions, we are going to actually show you who to carry a title with class and dignity like a real champion. You were paper champions at worst and placeholder champions at best.”
Krown: “We are not saying we will be UWA Tag Team Champions because it sounds good. That is why we are here. We are not saying Silver Baron and Sharpe didn’t deserve to be in the UWA Tag Team Championship match or that the whole thing was treated as a slap in the face to the tag teams here or that the UWA doesn’t care about its tag teams because we’re bitter. No. We’re saying it because it is true.”
::Travis spins the crowbar in his hand slowly, letting it go in small and controlled circles.::
Krown: “You have to love how the UWA treats most of its wrestlers like most teenage guys treat their girlfriends, making them wait around for a phone call. Really nice to know that’s what they think of us.”
Murphy: “The point is, that ring will be surrounded by people who get to wrestle maybe once or twice every two months because people like you Silver Baron and the rest of the elite the UWA keeps shoving down people’s throats won’t give up your spot so the rest of us can maybe climb that ladder to become elite. Do you really think people like Lacey Roberts, J-Shades, Avalon, and even the Cornbread Mafia like to sit at home for weeks on end while the same people wrestle week after week? We know we don’t, because we are on that list. I can’t imagine Craven enjoys working maybe one night every two months or so while his girlfriend, who by the way, really knows what she is doing in the bedroom and is a fine prostitute, and I speak from experience, brings home the money. Yes Craven, I nailed Skylar, because she’s a prostitute and it seemed like a good idea during Raising Hell weekend. Live with it.”
::As Murphy slips his sunglasses back on, Krown shakes his finger as if remembering something or trying to remind someone of something.::
Krown: “He will. Remember, he seems totally cool with the love of his life screwing other guys for money because he and Silver Baron are the best of friends.”
::For a moment, Murphy pauses and then nods.::
Murphy: “Oh right.”
Travis: I actually have no idea why they put me on television after the Raising Hellpar-per-view. Maybe to try and shut me up or just because they needed someone to work those shows, I have no idea. But I can guarantee after this, even if we win, we’ll probably be off until December or January while we see you Silver Baron on the first Mayhem after Fearless, like you are every Mayhem, or we’ll have one match in November and be on our way.”
Krown: “Because that seems fair.”
Travis: “They talk about how this match is all about the Sin City Knights getting revenge. They talk about it like you are innocent victims at our mercy. Once again, you are protected, because the UWA does not want to hear our message, or wants to play down what we have to say. This is not about your revenge. This is about ours. This is about every broken promise made to us when we signed. This is about us claiming our spot on the roster. This is about us going out to the ring and breaking you in front of half the roster, who the UWA hardly seems to want to let wrestle.”
Krown: “Because this company can survive with just seven people, because one of them has a squad of minions that are about as effective as henchmen from an 80's cartoon. Sure they look tough, but they are kind of bitches in a real fight.”
::With that, Krown throws out two thumbs up and flashes a big, obviously fake smile and then winks.::
Travis: “The system is corrupted Sin City Knights and the only way to fix it is to tear it down. For a company to survive, it needs to build stars. I cannot rely on a few chosen ones or even a chosen one to carry it while ignoring the potential those on the roster have. We’re tired of sitting at home waiting for the phone call to tell us we can wrestle. We’re tired of seeing the same damn people every damn show. We want our turn. We want our opportunities and the only way we will get that is to tear everything down and start from scratch.”
Krown: “It works if you think about it.”
Travis: “That is what Ragnarok does. It is the destruction of the old world, where it is all torn down and laid to waste. But, it is the promise of a glorious future as the survivors rebuild. You are not the first person to say that they will end my career Silver Baron, nor will you and your plucky sidekicks be the last. But, you already tried and failed. You got lucky last time. This time, this time, you will not be so lucky. This time, we go to that ring at Fearless to break the Sin City Knights, to take down one of the chosen ones and to rebuild. And we will do it for the greater good.”
Murphy: “We are tired of having to sit back and let the same damn people get everything while we just get to call the action. It has to change and we are going to make it change. That’s Murphy’s Law.”
Krown: “Our time is now. It is time for us to climb that ladder and time for us to show you what a real tag team can do. That’s Checkmate.”
Travis: “The idea of Ragnarok is to destroy the world to rebuild it. The thing is Sin City Knights, we do not plan to survive this fight. The simple fact of the matter is, we literally have nothing to lose because UWA seems to have no interest in anyone that is not one of its chosen ones. The only way to fix things is to take everything down and start from scratch. To quote another legend in this business “Everything burns”. Challenge and learn Sin City Knights.”
::Murphy extends his arm forward with his fist out.::
Murphy: “For the greater good.”
::Krown extends his arm forward with his fist out now.::
Krown: “For the greater good.”
::Travis holds is arm out, his fist between the other two and glares into the camera with those cold predatory eyes of his.::
Travis: “For the greater good.”
::The scene fades out on the salute of Ragnarok.::