[CUE UP: "Imperial March" - Rage Against the Machine. A video montage plays, featuring smoke-wreathed images of various wrestlers, some of them leaving blurred trails as they move. 
CUT TO: Beast nailing the Absolution on Adam Benjamin.
CUT TO: Shawn Hart coming off the ropes with a Quebrada. 
CUT TO: Felix Red standing victorious in the ring. 
CUT TO: JA delivering the Karelin Driver to Ron Artest 
CUT TO: Adam Benjamin delivering a Shining Wizard to Karl Brown.
CUT TO: Joey Melton, mugging for the crowd. 
CUT TO: Lindsay Troy dropkicking Beast. 
CUT TO: Ice Tre flailing away as he falls from a cage.
CUT TO: JA and Kin Hiroshi locking up in the middle of the ring.
CUT TO: Rocko Daymon, mugging with Caitlyn.
CUT TO: “Triple X” Sean Stevens on the second turnbuckle staring out into the crowd with the World Title raised overhead.
CUT TO: Dan Ryan sitting sedately in a chair, staring into the camera. 
CUT TO: With a clash of metal, a logo slams across the screen, its edges flickering.]

[FADE IN: 

Tuscon, Arizona. The arena's employee entrance/exit, earlier in the afternoon.

EPW World Champion, the 'blue-eyed badass' Sean Stevens leaned back against the wall, directly across from the area where the wrestlers would enter and exit the building, seemingly waiting for ... something, or someone. Occasionally, he'd glance down at his wrist watch, checking the time, sighing from restlessness.

As the double doors swung open, and EPW superstar, Rocko Daymon entered the building, his wife - Caitlyn - by his side, it had become increasingly clear just who it was he was looking for, as Triple X braced himself, for what could lead to a possible confrontation. 

The couple stepped through the doors, and began their search for their dressing room, in the middle of another one of their "classic" verbal debates, about where the actual dressing room was located. They were so heavily involved in their semi-argument, and game of one-upmanship that they didn't notice Sean.... 

.... who had, by this time, walked to the middle of the hallway, stepping directly in the couple's path, Rocko almost collided with the champion, jumping back instinctively. Sean, wearing a big, bulky, white neck brace, as a result of Caitlyn Daymon's taser-to-the-neck technique last week, made an aggressive motion toward Caitlyn - who to her credit, didn't seem the least bit intimidated - but was met by a very heroic Rocko, who had stepped in between Stevens and his wife, in an attempt to protect her. 

Trip wasn't dressed for competition - yet - as he was still in faded black jeans and a plain white t-shirt. But, he had the EPW World Championship draped over his shoulder, and as the two wrestlers stood face-to-face, Trip ripped off the neck brace, tossing it on the floor, locking eyes with Caitlyn as he did so.]

TRIPLE X: Let it be known that just for the record, I'd gladly eat a thousand rotten sausages, if it meant I never had to come face-to-face with your wife's diarrhea breath. They tasted MUCH better. 

[Sean took the belt off of his shoulder, and raised it in Rocko's face, as Daymon stood there, not willing to back down, one bit.]

TRIPLE X: As for you, Robocop? You can send your wife to try to electrocute me with her little taser, and you can send all the subliminals you want. 

[He took a step foward, they were now nose-to-nose.]

TRIPLE X: It still doesn't change the fact that as long as I'm alive, you will NEVER beat me for MY EPW world title. 

[Sean backpeddled, not taking his eyes off of Rocko, or Caitlyn until he was around the corner and out of potential harm's way.

The camera panned back to Rocko, who was still standing in the same position as when he and Sean were staring each other down, chest puffed out.]

ROCKO: You see what you did, woman?! I almost had to kick that man's ass, and it would've been all because of that little stunt you pulled last week. It'd have been all YOUR fault.

[Caitlyn brushed Rocko off.]

CAITLYN: You didn't almost do anything. You didn't even say anything, you spineless coward.

ROCKO: Oh yeah?! And, what did YOU say? You didn't say anything EITHER!

CAITLYN: Oh, please...

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