Re: Clarification
(FADEIN: The First standing in front of The Joe in Detroit. First is dressed like The Crow, black leather jacket, tight fitting shirt, black jeans and boots, face painted like Eric Draven after he came out of the ground. His personalized EPW World Title belt rests on his shoulder.)
FIRST: The signal to noise ratio gets worse and worse with you every time you talk Cammy, more and more static, less and less real things said. And the sad thing about it is that everything you say is something that I can just come back and trump…
You bring up Dodd, Douglas and Astros as if they were some Murderer’s Row of talent that we’ll never see the likes of again in this industry…
I’ll make a wager with you Cammy…Find ANYONE other than yourself who’s brought up Dodd, Douglas, or Astros since you beat them and I’ll pay for you to get a full mani-pedi and you can even get the cucumbers. You know what they are used for? You put them around your eyes to decrease puffiness, it’s nothing sick...It’s a common skin care thing...You really need to get out more…
Exactly nobody gives a damn about the list of third stringers you beat years ago…I’m the guy who thinks he’s 6,000 years old…Yet you’re the guy who’s living in the past…
And while you’re the guy bragging about fighting Who Dat’s and Never-Will-Be’s…I was in that ring fighting people who matter…
Like say, Anarky…Or Triple X…
Folks that did something, like say…Held the EPW World Title…Folks that matter in the story of EPW and wrestling itself…You got a list of nobodies, I got a mantle full of legends…
And while you were busy having Adrian Willard kick your ass night in and night out, I was busy both being Dis and pushing everyone’s buttons, attacking whoever what I wanted whenever I wanted, sowing the seeds of conflict and building towards my glorious reign…And I was also myself, the hero of the people, winning the EPW World Tag Team Titles with my friend Eddie Burns…
And it was Eddie who did that whole set up with Winters thing, I was just gonna fake a Dis attack amd leave him to fend for himself in a two on one. Do try to get the story right, not that you’ve ever come close to doing so in the past. Facts don’t ever get in the way of your stories.
I care about facts Cammy…See I’m an honest man, you whine at me for spinning mist in your eyes last time…Tough break man, I’ll do it again…The problem with you Cammy is that you have to justify everything, you spend your whole life trying to explain away things.
You’re always stuttering and bumbling and all “But but you did something bad first, so I had to do something bad to react to it!”
Cammy, OWN YOUR SH*T.
You cheated and you won, congrats.
You know who else has cheated and won?
Me.
I’ve won victories over folks who fought on the straight and narrow and beat them by the most underhanded of means and don’t feel the slightest bit guilty for it.
You scream and yell over and over again about my make-up and eyeliner and the fact that I dress and carry myself the way I do, you bring up the tea parties I had years ago…(Smiles.) glad they made an impression on you…See I do these things because they draw attention to me and they become memories…Nobody on this earth could remember what you were wearing or doing years ago, since you were most likely just being Cameron Cruise, on the phone to someone trying to get them to join Anthology just so you could pad the ranks of your little group by another member.
Anthology, you’re so damn proud of it…You can’t go a single promo without bringing it up…
How did Anthology end?
Or should I say, how did it end for you?
Sean Stevens kicking your ass, taking Anthology from you and leaving you in a broken heap on the floor, and Copycat, Tact, Wells, and Edmunds shaking their heads and walking away with him. Your best buddy, “Daddy” as he likes to be called, couldn’t stick up for you when it came time for Anthology to come under new management.
Management that wasn’t a joke to the industry.
So you want Wells in your corner now to help you…I fought for the EPW World Title before and Jared Wells was in the opponent’s corner that night too…The opponent was Sean Stevens…
Daddy goes where the money’s good, and right now since he’s been out of circulation for a while, he’s stooped to answering your calls, but you’re not friends, you’re not Brothers…You’re wrestlers, and one day somebody’s gonna cut him a check with a big number on it, and you’ll once again be laying in a pool of blood…
Maybe I should think about making him such an offer…You were so kind to remind me I don’t have a child of my own…So the college fund for Eleanor can be re-committed to other things…Like the “Buy off Jared Wells so he beats the daylights out of Cameron Cruise and saves me a night of work.” Fund…
Or more likely I don’t have to do such things, because I can kick your ass any day of the week Cammy…I don’t need help or gimmicks or tricks, even if they would make things more fun. I know that I’ve been spending my time fighting the best of the best, while you’ve been begging just to get on shows. I’ve been doing it in the ring night after night, while you’ve been TALKING a big game and not backing any of it up.
See that’s what separates us Cammy, I’ve been doing big things, and you’ve been talking big things…You’ve bragging about stuff nobody cares about, while I got the whole world’s attention squarely focused on myself…in that big 8 man tag you WERE NOT a part of, everyone was mentioning me, what I did, how I won this title…(Pats belt) how I made an impact, how folks were going to come at me to take the title from me…
You remind me I made this challenge…Well guess what Cammy, I made the challenge cause you got out there and claimed you were going to be the next EPW World Champion…Lord knows you really didn’t have any plan to make that really happen, odds are you were just going to do what you always do, scream and yell like a crazy person till the you got put in a ‘quiet room’ for a while and they straightened out your medication.
See Cammy, there’s a lot of people making a lot of promises out there, Stalker’s got his banked title shot, Anarky and Rezin want to maim and injure people until the league falls apart under the weight of all the bodies they pile up, I’m sure Stevens hasn’t gone away...That and all the rest of it means that you honestly didn’t have any realistic hope of getting in the ring to fight for the EPW World Title unless I decided to be a nice guy and give you a crack at the belt.
Simply put Cammy, I’ve done you a huge favor, I’ve given you the chance of a lifetime and all you’ve done is sputter and scream and call me a coward… Well you do all that when you’re not still taking shots at Joey Melton…I mean this is only your chance to be EPW World Champion it’s not that big of a deal…Making sure we all know you were the talent of the “Cameron Cruise Project” is a far more pressing issue.
But in the end, we’re going to fight, me and you, for the belt. When you get in that ring, I’m going to make you wait a little while, the champion’s right and all that, to come out second and to come out on HIS time…I want you to feel the energy in that crowd…I want you to drink it in…Cause the crowd won’t have that buzz of a big fight, the expectation of a mass of humanity waiting to see two of the world’s best going head to head to find out who the better man is…
No Cammy…The energy in that crowd…Will be that of a mob waiting to see a public execution…It will be a blood thirsty gang that wants to reveal in the pain and suffering of the condemned…The demand for blood vengeance that is primal in all of us…
They will want to see you pay for insulting their intelligence, for being a pretender to the throne and for daring to think that you even had a chance against me…
And you’ll turn to Jared Wells, your dear friend, and you’ll see it in his eyes…He’ll know you can’t win this match…He might try to reassure you…But about all he’ll be doing is trying to nurse his wounds from getting his ass kicked by Impulse and waiting for a moment to cheap shot me so that after you lose he might stand a chance of talking his way into a title match of his own…
After your small talk with him…Then it’ll be a few moments before “Happy Birthday” kicks up on the PA…And the crowd will know that judgment is coming…That the Hand of Fate has arrived to do what must be done… I’m going to destroy you…I’m going to delight in punishing you, I’m going to take so much joy in watching the hope drain from your eyes, as the REALITY sets in that the man you beat all those years ago is long gone…And he’s been replaced by a far more brutal, far more determined, far more violent man…A man who is going to turn this night into a living hell for you…
You truly have no idea what you’ve gotten yourself into…Rest assured of one thing…
This ends badly for you.
(FADEOUT)