Scene opens pitch black, altough this obscurity is soon broken by an IWF logo, gold and blue. Slowly, the I transitions into a C, the W into a M and the F into a S, completing the morphing, maybe foreshadowing, of IWF into CMS. Dark turns slowly into light and we are in an alley. Theres a couple of trash cans, some cardboards thrown on the floor and acting as a background so to speak a brick wall. Shading some light into this weird setting and even if announced as something related to him, unexplained until now, appears CMS. In an indumenta that could very well earn IWF some ¨stereotype¨ remarks, CMS appears with a bandana, some low hanging jeans and a white wifebeater. Theres a chain around his neck, that even if the intention seems to be of mockery, the jewels on it are nothing but real. As the camera zooms on his face, he even seems to be rocking a grill on his smile.
CMS: Nic Stone, thats the name of the competitor Im going to face this Monday Night when finally my dreams start to materialize and I come closer to the IWF Championship. I managed to my hands on that little, cute video you recorded addressing me and well, it is sort of my duty to answer you back isnt it? In all the nonsense rambling you made, you, ha, you actually tried to insult me by calling me a street thug.
A thug.
Do you think for one second I am not proud of where I come from? I have never been shy of hiding my origins, and this right here, dark alleys, streets, a hard life, a tough childhood, those are my origins, thats where I come from. You want to call me a street thug, go ahead, I wont take offense in that, I may go ahead and take pride, because if anything, it reflects my past and my struggle to get where I am now, and its precisely my past that will give me the upperhand when I enter the ring with you Nic.
CMS paces around in the alley, walking a few steps. The camera follows him.
CMS: You claim to be faster, better, smarter than me. I cant deny that. Not because it isnt false, but because I have never been in the ring with you. Maybe youre in fact right and Im wrong. Maybe you are all those things you claim to be, maybe you are in fact just one match away from reaching your goal of being the champion, maybe you arent what I so rightfully think you are, just another loudmouth, dyed hair arrogant punk trying to make a name of himself with despair and as fast as they can because they know its only a matter of time they become nothing more than a footnote, a name with no relevance whatsoever in the history of professional wrestling. Maybe I am wrong...but what if I am not.
CMS finally stops walking and faces the camera again.
CMS: All I know Nic, is you are spending the last couple of hours before our main event match talking about my name, my swagger, if I am a street thug or not, essentially all you have done is run your mouth and maybe, just maybe, youll have to keep your words soft and sweet because you may have to eat them. I could play your game as well. Come out here, tooth my horn running the list of superstars Ive beaten, read my resume to all of you and trust me, its way more impressive that working up a mic on Mondays and acting as if your the goddamned Babe Ruth of wrestling, I could say that its been quite some time since I have been pinned in a wrestling match, so long that Ive forgotten how that feels, hell, I could even try to be funny and cute and expose you as the gimmick infractor you are as you have clearly stolen my nickname of ¨Monday Night Mayhem´s Shining Star¨ I used to have not so long ago.
CMS stares at the camera fired up, having gotten excited in this last segment of his speech. He rips of the grill on his teeth, rips the bandana of his head and tears the wifebeater of his torso.
CMS: But I am not going to do any of that Nic, that would be falling to your level. It makes one wonder how you need to talk about being better than me to feel it. Nic, you might be better, faster, stronger than me, but you damn sure arent hungrier than me. Its been too long since Ive hold gold around my waist, and the IWF Championship its just a long time coming for me.
You talk a good game, you could have the skills to back it up, but as far as Im concerned, when Mayhem comes to its end of transmissions and the announces rave about the amazing main event they just witnessed, they will be praising one man and one man only...the winner of the match, CMS.
CMS seems to be about to walk away but he turns around and talks to the camera once more.
CMS: I almost forgot, you claim to have invented the game...who says we will be playing your game? Kid, whether you like, or you dont, one way or the other, youre getting your bigger than life moment.
CMS walks away this time for good.