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Climax Control Archives / The go-home show
« on: December 18, 2020, 05:47:01 PM »
We see Stephen Callaway. He stands in an empty room as the scene opens. The walls are cream, the carpet beige. A suitcase sits closed in the middle of the floor.

Stephen Callaway
 "I'm going to shoot for a moment. A couple of weeks ago, we had just come out of the PPV and there was a bit of a gap between that show to the next show and I figured that was the right time for me to go home.

There were a couple of issues somewhere and it didn't go through. Basically, if I had just gotten on a plane and gone home thinking it had gone through, Sin City would have been within their rights to sue me for breach of contract.

So I stayed.

I found it odd that some things I'd expect to happen, hadn't. So I stayed. I though I'll hang around until they do.

It was only when I saw that I was booked on this Sunday's Climax Control that I realised it hadn't gone through. Since then, I have spoken to the relevant people. I have gotten the forms signed. Done it all by the books.

Climax Control this Sunday will be my last match for Sin City.

I'm going to go home to the UK after my match and I won't be back in the new year.

It raises a ton of things. Like: How am I going to get presents for people when I can't go out? See I fly back to the UK and under their Corona guidelines, I have to self isolate for two weeks. I can and will do that but to a point. I'm going home. TO my home. I'll be dammed if I'm going to be confined to the small room at the back of the house for two weeks.

My house is my house. I'll stay in it for two weeks. I won't go outside for two weeks. Not even to the garden. My wife will be doing the same. I can stay indoors, sit on my ass and watch telly for two weeks. In fact sitting in my home, with my wife, watching my TV for two weeks will be the best thing I've done or can do in ages."

He takes a bottle from his coat pocket and drinks from it.

Stephen Callaway
 "The last match.

That one name that will go down in history is Brother David. In a Roulette Title match no less.

Now here's where it gets messy.

There's bound to be fans out there now wondering 'Stevie C, if you win the title does that mean you stay until you lose the title?' Others will be wondering 'does this mean the title could be vacant again?'

The answer to the first is 'no' as for the latter, I don't know. I know after Mac Bane won the title and then up and left that the title is just gaining normality. I know that I could very much rock the boat again.

I know I said 'shoot' earlier so let's 'shoot'

I'll be honest with you, a small part of me wants me to lose this Sunday. It's certainly a lot cleaner if he wins and continues as champion while I lose and move on. It's a lot less messy than I win the title and hand it to some random in the back where it's vacated leading to a tournament, a G4, a Battle Royal or some other madness.

However, just because a part of me wants me to lose, just because part of me thinks it would be cleaner, doesn't mean to say I'm going to lie down for him. See, I'd like my last match to go out with a bang. I'd love to go out on top, to bow out with a win.

As a result, I'm not going to make it easy on Brother David. If he is going to win, he's going to have to beat me. It's not a tanning bulb that shines onto the ring. I'm not going to lie in the middle of the ring, work on my tan and yell 'cover me' when I'm done. He wants to leave with the Roulette Title, Brother David has to be ready for a fight. I literally have nothing to lose. This IS my last match.

Always have an angle."

We fade out.


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Climax Control Archives / Parting Gift
« on: December 04, 2020, 07:36:23 PM »

We see Stephen Callaway. He's recording himself using a phone.

Stephen Callaway
 "This is how crazy Covid has made Gotham!

So what do you think? This enough to get me some Tic Tac followers? Maybe stand in front of a wind machine and call it an Only Fans account?

No.

What I wanted to show you was this."

He turns the camera round and we see the SCW ring set up in the Gold Coast Casino. He runs his hand over the ring apron and the bottom rope before turning the camera back to face himself.

Stephen Callaway
 "Full disclosure. I found out a little something something recently."

He doesn't say what. Not yet anyway. Instead we see him make his way up the steel steps with loud footsteps on metal that echo through the empty arena, The ropes squeak slightly as he enters the ring.

Stephen Callaway
 "I found out that the rules of travel have been a little laxed. I found out that anyone can travel from the US to the UK for a holiday but it would mean self isolating for two weeks.

I'll be honest, the idea of spending two weeks at home doesn't sound bad. Even if it is two weeks in my own bed where the only contact with my wife is through a wooden door that must remain shut at all times.

And I'll be honest, I thought about it.

There was a gap of two weeks between coming out of High Stakes and going into this upcoming Climax Control where I could easily have said to management 'that's it. I'm done. I'm going home now'

Instead I didn't.

I don't know why.

Maybe I felt the need to see this year out. Maybe I never found the ideal moment in the first week and by the start of the second I was booked on this show. And you should know by now that I don't back out of a show I'm not booked on.

It was the perfect time too. I had gotten a big win at High Stakes and it was the best way to go, literally on a high.

But I didn't.

And who knows? Maybe some hower power has decided that I should be here a little longer.

I'll be honest, I don't see me being here long. In fact, I don't envision my being here in 2021. If there is a gap, however small, anywhere close to Christmas here in Sin City Wrestling, I'll say it now, I'm gone.

But I could take a parting gift with me.

The currently vacant Roulette Title.

That damn thing has been a bane to me for the best part of 2020. I've fought for it at pay per views for what feels like most of the year.

Mac Bane decided to piss of after winning and, let's face it, there's every chance I could do the same.

But I don't want to go getting ahead of myself. On Sunday night I stand in this ring..."

He turns the camera again and we see the empty ring



Stephen Callaway
 ".....and I fight in a four way. I go up against Kedron Williams, Brother David Shepherd and my old friend Bulldog Bob.

I win that and  I become the new Roulette Champion. I could walk out of 2020 as Roulette Champion, I could walk out of Sin City as Roulette Champion.

Or I could walk out with nothing. I mean I've got previous.

But I came here because this Sunday could be my last in a ring like this. My last time to stand on the sacred ground in a competitive environment. My last time to stand within the ropes and hear a crowd, however small compared to what it was, cheering me or booing me. The high I get when I come down an isle and compete in the ring is a high that nothing can replace. Not that I've tried to. I've had a lot of highs and a lot of lows between these ropes. I've won championships and suffered  injuries. It's been a wild ride and a hell of a rollercoaster.

But it's slowing down.

But who knows? Maybe there's time for one last Roulette Title themed loop d loop.

Only one way to find out."

He taps his head with his index finger in salute before the screen goes black.
   

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Climax Control Archives / Up Late With Callaway
« on: October 30, 2020, 10:52:41 PM »

We see Stephen Callaway. He stands in front of a large purple Sin City Wrestling banner.

Stephen Callaway
 "There's a lot of people that have asked me why it is that Sin City have kept me around.

The simple answer to that is they know me.

To give it more detail they know that I have a respect for this business and this company. in City know that if they book me, not only will I appear that I'll give everything I have for them.

They know that they can book me in Four Way Matches, Five Way Matches, Triple Threats, Throw Someone In Water Matches, Street Fight Matches and pretty much whatever match they want to and know that I'll give them the best I can.

I'll do my best to do what I have to for the future of this company and business.

That's why, win or loss, my name is always on the cards. Always on the Pay Per Views. They know that, however small, the audiences that come to Sin City shows will go home with a smile on their faces after I gave them a good match.

That said some will say they go home with a smile after watching me lose but a smile none the less."

He runs his hand through his hair and across the stubble on his chin.

Stephen Callaway
 "Six foot six and two hundred and eighty pounds. This Mac Bane is a little more of a threat than a homophobic talk show host that's known for being up late.

Two hundred and eighty pounds says to me that it's going to hurt when he hits me. Six foot six says he's a tree that needs chopped down. Your shitty ring gear says shitty ring gear and the blue button is just a blue button.

Most guys in this business at six foot six and two hundred eighty might as well have 'luggage' written on their gear instead of 'Bane'. I look at you and I think you might just be different. You might just be the proverbial exception.

But then I look at your signature moves and I'm not so sure. A Clothesline, a Claw, a Spinebuster?

Mate, I want to believe you might be different but your moves scream green ass cucumber and lugage.

Now it says four halls of fame. But halls of fame for what? Snooker? NFL? Country Music? Crochet?

I'm sure we'll find out on Sunday. And I'll be honest, I want to be wrong. I want you to be a really fucking good wrestler. Because if you are, then we can go out there and tear it up. Go out there and give Park Theater and the smaller than we'd all like it to be crowd a hell of a match and put smiles on their faces because they know they seen a cracker.

Because, trust me, two hundred and eighty pounds feels like five hundred when I have to carry it around for twenty minutes. But I'm going to be there ready to do just that on Sunday because Sin City know I can. That's why my name's on the card after all."

He walks out of shot leaving that line and the Sin City Wrestling banner hanging.


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Climax Control Archives / The Six Month Rule
« on: October 16, 2020, 10:28:48 PM »

We see Stephen Callaway. He stands in what looks like a kitchen.

Stephen Callaway
 "I wasn't booked last week and, if I'm honest, I'm glad. You see I've been a bit busy. You see, all you hear on the news is Covid this and Covid that. The President's got it, he's not got it, he's a super shredder. A spreader? Something. Either way Covid is all over the US. It's all over the UK too. They're talking about emergency local lockdowns, tiers systems and a whole lot of other madness.

Either way it seems the pesky Covid thing isn't going anywhere soon.

Six months is the earliest figure I heard.

Six Months.

Six months is March. Six months means being stuck here over Christmas, over New Year. Even over Easter.

I remember a while back. When the Covid thing started taking over and it gave me the time to think. I handed my notice in to Sin City management. When I did so, I thought, wrongly as it turns out, that the whole Covid thing might be done by September and I'd go home then.

Granted that was a 'best case scenario' figure admitedly. Yet I still thought I'd be gone by the end of the year. I went from wanting to main event December To Dismember to expecting to be gone from the company and missing December To Dismember.

However it looks like I'll be here for December To Dismember after all.

Nobody as gone full Jojo and said 'Get out, leave' but it's been hinted that with Sin City moving out of the empty gym and into arenas that the Sin City Hotel may be coming to an end. I hung around the hotel for as long as I did because it's not like I can just go home is it?

But since I'm here for at least the next six months, I figured that it's probably for the best that I find myself somewhere.

As such, I did.

This here is my new kitchen. I actually like it here. OK it doesn't feel like home yet but it feels like a sanctuary that is away from it all and not surrounded by Sin City staff, wrestlers and officials that can see my comings and goings."

He takes a drink of a clear liquid from a clear glass.

Stephen Callaway
 "It also gives me time to think about the future. See, if I'm going to be here until March, then I need to deal with that. For me that means that I'll be at December To Dismember. And I'd love to headline that show and fight for the Sin City Title.

So I need to sit here now in mid October and think about how I'll get there. As luck would have it, I'm in a Ladder Match this week on Climax Control. Now it says there's an unknown prize awaiting the winner.

Granted these days that prize could be a roll of toilet roll or some hand sanitiser. But I like to think it's a bigger prize. I like to think that there's a big opportunity up there. Like a contract to a future title match. as long as you give at least a week's notice, so if that means putting my body on the line against Agostino Romano and the dude I feel I seem to face every second show, Austin James  Mercer then that's what I need to do. If it means taking them on in a Ladder Match, then that's what I need to do.

For a long time I would sit and talk about an upcoming match. I would say that I wanted to win and talk about a possible future but in the back of my mind I was never a hundred percent sure I'd be here long enough to see it through.

But now, with the knowledge I'm here for at least six months, I know I'm going to be here for a while. I moved in here because I know I'll be here for a while. My brother, Alistair and his wife, the always amusingly named Valerie asked if I'd go to Florida and stay with them.

I told them 'no' and not just because I'm not sure I can fly to Florida and back every couple of weeks. Sin City is based in Vegas so I'm here in Vegas. I'm here to reach the top of Sin City. If that takes the entire six months, then I'm OK with that. If winning the World Title is something I do three days before the flight ban is lifted, I'm OK with that too.

That's the difference between me and Mercer and Romano. They want to win and use it to progress what could be glittering careers. I'm nearing the end of mine. I'm sat here missing my wife's birthday, my dad's birthday, my anniversary, my brother's birthdays. I'm going to miss them all on Christmas too. As things stand right now, the only way I'll spend Christmas with my own wife is dependant on a decent wi-fi connection.

So I fight. Because, if nothing else, if I can take the Sin City Title home, it justifies all the things I missed out on."

He walks out of shot.

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Climax Control Archives / The Muffin Man
« on: September 11, 2020, 11:10:11 PM »
We see Stephen Callaway laying on the bed in his hotel room. He is eating a muffin as the scene opens. On the table beside him is a large bowl full of muffins. After finishing his muffin, he takes one from the bowl and holds it to the camera

Stephen Callaway
 "Want one?"

He takes it away from the camera.

Stephen Callaway
 "Doesn't matter does it. It's not like I can push this through the screen and hand it to you if you do."

He starts eating the muffin in his hand.

Stephen Callaway
 "That said there's not really a lot that I CAN do these days. But I have come to a revelation.

What's the point of me doing anything?

See in this business, if you want to do well, you train, say your prayers, eat your vitamins. There's a whole bunch of shit that you need to do.

But what's the point?

Say your prayers.

I have. Every night I have sat at the side of this bed. My hands clasped together so tight that they go red. I pray. I pray to God, to Budda to any and all religious deities that are listening and can help.

NOTHING!

I pray and I pray and yet I sit here with none of it answered.

So that's out.

Train.

I did that. I have ran over most of Vegas, I've spent a ton of time in the hotel gym working out, I have done push ups, press ups wherever whenever and I have spent more time in empty rings working on moves.

Again, NOTHING!

Eat right.

I have dieted, I have gorged on all the right calories for energy, for proteins, for strength. You name it.

Again, NOTHING!

So what do you do when no matter what you do to succeed, it fails?"

He holds up the remains of his muffin.

Stephen Callaway
 "I train and I train and yet I lose and lose. No matter what I have done, none of it has worked.

So fuck it!

If I want a pizza, I'll have one. If I want a bowl of muffins to eat one after the other after the other then I will.

What's the point of dieting? What's the point of training? I do everything I can do and nothing works!

My muscles ache with all the running. With all the iron pumping. With all the push ups.

So I figure: why not sit here? Why not sit with my feet up. To hell with the training. I can spend my time sitting here with some desert with cream and sponges and strawberry sauce, maybe some chocolate all over it. I can sit and scoff that while binge watching Heroes box sets.

Why do all the training? Why do all the diets?

I'm just going to lose anyway."

He scrunches up the muffin wrapper and tosses it over his head. It bounces off the wall and lands in a bin less than a foot to the side of the bed Stephen is on.

Stephen Callaway
 "See I hit the big bad wall of 'is it worth it?" a few months ago. I decided back then it wasn't. That's when I handed my notice in. Right now I figured, I can't pack up and go home. Flight bans and all that. So, as Sin City are paying for the hotel room I am in along with the facilities in the hotel what I use, it's only fair that I still appear at the shows I'm advertised to appear on.

Including this week's Climax Control against Caleb Storms.

See, I'll be there. I'll be in that ring ready to wrestle. But I'm not sure I'll be giving it 100% effort. I mean I tried that and I lost.

But yeah. I know I'm one of the lucky ones. I still have a job right now. I know there's a lack of money coming into business so those that worked for these businesses got fired. I know some of those cases, the business was forced to close. I know the ripple effect of that. No money coming in means no money can go out. Bills can't be paid. Food can't be bought.

Believe it or not, I've been in that position. I know people in that position. Any time I have a meal I know how lucky I am to have it. I know how lucky I am to have a roof over my head. I know how lucky I am that I can put on the TV and watch what I want to, on whatever channel. Because I remember a time when I couldn't

I know that I have a match at the weekend but there are those all over the world that are fighting every damn day of their lives just to eat, just to stay dry.

Caleb Storms, I'm going to go out there on Sunday with every intention of beating you. However,  you and I both know how unlikely that probably is. I mean let's face it, I don't know my next opponent. It could be at a pay per view or even on the next episode of Climax Control. But right now, I'm sure his odds of winning are higher than mine."

He bites into another muffin as the picture fades.

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Climax Control Archives / Mr Everything
« on: August 27, 2020, 05:02:00 PM »

In the underground cinema of the Sin City Wrestling Hotel, we see Stephen Callaway. He sits on his own. The lights from the movie illuminate him. He turns and looks at the camera.

Stephen Callaway
 "You know, I hate the term 'veteran'. I even hate being a veteran in this business.

To me veterans are those old people you see on the TV. Somewhere in their eighties being pushed around in a wheelchair every November as a memory of a war from so long ago that we still shouldn't forget.

Old people.

I'm not even 40 and I'm being called a veteran. I'm not even 40 and the question about retirement has been hovering around me for the best part of the last five years.

I've been around for a while and I have a lot of experience. But the idea of being a veteran that is close to retirement is something I struggle with. It's something I know I'll struggle with. I know that somewhere down the road, I'll be in the training system with some new recruits and I'll be more hands on than I ever was to show that I've still got it. That I'm not an old man.

I'd love to be one of the new guys coming through. Just a young thing in my late teens or early twenties. My body wouldn't be sore, all the mistakes I made wouldn't be there, all my experience would still be out there waiting for me to experience it. Everything would be like a sheet of blank paper waiting for my story to be written,

All that potential waiting to be explored.

I look at the kids, the rookies these days and I think where could I end up if I started out now. With all the state of the art training facilities and all the video on demand sites that offer thousands of hours of wrestling knowledge at the touch of a button. I started at a time where the gym had some dumb bells, an exercise bike and a rowing machine. I started at a time where I could count on the one hand the different companies that had easily available content and probably have some fingers left over.

I believe that if I was making my wrestling debut this Sunday, I'd probably be the top guy in Sin City by December To Dismember 2021."

He takes a drink from a blue solo cup.

Stephen Callaway
 "But I'm not. Instead I'm at the point where my sheet of paper is covered in writing. I'm at the point where I've made the mistakes. I have the experience of all my highs and lows.

Like it or not, I am a veteran.

That said so is Bulldog Bill.

While I know some want me to be concerned by the fact he's a brawler while I'm a technician. I know something they don't. For years I was known as 'Mr Everything'. Thus the name of my Reverse DDT, The 'Everything Goes'.

I got the name 'Mr Everything' because that's what I was. It was also what I gave, but I digress.

I can work any style from Brawler to technical. Submission to high flying. Put me in there with anyone and I will match them. Put me in there with anyone and I'll give you a great match.

Sin City know this, that's why they know that they can put me in there with any name on their roster. That's why most weeks no matter if my results are good, bad or indifferent I am always on the card.

They want to put 'Mr Everything' in there with a brawler? Then this Scottish lad gets to throw down, throw hands and throw punches. Bulldog Bill might think of himself as a veteran but I know more about wrestling than he ever, ever will.

This Sunday we might be going to Sam's Town, but it's going to be my ring"

He turns the camera to the movie screen and we see credits are rolling, when the camera turns back, Stephen Callaway is gone.

All that remains is the blue solo cup sitting on Stephen's vacated seat.

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Climax Control Archives / Going Somewhere Else
« on: August 14, 2020, 10:42:56 AM »
We see Stephen Callaway. He stands with his back to the camera looking out of his hotel room window as the scene opens

Stephen Callaway
 "We're moving. On Sunday we don't emanate from a converted gym in front of the un-booked roster. Instead we air from a proper wrestling venue in front of actual fans.

The Sin City website has decided to use this to question if this is my last match for Sin City this Sunday now that Sin City was no longer in Lock Down.

The answer to that is no. No, it is not my last match in Sin City now that Sin City was no longer in Lock Down.

Mainly because I never said Lock Down. I said Flight Ban. I said as soon as I could fly across the Atlantic Ocean and go home then I would. However, as far as I know, that still hasn't been lifted.

So that may been packing my things into the back of a rental car and driving around the US until the ban is lifted. I don't know.

What I do know is that this Sunday isn't my last match for Sin City. They could find  a cure for Corona on Friday, administer it on Saturday and the world goes back to normal by Sunday morning and it's STILL not my last match for Sin City at Climax Control on Sunday night.

Because I don't want to go out on a maybe baby, might be, not quite sure, possible last match.

No.

I want to have a LAST match. I want it to be on the match card when it goes up on the website saying 'this IS Stephen Callaway's last match' I want to sit here and do my piece to camera and talk to the people about my thoughts feelings and emotions knowing that I'm heading into my last match. I want it so that when I step through the curtain that there isn't a doubt in anybody's mind that this is my last match.

Right now I can't do that. I can't say right now that the flight ban has been lifted. As a result, I can not say with 100% confidence that Sunday will be my last so Sunday WON'T be my last."

He turns away from the window and sits on the edge of the bed so he's facing the camera,

Stephen Callaway
 "But lets for a moment talk about why I'm going. See I've heard it all. I've heard every last comment from 'can't take the heat so he's getting out of the kitchen' to 'he's a loser that's bored losing'

The honest answer is I'm getting older.

See anyone that has read my twitter, at Callaweasy twenty two twenty, or has bothered listening to me knows my feelings on the older wrestlers.

You know the ones. Those that were on TV between 1998 and 2001 at a time when wrestling had an attitude problem. Those that are now in their fifties. Those that took nine years to recover from an injury only to get injured again. Those that can only wrestle one or two times a year but still don't get the message that their body is failing them and fuck off.

I've called them on everything. From being past it in the ring to being addicted to the spotlight so much that they flick a massive 'fuck you' to the younger, newer talent that have been traveling the roads making towns for the entire year.

I don't want to be them.

I don't want to be still hanging around in my late fifties looking like a shadow of my former self. Getting to a point where I have to use an on demand service to show people what I could do when I could move. I don't want to get to a point where the marks on Twitter are tweeting 'that old fart should have pissed of back to Scotland a decade ago instead of hanging around looking like an uneaten haggis and wrestling with all the skill of one hashtag retire now'

This is me getting out.

I don't have that need for the spotlight like some do. OK I perform for it when it shines on me. I'll throw myself off turnbuckles or do pretty, crowd pleasing moves when it shines on me. Hell, I'm sat here talking to this camera in front of me instead of doing some 'scene' just so I can ensure that all eyes are on me when they click on my name.

But I don't need that spotlight on me. I don't live or die based on Instagram likes. As much as I love it when there are fans in the arenas. And I do. I love it no matter if they want to cheer for me or boo me, it's their choice to do so. But as much as I love getting a response from the crowds, as much as  I love getting in that ring, there has to be a point where enough is enough.

If I go now then I have a few years to be me before the injuries really set in. My mother has arthritis. Her mother had it too and I know I have it. I feel it my hands and my wrists. I feel it in my knees, And OK it's not beating me, not yet. But I look at my mum and she struggles to walk to the other end of a thirty foot hallway. She can't walk to the local store for milk if she needs it. She can barely lift the kettle to make herself a cup of fucking coffee. I've seen the struggles that she goes through and everything she can't do anymore. She's not even sixty.

I look at her and then I look at me. I'm a fart away from forty and I've been a wrestler since I was in my late teens. I hurt on a daily basis from all the beatdowns and all the bumps I've taken over the last twenty something years. And I know it's going to get worse when the arthritis takes hold of me.

I'm getting out now while I can so I can enjoy some time when I can. Some time where I don't have to spend my weekends flying around the world living in random hotel motels so I can try to move a 300 pound guy around a wrestling ring or have some other 300 pounder try to make me part of the ring. I'm getting out before the arthritis sets in and forces me out."

He reaches to the table at the side of the bed for a glass with a dark orange liquid in it and drinks some.

Stephen Callaway
 "Alex Jones. You're probably pissed right now at finding out you're not my last match. And I know I'm not a big trophy name to hang on your wall but I'm sure you'd have loved to hang that banner of 'I ended Stephen Callaway'.

But there's nothing to stop me ending you.

Let's look at it this way AJ, I have nothing to lose. So what's stopping me from taking you out? While I'm still in the US, I'm still part of Sin City. While I'm still part of Sin City, I want to be the top guy here. To be honest, there's nothing I'd love more than to beat my Twitter friend Griffin and take that Sin City Championship from him.

Even if that happens in my last match in the company.

So if I have to take you out and tear you apart this Sunday then I'll do so. I may have handed in my notice, but I'm not done yet."

He stands up and walks out of the shot.

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Climax Control Archives / On Palace Grounds
« on: July 09, 2020, 10:06:27 PM »
 
We see Stephen Callaway. He sits on a metal folding chair while a huge Planet Hollywood globe revolves in the background. Unusually he has his hair down and it moves in the light breeze. He takes off a black facemask with a Batman logo as the screen opens.

Stephen Callaway
"Here's where the fun begins. You see it's my job to sit here and deliver a video. I sit and talk about my thoughts and feelings and then I email it to Sin City Wrestling who then put it on their website where you, the fans, watch it.

The whole point is to get those undecideds. You see wrestling as a business isn't stupid. We know that there are die hard fans that will watch when there's a huge crowd, a small crowd or no crowd. We know that these die hard fans will watch us no matter what we say or do.

So we don't aim for them.

We aim at those that are unsure. Those that say 'I don't know if I want to watch Climax Control this weekend as my mates want to have a go at Halo on the Xbone'

My job is to sit here and hype my match to make Halo boy decide 'that makes me want to see the Callaway match. I might give Halo a miss this week and catch the boys next week'

I choose to sit here and talk to the camera."

He points to the camera in front of him.

Stephen Callaway
"But some hit the selfie button on their cell phones. Some have a camera crew, that they pretend to not see, film what they do.

I choose to sit and talk. I do so because it allows me to say aloud what's on my mind. It allows me to sell what I need to in order to get the likes of Halo boy to watch.

What I also do, is I watch my opponent's matches. I read my opponent's bio on the website. That way I have plenty to work with to train from. I have his moves, his style. I can train accordingly.

I also have it at my fingertips so I have plenty to talk about when I sit here.

And then there's Miles Kacey.

I don't know if it's an admin issue or what but I can not find a bio. I can't find a thing about him other than he's new to the company, new to the business and English.

I could be going in there with an opponent that is 5 foot 4 and is a 206 pound cruiserweight or a 6 foot 4 40 pound monster. I don't know his size, his ring stiyle. Hell I don't even know his theme music.

So by all means tune in to see what he actually looks like.

Actually he's probably around my height and weight. However he is inexperienced.

Miles. I worry about you.

You see if I go up against the heavyweight champion and I lose it's not a big deal as he's the champion and they're supposed to win.

I go up against a top line non champion and it's a similar story. I'm expected to lose. If I can beat the champion or the top tier non champion, then it's a big result for ME.

But you?

I worry about YOU.

See I've been in this business a long, long time. It wasn't just a different decade when I got into the business, it was a different century. Granted it was the last couple of years of the nineties but a different century none the less.

Either way that's the better end of twenty years I've been in the business. Twenty years."

He pulls at his hair.

Stephen Callaway
"A few of these aren't the jet black they used to be. I've got joints that hurt now that I didn't even know could hurt when I started out. But in theory I shouldn't be loosing to a green as a cucumber newbie.

THAT'S what worries me!

I lose to the ones that I probably should lose to, not a problem. But for a guy like me with TWENTY YEARS in the business to lose to someone that's barely had twenty minutes in it? I don't mean any disrespect to Miles but that SHOULDN'T happen.

Yeah, I've said I'm leaving here and while that might not be happening tomorrow..."

He holds up the Batman facemask.

Stephen Callaway
"...I'm still going someday. However if I can't beat a guy that's new to this business, a guy who can count his pro matches on his left hand alone, with the time and experience that I have with my twenty years then it might just be better that I'm going.

But I don't want to end things on such a sour note. I want to win. That's why I've been preparing for everything between five and seven feet. It's why I've been preparing for everything between two and four hundred pounds. That way I'm ready for whatever comes to the ring. Hell, I've been doing this for twenty years, I SHOULD be ready for whatever comes out.

That's why I'm sat here. I'm sat in Jay Sarno Way right next to Cesar's Palace Casino because I am literally betting on myself. No seriously. Met a lad named Toby who runs a probably not legal betting thingy out of the Cesar's Palace kitchens and I've got $10 on me winning. Odds are 20-1 or something.

Point is I NEED to beat Miles Kacey. So I need to root for myself, back myself, support myself. I stand to gain about two hundred, roughly, dead presidents if I do. But not only that I need to show myself that I CAN do this. That my twenty years have been worth it. Because if I can't beat him then my twenty years have been wasted.

And I can't have that."

He puts the Batman facemask back on and stands up. He folds his chair, picks it up and walks out of shot as we fade out.


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Climax Control Archives / Doctor's Appointment
« on: June 26, 2020, 09:17:16 PM »
 As the picture opens we see..

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It's Stephen Callaway's psychiatrist: Dr Saxon

"Ah Stephen. Been a while since we spoke."

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.ep15UImjkN2ab...pr=1.25&pid=1.7

"Must have been the turn of the year."

"That's six months ago. A lot has changed."

"Could go out for your morning paper back then."

"I never did. I get mine emailed to me."

"Ooh get you."

Saxon laughs.

"So how have you been handling the Covid-19 thing?"

"You first."

"I've been at home. Me, the wife and our daughter. I've seen some people say they've been bored during the lockdown while I've been having video consultations with my patients."

"What's that been like?"

"While I prefer to talk to patients face to face. I do like sitting in my own home while my wife makes my lunch. You?"

"I'm in a Vegas hotel room. It's a business thing. My wife's back home in Scotland."

"I heard about that. How's it working out for you?"

"We talk most days via these video calls but it's not the same. Time delays and all that."

"Must be a nightmare. That said, it's just after one in the afternoon here so where you are must be..."

"Just after five in the morning."

"Jesus."

"It's alright. My sleep patterns are all over the shop. I'm not doing all that I used to so I'm not tiring like I did. As a result, I'm sat here at five in the morning and I'm not tired."

"I hear you gave your notice."

"I did."

"Why?"

"I just felt it was time. I'm close to forty, I've not been having a ton of great results. Plus I'm not a big fan of those that wrestle into their forties and fifties because they can't walk away from the spotlight or they need the cash. I don't NEED the spotlight. I don't need the money. Rather than hang on longer than I need to looking for wins that are probably not coming, rather than put my body through hell for it or fly across oceans when I'd be better served by staying home, I called it."

"Did the Lockdown influence it?"

"That I'm sat in Vegas and Mrs C is in Scotland doesn't help. But that makes me think that I want to go home. Sat in this fully comped hotel room has given me the time to think 'is all this worth it?'. I might get to the stage that a month after going home that I want to fly off."

"Really?"

"Probably just the wrestler in me. Don't know any different as I've been doing this since I was eighteen. Truth be told, I think if I go home I won't want to come back. Which is what I told them."

"So how long are you here for?"

"Not a clue. I don't hate the company. I've not had a falling out with anyone. So I don't have this need to leave ASAP. I've said that I'll work until the flight bans are lifted. Whenever that may be."

"I see."

"But Sin City Wrestling could decide 'he don't want to be here so let's stop booking him' at anytime. Thought they had after the recent PPV. Thought it was going to be like The Terminal where I can't go home and can't compete either."

"How did you feel when you thought you had been dropped?"

"I don't know. I like competing for them. Feels sometimes like it justifies everything. I get in the ring on a Sunday night, they pay for the room. It gives me something to do when I have a match to prepare for. To be dropped would leave me at a sort of purgatory. Wrestling justifies why I'm here. Take wrestling away and I'm away from my family so I can sit in a hotel room and watch Disney plus or on demand wrestling."

"You have a match this week?"

"I do."

"And? Who is it? How are you preparing?"

"It's a guy called Mason Alexander Vanderbilt. Calls himself 'The MAV'."

"The what?"

"Also calls himself the President of Professional Wrestling."

"Sounds like I'm talking to the wrong member of the roster. I could spend the next year talking to him about his over inflated sense of self esteem."

"Ha ha. Born with a silver spoon, expensive schools, went to the army."

"One of those?"

"Yep. I'm actually surprised he's not British. He even ran for congress. Didn't make it though. Probably would have in the UK. This has David Cameron all over him."

"Oh Jesus not him."

"Don't knock ol' Dave. Better than Boris and his busses."

Stephen holds up a sheet of paper and reads from it.

"My bad. Says here he came out of the army and became a super model. Ran for Congress. When that failed he decided to get punched in his super model face and became a wrestler."

"Any good?"

"Yes and no. Three years in the business and he's still a grassy cucumber. But his military training will give him some athletic decency."

"One of those that do assault courses in thirty seconds."

"Yeah."

"Probably looks at you as a fodder opponent, there to be beaten."

"Yep."

"Well good luck to him on his win."

"Yeah."

beat

"Hey!"

"You did say that you've not had a good run of results."

"I'm sure that's what WAV is banking on."

"MAV."

"Him too. But there's no guarantee I'll lose. On paper, my chances are low but we don't wrestle on paper. We wrestle on canvas. He could go out there and be totally unprepared because he thinks he can beat me while putting in little effort. His inexperience could be his undoing given that I've been doing this for damn near twenty year. I could win."

"Well I hope you do. However, our time is up. I have another patient and you should get some sleep."

"I'll try. Goodnight doctor."

We see Stephen Callaway look at something to the left of the camera and we go black.


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Climax Control Archives / El Monstruo de la Oscuridad
« on: May 08, 2020, 07:35:23 PM »
 We see Stephen Callaway sitting in a bath. There's no water in it and he's fully clothed.

Stephen Callaway
"A couple of weeks ago, I sat in this hotel room. I sat on the bed and I talked about how I was questioning my future here in Sin City. Remember that? Few days later, I watched Climax Control. I wanted to hear if Commentary said something about it.

And what did they talk about?

A FAILED MMA GUY!!!

And yeah, he's a failed MMA guy. Show me one ex-MMA guy in pro wrestling that isn't a fail! Brock Lesnar was a UFC Champion. As soon as he started losing he packed up and went to wrestling. Ronnie Rousey was all dominating in UFC but no sooner did she get a kicking that she went missing from MMA and turned up in wrestling.

Commentary decided 'let's call Callaway a dumb dumb'.

Either that or management decided it and told commentary through their headsets. Either way it's not really a message of 'please don't go' is it?

Callaway's thinking about going, so let's call him stupid.

That being said, I said it in a video that went up on their website roughly two weeks ago. Did I get the boss at my hotel room? Did I get an email, a text, a tweet, a PM, a DM or a phone call?

No.

You know what I got?

FUCK ALL!!!

I basically threatened to leave the company the second I can fly home and this company did jack shit! Not one message though any of the communication means at our disposal to see what is shoot and what isn't.

But no.  

If the wrestling boot was on the other foot, I'd be in contact with them. Hell, a few weeks ago I got wind that one of the trainees in SML was thinking about quitting. First thing I did was send her a DM. We spoke about why she wanted to go and what problems she had. We spoke about what we at SML could, and probably should, be doing.

She decided to stay.

Sin City, by their lack of communication, are all but saying 'Go'

Or at least that's how it feels to me."

He gets out of the bath and sits on the toilet, lid down.

Stephen Callaway
"Even if I want to go, I can't. There's a flight ban so there's nowhere to go.

So I'll be on Climax Control this week. I'll be taking on El Dark. I'm sure that translates from Mexican to English as something cool like 'The Monster from the Darkness' rather than something bland like 'the dark'.

But in all seriousness, I'm actually looking forward to him. A Mexican Wrestler just a handful of pounds up from a cruiserweight should be a good match.

But here's the thing. My gig here is to talk about the match and hype it so that come Sunday you want to watch it. Now normally I read the guy's bio on the website, maybe watch a few matches to get a feel for him so that I've got plenty to come out here and say.

But there's little or nothing about him. The guy only joined in April, presumably he drove here. So there's not a lot to watch.

His bio says he's never had a title, he's new to wrestling, he's from New York (which confused me as earlier it says he's from Mexico) and he's born in 2001.

What can I say to that?

Seriously? I mean 2001 make him..... 19? He can't have a lot of experience. Hell Ann from SML probably has more experience. Maybe instead of "The Dark" he should be "The Green" or "El Verde" if you want to go with the Mexican translation.

I got that his entrance involves him being carried to the ring on a cross like Jesus. Fandabidoze, I've got another fruit basket that thinks he's some religious deity. Must be something in the water.

But maybe that's the point. Sin City won't talk to me so they send El Dark. I beat him and it's 'Dumb Dumb Callaway got a pity win over the non experienced guy' or if I lose it's 'Dumb Dumb Callaway can't even beat the inexperienced Mexican guy.'

The thing is I have a lot of thinking to do. If Lockdown restrictions are going to be slowly lifted it may soon be a case of piss or... "

He stands up and walks out of shot.


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Climax Control Archives / Contemplation
« on: April 24, 2020, 01:21:45 PM »
 We see Stephen Callaway sitting on the bed in a hotel room.

Stephen Callaway
"You want to hear an irony? I was reading on the Sin City website the other day and it says that 'Stephen Callaway is not a man to just to lay down and call it quits'.

However as I sit here, I find myself at a point of crisis.

See, I don't know if it's because I'm bored looking at this hotel room day after day or if it's something else. But I've been sat here for the last few days questioning, when I can go home, if I should go home and never come back.

Maybe I'm getting the message.

I can't win the Roulette Title. I can't win a number one contender match for said Roulette Title and I can't win the vast majority of my matches here in Sin City. My opponents love pointing out my win loss record. The marks on the internet and even those I would meet in public are all to willing to point it out.

So if, forgive the random numbers, I'm the twenty second best guy in a twenty five man roster what's to keep me here?

It's no secret that I'm close to forty. Most sports I watch they start subtly suggest it's time to retire if you turn thirty never mind forty. I mean when I was twenty, I'd fly all over and take loss after loss after loss. Yes the pay was shit and it probably cost more on gas than I was paid but I did it to gain the experience. These days I have the experience. Granted this is a business where I could live to three hundred and four and probably still learn something, but you get my point. Plus, I'll be honest because of where I live it's a three day weekend just to make a twenty minute match.

So I'm begining to wonder if it's worth taking three days a week out of my life, flying across oceans just to get a kicking and lose again and again."

He takes a drink from a mug with a picture of Elvis on it.

Stephen Callaway
"I don't know when this Covid thing will end. But let me paint a scenario. IF all the restrictions start getting lifted over May. IF I get to go home on June third. IF Sin City decide to give us a month or so off with our families while the world slowly gets back to normal. IF they announce the first card with a crowd will take place on the twenty second of July in, I don't know, Chicago or something. I can say right now that I've probably got an 80% chance that I'll lose that match. And that match is three or so months from now.

So why should I come back for it?

Where's the motivation to come back for it?

I'd have to leave my home, at the latest, on the twenty first. Maybe the twentieth to properly avoid jet lag. I have my match on the twenty second and then I won't get home until the twenty third. I'll be tired, I'll be sore and I'll probably come back with a loss.

So why should I do it?

I'm not going to quit right now. I can't go home. There's travel bans all over the place. Thus this fucking hotel. So I'm going to be with Sin City for the next month, six months, year, however long this Covid thing and the flight bans continue.

After that I don't know. Maybe I'll feel better about things by the time the flight ban is lifted. Maybe once I've seen my friends, my family I'll be in a much happier mood. Maybe it's the depression talking and I'll be better once life returns to something resembling normal."

Another drink from the mug.

Stephen Callaway
"Maybe I need to get some wins to make me feel better. Maybe this is my low point before I hit that run of form that leads to me fighting for the Sin City Title come December To Dismember.

Maybe that run of form will start this Sunday with Tiberius."

He sits forward closer to the camera.

Stephen Callaway
"Hate to be the one to break it to you mate, but there's clearly no God."

He leans back to where he was.

Stephen Callaway
"If there was, I doubt he'd be making his people live through this Corona virus. He certainly wouldn't be killing off the thousands that have died as a result of Covid-19. I'll even admit as sure as I sit here, I have prayed to him. Yet the fact that I sit here is proof that he either doesn't exist or is flat out ignoring me.

So what does that make you?

I'll tell you what. I've sat here and I'm pondering my future here in Sin City possibly due to a depression. But you? You've gone full on loco. Believing in some god that clearly doesn't exist. HA! The difference between you and my brother is he grew out of his imaginary friend as soon as his age hit double digits.

That said even before the Jesus cosplay took hold you were probably one of those lunatics that quoted 'the good book'. The damn thing is a joke! Most of the shit my 86 year old grandmother said, she was told by the Political Correct brigade she couldn't. Yet you and every other freak out there wants to tell my friends they can't live the life they want with who they please based on some book that was written fuck knows how many hundreds of years ago.

I may not be getting the results I want but maybe I'm at the low point of my own curve. Maybe it starts with Tiberius and I rise through the ranks that come 'July' I can't wait to come back because I'm riding such a wave of momentum. Plus I get to beat up some religious nut who is so willing to get into the ring and compete on his sabbath day of rest. Hypocrite.

So join me on Sunday for what may be the start of my farewell tour, what may be the start of my rise to the Sin City Title or what may just be a damn good wrestling match that you can watch when there's fuck all else on."

He walks over to the camera and the picture cuts out.


12
Climax Control Archives / Wrestler versus Fighter
« on: March 20, 2020, 08:01:20 PM »
 Stephen Callaway sit's in a beige room lit up by a lamp as it's late at night.

Stephen Callaway
"Well I lost. A few weeks ago I was the number one contender to the Roulette Title against Griffin Hawkins in the main event of Climax Control in my home town just a ten minute car ride from my home.

It was all there on a silver plate and I still failed.

I sat in the Hamilton Accies dressing room that night and I felt about as bottom as they come.

Then I wasn't booked for a few weeks.

Was it because I failed? Was it because of a simple rotation thing where not every Sin City contracted athlete can appear on every show? Probably the latter. I hope it is anyway. But either way it gave me time to rest up and lick my wounds. Granted some cuts and bruises were harder to reach than others, but it gave me time to heal, to rest, to think about if I'm really ready for this."

He stops talking to drink from a mug with "World's Best Wrestler" written on it.

Stephen Callaway
"Then I got booked against Ferns. Ferns? Ferris? Fenis? And yeah he's apparently said some pretty mean things. Some of which were true. Probably. But it wasn't what he said that got me.

No.

It's what he did.

A failed MMA guy. See, he goes to MMA. It's not my thing, but if it's yours and you want to go there you do you. He cobbles together a meh career. Speaking of, have a word with who ever you got to compose your bio as he can't count. Three EliteXL Title losses plus A OK is four losses making it: 8/4/2.

But I digress.

Ferns has a meh career in MMA before he rage quits and storms out. SO what does he do? Comes to wrestling.

What is it with wrestling? Fail at MMA, go to wrestling. Fail in the NFL, go to wrestling. Fail at Basketball, go to wrestling. Fail at E-sports go to wrestling. What's next? Fail at tiddlywinks, go to wrestling?

So he goes to wrestling. He then wins the Sin City title and thinks this means he's the best. It doesn't. I'm a former six time heavyweight champion and it means nothing. I looked at the stats and you've had a grand total of two matches in 2020. Where you been man? I get rotating the roster but wrestling twice in three months?

That a thing with you ex MMA guys. Wrestle one match and piss of for the rest of the month?

Me? I've had five matches and I'd wish it was more. Now I admit the result of those matches were not what I'd have liked them to be. I'm willing to blame them on the fact that Sin City has such an amazing roster that I, as a former six time heavyweight champion, can't pick up many wins.

That said Fenis, I see our match at Climax Control as one that could go either way. I know a lot more holds and wrestling moves than you do. Hell, I've prolly forgotten more moves than you will ever know.

Yet you probably know your way round a body better than I do. You know how to manipulate joints better than I will even with the amount of wrestling moves I know. You will probably hit harder with your bare tootsies than I will do with my taped up fists.

Ferny, I'll admit it. I'm excited to find out if I have what it takes to beat you or not. I'm excited to get in that ring, be it in front of five people, five thousand or five million and find out if you are as good as you like to think you are or if you're just a flash in the pan pretending to be a wrestler until you're shown up for being the fraud you are.

And what would that make you? You see Finton, you've come in here and you've won the Sin City Title. You're probably sat right now mocking me for my lack of winning here in Sin City.

So what happens if I win? If I'm the loser that can't win, what are you if you can't beat me?"

He leans forward obviously switching the camera off and we plunge to black.



13
Climax Control Archives / At home in a Paradise City
« on: February 28, 2020, 03:26:59 PM »
 
We see Stephen Callaway sitting in a supermarket parking lot on an up-turned supermarket trolley. A brown wooden fence behind him.

Stephen Callaway
"A while ago I was in the market for a new place to go. I had recently parted ways with my old company and was in talks with a few different federations. I spoke with UK feds, East Coast feds, West Coast feds. I even spoke with a company that wanted to have rounds within a pro wrestling contest.

There was one company I'd been talking with and I took the time to look at the roster. After all, a champion is only as good as his contenders. If the company was full of green athletes and no-hopers then how does that make me look if when I compete against them. What if I beat them and win the title? There's no prestige if you're the champion in a land of broken toys.

I scanned the roster and I saw the name 'Griffin Hawkins'. I knew Griffin. We had a few mutual friends and acquaintances. We started chatting on Twitter and spoke about music and wrestling. We still do. I knew when I saw that Griffin was here that that company was a reputable company to go to.

So I signed for Sin City.

I knew sooner or later that we'd cross paths here in Sin City. Anyone that's been listening to me sit and ramble to these cameras on a near weekly basis will have heard me banging on about how I want to fight for the Sin City Title at December To Dismember 2020. And I'll be honest. I thought that would be where we crossed paths.

I thought of it like a triangle, I always have an Angle after all, with him working his way up one side and me working up the other until only one can be at the summit of Sin City in a match that's decided at December To Dismember. So in that respect, I'm about nine months early."

He stops talking to watch a trolley collector pushing supermarket trolleys in the supermarket's parking lot where he sits.

Stephen Callaway
"From the hallway window in my home I can see New Douglas Park in Hamilton Scotland. New Douglas Park is a ten, fifteen minute drive from my home. I have even walked from my home to New Douglas Park and back many times over the years.

New Douglas Park sits on the other side of the fence behind me."

He points behind him at the fence with his thumb.

Stephen Callaway
"To say that this week's Climate Control is going to be in my backyard is an understatement. Hometown is one thing. I know Hamilton like the back of my hand. From the lawyer's office just along the road from here that Mrs C works in. To the supermarkets that I have shopped in, to the street I was sick in. To the one nightclub that I have been in. To the cinema just a five minute walk from here where I have sat in and seen every Batman movie since Batman Begins. I have lived, I have loved and I have worked all over Hamilton. Hell, I even once worked in this dammed car park! It could even be said that I built this city!

On Sunday night, my family will be here. Aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, children of cousins, wives and husbands of cousins and their sister Christian. My mum, my dad and my brothers will be here. Friends will be here. My damn best friend will be here along with his family. My neighbours will be here. People I haven't seen since school will be here. People I've met over the years from the shops I go to, to the friends I've met will all be here.

And for me that brings pressure. I'm fine sat watching my brother collecting supermarket trolleys. But in a couple of days he and everyone else will be sitting in the stadium behind me. They will be filling that stadium and me the hometown, local jukebox hero of a local lad will be wanted, dead or alive by a good 90% of them to go into that main event and come out of it victorious.

Over Griffin Hawkins.

In the main event

In my hometown

For the Roulette Title."

He goes quiet for a moment as he thinks about all that. His eyes watch his brother, the trolley collector.

Stephen Callaway
"To face Griffin in the main event is pressure. To compete in my hometown, to compete in the home stadium of the Hamilton Accies is pressure. To compete for a title, any title, is pressure. To compete for the Internet Title like I did a couple of weeks ago at My Bloody Valentine was pressure. I put myself under a lot of pressure with my speeches about getting up every time I got knocked down to the point I sounded like Chumbawamba stuck on repeat.

That said I did try in the ladder match. Any time I got knocked down I did pull myself back up. Only problem was that as I was pulling myself back to my feet, Austin Mercer was pulling himself up the ladder and I couldn't stop him in time. It's fine. I like to think that some day down the line somewhere, I'll get my rematch. Does it even count as a rematch if it's a one on one?  

But if I don't win this Sunday?

That's failure.

I could beat Griffin next month or next year. It won't be here in Hamilton. It won't be in front of God and Buddha knows how many friends and family. IT won't be my equivalent of Wembley Stadium.

If I don't win this Sunday then I fail in front of everyone. I fail to win the Roulette Title. I fail to win in the main event. I fail to beat Griffin Hawkins. I fail to win here in Hamilton.

It's one thing to lose a match, harden my heart and come back stronger for the next one but it's another when the stakes are as high as they are for me this Sunday.

Griffin, I have to come at you with everything I have and you'll have to hit me with your best shot to stop me. Because to win it, to stand victorious in the main event holding the Roulette Title above my head will be more than words. It'll be heaven."

He reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a bottle of banana milkshake that he drinks.

Stephen Callaway
"Griffin, this Sunday you're either flying into Glasgow airport and wondering how the fuck you get to Hamilton or you're going to be waking up all jet lagged in the Premier Inn Motel with no idea how to go from there to Douglas Park. This Sunday you will be the one flying in to a place you don't know. You'll be jet lagged and tired having sat for god knows how long on a flight over the Atlantic to the point that a twenty odd minute match becomes a four day weekend away.

Me, I'll be waking up in my own bed in my own home. I'm so close to the venue that I can walk there using the back streets and short cuts that nobody else in Sin City will find.

Griffin, for a while I was bothered about the pressure of facing you. You in the main event. You in the main event for the Roulette Title. You in the main event for the Roulette Title in my hometown.

But then it hit me. I'll be the one walking in to the match fresh as a daisy and spurned on by a crowd willing me to win. As opportunities go, I couldn't ask for a better one. So this Sunday, I'm going to rock you like a hurricane and you'll find out that this rose has a thorn as it rips that Roulette Title from your grasp.

See you Sunday. Hope the crowd doesn't put you off."

He waves at the camera as we fade out.


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Climax Control Archives / The away team
« on: January 31, 2020, 10:01:27 PM »
 
We see a moving, talking 8-bit version of Stephen Callaway standing while a large blue globe surrounded by circles floats behind him.

Stephen Callaway
"A couple of weeks ago I went to the ring and I treated my opponent like a joke. I counted how many times I hit a Slingblade for a laugh with my friend. I looked across the ring and I looked at my opponent as a joke.

So I had a laugh. I made sure that my friend sitting at home watching had a laugh too.

However, I did not sit with my feet up. At no point in my training did I treat my opponent as a joke. As soon as I got the news that I had a match, I was in the gym. I was running for miles, I watched matches I did everything, EVERYTHING that I could do to prepare for my match.

It was only when I saw him standing in the ring opposite me that I saw him for the joke he was.

I wanted a challenge, I prepared for a challenge, I was ready for a challenge. I just never got one."

8-bit Callaway looks around himself at the virtual world around him.

Stephen Callaway
"One thing I never do is half ass my training or half ass what I do in the ring. Yes I treated him as a joke but I also had to be aware, in my head at least, of everything. I have to be prepare for a match. I have to keep my focus in a match. I also have to be aware of luck.

On a good day, I hit an opponent with a boot and I knock him down. At the same time, I could hit him with a boot on a bad day and he counters it and spins me around before dropping me with a Side Suplex. My opponent last week, two weeks whenever it was, could have countered me and won at any given moment."

8-bit Callaway moves his hand and the Internet Championship hovers in the air. Another move of his hand and the title explodes in a mass of pixels.

Stephen Callaway
"The Internet Championship. OK it's not the Sin City Championship that I'd like to be fighting for, but let's remember Rome wasn't built in a day. If I want to fight for the Internet title at My Bloody Valentine...."

The globe behind him morphs into a heart shape and blood pours down the walls.

Stephen Callaway
"...then I have to earn my spot in the match. If I want to be the Sin City Champion then, again, I have to work my way up. Earn my spot. I have to win important matches, I have to climb the ranks of the Internet Division and all the divisions like it.

And what do I have between me and My Bloody Valentine? I have Maddox Ayres. The hometown hero. I'm going to tell you something right now: just because you happen to live in the same town as the arena, it doesn't owe you anything and it doesn't guarantee a win. Just the same as I'm not guaranteed a win come March when the Blast From The Past airs from just down the road from where I sit. If I want to win there I'll need to fight for it. Just like you're going to have to fight to beat me in your town.

However, as I sit here, I don't look at you as a joke. I'm not looking at you as a stepping stone, a victim or jobber fodder. However much I'd like you to be.

No.

Six foot three, two hundred and twenty pounds with a shitload of DDT, Suplexes and Facebusters to come batter me with. Now I know that I'm going to need to bring my best and be on my A game because you're going to be on your best. I mean you'd LOVE to win in your hometown, you'd LOVE to go on to My Bloody Valentine and you'd LOVE to do that with your own bloody valentine, Kaytlyn Parsons at ringside. She has nice eyes by the way. No that's not me coming on and flirting with your woman. I have Mrs C and I wouldn't swap her for the whole of Illinois or indeed the world.

Maddox, you really do need to be afraid of the storm that comes your way..."

The picture flickers and we see Stephen Callaway standing in front of a blue screen wearing a mo-cap suit.

Stephen Callaway
"....after all, it's been a good few weeks for us Scots in wrestling recently."

The picture flickers again and we cut to black.




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Climax Control Archives / The Fallen
« on: January 17, 2020, 08:06:17 PM »
 
I fell.  

I was out on a run. Part of my training regime for my match with Link Rexx. I don't know if my shoe caught a stone or an uneven bit of land. Maybe I just made a mistake in my footing or tripped over my own big feet.

Down I went.

Legs going one way, the rest of me another and before I know it I'm basically performing a forward roll before finding myself spread eagled on the ground.

I lay there for a second. Just to catch my breath, get my bearings and allow the world to stop spinning. I can hear Snow Patrol in my head "If I lay here..."

It's raining.

Not heavily, Just enough so the place is damp. Just enough that the mud and dirt I'm laying on are mixing. Just enough so my face gets wet as I look up at the sky from my spot on the ground. I look to the left and right. Nobody saw it.

Thank the gods.

Last thing I need is some fan with his phone pointing at me. Next think I'd know there's a post on some dirt sheet (irony given where I lay, I know) with a video of my tumble.

Probably best that I get up.

I sit up and wipe as much of the mud and dirt mixture off me when I can. What I'm wearing was going into the washing machine as soon as I got home anyway, Same with me going in the shower, but it's really going in now.

There's pain in my knee.

I pull up the leg of my jogging bottoms and there's some blood seeping from some cuts on my knee. I take a packet of tissues from my pocket and use one to gently dab at the blood. I look around for the bottle of water I had. It's a few feet away where I started my fall so I hobble to it. I pour some on my knee and gently wipe with another tissue.

It stings.  

The hiss I make as a result reminds me of that scene in Beauty and The Beast. I roll the leg of my jogging bottoms down and resume running. As my shoes slap against the grass and the tarmac of my route and my brain can't help but think of this as an irony or an allegory.

I've fallen before.

Metaphorically.

I was up and running a few weeks ago. I ran out of December To Dismember with a win. Yet I stumbled and fell to Chris Crippler almost two weeks ago. It hurt then too.

More cuts, more bruises.

Best thing to do is to get back up and get back running. What is it they say? 'Best way to get over a loss is to go over'.

Link Rexx.

Sounds more like a Legend of Zelda sequel than a wrestler to be honest. One more tattooed rocker who got into a couple of fights at some tiny gig for his never heard of band and thought he was a wrestler. Doesn't even wear proper ring attire.

I turn and look at a field of cows as I pass it. A couple of them look back at the muddy, sweaty blur running by their field.

I try not to look down on him too much. Keep words short and sweet and all that. Even the Sin City website mentioned that one mistake by me could hand a victory to him.

This I am acutely aware of.

My entire run (if you pardon the expression) in Sin City has been about those small mistakes and how much they cost me. Even this run had me flat on my back after a small mistake. I can't afford to fall due to a small mistake again.

It's one thing to fall and get back up. It's one thing to learn from mistakes. Yet if I want to be the champion by December To Dismember 2020, I need to stop making them. You don't become a challenger to champions by making mistakes and losing.

Sin City management are not going to even look at me if I lose often. I NEED to show them I'm a contender. I need to show them not that I can get back up when I fall, but that I don't falter. never mind fall. I need to show them that when it comes to the races that I can run the faster times and I can beat the competition.

My run has taken me to streets lined with houses and shops and people. I slow the pace of my run so I don't clatter in to them. Nearly home anyway. Nearly shower time.

I'm glad.

The smell of the grass, the mud and he sweat on my top all mixing isn't pleasant.



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Climax Control Archives / Past and Future
« on: January 03, 2020, 10:13:41 PM »
 We see Stephen Callaway sitting on a beige recliner.

Stephen Callaway
"So here we are! A brand new year! Three Hundred and something days. I see it as blank pages in a book waiting to be filled or a blank Word document waiting to be typed on. I just want to get writing on those pages both in my personal life and right here in Sin City.

Because it's the end of one decade and the start of another, the world of social media is full of 'start of the decade/ end of the decade' posts. I personally don't like to dwell on where I've been too much. Granted I will touch on my past in a little bit.

But I'm far more concerned with where I'm going. I don't need to worry about the Stephen Callaway story of the past, I had a front row POV seat to all of it. I'm looking to the future. I'm looking to where I WANT to be at the end of this year, the end of this decade.

Come 2030, I'm going to be a lot closer to fifty than to forty. 2030 I'm probably going to be looking to hanging my boots up in the near future. I want to be in a position where I can look back on my career and feel accomplishment. I want to get to a point a decade from now and look back on a decade of heavyweight title wins and pay per view main events from  here Sin City. Maybe a couple of 'secondary' titles as I work my way up."

He removes his glasses and cleans them using the bottom of his Transformers t-shirt.

Stephen Callaway
"I sat a few weeks ago now in the run up to December To Dismember and I said that I wanted to be the Sin City Champion going in to December To Dismember 2020. I said I'd even love it if Anthrax was the one stood opposite me. But I know I need to up my game. I know I need to get more wins on the board. I know I need to build momentum.

And that's exactly what I did at December To Dismember. I needed momentum and I got it. I got me a win to close out the year. I just need to build on it starting this week?"

He stops to take a drink of a purple liquid from a clear glass.

Stephen Callaway
"And look who I get this week. An old friend of mine. Here I am saying that I don't want to worry too much about where I've been and then the ghost of my Christmas past turns up.

What was it? Two fifteen? Sixteen? It was a while ago anyway. There are days that I miss Skyfire. Now we probably crossed paths for the Honor Title at some point, you'll forgive me if I forget the exact date, arena and show number of the match we clashed on, if we clashed. I get hit in the head a lot and I've had a lot of matches. Sometimes I see a wrestler wave at me across a crowded airport and I assume we've wrestled. Odds are they seen me, think we've wrestled before and wave.

However, back then you won the Skyfire Title. Best I could reach was the Honor Title. But that was years ago, in 2020 I need to show that not only am I on your level, I am on the level above you.

Chris, I think it's great that our paths are crossing once more. I'd love it if it is YOU across from me at December To Dismember. But I need to beat you down now if I'm to get there. I need to show you, show the people watching and I need to show the brass at Sin City that I am a man with momentum that they can get their marketing machine behind. This Sunday in Atlanta is not what I want to do, but what I have to. I HAVE to destroy they guy from my past to build for my future. I have to cripple the Crippler if you will.

Don't think that I won't do it."

He picks up his glass and walks away

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Climax Control Archives / Let's Talk Wrestling
« on: November 22, 2019, 09:02:29 PM »
 "Welcome everyone! It's the Let's Talk Wrestling Podcast where we do what it says on the tin and we talk wrestling. Sometimes we talk about what's happening in wrestling in 2019, sometimes we'll take a look back and talk about a show from the days gone by and sometimes, like today, we are lucky enough to bring a wrestler in and we, well, talk wrestling.

Today I'm joined in the studio by a man who has won many championships and competed in many companies. Representing Sin City Wrestling or SCW: Stephen Callaway"

"Hello"

"Shouldn't that be Stephen Callaway Wrestling"

"I've asked but they seem stuck on Sin City."

"A wise woman once said 'let's start at the very begining' so let's do that. How did you get your start in the business?"

"There was a local indie company not far from where I used to live out in California called SML. I started out cleaning the trash out of the stands and selling merch. I started wrestling training at 16 and made my debut two years later"

"How did it feel to get in the ring?"

"Some wrestlers will talk about fear but I just wanted to get out there. I mean, I'd been training and it was all leading to going out there in a match on a card so I wanted to go out there."

"Tell me how that first year went."

"Within six months I had won the Prestige Title which is the mid card, secondary title. By the end of my first year I had won the SML Title."

"Damn that's fast!"

"A little."

"Did you feel rushed? Do you feel it looking back?"

"At the time SML was begining to grow and expand. It went from a California indie when I started training to expanding by the time I passed. SML was moving out to Oregon and Nevada and Arizona. They would eventually move to the whole of the US and most of the UK. The boss at SML took a chance and I ended up in a match with the champion and I won it.

There were times that it felt like I was thrown in at the deep end. But there were also times that it felt like an amazing learning experience. I mean, I was in there with all the top guys in SML. I was in the ring with them, I was travelling with them so I was getting a hell of a lot of 'on the job' training from the best in the company."

"These days you still have one foot in SML and yet you move around the wrestling scene having been in UWL, PWF, Skyfire and SCW. Why do you have that need to move around?"

"It's a two part thing. One is that I've been in SML for a long time and I got to know a lot of the people in the company to the point I had a friendship with the boss of the company. When I won a title, at the time I think it was my fifth, I was lucky Twitter and the rest of social media wasn't a big thing but still it was called 'a fix'. So I move around the other companies because I want to show that I am more than a fix.

The second is the fact I learn so much when I face all the opponents in all the companies. I learn various styles. I've become a more all-rounded wrestler than I would be had I not competed for them."

"What are you up to right now?"

"This week, ironically enough, I'm in a Triple Threat Match."

"Ironically?"

"Yeah. There's an indie company based in New York that I watch and they're having a big show this weekend and their Tag Titles are in a Triple Threat Match, same for their Woman's Title, same for their Mid-Card Title. There's even some non-title Triple Threat Matches. So I find it Ironic that on this week of all weeks I'm in one."

"Jake Raab and Anthrax. Those are two top talents in SCW. Can you beat them? I don't mean to offend but you've not really been on a great run of form recently."

"I have a theory, and this can apply to UWL, EWC, SCW and pretty much every other company and wrestler in the entire world, I think every wrestler is about three or four good results from being a top contender for titles. But at the same time I think every wrestler is about three or four bad results from being on the bottom end of the company. Yes I've started bad but I get a couple of good wins and I could be at the top of SCW by the start of the new year.

Looking at how I've started in SCW, I wouldn't really say I've done much wrong."

"You've had a few losses in your time, how do you see that as doing nothing wrong?"

"I say I've done nothing wrong because the losses haven't come from me being poor in the ring. They have come from my opponents being good. Wrestling these days is at a point where anyone in a match can win it. I don't mean that as a knock on my opponents or to put myself over. I just think that everyone in the match is on a similar level. It's like the saying about unstoppable objects and immoveable forces. This week in the Microsoft Theater someone is going to move, someone is going to be stopped and someone is going to be standing over them both. There is every chance the one standing could be me and I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that's me."

"And with that, this is where we leave you for this week. I want to thank my guest Stephen Callaway for coming in and talking to us. Also want to say, good luck in your match this weekend. I'd also hype all the places you can hear this podcast but you're listening to it so you already know where to find us. So until the next show, fair winds."





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Climax Control Archives / On his Jack Jones using his North and South
« on: November 08, 2019, 09:50:34 AM »
 Stephen Callaway sits wearing a Scotland flag shirt on a stool with a Union Jack design on it.

Stephen Callaway
"A few weeks ago prior to the big Pay Per View I sat and I did a big speech about how pay per views matter more than TV. And then I went out and I lost on pay per view. I mean, alright there's bound to be someone somewhere watching this saying "but Stevie C, you weren't the guy that got pinned'. And no, no I didn't. But it feels like I did. I may not have been the one that got pinned but I never left with the win. It wasn't my arm the referee held up in the air. I may not have been the one that got pinned but I still lost. Splitting hairs over who did and who didn't get pinned change the result.

Then we got a week's break. Not sure if that was a TV station messing up or if it was intentional, I've no idea. Last week I wasn't booked. So you know what I did? I had give or take two weeks off and what did I do?

Nothing.

I did absolutely nothing. I sat on my ass and I watched wrestling from a ton of companies when it was on my TV and I live tweeted it. I watched some on demand wrestling via the several Networks on the internet. I watched DVDs, I watched some sitcom about bondage on Netflix. I played video games. I watched bad TV. I spent time with my cats, I took plenty of painkillers, I ate when I wanted and I barely left the house.

Point is I rested. I took the time with a pillow behind me for the pain in my shoulder to sit on my ass and rest. I'm not saying that I'm sitting here having one hundred percent recovered from Shingles but I'm probably as good as I'm going to be. So I'm ready to hit the gym, get back out there and get working out, get training and maybe come back at SCW with a fresh start."

He stops to take a drink from a mug with a picture of his wife and 'Mrs C' written on it.

Stephen Callaway
"So I'm ready to come back and come back fighting and what do I have this week? I have a December 2 Dismember qualifier. I win that and I head to December 2 Dismember to fight in a six way match for the SCW Title.  

Now a few of you out there will be looking at the first few matches I've had here in SCW and will be thinking that I'm a loser. That I've no chance. But that's the thing! OK it's not been a great start and I can sit here and talk about four way matches, arm pain and Shingles until the cows come home. I can give you a list of reasons and excuses if that's what you need. However I've had a bit of a successful career before I came here. I've been a Tag Team Champion, I've been a Television Champion. Hell I've been a multi time World Champion.

Multi time champion or lovable loser? You decide. But I sit here right now two steps away from the SCW Title. I could be standing there holding the SCW Title over my head having won a grand total of just three matches here in SCW.

Scary isn't it?

Let me shoot with you a moment. I was working once as a backstage agent for a company. There was a couple of brands within that company and the brand I was on managed to sign a former champion from one of the others. The champion of the brand came to me and he was worried that this guy, this former champion on another brand, was going to walk onto his show and get a title shot on the value of his name and his history alone.

Now I know there is bound to be some here in the SCW locker room with the same fear as that brand champion had. They must have been sat there having been here maybe three years, four years. They must have seen me come into this company and instantly been scared for their spots. Terrified that on the value of my name and my title history that I was just going to walk into SCW and walk straight into the title picture.

And yet here I sit. Two months into my time here in SCW. A questionable win loss record and I sit, potentially, two matches away from the SCW Title. Two wins away from closing the year as the World Champion of a company I wasn't even part of until the fourth quarter of the year."

Another drink from the Mrs C mug.

Stephen Callaway
"Now I'll be honest with you. If you're going to look at the first two months of my being in SCW the chances of me wining the SCW Title at December 2 Dismember are slim. Hell, the chances of me even fighting for the title at December 2 Dismember are slim. Yet here I sit. If I'm that bad, why have I been booked in the match in the first place?

Maybe I am as good as my reputation and title history says I am.

Maybe #BenDeservesBetter is exactly what he's getting. Everyone that thinks of me as this low level loveable loser.

I am better.

I am feeling relaxed and healthy and I am far, far better than the run of bad form I've been on for the first two months of my time here in SCW. I am better! I'm a lot damn better than I've felt health wise but I now need to go out there and be a Phoenix in Phoenix. I need to rise from the burning pain of Shingles and come back better than I have been in these last two months. I need to show that I am more than just talk. I need to show that I am capable of more than sitting here running my mouth.

Yeah like I said the chances of me being just two wins away from the SCW Title are slim But at the same time it's also very doable. It's very doable that Ben Jordan is going to find out I am better than he is when he gets my plates of meat right up in his big old boat before I knock him on his Khyber. It's very doable that I could be just two wins from the SCW Title. Someone is! Why can't it be me? Because some moron on the SCW website team insists on calling me a 'rookie sensation'?

I have not been in this business for damn near twenty years to be called a 'Rookie Sensation'. I have not been slammed on hard fucking boards covered in a thin canvas for said years to be labelled a 'Rookie Sensation'. The pains I have suffered and the injuries I've had to recover from did not suddenly come on overnight! The weddings, the birthdays, the funerals I have missed over the last two decades so I could be something in this business I didn't do so I could be labelled a 'rookie sensation'. The times I have had to part from my family and travel across the world what feels like a billion times I didn't do to be labelled a 'rookie sensation'.

I didn't come to SCW to be labelled a 'rookie sensation'. I didn't compete with Shingles to be labelled a 'rookie sensation'

Damn son, I even won a World Title in 2000 at age 18 back when I WAS a damn 'rookie sensation'!

No. I came to SCW to be a Sensation. I came to SCW to be the SCW Champion. If I have to beat six guys over two matches to prove that, that's fine with me. Ben Jordan might think I'm having a bubble that I'm nothing more than a Richard on his boot, but he's all Pete if he thinks I'm not going to cause him some Barney in Phoenix. Benny, I'm here for the SCW Title. If you want to butchers by me that's fine but you're the one that's going to be Brahms when I'm going to December 2 Dismember and all you are is a hashtag."

He stands up and walks out of shot.


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Climax Control Archives / Stepping Forward while sitting down
« on: October 04, 2019, 09:03:01 PM »
 Stephen Callaway sits on a grey sofa as the scene opens. Behind him hangs a championship title in a glass casing.  

Stephen Callaway
“My win streak! My Beautiful win streak! Alright, truth be told it was only one match long but still... The truth is, in all honesty I was never going to go from debut match to Heavyweight Title match six months or so down the line and remain undefeated now was I? Some do it but it’s a very, very small number.

I also had an injury. I sat last week and I spoke about it. I had hoped that I was wrestling every two weeks and I could rest this week. See I competed in my first week but I wasn’t on the second. I figured it was an ‘A’ roster loop and a ‘B’ roster loop. I thought this week would be B loop so I’d be fine. I was wrong.

This week my injury is not really much better. It hurts when I stand up and move, it hurts when I sit down, it hurts when I try to lie down and sleep at night and it hurts everywhere in the middle.

To go into a match like I did last week with the injury I have and expect to come out with a win was, in hindsight, a dumb idea and never going to happen.”

He takes a drink from a mug with a picture of his wife on it.

Stephen Callaway
“I’d rather not be flying out this weekend either. I’d rather not be getting in the ring and competing this weekend. I’d rather be taking on the sofa I’m sat on as I try to find a near comfortable position.

However SCW doctors have decided it’s not serious enough to require surgery. That it’s not serious enough to require time off. Now I could go to SCW bosses and tell them that I’d rather take the time off but I’ve only been here four weeks, I can’t really go calling in sick.

So I’m in a tag team match. I team up with one of my opponents in the pay per view Four Way Match to take on the other two. On the one hand I look at that match as an opportunity to linger on the apron for a while and not have to do as much work as I would if this was a Four Way or a Singles Match. Which to be honest with you is good for my injury. I lessen my time in the ring I lessen my chances of exacerbating my injury.  

It is also a chance to scout all three of my opponents. I get to go in the ring with Caleb Storm again and I get to go up against Mark Cross. I get to see what they are like in the ring. I get to see how I match up against them. Even with this injury.

I get to team up with Jake Raab. I get more, much more from him. I get to watch him compete against the other two. I get to watch everything he does in the ring and I also get a chance to work with him, to stratagise with him and find out how he ticks.

So bring on Abacos. Bring on the upcoming Four Way Match and bring on the tag match because I know I need to gain some momentum. See, I get I’m not going to win every match I’m in injury or no injury. But what I need to do is two steps forward for every step back. It’s a marathon not a sprint and all that. Right now I’ve won one and lost one. That’s batting five hundred and I can’t have that. That’s one step forward and one back. I am literally no further forward momentum wise than I was the day I stepped into this company. So this weekend I NEED to go out there and get a win before those nice people at SCW begin to wonder why they are paying me the amount they do. I’m not going to get title shots or title matches at one step forward and one back. I need to make more and more steps forward! Like these.”

He stands up and walks out of shot.


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Climax Control Archives / The oncoming Storm
« on: September 26, 2019, 08:42:53 PM »
 Stephen Callaway sits on a stool in his kitchen as the scene opens

Stephen Callaway
“To quote a movie that my brother has been banging on about for weeks: I came, I saw, I kicked his ass! I went out there and I beat Alex Rush just as I said I would do. That makes me undefeated here in SCW. Alright it’s only been one match and, according to some fans I’ve spoken to, it was a match set up to make me look strong. But I won it. And a 1:0 streak is still undefeated.

However a Storm is on the horizon in an attempt to blow me off course like The Truman Show when the lad in the beret used winds and rain to try and stop Truman from finding out the truth.“

He takes a drink from a Mr Bump mug.

Stephen Callaway
“Now this Caleb Storm that I face this week is apparently one of my opponents in an upcoming four way match. Now I could use this as a scouting exercise. It’s one thing to watch videos and to train in a gym. But to have some in ring time with him? That is invaluable. It’s a way of finding out everything about his in ring work. Can I beat him? Where am I failing? What can I do to get an advantage in the four way?

Or

I can take him out. I can go straight for his knee or some other body part and turn the four way into a triple threat. I can show how dominant I can be and put him on the injured list should I want to.

But let’s shoot for a minute. I have an injury. Don’t worry about me, it’s not a big injury that will keep me out for an extended period of time. It is painful for me to go about my day.  But I’m not stupid enough to say what my injury is so that the marks can tweet about it online and I’m certainly not stupid enough to announce what the injury is so that Caleb Storm can aim for it at the weekend. I bring the injury up because I would rather be here at my home at the weekend resting my injury. I would rather not be on a flight to Barbados. I want to be done with Caleb Storm and back home as quick as I can be. If that means I have to take his knee out from under him I will.

And what’s with all the wannabe rockers in SCW? Last week was Alex Rush and he thought he was a rocker. Caleb Storm is a heavy metal rocker. The only one I knew here before I came was Griffin Hawkins and he looks like he’s just stepped out of Rock of Ages. Does nobody here just wrestle? Just me? That might be why I’m going to rock up to arenas, pop some shoulders, leave opponents in a trance as I dance all over them and leave them singing the blues. See I’m not here to use SCW as a stepping stone to a music career, I am here to fight, I am here to win. Don’t believe me, tune in this weekend and I’ll show you just why I ALWAYS have an angle! Always.”

He stands up and walks out of shot.

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