Blog: Almighty Firesemana del 26 de junio al 2 de julio de 2022I want to make something perfectly clear. Last week, Melissa may have had a fluke victory, but there’s only one person at fault here - JESSIE! SALCO!
Can someone explain to me why we have to see her punchable face at commentary? She adds nothing to the matches, she brings nothing to the table. Of course, as opposed to a lot of other wrestlers throughout the years, Jessie isn’t really known for all the championships she’s won, much less the matches that she won. The only thing Jessie knows all too well is losing! She’s a real pro at it. And as we are coming up on her ten-year anniversary since her first match in SCW, quite an accomplishment, don’t get me wrong, she’s done a lot of losing. More than anybody who has ever laced up a pair of boots in the six sided ring. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Just ask the laundry list of Bombshells who has beat Jessie over the last 10 years - some of them have beat her multiple times.
Forget a lifetime achievement award. Jessie needs to have her own wing in the Hall of Fame.
She’s the standard.
She’s the blueprint.
She’s the bar.
But let’s get this where it needs to be. As far as the Ultimate X match, I don’t see why I had to qualify in the first place. People all over the world know who Mercedes Vargas is. With all of my big moments, from winning the first ever Queen for a Day to my championship reigns and rewriting the history books, I should be in the title picture all the time. If anything, Melissa and Kayla has to prove to me that they are even at my level and Kat might as well put a nice big bow on that championship and hand it to me as my birthday present, which just happened to be last weekend, by the way.
You know, I used to think I was cursed whenever Summer XXXTreme came around. I couldn’t buy a win there even if it was special surprise in a box of Cracker Jacks, and that infuriated me to no end. But nothing lasts forever and I did win eventually. You know the one: the time me and Kain beat London Underground for the World Mixed Tag Team Championship. The first-ever champions. It was London Underground’s only loss in a 2-on-2 tag match. Ever. Not for trying, Daniel J Morgan and Charlotte Elliot made us earn that reign. I could now breath a sigh of relief. I felt a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders.
I didn’t mind the 10 pounds of gold that was draped over it though.
Oh, and I guess the fact that night also made me the first wrestler ever in SCW to reach 10 championships in a career, not to mention, but I’ll mention, that I also captured all five championships in the Bombshells Division, doesn’t hurt either. That was four years ago.
What really hurts is that I haven’t won at Summer XXXTreme since then.
The last time I was in a Ultimate X Over the Pool match was in 2019, and I was the defending Bombshell Roulette Champion unlike my first match in 2013. Here was my chance to climb those cables to retrieve my championship, but that didn’t happen. I had an opportunity to shake off a nearly nine year nightmare in this match. Instead, Samantha Marlowe shoved off Kate Steele and claimed the Bombshell Roulette Championship for herself. So you can forgive me if this match and this pay-per-view is a little more personal for me than the other girls in this match.
Melissa and Kayla are looking to make a first impression on the biggest stage and I know Kat is going to say something along the lines that she didn’t get this far just to get this far, but this is one roadblock she can’t get over, under, around, or through. Winning a championship is one thing …keeping it, well, that is the real challenge. If there was ever a time where Kat needs to step it up, I’m pretty sure Summer XXXTreme is the time and place. The stakes are high, and her chances of losing her title are higher. There’s a reason why the Bombshell Roulette Championship has changed hands at Summer XXXTreme three of the last five editions of the Ultimate X Over the Pool so there’s guaranteed to be a new champion.
Besides that tidbit, this is set up perfectly. Kat, Kayla, and Melissa? They’ve never wrestled at Summer XXXTreme before much less in the Ultimate X Over the Pool. For Melissa and Kayla, they’re also making their pay-per-view debut. I’ve never been left off a Summer XXXTreme card since joining SCDub and I’ve competed in more Ultimate X matches than anyone not named Jessie Salco. Did I mention that I’m the first ever four-time Bombshell Roulette Champion? I did? Well it bears repeating: I’m the first ever four-time Bombshell Roulette Champion. This is my match to lose and my moment of redemption.
There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be skeptics, and then there will be me proving you all wrong. Because in a land of yesterday’s flash in the pans and tomorrow's flavors of the months, I am the right here and now. Self-confident, successful. That’s who I am. I know I have my work cut out for me, but it's not so much that I'm already dreading next Sunday, oh, no, far from it. People seem to forget that I always find a way to rise to the big occasion. I have no problem offering the locker room, the fans, and the entire world a reminder. The way I see it, I’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain at Summer XXXTreme. I’m prepared for anything because I stay ready so I don’t have to get ready.
So at Summer XXXTreme, Melissa, Kayla, and Kat are going to find out first hand that I don’t just talk the talk when I say I am The One-Woman Dynasty and The Champion of Champions, I walk the walk.
And I’m going to be walking out your new Bombshell Roulette Champion.
Deal with it.~~~
L O S A N G E L E S • C A L I F O R N I A [Scene: Mercedes’ friends, minus Mercedes herself, are in her residence round the lounge table, playing Uno. Mercedes enters.]
Mercedes: Hey.
All: Hey!
Irma: How was Arizona?
Mercedes: Not very exciting the last time I visited, but it was very hot. Triple digits in some places.
All: Ouch!
Ricardo: What other state has a town named Nowhere or a town named Why? No wonder you were bored.
Tomas: How did your match go, Mercedes? You won?
Mercedes: No, I didn’t. My win streak is over. But I’m not crying because it’s over, I’m smiling because it happened.
[Mercedes smiles.]
Ricardo: I know what can cheer you up. We want to make it up to you for missing your birthday. How about a day at the beach?
All: Yeah! Yeah, we can!
Ricardo: Awesome! Okay! Tomorrow we're gonna drive out to Los Angeles. I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who gives me his beach house.
Irma: (to Ricardo) Damn! I can't go, I remembered I have to work that day!
Tomas: That's too bad, so sad.
Hugo: (sarcastic) Ohh, bummerrr.
[Irma offers Hugo and Thomas a look.]
Tomas: Can I take a rain check? I'm meeting my parents. You how the meeting of the parents. And I’m going skydiving that weekend.
Mercedes: Oh, okay. Sounds like fun. But not more fun than a weeklong sea cruise! Remember last year?
Tomas: Oh yeah! That was awesome. The ship fell behind schedule and we had sea sickness and cabin fever for days!
Irma: Or the time we all had to wear masks and had to shelter in place? That was a nightmare. We couldn’t even take pictures with the crew.
Ricardo: Or the time I won $1,000 dollars at the slot.
Mercedes: And lost it over the next couple nights at the machine?
Ricardo: That was a repressed memory, but thanks for bringing that back.
Mercedes: So, are we still going to the beach?
All: Uh…
Mercedes: I think I need to find some new friends.
~~~
Present Day ♦ H E R M O S A B E A C H • C A L I F O R N I A[REC•][The shore at Hermosa Beach, just 20 miles southwest of Los Angeles. Bathing suit-clad beachgoers sashaying down the sunny California boardwalk, enjoy the Fourth of July weekend. We find Mercedes Vargas sinking her toes in the sand, dressed in a Panama hat and a floral print halter tankini skirt. Nothing soothes the soul more quite like a day at the beach. For Mercedes, there was just something about the smell of salty water, the prestige calm of the waves, and the ocean breeze in her face and tossling her hair that seemed peaceful almost.
As if on cue, Mercedes turns to the camera.]
“Summer XXXTreme is just around the corner, and you know what that means. Everyone knows the summer packing essentials, right?”
[Mercedes begins throwing various items in a straw tote bag.]
“You have your sunglasses. Check. Sunscreen. Check. Sandles. Check. And water. More water. And more water.”
[Mercedes adds three large bottles of water to her inventory.]
“It's not easy being the most accomplished Bombshell, let alone wrestler, in Sin City Wrestling. It’s a lot of hard work. I’m sure most of you out there are wondering, what does it take to be that damn good year after year, even when your win-loss record isn’t anything to write home about.
“I like to think my infamy is undeserved, but then again, maybe it is? Some people say that I'm arrogant for my own good and some will go out of their way to call me flat out delusional, and maybe I am. That's just part of my charm. The thing that gets people so wound up is their biased claim that I'm better than all of them. Again, not true. Confidence isn't walking into a room thinking you're better than everyone, it's walking in not having to compare yourself to anyone at all. And that...THAT is what separates me from everyone else. Plenty of Bombshells have sullied my name in order to get my attention, but that would mean I would have to make them matter, which they don’t. But I’m going to make an exception for the three Bombshells who are my opponents next Sunday in the Ultimate X Over the Pool match because they DO matter.
“Melissa has all the makings to be a future Bombshell World Champion and I believe that’s an accomplishment she’ll achieve several times over before her time in SCW comes to an end. She’s still undefeated but even if she loses next Sunday, she’s well on her way to doing great things.
“I don’t say that just because, Melissa. I meant what I said last time we met. The sky is the limit for you. Will you get there? Time will tell. Who knows. Maybe you might be greater than your fiancé some day.”
[Mercedes doesn’t always offer endorsement of her fellow peers, but when she does, it’s because they’ve impressed her, which is very difficult to do.]
“Who knew that Summer XXXTreme would set the stage for yours truly to revisit a rivalry for the first time in nearly six years? But yet here we are, Kayla. The way SCW tells it, you being signed was kind of a big deal. How lucky are we to get a huge star from various companies all around the world. I’m sure we all wanted to know what all the hype was about. So far you’ve been good as advertised, beating Bea, Ariana, and Levana, and now you earned yourself a chance at the Bombshell Roulette Championship right off the bat. So, obviously, you have talent and ability.
“As far as you and me goes, they say that familiarity breeds contempt. True words were never spoken. Facing you doesn't really bother me as much as you think it does, because I happen to know better. No matter what you say, no matter what you do, no matter how many times you stamp your feet like a petulant child, you can intimidate the other girls in the division, but your Jedi mind tricks don’t work on me. If your sister Amber couldn’t do it, you don’t stand a fucking chance.”
“So bring everything you got. Do your worst, bring your worst. Matter of fact, bring your best too, mamita. Because come next Sunday night, win or lose, paycheck or not, none of that changes. I'll still be Mercedes Vargas, still be The Argentine Assassin, still be relevant in professional wrestling. As for you? You'll still be trying to get people to listen to you scream about who you are.
“And no one will.”
[An unapologetic shrug follows. Point made.]
“In her mind, Kat Jones feels that she’s better than the Bombshell Roulette Championship. And if you don’t think she wouldn’t vacate the Bombshell Roulette Championship in a heartbeat to challenge Roxi Johnson for her Bombshell World Championship and get payback against Masque at the same time, well, I have a sandcastle to sell you.
[An slight pan of the camera shows a pretty impressive sand castle. Next to it is a sign stake in the fashion of those RE/MAX for sale signs. There’s a portrait of Mercedes followed by the words: “Mercedes Vargas: Sandcastle Agent. Call now for a free estimate”.]
“Kat, you’ve had it easy so far versus Seleana and Ariana in your recent defenses. Not so much this time around. Hate to break it to you, but you’re a distracted champion right now, Kat, and that’s a dangerous position to find yourself ahead of a tough title defense. That usually spells a short title reign. And as good as you are, especially how you strung those wins together before your lost to Masque last week, that’s exactly what’s goin to happen. Sorry, not sorry.
“I know you’re hearing voices in your head - Masque’s, Amber’s, Roxi’s….maybe even your own. But not the voices that is going to tell you that you have any chance of walking out champion.”
[Whether that news comes via a text message, express mail, or through a statement, the hope is that Mercedes' message will get through to the champion. Kat knew the pressure was on versus her three challengers and all three posed a serious threat to her reign, but only Mercedes had the uncanny history of raising championships above her head in front of sold-out crowds in Sin City Wrestling.]
“My first loss in over a month hasn't cracked my resolve. I get knocked down, but I get up again. You’re never going to keep me down. Did I get inspiration from a 90s song? Yes. Yes, I did.”
[Mercedes swipes a hand over her face. The once proud smile she had has transformed into a serious expression. It was time to address the matter of the opponents that stood across her from her in a serious light.]
“So at Summer XXXTreme, it’s real simple: I’m going to make my way towards this championship match, toss Melissa, Kayla, and Kat into the pool, and walk out of the Sun Princess champion once again. It’s been awhile since I last had gold around this waist at Summer XXXTreme, that’s going to change next Sunday on that cruise ship when I become the new Bombshell Roulette Champion. So then, the question isn’t who’s going to let me, it’s who’s going to stop me.”
[Mercedes removes her hat, fluffs and straightens out her hair and offers an arrogant grin.]
"Estar preparado para lo peor, esperar lo mejor."
"Prepare for the worst, hope for the best."[She pauses for effect, lowering her voice just above a whisper.]
"Y que la suerte está siempre en su favor.”
“And may the odds be ever in your favor."***Fade***