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.
