{The scene is Roxi flying around the city on her nightly patrol. But as usual, it’s a quiet night all around, Roxi soon checks in with Vision.}
Roxi – You don’t have anything do you?
Vision – Sorry Rox, if you’re looking for action, all is quiet on all fronts.
Roxi – No, that’s good. I wasn’t looking for it, but we must remain vigilant.
Vision – I hear you.
Roxi – Do we have any more information on the Rejects anywhere?
Vision – I believe I’m given you everything I have.
Roxi – Anything on any of the members powers that we should be aware of?
Vision – Everything is there. Unless, they developed some new powers after leaving, then, your guess is as good as mine.
Roxi – Wonderful. Why weren’t these people depowered before they left the guild?
Vision – That was the idea, and usually, anyone who leaves, is depowered. Those individuals never reported back in. And obviously we couldn’t track them. We tried. Months of searching, and they never surfaced, except for some unsolved murders that we can attribute to them, but they are all over the globe.
Roxi – And now they’re here.
Vision – The report says you found a hideout.
Roxi – We did, but their leader, at least I think he’s their leader, Captain Invincible said they have several different locations.
Vision – I would imagine that’s true. There’s no way they could be as far spread as they are. Without it.
Roxi – I’m just concerned about them killing people and giving us a bad name. I mean, they leave they’re calling card and all but...it could have negative effects.
Vision – That’s true.
Roxi – And I doubt they are still hanging out that old house. It has to be cleared by now. I'll have to go back and check.
Vision – It’s been a few weeks hasn’t it?
Roxi – Never hurts to double check. Not like there’s much to do here and all and –
{Roxi is cut off by screaming and yelling and eyes a man running for his life.}
Vision – I take it you found your action for the night.
Roxi – Very funny. I’ll be in touch.
{Roxi rushes down, landing in front of the screaming man, who is taken aback and falls to the ground in shock.}
Man – DON’T KILL ME! I SWEAR! I’LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN!
Roxi – What are you talking about? Slow down!
Man – I CAN’T THAT THING’S AFTER ME!
Roxi – Who?
{All of a sudden, Roxi is knocked aside by an unseen force. It’s enough to knock her down, as Roxi sees the man begin lifting up off the ground by his throat and thrown into a wall.}
Invisible? Not from me.
{Roxi looks and begins to sense the energy, and is finally able to locate the source, and punches it hard. The audible “oof” is heard as whomever this is, is knocked to the ground. Roxi reaches down and snatches what is a mask off the person’s face.}
Roxi – An invisibility cloak. You can’t hide heat signatures. Now, you have 5 seconds to tell me who you are and what you’re doing here, otherwise you’re in for a world of pain.
Man – Get off me! I’m doing what’s right!
Roxi – What's right? You’re trying to kill that man!
Man – He's the bad guy! I’m trying to make your job easier!
Roxi – I don’t remember asking for your help.
Voice – But yet, here we are.
{Roxi looks up, and the familiar voice, matches a familiar face, the face of Captain Invincible.}
Roxi – I told you to stay out of my city.
Captain Invincible – And yet, here we are, doing your job for you.
Roxi – Like I said, I don’t need your help, not your brand of help.
Captain Invincible – Ghost here was just trying to make sure that that murdering scum wasn’t free to take another life.
Roxi – That’s for the justice system to decide.
{Captain Invincible chuckles at this statement.}
Captain Invincible – Justice? No, my dear, it’s the system that allows men like that to roam free. To take lives and leave society in fear.
Roxi – As opposed to you, looming over them, making them afraid, replacing one evil with another doesn’t make the difference.
Captain Invincible – It means safety. Freedom isn’t free, you know as well as I do.
Roxi – Nobody is going to stand for that.
Captain Invincible – And people stand for this crime?! People living in fear of each other? This is what needs to be done. If you are your guild aren’t going to be part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.
Roxi – Is that a threat?
Captain Invincible – Take it however you will. You cannot win.
Roxi – Try me.
{Roxi steps on Ghost’s arm, digging her with her body weight and assuming a fighting stance. Captain Invincible only sighs.}
Captain Invincible – If you need to be shown, I will show you.
{The Captain takes a step forward and Roxi never breaks eye contact. As the Captain assumes a fight stance, Roxi begins raising her energy and motions for him to come fight. He obliges, only for Roxi to use her speed and lightning fast movement to jump up, and off the wall, her hands gripping his shoulder to push him down to the ground hard. Invincible jumps right up, cracking his neck as Roxi rushes forward and hits some hard punches, Invincible shrugs them off as Roxi tries for knees to the stomach and solar plexus. Each of those are shrugged off as Invincible breaks away. Roxi tries for kick, but it is blocked and Invincible swings Roxi’s body and sends her into the wall.}
Roxi – Ow...
{Invincible keeps up the attack with a blow to the head and a kick square in the ribs. Roxi flies into another wall, but gets back up. Invincible grabs her arm and jerks it back, threatening to break it, but Roxi hits a series of elbow and punches and is able to create distance. Roxi charges, but her punch is caught, and she again is tossed into the wall of the alley, this time breaking through. Invincible goes into grab Roxi out of the debris, but she is right back in his face with more punches, one that connects solidly and seems to break his nose. He steps back, not even thinking twice before simply popping his nose back into place.
Captain Invincible – This is utterly pointless, You can’t win. I am INVINCIBLE!
Roxi – We'll see about that.
{The two re-assume their fighting stance and both charge at each other, neither really able to connect, until Invincible hits a kick to the ribs and the drives the point of his elbow into Roxi’s back. Roxi goes down as Invincible simply cracks his neck. He picks Roxi up off the ground, only to receive a giant blast of energy right in the face. The impact backs him up as he rubs at his eye, Roxi is right back in his face with a knee. It drives him back further, until another blast comes from behind Roxi, and Keira is standing there, ready to throw down as well.}
Keira – Is this a private party? Or can any superhero join in?
{Seeing the odds not in his favor, Captain Invincible and Ghost take a step back. Invincible retains his calm demeanor the whole time.}
Captain Invincible – You have been warned. If we meet again, and you are in the way of our progress, we will not hesitate to kill you.
{Captain Invincible and Ghost quickly vanish in a wave of energy. Roxi stands up, holding her shoulder and catching her breath.}
Keira – Are you okay?
Roxi – Yeah. He wasn’t kidding about that invincible part.
Keira – You should have told me as soon as it happened.
Roxi – No, I needed him to engage.
Keira – He could have killed you!
Roxi – No... no really.
Keira – What?
Roxi – His blows weren’t as powerful as I expected. I noticed it about halfway through. He doesn’t hit hard, he’s just a tank. I’m not sure if I can stop him, but his whole plan was to tire me out. It’s why I only used one blast, and even that didn’t seem to hurt him.
Keira – Then why aren’t we getting what we need, right now?
Roxi – We will.
{Roxi again pulls up her wrist communicator and beings up the tracker.}
Roxi – That ghost guy... tracking him.
Keira – You think of everything.
Roxi – Only so much. I – Get down!
{Roxi hears a noise and shoves Keira down as a knife is hurled is their direction. Roxi and Keira stand up, and look over, only to find Lei, Amelia’s henchwoman, standing there.}
Lei – You must help.
Keira – You have a funny way of asking for help!
Roxi – What's the problem?
Lei – Mistress, she is missing.
Roxi – Amelia?
Lei – Hai.
Keira – Good riddance.
Lei – You will NOT speak ill of the mistress!
Roxi – Enough! How do we know this isn’t some kind of trap? We have no reason to trust you.
Lei – Hai, that is fair. But I have been unable to locate the mistress for days.
Roxi – And?
Lei – Even if this was a plan to deceive you, the mistress has not sprung it. This is irregular. I am always part of the plan.
Roxi – And you think we’ll help you find her?
Lei – Hai. You are the heroes are you not?
{Keira pulls Roxi back and away so Lei can’t hear them.}
Keira – I don’t like this. This HAS to be a trap.
Roxi – But, if she’s telling the truth, we may be able to avoid the issues with the Rejects altogether until that time comes.
{Keira groans and shakes her head.}
Keira – I still don’t like it.
Roxi – The sooner we find Amelia, the sooner we can end this.
{Roxi turns back to Amelia.}
Roxi – We'll consider helping you, but in order to do that, we need to know information you have.
Lei – Hai, What information?
Roxi – What do you know about Alan Robbins?
{The scene fades.}
“You don't get it son. This isn't a mudhole, it's an operating table and I am the surgeon.”
Batman (The Dark Knight Returns)
Hello SCW,
You know me, content, but not satisfied. It was very nice to get a win at Violent Conduct, and it was nice to team with Keira and have Team Hero be a part of the event again. I am happy with that result. But it’s been a couple of weeks, and now, I have the biggest chance to get what I’ve been asking for, for a couple of months.
Unlike a lot of folks around here, you will never hear me tell you that I deserve anything. That I should just get things based on my name. I earn things. I firmly believe that after winning 5 matches in a row, that I have earned the right to be in this match and have this opportunity to become the number one contender to the SCW Bombshell’s championship. I would have done everything I could to win more, and in a way, I almost wish that was the case. Not that I am afraid or worried about this fatal four-way to the point I don’t want it, but I would have loved to face each of my opponents individually and done it that way.
But, this is where we are now. An opportunity awaits, and I will raise to claim it. I don’t make this statement lightly, I make this statement because I have full confidence in myself and my abilities and I’m not planning on doing all the work I have done already, all over again, because one of these women snuck in the back door and got one over on me. Those days are long over. I think it is time that I make this mindset perfectly clear to each of them.
Let us start with my friend, Crystal.
So, something interesting has happened and it happened a little while back when it comes to Crystal. Crystal said something that make me think, and it made me feel a lot better about this. You see, Crystal said that based on this... new transformation or whatever she wants to call it, that words no longer hurt her, and she just needs her family and fans and that anyone can say anything, and it’s not going to bother her.
I am so glad to hear that, because now, I don’t have to sit here and hold anything back that I can say about Crystal, because words don’t hurt her. So, I am really happy to take this opportunity to get a lot of things off my chest that I was holding back on saying because I was afraid, I was going to get that random text message I get at 5am after I do talk about Crystal about maybe taking it too far. I get the usual “why do you have to say stuff like that?” text, and I have to sit there going back at forth, half asleep to appease my friend. And now, I don’t have to worry about that, so I am ready to actually say the things that need to be said.
I know full well, that this could quite possibly change things between Crystal and I, but that would mean she was affected by my words, but again, taking her at her word, she’s not going to be affected by this. So, let’s begin, shall we?
You know what nobody really likes? Someone who just has to be the center of attention. Someone who needs to invent and make up things about themselves in order to gain sympathy, but more importantly attention. You have all seen Crystal do this, time and time again. I’ve known her for a long time, and the whole Disassociate Identity Disorder thing was just as new to me, as it was to all of you. I would really, really hate to think that Crystal, who I have known for this long, would just make that up about herself and insult an entire group of people suffering from a mental illness. So, I gave her the benefit of the doubt. Because that’s what a friend does, right? I thought I would just not comment on it, not try and convince anyone of anything being real or fake, because I don’t really know. Crystal had never really shown any signs or symptoms in the years that I knew her of having this disorder, so when it randomly came up, it did explain SOME of Crystal’s behavior, but not all of it. Crystal has always been the person who craves the attention and spotlight, so as much as I didn’t want to just outright call that a lie, it seems to be a lie. Because at the end of the day, it was something that Crystal used to get where she wanted to go. And since I can be real, and not worry about this affecting her, I can say that it has never bothered her who exactly she steps on to get there, or what she has laid at all her friend’s feet in the wake of it. It has only mattered to Crystal that she gets what she wants. And every time she has been called out on that, and they have been numerous, Crystal has feigned regret and sorrow for these actions, only to repeat them again and again and again when the opportunity suits her.
It has left my questioning why we actually are friends at this point. Oh, I’m sorry, best of friends. Because we have to be best of friends according to her. I’ve gotten that text message from her multiple times. “We are good friends, right?” I mean, Crystal KNOWS the position that puts me in, and anyone else she considers a friend. So, how am I supposed to answer that question? How am I supposed to look at those words, and look into my own heart and think about everything that Crystal has done and say “Yes, Crystal, we are good friends.” Because that sentence, it lets Crystal off the hook. That sentence, the agreement, cements in Crystal’s mind that I wholeheartedly approve of anything she does. Because we can look back and see I have been accused of just letting it happen, because I treat adults like adults. But maybe there’s some truth to that. I guess my silence has been compliance in these instances. Maybe, I should have been that friend who told Crystal to shut up every once in a while, when she got out of pocket, but those times were so numerous I would have gone hoarse from screaming at her. And every time I did it, you know what would have happened? You know what happens if I would say “No.” to that question? I would have gotten another text message from Crystal asking me why I don’t stick up for her. Because Crystal’s ego, while massive, is extremely fragile when punctured from the right people. I have always been a shoulder Crystal comes to cry on, and then when she feels better, she just marches back out there and I’m sitting there like a bath towel, just soaked and probably thrown on the floor, because I have served my purpose and now it’s back to business as usual. I am really only her friend, when it’s beneficial to her.
I mean, I’ve literally gotten tweets of her complaining about why she’s not listed under #BFFs. Why is she in this certain place on a #WCW list. Because it has to be just so for Crystal, and if it’s not, then it’s something for her to complain about to try and make ME feel bad for it. Never mind the awkward and terrible positions she has put everyone else in, I guess. Never mind leaving messes at our feet and having other people openly question why she does the terrible things she does, it’s about how she feels, it’s about how she benefits. It always has been. I can’t tell you the number of times I have been dragged into conversations or arguments because Crystal needs someone to back her up and you know, I feel kind of dumb for doing it so often.
I think it just needs to be said at this point, because we all see it. Crystal needed to be in the Mean Girls. Crystal needed to be in The Boardwalk Angels. She needed to be in the Pink Ladies, every group, unit or faction, at some point, has needed to vet Crystal’s application. Let’s just ask this question: Is there a stable that Crystal created? Is there a group that she started that people want to be a part of? The answer, sadly, is no. No one outside of her family is actively looking to be associated with Crystal. Which is also sad because she has so much knowledge and things she could pass on, but it is outweighed by all the negative nonsense she has brought entirely on herself.
Now, I could go on because I have A LOT that I could talk about here, but I only have so much time, and really, I’d probably need to write a book about this whole thing, so I’ll just close with what’s going on now. You see, much like a number of people in SCW. Crystal is only going to feel validated by winning championships. She absolutely NEEDED to win the mixed tag titles so she could not only be the only 5-time SCW Bombshell’s champion, and not only the first 4-time SCW Bombshell’s champion, but she just needed also to become a grand slam champion. It is literally the only reason she drug J2H out of retirement and back into the ring. It wasn’t for the honor to team with J2H, or the re-ignite the mixed tag division, it was simply so Crystal could have an accolade and feel validated. Because without a championship, all anybody sees are the flaws. The only difference between her, Alicia and Mercedes is that Crystal actually has something tangible outside of accolades. They all make her look bad, but at least they are there.
Though I might even be talking about the wrong person since sometimes it’s Crystal, sometimes it’s Christina, sometimes it’s Hilton, sometimes it’s Rose, sometimes it’s Zdunich. At this point, she’s just Crystal to me, but also at this point, it doesn’t even matter. Because this Fatal-Four-way is not about to be some instance where Crystal sneaks in the back door, and pulls some victory out of nowhere so she can then make some random mission statement or theme as to why she’s going to win the Bombshell’s championship for a sixth time, and then lose it and we start the cycle all over again.
Pardon the pun, but I’ve seen that movie before.
And I don’t like showing reruns in my house. Crystal has been a guest of my house for a long time. I am the reason, the very person who directed her here. And the thanks I get is... obviously not coming any time soon. That’s the definition of a bad house guest. Come in my house, eat my food, sit on my furniture with your feet up?
Yeah, we’re done with that. At Climax Control, Crystal, much like Mercedes and Alicia, will be shown the way to the back of the line.
Moving on.
At this point, I’m wondering why I am even bothering with Mercedes Vargas.
And you know, it almost pains me to make that statement. Because when I stop and think about how long Mercedes has been here and what she has accomplished, you’d think that she would have more respect. She’s out here touting her how she’s won the most championships in SCW history, and you know, that’s amazing. When you just scratch at the surface of Mercedes Vargas, everything looks so shiny and new. I mean, it screams staying power. It screams a fantastic and amazing legacy to hang around through so many people coming and going in SCW and her remaining the constant. The one that took on all comers and has made herself into something of a legend around SCW.
And that would be all well and good if we just stopped there.
But as much as Mercedes would like us to, we’re not going to stop there. Let’s be honest here, there have been 13 times Mercedes held a championship in SCW, according to her. I’m not the statistician here so I’ll just take her word for it, thought I probably shouldn’t because people really like to inflate their numbers and become so concerned when they are not accurate. 13 times is a lot, but again, that’s at the base level. If we did a little deeper, we will all notice on glaring thing. Outside of one Roulette championship victory, all of Mercedes championships reigns are quite short, and quite uneventful. You don’t really hear Mercedes talk about them individually, just that, yeah there’s 13. You will obviously hear about that one reign and how amazing it was and how Mercedes fought off all comers and it was historic. And it was. Mercedes seems be incapable of not throwing it out there like it’s a good hand in poker. All that’s missing is her shouting “read ‘em and weep” after she does it. But that’s the only one that ever really gets talked about. Surely, you’d think that you’d want to throw out that you were a multiple time SCW Bombshell’s champion, right? Two-time champion... amazing except that those two championship reigns were both less than 2 months. One was about 3 weeks, and the other about 35 days. It’s the same all around for these championship reigns. They are all very short, and uneventful, so therefore, they just get lumped in and don’t ask too many questions about them.
But I’m curious and I like exploring.
And really what I have found is that rather than having this amazing competitive legacy of being able to win championships at any level at any time, is really, we have some wins here and there and a lot of championship reigns that come and go in a flash. But we really only want to talk about that one time, where Mercedes was Roulette champion for a long time.
So, basically, Mercedes Vargas is the wrestling equivalent of the 1985 Chicago Bears.
It happens all the time in the NFL on the shows and historic team videos and everything, the ‘85 Bears. They were good, super bowl winners, a dominant defense, Walter Payton, all these great players and for one season, it all came together and they did it. And they have never been able to duplicate it since in Chicago. If you ever hear a Bear’s fan talk, they talk about the ‘85 Bears. The team got back to a Super Bowl in 2006, but that rarely gets a mention, much less a discussion. We only need to talk about the glory years.
That right there, is Mercedes Vargas in a nutshell. Well, no, I guess she’s like an onion, there are layers. There’s more to Vargas than that, right? Well, the last championship she held was in 2019. And it was for a couple of months and since then, it’s been nothing but relying on everyone remembering at various points, she won championships in her career. There has been no evolution, there has simply been patches of being a championship level wrestler, followed by long stretches of just being a wrestler. And I guess, stat keeper and scoreboard watcher.
I’m sure you all enjoyed during the World Cup and pretty much every other sporting event that you probably follow, there was a Mercedes Vargas tweet about said event, and it’s also probably like 10 minutes after the fact, and you already know about it. That seems to be what Mercedes is best at these days and really, it should be sad, considering all she has done, but it’s not like Mercedes ever helps her case with this kind of thing. She has been a proverbial stepping stone for anyone looking to make a name for themselves. If we think about how many times Mercedes has been in the big moment, there really aren’t that many, and how many times has she risen to the occasion and pulled out the big win when it meant the most? Once? Maybe twice? And then, it seemingly lasts for only seconds before the world gets set back correctly and Mercedes fades away into just being the one crying about not being respected or viewed properly. That can only be helped by Mercedes and she has done very, very little to correct it.
It just seems she wants to have this both ways. Look at me like I’m a great champion, but don’t actually look at my record. Don’t actually look at my reigns, just this one that I had many years ago. Mercedes is calling for respect to be put on her name, and as a wrestler she deserves it. She DOES deserve credit for winning those titles, but let’s not misunderstand that winning a title and holding it for a couple of weeks or months and then losing it and going years without sniffing anything important doesn’t warrant the respect she is asking for. Mercedes is now some kind of weird member of the family that you don’t like to talk about and then they show up at the reunion and you just try and avoid them, but they make themselves awkwardly known and then soon after they just walk away and sit down somewhere.
This is just another one of those matches for Mercedes. She has now made herself awkwardly known having gotten herself not one, but two championship matches at Violent Conduct, and proceeded to promptly lose them both, and now is in this main event match for another championship match. I am no longer a believer that Mercedes Vargas can get the job done anymore given her track record and history. I will believe it when I see it again, and I haven’t seen anything close to fire in her eyes for years at this point. This is going to be yet another ho-hum experience, as she tries to talk about comics books and movies because she’s facing me, and facing Crystal. Though maybe this time I’ll get drumming stuff too. Because that is how Mercedes needs to do things.
I asked the question a while back about who exactly Mercedes is, because there is literally no proof, she is any of the things she says, besides winning championships. Didn’t SCW go to Argentina at one point or another? Was there this massive following I just missed? Did we all miss it? I still am waiting for the answer to that question, but I have the feeling I will be waiting forever to get the answer because there isn’t going to be one coming, because Mercedes doesn’t even know who she is.
So yeah, I’m pretty much done with talking about Mercedes Vargas, because she isn’t anything to talk about anymore. Respect should be earned, not given because at a few points in one’s career, they managed to accomplish something. Mercedes has won 13 championships, and really, barring her getting that passion and energy back and really taking a long look at herself and trying to get better and get back to where she was at in 2016, does anything see anything recent that makes you believe in her? It’s a sad thing, really? Because she does have accomplishments, but I’m not about take the step back she’s asking people to do when someone like her continues to live in the past.
She was one of the few here before me, so as I asked with Jessie, I have to ask the same of Mercedes? Why did it take Mercedes longer than it took me to win a title period. Yeah, she can go ahead and look that up because it’s the truth. And now, this woman is going to waltz in take when I’m been shooting for, for the past few months? It is not happening and I will not allow it to happen. All that will happen is that I am going to win, and I will answer my own question and finally put it to bed.
Who is Mercedes Vargas?
Not the next Bombshell’s champion.
And that brings me to Alicia Lukas
It’s so weird how things change around here and folks you thought were on top of things, suddenly aren’t. I remember coming back home to SCW and seeing Alicia Lukas on top, and you know, she proved she was pretty good. And then, I beat Alicia and won the Bombshell’s championship, and then just like that, Alicia was injured and she never came back around for a rematch. In fact, when she decided to come back, I challenged HER and I beat her. Now, of course, Bobbie Dahl kinda messed that up for me to really enjoy, but it just seems like I pulled the plug on Alicia’s little run, because really, ever since then, that dominant mega reign Alicia Lukas, the best Alicia Lukas, is long gone. Now, I don’t want to pat myself on the back, because I kind of miss that particular Alicia Lukas.
The one that’s around now? Is... totally lame.
That dominant Alicia Lukas is long gone, and again, what I said holds true. When it was the... I don’t want to say heyday, but just a few years prior to Alicia’s arrival, SCW was as competitive as any place I’ve ever stepped into. There weren’t really year-long reigns unless you were at the very top of your game. And when I came back, and Keira came back, and Bobbie arrived and that crop of talent came in, all of sudden Alicia wasn’t this dominant force.
I mean, what happened? Yes, Alicia rebounded, finally to win back the Bombshell’s championship, and all was right with the world, wasn’t it? It was just perfect. Alicia was back on top of the world, having learned zero about herself in the previous months after I beat her. I mean, you know, once I lost the championship, and then Andrea lost the championship and Crystal lost the championship, everybody was just the worst and didn’t do the title justice like Alicia did. And so, I expected that Alicia would still be champion right now. If she was as great as she said she was, she would have easily duplicated her feats and been the forever champion or whatever. If she was as good as she claimed, we wouldn’t be looking at this one year of dominance, in between 2 others of nothing of note, and wondering what happened. Maybe this would be the re-invigoration of Alicia Lukas.
And then... she wrestled my wife. And my wife promptly ended Alicia’s championship reign and... I think we had another injury or something where Alicia just wasn’t in the picture. She at the very least congratulated my wife, albeit in her usual backhanded way. But I remember that’s just how Alicia is.
“Oh, you beat me, congrats. I’m still awesome though”
But ever since then it’s been this weird... nothing from Alicia Lukas. She got her shot at the Bombshell’s title and failed. And then she had the opportunity to wrestle my wife again, and promptly lost. Again.
And then, hoo boy did THAT cause some drama.
I mean, Alicia came out and said she was retiring after. Retiring off a loss. And obviously, I called BS on this right away, because I know that Alicia was just trying to stir up drama. That’s how she is. When she’s on top, everybody sucks and she’s great. When she’s not on top, it’s not because people are better, that can’t be it. And rather than just say that yeah, it was on her and she needs to be better, she instead threw a hissy fit like a baby and got stupid dramatic so that people paid attention to her.
I distinctly remember that right before that match, she was bragging and boasting about herself and her accomplishments, clinging to them like an old woman with her purse, and telling me, and everyone else that we needed to come up to HER level. We all just needed to be as good as she was. And then after losing, she’s going to retire because she got beat. Again.
I can’t tell you how much this pissed my wife off, as she has done a whole lot in her own right, and to have that diminished by someone is just infuriating. And then, to top it all off, Alicia didn’t even bother retiring, instead choosing to just skip a few shows to get herself together, and then come back. It’s sad what Alicia Lukas has become. Because all of that silly retirement drama, was all brought on by her, not being able to back up the game she talked. She wrote the check, and then it bounced.
I guess really what that means is not only is my wife on her level, but obviously above it since she won right there in the middle of the ring, no questions asked. So, the real question is, what does that make me at this point? Am I going to get the same treatment after I beat Alicia, and Crystal and Mercedes? Am I going to force Alicia into another faux-retirement? I mean, does she consider me to be on her level? I lost to her once, and since then, I have beaten her over and over and over.
So, I guess I can also say I am not on Alicia’s level, I am ABOVE it.
Let’s just remember that it was my second match back in SCW after a year layoff. And for the record, I asked for the warm-up match because I didn’t feel I earned the right to just challenge for a championship without it. And yes, she beat me. And then, I got back to the form I was at previously and ever since then, I have been able to beat her. It still pains me that yes, I lost that match, and that I haven’t been able cleanly beat her one on one since, but for now, this will have to do.
And Alicia again has nobody to blame but herself. She wanted everyone on her level, but maybe Keira and I did it wrong or something. I guess we’re all only supposed to be AS good as Alicia, but not better. Our bad, I guess? We were only trying to do what she asked. Or maybe, it’s because Alicia got complacent after 2019. She thought this would run forever. And then people like me come along and offer a little taste of reality. It’s not something I ever really plan on doing, but it seems to be something I HAVE to do every now and again so that people understand and get a little bit of humility in their lives.
Obviously the first time I did it to Alicia, it did not stick. Neither did the second time, and Keira was unsuccessful the last time. So, maybe, just maybe this time it will stick with Alicia that there was one year, where she was on top in SCW, and since then, it’s just been a reality check for her. See, I’m actually trying to help her, even with what I’m saying.
But, you know, there’s only so many times you can explain things to people before it just turns into you talking to yourself. I always tell my son that if I tell you once and you don’t understand, maybe you just didn’t hear me, but if I have to say it twice, that means you’re actively not listening. That means you don’t care what I have to say. So, there is no point in saying it a third time. So, I’m done trying to reach Alicia. Now, this is about me, beating her, and Crystal, and Mercedes, and getting a match for the Bombshell’s championship.
Maybe after this, Alicia can take a hard look in the mirror and figure out who she is, and understand having her career measured by the number of championships won should only be half the story, not all of it. It should have also a little bit of who you were. People will look and see Alicia Lukas’s name in a bunch of places in title histories, and the sad truth is, she’s going to end up a name, and not a person. I mean, she’s gotta complain about the match previews on the website. And it has to be public because you know, you can’t do things like this privately. It’s another desperate cry for attention. So, I will give Alicia attention and send her like Crystal and Mercedes to the back of the line, and remind them that they are all just guests in my house.
I understand if some people are surprised and shocked by what I have said, and I am gladly willing to accept that Alicia feels like even more of a victim, or Crystal suddenly doesn’t want to talk to me, or Mercedes takes offense. That’s okay with me. But for what this is for, and what a victory means? Yeah, I’m okay with it. Nothing I said today wasn’t the truth. Sometimes the truth is ugly, and we don’t like to look at it, but I know I didn’t go out there and make up anything about any of my opponents. I said what was in my heart, and I said what was true.
So, at Climax Control, in my home state, with people I know watching me, this main event, is mine. This opportunity, is mine. And I will not accept anything less than victory. I will go out, and I will take the opportunity I have earned, and I will earn my championship opportunity against Amber Ryan.
Champ, I will see you, and everyone else, there. 
