The scene opens up in a busy airport, people are going every which way and a man walks in front of the camera and holds up a microphone.
Chad Light: Hello everybody, this is Chad Light coming to you from Osaka International Airport and I am here waiting for the arrival of the newest addition to the Sin City Wrestling Roster, one Markus Reeves. Over the next however long it lasts I will be cronicalling Markus’ return to professional wrestling after a three year lawoff. He would be getting off the airplane any time now.
Chad turns around and looks towards the arrivals and doesn’t see the hulking behemoth that is Markus Reeves. Chad looks back towards the camera and shrugs his shoulders. A hand from the camera guy appears on camera pointing back towards the arrival gate. Chad turns around again and sees Markus carrying a his bags away from the arrival area. Chad and the camera guy start to head towards Markus. Chad waves at Markus and Markus waves back.
Chad Light: I’m standing here now with Markus Reeves who has finally made his trek all the way from Phoenix to appear on his first show this weekend. Tell me Markus, why have you decided at this point in your career to not stay retired and instead return to the wrestling ring?
Markus Reeves: Well honestly it’s a couple of different reasons, the first one is simply that I was bored away from the wrestling ring. There isn’t really a lot someone my size and my age can do that can be used as more than a distraction at best. Wrestling has pretty much been the only thing I’ve been doing over the last fifteen years. The other reason is right now I have see my daughter wrestling in another promotion in the United States and watching her wrestle really started to make me miss it. The main reason I am returning is I wasn’t happy with my last run in a wrestling company. I basically spent months trying to build myself up in the company only to get killed at pay per view by a dude who was holding the companies word title and secondary title at the same time. After that I left and went into basically retirement.
Chad Light: Great answer champ, what do you think you can bring to SCW?
Markus Reeves: Well I’m going to come in and give them everything that I have which for all I know might not be much at this point but they are still going to get someone who believes that he is in fact still be very competetive inside the squared circle and even though I’m going to most likely be wrestling people that are young enough to be my children, I still think I can go out and win championships.
Chad Light: Just a few more questions. What was it that brought you to SCW in the first place.
Markus Reeves: Well, I got a couple of friends inside the company in Roxi Johnson and Crystal Millar or whatever the Hell she is calling herself these days and some others from places I’ve wrestled before but honestly I feel that SCW is place where I can thrive and win titles to add to my already extensive title collection. Just from talking with the owner before I signed my contract I felt that SCW would be a great fit for myself, hopefully for years to come.
Chad Light: Last question Mark, Why did you approach me about doing this documentary?
Markus Reeves: I wanted to give the great wrestling fans all around the world an inside view of what I am outside of the ring. People have seen me wrestle in all corners of the globe but none of them have seen what it’s like to be around me on a day to day basis. Plus I’ve seen the popularity of shows like Hard Knocks on HBO where they show you the behind the scenes stuff involving a National Football League team every year and I felt that I could pull of the same thing with wrestling since there is a lot of stuff that goes on backstage that people don’t know about.
Chad Light: Might not want to go into that too far Markus, don’t want to ruin anything for the fans.
Markus Reeves: Chill out Chad, I wasn’t going to spoil anything. Man what time is it?
Chad Light: It’s almost seven in the morning.
Markus Reeves: Man, I need to get out of here and get some sleep, this time change is going to kill me.
Chad Light: Alright, let me wrap this up.
Chad then turns and faces the camera with Markus off camera
Chad Light: Sin City Wrestling fans, I hope you are ready and excited for what Markus Reeves plans to bring to this company and I hope you enjoyed meeting the man who plans to turn SCW on it’s head. I’m Chad Light and this was Markus Reeves live from Osaka Japan. We’ll see you next time on the Markus Reeves Experience.
The scene fades to black. Next words appear on the screen.
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die.”
-Roy Batty from Blade Runner
The scene then opens up with Markus Reeves in a non-descript location. He is alone and pacing in front of the camera with a concrete wall behind him.
Markus Reeves: Well that’s pretty much all true except the time to die part, I don’t plan on doing that for a long while but however that statement from Blade Runner rings true with me. I have indeed seen some things in my fifteen year career. I’ve seen great things and terrible things and everything in between. First of all allow me to introduce myself, I am Markus Evan Reeves and I’ve been doing this for a very long time and I have indeed seen things that you people wouldn’t believe. I’ve wrestled all over the world and in all sorts of matches and that makes me very, very dangerous for everyone that I may end up facing here in SCW.
Why does this make me dangerous you may ask and really that question is simple to answer. I’ve seen it all man, there is nothing left in this business that will surprise me. I’ve been involved in matches with midgets, flaming pies and scaffolding matches. I’ve wrestled in rings filled with glass and in a sadistic structure that is like cage but also made of glass. I’ve been electrocuted, set on fire and buried alive and yet here I am, still ready to kick whoever’s ass gets in my way.
Now some of you might remember that I said that I’m old and that’s the honest truth, Hell I’ll be fifty years old later this year but that doesn’t really matter because I’m still better than half of the tools that are in this business and that’s because I have the one thing that none of them have and that’s the fact that I’m absolutely crazy. I’m willing to do whatever it takes to win a wrestling match. If that means me launching myself off the top turnbuckle and putting someone through a table, I’m willing to do it and that should absolutely terrify all of you. Nothing like going to the outside of the ring to catch your breath and then all of a sudden a three hundred plus pound dude who should be in a nursing home at this point eating putting and shitting himself comes flying out of nowhere and crashes though you.
Yeah, you know what, I like the sound of that. Nothing quite like have a grandpa like person come flying at you like a cruise missile to really make you feel alive. So Constantine what are you willing to do to beat me in this match because I know what I’m ready to do. I’m ready to go out like it’s the last match I ever wrestle and I plan on doing something absolutely loco to beat you and that even includes me tearing my arm off and beating you to death with you. Yeah I’m that crazy!
Now the one thing that worries me is the fact that I know very little about you. Usually I know someone that has video on pretty much every wrestler in the world so I can go and watch and scout and learn some things that can help tip the match in my favor but in the case of you I don’t have that in this case and I don’t know if that’s because you are totally brand new to wrestling or if Greece being in such an economic shit hole forced you to burn all of your video tapes of you wrestling just so you can stay warm during the winter but I know for a fact that I am going into this match blind but you know what? That’s just fine with me, you see there is such a thing as too much preparation a paralysis by analysis and that could cause me to lose to someone like you, who I have no business losing to and do you know why that is Constantine? It’s really quite simple and I know that English isn’t your first language so I’m going to spell it out nice and clear and slowly for you. It’s because I have experience. I’ve been in this game a long damn time and there is no way I’m going to let some hairy chested “Grease” reject beat me in my return match to wrestling. No way am I going to let that happen. Usually this is the part where I tell my opponent to just stay home so they don’t embarrass themselves in front of their friends and family but this time I don’t care. I want you to show up and give me everything you got so that when I win and trust me I will win I can feel great knowing that I still got it. So I can go to my friends who think I’m stupid for returning to the ring after three years away from it and show them that I can still hang with…in this case I won’t say big dogs because you aren’t on my level but you are some sort of little lap dog but none these I will show them that I can at least destroy mentally and physically something like a Chihuahua
Now Constantine, don’t worry about letting me get a feel back since I’ve been away for so long, I won’t be knocking ring rust off because I don’t get that. I’ll just go out and do what I do best and that is physically, emotionally and psychologically annihilate people and I hope you know just what kind of craziness you are getting into. Constantine, this is a moment that both of us will remember for a long, long time. I’ll remember it as the moment where I returned to wrestling and restarted my journey to the top and you will remember it as the time that you got your ass stomped in by the one and only, the Legendary, the infamous, Markus F’n Reeves. I’m putting the rest of the roster on notice, no matter how big or how small you might be, if you have the misfortune of stepping into the ring with me, remember the beating that I will give you is nothing personal because quite frankly, I hate everyone equally. Constantine, I hope you are ready for war because if you aren’t you will be a casualty before you even know what hits you. See you in Kobe, bitch!
The scene fades out again and then fades into Markus Reeves sitting in a doctor’s office wearing a hospital gown. The doctor walks in and looks at Markus with a puzzled look on his face.
Doctor: Why are you wearing that gown?
Markus Reeves: Aren’t patience supposed to wear this?
Doctor: Yes if you were maybe here to have surgery but you are here for a physical for you SCW contract. More importantly where did you get that damn thing, its giant.
Markus Reeves: I brought it for myself because I knew this place wasn’t going to have one big enough for me.
Doctor: I see. Well I have your results back and I know that we did go into a little deeper of an exam because you are so old and you are getting back into a very dangerous profession.
Markus Reeves: How bad is it doc?
Doctor: I mean it could be a whole lot worse, but could also be a whole lot better. You are somehow great when it comes to your heart and cholesterol and things of that nature so that’s the good news.
Markus Reeves: How bad is the bad news?
Doctor: Basically your whole body is shot, if it were a car you would just tow it away to the scrap yard and crush it into a little cube.
Markus Reeves: That good eh?
Doctor: You barely have any cartilage left in either knee and both of your shoulders need to have surgery also. I have a feeling that you will end up with dementia sooner rather than later due to repeated head trauma.
Markus Reeves: Yeah but I already knew that was going to happen. Are you going to clear me to wrestle?
Doctor: I really shouldn’t but besides your knees and shoulders your body isn’t too bad. Surprisingly your neck and spine are holding up well for your age and with your already long career in wrestling. Now you know that you aren’t going to be able to do this forever.
Markus Reeves: I know, the body will eventually forsake me and then it’s off to the old folk’s home where I’ll let my competitive juices flow in bingo and betting on which old person I can throw the first.
Doctor: You are really the worst, you know that right?
Markus Reeves: Yes but through all of the crap I’ve gone though and all the time I’ve been in here to get fixed up I’ve basically put your kids through college, even the one that changed her major five times and is now studying feminist art history or something like that.
Doctor: Don’t remind me of the last part.
Markus Reeves: Noted.
Doctor: There is one thing else that came to my attention when we were doing your blood work.
Markus Reeves: What is that?
Doctor: Your blood matches someone else’s blood.
Markus Reeves: Well it should be, I’m type O. I’m universal baby.
Doctor: No, I mean it matches someone to the point that they are probably a blood relative of yours but the only way to be sure is to do a paternity test but we can’t do that until we track this individual down and see if they want to go ahead with the testing.
Markus Reeves: Well keep me informed doc.
Doctor: You know I have a name right?
Markus Reeves: I do but I also know me just calling you doc pisses you off. I’ll talk to you later when I decide to become the bionic man and have my entire body replaced with robot parts.
Doctor: You are completely hopeless.
Markus Reeves: Thanks.
Markus hops up and leave the room as the scene fades to black