Bree Lancaster vs. Deanna Frost

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So… where do we start?


Do I have to apologize again? To all of you, little gritters, and the rest of the SCW Universe who’ve supported me despite… well, everything? Who gave me a chance when the name ‘Frost’ become more and more disliked? Who ‘believed’ in me when that word was considered ixnay to my family?

I could. I could apologize and you’d have every reason to either accept it or not – but I feel like I’m becoming a broken record player. On the same track every time I open my mouth. Because once again, I did my best to give you my best and to try and prove myself as deserving of the SCW United States Championship, but more so, that I deserved to be defending this championship at the very pay-per-event that I won it: Rise to Greatness. I tried, after weeks of controversial matches, tainted finishes, and some matches even being thrown out, I TRIED to get things back to normal. Back on track! Where my victories – or even my losses – were determined not by disqualifications or accidents or whatever, but by my grit and passion for this business and my love for wrestling in front of all of you.

But it seems The Enigma had other plans…

And to Scott Reed… I’m sorry. I truly am. I wish we had had the chance to see where our match could have gone on our merit. I hope you will not give up fighting the good fight and wanting to be a hero here in SCW. But for me… I will wait anxiously for the our next chance to fight one another.

But as for you, Enigma… If your intention in getting involved in my match was to scare me? To intimidate me? To flex your ‘powers’ and frighten me? Then bravo, you bastard, because you succeeded!

In the two plus years I have been here, I have found people stronger than me, bigger than me, faster than me, smarter than me, more experienced than me - I could go on. I never pretended that I was above and beyond anyone in every single department. I have weaknesses and strengths, as does everyone. The only thing I ever truly believed was that I had the most grit here in SCW, a statement I have dared to prove every chance I have had. Still, even with a lot of people better than me in so many other categories… never has a person gotten into my head or messed with me the way you did, Enigma, two weeks ago. Now, I don’t know if you’re some kind of stalker or some maniac – or both – or if you really DO have some supernatural powers of perception - I DON’T KNOW! But what you know… what you chose to allude to that involved my private life? Yeah, you got to me. You got to me in a way that no one has before. You shook the infallible safety that was my family life. And yeah, I’m not Selena. I don’t have her ‘extensive experience’ with ‘monsters’ or ‘Executioners’ or ‘gods’ or people that want to go that route with me.

But you? You’re dragging loved ones into this, like Jessica. You’re dragging my private life into this… and while you’re terrifying me, Enigma… you’re also pissing me off more and more. And I’ve said it for years, I am NOT Selena. Never will be. But one thing she and I are VERY much alike is that we protect our loved ones with every breath we possess! That nothing matters more to us than family!

So… if you think that you’ve ‘scared me off’ from showing up to work – to Breakdown – and being the best damn wrestler I can be? Then you clearly have been smoking too much of that black stuff you need just to show your masked-face! Because all you’ve done, Enigma, is make it all the more necessary for me to deal with you! To remove your ‘dark hold’ on SCW!

So… I challenge you!

I challenge you, Enigma! I don’t care where or when or how, I officially, on my Nameless Promo, challenge you to a match! Name the time and place and whatever else you want and I will be there! Because I’m all in now! You’ve pushed me and pushed me and pushed the SCW Universe – and now I’m telling you: call your shot! Enough of these games! You want me?! I’m not going anywhere! You want to know who I am? Who I can be? Let’s find out! Accept the challenge!

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You know what? I’ll even tell you where I’m going to be so you can find me! Breakdown, I’ll be challenging the current Adrenaline Champion, Bree Lancaster!

I know, Bree. Not the best segway you’ve heard, and I’m sorry for that. Given our history, you deserve better, but I can’t… I can’t do a lot of things the most graceful of ways these days. I’ve literally been in ‘fight or flight mode’ every show and pay-per-view. Wound up tighter than a coil, you know? I’m sure you can relate with the year you’ve had.

You’ve done all you can to make the Adrenaline championship a ‘workhorse title’, just like I’ve tried with the United States Championship since I won it from you last year. And facing you now, after so many months, I wonder… I wonder what you think of my reign. I know we weren’t on the best of terms heading into the RTG Pre-show last year: I wanted to bring the title to the main-show, you saw that as an insult.

But, you see, for someone like you that had done it all, you could say that. I know Josh Hudson said it to Selena, but you can say it too! You’ve done it all! Won almost every title! Headlined RTG! Won so many main-events, most have, probably, lost count!

Me? I wasn’t there yet. I was still trying to find my way in the world – I still am now! Still trying to find a place for a Frost in a world that is ruled by another Frost. To find acceptance in a place where my last name isn’t really accepted. And now, almost a year later, and I still hold the title I took from you. And I wonder what you think of me now. Am I still the girl you shook your head at and said I am undeserving of this title? Am I still the woman that you saw nothing but ‘arrogance’?

Or have I actually earned your respect for holding this title as long as I have? For trying to defend it with the same passion and grit and integrity that you have done with the Adrenaline title? Yes, lately, fate has seen my defenses be less than ideal, but I am trying Bree! I am trying every day to push myself to the level that you forced me to be last year and beyond that!

Because that’s what our match did, okay? You pushed me into the realms of main-event level, where I had to test myself against world champions and be good enough to beat them – to outlast them – to have more grit then them! Facing you, I could either truly begin to carve my path within SCW, or I could be like the Jenni Andersons and like the other wrestlers that come and go out of SCW the moment things get tough for them. Our match pushed me to be the former option! Because I found myself wanting more than anything to be ‘that good’. And I have torn through SCW since then, surviving not one but two chamber matches and even, in the eyes of the SCW Universe, being good enough to challenge for the SCW World title! Throughout it all, I have held the United States title and all it took for me to get it – all it represents of my journey and our battles, Bree – close to my heart.

Which is why I see this not as a ‘round three’ between you and me, but as a question of journey. You, who bounced back out of RTG and became a dominant Adrenaline champion, and me, the woman that held on and continued her reign. I want to test things, Bree. I see this as a test to see if I am still good enough to take you on and beat you – in a time where I need to prove that. As I said, I don’t have the best ‘endings’ to my matches and I still feel behind the eight-ball in saying “I deserve to be on Rise to Greatness, defending the United States championship”. Last year, I got in by a last second add-on, a match with Alexis Quinne. A sudden challenge that she was kind enough to accept – with me adding on the United States title afterwards. But after that fateful weekend, I vowed that next year, I wouldn’t be just a ‘last minute add-on’. I’d be one of the first considered! I’d be on the main-card with the other greats like you and Hudson and Xander and Selena. That it would be my face on the poster with all the other people and champions and not hidden by a graphic or title of the pay-per-view! Not because of a last-second add-on or some act of charity, but because I belonged there! Because I was good enough to be on that card!

So, I will be upfront, Bree, I have no intention of slowing you down or diminishing your reign or your place on the Rise to Greatness card. You will have your opponent named this coming week! I heard it just like everyone else did! A new number one contender for the Adrenaline title will be named the same night you and I fight! Which means that, once more, like last year, your place at RTG is set and you have what you ‘want’. Me? I don’t. And once again, I need to beat you to change that. To show I am at your level and can, maybe, even surpass it again!

Because I don’t want to reach my year-long reign/anniversary quietly. I don’t want it in some forgettable match and then spending the rest of the night at catering or in the back. No! I want it to be fighting the best! On the grandest stage! So, Bree, this is my chance! My chance to makeup for all the issues that came from my last set of matches. My chance to remind everyone what I am capable of and why I have held this championship as long as I have! By beating one of the greatest wrestlers in SCW today! A champion in every sense of the word!

Do I sound giddy? I am, Bree! I am! Because no one has pushed me like you have as a wrestler. No one has pushed me to be as creative and tough and resilient – did I already imply that when I said ‘tough’? Who cares, I’ll say it – and resilient as you have! And in Houston, Texas, Josh and Polly may be the main-event match, but champion vs champion – Bree Lancaster vs. Deanna Frost – is going to steal the show! You will get nothing short of my best, Bree. Every breath I have, every bit of grit I possess!

But… I need you to promise me something, okay? Give me your best – come at me with all you have. I want it! I don’t care if you want to ‘unmake the past’ or make up for the losses you suffered against me and this is an ego thing for you or even if you’re still hating me because I’m a ‘Frost’. Whatever the reason, yes!, come at me with all you have and try and beat me! Anything less and I promise I will be beating you for a third time with ease and I don’t want that! I don’t want another ‘easy win’ because of distractions or issues. I want a hard-fought, hard-earned win!

But… and this is the promise, my friend. If you see black smoke at any time - from under the ring, from the ramp, the audience – I don’t care! If you see black smoke, Bree, promise me this.

Leave.

Leave and don’t look back, and don’t worry about me. I’ll forfeit or disqualify myself or whatever I have to do if I have to, as long as you leave the ring and get as far away from that smoke as possible! That isn’t me being afraid of you, Bree. It’s because I don’t want you tied into this. This has happened too many times for me to be anything but cautious.

Because where there is smoke, there will be The Enigma. And Bree, he is… he is a monster. One that has his eyes on me and maybe Konrad Raab. You saw what he endured against EFN. You saw what he is capable of knowing… I don’t want his eyes on you and getting in the way of your future or distracting Josh from…from… from whatever it is he can do either!

And… as much a I would love to have you fight by my side… this isn’t your war. This can’t involve you. It’s on me. I brought this on myself. I dared him. I am challenging him now, all so I can save Jessica and bring her back to SCW where she belongs. It’s on me, Bree, and only on me.

So please, Bree, give me your best and I will give you mine. But if tonight goes south and Enigma shows up… leave me to it.

I want you safe, Bree. From him, from his followers… and from me…

Because it will not take much for me to see red when he shows up. It will not take much for me to try and tear him to pieces and choke an answer out of him. And what I’ll do… who I’ll become… I’m not entirely sure, and that’s enough reason to get you as far away from me and the smoke as I can.

So, until that happens, may the best woman win, because I will do all I can to make sure that woman – that champion – is me.

But one way or another, you, SCW, and The Enigma, are going to be reminded of what I am capable of! As I burn all that’s in my way to the ground!

Checkmate, bitches!