Jordan Majors vs. Kimberly Williams

[Jsquared]

I got a call from Cookie early in the morning the day before I was going to head off for Breakdown. The match with Kim had been on my mind a lot. I had been in plenty Underground matches recently. But I know in her mind, Kim was on a completely different level. And maybe she was. She had this vast reputation for the type of damage she was willing to do in an Underground Rules match.

Cookie told me she had constructed something in my barn. The barn was a dilapidated building behind my house that we always planned to do something with, but never did. I left the house and walked in to see Vihaan passed out in a chair. I turned to see a board of images with strings attached to each one. In the middle was a larger picture of Britt. All strings were leading to her.

Jordan: Ethel… what the fuck is all of this? Did you make Vihaan do this?

Cookie: I bribed him.

Jordan: Do I want to know how?

Cookie: Eh, probably not.

Jordan: So what is it then?

Cookie: This is the solution to what we were trying to figure out. I was thinking about it and I think Britt might have done all of this.

Jordan: Umm… yeah. I think the world knows that after Breakdown.

Cookie: Oh, snap! You already solved this whole thing? Without me!? Why didn’t you ask for my help!?!?

Jordan: Listen, it was painfully obvious to me very early on that she was doing it. We still don’t know why. Nicole smacked her good before she could answer. But listen, while I have you on the phone I have a question.

Cookie: Ok?

Jordan: How do I be crazy?

Cookie: Be crazy?

Jordan: Like you are some times?

The line went dead silent.

Jordan: Hello?

Cookie: I’m not crazy. Not ever. Why would you say I was crazy?

Jordan: Ok, not crazy I guess. But… like how do I get on Kim’s level?

Cookie burst into laughter on the line and giggled in a few different tones. I pulled the phone away from my face and looked at it for a moment.

Jordan: I’m serious.

Cookie: Listen, Ky, you will never be like Kim Williams. And to be honest, that’s not a bad thing. I wouldn’t want you to be like Kim. Because you are great as you. And I know where you were going with this. But you don’t have to be crazy to beat her. And you don’t have to be crazy to beat Nicole.

I sighed into the phone. Luckily she couldn’t see me roll my eyes.

Cookie: Me being me though, I knew you would be nervous about this match. So I did something for you.

Jordan: For me?

Cookie: A gift. Vihaan has it.

Jordan: Well, Vihaan isn’t awake right now.

Cookie: It’s probably right there. It’s obvious.

I looked around and tried to see if anything looked out of place. And there leaning against the board I saw it. A baseball bat with a unique look to it. I walked over and picked it up and raised a brow.

Jordan: What is this? I see a bat, covered in barbed wire, but these spikes…

I touched one with my hand and then audibly gasped.

Jordan: Are these?

Cookie: Stiletto heels? Yes, babe. Yes they are.

Jordan: What fucked up arts and crafts class did you take to make this?

Cookie: Daddy was watching a prison show on TV and then I saw some of the girls getting rid of some worn out shoes. So I chopped the heels off and filed down the ends and made this weapon. I think it looks pretty cute.

Jordan: Yeah, it looks like you spray painted it pink and dipped it in glitter. Is this going to leave glitter all over the place? You know how I feel about that!

Cookie: Get over it, Kylie. This is going to help you win. Because I have named it for you. Look at the side of it.

I rotated it around and saw the name on the barrel of the bat in black. It said “Ethel 2.” I laughed and let out a deep sigh of relief.

Jordan: This is why I love you. All my worry about this match just went out the window. Thank you.

Cookie: Of course. It’s the least I can do from here in Las Vegas. I miss you by the way. Has Dawn already moved in and taken my room over?

Jordan: Why would she do that? Especially take your room over?

Cookie: Aren’t you trying to replace me with her?

I went silent this time and just shook my head.

Jordan: You’re my best friend, dude. She’s my girlfriend.

Cookie: Ok… just making sure I still rank number one. I will stab a bitch if I have to, you know this.

Jordan: Ethel!?

I heard her demented laugh over the phone call as I sat the bat back down and looked over at Vihaan.

Jordan: Hey, why did you send Vihaan over to do all of this? And how early did you send him?

Cookie: Well, for one, I know he’ll do anything for me. And I mean anything. But also, I figured if you wanted to test that bat out on someone he’d be right there waiting for you.

Jordan: Dude! I’m not gonna do that. I might kill him.

Cookie snickered to herself and then told me she had to go. I grabbed the bat and looked at Vihaan for a moment and grinned to myself. I took a few practice swings and then I stepped forward and swung the bat wildly at a pillar next to him. Dust, glitter, and pieces of shoes flew everywhere. Vihaan jumped awake.

Jordan and Vihaan: HOLY SHIT!

I held the bat up and looked at it and grinned even wider. This bat was coming to Breakdown with me. It had a date with Kim Williams’ face. It was time for me to show them I could be just as hardcore as them.

Promo

For the last few months, my career here has taken an odd turn. It’s been a little more hardcore than usual. Week after week they’ve been tossing me into Underground Rules matches while my presumed opponent, Nicole, sits god knows where and watches me. Maybe she’s at home? Maybe she’s in catering? Maybe she’s stuffed in a container in Britt’s closet? Who cares, the point is I have been introduced to a completely different kind of rules in SCW. And I haven’t been stifled. I have thrived.

The majority of my career here has been highlighted by failure. But this is my chance to create something different. No one is talking about Underground matches anymore. Even as much as someone like Kim Williams has fought in them, parading around with her fake title she needs to make herself feel a little more important, they just haven’t been focused on. Until now. Suddenly, with Jordan vs. Nicole scheduled for Rise to Greatness they became a big deal again. But Kim might not know that. Because she didn’t seem to know I’d even been fighting in these types of matches lately.

Listen, that’s ok. I’m woman enough to admit that this is Kim’s arena. She has made her living off of this. But I’m trying to make my own name right now. And I’m sure she has a problem with this, but I’m set on earning myself a reputation based on my performances in these matches. But do I see her as a stepping stone on my way to achieving this? Hell. No.

No matter what the crowd says or the office says, I will never overlook a match. I will never overlook an opponent like that. This isn’t a test. This is an opportunity. For me and Ethel 2 to show what we’re capable of in the ring together. That’s right, Kim. You don’t know Ethel 2 yet, but you will soon. Does that sound familiar? Having all these named gimmick weapons? Don’t worry, I’m not stealing your act. I’m improving on it in my own way.

I think somewhere in your mind you think you can come at me with your Woman Scorned and Queen of the Death Match bullshit and scare me away. You can intimidate me. But I’m not afraid to bleed for what I believe in. I’m not scared of pain. I want to turn this point of my career into something else. I want to be the Queen of the Underground.

I just think it’s a bit odd you’d imagine that I would somehow think any less of you. That I would look at you and think you’re incapable. We’ve worked together for three years now. I’ve watched you go all over the world for other promotions and accomplish things. I’ve seen what you’re willing to do to win and I’ve seen how often that doesn’t work out for you. Let’s be honest here. You and I are very much the same. Not one thing defines us. We can do it all. But I’m still trying to form this identity, to be more than the 2019 Star of Tomorrow. And I’m willing to do anything to reach that point.

You talk about violence like I’m not willing to go there. Like I didn’t get busted open illegally by Sienna in a match and kept going with blood dripping down my face. Like I didn’t Cash Out on Ace from atop the scaffold and drop his ass 20 plus feet to the ground. I can take violence and I can deliver it. Screw these narratives that you’re trying to write. When I step in between the ropes I’m prepared to go to war no matter who the opponent is. Marie knows this better than anyone. I pinned her to win my only title in SCW.

But what you’re missing here is that I am dying for that moment again, Kim. That moment where someone takes me truly seriously again. Britt clearly doesn’t take me seriously. She was willing to meddle in my business. She sabotaged what I worked for at Rise to Greatness. And it feels like you don’t take me seriously either. Because you don’t think I’m capable of competing in this match with you. You’ve already decided in your head that you will cut me up and leave me for dead because I’m simply not ready for you. Are you serious?

Tell me Kim, how many people are willing to actually “play” with you on social media? I don’t know many outside your circle. Listen, I don’t shy away from you. I don’t run from you. And I sure as hell won’t come into this match unprepared for you. I don’t care if I leave this match with staples in my forehead, thumbtacks in my ass, and a gash in my side… everything else in between… I’m not coming to survive you. I’m coming to beat you at your own game. Just like I will beat Britt at hers and then Nicole at hers, too.

I could give a damn what anyone has to say about me or the story they think they’re trying to tell. This week I get to toss this detective routine to the side and I get to FIGHT! Apparently you haven’t noticed this, Kim. But I love to fight. I never back down from a challenge. I demanded the chance to fight Nicole at Rise to Greatness. And it was taken from me. Oh, you think you’re the woman scorned, right? Well I’m one pissed off bitch. I’m angry at Britt, Nicole, and right now I’m kinda irked at you, too.

So you want darkness on Breakdown? You’re going to get it. You want me to reach down deep and give you the most violent version of myself possible? Oh… you’re gonna regret wanting that. This match between us will be so fun and so bloody that Konrad Raab will have to cover himself to avoid embarrassment. On Thursday, I embrace my dark side and I prove to you I never overlooked you. I prove to you that I can go to these depths that you don’t think I’m capable of. And I prove to the rest of you that I’m not one to mess with. You can take it to the bank, girls. Because Jordan Majors IS money.