Kimberly Williams vs. The One

[TheOne]

{PROMO}

The One is seen standing in "Downtown Vegas" after Rise to Greatness, leaning against a wall of the Golden Nugget Casino, and smoking a cigarette.  For the first time, she stands without her hoodie over her head, disguising her identity.  One figure stands to her right, closely, leaning on her shoulder, but completely covered beyond recognition.  Another figure stands besides this person, also shrouded by a hoodie, but acting much more uneasy, and looking around, trying to be sure of their "safety."  As the camera moves in on The One, she wastes no time in beginning to speak.

Everyone... Look around.  Supreme Championship Wrestling, look to your left and to your right, and tell me what you see.  Do you see the same ole same ole?  Do you see the status quo?  Or are you beginning to see things that are "finally" happening in this company?  Are you seeing those who have long since been viewed as underdogs or people who can't compete, step up?

I know what I saw at the event that, supposedly, culminates everything that this industry builds to, but I didn't see a culmination.  I saw the birthing from ashes.  I saw people like Datura... Gavin Taylor... Deanna Frost... Veteran Adam Allocco, even... And yes, The One on the preshow, showcasing to the world that the time of the recent SCW past, where it was a cookie-cutter, Xerox used, formula to success, was over.

What I saw, and I know what you all saw, was something you may not have liked, or been ready for... But was necessary for the future...

You saw CHANGE!

Now I won't lie.  I heard the people in the crowd showing their disdain for what I did to the Bearded Wonder they had decided was their new flavor of the month.  I heard that they weren't happy with the example I made of him.  I heard your opinions.  I heard what you had to say and I get it.  I get that you have invested time, energy, and passion into someone who wasn't ready to step up and enter the new SCW limelight.  I understand your frustrations that you didn't see your hero emerge as the victor, and I have been in your shoes.  I've seen my hero falter.  I have seen my hero not do what they intended to do, and it was angering.  It was frustrating.  It was everything I DIDN'T want it to be, but still, it was reality.

And unfortunately, reality doesn't play favorites, and neither does The One...

Now having said that, I don't look at fans of this industry in any ill light.  I don't have any ill will with your desire to cheer on someone other than me.  You're human.  You're allowed.  I don't dictate or demand what you do or how you act.  But I will say that unfortunately, I dictate reality.  I dictate what you SEE.  And I have been forthcoming with that since I arrived in this company, and this industry.  I was honest about forging a new chapter and new path for, what I saw as a fledgling company, allowing wash, rinse, repeat, talents to succeed.  I saw entitled people believing they were "using the formula," and deserved everything.  I saw the same things in pro wrestling that I saw in my real world.

So I was honest, to you, and everyone else, that I was out to destroy and change it!

Beard was one of those individuals.  He had the chance to be something different, and he had the chance to be the TRUE HERO you saw him as, but he fell short.  He couldn't handle the pressure, and I understand that.  It's not an insult to him because some people aren't ready for it.  Some people just cannot wrap their heads and talents around the scope of what is being pushed on them, in life.  This isn't just a "job thing," this is LIFE.  Beard couldn't handle the pressure, and I wanted him to show me he could.  I wanted him to show me that he had, what it took, to push ME, someone who doesn't hold ANY accolade in this business, to her limit.

But he couldn't do that either, could he?

He couldn't do the simple things, on the, and I quote, "biggest stage," in the business he was once a champion?  No... He couldn't.  Instead, he brought what he could, and I commend him for showing up because I know, honestly, he knew he was over-matched from the get-go.  So I give him that slice of credit.  Now as for the rest, he was just there.  And the fact is, Rise to Greatness was his chance, just like the names I mentioned before, it was his opportunity for change.  His opportunity to turn the page.  But instead of being a catalyst, he became one of those people who will be forgotten in the annals of time because SOMEONE ELSE came out on top.

And that moment... And the end of that night... Is what has led us to modern day in which we live in today...

The One smirks, and looks side to side.  The person on her shoulder begins to clinch her arm, leading the other to lean in concerned.  The One looks over at this other person, sternly, and holds her palm out to stop this person from checking in on the other.  She then looks back at the camera, before continuing.

Stop... She's fine...

The One then looks back at the camera, and takes a drag before continuing.

So welcome to reality, folks!  Welcome to a new chapter in Supreme Championship Wrestling.  Welcome to a day where you aren't given a formula, you're not given a "plan," you're not given ANYTHING, and Supreme Championship Wrestling returns to its roots where the BEST of the BEST begin to make themselves known to the world by PROVING themselves, and not just assuming they get to be catapulted anywhere based solely on who they are.  And that, yes, includes The One.

Beard was the latest installment of what my plan has been all along.  Beard was someone who people looked at and groveled over.  He was seen as the future of SCW, yet wasn't able to shoulder that burden and showed it when he entered the ring with me.  But burdens in life don't end with one person.  Hell, my life didn't begin with Beard.  My life began with the burden of living, day to day, as any child would, learning what hunger, bowel movements, things like that meant to the process of even seeing the next sunrise.  But in a professional standpoint, Beard was ultimately the first martyr in the path of SCW toward its new resurrection of enlightenment.  And I'm sorry it had to be that way, but someone has to be that person, if someone else is to truly be...

She makes the hand gestures for air quotes.

"The One..."

That leads us to where we are now.  It leads us to the post-2022 Rise to Greatness EVOLUTION of Supreme Championship Wrestling.  As I said, everywhere you look, change is beginning to swirl.  The norms are being tackled and the names of those doing the tackling, for the most part, are obscure compared to the likes of the past.  It's where I come into play, and where I focus my attention because Rise to Greatness was the mere beginning.  It wasn't a destination, as it is for some, but the launchpad of the future of this company and this industry.  So I can't be content with that being the end all-be all.  Hell, even "God" took seven days, to consider his work "finished," so Rise to Greatness, effectively, was my "In the beginning," and "first day."

Going forward, you may ask, what's next?  What is the "second day?"  The "third?"  "Fourth?"  What follows what is seemingly the ending of one chapter and beginning of another in this business.  For me, it's beginning my ascension to be seen by everyone as someone who isn't just a name or face, but a force, an enforcer of justice, a leader to the future, whatever you want to call it, it's my ascension from someone people see as a nobody, to someone people fear as THE somebody.  Because that's how my life has gone.  A nobody to somebody, through trials and tribulations, and effectively ending up the higher power that can bring down anyone who feels like they're entitled and just going to waltz their way into being important.

SCW is realizing it, early... And trying to either snuff me quickly, or make me prove that I am exactly what I say I am...

How so?

Kimberly Williams.  Breakdown.  The night of the fallout of Rise to Greatness.  The person who SCW is putting in my path to make me put up or shut up because she both represents what I believe is the future, but also someone who has established herself during the days of Pete and Repeat, as someone not to be taken for granted.

But who is she?  Really?

Is she what she proclaims to be on paper?  Does she hold the moniker of "Grand Slam Champion" in SCW because she earned it?  Is she truly a "Deathmatch Queen?"  Is she truly as bat-shit insane as she wants us all to believe?  Or is there an intelligence there, a thought process behind the actions, and someone who knows when to strike so she can have these accolades and accomplishments by the use of manipulation, rather than success?  This is where I look and wonder.  Because if she is truly someone who was able to achieve such successes amidst the era she began in, then she deserves a lot of respect.  She deserves a lot of praise.  She deserves to be known and recognized for what she has achieved.  BUT... If she's smarter than she lets us know about, and has just manipulated situations one after another to get what she wanted and acquired, then, she's no better than the ones she came up with and, because of that possibility...

Kimberly... You are the next to have to PROVE yourself to the world, by somehow getting through me... Which let's be honest, nobody has really done, outside of a technicality all of my own doing...

Now I want you to listen closely, Kimberly... I'm not writing you off.  I'm not saying you are one of those who manipulated your way to the success.  But I am saying that looking at the timeline, it doesn't look it in your favor.  It is also something that I do not stand by or allow in my presence.  So the onus of this opportunity to show yourself as someone ready to shoulder the burden of the future of SCW is on YOU.  It's on YOU to come out there and prove to me, prove to the world, and most importantly, prove to YOURSELF that you belong.  Because I will see really quickly whether or not you are legitimate or if you're one of those people who have been acting in the same manor as others.  And if I even see a GLIMMER of that behavior, if I even SNIFF that kind of mentality, your night is going to go from relatively normal, ot absolutely abysmal.

It's been my M. O. all along.  I haven't strayed from it.  I've gone out and proved a point week in and week out.  I've shown legends, newcomers, and copycats alike that if you want to play in my world, you have to be someone who is worthy of being in that world.  And I don't decide the worthiness, I give that to the person.  And so far, very few have even taken the opportunity I have given them and done something positive with it.  Instead they've squandered it away.  You... You're someone who has me curious because of your past.  I don't know who you are, and I don't know what to expect.  I've seen your work.  I've seen that you have some talent in there.  But what are you going to do when you're faced with the simple fact that no matter how many games of mental chess you may think you're playing with me, I'm the type to take that chess board and shove it in your face and change the game all together.

You're not in control... You're not the queen of "mindfuckery" that you may want to present yourself as.  I see through your get-up, and I see who you really are.  But I also know you'll try and play your games, play your tricks, and do whatever you can to ultimately pull out a victory.  I can commend that... But if your true colors behind it all are just EXPECTING a win, expecting me to roll over for you, I challenge you to look at the wake I have already left in this business as a NOBODY.  I challenge you to find someone who HASN'T succumbed to me, and ultimately given up.  Because the reality is, everyone has begged for mercy.  Everyone has begged for me to stop.  And each one has come to the realization that WHEN I stop is WHEN the time is right.  WHEN the statement is made, and the person is ACCEPTING of their fate, I play nicely.  And I don't do it for praise.  I don't do it for hatred.  I do it because someone has needed to come in and clean house for a number of years, and take the hypocrisy out of SCW.  Someone has needed to make it their mission to take out the trash, and let SCW be what it once was, and should have been all along.  I'm done with entitlement.  I'm done with people feeling like they are "owed" something.  So I'm the Grim Reaper who is here to end that idea in SCW one person at a time.

This isn't about winning a popularity contest...

This isn't about being a good or bad guy...

This is about reclaiming the identity that was lost during a dark period...

So Kimberly... You have a choice to make.  You have something to prove.  The onus isn't on me.  It's on you.  Either you're real, or fake.  I'll let you decide because in the end I'll show you mercy, or you'll simply be the next person accepting the TRUTH of "The One."

With those final words, The One looks over at the girl leaning on her shoulder and pats her on the head.  She then looks at the man who nervously stands beside the girl, and motions for them all to begin walking through the masses of people as they all begin to watch the "Fremont Street Experience."  With their attention focused elsewhere, the three can move a bit more inconspicuously around without drawing attention to themselves or being potentially recognized.