Turn It Up A Notch!

[The American Tradition]

"Together we are...a powerful force. One mind, body, and soul. But no evil enter, or attempt to reduce us, because of the beliefs we hold. And with this love, combined with our strength. We ward off pain and stress. Technician I am, wholeheartedly. In life, and in death."

Phoenix Winterborn was being given the chance of a lifetime. Tonight on Sacrifice, Phoenix was getting the chance to become a double champion in SEF as he got the chance to take on Mack for the XWF Underground Heavyweight championship. As the camera came onto Phoenix, he was backstage with his SEX World championship, wiping a cloth over it to make it nice and shiny. Looking up at the camera, he smiled.

"See last month when I won the World championship, the vacated World championship from Jordan Cut, I thought it was going to be...well, challenging, but at the same time, I know how good I am. I've been doing this for a long time. But, it seems that, no matter how many times I try to prove myself, there's always doubters. There's always gonna be people who don't think that I have what it takes. I've been realizing that for a long time, and that's ok. I've come to accept it. But, what I haven't come to accept, is the fact that one man. One man still sees me...as nothing. Regardless of what I've done."

He paused for a moment.

"Ok, so SEF is the big time. Cool. See, I made myself on the independent circuit. I made myself in the armories, the gyms...and through it all? I stayed true to myself. I stayed true to who I was. See, I didn't get a big head. I didn't...I wasn't an asshole. Like you are, Mack. I wasn't an asshole. It may seem that way some days. It may seem that I get a little big for my britches, but that's not arrogance, that's not me being an asshole. That's just my being confident. That's me having confidence in what I can do."

As Phoenix stood up, he draped the championship over his shoulder, stepping out of the locker room to the backstage area.

"See, you're the man around SEF, isn't that right? Is that what I'm gathering? Am I pickin up what you're puttin down, Mack?" He sighs. "There's always been this thing we in the business refer to as a Changing of the Guard. Ya see, since SEF opened up so many years ago, you've been the man. Yeah, I'll admit that. You see, in case you haven't noticed though...it's 2014. We're fresh into a new year. I think it's high time that we get new champions, and a new face of the company. Ya see Mack, you've taken this company and turned it into a show full of debauchery. You've turned it into a whorehouse pretty much, with a little bit of wrestling sprinkled in here and there. See, that's what I've attempted to do since I came back to SEF is to turn this back into a wrestling company. Ya know, a place that people would be proud to go to. Somethin that people would strive for, and I can't do that until I beat you. I can't help cement this company as a positive atmosphere until I beat you."

Passing by catering, he snatched up a half of a tuna sandwich. Taking a bite, he continued on.

"And so this week...tonight, really...we have a match for your XWF Underground Heavyweight championship, and you wanna sit there, and talk about how nobody knows who I am. How I'm just some no-good punk kid off the street." Another sigh. "Mack, lemme tell ya something. I know a lot more about this business than you give me credit for. See, I know all about the politics, about the favors, everything like that. I know about that. And I also know that there are people who don't want me as the champion, you being one of them. And that's fine. You can hope, and dream, and wish all you want. The simple fact is? I am the champion right now, and no matter the obstacles that people throw in my way, I will continue to be the champion. I'm sorry if this upsets you, but that's just how it is. And when I go out there, and I beat you tonight?" He paused, rubbing his chin. "I really don't know what to say. Except for the fact that there will be a new era in this company. See when I beat you, I'm going to UNIFY your championship...and my championship. No longer will my championship be degraded as the uh...what do ya call it. The SEX World Heavyweight championship? No. See, I'm gonna bring prestige back to this." He looks at the belt, patting it. "I'm gonna bring prestige back to this company. See, cause when I combine your Underground Heavyweight championship with my World Heavyweight championship? It will become the SEF Unified Heavyweight championship, and I will take on every single comer that wants a crack at this. Whether it's you, Taylor Andrews, anybody. I'll take 'em all on. And at the end of the day? I will still be...the Unified. Heavyweight. Champion."

A smile came across Phoenix's face, as the camera zoomed in.

"I'll see ya out there."

End scene, as Phoenix leaves the frame.[/font][/font]

[Daddy Mack]

So now we go to the sweet sarcastic smile of The Mack who is kicked back on a metal box backstage with the SEF World Heavyweight Championship around his waist and his ring tights on with his boots ready to kick. Mack snarling a bit arrogantly with a hungry confidence exuding from him as he has the XWF Wrestling Underground Heavyweight Championship over his left shoulder and the SEW WAR Tag Team Championship over his right one. The Mack leaning back against the wall with his long blonde hair down his belts and bare shoulders as he grins like only he can knowing he got his opponent right where they don't want to be.

You gotta realize Phoenix, I don't doubt what you done before SEF, I just don't know of you outside SEF, never heard of you before ya came to this company. And why is it so important to you since ya never showed any care for me? I mean hey, I never showed you much except when ya came babbling some bullshit and I owned ya, but it was so easy I forgot exactly what happened, no hard feelings!?! Is that why you care to try and make me realize your some sort of big star outside of SEF like you say you are yet have shown no evidence of being?!? Back it up in the ring kid cause I been in the ring with ya half a dozen times or more in the past year and not until a couple weeks ago and tonight are ya actually showing you want to be here. If ya keep it up maybe we can get something going and we'll see if you are as good as ya claim to be. But what is about staying true to yourself? I been doing that since day one when I set out at fourteen to the dungeon after working the abandoned buildings of Detwat in the Wrestling Underground. Never looked back and from there it was Mexico, Japan, and a tour across three continents to get back to the states and make it big on my own. I worked bars in Mexico, sumo halls in Japan and those big boys hit hard let me tell ya what! I been in gyms, dojos, armories, stadiums, and countless arenas all across this world, not just the good old USA. The Mack has represented himself as being the best world renowned professional wrestler in the world for longer than SEF been around. And you say its time I give it up, step down, saying that the sex and what not is all done? Dude, seriously? The numbers don't lie and the Hardcore Hotel with a live sex show out draws Phoenix Winterborn on any given night. When The Mack can't draw, The Mack hangs up his boots, so until then laddy boy, sit back, and watch The Showsteala show you how its done!

Mack with his knees bent up pushes himself up the wall to step forward looking down in a twisted arrogant crazy glance, then just smirks sarcastically as he drops to the floor flipping back that blonde hair.

What you see before you is nothing you have ever experienced for Phoenix, you and I have not really tangled all that much. I only remember you cause your still here and that says you want to be here, but your performance week in and week out does not compare to that of The Mack. You claim you want to bring back wrestling, but the facts are clear as can be seen when watching WAR, Anarchy, PPV, Sacrifice, and they show that wrestling exists as hot as ever in SEF. I am the best, boy, so get used to it and try to keep up, maybe one day you'll get the chance to sling this now XWF Title over your shoulder, strap it around your waist, and be a part of history richer than that belt you hold now. Until you know what you have to do in order to represent the championship on the line tonight, your not getting your hands on it. Now as for me not wanting you to be champion, when did I ever say that!? Granted I dont think you have what it takes to hold the XWF Title, but that's because you have failed to show you earned it. What about these politics you speak of have anything to do with me or what were doing tonight? Since day one in SEF, I showed up to wrestle and so what if I fuck some broads here and there. Like I said, the numbers prove that it draws more than you and damn near more than my matches and its why SEF is a big time wrestling company, cause sex and violence sells!

The Mack smirking ever so arrogant and sarcastic, but don't mistake it for overconfidence cause the man knows what he has to do in the main event with his XWF Championship on the line. Mack has shown he knows that time and time again by beating the best in the world.

By the way Phoenix, the only time I have ever been labeled unbeatable is by my competition because they tried too hard to beat me. I know you didn't say it was, but I also know you need to beat me, you need to do a lot to earn respect, but you better recognize who your dealing with cause this ain't some old man who made SEF, broke is back, and is retiring. After my absence of two and a half years or whatever it was, felt like longer, but did me good, so good that I ain't gonna be done for quite some time. I don't look ahead and wonder how many years I got, no, I look to now, to what lies ahead for us in this year. Believe it or not, I see good things, but you gonna have to realize a few things about The Mack and with experience will come that knowledge. So like I said sonny boy, watch and learn and one day you too may be able to be at my level!?!

Mack walking off with a cocky swagger as the scene fades to black leaving us with more wonder as to who walks out of Sacrifice with the XWF Wrestling Underground Heavyweight Championship!?!