BLOOMFIELD: “Ladies and gentlemen, Akira Wyld has made his way down to the ring for this historic main event. In moments the NWC World title AND the PWA Heavyweight championship will both be on the line in one, unprecedented contest!”
***Wyld makes vigorous throat-cutting motions, indicating he wants his music cut off. The NWC Champ then calls down to the stage crew and demands a microphone. One of the ringside attendants tosses a wireless mic that Wyld snatches out of the air. The champion paces back and forth with his NWC Title over his shoulder.***
BLOOMFIELD: “It looks as if Akira Wyld wants to say a couple of words before this historic title defense.”
***Wyld gazes, stone-faced at the crowd as he slowly raises the microphone to his mouth to speak.***
WYLD: “There comes a time in every man’s life in which he has to take a stand for what he believes in. I took a stand when I defied my father and charted my own path as a professional wrestler. I took a stand when I formed the Union and fought against Damion Black’s ego-driven management. I took a stand when I entered enemy territory and became the first NWC World Champion.***
***The crowd responds with a mixture of boos and confused murmuring. Wyld nods as he scans the faces in the crowd.***
WYLD: “Tonight, in front of 18,000 wrestling fans on PWA’s biggest Supercard ever… I take a stand once more. Tonight, a crooked organization lead by a liar and a cheat… decided that I was to defend my hard-earned WORLD title in a BIASED three-way match against PWA Champion Robert MacElroy and Richard Pennyworth. After having the GALL to confront Damion Black about his multitude of sins, I have been booked in an UNFAIR situation in which I have NOTHING to gain and EVERYTHING to lose. But that’s okay… because Akira Wyld is a CHAMPION. Akira Wyld is a STRATEGIST and a TECHNICIAN. And Akira Wyld is ALWAYS two steps ahead. Tonight I take a stand for everything that is right and just and good in professional wrestling. Which is why… I will NOT be defending my NWC Championship here tonight.”
***The crowd erupts in a chorus of vehement boos and catcalls. Akira just nods as the corner of his mouth rises in a sly smile.***
BLOOMFIELD: “Folks, I don’t know WHAT Akira Wyld is talking about here but did he just say that he was NOT going to defend his title tonight?”
***Wyld waits for the crowd to die down and he raises his microphone again.***
WYLD: “Let the record show that Akira Wyld came into this contest in good faith, with EVERY intention of lighting up this arena with the most spectacular display of technical marksmanship PWA has ever seen. For the past several weeks, I have been training and preparing for this EPIC contest. But then… on Assault last week… Richard Pennyworth BRUTALLY attacked me during my match with Robert MacElroy. Like an ANIMAL, that spoiled, first-world poseur assaulted me in the ring, leaving me bloody and injured. During that entire attack… where was PWA security? Following that brutal and unfair hit job, where were the fines and suspensions? Everybody knows that Richard Pennyworth is part of Damion Black’s old Yacht Club buddies. And anybody with a brain can see CLEAR AS DAY that Damion Black SENT Pennyworth to that ring to do to me what he didn’t have the guts to do himself! Pennyworth is nothing but a hired assassin and its crystal clear that Damion Black has it out for me. As of last week… PWA was no longer a safe working environment. So… I have no choice but to formally PROTEST this match, and withdraw my title from contention at King of Deathmatch.”
***The fans resume booing violently. Trash is thrown at the ring. Akira Wyld dodges a half-full cup of soda as it crashes to the mat between his legs.***
WYLD: “Hey, you idiots may not like it… but this is my RIGHT as the NWC Champion! I know it, and Damion Black knows it too! PWA alone cannot require me to defend the NWC World Championship! I GRACIOUSLY agreed to defend my title tonight BY CHOICE. But if this organization isn’t prepared to show me the respect that I deserve and provide a SAFE working environment… and it CLEARLY isn’t… I have NO choice but to formally protest and sit out this match.”
***Akria Wyld throws the microphone down, rolls out of the ring, and makes his way toward Gary Bloomfield and the PWA announce table.***
***Akira Wyld grabs Gary Bloomfield by the lapels of his jacket and drags him out of his seat and into the ringside area. He drives a hard closed fist into the side of Bloomfield’s head, crumpling him to the floor. Wyld then hauls Bloomfield to his feet by his collar and belt and drives him shoulder-first into the ring steps.***
***Inside the ring, Robert MacElroy sees what is happening on the floor and abruptly releases Richard Pennyworth from his chinlock. The Hard Man leans out over the ropes, and yells off-mic at Wyld to stop. From the floor, Akira Wyld taunts MacElroy, keeping his attention firmly on the action on the floor. Suddenly, Nakamura Yamasaki and Brawler Beckett roll into the ring behind the heavyweight champion! Nakamura drives the handle of a barbed-wire bat into the small of MacElroy’s back. MacElroy crumples, holding his spine. Pennyworth stumbles to his feet and attacks Nakamura, driving a foot into his midsection and making him drop his bat. A moment later, Beckett drives a forearm into the back of Pennyworth’s thigh, buckling him to the mat. Nakamura recovers his weapon and drives the length of the bat into Pennyworth’s side. He then turns around and levels a rising MacElroy with a shot to the face, bloodying him. The members of the Union begin putting the boots to the fallen heavyweights as Bill White calls for the bell! Beckett turns on White and gives him a hard forearm shot that sends him thudding hard to the apron and rolling out of the ring.***
***Moments later, a satisfied Nick Spoils saunters out from the entrance ramp, flanked by Gehenna and Ragnarok. The trio walk casually to the ring as Nakamura and Beckett continue to brutalize the already tired competitors. Armageddon slide into the ring and immediately set upon brutalizing Richard Pennyworth. Ragnarok hoists Pennyworth into a high-angle powerbomb, and Gehenna assists in slamming him hard to the mat, unconscious. Akira Wyld rolls into the ring and readies himself over the stirring body of MacElroy. As the Scotsman shakily rises to his feet, Wyld slides in with a crisp Akira-kick that drops him out-cold, hard to the mat.***
***As the crowd boos violently, the Union gathers in the center of the ring. Akira Wyld poses with the NWC World Championship as Nick Spoils and the Union taunt the crowd. Wyld looks down at the prone and bloody PWA Superstars and laughs. Suddenly, the arena comes alive as “Charisma” blares over the crowd. Damion Black storms onto the ramp stage, rips off his sunglasses and glares at the men in the ring.***
BLACK: “THAT’S ENOUGH! That’s enough! Security, get MacElroy and Pennyworth out of the ring! If any member of the Union touches them, they will be fined and suspended on the spot! Get them out of there!
“Akira! I have had all I am going to take from you and your thugs! You all have repeatedly jumped and attacked my athletes without provocation, as well as non-athletes in my employ! You have interrupted legitimate contests! You have slandered me and dragged the reputation of this company through the mud! Ruining my main event tonight is the LAST STRAW!!! It all stops NOW!!! Ladies and gentlemen, this night is not going to end like this, it’s just going to have to take a bit longer since we are out of time. First, it was clear to me, and certainly to all of you, earlier this evening that the issues between Starr & the Coldsnakes and Nakamura & Armageddon are far from resolved, likewise the issues between Brawler Beckett and Derrik Arzon are unresolved. Therefore, in two days’ time at a special show we are calling “PWA: Reckoning”, Kevin Starr, the Coldsnakes, & Derrik Arzon will meet Yamasaki Nakamura, Armageddon, and Brawler Beckett once again! PWA vs. the Union in an 8-Man Elimination Tag Team match! Secondly, I will not tolerate our championship matches to be marred in controversy any longer! Therefore, also at PWA: Reckoning, this Heavyweight Championship match between Richard Pennyworth, III and Robert MacElroy will begin again and anyone who interferes in that match will be FIRED! As for you, Wyld…
“Since I brought you to PWA, there is one thing you have been trying to tell anyone who will listen: that you are a better man than me, that you are a better WRESTLER than me! Well, I’m going to give you the chance to prove it! I am challenging you to a match! You and me, one-on-one! I will give you two days to prepare and at PWA: Reckoning you will have your opportunity to prove you are superior to me!”
**Wyld paces back and forth in be ring. He looks out to the crowd and then back at Black with a grimace.**
WYLD: “You’d like that wouldn’t you Black? Yeah… ‘this is the last straw’… I see what this is. You’d LOVE to get me in the ring where you can finish your botched hit job from Assault! You think I was born yesterday Black? No deal. This is a protest! The Union doesn’t break strike for a corporate suit like you! You want me in the ring, take it up with the National Wrestling Council!”
BLACK: “Akira, do you realize you are proving my commentator’s statement about you is true? I am giving you the opportunity to prove everything you say and to show everyone you are the better man, and you want to back out? No sir, no, I won’t allow that! So, I’m going to make you an offer you cannot possibly pass by. Akira, if you manage to defeat me in this match then YOU, Akira Wyld, will be in charge of PWA over the next season!”
**Akira takes a step back and blinks.**
WYLD: “Done! You’re on Black! You’ve made the biggest mistake of your LIFE! I’m going to beat you in the center of this ring and then show the world how a REAL wrestling genius runs an organization!”
*Black allows a knowing smile to creep onto his face.*
BLACK: “You should have let me finish, Akira. You see, you are not getting this opportunity at no risk-“
WYLD: “NO!!!!! No, forget it! I am not putting my belt up so you can rob me of it!!!!! It’s mine-“
BLACK: “I don’t want your title, Akira. You see, I am not the selfish egomaniac you have done your best to paint me as. However, the NWC Championship Committee had an emergency meeting via conference call right after you refused to participate in the main event tonight. The Committee did not view your reluctance to compete favorably. It was therefore decided that you must face me in that ring and if you lose, if I defeat you, then you will be STRIPPED of the NWC World Title and a new champion will be chosen in your stead! You have two days to prepare, Wyld: your day of reckoning is at hand!”
*Camera fades*