Post by sss on Feb 21, 2007 15:40:56 GMT -6
The scene opens up at the doorway to the POW arena. The door swings open and in walks Shawn Stevens. He has his bag over his shoulder and a familar face following him. Ex-UWL interviewer Kip Anderson. The two continue to walk down the hall as many staff members notice the duo. They reach Stevens locker room and enter. Triple S tosses his bag down and turns to Anderson.
Kip: Thanks for letting me come check this place out. With the new job for the upcoming debute issue of US Wrestling Magazine I don't get to pay much attention to you old UWL guys.
Shawn: Yeah well I'm glad you wanted to interview me for your column.
Kip: Please, this isn't an official sit down interview. Very casual and relaxed.
Shawn: Whatever man, haha. Just ask away whatever you wanna know.
Stevens sits down and begins to pull his gear out of his bag and lay it on the floor next to him. Kip pulls out a piece of paper and a pen.
Kip: Well some of the things, actually most of the questions I will be asking you are about comments made by Rich Morrison and your upcoming POW Heavyweight Championship match.
Shawn: Great. That's what's on my mind so I think you'll get a good story out of this.
Kip: Alright. First of all. Rich Morrison has gone on record saying that all you are is a trash talker and no one wants to listen to you, but everyone listens to Rich Morrison. Also that you believe you are owed something.....
Shawn: Whoa whoa whoa. When have I ever said I was owed something? I keep saying I am going to WIN the POW Heavyweight Championship, just like I did the UWL Heavyweight Championship. See unlike him, I have earned everything that I have. I don't need to buy my championships, buy crowd reactions, buy extravagancies to make up for lacking in other catagories, or pay some hooker to come pretend to be my girlfriend to try and impress another guy.....I'd say he has some issues with his own masculinity and security, but hey like I've said before, I'm no psychiatrist.
Kip: So you attruibute everything Rich Morrison has with his money?
Shawn: Exactly Kipper, he goes time after time about how he isn't trying to impress anyone. But then he comes out and says how his money got him everything he had, and if I had money I could have it too. Well who wants what Morrison has? A second or maybe even third tier wrestler who talks more than a politician. And hell he even acts like one.
He honestly believes the crowd likes him? Yet he calls himself America's Most Hated? The he's right though, the crowd DOES hate him and they want to see someone shut him up. I could care less if the fans cheer for me or him, I trust them to make the right choice for what THEY want. Its obvious they don't want Morrison to have the POW Heavyweight Championship. So how can he honestly say that the crowd always talks about him as the standard? Must be something they put in the water in Long Island.....
Stevens takes off his coat and kicks his shoes off continuing to get ready for his upcoming match.
Kip: You said you weren't a psychiatrist, but Rich Morrison says you have to psychoanalyze everything he does and you probably stalk him and that he isn't insecure.....
Stevens bursts out laughing uncontrollably. Kip looks confused.
Shawn: I'd bet he WISHES he had a stalker. Especially some other guy....but I haven't seen or heard from Coban in a week. Wonder what he's up to. As for him being "secure"....yeah that shows. Secure people don't need to flaunt their money and buy everything they don't have to make up for everything. Like I said, I EARN everything. When he realizes someone has something that he wants, he tries to buy it.
But POW isn't MPW and LWE.....Tito Capaci is the Made Man and he doesn't need Rich to send him a check for bribes. Tito wants what's best for the people so POW sets the standard for wrestling in America. Tito and I had a few matches in UWL and he saw that I have the potential to become a champion once more. Hell I've been watching Tito for years when I used to travel with JTN. So he knew me even before I officially joined the business.
Kip: The next topic on hand is that Rich Morrison claims that he can pull a five star match out of anyone, he was trained by the best in the world, and you are the epitamy of what kills the industry.
Shawn: Morrison? Have a five star match? In what universe? Bizzarro land? While in UWL I had five star matches with Josh Eagles, Teddy Davis, Jason Daniels, Mad Max, Flying Diamond Cutter Man. There is no possible way he can deny that the common thread in those matches was me. No possible way five other guys magically carried me when I WON each and every one of those matches. He really does a poor job at researching his competition. Probably due to the fact he has "business" on the west coast. He's looking past me, but it'll be his problem because I know I am winning this match.
Kip: I just have a couple more questions that I will lump together because they are concerning UWL. Morrison said that when he joined UWL everyone turned their eyes from the top stars to focus on him. He continued by saying he took the top spot from you and even your backstage politics were what cost the nMa it's undefeated streak. But here in POW you can't tell the boss to give you everything.
Shawn: It's really great how he says time and time again I am the sole reason nMa lost that night. And how I just told Jefferson what to do and I would get everything handed to me. But I guess when you want to you can make up your own historical views and believe them and just keep repeating them trying to get SOMEONE to believe it. I not once told anyone what to do. Why would anyone listen to a rookie anyways? UWL was my first major promotion AND my rookie year. For Rich to honestly believe that I had pull in UWL is ludacris. But I don't expect any less from him. I earned my record, I earned my title, I have earned EVERYTHING that I take credit for.
I haven't "bought" my way to anything because I don't need to. Rich said it himself "Tito is a fair man". So I think this whole "the other guy politics" issue will be settled when the winner of the POW Heavyweight Championship is standing in the middle of the ring. And let's be honest, that's going to be Shawn Stevens. History always repeats itself. I don't know how many times I can say and prove to everyone that I am what I say I am.
First Rights is going to be one of the biggest nights in my career because all these critics that Morrison has on his payroll that praise him will see that they're collecting money to spread false news. And the story on all the websites and the magazines, and hell maybe even newspapers will be titled "NEW POW HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION SHAWN STEVENS".
Kip nods as he scribbles the notes down. Stevens continues to get ready.
Kip: My final question.....do you believe that you are just a shell of your former self? Because that was said even in UWL after you lost the championship to Cody Cross.
Shawn: I'll admit for a while I was, scraping by matches. Winning and losing didn't matter. After months of carrying UWL on my shoulders I got burnt out. I needed a break but never took it. A lot of people attribute that to my age. I wasn't ready for what I was doing, but the fact is, I STILL did it. All by myself. Near the end of UWL I gained that passion back. I had my desire. My will to win. I worked my way back up the ranks and I was facing the UWL World Heavyweight Champion Flying Diamond Cutter Man supercard after supercard.
Not Morrison, not Coban, not Matthews. For the nMa supposedly being such a highly popular and spectacular ring technicians not a single one of them were able to work to actually BE in championship matches, oh but that was because of politics. Not because the nMa was an overused piece of garbage. Morrison BARELY beat Capaci in that ladder match, and while he did earn a shot at the title. He never proved he could win. He can say he would have but really.....had it been myself or Flying Diamond Cutter Man, Morrison would not have been beating anyone for that championship, just like he won't be beating me for the POW Heavyweight Championship.
It's gonna be a damn shame when I expose Rich's lies in front of the POW audience. Especially on a DVD taping so everyone can watch it over and over again. Watching him lose to a "poor, no talent shell of a man who only uses politics to win"........yeah I think this is going to be Simply Sensational........
Triple S grins at Kip who feverishly writes down the last part of the interview.
Kip: Well Shawn, this should be just an amazing read. I can't wait to get this into print for everyone to see. I'd love to get post-match thoughts before I leave too.
Shawn: When I win Kip, you will be the first person I talk to. You can have the victory speech exclusive.
Kip: Thank you so much. I have to go for now cause my deadline is 7pm. But I will be back after I get this to my editor and guarentee I'll be back in time for the taping and I will be waiting right here for after the match.
Shawn: Alright Kipper. See you then.
Kip exits the room and runs down the hall exiting the building. The door to Stevens' locker room closes slowly. As the scene fades to black the camera focuses on the nameplate on the door "Senational Shawn Stevens".