Selena Frost vs. Owen Lee

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The camera opens up to the interior of the Scotiabank Saddledome, the site for tonight’s episode of SCW Breakdown. The seats are empty amidst the audience and the arctic blue and white lights shine down onto the built ring, where there stands a single person. She wears a leather jacket with a magenta purple t-shirt underneath, blue jeans and black shoes. Her platinum-blonde hair is tied in its iconic braid, hanging between her shoulders and her lower back and the SCW World title sits comfortably on her left shoulder.

So… she whispers. Now it’s ‘my turn’. she gives a slow exhale of breath as she lifts her head to the camera, a pale thumb quietly tapping the world championship.

That’s what you’d like me to say right, Adam? Last week, you threw a gauntlet down at me, didn’t you? Actually, Adam, I have to admit that I am a bit disappointed. She gives a shrug of her shoulders. I mean, you told the world that for your match with Deanna, you were going to ‘show your hand just this once’ – hell, you told me to ‘watch closely’ for that! I decided to take you up on that. To do as you asked, partially out of support for my wife and partially because I was intrigued.

But, not so shockingly, your ‘promises’ didn’t really hold up and you decided suddenly. ‘Nah! I’m only gonna use a sliver of my playbook to beat Deanna’.

A scoff escapes the Snow Queen. Like I said, Adam. I learned plenty during that match. And no, it wasn’t that ‘you’re good enough to beat someone with four or five moves’. I’ve lost track of how many matches I’ve had where I’ve managed to turn the tide of a match or even pick up a victory with a single move. For Odin’s sake, I JUST retained my title against Giovanni Aries in a match that ‘could have gone either way’ according to the critics – not wanting to inflate GiGi’s ego more than it’s already become but I rather be honest.

Slowly, Selena shakes her head. I already knew you were good, Adam, okay? I already knew you were better than good. I saw it when you won the Taking Hold of the Flame royale. I’ve experienced it, firsthand, for years over the multiple battles we’ve fought. So, what you ‘think’ you showed me was actually nothing I didn’t already know.

No, Adam, what I learned last week was that your ‘word’? The supposed “Gospel of the King of HARDstyle”? Is nothing more than bullshit. There is a second of silence as Selena stands in the ring, her words ringing through the empty space.

I learned that Adam Allocco will do and say anything to make himself look good and place himself in a better position. I learned that Adam Allocco is not only a liar… but isn’t so sure of himself as he pretends to be. A knowing smile breaks across Selena’s features.

I mean, what kind of ‘sureness’ do you have in yourself and in your ‘path’, Adam, if you’re ALREADY playing mind games here? What? You’re ‘hiding’ your move-set? You’re taking advantage that you’ve not wrestled in months and ‘revamped your moves’ and ‘not wrestled many matches since your return’? That the plan? Take advantage of your own absence to give yourself as much of an advantage as you can against me?

Doesn’t sound like ‘surety’ to me. It sounds like you’re desperate. Sounds like you’re afraid of being so exposed like that. That maybe it won’t be as ‘unstoppable’ as you think.

Because when you think about it, Adam, I’m not someone that’s hid away for months. I’ve been here, defending this title. I’ve taken on every move, style, and mind game you can basically think of. And maybe, just maybe, that’s more intimidating to you than you’d like to admit. Maybe your games aren’t to get to me, but something you NEED because you realized, just by wrestling my wife, the calibre of wrestling that comes with the Frost name – perhaps more prestigious now than the Allocco name. That maybe you realized the calibre of wrestling that you are in for and, maybe, you’re not as “sure to win” as you’ve tried to sell these last few weeks to the SCW Universe.

She gives a shrug. But you did lie, Adam. You lied to me, to Deanna, to the True Believers, to the entire SCW Universe. You promised them something and threw it all back in our faces. And that’s something I’m taking personally. That disrespect to Deanna and to SCW. And if you’re too much of a coward that you need these tricks, Adam, then yes, I promised that I would give you a SHOW and show you how it is done tonight! And unlike you, I intend to keep my word.

Refocusing herself, Selena adjusts her title on her shoulder. Which brings me to you, Owen Lee. Now, I know that you are expecting me to pick up this gauntlet that Adam had thrown down on me. “Oh, he beat Deanna using four moves – I’ll win by only using three! DROPKICKS GALORE! HA HA!” Slowly, Selena drops her overacting and shakes her head. No. I refuse.

I refuse to do that because, first of all, I will not disrespect you in such a way, Owen. You’re a former world champion. You’re one of the youngest to ever hold this title, and despite your ‘choices’ in the past, you’ve never – NOT ONCE - given anything less than 100% to every match you compete in. That’s your upbringing – that legacy that, biologically or not, you are part of. It’s inspiring. You’re the number one contender for the United States Title – a title that means so much to me and I know could be a symbol of integrity and all SCW should be if in your capable hands. And, let’s not forget, you’ve beaten me before, haven’t you? A knowing smile returns to Selena’s features.

And don’t worry, I’ll get to that, but my point is that I am not going into this match ready to play by “Allocco’s rules”. That may be ‘what he wants’, but it’s not what I am about. It’s not what SCW is about – disrespecting the heart that someone of your calibre and the heart that my wife puts into this ring every night. No, SCW is about exciting matches! Not trying to bury your opponent by only needing a ‘sliver of your playbook to win’.

For me, I don’t care who you are, and I’ve proven that! Whether you’re the biggest star in SCW or Samuel Davis, you are always going to get my best. You’re going to get all I can give. You deserve that for coming into the ring and facing me. You deserve my absolute best.

So, I’m going to be throwing everything I have at you, Owen. All of my abilities and moves. I’m going to be digging deep because I know how good and how fast you are. Hell, you might just be faster and quicker than me. You might just be – and that’s something I’d like to test. She bites her lower lip playfully, the excitement clear in her voice.

Which leads me to my second reason why I’m not interested in playing this match with “Allocco’s rules”. Because this is more than just a ‘show’ to Adam, Owen, and you know it. This is a statement. Because he didn’t just slap my wife in the face with his arrogance and proclamations of “you’re not ready” and his ‘four moves of doom’.

No, Owen. What if it had been you he was facing? What if it was you that he was just hitting with scoop slams and vertical suplexes, refusing to take you seriously?

It would have been a slap in the face to you, wouldn’t it? Because it was a slap in the face to you. It was a slap in the face to me. A slap in the face of my wife and a slap in the face to every person that puts in the months, both on camera and off it. Who puts in the heart and passion day after day, month after month, year after year. People like you. People like my wife. People like Glory Braddock and Syren and the countless others that have gone years here with no break. People that fought tooth and claw, just as much as he did in that royale, to become the number one contender, to win a title, or just be MORE than what they had ever thought possible!

But Adam thinks that he can come in here after being gone for months, wrestle a few matches, and then dictate how ‘things are’ here in SCW. That he can look down from his self-erected pillar and tell people they ‘aren’t ready’ or that ‘this is how SCW matches can be wrestled’. That certain matches only deserve a ‘sliver’ rather than everything you have!

I say, ‘No!’. Her voice echoes a little. And I refuse to showcase that. I say you and I, Owen - we put on a clinic! I say we show Adam and Josh Hudson just what they are in for at Rise to Greatness! I say we show them that SCW is more than just ‘four moves in a match” or attacking someone from behind and making them pass out from a submission hold out of bitterness. I say, Owen, that the ‘show’ we put on defines not only Rise to Greatness but SCW as Supreme Championship Wrestling – the kind Adam ‘promises’ but fails to provide and the kind Josh knows you can achieve far better than him!

Taking a moment, Selena takes a slow inhale and exhale. But… that also means, Owen, that you are going to get me at my most dangerous. Because, just like I come into every match prepared to give everything I have, I come into every match to win. To re-establish and prove – just like I do every time I defend this championship – that I am STILL the Face of SCW, still the best here, and still the new standard of this title and of SCW.

And with you, Owen, that’s something I feel I NEED to prove against you. Because, let’s face it, Owen. You and I? Owen vs. Selena? There’s a day like that that still lives in my mind. Under Attack 2018. A night I doubt you forgot. A night where you, Owen, straight up outwrestled me. Beat me. Now, I’m not going to use words like ‘luck’ or whatever. I gave you respect for that match when I raised your hand that night and I will give you respect now. You beat me…

But that was four years ago…

And to me, that’s a long time to have something like that in your head. And while I did beat you in a multi-man tag match years later at Day of Infamy, I can’t recall another time where I was given another chance to make up for that singles loss against you. To see if I could go and compete with you and, this time, beat you.

She tilts her head. But nearly four years is a very long time, isn’t it, Owen? How much things can change. Now, I’m not fighting some rookie. I’m fighting a past and future World Champion! And for me, I am chomping on the bit to prove just how much things have changed. To prove just how far along I’ve come since that pay-per-view. How far the standard of SCW has come along. How much the standard of this… she eyes the world title on her shoulder. Has come along…

You know, it’s funny… she smiles a little good-naturedly. I’ll never forget something you said in your promos to that match, Owen. And you can check my history – I’ve mentioned this before. You said that if Selena Frost didn’t have something personal in a match, she wouldn’t have that killer instinct. She wouldn’t have that edge she often has that’s compelled her to victory…

You were talking about how I didn’t have anything personal in my match with you because I didn’t hate you. I didn’t disagree with you and you had done nothing to make our match personal… so my killer instinct was dulled and I wasn’t at ‘my most dangerous’.

For a moment, Selena looks off into the audience, has if mentally chewing on the words that has sat with her for years.

After all this time, I haven’t forgotten that message from you, Owen, and not because it was unprofessional or rude or even wrong. Because, I have to admit, you were right at the time, Owen. Yeah, I am far more dangerous when things get personal. I am far more deadly when a line is crossed. Ask Giovanni Aries. Ask Bree Lancaster. Ask Xander Valentine. You were right about me in that regard, Owen… at the time.

Again, a knowing smile comes to Selena’s lips. But like I said, four years is a long time. And in that time, I have survived some of the most dangerous matches in SCW. Chambers, Last Person Standing, Unsanctioned, Scaffold, the list is a massive one… and I realized when I am actually at my ‘deadliest’, when my desire to overcome the odds and all the pain and bumps that come my way is…

Sapphire eyes narrow. It’s when I have something to prove.

When someone says “this is the way things are” and I say, “no”. When someone says “you can’t win” and I say, “Watch me!”. When someone says “This is just how SCW is!” and I say “The hell it is!”

I prove them wrong.
I show them something different.
I refuse to surrender simply because of what someone ‘tells me to do’.

The Snow Queen takes a slow breath. You are, beyond question, Owen, the rightful contender to the prestigious SCW United States title. You are, beyond a shadow of a doubt, a future contender for this title, and I know you will only continue to improve as you find your way through SCW once more, Owen. I would bet any money on that…

But tonight, this isn’t about the United States Title. It’s not about the world title. It’s not even entirely about Josh Hudson or Adam Allocco. It’s about you and me and it’s about how we want SCW to be.

Do we want these mind games like ambushes and ‘half-assed matches’ by people to be what this is about?
Do we want to fill the arena with disappointment as fans expect and deserve more from Supreme Championship Wrestling than ‘a sliver of effort’?
Do we want to say ‘this is just how SCW is’?

Or do we want to state loudly, Owen, that Josh Hudson and Adam Allocco do NOT dictate the terms of our careers? That Josh Hudson and Adam Allocco do NOT set the pace for how we are as wrestlers? That Josh Hudson and Adam Allocco do NOT decide how WE set the standard for SCW?!

She pauses for a moment. This is OUR story as much as it is theirs! This is OUR time as much as it is theirs! This is OUR season! Our Road to Rise to Greatness! Just like it’s each and every member of the SCW Universe’s - people that are ready to see us tear the goddamn house down!

And when we do, Owen, I will show what four years has done to Selena Frost. I will show how far I’ve come – and I hope that I inspire you to see how far you’ve come and how far you can still go! Because I won’t say ‘you can’t win’, Owen. I won’t be making that mistake again…

A playful smile comes to the world champion’s face. You could win tonight, Owen… but against me… She winks at the camera. You just won’t. And when I prove that, I’ll offer you my hand just like I did four years ago.

Because I am certain that you will be beyond good enough to earn it… and beyond good enough to take it.

Believe it, Owen. And let’s show them how this is truly done!

The camera slowly fades on the excited Selena before fading entirely to black.