OOC - Ok I had far too much fun writing this with Juan and literally could have spent weeks adding more and more to it! Good luck to everyone with matches this week!
---------As Warfare carried on the familiar sound of Kevin Owens music hit the speakers. The Canadian grappler came down to the ring, clearly looking annoyed. Wearing a pair of black jeans, a leather jacket and his trademark Fight Owens Fight t-shirt. Although he had crudely used a pen to cross out both of the words ‘fight’ from it. He had a microphone in hand and received a mixed response from the crowd in attendance.
Kevin Owens - Another week passed by and yet again I wasn’t on Warfare and it makes me wonder why I even bothered coming back. Every week that goes by I’m not here is a missed opportunity. Yet you stupid fans would rather be cheering the idiots you see in this ring that haven’t even earnt the right to be here. Idiots like my opponent tonight Zack Ryder.
Owens paused as there was a mixed reaction at the mention of Ryder’s name.
Kevin Owens - I’m forced to come out here like some sort of performing monkey and wrestle someone who isn’t even fit to lace up my boots, let alone share the same ring as me. He is the epitome of everything that is wrong with with the wrestling business today with stupid his catchphrases and looking like the perfect ‘superstar’. Yet you people lap it up like Pavlov’s dogs. Begging for another little treat from one of your darlings. Well I’m sick to death of it and tonight I will strap on my boots, wrestle rings around him for a few minutes, then beat him one, two, three in this ring. Then you can all go back to worrying about which Diva is attacking who and yet you’ll totally ignore the master class I put on.
The fans booed as Kevin Owens paced up and down the ring clearly agitated. Spotting something in the crowd that annoyed him further, Owens grabbed the cameraman and pointed him towards it.
Kevin Owens - Look! Look this is exactly what I mean.
The cameraman zoomed in on a young man holding a “Diet Owens Diet” sign. He had a wide grin on his face the closer the camera got to him.
Kevin Owens - This dick splash is a prime example of what I’m talking about. I’ve spent years of my life working, grinding away to get here, and all you people can do is write stupid signs like that. I mean no offence, by he literally looks like his parents must have been brother and sister. But this is precisely the lack of respect that I’ve seen since I came back to the EBWF. I spent years travelling the world, for a few bucks to make a name for myself. Yet all of you people would rather see someone like Randy Orton, Tyler Breeze, Carlito, Roman Reigns step in the ring. Guys who have had their entire lives handed to them on a silver plate. I’m sick to death of it. I’ve worked my ass off fighting in school gymnasiums and car parking lots to make it here and all you get is a bunch of idiots in the back more interested in taking selfies and getting their hashtag right on Twitter.
Owens paused for a further moment while the crowd carried out a Diet Owens Diet chant. He waited for it to die down before speaking again.
Kevin Owens - I’ve put my body on the line, and had injuries you could only imagine in your worst nightmares to get here. Yet I have to share a locker room with people like Summer Rae. The only injury she got making it to the EBWF was carpet burns on her knees and lock jaw.
The crowd let out a loud ‘oooooo’ at the obvious insult while Owens used the microphone to mimic a lewd act.
Kevin Owens - I’m part of a dying breed. Someone who has had to work every day of his life to get where I am, and now none of you idiots even appreciate it. It literally makes my head hurt just thinking about how dumb you are to accept these puppets that are force fed to you each and every week, yet ignore someone like me. I know the truth. Everyone in the back knows the truth. Not one of those wrestlers can look me in the eye. They all know where I’ve come from, and what I’ve done to get here and they know they’ve had the easiest ride. Life has dished them out favours for too long and not one of them……
“And during the few moments that we have left, we want to talk right down to earth, in a language that everybody here, can easily understand!”
After the famous speech by Malcolm X interrupted Kevin Owens, a very familiar guitar riff blasted through the speaker system of the arena. Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” blasted over the PA System as the one and only CM Punk emerged from behind the curtain, clad in a black suit, fitted perfectly to his athletic body, and a Microphone already wrapped around his inked fingers.
Corey Graves - Well Kevin Owens might think he’s the only one who has made it to the EBWF the hard way, but looks like CM Punk has something to say about that!
CM Punk - Kevin, Kevin, Kevin… I’ve been listening back there for a while, and let me tell you… you’ve said the truth and nothing but the truth. But I just couldn’t bring myself to continue listening to you, banging your head against the walls in front of people who to quote your words “Don’t even deserve to stand in front of a wrestler of your caliber”. But coming out here, and stepping down to meet the standards of these fans, who cheer for a toothless redneck, or a couple of 40 year old “cool dad” part-timers… Is like talking to a wall.
The crowd erupted in boos as CM Punk adjusted his tie. He placed his hand to one of his ears.
CM Punk - Did you hear that sound? That was the sound of insignificance. The sound of people that think they own you because they bought a DVD of yours once, or that you’re their spot monkey just because they pay a ticket to be close to you… They are blinded by the industry, by the apps and the social media that gives them the illusion that they made us, that they make us relevant, that we are theirs to keep for as long as they want.
In the ring Kevin Owens was nodding in agreement as the fans started a loud ‘asshole’ chant, although it was unclear if exactly who it was being directed at, it was probably safe to assume it was for both men. Kevin Owens began pointing and shouting at those in the crowd, whereas Punk appeared to almost enjoy it from the smug look on his face.
Kevin Owens - It’s people like us that made the EBWF worth even watching and this is the sort of reception they give us?
CM Punk: Yes Kevin, this is the reception they give workhorses like you and me. As I said before, no point in shouting your lungs out at a daft, dull, empty sack of meat and bones.
Kevin continued to pace the ring, clearly annoyed at the fans negative reaction, however it did not appear to bother CM Punk at all.
CM Punk: I am only going to say this once, because it is none of these people’s business. Kevin: You do NOT need validation, you do NOT need approval. You are your own man, you built yourself from the ground into the wrestler you are today. You don’t need people stopping you at airports or hotel lobbies without even greeting you, demanding autographs and pictures, demanding the attention they don’t give you, because they watched you at some dirty old gym 10 years ago or bought a T-shirt with your name on it. You don’t need instagram, you don’t need twitter, you don’t need a youtube channel to get yourself in the spotlight.
In the ring, Owens pacing had become less as he took in Punk’s words.
Kevin Owens - You know what, you’re right. I’ve created…….we’ve created our spotlight by WRESTLING. Doing what we do better than anyone else. And who else in the back can say that? Not one man or woman that I’ve seen. Maybe it’s about time we took things into our own hands and started showing everyone the difference between the haves and the have nots. You’re cut from the same cloth Punk. You know what it’s like to sacrifice EVERYTHING to get here. And you can’t tell me you aren’t boiling with rage when you see the same faces turn up every week and getting the breaks that should be for us. What I say is if those breaks aren’t coming, then we take them.
Owens dropped the microphone to his side waiting for Punk’s response. CM Punk shrugged.
CM Punk: I have had my fair amount of rage moments whenever I felt the way you feel now, Kevin… But in the end, anger or no anger… Everything is settled down with a knee to the face. So, you know what to do tonight Kevin… I will be watching.
As Punk walked to the back Kevin Owens was nodding his head in the middle of the ring.
