Cougar: I am perfection!
Camera pans out to reveal Showtime David Cougar and Johnny Klamour sitting backstage at WZCW studios. Johnny has a plate full of food on his lap and is scarfing it down as he responds.
Klamour: Right now you might be the closest thing to perfection Mr. EurAsian champion. Number 2 on the Molten 5 and star of the most successful entertainment program here. And you've also created quite a buzz backstage with your open challenge for the EurAsian belt. Guys I've never heard of are shouting out saying they'll be the next EurAsian champion.
And that is exactly what I wanted; to create buzz and excitement. These ungrateful scabs don't appreciate the opportunity that I've given them. They have been handed the chance of a lifetime. The company never handed me, their star performer, anything. Everything, from my contract to my EurAsian title, I've had to earn and fight for. Tonight I'll address my competition and they will know that no matter who I face at Lethal Lottery I will still walk out champion. I'm setting the record straight that I am fighting champion, destined to erase the disappointing history of this belt and restart a new legacy, one that will have people talking about this belt and its champion for a very... long time.
But what about your set? Trevor Steel destroyed it thinking he could still have a shot at facing you.
And he'll be hearing from my lawyers very shortly. I'll take him for everything he's got. However, since he probably doesn't have much I may have to take his kid away from him. Just kidding Trev, but hear me now. You will pay for this, whether it be in court or in the ring, I will beat you because quite simply, I am better than you. However, I will be rooting for you in the Lethal Lottery. Since you don't have much money, I may have to have my lawyers negotiate that you forfeit your title shot to me, if you win it. If not, my revenge may just have to come from the blood of your wounds.
Stagehand: One minute Mr. Show
Well Johnny, this is goodbye.
But I thought I could be your guest tonight. You said anytime.
Yes Johnny, but I was just making polite talk. You're an alright guy, but sometimes you're too needy. It's quite sickening. No, tonight is about my and my opponents, and that's who will be on The Show tonight.
All of them.
No none of them, because in all of WZCW there is not a single man who will be able to stand a chance verse me. Tonight it will just be me, and the spotlight that is reserved for WZCW's only true star.
Scene changes to a much darker set of The Show with a single spotlight shinning down on a single wooden chair. Behind in the darkness we can sort of make out the broken desk and other random pieces of set and equipment. David Cougar walks out onto the stage, the spotlight moving to him and then following him as he sits in the chair, EurAsian title hung perfectly over his left shoulder.
Welcome to a very private and intimate episode of The Show, starring WZCW's newest and only EurAsian champion ever, Showtime David Cougar.
Now I say 'only' because now that the belt is in the hands of a true superstar it finally has a chance to begin a proper history that it deserves. This belt before me has represented ineffectiveness and disappointment. Champions have been unsuccessful in the worst possible ways in every defense of this belt. In its combined three matches it has seen a total of less than one minute of ring action. It was first won in a most unfair and highly controversial fashion, and then I its only number one contender was robbed in under ten seconds from the same man, Drake Callahan, who lost it and was beaten by me and therefore unjustly added to my title match. But I did get my final revenge by beating him faster than when he first lost the belt to Ty, and then still faster than the near ten seconds it took him to roll up Ty. And I beat him with one move and zero effort to pin him down for the three count. Nobody in the history of wrestling has ever had a quicker and more impressive victory than my win and with such a momentous victory begins a new chapter for the EurAsian championship; one that will be filled with great prestige, outstanding athletic competition, and a champion great enough to make it happen. The history of the EurAsian belt is done, dead, and destroyed. The history of Showtime's reign began at Meltdown and continues at Lethal Lottery where I am defending this belt against, more or less speaking, the world.
You see only one man is confident enough to put his belt on the line and give a shot to anyone and everyone who thinks they have what it takes to knock this great man off Mount Everest. I'm letting it be known that I am not afraid of any challenge that dare stand up and face me and will gladly show them the fall schedule, that is one by one, they all will fall down. Now in the past weeks a good lot of those competitors have stepped up to the mic and talked a pretty good talk. This has me thinking I should make an equal or even greater rebuttal to counter their arguments. So I made myself a good long speech so I would not forget it.
David reaches into with suit and pulls out a few stapled pieces of paper out. He flips through a few of the pages before pulling out a lighter from his pocket and lighting the papers on fire. He throws them behind him where they land on pile of wooden desk and continue to burn slowly.
But then I thought, I don't need to plan or study anything about my opponents, or make them feel any more insecure or intimidated about facing me than they already are. For what is it that all my opponents have in common? It's not wins or loses or titles or complete failed attempts at making me the least bit worried. The one thing all my opponents have in common are that none of them were good enough to make the Lethal Lottery card. The one PPV that leaves off just about nobody has left off these ragtag losers who show no appreciation for the chance of a life time that I've given them.
You see unlike all of them, I earned my way onto the card. Jordon Lights talks about earning everything that he has ever gotten, however I don't recall seeing him win any match to warrant a contract offer. In my debut match me and Anoki tore the roof off the place, but I was not awarded a WZCW contract for my strong performance. I had to came back the next week and win my match, lasting the full time limit and being the dominating factor in that match. I then defeated my long time rival Anoki and earned my number one contender for this EurAsian belt. And then I was finally awarded my match verse Drake at Lethal Lottery before I took matters in my own hands, forced an early fight and beat him in a blink. So I am the one that has earned everything I ever received here in WZCW, and you are the one who just happens to be at the right place at the right time.
Karzia, Steven Kurtsey, Scott Hammond, they all dismiss my methods, call me a coward and a cheat and swear that they will be the one's to teach me the lesson of a fair fight. But deep down what they're each all thinking to themselves is "I hope that David doesn't beat us as bad as he beat Drake" You all call what I did to Drake blind siding, I call it taking advantage. You say that I stole this belt and that as a champion I am a fraud, but I did not cheat or break any rules to win it. I merely did what I had to to win and condone the evidence all you like, I won the match and I will do the same by any means necessary at Lethal Lottery.
Karzia says he'll play all the way down to my rules to win, But Karz hasn't learned quite yet what it takes to do anything to win. Like Jordon, Karzai has been awarded a contract based on sympathy. He too has not won anything or earned any reason to be even near ringside with a wrestler like myself. Karzai, bring fire, bring lots of fire, because when the spotlight shines down on your watchful eye, you won't know where you are or what's next because this spotlight belongs to me, and there's only room for one superstar in this biz that can withstand the heat of the light. You'll see the light, and then you'll see the mat and three seconds later, you'll wish it was all a dream.
Scott Hammond talks about bringing prestige back to this title. Tell me Hammond, how does a man bring prestige, honour, or anything in between when they attack a man who is at their most trusting. I don't shake my opponents and gain their trust and then break it in the same instance, I attack my opponents whenever the opportunity presents itself and whenever they are at their most weakest inside the ring. That is a sign of a true champion, one who doesn't take things lightly, goes straight for the jugular and kills them. You've done your research on me Scott, but what you fail to realize is that I know exactly what it takes to achieve victory here. You couldn't even beat a false king, a person so blinded by distraction that he would make Drake look like a sober judge. The man has no awareness of himself and yet you still lost. Scott you've proven to be a tough competitor, the type of challenge that I am looking for, but your dreams of being the greatest EurAsian champion and right up there with your childhood dreams of royalty; that is made of false pretenses.
And finally Steven Kurtsey, the good doctor who thinks he has the authoritative power to waltz into WZCW and receive an unlikely title opportunity. Kurtsey thinks that he is able to read me like he does his naive patients; apparently a little introducing is needed. I am Showtime David Cougar, a two time champion here in WZCW. I have competed in what will be soon my fourth straight PPV, and have wrestled in a multitude of matches, singles, no rules, triple threats, tags, and more. I am as adaptable as I am dominating, and who my chance are you. Some doctor, inserted in an unlikely title match, and no you didn't earn that title, that contract or that victory. Your partner got the decision, won the match, as well as earned the right to face the champions before. You could very well be the Jannatie to his Mitchells, but right now you're not even that. To me you are no different than a Joshua the Baptist, a Chris Shakur, or an Ashleigh FalKon. A nobody who hasn't earned or won anything in WZCW. At Lethal Lottery you may get your chance, but to spare you the weeks of therapy you may have to go through, I'll tell you how it goes now. I will beat you, 1, 2, 3, next patient.
David stands up and picks up the chair. The burning paper he threw behind him created a small fire on the broken table, but was now slowly fading. David pulls from his pocket a small bottle of lighter fluid and begin to pour it over the chair.
As for Excellency, Byakko, Kyle Christensen, Spaceman Jim, or anybody else who thinks they want a shot at glory, I word of warning. I have defeated many opponents in my time here in WZCW, but I am also responsible for the end of Drake Callahan and Chief Anoki's career, as well as Marcus Chambers brain cells on Chuck's windshield. What I'm saying is I don't just beat my opponents, I destroy them and send their careers up in flames.
David throws the chair on the table and it quickly catches on fire. A big fire fills the area of the debris.
At Lethal Lottery I will stand in the centre of the ring. I dare all of you in the back who thinks they stand a chance to come and stand around the ring. Come and gaze a gander at what a true champion looks like. And I will look you all in the eye, one by one, see the fire that burns in each and everyone of you, the determination, the confidence. Find out which ones are here to fight, and which ones are just looking to share 5 minutes with fame, and I will pick the one who I believe will give me the toughest fight.
I am not looking to be a paper champion like the previous ones. I am a fighting champion, looking to fight only the best. I want some one to take me to the very limit and give this belt an epic bout to begin its new history. I promise to my opponent that they will get a taste of the full show. I will push you to your limit;and like it or not, any mistake you make, any pause of delay or gaze at my spotlight, I will take every advantage out of it and I don't care if it's a roll up I do, or a broken neck I cause, I will do it and win. The Show rolls on at Lethal Lottery, and one of you will be cancelled there too.
The fire has grown and has begun to light the stage up as well.
Burn it to the ground boys. The EurAsian champion needs a brand new set.
