AWS 5150 Championship
Fight Pit Match
TJ Alexander © vs. Ricky Rhodes

View full promo

[Our scene opens up somewhere, with the camera-man being harassed by TJ Alexander. “The Game Changer” TJ Alexander shoes the camera man and points despite absolutely no sound coming through at first. Seconds later, we can finally hear TJ Alexander who is dressed in blue jeans and a short-sleeve black self-merch t-shirt with a gold chain around his neck]

“Since becoming the 5150 champion and beating Blackthorne I have been doing my research on the championship I now hold, and I know everything from its beginning to right now, and from its beginning it was forged in fire and blood, it’s only been active for a year but during that year it has had six other champions and with those six other champions came the blood, came the fire and now it is my turn, my turn to do what those other six competitors did and that’s put this title [TJ looks down at his 5150 championship that’s on his shoulder] on the line no matter what, and this week on Monday Night Ward, I am going to do just that.”

[TJ looks deeply into the camera]

“As I have done my research I know that my 5150 championship isn’t defended normally inside the ring, it is defended in the most brutal and dangerous matches that can be imaginable, it is defended in any and all types of cage matches, where myself and my opponents will be locked in until either I retain or my opponents beat me for my 5150 championship, and while other champions are more familiar with this type of combat, I am not, my opponents will have more of an advantage against me through their desire to withstand pain and their lust for blood, I am not like them, I am different, my body is not moulded yet to be ready for pain, my mind is not ready to endure that physicality but they will be, both my mind and body have been training long and hard for my first ever title defence and that first title defence is this week on Monday Night Ward against Ricky Rhodes.”

[TJ smirks as he looks deeply into the camera]

“As Monday Night Ward is just a few days away myself and Ricky Rhodes will be dropped into a fight pit, where we will compete for my 5150 championship, and Ricky Rhodes this isn’t the first time we have met, but it is the first time we’ve met in a fight pit, and in all honesty you are the favoured one to walk out as champ, I mean just look at you, you’re six foot four and weigh-in at two hundred and eighty pounds of pure muscle, there is not a flab piece of weakness on your body, you have everything in your arsenal to beat me, size and strength, experience, you have everything you can possible need to beat me on my first title defence, but you won’t and you’re probably wondering why, because I have a few things against you, that you don’t have. Mostly I have time, time that you don’t have, while your body looks like it holds up, you age doesn’t, at forty years old your days must be coming to an end pretty damn soon.”

[TJ smiles into the camera]

“Time is something you desperately wish you can have back, and time is something that is against you just like I am, Ricky I know secretly you wish you didn’t wasted your career, I know that you wished to have grabbed every opportunity you could have back in the day, but now the time is dwindling down and now you’re up against someone half your age, someone who has time on his side, and now is the 5150 champion, Ricky when we step down into the fight pit, and those doors are locked, I bet your thinking that I’m getting scared? Well I will never be scared of any man especially not you, but I will not be scared of what’s to come either, the pain that you will inflict on me I will sound it out and feel numb to it, I will fear no pain, because in this fight pit, I am not the one to be scared, it should be you.”

[TJ very arrogantly saying that, he continues to look into the camera deeply]

“Ricky Rhodes with everything you got going on against me in this match, you also have some big targets where I can exploit and where I can expose and I WILL, and one of those targets are your knees, because despite your upper body having almost no weakness, your knees do, your knees are seen to be wobbling every match your in, every match your in Ricky and every time you hit the ropes, I see them knees of your wobbling, and that too me is the pressure they have on themselves, and with that pressure, it won’t take me long to dissect your knees  from its limbs and have you crawling in this match. You will be screaming for more time that you don’t have and you certainly don’t have the time against me those knees I will pull and pull until you cannot walk, and if that means I retire you, then so be it.”

[TJ smiles while looking deeply into the camera]

“Ricky Rhodes I’m sure that before I was in even born that you was something special, being a member of the Rhodes family should mean something special, but right now, while I’m alive and kicking, you’re not something special, you’re a just a carbon copy, and you’ve hanged around the business for far too long thinking that your something special, well, if it’s down to me to retire you in this fight pit match then so be it bruv, Ricky Rhodes this may be your last ever match, revel in it, because you’re not walking out with my 5150 championship I am.”

[TJ pauses as he taps the glass of the camera]

“Do you hear me? When I became the 5150 champion I made a promise that I would surpass Blackthorne’s title reign, that’s only twenty eight days, but my title reign starts with you Ricky Rhodes and I’ll be damn to let you take it from me on my first title defence, it’s not happening. Six other champions of my 5150 championship have made my belt mean something, through the forge of fire and blood; they did it on their own ways, they laid the foundation, but it will be me overshadowing them all, so Ricky, as you walk into the fight pit, just know, it’s your last ever match.”

[Scene ends]