AWS Pride Championship
Triangle Hardcore Match
Jamal Payne© vs. Brandon Hendricks vs. Jake Ryan

Being the Parental Advisory Champion meant that you were an all around badass. A versatile champion who could wrestle, brawl, with your fists and with a weapon. Or at least that’s how Jamal Payne took the role on a special level. The rest was just basic fare for a champion. Taking on all comers, not ducking opponents, not looking for cheap ways out, and being nothing short of violent when that bell rang.

After all, the term “parental advisory” alone carried weight and responsibility. Something that Jamal was capable of living up to.

Jamal was a no-nonsense wrestler and easily the biggest version of that. He didn’t have a flashy, abstract gimmick and there were more vocal trash talkers in Ik0n Wrestling Entertainment than him but that was cool. He was a big-ass, grown-ass man who’d been wrestling for nearly 30 years and backed it up in the ring on any given night. And he converted that into checks and championships and it was going to take more than two men like his opponents for Ward; Brandon Kendricks & Jake Ryan to change that.

So this scene started with a recap of Jamal’s Parental Advisory Title segment at Ward last month and his statements against Brandon Kendricks and Jake Ryan. How he made it clear that he wasn’t backing down from the two rising stars and how he was ready and willing to take them both on. Just to put the fans up to speed and make his title match more important. And once that was done we saw Jamal himself in the comfort of his private locker room. In his street clothes and the Parental Advisory title on his shoulder looking directly into the camera. Ready to speak to the fans that were sure to be watching

Jamal Payne: I up and did it. I’m your Parental Advisory champion and it feels like I just won it. I've gone to interviews with it, had my pictures taken with it, did all that usual champ things. That was easy. No problem. It’s what I’m supposed to do and I got no problems doing it and it felt kinda good seeing fans come out for my autograph, my picture, being in front of a camera, getting interviewed. Never had a problem doing it. But that was all while wondering who the hell my first victims were going to be. Who would be run over by the Freight Train. Turns out I got two opponents just like I wanted. Brandon Kendricks and Jake Ryan…Damn. Yeah nobody said a champion’s run would be easy but a’ight no problem. I’ll beat em’ both tonight because I don’t run from people I run em’ over!

Jamal kept things to the point. He was settling into the role of being a champion and the responsibilities that it entailed. IWE wasn’t a flashy mainstream promotion but champions had to do media and other tasks to spread the word about the company while meeting and greeting their fans. Which Jamal was used to. This wasn’t his first title reign in his long career after all. And he never had an issue with it. Though he was waiting for his first defense this whole time only to have the odds stacked against him in a triple threat match. He needed to verbally tear them apart after what went down at Ward.

Jamal Payne: I must be a bad (BEEP) to have not one but two opponents take me down. This may not be a handicap match but imma treat it like it is because Brandon Hendricks, Jake Ryan, y’all boys made a mistake wanting to fight me right now dammit. I ain’t got this Parental Advisory Championship for nothin’ I got it by beating the hell out of boys like y’all two. Yeah I remember what y’all said at Ward about me. Y’all gonna shut me up huh? Brandon you call yourself “The Don” like you’re some kind of boss but you ain’t a boss. You’re just another loudmouth who thinks they deserve the title just because you got a couple of nice wins. You didn’t fight like I fought to get this, you ain’t climb your way out of the gutter to get to the top. And Jake you ain’t no better! You say you ruthless and yeah you’ve ran through some people here in IWE. The fans sure fell for you but I ain’t. Like Brandon, you ain’t been tested before me. This is them deep waters. A title fight that neither of y’all are ready for!

Jamal couldn’t help but run his mouth with the occasional muscle flex and point at the championship belt on his shoulder just to emphasize that he was the champ. As if his tone of voice and facial expressions didn't sell it enough. The African-American wrestler was feeling the championship swagger and wad letting the AWS Ward fans know exactly what he thought of his inferior opponents. His self-confidence was running wild and given the way he looked. All mean, musclebound, and ready to kick ass.

Jamal Payne: The bottom line is this. I still remember those days where I got my ass kicked a lot here in AWS. Losing more than I won. Wondering if I should retire. Pack it in. But then I started winning, and winning, and winning piece by piece, match by match until I earned this Parental Advisory title. And yeah I got balls willin to fight not one but two wrestlers in a triple threat match but the way I see it is if I win and I drop Brandon and Jake. Shiiit that means I got two contenders taken down for the price of one. Cuz’ this Freight Train is just startin’ to rumble down the tracks and I got a lot of people I plan to run the hell over. Now that’s a Parental Advisory warning for your ass. See y’all tonight at Ward.