"...My end
It justifies my means
All I ever do is delay
My every attempt to evade
The end of the road and the end..."

The scene fades in to find Talon Wilkinson walking into the hotel in Perth where he will be staying until the conclusion of next week’s Havoc, He is seen wearing a black suit minus the jacket, the white dress shirt unbuttoned down to the third button, and the sleeves rolled up to just below the elbow. In his right hand he grips his Under Armour duffel bag, and in his left hand he pulls along a roll aboard suitcase... around his waist rests the HWA World Heavyweight Championship. The champion whistles playfully as he walks up to the reception desk to sign in and get his room key… before he can do so though, he is swarmed by media. The champion smirks and then chuckles to himself as he sets his bags down and turns his attention to the throng of reporters…

Talon, “Guys… guys… calm down, I’m in a good mood after Havoc so I’m going to take one of you and do a one on one sit down; the rest of you will have to wait for me outside, and I’ll be back later to talk to you all savvy?”

The reporters begin to buzz as they try to persuade the World Champion to select them for his interview. After a few moments of pondering, Talon points to one of them and begins to walk across the lobby to the bar area. He pulls up a seat and smiles as the rest of the reporters begrudgingly walk out of the hotel to await their chance to ask questions. The selected reporter fumbles with his notes as he approaches the table Talon has selected. .. The two sit down and Talon orders a glass of water before turning to the reporter.

Talon, “Ok kid, you’ve got 20 minutes, so ask away…”

Reporter, “Ok, well first of all what possessed you to pull that stunt with Senester at Havoc?”

“Stunt?” Talon inquires as he raises an eyebrow curiously…

Reporter, “You kissed him and then left with your title, the belt you were supposed to forfeit to the Circle of Champions…”

Talon sarcastically makes a “duh” face as he replies.

Talon, “Ohhhhhhhh, that stunt… haha, well it worked didn’t it?”

Reporter,”Maybe for now, but Senester has said you are on borrowed time, don’t you think he’ll strip you of the title sooner rather than later?”


Talon takes a swallow of his water before responding…

Talon, “Honestly, it isn’t even about the championship, Senester was stripping me of my pride and dignity, he couldn’t care less about who is wearing the world championship, his public humiliation wasn’t about the belt, it was about me having to give up the belt in disgrace, honestly if he took the belt now, it only makes him look like a pouting child, taking his ball and going home. In this ‘dance’ as he likes to call it, the only thing I can really do is try to stay ahead of the curve, to prepare myself for what he’s going to throw at me, and then try to counter it… I’m a smart man, and I know that I can’t just run in and destroy Senester, he’s too powerful and cunning for that, but what I have shown is that not even he is truly perfect or omnipotent… his armor has chinks as well, and I pointed out one of the most glaring; and now, he’s going to come back stronger and more driven than ever, which means I just have to stay on my toes that much more.”

Reporter, “So how will you be able to focus on Ronnie McNeil this week?”

Talon, “Ronnie is without a doubt one of the best in ring competitors I have ever stepped in the ring with; regardless of what others, including friends of mine may think and/or say, I will always stand firm that McNeil is a name that commands respect here. He always raises his game when it comes time to step into the ring with me, and as a result, he is 2 and 1 in our three encounters…”

Reporter, “You’re right, he won via DQ in your HWA Debut for the RWF, then he defeated you to win Ring Master two years ago, and then in your last meeting you won when AC James threw in the towel on Ronnie during your ‘throw in the towel’ ring master semi finals match… Are you concerned that you have never pinned him, and he has pinned you once before?”

Talon, “Concerned? No… but I am aware of those facts and I know that when I step into the ring with Ronnie at Havoc, the fans, the boys in the back, and everyone else watching the show will see that Ronnie McNeil is still a high caliber star, and he will soon be back to his true form, his dominant form… His first few matches back since returning from his down time and post surgery recovery have shown some rust, but I know Ronnie, and I know that he can shake that rust in an instant and then you’re in trouble, because if you take him lightly and he turns it on… you’re in for a rough night… So I will definitely not be taking my match lightly this week, to the contrary, I’m going to train hard and bust my ass to be sure I deliver, I haven’t competed on the past two shows, the PPV and then Havoc, so I’m chomping at the bit to get back in the ring as well…”

Reporter, “Now after you kissed Senester at Havoc, HWA Tag Team Champions AC James and Eddie K seemed to be visually upset, but since the incident, neither champion has really been vocal about it, your thoughts?”

Talon, “Honestly I’m surprised that Eddie isn’t crying into a bottle of tequila right now trying to get drunk and use the alcohol induced courage to cut a half decent ranting promo, but then again, the week is young, and I’m sure he’ll be popping up soon to vent his displeasures… The fact of the matter is this though, Eddie is stilled ‘owed’ a title shot I presume, even though he hasn’t done anything to earn it other than run through a weak tag team division and assault me after he found out I had got to second base with his at the time ex, yet out of his new found pure hatred for me and everything I stand for, he wanted a grudge match, that just so happened to include MY World Championship… so he has interest in what goes on in my life regardless because he wants to ask me “if it hurts yet” and honestly, he fails to realize, as a brother he is as dead to me as Daniel and Dredge, only difference is he did it to himself, and I get the pleasure of stepping into the ring with the same Eddie K I despised in the RWF, the same one who always wanted to piggy back off of others success and use it to catapult himself into some pseudo-celebrity reality star… Haven’t seen Ed on the cover of anymore magazines since going off the deep end have you? And while he may not think its important right now, or at least he might try to ‘macho-hard ass’ it out, deep down he’s all about the spotlight, the fame, the lavishness, and while there is nothing wrong with that at all… he will let that fester and eat at him until he explodes all over again, only this time he’ll be alone on both sides of the spectrum. Once Ed flips again and the winning stops, AC won’t be around much longer, he’s too smart to be the one who goes down with the sinking ship, he’ll work his way right back into the singles main stream and drop Ed like he did with the Smokin’ Aces and the HWA as a whole when he bailed for the RWF when we rolled in… and when Eddie winds up alone, sitting with guys like Dexter and Angel, drinking at the family bar, crying over what could have been and what once was, I won’t be there to pick up the pieces, you know why? Because he let Senester win that battle on that day, and he will have to live with that until the day he dies, because after all we had been through personally, professionally, and even with Senester, he should have known what was going to happen… and he probably did, he just didn’t care, and that speaks volumes as to the kind of person Eddie really is.”

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