The video begins and we see Zoe Sperling standing in the centre of the shot with a smirk on her face. Behind her we see the living room of David Helms’ home in Santa Monica, California, a home familiar to some within SCW after a birthday party held here a few months before but, aside from other videos filmed here by David in the past, very much unknown to the majority of SCW fans. Zoe has her hair hanging loose and seemingly recently washed, a pink t-shirt on that reads ‘BE JEALOUS’ across the front, and a smirk on her face as she looks in to the camera. “Hey everyone! You know what time it is, don’t you?” she asks before pulling out a party popper and firing it off in to the air. We see the streams of paper inside slowly floating down to the floor as she smirks at the camera. “It’s 2014, it’s a new year and that means it’s a fresh start. 2013 is officially behind us, and when it comes to 2013 I’ve got the most mixed feelings over it. I mean there is no doubt in my mind that 2013 was the biggest year of my career. In 2013 I did things that if you’d asked anyone a year ago if I would accomplish they’d have laughed in your face. I’m talking about competing in Tactical Warfare, the Elimination Chamber, the Thunderdome and a Steel Cage match for the SCW World Heavyweight Championship. For ninety eight days of 2013 I was the undisputed SCW World Heavyweight Champion, with nobody telling me that it should have been anyone but me. Nobody held that title longer than me last year, and in my humble opinion nobody did a better job as champion than me. Of course there are a whole bunch of people who’ll tell you otherwise, but you know what? Good for them. I’m not here to argue with them. The fact is that 2013 for Syren was the year that I cemented my spot at the very top of the roster, but it wasn’t all smooth sailing.”

“2013 was the year I accomplished more than I ever have before, but it was also the toughest year of my career,” she says with a serious, solemn look in her eyes. “In 2013 I put myself through matches that shorten careers, and I suffered more than my fair share of injuries along the way. I got beaten up, I got knocked out, I got thrown in to cages and I leapt off the top of one of them as well. I got attacked from behind so many times that I almost lost count of how many times it happened, I got attacked with championship belts, steel chairs, sledgehammers and even Plexiglas. I’ve been knocked down, knocked out, cut open and almost broken in half, not to mention all the times I’ve had to sit back and watch the people I care about most in the world have the same things happen to them. While 2013 was the greatest year of my career, it was by far the hardest year of my career and yet despite it all, despite all the pain and all the times I’ve been made to suffer you know what? I’m still here. I’m still standing. And now it’s 2014 and we start the whole thing all over again. There’s a whole year ahead of us and I’ve got a target painted on my back apparently, whether I’m holding a championship belt or not. A lot of people right now would be standing here complaining about that. They’d be whining about how unfair it is, telling you that they deserve better, and course campaigning endlessly in the hopes that they could be named a contender for the richest prize in this business, the SCW World Heavyweight Championship. Now if you think the fact that I didn’t start this off by mentioning that championship nine hundred times, if you think the fact that I’m not on Twitter twenty three hours a day insulting everyone and repeating over and over, and over and over, and over and over and over that I should get my shot at the gold means I don’t want it then you couldn’t be more wrong. There is nothing in the world I want more than to get back on top of the mountain, to raise that championship over my head once again, but unlike so many others I can be patient.”

She smiles confidently. “You see I don’t need to do all of those things, I don’t need to tell everyone that I beat one person and therefore I should be a contender for the top title, because I have something that nobody else in this company has. I have belief in myself, and confidence that I am beyond question the Best Female Wrestler in the World, and that means sooner or later I’m going to get my opportunity. In the meantime however it’s a brand new year but I still have a lot of old scores to settle,” she says, looking at the camera with a fiery look in her eyes. “You see as great as my 2013 was, there was a collection of individuals who tried to make it as difficult as possible not just for me but for everyone else in this company. They banded together thinking there was strength in numbers. They beat down and removed everybody who got in their way. They actually ended careers in 2013, and we all know that this collection of individuals is going to be looking to do the same thing in 2014. Now the biggest one of them, the biggest, scariest beast in the parade of monsters, got taken out by his own side. I don’t think anyone shed a tear for it either. But just because the biggest monster fell, doesn’t mean that there aren’t plenty more out there in the shadows. And in the shadows is where this particular collection of monsters likes to live as well. They like to hide there, to hide away and strike when it suits them and they do this to strike fear in to the rest of the roster, to try and rule over us all with that fear, but then they made a mistake. Their mistake was that they fucked with the wrong girl. Now I know how that sounds, and you’re thinking that I’m going to say some cliché bullshit about how I’m going to take them all down. Well, I’ve got bad news. I’m not.”

“This speech right now isn’t a rallying cry. I’m not reaching out for support from the roster. I’m not asking anyone to band with me to fight against evil. You see I’ve been on the other side of this before. I’ve been one of those that the rest of the roster considered the ‘evil’. And I know that you don’t just put together a random, angry mob and run the monsters out of the city. This isn’t some lame 1930’s movie where the mob is going to go after the monsters carrying pitchforks and torches. You see the fact of the matter is that I know that I could fight the entire year and I won’t be able to stop these people, I won’t be able to destroy their little clique, but I can do something else instead. I can rise above it,” she says with a smile on her face. “While they hide in the shadows, afraid to step out of them and definitely afraid to accept the challenges laid out in front of them, I’m going to rise above. While they hide away, whining from behind social media about how incredible they are, I’m not going to tell you endlessly how dominant I am or what I deserve, I’m going to SHOW you how dominant I am by stepping in to the middle of that ring and doing what I do better than anyone – stealing the show! You see that’s what I do. That’s what I’m all about and it has been for four and a half years. I didn’t walk in to this company and start telling everybody that I deserved to be handed everything on a silver platter. I spent three years of my career EARNING my spot by breaking records, shattering championship reigns, defending championships more than ANYONE else and beating everyone! When people stepped up to challenge me in the past I didn’t run, I didn’t attack their boyfriends and challenge them instead, I didn’t send my lovers to do my dirty work, I stepped up and I fought the biggest challenges, the biggest matches, and even when I didn’t win I made damn sure that every single person out there was talking about me the next day.”

“You see that’s what I do. That’s who I am. And in 2014, I promise you that you’re going to see more of me than ever before,” she says with a smirk, teasing about to lift her shirt before shaking her head at the camera. “Nuh-uh pervos, not like that. I don’t need to take my clothes off to get people to talk about me after all, because whether you like it or not I am the best in this company and I prove it every single night. Four nights a week, every single week I’m out there in the ring, never happy to settle for an easy win, never happy to do things the simple way! I don’t do ‘simple’, I do amazing! When opponents offer to lie down in front of me I’m the one who tells them to get up and fight. So right now these monsters who have victimised everyone are trying to make me in to another one of their victims, they’re trying to crush me down under their boots, but I’m not going to get crushed down, I’m going to rise above! In a few weeks time, at War of the Roses, I got screwed out of the match I wanted by a cowardly bitch who, like so many others it seems, loves to run her mouth but hates to actually have to back up what she’s got to say. Well I’ve never been afraid to back up everything I’ve got to say and at War of the Roses I’m going to prove that to the world when I beat Aiken Frost in the middle of the ring, and that means that I’ll then have beaten all of their little group. But if you’re getting all worried about the short term, don’t be. I’ve not forgotten what happens before then. Before War of the Roses comes Breakdown, the second show of 2014, my first match of 2014, and while I may have ended 2013 with a victory it wasn’t the way I wanted to win, so I’m going to start 2014 out the right way by once again stealing the show and beating Devon Kayl in the middle of the ring.”

“I’ve got to say Devon, I’m a little disappointed in you lately,” Zoe says with a nod of her head. “I mean, there was a time when people were talking about you as a future megastar around here. They were talking about you as United States Champion, maybe even World Heavyweight Champion, and Kayl TV was taking the world by storm. And then, all of sudden, it started to go wrong. Under Attack was one example of a night that really didn’t go the way you wanted, did it? Well, I feel your pain in that regard. You went out there, in to that match hoping to do what we all wanted to do on that night, hoping to position yourself as a contender for the SCW World Heavyweight Championship, but it went wrong. Before you even knew what had happened you were gone, eliminated, walking to the back in disbelief and angry at yourself for that failed opportunity. I know how that feels. Later in the night I was in the same position you were. Well, almost. I was being helped to the back, bloodied, almost killed in the ring by the monster who went on to claim the prize we all wanted a part of on that night, but I felt the same thing you did. I felt the rejection. I felt the pain. I felt the heartbreak. I hate that feeling, and I know you do too. And just like me you walked away from Under Attack wondering when your next opportunity would come. A few weeks later you were in the ring with Regan Street as she looked to beat you down, part one of her apparent three step plan to once again raise the championship over her head – I was under the belief that the second part was supposed to be to prove herself in my division, to retain the Women’s Championship, but I guess she changed her mind on that one, huh? – and once again you fell short, and once again you must have been asking yourself when you’d get another chance.”

“Now I don’t mean to toot my own horn or anything Devon, but maybe this is your chance,” Zoe tells him with a confident look. “You see just like me you’ve had setbacks, but a great woman told me once that it’s not the good times that define our careers but how we come back from hardships. Yvonne Knight taught me a lot about this business, she’s the reason I got my start in this business, she’s the reason I am where I am today, but there’s one thing she taught me that I think about in moments like this. She taught me that the best in this business don’t shy away when the times get hard, they step up and they fight back and they prove what they’re really worth. In four and a half years here I’ve seen a lot of big names step away when the times got hard, either by choice or through injury, but throughout it all I’m still here. I’m still fighting. And that’s what I’m going to do this week as well. You see Devon, you and me aren’t so different. We’ve both had a very hard time lately and right now I could let that get on top of me, I could let despair get the best of me, but I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to back down, I’m going to rise up and this week you’ve got an opportunity to do the same. This week you’ve got an opportunity to do what others have done in the past, to beat Syren in the middle of the ring and then start whining over and over how now you should be a contender for the World Championship as well. Apparently that’s all it takes, you know? So this week you’ve got your chance to do that, but see here’s the thing with that – I’m not going to just roll over and let it happen. I’m not here to be anyone’s stepping stone. I’m not here to help anyone else with their agenda. I have an agenda of my own, and it involves beating you this week in the middle of that ring and showing everyone that whether I’ve got one championship, two championships or none at all I am still the best in this company.”

“It’s a hard time for all of us, you know? And no matter how badly things may have gone lately Devon I’ve seen you competing in that ring. I never doubted for a moment that you deserved to be a part of the Elimination Chamber. I never doubted that you were right there in the hunt for the biggest prize, and you may be having a hard time of it all but I know it can change just like that,” Zoe says, snapping her fingers to emphasis her point. “I know that just like me, just like all of us, you’re looking for that one chance, that one opportunity to get your foot back in the door and like I said before maybe this is your chance. Maybe you can start off 2014 by reminding everyone who Devon Kayl really is, how good Devon Kayl can be, and putting Kayl TV back on the list of Must See TV for the week. Maybe you can. You’ve got the talent, you’ve got the ability and this week maybe you’ve got the opportunity... or maybe not. You see week after week I’ve been beaten down Devon. Week after week I’ve been made in to a victim. Well not anymore. I could have crumbled a few weeks ago. I could have folded my hand. Don’t think I didn’t consider it. I was beaten down, I was choked out, I was left in a pool of my own blood and I was saved from even worse by a man I truly hate. I was humiliated at Perfect Destruction and I could have folded right there. I could have thrown down my hand and told the world I’d had enough, but I didn’t. I won’t. The start of a new year brings new hope, new opportunity but for me it brings the same chance it’s brought for the entirety of 2013. It gives me an opportunity to walk in front of those fans, it gives me an opportunity to stand in the middle of that ring, in the middle of the Wells Fargo Arena in front of seventeen THOUSAND fans and do what I do better than anyone else. Maybe this is your chance Devon. Maybe this is your opportunity. But maybe you’ll be walking away from the ring with another loss as my music plays around that arena and I stand in the middle of that ring reminding everybody that I WILL NOT be a victim. 2013 was the toughest year of my career but I’m still standing, and I aim to be standing again when this match is over. If I am Devon then I want you to look up, I want you to see me standing in the spotlight where I love to be, and I want you to do the same thing that all the Coalition will do eventually... JUST BE JEALOUS!”

She smiles confidently at the camera before blowing a kiss and with that the video comes to its end.