The video begins and we see the inside of a hotel room. There’s nothing that sets this hotel room apart from others, and it’s not obvious exactly where or when this video is being filmed save for the fact that there is daylight coming in from outside along with the lights from the hotel room itself. The video begins showing the hotel room itself and the bed, along with a bag sitting on the floor that’s not opened and doesn’t look like it has been yet, and still has a label on it from the most recent flight that it’s taken. After a second we see Zoe Sperling, better known around the wrestling world as Syren, step in to the scene. She’s wearing a pink t-shirt with her winged heart logo on the front along with the phrase ‘Best Female Wrestler in the World’ in a pattern around it. “Hey everyone,” she says with a smile and a little wave before sitting down on the bed in front of the camera. “So, it’s been an interesting few weeks, hasn’t it? The last time I got to talk to you guys like this was a few weeks ago while I was preparing for a match with Ghost to qualify for the Trios Tournament, and since then it feels like a lifetime. I mean it feels like so much crazy shit has happened since then, but it’s only actually been a couple of weeks. So, um, I’m not even sure where I should start breaking it all down if I’m honest...”

She shrugs her shoulders. “Well, I guess I can start with the news you all already know. I faced Ghost a few weeks ago and I won. It was a pretty tough match, he was a big guy and a tough opponent but I went out there that night looking to prove myself and looking to qualify for an opportunity, and that’s what I did. You see I’ve not had a great deal of opportunities lately, and unlike a lot of other people I’m not running up to Mr Douche on a weekly basis and making demands. Now part of that is because I don’t think he’d actually listen to me even if I did make my demands to his face – while, you know, making absolutely sure that there are cameras around so the whole world can watch me being a spoiled, obnoxious asshole on network TV – but another part of that is because the place I’m at in my career right now I don’t feel like I have to make demands. Now I’m not saying that I don’t want opportunities, because I do. Right now, where my career is at, I haven’t got any championship opportunities in the works, I haven’t got any championship matches scheduled and that’s worrying me a little bit because, as I’m sure you guys know, I do like being a champion. I like having my name up there in bright lights. I like having the pressure put on me to perform, to take that championship and make sure that the entire world knows the reason that I’m holding it, and the reason is never because I threw a bitch fit until I got a one-on-one opportunity to fight for it but rather that I’m holding it because, as the shirt says, I am the Best Female Wrestler in the World. But right now I don’t have anything ahead of me but I do have an opportunity to earn something and in a few days, at Supreme Saturday, that is exactly what I plan on doing. Before then however there’s so much more to focus on...”

“Let’s take, for example, last week on Breakdown. You see last week on Breakdown there was a match for the Underground Championship between Rachel Frost and Matt Auclair, and it was a tough match for both of them. They’ve both had hard fought matches lately, neither can honestly say they went in to that match at one hundred percent and neither left that ring at one hundred percent either. Now most people, when they’ve got a problem with the reigning Underground Champion and they had an opportunity to fuck with that champion would do what you’d expect. They’d come out to the ring, as so many people have done in my matches in the past, and they’d try to fuck with the champion. They’d try to cost her the match. I didn’t do that last week. Now that wasn’t because I wanted Rachel to remain the Underground Champion – I already know that she’s entirely too much of a bitch to ever willingly put that title on the line to me and I also know that there isn’t exactly a mandate at the moment telling her that she’s got to defend the belt on pay per view – but instead I chose to stay in the back, I chose to watch from afar, because I wanted to send a message to Rachel Frost. That message was simply this: you and your husband have attacked me a dozen times, you’ve cut me open with Plexiglas, you’ve attacked people that I cared about, you’ve drugged me and kidnapped me and tried to bleed me like some kind of animal at a slaughter house and yet, despite all of that, you’ve not broken me!  You see despite all of it I’m still me. I’m not losing my mind; I’m not jumping the Coalition from behind. I’m not putting crocodiles in the ring with them or hogtying them or doing any of the pathetic bullshit that other people do and call it ‘mind games’ and instead I’m staying true to myself. So that’s why, last Wednesday night, I spent a lot of the night on the phone to Canada. I got to talk to the Board of Directors, to put my request in to them personally rather than going through Mr Douche, and they told me all I needed to do was to get you to accept Rachel.”

“I could have been a child, I could have been spoiled bitch, I could have lowered myself to your level but I chose not to. Instead, I chose to rise above your kind, to rise above the bullshit, to STAND TALL in the spotlight and I did what I love to do. I upped the stakes. And now, with your approval as of last week, the Board of Directors have made it official. You and me, one on one inside the Thunderdome! I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, I don’t do small. I don’t do easy. I’m going to END this thing with you once and for all and I’m going to do it inside the most infamous structure in SCW history. And when we step inside there Rachel it’s going to be you and me and I promise you that only one of us is going to walk out of that cage under our own power, maybe neither of us,” she says, a smile spreading wide across her face. “And before anyone tells me I don’t know what I’m doing I want you all to know that I know exactly what I’m doing. Am I risking my career? Yah, I am. Could I have made this match easier? Sure, I mean I could have asked for the ring to be covered in feathers and I could have asked that the only weapons that be legal were pillows, but that was never going to happen. On March 16th I’m going to get MY Retribution and in Denver, in front of a sold out Pepsi Center, I’m going to make you wish that you’d just walked away from the Elimination Chamber and that you’d never tried to fuck with me. You think you’re bad because you’ve brawled with David Helms and Thomas Valentine? You think you’re so tough because you beat me in a First Blood match? You think that makes you dominant? Bitch, you don’t know a damn thing about domination but that’s ok, because in a few short weeks I’m going to teach you all about it.”

She stops, smiling almost proudly and excitedly at the camera before brushing her hair back behind her ears and looking a little more serious. “But there’s so much to happen before then, and we’ll see this week if Rachel can actually restrain herself or if she’s going to try to jump me like she’s already done so many times. I’m not scared. She can bring it on because if she wants a preview of the Thunderdome I’m more than happy to provide one. And if she doesn’t then that’s fine too, because I’ve got a one on one match with Matt Auclair to concern myself with, and I already know that I’m walking in to Breakdown this week with a big challenge ahead of me,” she says, pausing for a moment before nodding in confirmation. “You see I didn’t need to watch the match between Matt and Rachel last week to already know that this Wednesday night I was booked for a fight. This match this Wednesday, I know it won’t be about technical wrestling, and under normal circumstances that would worry me a little but you know? Just lately I’m been dying for a fight! I went in to War of the Roses looking for one against Aiken Frost, and believe me Matt I’m looking for another one this week. I mean it doesn’t take a genius to know what you’re all about. At six foot three, two hundred and fifty pounds you’re built to be a brawler, and brawling is what you do better than anyone, right? You’re a fighter and proud of it and last week you showed that to the world, showcasing your ability in an Underground Championship match. Believe me I watched closely and I’m not stupid enough to think for a single, solitary second that stepping in to the ring against you this week will be easy.”

“Most people look at a record like yours – ten wins and eleven losses – and all they see is the second bit. They look down their noses at you, don’t they Matt? The main eventers, former World Heavyweight Champions, they look down their noses at you because you’ve got eleven losses to your name, but I don’t look at that side, I look at the other side. You’ve got ten wins in SCW, the most competitive company in the world. You’ve got ten wins against the best talent in the wrestling business, and anyone who can pick up ten wins in this company is worth paying attention to so whatever concerns you’ve got about me overlooking you, you don’t need to worry. The very fact that you think I would though, the very fact that you look at me and you see the blonde hair and you compare me in any way to someone like Madison Chase only goes to tell me however that while I’ve been paying close attention to everything that Matt Auclair is about, clearly Matt Auclair doesn’t know a damn thing about Syren,” she says before smirking a little. “That’s nothing new to me. You’re not the first one to see look, or hear the California accent and think that that means I’m a ditzy prom queen. You’re not the first opponent I’ve had to look at me and completely underestimate everything about me, make assumptions about me and think that they know everything there is to know just by looking at the cover of the book. Like all great books though sweetie you shouldn’t ever judge them just by the cover, and this week when I step in to the ring with you I’m going to show you just how badly you have underestimated me. Don’t worry though, it’s a mistake better men than you have made, but I’ve built my career on taking the opinions of people like you and showing them just how misplaced they really are.”

She smirks at the camera again. “Like I said, this week I’m heading in to Breakdown looking for a fight, and I think you’re going to give that to me Matt. I also don’t think its coincidence that I’m booked against you right after Rachel beat you. You think you see this as an opportunity to put yourself back in the title hunt, but I’ve got some bad news. Rachel Frost isn’t going to offer you a rematch any time soon. You did something to her that she doesn’t like – you stepped in to her precious Underground and you almost took from her the Underground Championship, and as a girl who’s done that exact same thing to her when she thought she’d have all the advantages I know that Rachel isn’t the kind to step up and finish her business. She’s been running from me for months, hiding behind other challenges, hiding behind Aiken and his threats and jumping me at every opportunity to try to get the upper hand, and if you really think that challenging her to step up is going to work for you sweetie then you’re so very mistaken. The knockout shot though? That did make me smile. It’s been tough to make me smile lately as well, so I should really have thanked you for that sooner. Unfortunately though the only real ‘thanks’ I’m going to get to give you this Wednesday is adding another one to that loss column of yours, and believe it or not I’m actually sorry about that,” she says, seeming actually genuine. “I know what it’s like to want something. I know what it’s like to hunger inside for a chance to set the record straight, to prove you can beat someone when you know deep in your gut that you can do it, and I sympathise with you this week, I really do. I’d love to see you get the second chance it’s taken me three months to get, I’d love to see you take that championship away from her considering I know she’ll never put it up against me, but if I wouldn’t let HER make me a stepping stone, I damn sure won’t let you!”

“You think I’m going to hold something in reserve for the Trios Tournament? You think I’m going to be intimidated by stepping in to the ring with you? You think I’m intimidated by jokes about my breasts and the fact that you’re going to ‘throw bombs’ at me? Aw sweetie, I’d say it’s a good thing you’re cute but... well... you’re not,” she says with a sigh. “Here’s something you should know about me in advance of stepping in to that ring with me – I never hold ANYTHING in reserve! You think I look at this match as nothing, as some pointless match that I’m going to skip on past? Wrong. I look at this match as an opportunity to do what I do better than anyone and that’s step in to that spotlight, step up to another level and STEAL THE SHOW once again! I know what I’ve got ahead of me, I’m very aware of my lack of opportunities lately and what the Trios Tournament could do to change that but I will NEVER look past someone like you. You see this Wednesday I know you’re going to be tough as hell, I know you’re going to do everything you can to beat me down in to that mat and I know that you think you can intimidate me with your size and your threats but I don’t need anyone watching my back, I don’t need anyone looking to bail me out, I’m going to walk in to that ring with you and show you just why I’m a TWO-TIME SCW World Heavyweight Champion and why there may be three individuals vying for the right to call themselves the current SCW World Heavyweight Champion but not one of them can lay claim to the title of being BEST in SCW because that title belongs to me. You look at me Matt and you see the same thing everyone else does, you see a little girl you think you can push around, but I don’t need Underground Rules to beat you this Wednesday and I’m going to beat you this Wednesday. Consider it my gift to you, consider it my attempt to educate you in just what being in Supreme Championship Wrestling is all about because this week, when the dust has settled, I may be a little worse for wear heading in to the Trios Tournament on Saturday but I’m going to be the one standing tall on Wednesday and you can watch on, and watch these ‘fun bags’, and now and forever more JUST BE JEALOUS!”

She smiles at the camera, stepping a little closer before kissing the lens right before the video ends and the replay button flashes up on the screen.