The video begins and we see the shot of a television screen with eerily similar footage on it as we saw a few weeks ago. We see Shilo Valiant in the ring and the camera focusing on him. We then see Syren running the ropes and going for a move, only to be countered by Shilo and land hard. We see Shilo planting Syren in the middle of the ring and we hear the roar of the crowd as the count along with the pin fall and we hear Shilo’s music hitting as the commentators celebrate his victory. The video pauses on an image of Shilo being handed the SCW World Heavyweight Championship and, just like the last time a video began this way, we hear Syren’s voice from behind the camera. “Here is your winner and new Heavyweight Champion of the World,” she says softly before turning the camera around to face herself. “And the crowd goes wild...”

She gets up from where she’s sitting and places the camera down before disappearing for a moment. The lights come on in the room and Syren walks out in front of the camera again, sitting back down on the couch in front of the camera and letting out another long sigh. “I told you guys before how many times I’ve watched this match back over again, didn’t I? And here I am, watching it again. I got a lot of comments after I spoke about it the first time, a lot of people asking me why I’d continue to put myself through this over and over again, why I’d continue to focus on that moment, the moment that I lost the most important match of my life. They couldn’t understand it. They told me that I should move on. They told me that I should focus on the future. They said that there would be more opportunities, that that moment wouldn’t define me. Now I want them to know that I appreciate what they said. I appreciate their kind words. I appreciate every nice thing that anyone has said to me since that video came out. But as much as I appreciate all the kind things you guys have had to say to me, I want you all to know one thing – you’re wrong about the opportunities,” she says before shaking her head. “Now you guys know that that match took place at Rise to Greatness last year, more ten months ago in fact, and you guys know that ever since that loss, ever since that moment I’ve wanted nothing more than the opportunity to get back what I lost. Your support, all your kind words, mean a lot to me personally, but no matter how many kind things you’ve got to say to me, no matter how many nice things you tell me about my work ethic or my commitment or my career it won’t change the fact that it’s been ten months since I lost the SCW World Heavyweight Championship and the closest I’ve come to a rematch was the Elimination Chamber.”

She laughs and shakes her head slowly. “You know I’ve been a part of SCW for almost five years now. I signed my contract at the beginning of August 2009, I debuted in the middle of that ring a few weeks later, on August 19th, and from that moment on I’ve given everything I have to this company. I’ve been through so much with this company as well. I’ve had my personal laundry aired for the world to see. I’ve had more critics criticising me day in and day out than anyone should ever have to deal with. I’ve had my father on national television telling the world that he didn’t support my career, the people I loved – on national television – turning their backs on me, the people who were supposed to be supporting me, on national television, telling the world they thought I’d fail, and I’ve had my ex-boyfriend, the man I loved more than anyone in this world, ON NATIONAL TELEVISION declaring his love for the woman he planned to leave me for and run away with. I’ve had to deal with more drama and more bullshit in the past five years in this company than ANYONE else has had to go through, and yet I’ve never used ANY of it as an excuse. Do you know how easy it would have been to just walk away? Do you know how easy it would have been to turn my back on the company, to turn my back on all the people who’ve doubted me and hurt me over the years, and never look back? It would have been so simple. It would have probably made my life that much easier as well. I could have just turned and walked away like so many others have before me, and yet here I am,” she says with a laugh. “Betrayal, criticism and heartbreak everywhere I look, and yet I’m still here. I’m still fighting. The world has done its best to BREAK me over the last five years and to everyone who’s tried it I’ve got three simple words to scream at the top of my lungs: I’M STILL HERE!”

After quite literally screaming the final words at the camera she pauses for a moment, looking away from the camera like the emotion of the moment as gotten the better of her. She turns to look at the camera again however and takes a deep breath in before slowly letting it out again. “I’m still here,” she repeats more softly this time. “I’m still here, and in a company full of men and women who hold out their hands and demand opportunities I’m still the only one who’s had to FIGHT for every opportunity she’s had. And people think I’m exaggerating that when I say it. They think that it can’t possibly be true, that in five years working for the company I’ve never had a single shot at the United States Championship. Not one. They think that I must be talking crazy to say that in five years working here I’ve never been given an opportunity at the World Heavyweight Championship, especially when you look around and you see all the opportunities that so many others have had. The current reigning World Heavyweight Champion, for example, how many opportunities has he had? And I’m not talking about just this year; I’m not talking about the win by disqualification which led to the triple threat match at Retribution because if anything I’d say beating the champion and being screwed out of the championship itself was actually a damn good reason to get another chance at it. But I mean before now. We all remember Shaun Cruze, right? I do. He came in from the IWC as their last ever World Champion and he wanted to make his mark in SCW. It didn’t take him very long at all before he was being given chance after chance to make that mark, with an opportunity at the Adrenaline Championship in no time at all and soon enough chances to compete for the World Heavyweight Championship. I remember the chances he’s had, do you know why? Because before one of the times he took his ball and he went home – whatever reason he might have had for doing that – I’m one of the reasons he didn’t win the World title!”

 “But I’m not here to talk about Shaun Cruze. You see Shaun has had plenty of chances, but no more than Jake Starr. And Jake has been SPOILED with the opportunities he’s received here. When I was first coming through, first winning the Women’s Championship, that was when Jake was getting the first of his chances to compete for the World title. The first of many chances, I’d like to add. And whenever Jake lost the title in the beginning there would be another opportunity sent his way. Of course he wasn’t always appreciative of them all, I mean he did whine a whole lot about ‘never getting a rematch’ even though he was given the opportunity to compete in a Fatal Fourway match only six short weeks after losing the title to Josh Hudson. And let’s not even forget the number of opportunities he was given that ‘just weren’t good enough’ for him because they weren’t the way that he wanted them to be,” she says with a laugh before shaking her head slowly. “But the truth is I’m not here to talk about Jake Starr either, because that’s a long talk considering the history we have together, and he’s not my focus right now. I’m not here to talk about Shilo Valiant either, or Lucas Knight, or David Helms, or Katie Steward, or Thirteen, or Shawn Winters, or Greg Cherry, or Regan Street, or Masquerade, or anyone else who I’ve sat in the locker room and I’ve watched over the past five years as this company and the powers that be – whether it was Sasha, Oleksa or the Board themselves – have patted them on the back and told them that for all their hard work, for all their commitment, for everything they’ve done in the ring they deserve a shot at the World title. And I’ve watched that happen time after time, and for my commitment, for my hard work, I’ve been told the same thing over and over. ‘You want a title shot? Earn it’.”

“The most recent person to say that to me was Jonathan Knots. He’s watched me just the same as everyone else has. He’s watched me jump through every hoop they’ve put in front of me over the past five years, he’s watched me competing in three straight Trios Tournaments and winning ALL OF THEM. He’s watched me fight my way through three former World Champions ON THE SAME NIGHT to win a contendership tournament two years ago on Breakdown. He’s watched me step in to Tactical Warfare against malicious, sadistic opponents and almost have my head caved in my Rachel Foxx with a sledgehammer and STILL keep fighting and STILL find a way to help her team win. He’s watched all of that, everything I’ve done to get my name up there, every challenge I’ve had to find a way to fight through and survive no matter how much my body was hurting me and still when I felt like I was losing the last grip on sanity I had a few weeks ago, knowing everything I’ve been through he still told me the same thing I’ve heard over and over again. He still told me to ‘earn it’,” she says before beginning to laugh. “And I guess that’s what I need to do, right? Not Shaun Cruze. He’s earned it. Not Regan Street. She’s earned it. Not Dawn Lohan or Simon Lyman. They’ve both earned it. But me? No, I’ve not been through enough yet. I’ve not faced enough challenges yet. There are apparently sections of HELL that I’ve not walked through yet in order to prove myself and as a result, when I was clinging to my sanity after everything I’ve been through I was told I still need to earn it. In that moment I flashed back to everything I’ve done, I flashed back to every opponent I’ve faced, every challenge I’ve found a way to overcome and every challenge that I’ve failed at and what I need to do became clear to me. I need to earn it!”

She starts laughing again before letting out a sigh and nodding her head slowly. “This Sunday, on pay per view, is the Taking Hold of the Flame Battle Royal. This Sunday, on pay per view, there are going to be forty individuals who are going to compete in that match, forty different individuals who are going to give everything they have in order to throw all the others over the top rope, all in the name of one simple goal, to main event Rise to Greatness and compete in the middle of the ring for the SCW World Heavyweight Championship. Is it beyond doubt the BIGGEST Battle Royal in the HISTORY of the company, not only because it’s FORTY PEOPLE this year once again but because if you look at the list of names competing this year it’s arguably more stacked than any Battle Royal has been before it. Go ahead and look at the names. Kelcey Wallace, Dylan Howell, Regan Street, Jake Starr, Katie Steward, Merrick Wiseman, Donovan Kayl, and that’s only the list of former World and United States Champions who we KNOW already are a part of it. How many others will be coming back? How many others will be making their return? And what about all the others, all the others who are hungry for an opportunity, all the others who feel like their time to compete on the biggest stage in this business on July 27th could be NOW?” she asks before beginning to laugh again. “And yet somewhere amongst all of that chaos, all of those bodies trying to throw one another over the top rope to win it all will be me. Somewhere, lost in a sea of competitors, will be another former World Champion. And that’s fitting as well. That’s fitting because right now I feel like I’ve been lost at sea for a very long time, and the only option I have in front of me is to do the impossible one more time.”

“Don’t tell me the odds,” she says with a shake of her head. “I know what the odds are. I know what my chances are. I know that I’m just one in forty, and I don’t even know where I’m starting. When the match begins my odds of winning it are just two and a half percent, but by the time that I get to walk out to that ring maybe they’ll have increased a little with people already being eliminated. Who knows, maybe they’ll be up to three percent by the time I’m out there. Maybe I’ll get really lucky and I’ll have as much as a five percent chance, what do you think? Yah, that’s what I think too. I think the odds are not in my favour, but you know what? I don’t give a damn about the odds! I didn’t give a damn about the odds when I started out in this company and I promised myself that one day I would prove that I was the best! I didn’t care what the odds were when Dark Fantasy vowed to become the first all-female team to hold the SCW World Tag Team Championships. It had never been done before, the odds were stacked against us considering our opponents were the United States and Adrenaline Champions, and yet in the end the odds didn’t matter and we found a way to win. I didn’t care what the odds were when I promised myself I’d become the longest reigning Women’s Champion in history, and it took the entire Women’s division four hundred and six days to finally take that title off of me. I didn’t care what the odds were when I competed in that tournament. One in eight, perhaps not as insurmountable but definitely against me, and I didn’t care then. And I can’t even figure out what the odds of winning three Trios Tournaments back to back are, but I’m going to bet considering the number of teams that have competed over the years just the chance of being INVOLVED in three in a row is small enough, let alone winning them.”

“You see I know the numbers. I know the statistics. I know there is a whole locker room full of people right now who are telling me I WON’T win on Sunday. And I don’t care about any of it. I don’t care what the odds are because I’m not one in eight, I’m not one in twenty four, I’m not one in forty, I’m ONE OF A KIND and on Sunday night in Atlanta, Georgia, I’m going to enter that Battle Royal and I’m going to fight to prove that statement all over again,” she says passionately and emotionally. “For five years I have fought to prove myself in this company, for five years I have taken on every challenge that lay in front of me no matter what it was, and while in five years I can’t say that I’ve been ‘perfect’ I can most definitely say that I’ve given it EVERY SINGLE THING I HAVE! I’ve been booed and I’ve been cheered. I’ve been hated and I’ve been loved. I’ve been attacked from behind by so many people that I honestly can’t even count them all anymore! And yet throughout it all I’ve continued fighting, throughout it all I’ve continued trying, throughout it all no matter how many others have stopped believing in me I’ve never stopped believing in myself! So if after five years of work and commitment the only way I can stand tall again is to take on the world in the biggest challenge imaginable and find a way to overcome all the odds, to stay in the ring, and to somehow make it down to being the final one left then on Sunday night that’s just what I’ll do because on July 28th 2013 I lost the most important match of my life and the most important championship I will ever hold, and on July 27th 2014 I want to stand in that ring once again and fight to reclaim it again! To everyone in the locker room, I know what you think about me. I know you don’t like me. I know you look down on me every single week, but on Sunday night I will reach out and Take Hold of the Flame and book my place in history not because I ‘deserve’ it, not because I’m ‘entitled’ to it but because I’ve EARNED IT! I’ve spent five years of my life to get to this point without ever missing a pay per view. On Sunday I STAND TALL and you all can JUST BE JEALOUS!”

She takes a deep breath before looking in to the camera, no kisses this time, no smiles, just pure determination and emotion. The video ends then and the replay button flashes up on the screen.