The video begins and we see the inside of the same apartment we saw earlier in the week. The angle that we’re looking at it from is different to before though, and this time we see a couch in the living room area upon which is sat a man with shoulder length dark hair and an unshaven look going on. KWI fans, or followers of Syren’s on Twitter, would recognise the man as Alexander Crowe, her current boyfriend. He’s not the only one in the scene however. Syren stands in the middle of the scene as well dressed in a pink t-shirt with a winged heart logo on the front. She looks confident. “Earlier this week I talked to you about pressure, and the things that it can do to you. I told you that I know about pressure. I told you that I’ve dealt with pressure in my own life. I told you that it’s because of pressure that I know who I am. I wasn’t lying. Earlier this week I also talked to you about passion. I told you that all three of my opponents on Sunday night are passionate people. Hell, the entire SCW roster is full of passionate people. But I told you that it will be that passion which helps define me on Sunday. Today I want to talk to you about one more thing, probably the most important thing of all. I want to talk to you about mortality,” she says, smiling a little before beginning to laugh. “I’m not talking about mortality the same way that others talk about it. I’m not standing in a morgue telling anyone that I’m going to put them there. I’m not standing in a graveyard threatening to bury anyone in it. No, I want to talk about mortality in a different way.”

“We’re all human. That’s the first thing that I need you to understand before this goes any further. I know that there’s this idea in wrestling that we’re not human. I know there’s this idea that we’re monsters, that we’re queens, that we’re Gods high above everyone else, and I know there are plenty of people out there who like to perpetuate that idea. It’s not true though. We’re human, all of us. We’re all breakable. We’re all vulnerable. We’re all capable of stupid decisions, and capable of making mistakes. There are some in this business who don’t like that idea. I can see why they wouldn’t. There are some who believe that they’re above those ideas, who believe that they can rain terror down on all of us, all of you. They think that puts them above us. They’re wrong. You see I don’t believe that the wrestling business is really about making yourself more than human, I don’t believe it’s about making yourself a God or a queen, I don’t believe that it’s about making yourself ‘perfect’, I believe that the wrestling business is about embracing everything that makes you human,” she says before looking over her shoulder and smiling at Alexander who smiles back at her. “You know being human isn’t really so bad. There’s a lot of great stuff that comes out of it. There’s love, for example. Love makes us strong. Without it we’re not quite the same. There’s compassion. With compassion we can touch the sky or move a mountain. And there’s strength. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about being human it’s that we’re all capable of so much strength!”

She laughs a little before letting out a sigh. “There are a lot of negative things about it as well though. There’s conflict. There’s rage. There’s anger. There are people in this world who just want to cause pain, not for any benefit for themselves or anyone else, just because it brings them joy to watch other people suffering. I’ve dealt with more than my fair share of those types of people over the last year. There’s indifference as well. People get so worked up over the things happening to them and they expect people to pay attention to them, to feel sorry for them, to reach out and help them, but when the same thing happens to others what do they do? Nothing! They turn a blind eye. They ignore it until it directly relates to them, and then they blame everyone else for the problem,” she says, letting out another sigh. “I’ve dealt with plenty of people like that as well this year. I’ve been one of those people to. I’m not about to stand here and tell you that I’m better than you. I’m not going to stand here and tell you that I’m better than anyone else. I’m human. I make mistakes. I make bad choices. I put people I love through things that I don’t mean to put them through because of it. But there’s one thing I don’t do, or at least I try not to do. I don’t make excuses. It’s easy to do that. It’s easy to blame everyone else. It’s easy to feel hard done by. It’s easy to think things should be another way. And it’s easy to find a reason to excuse the terrible things you’ve done. But mostly those excuses are about one thing: you’re afraid.”

She nods her head slowly and understandingly. “I get that more than you know. I get what it’s like to be afraid. Fear is a powerful thing. I’ve been afraid a lot of times. I’ve been scared by what lies ahead of me, scared of the uncertainty, scared of what I had to lose. I’ve been especially scared of my own mortality. It’s hard not to be, right? When you’re in the wrestling business especially that fear about your own mortality leads you to do a whole number of stupid things, and those stupid things in turn lead you to make excuses. I think it’s safe to say that going in to the main event at Rise to Greatness every single one of us is afraid. Jake Starr is afraid. He’s afraid that he’s not good enough. He’s afraid that after six years of working he might not be able to complete everything he wants to. He’s afraid that it could all be taken away from him. He’s afraid of losing his spot, and as a result losing part of his identity. He lashes out when he’s afraid. He takes a steel chair and he attacks people with it, and then he makes excuses for those actions. He crawls inside himself and he mocks people, looking down his nose at them and criticising them for all the things he believes are wrong about them, regardless of the fact that he has the same weaknesses he’s quick to point out in others. Most call him a hypocrite for the things he says. I just call him Jake, because that’s just what he is,” she says, laughing a little. “That’s ok though Jake. I don’t blame you for the things you’ve done and the things you’ve said. You can’t help yourself. You don’t understand respect.”

 She shakes her head again slowly and disappointedly before moving on. “Shaun Cruze is afraid as well. He’s afraid of his own mortality. He’s afraid that he’s not good enough. He’s afraid that when it really breaks down he won’t be able to get it done. He’s afraid he can’t rise to the challenge. That’s why he makes excuses. Even after all this time he’s still complaining about what happened, believing that Jake and I ‘ruined’ the match that ‘everyone wanted to see’. Yeah, because that’s what the people want, right? They clearly want to see Jake Starr and Kelcey Wallace one on one, and the idea of a Fatal Fourway match for the World title, one of the biggest matches in SCW history, has disgusted them, clearly,” she says, rolling her eyes and laughing. “Keep talking Shaun. Keep claiming that something was stolen. Keep claiming it was ruined. Keep blaming everyone around you. It’s Mr D’s fault, right? That’s original. Yah, nobody else has ever blamed him for their problems, right? But that’s what you do. You play the blame game. You make excuses because you’re afraid. You talk about the ‘right’ way to do things and you claim that I’ve taken ‘shortcuts’. I’ve won everything I’ve had at the top of this company. You haven’t. Say what you want about that sweetie, make more excuses, but this Sunday you’re going to face your biggest challenge, the biggest challenge you’re ever likely to face, and it doesn’t matter how many times you complain that isn’t going to change. So keep talking. That’s the only way you can make an ‘impact’, player.”

She laughs again before taking a deep breath. “With those two down that leaves Kelcey Wallace, a woman who’s on a quest to prove she’s perfect. It’s a noble quest, even if it is flawed from the outset, because – and I don’t mean to be mean here – Kelcey Wallace isn’t perfect. She’s good. She’s damn talented. She’s one of the best in the business without a doubt. She’s had an incredible record and to remain unbeaten in singles competition after all this time is so very impressive... but she’s not perfect,” she says slowly and purposefully. “She’s no more ‘perfect’ than Chad Evans was a God, than Damien Angel was the devil incarnate, or than Blitzkrieg was a real life monster. And yah, I’ve played in to all three of those in the past, just like everyone else. But that’s all it was. It was playing in to a delusion. It was playing in to the hype. And it’s not like I’m going to stand here and tell you that Kelcey isn’t perfect but someone else is. They’re not. There’s nobody in this world that’s truly perfect. There’s nobody in this world who’s ever been perfect – sorry Christians but, you know, it’s true. There is no perfect being, especially in this business. There are incredible feats though, and Kelcey has her fair share of them, but you’re talking to someone who has a few of her own. Four hundred and six days as Women’s Champion. Six hundred and two days as World Tag Team Champion. Incredible title reigns, amazing feats, but you know what those title reigns taught me above all else? Everything has to end sometime.”

She takes a breath and pauses for a moment to play on the importance of that statement. “That’s what mortality is all about, right? No matter what you believe, there’s one thing that everyone can agree on and it’s that everything has to end sometime, even life itself. I know a thing or two about that as well, but so does Kelcey. It’s no secret that she’s been hurt before, right? It’s no secret that she’s almost had her career ended. It’s no secret that she had to go through months and months of rehabilitation to get back to where she wanted to be, and it’s no secret that she didn’t just come back but she came back stronger. And that right there is an inspirational story, it speaks to the strength of the human spirit and the human body, it speaks to our ability to come back from almost impossible odds, it speaks to our perseverance as a people. Kelcey will be standing in that ring on Sunday against all the odds, but then so will the rest of us,” she says sternly. “What, the rest of us haven’t suffered? Shaun Cruze is always kissing Kelcey’s ass but he’s been hurt. Four years in the business and he’s had periods of downtime, periods of injury. So has Jake. After losing his World title rematch a few years ago Jake took time off to deal with all his injuries. Were they career threatening? I don’t know, I never asked him, but like everyone else in this business he’s been hurt, like everyone else in this business he’s faced his mortality. So have I. I haven’t ever disappeared for months on end, but believe me I’ve come back from a lot.”

“I know how it feels to hurt so much that you close your eyes and you don’t ever want to open them. I know how it feels to know that the darkness is setting in around you, to feel the pain overwhelming every other sense until all you can focus on is that, and to just want to let go. I’ve shut my eyes before now and not been sure I’d ever open them again. I’ve suffered, and not just through physical pain either. I’ve suffered emotional pain so strong that I literally wanted my world to end. A few months ago I embarked on a war that brought that feeling back to me all over again. It started in the Elimination Chamber. While Kelcey Wallace conquered her Elimination Chamber, there was another one that same night which I failed to conquer. I would have loved to do it as well. I would have loved to stand in the middle of that ring at the end of that night having done the seemingly impossible. The truth was however that I wasn’t strong enough. I wasn’t good enough. I fought for as long as I could. I got smashed in to the Plexiglas, I got busted open, I got hurt and I felt that feeling then. I could have just shut my eyes and let it take me. I didn’t. I kept pushing myself. In the end of it was for nothing though. In the end I may have eliminated Rachel Frost, but I got broken in half by Blitzkrieg. I was left unable to move. I was left unable to continue,” she says letting out a long sigh. “I could have just given up after that. I mean, I was badly hurt. But I didn’t. That wasn’t even the first time I faced my mortality this year either, or the last.”

“The one thing I accomplished in that match, the one thing I managed to do, was to beat Rachel. Ten days later she came after me with the same Plexiglas I’d been cut on before. She started making my life hell. You know all about her, don’t you Kelcey? You know all about the Coalition. One by one they dismantled your ‘Perfect World’, injuring people, ending careers, breaking them all one after the next. They hurt you as well. They beat you, just like they beat me. We’ve both been put through the hell that they like to inflict on others. They really did put me through hell as well. While you were conquering Blitzkrieg, I was fighting for my life in a world that I don’t do well in. I fought Rachel Frost in a First Blood Match. People told me it was a stupid move. People told me that taking her on under Underground Rules was suicide. They told me that I didn’t have a chance. They were right, in the end. She hurt me. She choked me out. She cut me. She’d have done so much worse to me as well. I faced my mortality that night as well,” she says before smiling and laughing. “I could have stayed down. Everyone told me to stay down. Everyone told me to give it up. That’s not my style. I didn’t cower away from her like others have done. I didn’t crawl away and lick my wounds. I got back up. I faced her and Rachel Foxx in a tag match, and won. I beat Aiken Frost in the middle of the ring. And then I entered the Thunderdome. What was it Silas said, a match I made famous? No, just a match I’ve won before. I couldn’t win that night though.”

She laughs again. Alexander looks at her like she’s insane. “She beat me so bad I couldn’t stand up. She hurt me in ways nobody else ever has. I could have crawled away on that night as well, but once again I didn’t. That’s something you should know about me Kelcey. I don’t stay down. Maybe that’s because I’m too stupid to know any better, I’ve known people who’ve made that argument before, but I faced my mortality time and time again in that war with Rachel and Aiken Frost, and you know what was on the line for me then? Nothing! She didn’t put her title up. I wasn’t fighting for any higher purpose. There was nothing on the line but pride. That’s how far I’ll go for pride though. That’s how far I’ll go to prove myself,” she says proudly. “And if that’s how far I’ll go with nothing on the line, if it’ll take the VERY BEST that Rachel Frost had to take me out – and make no mistake about it, I took her to places that nobody else did, I hurt her in ways that nobody else did either, and just because I didn’t beat her doesn’t mean I didn’t leave my mark on her just as she did on me – then imagine how far I’ll go this Sunday. Imagine how far you’ll need to push me this Sunday. But then, you already know a bit about that as well, don’t you? Because my war with the Coalition, fighting them on my own, wasn’t the last time I faced my mortality this year either. I’ve been facing it time and again, week after week, because of you. And I don’t care what they say, I don’t care if you’re a ‘victim’, I don’t care if you ‘don’t have a choice’, what happened to me over the last few weeks, the shoulder injury, the leg injury, the fact that twice in the same week I ended up in the HOSPITAL after the shows, was because of you.”

“How’s it feel Kels? How’s it feel to have an army behind you? It’s not your fault, right? Of course it’s not. Like I said, you’re a victim, right? You didn’t ask for this. But it’s happened. Every goddamn week for the last two months Silas Mason and his ‘Silas World’ have tried to take me out! I’ve had to look over my shoulder. I’ve had to be on guard. I’ve had to always wonder where the next attack would come from. And they’re not doing it because they want to drain my blood, they’re not doing it because they’re opposed to ‘Barbie’ and her life, they’re doing it for one reason and one reason alone – you! Silas wants it to be easy for you. He’s ‘protecting his Baby Girl’ and he’s making threats to me even now. Is that what it means to be perfect? Is that what it means to ‘Rise to Perfection’? No. There’s nothing ‘perfect’ about that situation. The closest thing you could have gotten to perfect would be to stand in the middle of that ring with the three of us, all at one hundred percent, all ready to go, and overcome it. But that’s not the way it’s been. That’s not what’s happened. Instead you’ve had an army trying to end us. Jake’s been put through the announce table. I’ve had Angelica, Kraven, Brittany, Harmony AND Shaun try to take me out ON THE SAME NIGHT. Is that ‘perfect’? Is that how you ‘Rise to Perfection’? No. That’s bullshit, and that is the only thing you’re ‘rising’ to this Sunday,” she says angrily. “You’ve done a hell of a lot. You’ve won the Elimination Chamber. You’ve fought the Coalition. You’ve beaten the ‘monster’. And yet if you win this Sunday, will it match those accomplishments? Will it truly be ‘perfect’? Or will it always be Silas Assisted.”

She laughs again, shaking her head. “He doesn’t care. Why would he? You’re his meal ticket. You’re his prize bitch and he parades you out in front of the world at every opportunity. You do what all good dogs do as well, don’t you Kelcey? You follow instruction. He tells you to jump, you jump. And it’s because you ‘have no choice’, right? You signed a contract. You’re helpless. None of it is the way you really want it to be. And yet you take it anyway. You stand there and you talk down to me and you tell me that I deserve that title but you’re going to be the one who takes it, and you do it with this special tone in your voice, a tone you call ‘respect’, and yet you know damn well what I’ve been through to get to this point. You don’t care though, right? Because Sunday night is ‘Rise to Perfection’, Sunday night is your night, Sunday night is the night you regain the title it took so many to take from you before, and it’ll be so inspirational and people will weep and William Mason will probably mess his pants in happiness in whatever bush he’s hiding in while he’s stalking you,” she says, laughing and shaking her head again. “Oh yah, it’ll be such a night, the night Kelcey Wallace proves how good she is, the night Kelcey Wallace earned in at Taking Hold of the Flame, the night that she begins her second title reign and a new ‘perfect era’ washes over all of us. It’ll be the night that Kelcey wins the Fatal Fourway! Or will it be a triple threat? Or will it be one on one? Or will it be an army helping you?”

She laughs again, shaking her head. “Now I’m not going to stand here and say I haven’t been in that same position before. 2012, defending the World Heavyweight Championship IN a Fatal Fourway match, I knew the rules and I tried to use them to my advantage. I know that there are no disqualifications. I know that anything goes. And I’ve heard Silas’ newest threats as well, that I might not even make it to the ring on Sunday, that he’s going to protect ‘Baby Girl’. Is that what passes for perfect Kelcey?” she asks, shaking her head. “That’s the problem I have with you. It isn’t necessarily that you’ve got Silas Mason and this army. It isn’t that I think you’re actually some mastermind manipulating the situation. It isn’t even that I don’t even feel sorry for you because I’ll be honest, I do. I can imagine how that feels. I’ve been manipulated in the past. I’ve had people try to control me in the past. I’ve had people try to control me with threats, and people try to control me emotionally. I can actually sympathise with you, and if this were a different situation maybe I’d even want to help you. See I can even understand why you let it happen. If you’re as helpless as you say you are, if you’re as powerless as you really claim, then maybe there really IS nothing you can do – or make that nothing you’re WILLING to do – to stop it all. Maybe standing up to Silas isn’t an option for you. Maybe it’s not worth the risk to you. But to stand there, to talk down to me, to tell me that ‘you deserve to be champion’ and then to claim to be PERFECT after everything that’s happened is BULLSHIT Kelcey. There’s nothing perfect about you.”

“A year ago people barely knew your name. Now it’s a name they’ll never forget. You’ve earned that. You’ve earned that respect. You’ve earned that reverence. But it’s not perfect. And every time you say that word, every time you make that promise, every promo, every tweet, every on-camera appearance, it only makes me more determined. Because I’m not perfect! I’m the furthest damn thing from perfect. But you want to know what I am Kels? I’m a fighter. And no matter what Shaun says, what Jake says, what Silas says or what you say, I’ve fought for long enough and harder enough to be able to stand here right now and make the claim that I’m the BEST FEMALE WRESTLER IN THE WORLD and there isn’t a single person on this roster that can honestly convince me otherwise. I’ve taken losses. I’ve lost to Katie. I’ve lost to Marina. I’ve lost to Rachel. I’ve lost big matches. But I’ve won big matches too. And this Sunday Kels, this Sunday is the first time you and I ever step foot in that ring together, but yet you’re still so sure that Sunday night is your night, right? Wrong,” she says, shaking her head. “Now I don’t need other people to line up and tell you why. I don’t need a manager to talk for me. I don’t need people to testify to my ability. I’m going to testify to my OWN ability on Sunday night when I step foot in the middle of that ring and I fight with everything I’ve got on Sunday and I win. Because as much as you’ve got to prove, I’ve got even more to prove. And as much as you’ve struggled, I’ve struggled just as much.”

“I spoke earlier about indifference. Let me tell you why. I’ve heard a lot of whining this week from Shaun and from Silas about how much Kelcey has ‘earned’ this opportunity. She has. She’s won Taking Hold of the Flame. She’s in this match and she has this opportunity because she’s one of the best in the company. But her story, everything she’s overcome, the chances she’s been denied, it’s not a unique story. It’s not like poor Kelcey Wallace is the only one who’s ever been denied a rematch. It’s not as though poor Kelcey Wallace is the only one who’s ever had hardship to overcome. I’ve had hardship. I’ve been struggling to overcome it for FIVE YEARS,” she yells at the camera. “And in all that time I’ve earned EVERYTHING I have. THREE-TIME Trios Tournament winner, nobody else in history has even come CLOSE to that. TWO-TIME World Heavyweight Champion despite the fact that Shaun Cruze is absolutely right and Oleksa Douchewych has never put his hand on my shoulder and told me in his eyes I’ve earned a shot. Maybe in his eyes I never have, but I’m a TWO-TIME World Champion and in the eyes of those people who’ll FILL the arena on Sunday I’ve more than earned it. I look out and I see them, you know? I look out and I see the pink shirts. I see the Syren signs. I hear the people chanting my name. I’ve done a lot of shit in my career and the fact that I’ve EARNED their respect now means more to me than Oleksa Drachewych or the Board of Directors giving me a THOUSAND title opportunities!”

“You’re not the only one with a hard luck story Kelcey. You’re not the only one who’s struggled to get what she wants. You’re not the only one who’s struggled to prove herself. But you’re indifferent to everyone else, aren’t you? You’re indifferent to them because it’s YOUR story that you’re focused on. You’re indifferent to the fact that Ravyn Taylor hasn’t ever had a shot either. You’re indifferent to the fact that Jake Starr never got a rematch for the title. You’re indifferent to the fact that in TWO different World title reigns the closest thing I’ve gotten to a rematch is a six-person Elimination Chamber. You’re indifferent to all of that – well, Silas is – because it’s all about Kelcey Wallace. It’s the goddamn Kelcey Wallace Show. Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the Kelcey Wallace Fireworks Extravaganza that’s planned for July 28th may need to be rescheduled, because on Sunday night I’m not coming to make up the numbers, I’m not going to cower in the back because of Silas’ threats, and I’m DAMN sure not going to let this opportunity slip away from me,” she says loudly and proudly. “On Sunday night there’s going to be a Fatal Fourway match for the SCW World Heavyweight Championship, and it’s going to be a battle. There are going to be four individuals heading in to that match each more determined than the last to win, each more determined than the last to overcome everything, each more determined than the last to leave that ring with the SCW World Heavyweight Championship, but there can only be one.”

She takes a deep breath as she nods her head. “There can only be one. On Sunday night there can only be one of us that leaves that ring as the SCW World Heavyweight Champion and it’s not going to be easy for any of us. We’re all going to have to face our mortality at some point on that night. We’re all going to have to look deep down inside ourselves and try to figure out if we have that last little bit of energy we need to push ourselves back up. I’ve been there before. I’ve been left broken on that mat, looking deep down inside myself, and I’ve found that strength before. On Sunday I’m going to find it again. On Sunday I face my own mortality and I face the fact that my dreams, like me, are fragile and can easily shatter. On Sunday I face the fact that I’m only human – that NOBODY in this match is truly perfect – but on Sunday I show the world what this little human is capable of. On Sunday there’s going to be a battle, and there’s going to be no rules, and there’s the possibility that anything can go, but I’m not going to let fear stop me. I have someone watching my back,” she says, looking over her shoulder at Alexander and then looking back at the camera and smiling. “I have someone who believes in me. I have someone who believes in my strength. I have someone who believes anything is possible. Alexander likes to say that what he does is ‘magic’. And it’s going to take a little magic on Sunday. But if that’s what it takes, if it’s doing the impossible that needs to be done on Sunday night then that’s what I’ll do, because the human spirit is capable of moving mountains and touching the sky, and we may only be mortal but we’re capable of SO MUCH. On Sunday I’m going to STAND TALL. On Sunday, I’m NOT GIVING UP.  On Sunday I’m embracing the pressure on me. On Sunday, I’m proving the passion I have. On Sunday I’m embracing my mortality. And on Sunday I’m going to do everything I can to leave Miami as the new SCW World Heavyweight Champion. It’s not ‘Rise to Perfection’, it’s Rise to GREATNESS, and on Sunday I aim to prove how GREAT I can be. Deal with that or JUST BE JEALOUS!”

She turns away from the camera and looks over at Alexander. He smiles at her supportively and gets off the couch, walking over to her and the two embrace. The camera keeps rolling for a moment as he smiles at her. “You really ready for Sunday?” he asks her softly. She nods her head. “Good. You know I’ve got your back as well, right? Whatever Silas Mason wants to throw at you, I’ve got your back. You’re not alone.”

“I know,” she replies happily.

“Well, you know what they say princess. In life there are three categories, easy, difficult and impossible. Those who choose easy have a safe but pretty boring life. Those who choose difficult have a tough but satisfying life. You though? You always try to make it impossible, don’t you? And you know what they say about those who choose to do the impossible?”

“What?” she asks, still looking at him.

“They’re remembered forever,” he tells her with a smile. The video ends at that point and the replay button flashes up on the screen.