The video begins and we hear the sound of a siren in the distance belonging to an emergency services vehicle of some kind. The video seems to be filmed in a parking lot, and we can see head of us a large building with the familiar look of a hospital. The sign over the door reads ‘UPMC Mercy’ and we can see not far from there a large sign with two directions, one to the main entrance and the other to the emergency and trauma centre. The camera continues filming for a moment before we hear a voice from behind it, that of the current reigning SCW World Heavyweight Champion, Syren. “I may have moved away from this city before I was even old enough to have a single memory from here, I may have been raised in California and I admit to anyone listening I do consider myself a Californian through and through, but this building right here is where my life started. This is where I was born,” she says softly, filming the front of the hospital for a few more moments before turning the camera back around on herself. “My family used to live in this city – well, my dad did. My mom is actually from California, but that’s a whole different story. My brothers were all born in this same hospital as well. My brother Jacob was actually born here on the same week as me, which must have been pretty crazy for the doctors and nurses to have the same guy with two different women in this building giving birth in the same week. But this is where my life began, and this is why I’ve always had a crazy soft spot for this city in my heart, and why I kind of – but not really – have always been a Steelers fan. That’s mostly on my brother though.”

She shrugs her shoulders and smiles at the camera. “Every time I’m in this city I like to visit here. I know it seems crazy because I don’t even remember my life when I was here but I still feel a connection with this place, and I like to come back here and remind myself that this is where it all started for me, that no matter how far I’ve come in my life this is where it began. I think in a weird way that kind of helps me keep my feet on the ground during the good times, and it helps remind me how far I have come in the bad,” she says, walking away from the hospital now while still filming herself. “The truth is as well that there have been a lot of both for me in my career in this company, but then I guess that’s what you get when you dedicate your career to one organisation. It’s been more than five years that I’ve been a part of SCW and in those five years I’ve experienced just about every possible high and every possible low you can imagine. The highs were insanely high – like, so insanely high that sometimes I lost track of who I really am and, well, I kind of became a bitch – and the lows were heartbreakingly and devastatingly low. Over the last five years I’ve been everything from the rookie sensation to the dominant and disliked Women’s Champion, to one half of the most accomplished – and I like to think pretty well respected, even if you guys weren’t our biggest fans – tag team in the company to where I am right now, at the very top, at the pinnacle of the company as the undisputed, uncontested, unequivocal Heavyweight Champion of the World. And it’s important for me to point that bit out because... well, you know.”

She laughs casually, continuing to walk with the camera in her hands. “Now it’s taken me a lot of work to get to where I am, and there’s a whole bunch of people that I couldn’t have done it without, but the most important people that I wouldn’t be here without are you guys,” she says, smiling at the camera happily. “And I know you guys probably hear that a lot – although realistically maybe not as much as you should considering half the company seem to think that they know better than everyone else and they can conquer the world and rule it with an iron fist – but it’s true. And no matter what happens in the future, no matter where I go from here, I want you guys to know how thankful I am that even for a moment I got to represent this company and I got to represent you the way you SHOULD be represented. I’ve done a lot of shitty things in my career I admit that but this past year, everything I’ve been through, the insane high of Rise to Greatness and a whole load of lows before that, wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for you guys. And ever since Rise to Greatness I’ve wanted to do you proud. I’ve wanted to be the kind of champion you could get behind, the kind of champion that you’d want to represent you. I’ve tried to be the kind of champion who doesn’t buckle under pressure but who rises to meet it. I’ve tried to be the kind of champion who does things the right way for no other reason than BECAUSE it’s the right way.  And most importantly I’ve tried to be the kind of champion who gives out the kind of opportunities that SHE never had, that SHE has always been denied. I accepted the rematch with Shaun Cruze when I could have taken my chances. I accepted the challenge of William Mason when I had no reason to. And I did that because I wanted to do things the RIGHT way this time.”

“I like to think that that’s what I’ve done. I know the ending of my match with Shaun Cruze wasn’t the way I wanted it to be, I know there was some doubt thrown in to the equation there and for that I’m honestly sorry, but every week I’ve tried to be the best that I could be. You see I’ve got a crazy amount of regrets from my previous title reigns. I’ve got so many regrets from being the Interim World Champion, I’ve got even more from my reign last year, and this time I wanted to be able to stand before you every time this belt was on the line and tell you that this time I DIDN’T have regrets, this time I DIDN’T wish there was more that I could do, that I took every opportunity that was put in front of me and time after time I STOLE THE SHOW. That’s the kind of champion I wanted to be, and I’ll tell you this – I’m not done with it yet,” she says with a huge smile on her face. “This isn’t a goodbye speech. Far from it! This is a speech to tell you guys that I’ve busted my ASS to get to where I am and this Sunday, when the World title goes on the line for the third time in my reign of only two and a half months, I’m going to do it all over again. I’m going to bust my ass. I’m going to put on the fight of my life. I’m going to go toe to toe with one of the GREATEST competitors in this company right now, and I’m not going to give up until I find a way to win. Now maybe that won’t happen. Maybe she’ll beat me. Maybe my reign will end in the same city my life began, but if it does then it will be because on that night Regan Street proved she was worthy of this title and worthy of representing this company.”

She pauses for a moment, looking in to the camera and letting out a sigh before continuing to walk again. “And it would be you, wouldn’t it Regan?” she asks, rolling her eyes. “Oh, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely believe that you deserve this chance, I do. I’m not trying to say that you’re here for any other reason than because you busted your ass and you earned the shot. But there’s a first time for everything, right? What, too harsh? Because c’mon, you and I have got a LOT of history and if you’re expecting me to stand here and be the perfect professional about you the whole time then... well, you’re probably going to be disappointed a few times. But that history I just mentioned, a lot of the people who are watching this video know ALL about it. They know about you. They know about me. They know about the matches we’ve had. They know about the rivalry between us. And most of them, the really smart ones, know that that rivalry goes way beyond just the matches we’ve had. Because the truth is that ever since you came in to this company you and I have been rivals in everything. The fact is that I could talk all night about it if I tried, I really could fill a whole hour long interview JUST talking about you, but I don’t have an hour right now, so I’m going to give you a choice. Here it is: ever since you came in to this company you and I have been the fiercest of PROFESSIONAL rivals and the fiercest of PERSONAL rivals, so which one shall we talk about first? I think I know. I’m in a little bit too much of a public place to say what I really want to say about you PERSONALLY, so let’s stick to PROFESSIONAL.”

She keeps walking before lifting the camera up a little higher and looking in to it. “So, I’ve done a lot of interviews while I’ve been a part of this company. The last year especially, as a former World Champion and one of the four lucky enough to say they took part in the biggest match of the year at Rise to Greatness, I’ve done a crazy amount of interviews, and do you want to know the one question they ask me over and over and over again? ‘How do you really feel about Regan Street?’ People want to know the truth, they’ve seen the oodles of drama between the two of us and they want me to say something spiteful, something nasty, something that will get the Twitter world buzzing and that will UNDOUBTEDLY get a response from you because... well, I mean is there anything on Twitter you DON’T respond to? But that’s a different story,” she says, rolling her eyes and lowering the camera again as she walks past someone. “So they want to know how I really feel about Regan Street, and this is the answer I give them. ‘She’s incredible. She’s one of the toughest competitors in SCW. She’s one of very few women that you can put ANY opponent in the ring with her and you’d NEVER bet against her, whether that opponent is an unknown on his way up or a multi-decade veteran of the sport. She’s one of few names on the roster that makes you groan every time you know that you’ve got a match with her because you know whenever you get in to the ring with her she’s going to push you beyond your limits, and the only way you can hope to beat her is catch her by surprise or pull off something spectacular’.”

“That’s the answer I give them, and every word of that is the truth. You see I’m not about to lie to people, if I didn’t believe every word of that then I wouldn’t say it. If I didn’t think every last syllable was the god’s honest truth then I’d tell them something else, I’d tell them how I really feel. But while every word of that is undeniably true, it’s also missing out a few rather big chunks of information. You see that’s what I think about Regan Street the competitor. That’s what I think about the girl who wrestles with the moniker ‘the Hellcat’. And that might be the best way to refer to that competitor, to that person, to that Regan Street I just spoke about, because it differentiates her from the OTHER one. And what other one is that, you ask? That’s the Regan Street we hear from every week. That’s the Regan Street who tweets her every thought. That’s the Regan Street who stands up in front of the world and tells people they’re going to beat another competitor in less than five minutes, and thinks that that’s anything but DISRESPECTFUL to Alexis Quinne AND to me,” she says, shaking her head slowly. “She wants to punk me out, right? That’s the point in that. And that’s what Regan has always been about. She has the loudest roar and she wants everyone to know it. She’s a Hellcat for sure. But I don’t think she really thinks things all the way through before she does them because yah, we all saw Regan on Breakdown and she looked good, she looked dominant, but – and I mean no offence to Alexis Quinne when I say this – I’m not Alexis Quinne.”

“What she did on Breakdown was she beat up a former interim Women’s Champion and she made a big deal about it. She beat her in five minutes. Less than that actually, you’ll have to forgive me though I wasn’t running a stopwatch. That’s impressive. She may have been in one of the shortest matches of the year. You contrast that to my match at the beginning of the year with Tommy Valentine, one that went for half an hour, one that we both gave EVERYTHING to, and I may have been in one of the LONGEST matches of the year. But there’s a difference. I took on a former World Champion. She didn’t. And two weeks ago on Breakdown I took on ANOTHER former World Champion in the form of James Marsh-Asher, the guy who beat Christian Savior, Shilo Valiant and me to win his first World Championship, and I don’t know how long that match lasted, I don’t know how many times we dropped each other to the mat, I don’t know how many times we hit each other just to try and put the other one down for a three count because once again I wasn’t counting,” she says in a stern tone before laughing. “I didn’t need to count. I didn’t go out there to wrestle James in to the mat. I didn’t go out there looking to beat someone up. I went out there to have a match that every single person in that building, including the both of us, would remember when they left. I went out there to wrestle him with respect, to beat him, and to have the kind of match that would have people asking their friends the next day ‘hey, did you see Syren and Marsh-Asher last night? Did you see the match they put on? Did you see how great it was?’ I didn’t go out to the ring to beat up a girl and claim it meant a damn thing.”

“But it’s not just that, is it? It’s not just last week on Breakdown, it’s EVERY week on EVERY show. But I get it. I get that Regan Street wants to be the best. I get that Regan Street wants to be dominant. I get that Regan’s worked a long time for a shot at this title and I get that she’s worked exceptionally hard to get a shot one on one. And this is it. This is the shot. This is the one she’s wanted. This is what she was willing to sell her soul to CHBK for so that he’d bullshit her in to a title match ahead of everyone else. This is what she’s whined about endlessly ever since last year when she got hurt. This is it. This is HER shot. But let me ask you a question: what happens this time if on Monday morning Regan’s waking up and she’s NOT the Heavyweight Champion of the World?” she asks, looking in to the camera with a serious look. “She may not talk about it much, ALL the people who cheer her on in the locker room may forget to mention it as well, but Regan’s had opportunities before. She had an opportunity earlier this year, triple threat match for the World title, and she didn’t get the job done. Her excuse then was that it wasn’t fair. ‘It wasn’t fair, it was triple threat rules, and it should have been one on one’. Was it fair? I don’t know. But I do know she didn’t do a damn thing to EARN that shot and she got it anyway. Me? I went through the Trios Tournament, I beat half the roster INCLUDING Regan Street, I cashed in at Rise to Greatness in a FOURWAY match and I’m standing right here as champion. Was it fair that Regan didn’t get her free shot one on one? Maybe I’m not the most unbiased person to ask.”

“That never stopped her roaring about it though, did it?” she asks, letting out a long sigh. “Truth is you can never stop the Hellcat from roaring. You never could. From the moment she walked in to this company we’ve all heard her roar. We heard her roar when she took on Marina Trent for the SCW Women’s Championship and it took it away from her. That was impressive. It was way back then, in those early days, that we ALL knew this girl was going to be something special. We knew it when she was aligned with Rachel Foxx, we knew it when she tore through every bit of competition put in front of her, we knew it when she beat a World Champion in the middle of the ring. Yah, we all knew Regan Street was something special, but so did she and she’s never shut up about it. That’s the bit I don’t mention in the interviews. That’s the bit I conveniently leave out but the bit I know they all want me to say. They want me to talk about how much she runs her mouth. They want me to talk about how confident she is in everything she does. They even sometimes ask me how I felt about the end of her reign as the SCW Women’s Champion, a reign that – you know, other than the fact that there was the interim title which actually was defended – rivalled mine. I set a record with that belt. I busted my ass with that belt. And they want me to tell them how I felt about her giving it away like it meant nothing to her? They want to ask me how I felt to watch a championship that meant more to me than anything at one stage cast aside like yesterday’s garbage? When they ask me that question I can’t ever answer it, I decline to comment, because if I don’t I know I’ll end up calling her a self-absorbed bitch.”

She lets out another sigh and shakes her head slowly. “And that’s how I feel, ladies and gentlemen. You want to know the real story about how I feel about Regan Street? I think she’s one of the toughest competitors who’ve EVER stepped in to an SCW ring, I think she’s one of the greatest performers in the history of the Women’s title OR the World title, I think she’s one of the most gifted competitors I’ve ever come up against, but I also think she KNOWS that, she ABUSES that and she has no idea what it means to EARN anything. At least not like I do,” she says sternly. She takes a breath before she stops and walks inside a building, still filming herself as she does so. “I’m not going to tell you that Regan Street doesn’t deserve this opportunity. I’m not going to tell you Regan Street hasn’t earned this match. I’m not going to tell you that she isn’t one of the most deserving, competitive women in the world. I WILL tell you however that Regan Street doesn’t yet understand what it means to be the World Champion. She doesn’t understand the HONOUR that comes from holding this title, because for her entire career all she’s done is roar that it SHOULD be hers. Does that sound like someone else? Yah, I know, but do you want to know the difference between us? The difference is that I learned. The difference is that I grew. The difference is that I understand that this title isn’t just about me, it isn’t a trinket I can hold over my head to roar with and tell the world that I did it and it’s all about ME. This is the SCW World Heavyweight Championship, and this title isn’t just about me. This title is about everything!”

She stops for a moment and hands the camera to someone else. The camera spins around for a moment and we see a hotel foyer and we see Alexander Crowe is now the one holding the camera. He winks at the camera before turning it around and we see Syren now standing there holding the SCW World Heavyweight Championship in her hand and looking at it with pride. “THIS title is about EVERYTHING,” she repeats with even more passion in her voice. “This title is the reason I get out of bed in the morning. This title is the reason that I push myself in every workout. This title is the reason that I attend every show I possibly can and I always want to be in the ring in front of those fans. This title is the most important thing in this business because when you’re holding it then it means you’re at the top of your game, you’re the one in the spotlight, and you’re the one representing this entire company. And being given a chance at this title – ANY CHANCE – is an HONOUR. It’s something to be CHERISHED, not something to be DEMANDED. So this Sunday, when I step in to the ring, I’m not just fighting for me, I’m not just fighting one of my toughest rivals in this company, but I’m fighting for this title, I’m fighting for the company, I’m fighting for the legacy of this belt, I’m fighting for EVERYTHING! And this Sunday, Regan, let me ask you an honest question: what are you fighting for? You’re not fighting to earn those people’s respect. You’re one of the most disrespectful bitches I’ve ever met in my life, and that couldn’t have been MORE evident last week with what you did to Alexis Quinne. So what ARE you fighting for?”

“When I was little I used to be in constant competition with my brother. He’s five days older than me, and I mean we used to compete over EVERYTHING, and most of the time he’d win. He used to sing a song at me. It goes ‘anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you’. Annie Get Your Gun, we’ve all heard that one, right? But when you’re a little kid and you’re DESPERATE to outdo your brother just ONE time and every time he beats you he sings that song then it gets to sit in your head and you start to associate it with those failures. Well ever since Regan Street has walked in the door it’s been a case of anything I can do, she can do better. She was Women’s Champion, and probably thinks she was better at that than me. She was a main event star, and probably thinks she did that better than me. She was the SCW World Heavyweight Champion, and even though it only lasted a day she’s been obsessed with that title ever since. And she’s been popular. Oh boy is she popular. For more than the last year of my life all I’ve heard in the locker room about ANYTHING I do is that Regan Street would have done it better. I’ve worked so hard to be the best champion than I can be, so now I’m laying down the gauntlet to you Regan. Prove you can do it better,” she says proudly. “Do you think I’m afraid of you because you can beat people quickly? No, I’m not. Do you think I’m afraid of you because you’ve beaten Shilo Valiant and whole host of other people? No, I’m not. I’ve done it too. But from the moment you walked in the door and from the very moment you first roared we’ve been in competition, haven’t we? And this Sunday it’s your chance to prove anything I can do, you can do better... so prove it. This is your chance. This is one on one. And for the girl with SO many excuses, this time there are NO more excuses. This Sunday, if you want this title, take it from me. Prove you’re better than me. And if you can’t, if I walk away with this belt, then do something else, ok? Be jealous. BE TOTALLY JEALOUS!”

We hear Alexander laugh from behind the camera as Syren puts the title on her shoulder. “I don’t think you have to worry about that babe,” he says before the scene fades and the video ends, with the replay button flashing up on the screen.