The video begins and we see Zoe Sperling, better known to the wrestling world as Syren, standing in front of a camera with a brick wall behind her. There’s nothing special about this wall at all, it looks like it could be the side of a house but there’s no indication of where it is. Syren herself is dressed in a black hoodie with her heart logo on the side a pair of jeans. She has the SCW World Heavyweight Championship across her shoulder and she looks at the title and then back at the camera and smiles. “Well, we survived another month, didn’t we?” she says before laughing a little more. “It’s been a tough month as well. In case you’re wondering it’s Thursday morning and I’m in Baltimore still. We’re recovering after last night, spending a little time here before heading over to Washington DC tomorrow to make the final preparations before Jealousy and taking a little time to digest everything that’s happened lately. Right now I can’t help but reflect on last night, a controversial night in SCW and another night where I found myself in a bad situation doing the right thing because it was the right thing to do. I’ve been asked a few times since why. We all know that I have no great history with Donovan Kayl. Our match this Sunday is actually refreshing because of that. I mean, this Sunday I’m going one on one with a guy I have respect for, a guy who’s been around this business for a long time, a guy who’s earned his spot fifty times over in his career and a guy who’s hand I can shake before the match, a guy who’s hand I can shake after the match, and a guy who I don’t have to worry about attacking me from behind or blindsiding me after a match.”

She laughs again and smiles at the camera happily. “Like I said, it’s actually a pretty unique situation for me to be in considering how many on this roster have problems with me, considering how many on this roster have attacked me because they saw a target on my back, to face a guy who I have no problem with personally or professionally. It’s actually refreshing to think that this Sunday the SCW World Championship isn’t at the centre of so much drama it makes the writers on Days of Our Lives blush. This Sunday the SCW World Championship is all about wrestling, and I guess that’s why people wanted to know why I did what I did last night,” she says before shrugging her shoulders. “They want to know why I went out there. They want to know why I had his back. They want to know if it’s all because I have a problem with Kennedy Street. It’s not. I did what I did last night because I’ve been in that situation so many times. I did what I did last night because I respect Donovan Kayl and it wasn’t fair what happened to him, to be ambushed by two self-absorbed attention-seekers, and because this Sunday when I face Donovan Kayl I didn’t want the world to think the only reason that I stepped in the ring with him was because someone else did my dirty work. I was ready to watch the match between him and Jake, I saw all the crazy unfolding and when I saw Kennedy going out there I don’t think there was anyone in that building who didn’t know how it was going to end. So I did the right thing, an alien concept to most of the roster, but one that I’ve been going out of my way to do a lot recently.”

“I have no interest in seeing Donovan Kayl hurt. I have no interest in seeing him banged up before the match. The truth is I want Donovan to be at one hundred percent this Sunday so that we can put on the classic match that I know we’re capable of, so that we can blow the roof off of the Verizon Center and so that he gets without any controversy the thing that he’s earned and that’s a shot at the most prestigious championship in this business today,” she says with pride and passion. “Now I know that there was an outcry when he was named the number one contender, and why wouldn’t there be? SCW is full – and I mean really full – of people who thought it should have been them, who thought that without question they should have been named the number one contender, and two of them have been losing their minds over it ever since. I know the match a lot of people wanted to see. They wanted to see Regan get another shot. Who can blame them after we both went all out before and for the first time she got the better of me. I know Kennedy Street and all her brainless followers think she should get a shot based on the fact that... um... she said so, I guess? I can’t really think of any other valid reason for it. And I know that Jake Starr believes that he should have gotten the chance, and there is a lot who agree with him. Well ever since the announcement Jake and Kennedy have been losing their minds, attacking each other, attacking anyone else they feel like, and Jake has been throwing away a few paycheques in order to break all the rules as only Jake Starr can.”

“Believe it or not, I sympathise. I do. I don’t agree with the way that either one of them has gone about their business, I don’t agree with the way Jake has tried to insert himself in to the situation and I don’t agree with all the bullshit they’ve caused, but I do sympathise with them, and Donovan this is a story you’ll likely remember, because it wasn’t too long ago that I almost lost my mind as well. I know how frustrating it can be. Donovan knows it as well. I know because last year I busted my ass every single week, I put together win after win, I lost one match in 2014 and yet Mr D named Simon Lyman the number one contender and it hurt. It hurt because I wanted it to be me. It hurt because I’d tried so hard to get that opportunity and I’ve never been given it. So I know how frustrating it can be. I pretty much lost my mind and I went on Twitter and I said things I shouldn’t have said, things I later regretted saying, but things that I meant one hundred percent at the time. What I didn’t do is I didn’t take a steel chair and start attacking people, I didn’t jump Simon in the ring, instead I went about my business, I entered Taking Hold of the Flame, I busted my ass and I tried to win my chance,” she says proudly. “And Donovan’s been there too. We all remember it, right? He wanted his chance for a match against CHBK. He wanted his chance to prove himself. I don’t agree with the idea that CHBK needed to be retired, I don’t believe a lot of the things that Donovan was saying, but I know exactly how he felt when it came down to needing that opportunity.”

“That’s what it was as well, right Donovan? It was a need. A lot of people will say that I’m wrong, that he just wanted that opportunity but I’m not wrong. He needed it. You see this business is fiercely competitive, it’s do or die, it’s not about what you’ve done but what you’ve done lately, and sometimes you get to that point where you’re beyond just wanting something. We’ve all wanted things. We all know what that’s like. But when you’ve worked that hard, when you’ve put in that much effort, when you’ve conquered every challenge in front of you except for that one that seems unconquerable, and you’ve seen that opportunity in front of you then you don’t just want that anymore, you start to need it. You get locked on the idea, you begin to obsess over it, and there is no amount of rational will in the world that can get you off of it,” she explains before laughing again and shrugging her shoulders. “I know that feeling, so does Donovan. And when we both got that thing that we needed we both delivered above and beyond the expectations set for us. Donovan did the impossible – or what they said was impossible anyway – when he made a legend tap out in the middle of that ring. He proved himself as one of the best on that night. He’s proved it many times since. And as for me, how did my opportunity go when I finally got what I wanted? I think you guys might have heard the story, but if you missed it, if you’ve been away for a while or if you’ve been hiding in a cave for the last six months then let me remind you exactly what happened when I got my opportunity in a Fourway match for the World Championship.”

She takes the World title off her shoulder and holds it up to the camera, smiling proudly and nodding her head. “And trust me when I say that the feeling I got on that night was worth every bit of effort I put in, every drop of blood and sweat that I had to leave in that ring to get to where I wanted to be. On that night I grabbed the brass ring, I found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, use whatever cliché you like but on that night I did it and I’ve been trying to do everything I can ever since to live up to the legacy and the prestige that comes from holding this title,” she says proudly before putting the title back over her shoulder again and smiling. “I said I’ve been doing the right thing a lot lately, and I have. I’ve been doing the right thing because I’ve been trying to lead. I’ve been doing the right thing because I’ve been trying to live up to what it means to be World Champion of a company like SCW and it’s not about holding the title up and claiming to be the best who’s ever lived. This title isn’t about me and about my accomplishments, this title is about Supreme Championship Wrestling, this title is about sold out arenas with twenty or thirty thousand fans packed in to see their favourite brand of wrestling in this world. And that’s what I think a lot of people don’t get. That’s why I face-palm at the thought of a woman so conceited she goes on Twitter every day, speaks in the third person and praises herself, leading this company. It’s why, as much as I respect Jake, I hate the idea of a chair-swinging bully holding this title. And once again it’s why Donovan Kayl as the challenger is different.”

“But people didn’t like the announcement, right? People don’t like any announcement made by Mr D. They think that everything he does is wrong. They tell millions of people on Twitter how much they hate him. They disrespect him to his face. I’ve done a little of that as well. I told him that he was wrong, I promised him that I’d lead his company with pride and do the right thing at Total War and I did that. And as much as everyone seems to think that he has a problem with them, or hate him for the decisions he makes, I’d like to see their solution to having sixteen different people who all think they should be in the same match. He made a choice. He made the right one. He gave another man an opportunity he’s not had before. And if there’s anyone out there who can’t handle that then I have a challenge for you: prove he made the wrong choice,” she says sternly. “Don’t cry. Don’t complain. Prove him wrong. Because while all you people hate him for not giving you the sixteen thousand opportunities you think you deserve ahead of the most competitive roster on the planet, let me tell you something about our boss, shall I? See I have more reason to hate him than anyone. He – or his minion, whatever – came out after I’d won a match for the Women’s title and reversed the decision, not only costing me the title but banning me from the division. Because of situations that we couldn’t even control he put a sanction on Dark Fantasy that said we had no championship advantage. And oh, I may have already mentioned, he’s never picked me once to be the one that gets the easy road. Not once.”

She laughs and smiles. “Oh yah, five and a half years in this company and believe me your petty problems with the boss pale in comparison to the problems I’ve had with him, but yet right now I’m thankful to him. Now he’s put me in seven title defences in six months. I’ve already defended against three former World Champions and three up and comers who got their first opportunity. He’s given me a brutal schedule now including a match one on one with Donovan Kayl at Jealousy. That’s not been easy. That’s not been close to easy. So I’m not thankful for that, but I am thankful for every challenge he’s ever put in front of me, I am thankful for every time he’s stacked the deck against me, I am thankful for every time he’s made it hard for me because I could have cried and complained, I could have thrown my toys out of the pram, I could have said in December – when I knew my schedule was going to be a match with the World Tag Team Champions, defending my title at back to back events, and finishing with a brutal match against a woman who’s made it her purpose in life to beat me – that I wasn’t doing it, that ‘Syren doesn’t do challenges’, but I didn’t. I never have. I’m thankful to him because every bit of adversity he’s put in front of me has made me stronger. I’m thankful because every denied chance I turned in to an opportunity to prove that I wanted it more than ANYONE ELSE. I’m thankful because despite all the adversity I’ve never given up, I’ve never backed down, and on Sunday night in the nation’s capital I’m going to have TWENTY THOUSAND SCW fans wanting a show and I’m going to deliver for them!”

“And when it comes down to it, above all else, that’s what this match is about,” she says with a smile. “It’s not about egos. It’s not about revenge. It’s not about who deserved what and didn’t get it. It’s about Donovan and me getting in to that ring and fighting to find out which one of us is better in front of a sold out arena full of people and millions more watching from their couches at home, and I know all you guys have your favourite in this one. Some of you think I’m going to win. You guys know what that means to me, I’ve said it before, and you guys know that everything I do in that ring I do for each and every one of you. And some of you think Donovan is going to win. That’s fine, I’m not angry about that, I’m not bitter, if anything I’m actually used to not being the popular choice. But if you guys think that that doubt in me is going to affect me, that I won’t be on my game because you don’t believe in me, then you don’t know me at all. I don’t see that doubt in me or hear the fans cheering for my opponent and get downhearted about it. I get motivated by it. If you’re behind me that that respect motivates me, and if you hate on me and you tell me I’m not good enough and you tell me that Donovan or anyone else should be where I am then that motivates me even more. A few months ago I went in to a match against Regan Street, you guys remember it. The crowd were a little split, there were people there that night that wanted to see her win, and all I saw all day long that day was tweet after tweet praising Regan, telling the world it was her night, and when it came to game time I didn’t crumble, I proved all of them wrong!”

“That’s what I do. You doubt me, I prove you wrong. You hate on me, I use that hatred to fuel me to go further and harder than I’ve ever been before. You tell me that my time is over, that there’s too much competition, that I’ll never compete with the likes of Shaun Cruze, Kelcey Wallace or Jake Starr, and I go out to that ring and I prove you wrong time after time after time. That’s what’s happening this weekend. Like I said, this is my seventh title defence in six months. That’s a brutal schedule by anyone’s account, right? Well before the End of Year Special people told me that my reign was over. I told them they were wrong. I told them that I wasn’t done yet. I said I was going to leave that night as champion, that I was going to go to Washington DC on Sunday and defend this title again, and that after that I’d be leaving with this title still. I said I’d be going to Atlanta and raising this belt above my head. I said that I’d be going home, Los Angeles, California, in a sold out STAPLES Center, and I’d be raising this belt over my head in my hometown, and I meant it,” she says with a grin clearly at the thought of the STAPLES Center. “Sorry, I can’t help but smile when I think about that place. Not the point right now though, is it? The point is that I said I wasn’t done before my match with Chris Cannon and I’m still here, I’m still fighting, I’m still proving people wrong. Donovan Kayl is next, another who deserves his chance just like Chris did, and if I get my way on Sunday night I’m walking out with this belt again. I want to go to Los Angeles with this title. I want to stand in front of those fans as champion. I’m not done now, and I won’t be then either.”

“I’ve faced up to every challenge I’ve had. I’ve accepted challenges from the likes of William Mason and Shaun Cruze. I’ve fought a tournament winner like Regan Street. I’ve overcome the random luck of the draw in the form of a man who took this title away from me once before, James Marsh-Asher. I’ve led this company in to Total War. I’ve overcome back to back challenges either side of Christmas against two up and coming and DESERVING competitors who both thought that their time was now and my time was done. I’ve done ALL OF THAT in six months and I’m STILL NOT DONE,” she says with pride and excitement. “I want you guys to know that. I want you guys to know that I want Donovan fit and fighting, I want him in the best form of his life, I want him giving one hundred percent because I’m going to give the same. I want this match, I want this opportunity, I want to prove any and all doubters wrong and I want to show the world that I’m not finished yet. 2014 was the best year of my life and sure, losing to Regan to kick off 2015 sucked, but that didn’t break me. Nuh-uh, losing to Regan may have broken my winning record but it made me go back and review my mistakes and now all that I’m going to do is push myself EVEN HARDER come Sunday. Donovan Kayl is a hell of a respected athlete, a fantastic champion who’s done the impossible before and I know this Sunday he’ll be thinking he can do the impossible again, that he can rise to the challenge and win the World title – I mean, beating me isn’t impossible, but winning this title? That’s damn close to it! I know he’ll be thinking he can do that. I’m going to try and prove him wrong.”

“This Sunday, Washington DC, Verizon Center, Donovan Kayl and Syren one on one for the World title, we’re both going in with everything to prove and I intend to leave with this title. It’s not personal, it’s not going to be a war of brutality, it’s not about revenge or payback, it’s about two athletes at the top of their game going one on one to find out who’s better and as good as Donovan is, as much as I respect him, I believe in my heart that I’m better and on Sunday I’m going to prove it,” she says with pride before smiling at the camera and taking the SCW World title off her shoulder. She holds it up to the camera again, looking at the belt for a long minute before looking back in to the camera again. “This is what it’s all about. This is what it’ll be about on Sunday. For Donovan Kayl it’s his moment to shine. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime. It’s his shot at the most prestigious title in this business. And he’s going to go all out, I know he is. So am I! My title reign has been all about overcoming the impossible, it’s been all about being all you can be, it’s been all about proving the doubters and the haters wrong and it’s been about proving your worth week after week in front of the world. My title reign has been about giving opportunities to those just like me, those who bust their ass, tMhose who felt underappreciated, and those who doubted they’d ever get that chance to show the world their talent. This Sunday Donovan Kayl gets his, and this Sunday I’m going to shake your hand before this match and I intend to raise this title over my head after it. My title reign has been about being extraordinary and that’s what I’m going to have to be to win on Sunday. I know the challenge that’s ahead of me, I know the difficulties that I’ll face, and I know I’m up for it. If you’re behind me, if you support me, then on Sunday if I retain this belt AGAIN we’ll celebrate, and if not then on Sunday if I retain this belt AGAIN then you the pay per view is perfectly named for you to JUST BE JEALOUS!”

She grins at the camera before putting the title over her shoulder and smiling again. “See you Sunday guys when we STAND TALL one more time and we show the world nothing is impossible.”

She blows a kiss to the camera and smiles again as the scene fades out. Once it does the video comes to an end with the replay button flashing up on the screen.