The camera focuses on what seems to be the SCW Women’s Championship. It lingers on a close up of the championship for the longest time before beginning to pan out and we see that this title doesn’t look quite right. It seems almost too flawless. After a few moments we hear the voice of the former two-time Women’s Champion, Syren. “I remember the day they first gave this to me, and I almost threw it to the ground in a rage,” she says as we continue to focus on the Women’s title for a moment longer before the camera zooms out a little more and we see Syren standing in the picture. She’s dressed pretty casually, in a shirt sporting her logo and worn blue jeans and she picks up the Women’s title replica and looks at it for a long moment. “It was a few days after Gang Rulz 2010, a few days after I’d lost the Women’s title for the very first time, the only ever Women’s Championship match that ended in me getting pinned, weirdly.  This guy from SCW knocked on my door and he told me they had a delivery for me. Obviously I was confused. Then they gave me a package and I took it inside and when I opened it this was waiting for me.  To commemorate my championship reign they sent me a replica title. It’s actually pretty standard practice, I’ve got a few of them now, but when I received this one I got so upset.”

She laughs at the memory and looks at the Women’s title again with a smile on her face, remembering the good times obviously instead of the bad. “I look back at my reaction now and it was pretty immature. It’s just at the time I was still angry at myself, I was still angry at the situation, I was still looking for someone to blame for the whole thing, because I’d been the SCW Women’s Champion before then for four hundred and six days, a feat unimaginable to anyone when I first won the title from Gigi Steward at Under Attack 2009, and quite frankly I felt naked without that title. I felt like something was missing from my life. I wanted it back more than I wanted anything in the world. I’d get it back, eventually. I had to wait a while for the opportunity, but when it came I was sure as hell not letting it pass me by,” she says with a smile, again likely thinking of the memories. She lets out a little contented sigh before looking up into the camera again. “If you’re wondering why I’m showing you this then it’s not because I want to brag about being Women’s Champion. I wish I could brag about it, you know? I wish I could but there isn’t a whole lot of love for that championship these days and that’s kind of sad, because once upon a time that title was the epitome of Women’s wrestling and holding that title meant you were the very best.”

“Today though that’s all changed but this title in relevance to my career – to my life – never has. This title was the very first of my career, the first title I’d held in SCW, and I remember every challenge I had while holding it, I remember every obstacle I had to overcome to hold on to it, and I remember every time I got to raise this title over my head. I raised it over my head in my first ever Taking Hold of the Flame Battle Royal back in 2010. I didn’t do too great back then. I also raised it over my head in my second ever Taking Hold of the Flame Battle Royal in 2011. Again, didn’t do too great, but I did better than the year before, so that was progress at least?” she suggests before shrugging her shoulders innocently. “To answer the question of why I’m showing you this, why I’m talking about events that transpired before most of the roster was even part of the company yet, it’s because I’ve been thinking a lot over the last few days about one thing, and that’s my legacy. See just recently I had an opportunity put in front of me, an opportunity that I wanted really badly, to leave wrestling completely and to star in a television show. Ok, you can laugh, it’s fine, but actually it was something I’ve dreamt about doing since I was six years old, something I was convinced I wanted more than anything, until I realised what I’d be missing out on.”

She smiles a little before shrugging her shoulders again. “I know, you probably don’t care, but for me it was a really big thing, ok? It was a chance to follow a childhood dream and do whatever I could to make that a reality, or a chance to continue doing what I’m doing, continue getting in that ring night after night, week after week, and giving all I’ve got to be everything that I can be,” she explains before letting out another sigh. “In the end I was so convinced I knew what I wanted, until I started to think about SCW, until I started to think about everything I’d done in that ring, until I started to think about all the sacrifices I’ve made over six years in this business and not just everything that I’ve done before but everything that I’ve still got left to do! I started thinking about the Women’s Championship, and the World Tag Team Championships, and everything that I gave up to do as much as I could with those titles, but most of all I started thinking about the World Championship, about how much that title means to me and about the fact that I’m nowhere near ready yet to give up on reclaiming that title again. Then I started thinking about everything else I’d done, all the impossible challenges I’ve overcome that I talked about before, and all the ones I’ve still got left in my future, and I started wondering what kind of legacy was I leaving behind me?”

She looks at the Women’s title replica again for a moment before smiling at it happily and then placing it down out of view of the camera and looks back to the camera once more. “I like to think that I’ve done most everything that I wanted to do in this business,” she says with a happy little nod. “When I started out my goals were pretty small, over time they grew and they grew as my career got bigger and bigger and today my goals are bordering on the impossible. I know there have been plenty of people over the years who’ve hung up their boots and taken spots in the Hall of Fame, who come back to do the panels before the biggest events as legends of this sport, because they felt that they’d done everything there was for them to do, and the fans agreed. And maybe you can look at me and you can say yah, you know what, she’s done everything that there is for her to do. She’s set records, she’s surpassed expectations, she’s done more in her career than anyone thought a little blonde girl with breast implants and a ‘dumb’ Californian accent could possibly do. And she may not have been the first female to hold the World title but dammit if she didn’t go out of her way to prove she was the best female to hold that title. But while I can imagine people thinking that about me the truth is that there’s still so much more for me in this business that I haven’t done.”

“Let’s start with the most immediate of those things, shall we? I’ve never won Taking Hold of the Flame,” she says with a pout and then a smile. “As much as I have done in my career, as much as I have accomplished, that’s one thing that I haven’t done and when I think back over the biggest and best names in the history of this company – Jason Wheeler, CHBK, Adam Riddick, Greg Cherry, Damien Angel, Shawn Winters, James Exeter, Matt Hodges, and the most painful one for me to add to this list because he went on from night to dethrone me at Rise to Greatness, Shilo Valiant – I think back to that night that they won their Taking Hold of the Flame Battle Royal and do you know what almost all of those people have in common? The fact that there were two words used to describe those victories: ‘career defining’. They were right as well, weren’t they? Those victories were career-defining moments for all of those guys. And last year Kelcey Wallace did the impossible and she overcame the odds and won the Battle Royal and that became one of her career defining moments. It cemented her as one of the best this company has ever known, one of the best it’s ever likely to see, and no matter what happens from now until the end of her career they’ll still talk about that night where Kelcey Wallace conquered the biggest match in SCW.”

She nods her head slowly. “That’s what it is. That’s what this match this Sunday is. Sure the reward for winning it is the thing that everyone wants, the opportunity to go on to Rise to Greatness in a guaranteed headlining spot to fight for the single most important championship in professional wrestling, the SCW World Heavyweight Championship, but the Battle Royal is so much more than that. The Battle Royal has a legacy all of it’s own. It can make people and it can break people. It can turn someone experiencing an unlucky streak into the hottest commodity in the business in an instant, and it doesn’t matter if you’ve been to the mountain top a dozen times before, when you win Taking Hold of the Flame you cement your legacy alongside a small group of individuals and you immortalise yourself in the history of the event,” she says with passion and pride in her voice. “Winning Taking Hold of the Flame is so much more than just a main event spot at Rise to Greatness; it’s a moment in history that surpasses almost ALL others to stand alone. And I’ll be honest with you guys right now, no matter what else I do in my career, no matter how many tournaments I win, how many times I conquer the Trios Tournament, how many titles I raise over my head and for how long I raise then, if my career ends and I’ve never won that match I’ll always feel like something’s missing.”

“Of course I said before how damn near impossible it is,” she says before laughing. “I mean that list of names I gave out, that’s almost every winner in the history of this match and do you want to know the craziest part about that list? You don’t see any names on there twice. Winning it just once is damn near impossible so winning it twice? Well, who knows, this could be someone’s year, right? And of those I listed who wouldn’t want to be the first one to conquer the biggest match in the company on two different occasions? All I know is that I still want to conquer it just once. I’ve been close a few times as well. Last year, for example, Regan and I eliminated each other and we both hit the floor on the outside with just two remaining in the ring. And a few years before that I got tossed to the outside and could do nothing but sit on my butt and watch Shawn Winters and Jason Wheeler battle to see who was going to win. But that’s the problem with this match, because there’s no prize for second place. There’s no silver medal. There’s definitely not a bronze medal! You go into this match and you fight and you scratch and you claw and you do EVERYTHING you can do but when you get thrown over that top rope the only thing you can do is walk away and look back to see who behind you has managed to do what you wanted to do.”

“Twice I’ve watched the final two, wishing that I could have made it just a little bit further. Twice I’ve had to go to the back and been told that I did ‘really great’ to come in third, but ‘really great’ meant nothing when I saw the person in the ring with their hands held in the air. Despite all the odds against me, despite the size difference between me and so many others, despite all the obstacles I spoke about before and so many others have spoke about when they’ve talked about this match I came THAT close on TWO different occasions to achieving the impossible, and neither time could I finish the job. I’ll be honest, coming that close and not going all the way has a habit of breaking you,” she admits before letting out a long sigh. “Coming that close but not going all the way has a habit of destroying you when you think about everything you had to do get that far and how close you were to what you wanted. You’re so close that you can taste it but still so far from it that the only thing you get from it is a pat on the back. It’s beyond heart breaking to experience that and I’ve experienced it twice now, yet this year I’m back, again, more determined than ever to complete that goal, to cross another dream off my bucket list, to accomplish a CAREER-DEFINING moment in front of the world in Columbus, and this Sunday I’m willing to give everything I have to make that happen.”

She takes a deep breath before pausing for a long moment, gathering her thoughts for a moment before looking back to the camera again. “So, here’s the situation I’m in right now guys,” she says softly. “This Sunday I head to Columbus and I put everything on the line and I fight. I fight against chair-wielding assholes. I fight against giant freaks of nature. I fight against egotistical bitches. I fight against the BEST competition in the world, arguably the most competitive field that the Battle Royal has EVER had, and if I win then I get my rematch and I go to Rise to Greatness and I headline it again and I get the career-defining moment that puts my name alongside the truly greatest names in the history of SCW. This Sunday I step inside the Nationwide Arena and I fight with everything I have to make another moment of history for myself and another moment of history for SCW and I do that, and I win, and I get everything that I want… or I get thrown over the top rope, I get eliminated, I get pulled to my feet by the officials at ringside and I get told to go to the back because my dreams are over. That’s what this Sunday is all about, because it’s like I said before, there’s no prize for second place, there’s no podium finish, you get everything you’ve ever wanted, you live the dream and you’re immortalised in SCW history… or you’re done and you’ve got nowhere to go.”

“That’s the challenge facing not only me but twenty-nine others this Sunday. That’s the reality of the obstacle that lies ahead of us. And for anyone who’s never been a part of this match, for anyone who’s never experienced it up close, for anyone who’s never felt the exhilarating high or the devastating low that comes from Sunday night can you even imagine the pressure that’s on all of our shoulders?” she asks before shaking her head. “If you’re saying you can, if you’re saying you know how it must be, if you’re saying that you’ve got some kind of experience you can draw from that is exactly how it’ll be on Sunday then you’re wrong. I’m sorry to have to tell you that but you’re wrong. There is nothing that can prepare you for this match. There is no amount of training you can do to be ready for it. This Sunday you’ve got to pull out a number, you’ve got to prey that it’s a high one, and then you’ve got to sit in the back pacing nervously and waiting as each number ticks by until your one finally gets displayed. Even before you’ve gotten to the ring this Sunday you’ve already been through one of the most stressful experiences in this business, and that’s before guys twice your size start kicking you in the gut, picking you up above your head and trying to break you in half across their knees. That’s before friends become enemies, that’s before alliances form all around you and outnumber you completely, and that’s before you’ve even lasted a minute.”

She laughs again, pausing again for a moment before biting her lip. “This Sunday is the biggest, craziest, most competitive match of the year. This Sunday is the most daunting match that you’ll ever come across – even more daunting than the Elimination Chambers that I’ve been smashed into, even more daunting than the First Blood matches I’ve been cut open in, even more daunting than the Thunderdome matches that I’ve almost lost my life inside. This Sunday is without doubt the craziest night of the entire year, but you know you guys? I’m ready for it,” she says with another smile spreading across her face. “Do I want to be here? Honestly, no. I want to be in the World title match. I want to be fighting for the title that I held above my head so proudly. I want to be fighting to represent this company the way it SHOULD be represented, not by an egotistical, self-absorbed coward who makes Kim Kardashian look like a saint, but by a warrior who’s steps up to every challenge, who never backs down and gives EVERYTHING she has EVERY NIGHT to prove herself to the world. That’s where I want to be but it’s not where I am, and I’ve just got accept that, right? But where I am right now is ready for the biggest challenge in SCW. Where I am right now is ready for the stresses, ready for the doubt, ready pour my heart and my soul into another attempt at winning this match and cementing my legacy as the Best Female Wrestler in the World!”

“This Sunday I step into that ring and I’m looking to fulfil a dream. This Sunday I step into that ring and I’m looking to add to my legacy. And to do that this Sunday I’ve turned away a lifelong dream. I could be partying right now instead of preparing. I could be celebrating my first major acting role. I could be preparing for a whole new life and a whole new career but I’m not, because as much as I would love to do that, as much as I would love to take all the benefits that come with it – you know, not getting my ass kicked on a weekly basis, not having to wake up early and train every day harder than I ever have to keep improving myself, to keep pushing himself and keep getting better, and not having to give up any thoughts of a family of my own, an impossibility for any woman in this business – there’s only one thing I’m dreaming about right now, and it’s the same thing I think about when I’m pushing myself to my limits, it’s the same thing I think about the last thing every night before I go to bed and it’s the same thing I think about every morning when I wake up. That’s overcoming all the doubt, rising up against all the hate, STANDING TALL in spite of everyone trying to bring me down, with my head held high wanting to prove myself as the very best of my generation,” she says, taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly. “Now maybe that’s impossible. Maybe it’s something I’ll never do. But I’m never going to stop fighting. This Sunday is about a dream. This Sunday is about a legacy. This Sunday is about reaching out and Taking Hold of the Flame!”

She pauses for another moment before smiling again. “Wish me luck,” she says with another smile. “See you Sunday.”

And with that the video comes to an end and fades out to black before the replay button flashes up on the screen.