The video begins and we see a shot of the British flag flying and flapping in the wind. We can’t hear the wind, and it soon becomes obvious that what we’re looking at is the flag flying through a window. The camera zooms out from its focus on the flag to reveal a little more of the room the window is in, revealing a picturesque looking hotel room, before turning to see a sight enjoyed by far more people than a hotel room window, namely the smiling face of the five-time SCW World Champion, Syren. “Welcome to jolly old England,” she says in a bad British accent before beginning to laugh and shaking her head. “Ugh, my British accent sucks. But in all seriousness, welcome to a video filmed for you on the other side of the Atlantic and even though I’m a long way from home, and I miss my kids, I’ve got to say that the European tour has NOT disappointed. Everywhere we’ve gone the SCW fans have come out in huge numbers and everywhere we’ve been we’ve blown the roof off. That won’t be different tomorrow night in London, either, where SCW’s crazy period of international touring comes to an end with what could be one of the biggest Breakdown’s we’ve seen in a long time. And my part tomorrow night? Well, I could stand here and rant and rave at you all about how I deserve this or I deserve that but I believe I did make you guys a promise about relaxing a little and having more fun, and you know what? That’s totally what’s happening tomorrow night in London when I go one on one with Marie Jones.”

She nods and smiles before the smile fades a little. “But before I talk about her, and the match, and everything surrounding it I need to address something else first. I need to congratulate Ace Marshall, Jake Starr and Tommy Valentine on winning the Trios Tournament. What more needs to be said than that? This week on Breakdown we’ll see Jake picking up his contract, before facing off against Punk Hazard’s Grundy, and as much as I’d love to be standing before you right now saying that it’s me in that spot, as much as I’d love to be standing here right now telling you that I’ve got that golden ticket that lets me make ANY match I want, I can’t do that. But I certainly tried. Three matches in one night. All the way to the finals. And while we didn’t exactly have the most functional team in Trios Tournament history I’m still proud of what we accomplished a week ago,” she says before nodding her head as her smile starts to fade, “but I’m not crazily happy about the way we did it. I guess if the finals proved anything it’s that underhanded tactics and bending every rule to breaking point AREN’T the way to succeed in this business, and you know what? That’s disappointing, because there were moments throughout the night that we actually DID work well as a unit. Of course, there was also a moment in the night that Jake Starr came out of nowhere and… well, let’s just say ‘affected my ability to do anything about the final pin-fall’. But I’m proud of the guys. Three matches in one night, I said whoever won would deserve it and they DO deserve it. Congratulations. Use the contracts well.”

She nods her head and smiles a little. “But that means that I’m without a Trios Contract, I’m without an opportunity right now, and you know you guys? I’m hungry for one. 2017 didn’t start off as my greatest ever year in this business, and I lost to an ultra-competitive Alexis Quinne at Hazardous Envy – but that won’t be the last time she and I are in the ring together, and next time I will be the one getting my hand raised, I can promise you that – but you know what I love about this business? The unpredictability of it. One moment you can be down at your lowest, feeling like the world is against you, and the next you can be flying higher than you’ve ever flown. At Retribution, I’m going to be flying high. At Retribution, I’m going to giving everything I’ve got. I know what I WANT at Retribution, and going toe to toe with Selena Frost last Saturday only made me want that more, but WHATEVER it is I’m doing on March 5th inside the AT&T Center I can guarantee you I’ll be giving it everything I’ve got,” she says before the smile properly returns to her face. “And, in the meantime, I’ve been going out there every night in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England showing those fans why I am a five-time SCW World Champion and why I will be a six-time World Champion before long. But as fun as it is going out in live events, as personal as it can be interacting with the fans when there are no cameras rolling and you get that entirely different atmosphere, there’s nothing quite like when the bright lights click on, the cameras start rolling and anything can happen, and tomorrow night believe me when I tell you anything could, and maybe will, happen on Breakdown.”

She nods. “But the one thing I’m guaranteed to be doing tomorrow night, the one thing that I have got to look forward too, is going one on one with Marie Jones and what could I ask for more than that? What could I ask for more than the chance to go one on one with the Professional Wrestling’s Crown Jewel? And if that sounded like I was mocking her I wasn’t… well, not entirely anyway. I mean Marie Jones is a hell of a competitor. And why wouldn’t she be? She’s a second-generation star, daughter of one of the greatest tag team wrestlers going today, ultra-competitive inside the ring and accomplished. Hell, she’s been around the world, she’s faced every kind of challenge, and she’s fought every kind of opponent. Considering the legacy that the Jones name has in SCW I guess it was only a matter of time before we saw Marie, and it was only a matter of time before Marie tried to do everything she’s done everywhere else right here in an SCW ring. And, well, I know this is clichéd, and it’s kind of lame, but as much as ‘Professional Wrestling’s Crown Jewel’ has done with her career and as many achievements as she’s racked up she’s never faced ‘the Best Female Wrestler in the World’,” she says with a smile on her face, “and right now is probably not the time that she wants to do that. I mean yah, I had a rough January, no doubting that, but someone who calls herself ‘The Phoenix’ should know I’ve been burned before, I’ve gone down in flames before, but I ALWAYS come back and each time I do I burn BRIGHTER than I ever have.”

She smiles proudly. “Wednesday night is the night I start to prove that again. See, there are two things that have defined my career from day one and they’re that ability to come back time after time no matter what happened – to take a negative and use it as motivation to get stronger, get better and turn it into a positive – and the simple fact that when it comes to getting in that ring and going toe to toe with anyone there is nobody in this business more competitive than I am,” she says before shrugging her shoulders almost apologetically. “I have never in my life seen a challenge that I have not tried to rise to, no matter how insane that challenge may have been, no matter what the odds were against me at the time or no matter what difficulties I’ve had to overcome. I’ve gone in that ring with every knock, bump and bruise imaginable. I’ve fought inside the most dangerous structures this business has ever seen and come out on top of them. I’ve taken stands against monsters, madmen and some of the most hardcore bitches this business has ever known. And while I can’t pretend that it hasn’t driven me close to crazy at times, and while I can’t say that I’ve never wished on occasion that things could be just a little bit easier than having to constantly fight the world to get what I want, I have fought the world time after time and more often than not come out on top. Trust me, Marie, I know what you’ve done in this business. I’ve seen the challenges you’ve overcome. I know you’re a fighter. I know you’re a warrior. But sweetie, when I get into that ring this Wednesday night I’m going to have everything to prove and I WILL prove it.”

“That’s just what you need to do to be successful in SCW, and that’s what so many people have never understood. It’s not about holding out your hand and making demands. It’s not about showing up when you want and expecting everything to be made easy. It’s about going out there every single night, in front of every single crowd, and giving everything you’ve got win or lose, then coming back the next night and doing it all over again. It’s about competing with the best wrestlers on the planet and testing yourself constantly against all of them, and sweetie, as much respect as I have for you that’s where I think you and I have VERY different approaches to this business. Now I don’t blame you for some of that. I mean god knows I’ve gotten frustrated with the way things have gone for me before and thought maybe the grass was greener somewhere else, but no matter what I’ve remained loyal to SCW, and when I’ve been at my very best in this business it’s when I’ve been focused one hundred percent on being in that ring and giving those fans what they pay for. So, if I was going to take issue with you – and I’m not saying I am, I’m just saying that IF I was going to – then it would be over that difference between us,” she says, nodding her head slightly. “I know you want the success in SCW. I know you want to leave a legacy in SCW. And I know the fans want to watch you competing night after night in SCW. But I also know that on Monday night, during one of the biggest international tours SCW has EVER put on, in front of sold-out crowds all over the UK and Ireland, you weren’t focused on being here… were you?”

She shakes her head a little, not judgementally but more as though she’s disappointed. “On Monday night, while we tore down the Manchester Arena, while we competed for one of the hottest live crowds we’ve had on this tour, there was one thing I noticed about you… or rather couldn’t notice about you, because you weren’t there. You weren’t the only one. You’re not the only competitor that SCW has had on its books even this year who’s had split loyalties. But in a way, while I respect anyone who wants to actively pursue their dreams and actively pursue opportunities like that, I’m also disappointed by it. I mean, what kind of message does that send? You’ll show up to work, you’ll bust your ass, you’ll compete at the top level as hard as you can… but only when the television cameras are rolling? You’ll come on tour to the most loyal fans in this business… but only when there’s not a better offer somewhere else?” she asks before sighing and shrugging her shoulders. “Like I said sweetie in a lot of ways I get it, I mean I’ve done that whole ‘grass is greener on the other side’ thing myself, and yet all that experience taught me is that that extra exposure, those extra matches for different titles somewhere other than here, those hours spent dreaming about different opportunities, were wasted because sweetie, I can tell you that holding a hundred different titles is great if you can do it, and fantastic for your ego and your resume, but in this business there might be a hundred different companies who claim to have a top prize but there’s only ONE where you can truly be on top of the WORLD.”

She smiles again. “And that’s something I can say with one hundred percent commitment and honesty, because every single person listening to it right now knows I’m telling the truth. You think I don’t have offers? You think I don’t have promoters phoning me – or phoning my agent – and asking if I’ll work their events? You think I haven’t heard some INSANE amounts of money on offer to just go somewhere for one night, or to sign on for just a year? And I could. I could pad my resume. But I know that it’d be hollow. It’d be empty. It’s the same reason that I didn’t try to get myself in the Shot of Adrenaline tournament. It’s the same reason that I don’t eye up the United States Championship every time I’m bouncing back from a World title defeat. You think I wouldn’t LOVE to compete with Ravyn again in the tag team division and for Dark Fantasy to test ourselves against so many new teams that we’ve never faced off against before? But I don’t and it’s for a simple reason. It’s because I’m focused on ONE goal, I’m focused on ONE dream, and that’s to prove I am the BEST IN THE WORLD and regain the TOP PRIZE in this industry for a SIXTH time,” she says passionately and with fire in her eyes. “Now I respect what you do. I respect the hard work you put in. But when I go on YouTube and I listen to you talking about being somewhere else, about what that means to you, about how much you want to succeed there, and then I click on another video and I listen to you saying the exact same things about being here I can’t help but wonder how I’m supposed to trust that any of it is genuine…”

She shrugs her shoulders again. “Sorry, not sorry,” she says before shrugging again. “But it’s not just you, sweetie. Don’t think for a moment that I’m singling YOU out with this. I’m not. I’ve watched dozens of people do the same thing. I’ve watched dozens of people so desperate for a title to put over their shoulders that they’d go anywhere and say anything to get it, or think that they’re entitled to do exactly that, but this is SUPREME CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, this is the TOP, this is where the BEST come to compete, and to be the best here, to be at the top here, it means NO days off, it means NO split focus, and when you get that opportunity to do something special here, when you get that opportunity to redefine your career in that ring, it means showing nothing but one hundred percent focus. That’s what I bring to the ring every single time I’m in it. Win or lose, against the biggest names in the business or the rookies just starting out, every time I step between those ropes I bring a level of focus and determination that is unmatched in this industry. I bring a level of attention to detail that nobody gets. And tomorrow night in the North Greenwich Arena, the world-famous O2 Arena where we saw Olympic dreams made just a few years ago, SCW’s Iron Woman is going to bring the best she’s got, step between those ropes and put on a show. And you and me, sweetie… we may not be in the most high-profile match of the night, we may not be competing for anything but pride, but between us we have the talent to steal the show tomorrow, and that’s what I’m intending to do. Tomorrow night I’m going to remind the world why I am who I am, I’m going to prove my desire and commitment once again, and I’m going to show one more time I may get knocked down, I may get beat, but I come back because I am UNSTOPPABLE!”

She smiles one more time with a look of pride on her face and blows a kiss to the camera before switching it off. The scene cuts to black and a second later the video ends and the replay button flashes up on the screen.