[Kick Start my Heart by Motley Crue hits the speakers.  The crowd jumps to their feet as their defeated hero comes out from behind the curtain.  He is dressed in his regular wrestling attire, along with a matching shirt.  For the first time in over five months, he is walking down to the ring without the TNT Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship Title belt wrapped around his waist.  He has his hair tied back and the hairs on his chin au naturel.  He stops at the top of the ramp for a moment to take in the adulation of his thousands of fans in attendance.  He looks out into the sold out TNT Wrestling audience to see everyone in the building on their feet watching his every move.  They are clapping, and cheering for a man who was once such a great champion.  In their minds though, he still is a champion.  He is their champion, for now and forever.  Totopoulous takes a step forward, and makes his way down the ramp with slow steps.
 

 

Totopoulous walks around to the opposite side of the ring.  He greets the ring announcer pleasantly.  He is handed a microphone by that same ring announcer.  He climbs up the steps, through the ropes, and into the ring.  He walks to the middle of the ring with his head down.  The music is still blasting through the speakers, and the crowd is still cheering for their champion.  There are signs in the crowd that read, "Toppy=Champion", "Toppy is still our champ", "Nic Totopoulous", etc.  Totopoulous puts his head up as the music stops.  The crowd continues to cheer.  Their cheers turn into a chant.]

"TOPPY!  TOPPY!  TOPPY!  TOPPY!"

[Totopoulous puts the microphone to his mouth, and cuts off the fans.]

Thank you.  Thanks to everyone out there.  For me, these last five months have been like a dream.  They have passed me by faster than I could have ever imagined.  Last Sunday night after the match.  I went back to the hotel room, and I took a look at the calender sitting on the dresser next to me.  It read March 16, 2003.  That is approximately five months after I first one the title in that latter match against Brian Kraemer.  It had never really sunk in how long I held that title.  I really took every moment of that reign for granted.  I truly felt as if I was unstoppable.  Every time someone were to challenge me for my title, I would swat them away like a fly.  I was able to compete at the top of my game every single night for five months.  That is something many people cannot say they have ever done.  There was not one time during those five months I did not give ever last ounce of energy I had into wrestling.  There was not one time during those five months that I ever doubted my self, and my ability.  I went up against all on-comers.  I wrestled against Bucky, Nightmare, Big Boss, Cappy, Jonny Fly, everyone that wanted a match with the champion was given one.  Everyone that wanted a shot at the title was given one.  It really was one hell of a run, and I thank all of you fans for staying behind me every step of the way.  I know a lot of people say this, but I truly mean it.  If it weren't for you fans, I don't think I would have been able to compete at such a high level for so long.  I don't think I would have held that title for so long.  I don't think I would be the man I am standing here today without your support.  I thank you for that.  I thank you for helping me to achieve my dream of becoming the TNT Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion.

[Nic Totopoulous puts the microphone away from his mouth for a moment.  The crowd begins to give him a standing ovation.  Then they begin to chant his name once again.]

"TOPPY!  TOPPY!  TOPPY!  TOPPY!"

[Totopoulous puts the microphone back to his mouth and continues.]

Thank you again.  I am not deserving of your ovation right now.  For the past few weeks I haven't been at my best, I haven't been able to compete at the top of my game.  After five months of non-stop, best of the best wrestling, unstoppable wrestling, turning away all on-comers, it was just my time to have a low point.  It is impossible for someone to be at their best every week, day in and day out for their entire careers.  Three Sunday's ago when I lost my first match in who knows how long against Lo-Lander, it was the beginning, the beginning of a slump.  I truly believe that is all I was going through these past few weeks.  I have been going through a slump.  I think it's about time I reach up and pull myself out of this hole I have gotten myself into.  I have gotten myself physically and mentally into a hole that I have not been able to reach the exit to.  This Sunday night against Aussie Wonder will be my chance to get myself out of that slump.

Before I talk about Aussie Wonder though, I would like to address White Thunder.  I would first like to congratulate him on his World Title victory last Sunday at Warfare.  When he beat me the week before that best two out of three falls match, I thought that it might have been simply because he had help from the outside.  I thought it might have been because the Unforgettables came down to the ring to help him out.  Maybe his victory that night was because of them.  Last Sunday night though, he did it all on his own.  When I got that first fall, I thought it would have been over.  I didn't think there was any chance that White Thunder would be able to get two straight falls against me.  I didn't think White Thunder had what it took to even get one fall on me after falling behind in that match.  I have to give him credit where credit is due though.  He fought back with everything he had.  I'm sure I'm not the only one that thought it would be over.  I'm sure I'm not the only one that thought White Thunder would fold up his tent and give up.  I even thought that The Unforgettables would come down to the ring to lend him a hand.  They didn't though, and White Thunder, on his own, pinned my shoulders to the mat, to become the new World Champion.

That match is in the past though.  There is not sense in dwelling on past mistakes, and past matches.  All I need to be able to do is learn from these mistakes and matches.  I need to learn what I did wrong, and try not to make these same mistakes ever again.  Now while I want to try and forget about things from the past, there are some things that I cannot forget.  Not only can I not forget them, but I cannot forgive them either.  I cannot forgive people that turn their back on me.  I cannot forgive people betray me, who betray a trust and friendship that has been built over a number of years.  I cannot forgive a man like Gravedigger.  I have said on a number of occasions that he and I were good friends, very good friends.  He and I were almost like brothers.  What he did on Sunday night is unforgivable.  He turned his back on me, on one of the few men in this business that he could trust.  And I thought that when the whole wrestling world turned their backs on me, that he would be there for me.  I thought that when it was all said an done, when all the dust settled, the one thing I knew would be there would have been our friendship.  I thought that he was the one man in this industry I could trust, but I guess I was wrong.  I guess he was simply using me to get ahead in the wrestling career.

Back in the UWA, people told me that he was riding my coat tails.  They would say to me, "Nic, you are the driving force in P.U.N.K.S.  BladerSkum is doing nothing but holding you back.  He would be nothing without you Nic."  I simply told myself that it wasn't true.  I didn't want to believe that he was the type of person that would use me to get ahead.  Well, I guess I was wrong.  Now when Gravedigger was the comissioner, word around the lockerroom was that he was letting me dodge certain wrestlers, wrestlers that were worthy of a title shot.  While I did face everyone that was placed in front of me, he may have been doing that.  He knew that he was going to quit as commissioner, and he wanted to beat me for the title.  He was simply softening me up with all these matches so he could get his shot at the World Title, so he could get his shot at a battered and bruised champion.  Then when he realised he couldn't beat me, because he couldn't even beat Sean Segrada, he gave his chance to the number one contender.  As long as I was no longer the champion, it was okay by him.  Well Digger, I guess you got what you wanted.  I am no longer the champion, and since you were finished using me, you wanted to simply throw me aside like a piece of trash.  Well I am no piece of trash, and I will fight back.  I will get another title shot, and I will get my title back in due time.

But I guess I am partially to blame for falling victim to your treachery.  I should have been able to see right through you.  In TNT's first time around, we were not friends, we were enemies.  While I was working my way up the ranks, you were champion, and you were beating everyone thrown in front of you.  Finally though, Shadow realised that I was ready for my title shot.  The week before I was going to wrestle against you for that World Title, the company folded.  It makes me wonder if you had something to do with that as well.  You, Marcel, and Shadow were always so close.  First time around, you were trying to destroy TNT Wrestling.  You were trying to bring in WUXF, and you were trying to rebuild a defunked company.  Well, you didn't rebuild WUXF, but you sure as hell appeared to finish off TNT Wrestling.  I should have known you were a man that could not be trusted.  You are a master manipulator Digger, I'll give you that much.  There is no way I will ever let you get away with what you did to me though, there is no way.
 

 

[Totopoulous pauses for a moment.  He looks into the crowd, then he continues.]

While I did trust GraveDigger, there is a man that I never did trust.  The man I never trusted was Aussie Wonder.  Way back when there was a match scheduled.  There was a match scheduled that would pit myself against TNT legend Stonehart.  It was a Triple Cage match.  In the first section held the TNT Wrestling United States Championship.  In the second one held the covoted TNT Wrestling Eurasian Championship.  I was able to make it up the cage and grab the U.S. Title, and it would be the first time I would hold that title.  Then I was unable to reach the Eurasian Title, and Stonehart go it.  But of course it was not Stonehart.  When his masked was removed, he revieled himself as Aussie Wonder.  He was making his triumphant return to wrestling.  He made his return, and he fooled me.  I never trusted him.  I trust him about as far as I can throw him.  When Aussie teamed with Digger, I knew something wasn't right, and I knew it stemmed from Aussie Wonder.  I guess I was right though.  My mistrust was placed in the right place.  Aussie did turn on me, and he turned on Mirror, Michael Edwards, and Steve Lawrence.  He did the expected, and I am almost glad.  I didn't want to have to team with a man I did not trust.  At least now I can see him for what he really is, and I can eliminate him for what he really is.

Yes Aussie, you did have quite and impressive victory over Kimi at Warfare to win the TNT Wresting Television Championship Title belt.  You do deserve that belt, and I commend you for your efforts and your skill.  Never will I say that you lack the skill to be one of the best in this industry.  You are better than most, and worse than only a few.  Unforunately for you though, one of those few is myself, Nic Totopoulous.  While I may have fallen into a bit of a slump, my anger and rage toward you will help me to come out on top in what will certainly be a battle to be the best.  So Aussie Wonder, I'll see you, in the ring.

So I guess that leaves five, well six.  That leaves Nicky Mills, Steve Lawrence, Mirror, Michael Edwards, for better or worse Lo-Lander, and myself.  That leaves the five of us, the five that hate The Unforgettable Power more than any other person on the planet.  Sean Segrate and Vincent Fatone have always been straight out and honest about their intentions in TNT Wrestling, and I have to respect them for that.  They have not tried to hide behind false alterior motives like so many have in others have.  They too are respectable wrestlers, maybe not people, but wrestlers for certain.  It is up to the five of us, sorry six of us to stop The Unforgettable Power from reigning terror on TNT Wrestling.  It is up to the six of us to band together and form a coalition against possibly the most dangerous force to ever threaten TNT Wrestling and it's roster.  Well, while I will be training week by week for each match, I will have their backs, just as I hope they will have mine.  The Unforgettable Power may be a great force, but ours is even greater.

[Kick Start My Heart by Motley Crue hits the speakers once again.  The crowd begins to cheer once again as Totopoulous drops the microphone.  He walks to the ropes, climbs through them, down the steps and out of the ring.  He walks up the ramp toward the curtain.  At the top of the ramp he stops and turns to face the crowd.  He raises his right arm.  He is still a champion in the eyes of all his fans, and they know he will come through on his promises he just made, and he knows it too.  Totopoulous slowly lowers his arm, turns, walks through the curtain and backstage.  The music stops, and the show continues.]

"TOPPY!  TOPPY!  TOPPY!  TOPPY!"