[Nic Totopoulous is seen on the steps outside at his home in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He is wearing a pair of jeans, a light jacket, and a pair of boots. He long blonde hair is resting on his back has he looks out at the neighbourhood around him. The leaves are changing colours, and his front lawn is littered with coloured leaves. The camera zooms in a bit closer as Totopoulous continues to gaze out to the street and the colours in front of him.]
NT: It's funny... I've been around wrestling for so long. I've been through so much over my career as a professional wrestler. I've had the highest of highs, and I've had the lowest of lows. I've won the World Heavyweight Championships in both TNT Wrestling and the United Wrestling Alliance. I am a UWA Hall of Famer. I have won countless other championships and awards throughout my career. It has been one that I wouldn't change anything for. Even with me drug and alcohol addictions that I have had to overcome. Even with the paralysis that I was able to overcome. Those were all miracles that I was able to overcome it all and still be able to wrestle.
I know that when I last left TNT Wrestling, I left kind of randomly. No one knew I was going to leave, but I just left, and it's because I had to. I had to leave because of my personal life. My now wife, but then girl friend was not happy with me wrestling. She didn't like me being on the road all of the time. She didn't like the danger I was putting myself in. She didn't like not knowing whether I was going to make it home or not whenever I left to wrestle. She knew of my past. She knew of my injuries and my addictions. Many would say they are a direct result of the career path I chose, and they would be right, to some degree. If I didn't get into professional wrestling, I'm sure that I would not have gotten into drugs. Had I followed the plan I laid out for myself, the life plan I told my parents about, I would have been a phys. ed. teacher, and doing drugs would have been the last thing from my mind. I'm also almost certain that I would not have had that serious back injury that left me paralyzed, and nearly for my entire life.
These however are also all choices I made. It was my choice to do these things, and they were because of poor character. They were because I was not a strong enough person to resist them. I didn't think I had an addictive personality, but I suppose I was wrong. I thought it only happened to everyone else, but I guess I was wrong there too. It was a great accomplishment for me to overcome my addictions and come out of rehab stronger than I had ever been. It was also a great accomplishment for me to have come out of my injury the way I did. I came out, and I can do everything I ever wanted to do. It also opened my eyes as to how lucky I really am. How can I continue to wrestle when it has helped cause me so much pain in my life? How can I continue to wrestle when so much of my life has been screwed up because of it? It can't continue to wrestle. Wrestling has been a great experience for me, and I don't regret a single thing I have done. This is a time in my life where I need to move on though. My wife has been very supportive of everything I have done. She has been the greatest thing that has ever happened to me, and it happened while I wasn't wrestling. She doesn't want me to wrestle, and she is more important than my career. She isn't giving me an ultimatum, but she has expressed her feelings. I'm going to respect the way she feels, and I'm going to retire from wrestling, this time it will be for good.
The way I left wrestling last isn't the way I want to have my send off. The way I left before was, well, I just kind of disappeared. I don't want to be one of those guys that just leaves and everyone forgets about them. I want to go off with a bang. I want to go off with one last hoorah. I figure that this match in a couple of weeks is a great way for Nic Totopoulous to have a proper send off. I've done so much in the wrestling industry, I'd just like to be remembered as being something special. I want people to see me in my final match in The Crucible, whether I win or lose, the people will see Nic Totopoulous at his best, and they'll know that I left at the top of my game. They won't ever see a withered and old Nic Totopoulous trying to steal the spotlight from people that deserve it so much more than I do. They will see Nic Totopoulous in the prime of his career, and they will see him get the proper send off that he deserves.
This is all I'm hoping for. I'm just hoping when I finally leave, after my retirement match at The Crucible, the wrestling fans all around the world of both the UWA and TNT Wrestling will be happy to see me with me one last hoorah. They'll see the competitive spirit I have forever, and will forever show every time I step into the ring. I'm not going into this match with any feuds. I'm not going into this match trying to beat any one person in particular. I'm going into this match with something to prove. I'm going into this match to prove to everyone that Nic Totopoulous still has it. I'm going into this match to prove to the boys in the back, the staff of both UWA and TNT Wrestling, and to prove to all of the fans, whether they like me or not that I deserve everything that has come my way as a wrestler. I deserve to get the praise I often get. I deserve all of the championships and awards I have won. I deserve everything I have ever gotten in my career, and that I earned it all on my own.
I wouldn't want to go out any other way than I will at October Terror. My last match will be on a Pay Per View in the main event against the best that the wrestling has to offer at this time. I'll be able to wrestle guys I never had the chance to meet in the ring before, but have watched in the wrestling industry and have the utmost respect for. Guys like Andy Gorgadore, Q Ball, Eric Masterson and Doc Placebo. Then there are guys that have been around for so long that I have battled with, and some I wish I had battled with. Guys like Big Boss, Ten Minute Major, Jimmy Vetalo, Freedom Morelez, Jason Jet, Jonny Fly, Jonny Ringo, Kevin Cosmos, Mike Furious, Mikey Hell, Nicky Mills, Reverend Snow, Rilo, Rollin Thunder, Rubeus Dahrkov, Stonehart, Wall2K and X-Kalibur. These are guys I've seen around and watched for so long, and I have the utmost respect for what these guys have done in the ring as well.
This is an ideal Pay Per View as well. It is a combination Pay Per View of my two homes in professional wrestling. I have wrestled in many places, but never have I felt more at home than I have in both the United Wrestling Alliance, and in TNT Wrestling. They embraced me with open arms, they gave me the ball, and I was able to run with it. During high and low times, I've been with both companies, and it was great to be with them during the good and the bad times. They have shown me great appreciation, and they have respected me more than I could have ever imagined. I always thought going into wrestling that it was all about getting ahead, and backstabbing. I've learned that it doesn't always have to be that way. I've been in other places where politics has been a huge part of the company. In the UWA and TNT Wrestling it was so different. Everyone helps everyone, and they are great places to wrestle. I couldn't be happier with the way I've been treated, and with everything both companies have done for me.
In The Crucible, I'll give as much back to these two companies as I can. I'll put in my best effort, and I'll trying to steal the show, the same way I always do, and I'll certainly try to win. This will be my greatest accomplishment. I'll never be able to thank the UWA and TNT Wrestling enough for what they have done for me. They have given me the great life I now live. Through the ups and the downs, this has been a great ride. Thank you UWA and TNT Wrestling. It has been the greatest ride of my life.
[Just then Miranda, Nic Totopoulous' wife walks out the front door and sits next to Totopoulous on the steps.]
MT: Hey you.
Hey.
You ready for lunch?
I certainly am. Let's go inside.
[The two of them get up, turn and walk inside. Nic holds the door for Miranda as they walk into the house. Nic Totopoulous closes the door as the scene fades to black.]