[Raising Fear by Armored Saint hits the speakers. The crowd gives a mixed reaction.   Nic Totopoulous comes out from behind the curtain with his UWA United States Championship belt.  Walks to the top of the ramp.  He waits there momentarily.  He then proceeds to make his way down the ramp toward the ring.]
 

 

[He walks up the stairs and into the ring.  He walks to the opposite side of the ring where the ring announcer gives him a microphone.  He walks back to the middle of the ring.  The music stops, he puts the microphone to his mouth and he begins to address the sold out UWA audience.]

Well, what a day Monday was.  That show Rampage was action packed.  We had some great competition, and there are even new Tag Team Champs.  Congratulations Gravedigger and Reverend Snow.  That wasn't the only tag team match though, and I'm sure all of you people know which one I'm talking about.  I'm talking about the Tag Team Table match that pitted myself and The Prankster against Jay Lakewood and T-Money.  Now as I was not very successful in this match, mind you I did get another check in the win column, I will admit that I was the first person to be eliminated from the match.  I was the first to be put through a table.  But hey, it was worth it.  When I saw my opportunity to put that loud mouth Joe Traupman through a table, I took full advantage.  But I will admit that it was stupid of me to get pre-occupied with Joe, it really was.  This is when T-Mony happened to hit me from behind where the son don't shine, which caused me to the vulnerable allowing him to put me through a table.  Well T-Money, good for you.  I'm glad that you were able to feel so high and mighty for that brief moment, because believe me, I'm not going to let it happen again.  I am not going to let you embarrass me like that ever again.  As I did get some revenge in after that match.  And for those of you that don't know, after the match T-Money was driven through a table by The Prankster, which was okay I guess.  I kinda wish that it were me putting him through, but hey, the job was done right?  Wrong.  You would be dead wrong if that's what you thought.  You would be wrong by a long shot.  Then though, hitting him with this here UWA United States title belt, you might think that was enough.  Again, you would be as far from the truth as you can possibly get.

You see, T-Money has caused me a lot of grief lately, T-Money has caused me some pain lately.  He has made me angry, very angry.  This is why I am glad that this match is in a steel cage.  Normally I would be happy competing in a regular wrestling match.  This is what I am, I am a professional wrestler.  I wrestle for a living.  I don't want to compete in table matches, or in cage match, or in ladder matches.  I was trained by Stu Hart out in Calgary, I was trained to wrestle.  I was trained to physically dissect an opponent, to make him scream, to make his tap out.  I learned a lot of mat wrestling, and I learned how to compete with the high flyers, with the lucha libre wrestlers, with the power wrestlers.  I've learned how to survive in this business against anyone.  But I learned it in the squared circle.  I learned it with disqualification's, and count outs, none of this so-called hardcore wrestling we see today on TV today.  In fact, I am disgusted with the way wrestling has been going, and I am not happy with the way wrestling has evolved.  It used to be a fine art, now, I don't even know how to describe it.  But, I am willing to make an exception.  I am willing to put my feelings aside for one match.  This match is at Sex and Violence.  This match is for the UWA, sorry, MY UWA United States Championship belt.  This match pits me, Nic Totopoulous, against T-Money, in a not thirteen, not fourteen, but FIFTEEN feet high steel cage.  This is totally out of my element.  This is not what I was trained to do, but you know what, right now I just don't care.  Right now I want to get T-Money in the ring.  I don't want him in a regular match, oh no, I want him in this steel cage.  I want to beat him down.  I can dissect him in the ring still.  I can break his body with technical mat wrestling.  I can pound in body onto the ring canvas in a steel cage.  But in a steel cage, I can also pound his body onto the cage.  I can smack his head off the cage.  I can make his bleed.  I can spill his blood all over the ring.  This can be a glorious day for Nic Totopoulous, but only because of the fact, that the match is in a steel cage.
 

 

This isn't the only reason I want this cage match.  There is another.  This other reason starts with a T, and ends with a raupman.  That's right, Joe Traupman.  But why is this good for me?  What does this cage have to do with Traupman?  Well let me explain.  I hope you can all remember back to this Monday night when Joe hit me with MY belt.  Now lets pretend that he could hurt me, well then that would have been the end of me for that match.  Now in a steel cage, there is no way that Joe can get in.  The cage will keep Joe out, thank God.  He will have to stay at ringside, he can't interfere.  Actually, oddly enough, T-Money and I agree on something, we agree that Joe should stay out of this match.  But this I find a little unbelievable.  This I want to believe, but I just simply can't.  T-Money knows he can't beat me.  He knows that in a one-on-one match, he cannot pin me to the mat, and he cannot make me tap.  But, if Traupman is wandering around, looking to help T-Money win, well then guess who's chances just improved.  You got it, T-Money's.  That's right, T-Money needs Traupman to win, he needs him to help pin me, or make me tap out.  Now I will give some credit ti T-Money, he is a fierce competitor, but he just doesn't have it, yet.  Now I know what T-Money might say.  He might say something like he has not even begun to unleash his offensive arsenal in the UWA.  Well then let me ask you this, why not?  Why have you waited to unleash this awesome power you claim to have.  Don't you think T-Money, that just maybe you would have more success if you unleashed this power, don't you?  As soon as I entered the UWA, I went at full force, and look at me now, I'm the United States Champion.  I was the best Television Champion of all time.  This is all because I came out of the gate strong.  There is no point in holding back.  Now you aren't a stupid person.  You obviously don't have anymore arsenal.  That's it, what I've seen from you is all there is you have to give T-Money.  Until you face that fact, you are just going to get hurt, over and over again.

T-Money, don't let Joe Traupman fool you.  He tells you that once you beat me you will be guaranteed main events.  Once you beat Nic Totopoulous and become the U.S. Champion you will be facing the top tier wrestlers in this industry.  Well, I've got a news flash.  It won't happen.  Let's take me for example.  I win the title, who do they put me up against?  You.  I mean is that a slap in the face or what?  I thought the same thing you did.  As soon as I win this title from Eddie Draven, I will get all the great matches.  Well sorry sister, but it ain't gonna happen.  Now of course you won't get to find that out T-Money.  I'm not going to let you beat me, to take my United States title belt.  But hey, you can try.  I guess T-Money I'd usually say, I'll see you in the ring.  But really, I'll see you, in the cage!

[Nic Totopoulous drops the microphone.  Raising Fear by Armored Saint once again hits the speakers.  Totopoulous climbs through the ropes and out of the ring.  He walks back up the ramp, through the curtain and backstage.  The music stops and the show continues.]