No introduction needed.
There is no need to hype up the match.
Hype is pointless when being #1 is on the line.
Let the boys just play�
-[ The blood in his arms carries the adrenaline to his fingers as he clenches the string of barbed wire from post to post. The Butcher feels a sharp barb cut into his skin and draw some crimson liquid, but it does not matter to him. He pulls the piece of barbed wire with all his might, making sure the small piece fits from post to post. All the while, he tries to keep his balance before falling into a pit of sharp glass. He groans as he ties the tight wire to the stake, keeping utter destruction on his mind. At this point in time, his friends and his future wife enter the unknown building just outside the Brooklyn area. It is their first time here along with ours and the sight is quite unimaginable. The building is one large empty room with brand new paint and light fixtures hanging on the ceiling. But the center of attention is not the new paint or light source; it is a wrestling ring. As The Butcher finishes his work he jumps off the ring apron and makes his way towards the people he cares the most about. Before he gets there, he stops off at a duffel bag and pulls out a new shirt. He takes off his shirt which is permeated with perspiration. Once off, his scarred and mangled body tells the tale of twenty years of hard work and dedication. Although retired for almost a year, he shows no signs of aging or his muscles loosening up. He wipes his blood coated arm with his old shirt and then places the new one on his refined body. Then he makes his way over to the trio, careful not to get in the way of Nikki�s picture taking. ]-
The Butcher: Surprise.
-[ Cody and Tomorrow Man look at their friend unknowing of what he�s talking about. Nikki continues to move closer towards the ring, taking pictures of the hobby The Butcher has kept hidden from her for so long. ]-
Cody: What is it?
The Butcher: It�s a wrestling ring. Haven�t you ever seen one?
-[ The Butcher grins and starts to lead his comrades towards it. ]-
Tomorrow Man: We�ve seen wrestling rings but never one like this.
The Butcher: It�s my creation. Honey, don�t fall in.
-[ She nods as she begins to make her way up the metal catwalk into the ring. She loads another roll of film into her highly equipped camera and begins taking more snap shots. ]-
Cody: But why?
The Butcher: Why did I create it? Well, I needed something to do with my time. Retirement is a pain in the ass and it�s hard to fill up a 24 hour day by just watching television. A man has to remain busy after he retires, I find. All the people I know who retire, from whatever line of work they do, end up dead in 5 to 10 years because of boredom. They just wait for death to come. Well, I didn�t and I won�t. That�s why when I left the business for awhile I bought this building to do something in it. I didn�t know what I was going to do with it but I somehow came up with this idea. The wrestling world has never been the most extreme and violent thing until now. I got bored with the usual wrestling and the so called �hardcore� matches. They lacked something and that was the actual thought of your career ending or even your death possibly occurring. There was no risk. Those were the good old days but now, so many wrestlers just go through the motions because every week is the same thing. That is why I�m offering something a little different. A new edge referring back to the old hardcore days.
Nikki: What�s it called?
-[ Nikki stops the flash photography and looks at her fianc� from inside the ring. ]-
The Butcher: Not the most original name but I call it a Butch Match. Follow me into the ring, guys. And watch your step because I�m guessing you could really hurt yourself.
-[ The Butcher leads them up the catwalk and then into the ring. From there you get a whole different perspective of what you are witnessing. One man�s legacy and dream all placed into a wrestling ring. The Butcher stands in the center of the ring with pride on his face and disdain in his heart. ]-
The Butcher: The squared circle is a regular wrestling ring as you can see, but there is one major difference. I�ve been in many barbed wire matches but they lack one thing. The barbed wire ropes are not pulled to their full stretching point. See, when you�re usually thrown at barbed wire ropes, the barbs rip into the flesh and in most cases cause you to stick. But I�ve stretched them to almost the breaking point so you don�t really stick that well. You actually bounce off of them like running into a wall. The barbs rip into your flesh but by bouncing off you can�t control where the barbs rip into you or how they come out. It�s an instantaneous tear which causes a deeper and longer wound. Sometimes with the ropes being so tight, they might snap if you are thrown into them hard enough. This means you�ll be falling into one of the various pits surrounding the ring.
Tomorrow Man: Yeah, what�s up with these pits?
-[ The Butcher leads them to the left and shows them a pit full of broken glass. ]-
The Butcher: Careful not to touch the barbed wire ropes. Here, as you see, I�ve placed a pit of broken glass. Never a fun thing to be thrown into. I remember back when I wrestled in Japan, I was thrown into a pit of glass. It wasn�t fun because I got some in my eyes. I�ll tell you something. This glass is fragile stuff so when a body lands on it, the glass breaks into smaller pieces, making more cuts and even getting stuck in your body. Just nasty stuff I tell you. Let�s go to the next one.
-[ Nikki takes another picture of the glass pit and then follows the guys to the pit across from the catwalk. She looks down into the pit which happens to be a mangled mess of razor wire. ]-
The Butcher: I decided to have this pit contain some razor wire just so we didn�t have too much barbed wire around the place. Razor wire, to me, is worst than barbed wire because it�s like landing on a bed of small knives. You think barbed wire will take meat off of you? Well, jump into a pit of this stuff and you�ll agree with me.
-[ The Butcher laughs but Cody and Tomorrow Man don�t finding falling into razor wire as something funny. The Butcher leads them over to the last pit. The pit is full of water but there isn�t anything in it. ]-
Cody: What are you going to do, drown someone in that?
The Butcher: Nope. Good thought but I think I have an even better one. This pit of water isn�t filled with anything dangerous yet because my thought would probably die if I didn�t take care of them.
Tomorrow Man: Them?
The Butcher: Yep. This pit will be filled with 25-50 piranhas. You thought glass and razor wire was fun? Well, get thrown into this pool of starving piranhas and you�ll leave with bites that will take years to heal. This is my pride and joy pit because it�s so original. So, what would the rules of this match be? Of course, you�d have to pin your opponent or make them submit. But you can pin or make them submit in the ring or in one of these pits. Oh and I almost forgot! On the outside of each pit there will be weapons hung on the pit walls. I�m talking baseball bats, thumb tacks, chairs, chains, etc. What ever you want, you�ve got it. And the two people that will be fighting for their lives in this match actually get to choose what they want two pits to be full of. The piranha pit always stays though.
-[ Cody and Tomorrow Man are in disbelief that this match could ever happen. This, after all, is not their style of wrestling and they�d want to avoid ever being placed in such a match. ]-
Cody: Butch, man, I doubt anyone would even want anything to do with this match. I mean, you could seriously get hurt in this match so who would be dumb enough to even get into this ring and face all of this?
The Butcher: It will happen, Cody. You watch and see.
Cody: Yeah, while you�re dreaming of making the wrestling world an even smaller place, we�re worrying about taking home the GHC Tag Team Championship by the end of the new year.
The Butcher: Think you can do it?
-[ Cody rolls his eyes and Tomorrow Man begins to shake his head because he knows Cody�s going to start another tangent. ]-
Cody: Butch, my friend, did you think you could win the GFWA World Championship?
The Butcher: Of course I did.
Cody: Well, we know we can walk out of 2 Days of Hell with the GHC Tag Team Titles. It�s just a matter of who shows up against us. See, Bronx and Brooklyn right now are trying to play these mind games with us. You know, Brooklyn acting like he doesn�t care while Bronx seems like he�s the only one that does. They�re trying to make us believe that they have some sort of wedge between them right now. But somehow, someway, when that bell rings, they�ll be like the old Manhattan Project. They aren�t fooling anybody.
Tomorrow Man: Butch, we�ve been out of action for quite some time. The last time we won tag team gold was back when the GFWA and bWo merged to form the GWA. We became their first and only Tag Team Champions due to the place shutting down production. Right now, people have sort of thrown us aside after we didn�t come back with the GFWA. They said we weren�t the best because we didn�t come back. People lost their respect for us and our past accomplishments just because we didn�t come back. The benchmarks of the Tag Team Division were thrown aside just like Seattle Sound. People didn�t care for us because we were �traitors� to the fed. So who stepped up?
Cody: Japan Air and Devilz Darkside. Suddenly, they were the greatest of all time. I�ll give them their props. The Darkside did get better. Japan Air did fill the void of high flying excitement. But they weren�t the best.
The Butcher: And what makes you say that?
-[ Cody smiles as if he wanted The Butcher to say that. ]-
Cody: Did they beat The Master Race? No. Did they beat Seattle Sound? No. Did they beat The Contradiction? No. Did they even feud with future the Hall of Fame tag team The Haka Boyz? No. Did they make people care for the Tag Team Titles? Of course not! They were the only two tag teams worth a crap back then.
The Butcher: But�
Cody: Don�t even say it, Butch. �But they had more Tag Team Championship reigns than you two.� Really? You call passing the titles back and forth between them as a legitimate title reign? They�ve fought each other at least 20 different times because no one else wanted to even join a division that stunk like that. Maybe they�ve got the greatest feud in wrestling history, but they sure as hell fall short of being called the greatest Tag Team Champions of all time.
-[ Nikki loads another cartridge of film into her camera and interrupts with a question. ]-
Nikki: What about people saying you were too afraid to come back because you couldn�t beat Japan Air or Devilz Darkside? What would you say to them?
Tomorrow Man: So, we were afraid to come back, eh? Not even close, Nik. Why should we have come back? So there would be 3 great tag teams instead of two? The main reason we didn�t come back was because the place was never the same. There was no real growth or change in the place. The fed was stuck in 1st gear and it wasn�t going anywhere fast. Everyone wanted a shot at Phobia because no one could beat him. They didn�t care about the Tag Team, Extreme, or even the Television Titles. Why should we come back to an un-prioritized federation?
Cody: It wouldn�t have matter what we did or how we even came back. We would still be looked at as �traitors�. But we don�t look like traitors now, do we? Of course not. Japan Air are bigger traitors than us. They backstabbed the place that made them big and went elsewhere. Now where are they? Burnt out. Devilz Darkside are even bigger traitors than us. Why? Yes, they are in the gfwa OMEGA but where are they? No where to be found. Once they saw us coming back, they ran. But the Manhattan Project isn�t running and that�s probably the ONLY thing we like about the guys. They wanted a challenge just like Devilz Darkside, but unlike them, they took the challenge with open arms. We�re looking forward to this match-up, Nikki. We aren�t looking forward to it because the GHC Tag Team Titles are on the line. We aren�t looking forward to it because we can become 6 time Tag Team Champions. We aren�t even looking forward to this match-up because if we win it will solidify out legendary status. We want this match because we�ve actually got a team that won�t run because of who we are.
Tomorrow Man: Championship reigns come and go. Names are even forgotten. But when you have two men that will face you because of who you are, not because they were told they have to, it makes us coming back worthwhile. This is all we were looking for. A chance to be challenged before the game becomes too old. Our rivalry will not end at 2 Days of Hell, though. It will keep on going for weeks at a time because no one wants to step-up and face the only Tag Teams in the Division. Hopefully, our rivalry doesn�t become stale like the Japan Air and Devilz Darkside one.
Cody: Once the day comes where everyone fears us�that will be the day we take off the boots. It won�t matter what age we are or how many title reigns we�ve been apart of. Once this job isn�t worth it anymore�we walk away for good.
-[ Nikki thinks it over and understand their reasoning but The Butcher doesn�t really pay attention. He understands their reasoning. He always has and that�s why he�s on the shelf. His love of the game hasn�t died but his love of the style the game brings has grown old to him. He knows his time isn�t up and he hopes some day he will come back full time before his friends decide going out to the ring every week isn�t worth it. They all exit the ring and make their way to the door. As they all exit, The Butcher looks back at the ring, knowing that his newly designed dream will probably never come to pass. He shuts the lights off to make the one room building completely dark and locks the door behind him. Cody and Tomorrow Man are already in the car, warming up. Nikki meets The Butcher halfway between the building and the car and kisses him. ]-
Nikki: You miss it don�t you?
The Butcher: I am still part of the show.
-[ They make their way to the car and drive off quickly as the strange man, that took the GrimReaper away for good, steps out of the nearby bushes. He chuckles a little and makes his way towards the door of the building. He pulls out some tool, unlocks the door, and walks in. ]-
