Title History Simcoe County Heavyweight x3 Barrie District x1 Tag Team x2 InnerCity TV x1 Lethal x1

SCCW Record Wins 30 Losses 17 Draws 04

Award History Wrestler of the Month x3 Wrestler of the Week x5 Tag Team of the Week x2 Feud of the Month x3 Wrestler of the Year 2004 Face of the Year 2004 Champion of the Year 2004 Feud of the Year 2004 First ever SCCW Hall of Fame Inductee

Next Match

Location

    Vs Derek Matthews

The scene opens to find Spike and Jane sitting on a black leather settee.  The fireplace in front of them is lit and roaring away, flames crackling and little sparks flying from stray flames.  The flames are casting strange shadows on the white surrounding walls.  Spike is stirring, almost asleep, but Jane seems wide awake.  She shuffles in her seat, looking like she wants to say something, but not isn't quite sure how to say it.  After a few moments of silence, she speaks.

Jane: I don't know how you can be so calm about it.

Spike: About what?

Jane: What do you mean 'about what?'.  About what Derek Matthews said about you.

Spike: Why are you getting so worked up about it?  You don't usually care that much what anyone says about me.

Janes tone softens and she speaks more quietly, almost timidly.

Jane: Well, it seemed more insulting this week.

Spike: How did it?  It sounded like all the usual stuff people come out with week after week.

Jane: It just did.  I think he has it in for you.  Not just a little bit, but a lot.  I think he could be the next person to join the Mercenaries.

Spike smiles knowingly as he realises the true thing that is getting her wound up.

Spike: Listen, just because Kirsta joined them after our match last week, doesn't mean it will happen again.  Don't worry, it'll be fine.

Jane: How can I not worry?  Don't you remember what happened to you after that match?  You got beat up and hurt, pretty badly.

Spike: I know, but it wasn't that bad.  I'm still here aren't I?  I still got some revenge on Wolf last week and won my match against EW on TNT didn't I?

Jane: I suppose.

Spike: So I'm fine.

Jane: But you said that the days of you taking all the big blows and dangerous matches were over.

Spike: They should've been.  Listen, this thing between me and Wolf goes deeper than anything I've been involved in in SCCW before.  It's going to get ugly, and violent, but there's nothing I can do about that.

Jane: Yes there is.  You could just let it go.  Leave him alone, maybe he'll do the same, maybe this can be all over.

Spike: It won't be all over until we settle it.  We're not going to settle this with words, otherwise we'd have done it by now.  It's got to be this way.  Listen, just don't worry about me.  I'll come through this one and we'll get back to what I promised you.  Nothing risky, nothing dangerous.  Ok?

Jane: Ok.  But what about Derek this week?  What if Wolf gets involved then?

Spike: He won't.  But if he does, I'll deal with it.  This week is just about me and Derek Matthews.  It's going to be a one-on-one match and when it's over, we'll both go back to our locker rooms.

Jane: Ok.  But what about what he said?  He sounded like he wanted to try to make a name for himself, at your expense.

Spike: So what?  He's trying to get inside my head and it's not going to work.  He's trying to make me think that I am becoming a failure in SCCW, that I'm only being kept around because of what I have done for the company.  Do you think he's the first one to spew all that bullshit out?

Jane: I guess not.

Spike: He's trying to make me out to be an over the hill wrestler, when he couldn't be more wrong.  I've been in SCCW for ONE year, not TWENTY, so he's got nothing on me.  It's true that I haven't held a title in a while, but that's only comparing it to my past record.  I held eight titles in one year, no-one can live up to that straight away.  I'm only getting started again in my second year here, so he couldn't be more wrong when he think I should be put out to pasture.  Just because he's some young punk kid that thinks he is better than me because I choose to represent a small company like SCCW instead of a multinational conglomerate doesn't mean shit.  I am in SCCW, because I want to be.  If I wanted to go elsewhere, then I'd get in my car and go there.  SCCW may be a 'small time thing' to him, but it's my life.  SCCW is where I want to be.  He can go to all these other places, I couldn't care less.

Jane: Don't you ever wonder what you could do outside SCCW?

Spike: Sometimes.  I've thought about it.  Recently in fact.  I've been here one year, and done it all.  Championships, awards, hell I even got into the Hall of Fame already.  So over the Christmas break, I thought about it.  I thought it might have been time to move on.  Go somewhere else, become the best there.  But then I thought to myself.  At this moment in time, I am arguably the best wrestler in SCCW.  But that's not enough for me.  I've been 'immortalised'  in the Hall of Fame, but I still want more.  I recently realised that the Legacy Title is now on my list of aims, and I still want the Heavyweight title back, I still want to win more, become not just the greatest today, but the greatest ever.  SCCW is where I am going to make my name, and some kid isn't going to come in here and shit all over that.

Jane: But what about him saying that you're too old for all that, that your on the downward spiral?

Spike: It's all still mind games.  He's trying to make me think that because I haven't got a title around my waist that I'm not as good as I used to be.  My reflections over the break did throw me off my game.  I came back at less than one hundred percent, anyone that saw me in the ring will agree.  I was being attacked, losing matches, not making much of it.  But now I'm determined to stay there.  I'm not too old to do this, I'm barley older than anyone else in SCCW.  Since I got my priorities in order, I have won back to back matches, against tough opponents, and I have got revenge on my attackers.  I am back in the game, and I'm not going to let Matthews throw me out of it again.  

Jane: Doesn't it concern you that you don't know anything about him?

Spike: I know enough.  Besides, I've seen him before.

Jane: When?

Spike: Well, not him exactly, but I've seen enough people like him to last a lifetime.  People like him, the holier than thou sort that come into SCCW while they wait to go onto something bigger.  Then they get their asses kicked here and never get the 'big shot' that they wanted.  Sure he'll say he's different, but essentially he's the same.  He's too focused on getting out of SCCW and onto something else, that he'll lose his concentration and then the match.  He talks a big game, looks the part, but he's still just a child.  Wanting everything straight away but never getting it, so he throws a temper tantrum.  Until 'Daddy' comes along and gives him some more advice.  

Jane smirks at the reference.  

Jane: He did say that a few times didn't he.

Spike: Yeah.  I wonder if his Dad ever told him how to get back up after being knocked unconscious, or instead of picking teeth out of your knuckles, how to pick up your own teeth off the canvas?  If he thinks that he'll make a name off me, and crap over everything I've done, that I'm too old for this, then he's in for a big shock this week.   He's in for the fight of his life against me, and whether he likes it or not, he's going to get it.

Jane stays quite, as though her  argument for his safety is only over temporarily.  They change the subject and talk about something else as the scene fades slowly to black.