A few Stephen Joseph segments

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Cut to:

 

(The camera clicks away from the HeldDown Arena, and into a tight face shot of Stephen Joseph)

 

Crowd: Mixture of cheers and jeers.

 

::Stephen Joseph's nostrils tense up, then relax. He stares into the camera, calm, cool, collected::

 

Hi.

 

::He pauses::

 

It's a damn shame that I couldn't be in an OAOAST ring tonight, winning a match, pinning some unlucky opponent with my Finality. But, that wasn't my decision, it was Axel's.

 

::The crowd boos::

 

Axel, what you and Peter Knight did to me, I can never forgive. You made me look like a fool, but also did something else, something you didn't quit bargain for.

 

::The camera pans out a little bit, showing Stephen Joseph standing next to a lightpost in a black trenchcoat. It is dark outside::

 

Let me tell you what you didn't bargain for. It's very simple, really. When I was OAOAST Champion, I had a single purpose, a single vision. To STAY Champion, no matter the cost. It was with that vision that I returned to the OAOAST in August, and I went 55-0 in singles matches until New Year's Eve. 55 Wins, no losses. And then it became 55 and 1.

 

Peter. Axel. When you beat me, you freed me. All that energy, all that passion I was keeping bottled up to keep the title on ME! The OAOAST title was a cork, if I was a champagne bottle. Now that's its gone, there's emotions, anger, and mad wrestling intensity just spewing forth. And its all directed at you two.

 

January 29th. I'm coming for my title. Because if I don't get my title, I don't get relief. And I need that relief. If I don't my title back, then I don't have a title to focus on.

 

::Stephen Joseph pauses::

 

I would just have you.

 

::pause::

 

I didn't come all this way out here Peter Knight, to just give up the good fight, I came to rage against the dying of the light. I've looked onto what you fight for, here on this street, and that home

 

::Stephen Joseph points down the road::

 

I once had a family too. Two men took that away from me. Caused me to become unstable, unfit. If I don't get my title back, I'll do the very same damn thing to do.

 

Anglepalooza Peter Knight.

 

What choice are you going to make?

 

::A cell phone rings in Stephen Joseph's coat pocket::

 

You made a terrible decision crossing me Peter. You made a terrible decision trusting Axel, Peter. You crossed the devil, and the devil'g gonna get his due.

 

::Stephen Joseph flips on the cell phone::

 

(to cell phone) Calvin?

 

::Fade to Black::