The PNC Arena went quiet as the lights dimmed. Seconds later, the sound system crackled as "Sick Of It" by Skillet blasted. The EBWF Universe in attendance erupted in a loud boo as PJ Black walked out onto the stage with the EBWF World Championship fit snug around his waist. He gave a smirk before he walked down the aisle with a cocky swagger. His head was held in the air as he walked by the fans that booed him.
He rounded the corner and walked up to the steel steps. He climbed up and stopped on the top step. He listened for a second at the boos before he walked the apron and entered the ring. He shook the hair out of his eyes as he walked over to Christy Hemme and extended his hand. She handed the microphone over without a word. Black gave a nod as he turned around and focused on the EBWF Universe.
"Wow, you guys sound pissed.
Is it because you thought that last week you would have seen Samoa Joe walk out in front of all you victorious at WrestleMania? Is that why you all have such a sour look on your face?"
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The Universe continued to boo as Black shook his head.
"Well that didn't happen and I am still your EBWF World Champion and I can't help but to say...
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He raised the microphone in the air in anticipation. He paused and held the microphone still. He stayed paused. Still...
"I. Told. You. So..."
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His eyes closed as he spoke. He brought the microphone down in front of him as the boos rained down heavier than before.
"I told all of you!!
I told you. I told you. I told you."
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Black walked around the ring and pointed at each member of the EBWF Universe.
"Oh I definitely told you."
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He shook his head as he continued with the "I Told You." line all around the ring. He then turned and stopped back in the middle of the ring.
"I told everyone from the person who sells the tickets in the booth up front, to the higher ups in this company. I told every single one of you.
You all thought that Samoa Joe had my number, but how wrong all of you were.
I showed Joe at WrestleMania just what I told him that I was. I showed him that I am the best damn wrestler this company currently has."
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He paused as the crowd again booed the World Champion.
"You all keep coming out here saying that I'm not worthy. Saying that I can't hang with the best. But each damn time I come through that curtain, I come down to this ring. I get through these ropes and I beat down every single one of you."
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Black gets animated as he speaks about beating his fellow EBWF Superstars.
"Yet you all keep coming out here. Running your little mouths. Saying that I can't hang. Saying that you all are better than me.
But you see, that's okay, it is. Do you know why?
Because no matter how many of you come out to this ring to try and show me up. I'll beat you back down and put you in your place. See I'm not playing around anymore boys."
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PJ turned to the ramp and looked up at the stage.
"Each and everyone one of you want to continue to come down to this ring and say that I'm not worthy to get in between these ropes. You all better come with more than words. You better come ready to kill me and throw me out of this ring, because that's the only way any of you are going to stop me.
It don't matter if it's you later tonight Roman Reigns, or whoever my next challenger is for this World Championship. You all better come down here with the right purpose in mind because if you don't. I'll plant your ass down on this canvas and I will make sure you're staring up at me as I come crashing down on all your hopes. All your dreams.
Every single one of them."
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He backed himself up and turned back to the camera. He took a breath before he spoke up again.
"Now Roman, as I have always said when we compete in this ring. I don't have anything personal against you. And I know that you don't have thing against me.
But I also know that little mouth piece of yours, Paul Heyman. He's going to talk.
He's going to stand in front of you and he's going to flap those big lips of his and he's going to spew at the mouth saying everything that we all have already heard."
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PJ held up his hand. He opened each individual finger as he made his points.
"I'm not worthy. I got lucky at Fallout.
I got lucky again at Mania when I "survived" Samoa Joe. I don't deserve the championship. I'm just a charity case.
The list goes on and on. But Paul, let me tell you something before you start to speak on behalf of your client."
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He paused as he collected his thoughts.
"Roman, he's a big boy and unlike Brock Lesnar,
he's got his own pair...
Of vocal cords..
Come on people. We may condone mass suicide. But we are still "TV-15" people, let's be serious."
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Black didn't care if the joke didn't go over, he still chuckled to himself.
"Roman, one day when you get your act together,
you may be something great in this business. But that greatness, it's not going to come at the hands of me.
It's not going to be tonight. It's not going to be in this ring.
Wait a couple of months. Gains some momentum in the King of the Ring Tournament. Then, maybe you'll be ready to step up to me and actually give me a challenge in this ring.
Now, now.. I'm not saying that you're not good Roman. I'm just saying that you're not on my level.
Roman, I just went to hell and back with Samoa Joe and I beat him. I conquered five other guys when I tore it up in the Elimination Chamber. I am, and I will forever be, the "Longest Reigning, and Unbeaten, Undisputed Path to Glory Champion in EBWF History". You can argue about it, but you can not dispute it.
It's a fact and the record books will forever show it.
Jimmy Havoc may go down as the very last EBWF Path to Glory Champion, but everyone knows that he would have never had that honor if I was never forced to vacate the championship. Havoc may think that he's the best and hottest thing going in this company, but he's over looking one thing. Me."
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Black broke his stance as he walked around the ring.
"See Roman, it's not Jimmy Havoc that is the hottest thing going in this company. It's me. I'm the man that has been on the hottest streak this company has seen in recent years. Not because I come out here and brag about this or that. Not because I come out here and make a reputation out of being a champion of a division that hasn't been good since Heath and I brought the division back from death.
No Roman. I come out here and I prove that I'm the best by taking on, and beating everyone this company considers the best.
This company brought in Samoa Joe because they new that I was getting to close to the EBWF World Championship. They thought that Joe was going to be the man to keep me from it. So they had him win the Royal Rumble. Thinking that I was done and gone. Thinking that at Mania, they'd give the title to Joe and no matter when I cashed in the Path to Glory Championship, Joe would beat me.
They thought that Joe was the best. So then I took on the best at the biggest show of them all. So surely the "best" by company beliefs would win, right?"
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He stopped in the middle of the ring.
"At WrestleMania, the best did win. I won.
Tonight Roman, you're going to come out to this ring and you're going to take on the very best in this company. If they thought you weren't ready, they wouldn't have thrown you to the wolves. They know that you're going to be something in this business, one day. I know that you're going to be something in this business, one day.
One day, is not to-day Roman."
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He took a break for a second to look out at the EBWF Universe. He then looked back down into the camera.
"So Paul Heyman, come down to this ring, or stand back there in the back. Do whatever you want because I know that you're going to talk your talk. The only thing is, you boy Roman Reigns, he's going to need to walk the walk inside these ropes tonight. And that ain't going to happen."
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He stared for a second or two longer. He then stood tall again and looked around the PNC Arena.
"A lot of people are saying that this match isn't going to be the match of the night Roman.
"They" are saying that's going to the match that should have been the main event at WrestleMania. Yeah right...
All pigeonholing aside, I main evented WrestleMania and I stole the show, just like I'm going to do tonight."
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The crowd booed in unison again causing PJ to have paused again.
"Like it or not people. The facts are this.
I'm the EBWF World Champion.
Not AJ Styles. Not Jimmy Havoc. Not Chris Jericho. Not Alex Riley. And..
Not Samoa Joe."
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Black looked down at his wrist as to look at a watch.
"It looks like I've run a little over on time. Shows what happens when you give a champion with a lot to gloat about a microphone. So let me just wrap all this up for you, like a beautiful gift on Christmas morning.
Tonight, Paul Heyman can talk all he wants.
You're the one Roman that has to step into that ring with not only the EBWF World Champion. But you have to walk into that ring with a man that has overcome everything to be standing in this ring as the EBWF World Champion. I have been thrown former champion after former champion. Dominating force after dominating force. I've been thrown into the darkest and deepest parts of hell only to come out on top.
So what Roman? What do you think you have, that can do what so many have not been able to do? What makes you think that you have what it takes inside to beat me?
That is what I'm questioning you Roman. That is what you should be questioning yourself."
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He paused right before he looked into the camera.
"If Samoa Joe couldn't do it. If the Elimination Chamber couldn't do it...
What makes you think you can stop me?"
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With the final word said, PJ Black lowered the microphone before he dropped it to the mat. "Sick Of It" blasted back onto the sound system and PJ exited the ring and walked back up the ramp to more boos from the EBWF Universe.