After the brief phone call with is sister we find Mad Dawg Davis in an empty weight room setting up the bench press to a music playlist mixed with Hip Hop and Alternative Rock music playing. Not loud, but just enough to keep up motivation. The current song playing is “Me vs Me” by Moneybagg Yo
Mad Dawg: Dad your old ass better be ok.
Starting to feel the song that's playing to get him hype he starts rapping the lyrics
Mad Dawg: “Lately I feel like it’s me versus me. Don’t see competition, why would you compete” This is the only place that can truly humble me. In here it really is me against me.
Mad Dawg picks up a 45 pound plate and adds it to an empty bar on each side to warm up
As he warms up with the weight he starts to remember a conversation he had when he was a teenager working out with his father.
His thoughts drift off to that conversation as he continues his workout
Papa Davis: Son, I have a question for you? Besides strengthening your body, why do you think this, bench press, is important?
Young MD: For the girls, I can’t take my shirt off and have bigger breasts than them.
Papa Davis laughs a bit at his son’s immaturity
Papa Davis: You’re not wrong. But this here, like any exercise, is a personal challenge from you, to you.
Young MD now realizing a deep life lesson is about to happen. He loses some excitement but understands his dad is saying this for a reason.
Papa Davis: When you put weight on here, you already have an idea of what you can and can’t do, correct?
Young MD: Yea
Papa Davis: You have a safe zone. From this point forward I want you to end your last set with weight that scares you. It’s not in your safe zone, but just enough to make you nervous if you actually can do it or not.
Young MD looks at his dad in shock
Young MD: Well what if it actually is too heavy for me and I can’t get it?! I’ll die!? It’ll crush my chest or my neck!?!
Papa Davis laughs
Papa Davis: I’ve taught you how to save yourself in that moment if it’s too heavy. But what I want you to do is get rid of fear son.
Papa Davis touches his son’s shoulders and looks him in the eyes
Papa Davis: There are things people want and don’t go for it because of fear. Fear is your own self doubt of a result.
Papa Davis: If you can shut up that voice in your head that tells you no and force it to say yes. You have conquered more than most men ever will
In current day Mad Dawg adds more weight and continues his workout
Papa Davis: This here will be the first step in you looking at yourself and forcing yourself to become a braver you.
Young MD starts to feel slightly offended and shrugs his dad off his shoulders
Young MD: But I am brave!
Papa Davis realizes he needs to get to his point before the conversation goes wrong
Papa Davis: But what people fail to realize is that in order for a person to show true bravery, they must first be courageous with themselves.
Papa Davis: Tell me son? How can a person be brave to the world but scared of who they are or even put limits on themselves? The world already has enough people telling you that you can’t do something! Don’t add more negativity by being in your own head and being an enemy to yourself!
Papa Davis turns and adds weight to a total of 315 lbs on the bar
Papa Davis: You can lie to others, but you can’t lie to yourself. When you leave the gym you either become a braver person or a coward.
Papa Davis now looking back and forth between his teenage son and the weight
Papa Davis: So my son, are you still brave?
Now back in current day Mad Dawg yells to push out his last rep of bench press for his workout. Just barely lifting it high enough to rack the weights. He sits up both out of breath and muscles hurting.
Mad Dawg: 405, 3 times. Not bad.
As Mad Dawg gets ready to leave he looks at a reflection of himself in the weight room mirror. No words are said but he knows his dad would be proud of what he did today and then books his flight back to Dallas
The COO of OCW, otherwise known as the "Best in the World", also known as Drago Cesar, is seated at his desk. He leans in on his CRT, playing a round of Bad Dudes on the NES. The man looks to be sweating bullets while mashing buttons on his controller.
Drago: YES!
He raises his arms in victory.
Drago: I'M BAD!
The camera pans over to reveal a confused looking woman on the other side of the desk.
Drago: Sorry about that, now we can talk business.
He clears his throat and pulls out a form that looks to be a contract.
Drago: Hifumi Mayoshi! Our newest talent acqui- how you say? Acquisition! I'm seen your work in Japan, very impressive.
Hifumi: Nani? Gēmu o shite imasu ka?
He places the contract on the table and hands her a pen.
Drago: I'm give you contract. You sign, contract last some time. You do good, we renew, and you stay with us longer! Sound good?
Hifumi nods enthusiastically, though she doesn’t appear to understand anything Drago is saying to her. Hifumi looks down at the contract, her enthusiasm evaporating immediately as she begins to stare at it with a blank gaze. Drago awkwardly points to a spot on the paper.
Drago: That is, uh, where you sign.
Hifumi looks at the paper again, and her eyes appear to scan every character of the text as she gently taps the pen against the table. After about five minutes of this, she eventually looks up at Drago again. She shakes her head and shrugs, before speaking in a monotonous voice.
Hifumi: Wakarimasen. Watashi no eigo wa hetadesu. English not…
She trails off for a moment before putting up an OK sign with her hand. After another brief moment, she then pulls a confetti popper from within her hoodie pocket, and activates it without any hesitation or warning. Confetti flies all over the desk, and Drago Cesar. She then points at the NES and CRT monitor.
Hifumi: Famicom!
Her eyes fall back onto the contract after an awkward silence, then around the room, then onto the tip of the pen in her hand. Suddenly she nods and looks at Drago with a smile.
Hifumi: Ooohhh! Keiyaku!
She then scribbles her given name onto the line on the paper that Drago had specified… though the Kanji for her name just looked like a bunch of lines on top of lines. She finished the signature off with a giant ‘M!’ [“x. 一二三 M!”]
Hifumi: Okanedesu yo ne? Money?
Drago doesn't seem to mind the confetti'd mess all over the office. He thinks for a second.
Drago: Yes, of course pay. We have money. We gonna take good care of you.
Hifumi perks up again at the mention of money and suddenly whips out a second confetti popper, firing it off immediately and covering Drago in even more confetti.
Hifumi: Hai!
At this point, Drago is blinded by the confetti. His arms reach out until he's finally able to grab the contract, slotting it into a drawer.
Drago: Excellent! Welcome to OCW! Hope you have a beautiful time!
He turns and flashes a thumbs up in the wrong direction. In response, Hifumi stands up and leans over the desk, before blowing on his face and sending the confetti to the wall. She then flashes a thumbs up of her own.
Hifumi: Hai!
She then looks back at the CRT monitor once again.
Hifumi: Famicom. Gēmu de asobitai?
Drago: Uh, yeah. Nintendo is pretty cool.
He hands her the controller.
Drago: Ever heard of Bad Dudes?
Hifumi shrugs.
Hifumi: Watashi wa shiranai. But I can pray. Gēmu o manabu.
The two blankly look at each other, clearly not fully comprehending one another, but she eventually leans forward and starts playing the game. Within a few moments, she is faced with the GAME OVER screen.
Hifumi: Nani?!
Drago leans over and points at the buttons on the controller.
Drago: I’m tell you how. This here…
Hifumi listens as intently as she can as Drago tries to show her the controls to the game.
3 WAY DANCE
DEBORAHvs. ASHELY MOORE
vs. MARISA MAC
John and Jordan would be in the ring John in a nicer suit with shades on holding his championship on his shoulder. Unlike John Jordan is in more casual clothes having on ripped jeans and a Future Idiots tank top. there is a carpet laid out of the stage with a bunch of balloons and a cake with John and Jordan’s faces on it. The crowd begins to cheer as John raises the mic up.
John: Welcome everyone to the Future Idiots championship celebration!!!
John would smile as the crowd erupts with loud cheers
Jordan: Wow John these people really love you. Being from New York and all you’re really like a hometown hero.
John looks over at Jordan and sighs
John: Jordan I’m from Italy
Jordan: But Jake Allen sa…
John would cut him off
John: That doesn’t matter, what matters is we have a celebration to do. Look at this amazing cake!
Jordan: I love cake!
John: Before we eat though Jordan. Let’s talk about what we’re going to do next. We have many tag teams coming up more than I have seen in a long time in the tag division.
John: Perfect Storm. I have a lot of history with both men. Quartz and Harvey are both people I feel like I need to get back at. They have taken so much from me it’s about time I take something from them. So Perfect Storm if you want a shot at the OCW Tag team championship come out here right now and say it to our faces!
We pan over to the Tron and don’t have to wait long for an answer.
However, instead of seeing the two aforementioned brothers, we see a huge lock covering the Now Premiering screen signaling one thing. The melody of “No Gold Comes Easy” fills the arena as Maxx Edwards and Colin Locke make their way to the ring for the first time since losing the gold at Wrestlution.
Maxx: Nah nah nah…I don’t think it’s gonna work quite like that.
Colin: It’s definitely not. John, a few weeks ago, everyone here saw you get what you’ve been trying to win ever since you got here, and I can’t say you didn’t deserve it. But, just when I think you’re gonna grow up a bit, you come out here, playing the victim and talking about what’s been taken from you. Was hoping that you’d enjoy being on top for once, honestly, before you threw it away by jumping in front of the Super Ocean Brothers.
John: Well Colin you see I’ve been in this tag division the whole time I’ve been in OCW. We both worked hard to get to this moment and we aren’t going to let these things go. You're not Perfect Storm but if you want another shot I’m not going to make you play a stupid game of cards. Unlike champions of the past we’re here to take on all challenges. So you want another shot at these tag team championships, How about you step into this ring and get face to face with us right now.
Colin looks over to Maxx:: I mean… Yeah, alright.
Maxx laughs as both him and Colin step into that ring and get face to face with the Future Idiots right now.
John would take a step forward getting in Colin’s face before raising his mic back up
John: I don’t know who you guys think you are trying to ruin our celebration but I’m not going to let that happen. This is supposed to be our moment and you guys came out here selfishly to ruin it. But people will still sit here and cheer you like you aren’t the assholes.
Maxx: You can save the sob story John because I know and everyone in this arena knows exactly why you’re out here.
Maxx: You want to have this little “celebration” while boasting about all the tag teams in this division, while conveniently forgetting about one.
Maxx: You see, unlike the champs of yesteryear, we’re not going anywhere. We are still here together and we’re not big fans of sitting on our hands.
Maxx: The way I see it, it’s 1-1. That’s why you know damn well, who is at the front of that line.
John: This is OCW no one gets a rematch clause. There are so many tag teams here that want a shot. Perfect Storm after one match was already calling us out. We have lots of other teams besides Maxx Storage to worry about right now. As far as I’m concerned you are behind us. We finished the story at Lution by defeating you two for the tag team championships.
Colin: After you lost to us and whined that we were hitting you too hard. We’re not invoking a rematch clause.
Maxx: We’re here because we are behind you, right over your shoulder. And you know that we’ll always be right here until this score gets settled, once and for all.
Colin: Plus, you know well, John, that you aren’t the only one with unfinished business when it comes to Quartz and Harvey.
John: Well, you guys aren’t the champions, so you don’t get to make demands. There’s no rematch clauses in OCW, so how about you get to the back of the line?
Colin: You sound worried. What happened to that John Carder, the face of Ambition?
John: I’ll show you ambition!
John goes to take a swing at Colin, who ducks under the punch. Colin then grabs John’s head, smashing it into the cake that was set up on the table, causing John to stumble back into Jordan with a face full of cake
John: You want another match, you son of a bitch? You got it! Name a time and place so we can put you guys away once and for all!
Jordan runs his finger across John’s cheek picking up pieces of cake before licking it off his finger.
Jordan: That’s a pretty good cake. Good choice John.
The segment draws to a close with Colin and Maxx high-fiving as John scrambles to the staff outside of the ring, demanding towels to clean up his cake-encrusted face.
