[updated:LAST EDITED ON Oct-30-02 AT 05:07 PM (EST)](Fade in to a light blue GXW backdrop.)
VOICE: This upcoming Pay Per View, Fallout, "November Reign", I get to step in the ring with 'The Truth' Tommy Rage.
Well, Tommy, the 'Truth' is....is that you don't really impress me that much. Strong words? Probably. But let's look at this for a moment. In the time that I've been able to find facts out....you've never really faced anyone *yet*.
(Cruise slowly walks in view, pausing every now and then to put thought to words.)
Hellfighter...he put his money on a JOBBER to get him a shot at the world.
Styles? Need I even say anything?
But you've got the audacity to train for a match with an opponent with alcohol and trips to 'Lala-Land'. Now, I'm not trying to defend the kid by saying you did that, but what I *am* saying is that what you did stood for disrespect, lack of integrity and lord knows what else.
I'm not a saint, not in the least, and I don't plan to be poster boy for such defense anytime soon.
(Camera zooms in a bit closer)
But for even someone like Styles, I'd at least give the benefit of the doubt and at least *TRAIN*, for the match and in doing so, drag myself OFF the couch...withOUT alcohol in hand....unless you're following the "Kevin Powers' "Five-Star work out system". If that's the case then nevermind.
But what I'm going to tell you right this second you've probably heard so many times, you hear it in your dreams, but irregardless, listen up.
You ain't SH*T yet. You haven't proven a damn to me yet, and thus far, at the assumption of your rate of Promos....you ain't gonna be.
Don't overlook me.
Get your @$$ out of bed, and put down the bottle.
Lastly, get your @$$ to the Gym....not "Jim's"....and prep yourself for the fight of your life. Our match may not be main event, and to tell "The Truth", it doesn't have to be.
But it's sure gonna feel like it when I'm through.
You don't like the sound of that? Too bad, because that's just a reality check that you can't cash.