6CW Presents Born in Fire X - Sunday 8th November 2020

“O Fortuna” erupts around Wembley Arena and the lights illuminate the stage where King Karl Kramer is sitting on his throne. He sits there as the music plays around him, looking across the empty rows of seats in the massive building. Charles Kramer appears and stands to the right of his nephew. Karl rises and starts to walk to the ring with The Consultant following him. Both men enter the ring and stand by stand in the centre of it. The music ends and Charles Kramer begins to speak into his microphone.

CK: Uryu, 6CW’s favourite underdog, may well have been born in fire. But like all men, he will burn to ash when confronted with a star. That star is King Karl Kramer.

Both Kramer’s smirk before Charles continues.

CK: When this match was announced, there was an air of resignation in the Kramer Klan. 6CW laying on the loudest voice in this company so he can simply be batted away. Eradicated in a show of strength and determination by my nephew in his goal in reaching the very top of this business. But when I analysed it more than that, I saw it was a test. 6CW embarking on a suicide mission in the hope that somehow King Karl Kramer will fail…

Charles Kramer walks toward the hard camera and looks into it.

CK: Tell me what would have more poignance than Karl Kramer smashing the face of the 6CW’s last hope? Someone who believes in justice. In the power of the heart. In rising above hate. Tell me what would happen if Karl Kramer took one look at all that is good in 6CW captured within Uryu’s weak frame and simply blew him away. What would that say about 6CW is right now? What would that say about its future? What would that say about everybody else taking part in Born in Fire?

Charles takes a long look at the camera before smiling and pulling away.

CK: Of course, as a card, it is absolutely stacked. Full to the brim with 6CW’s greatest wrestlers. But this match has something more to it than name power. It has the ability to make or break 6CW. When Uryu is dispatched back into his toy box, the Kramer Klan will start to pull together a group that will terrorise this company for many, many months. If Uryu elegantly proves the disbelievers wrong as only he can, then 6CW will continue to play the record it has for the past year.

He turns and slaps Karl on the shoulder a few times.

CK: This PPV begins and ends on match 7. Everything else will just fade to black; evaporate into dust as Born in Fire becomes an imitation of ones of yore. If you intend to sit through the white noise that precedes and continues after the destruction of Uryu, then please feel free. It will be unbearable, a farce, a celebration of inadequacy. But much more than this, it will showcase what 6CW has become without following the guiding light that stands beside me. This continues only because I allow it…..anyone who disagrees with that is blind to the obvious. But I guarantee by the end of the PPV, those blind will be forced to open their eyes as 6CW is exposed for the whole world to see.

He takes a sideways glance to his nephew and then looks back at the camera.

CK: Uryu…..the stage is set to showcase once again your super human powers in self-preservation. I genuinely wish you the best of luck. Karl on the other hand is looking forward to knocking you out cold. It will be a spectacle worthy of Born in Fire. We are both looking forward to it……there is a lot riding on this one.

Charles smiles and lowers his microphone.

Karl glares at Uryu, while his uncle smirks.

CK: Uryu, you overplay your importance! Your involvement in this match is insignificant to us as it was at Born In Fire IX. You feel this is some great crusade of good against evil. Of respect versus apathy. But you are wrong. You are 6CWs hope because there is no other hope. The last man you would choose to take your side in a battle is the only one in the building. And yes, we can talk all day about the significance of other matches and other people and other stories....etc etc etc......

He walks to the ropes.

CK: But when it comes down to it. When it really comes down to the bare bones of the matter. Match 7 is the only one left standing. The rest simply isn't worth peoples time. It doesn't elevate you to legendary status. It just makes you.....well...…"here".

He walks to his nephew.

CK: This isn't going to be a two minute match. This isn't going to be a thirty-five minute match. This is going to be a massacre of however long Karl wants it to go on for. It won't cement his legacy. But it will provide a small crumb of enjoyment for being overlooked yet again by 6CW. For the very purpose of Born in Fire, you are 6CW Uryu. Just you. And that tells everyone about the sorry state of affairs we are in.

He looks back at Uryu.

CK: The only one deluded in this empty arena is you. Think less of what to say and think more about how this came to be. Compare it to Born in Fire IX. Compare it to Born in Fire VIII. Compare it to any era of 6CW. Look for yourself in them and you will easily see your place. Now realise why your place right now may seem like the best of your career. Look around you. Breathe in the activity. Stare hard in the mirror. I don't need to spell this out to you but Karl here will happily beat the notion into you.....

He smirks again.

CK: ...the notion that in an empty bowl even sh*t rises to the top.

He laughs as the Kramer Klan looks at Uryu in disdain.