As announced previously, tonight we are set for a Debate between North American Champion and Challenger...and as Anarchy resumes the broadcast we're quickly taken outside of the building where Anarchy is currently being broadcast from, to directly in front of the arena. What we see immediately gives us a "big" feel as there's this large stage with special lighting, but EVEN LARGER banners on the left and right side of the stage featuring full body shots of The Golden Goddess Mandy Rose, and Little Miss Bliss Alexa Bliss. In front of the banners are a podium for each Superstar, one podium has a bedazzled coffee cup on top of it, while the other...has what appears to be a copy of every magazine Mandy Rose has been on in the past couple of months.
With the camera scanning around the area we see both fans that attended tonight, recognized by the merchandise they are wearing for other Superstars, not just Mandy and Alexa...but we also see what appear to be normal people who were either in the area or passing by that have been intrigued by this whole setup that they've taken a seat, or even brought seats of their own to witness it. In front of the stage directly before the chairs that are all packed with people is a small table where Michael Cole one of XWL's long time broadcast talents is sitting with a bunch of papers before him, and a microphone that seems to be attached to the table for easier accessibility for his questioning tonight.
[Michael Cole] Good evening ladies and gentlemen, for nearly 6 months a rivalry has captivated The XWL audience, and tonight we have the calm before the hellacious storm that awaits them next week in The Main-Event of Cyberslam. The North American Championship will be defended for the first time ever inside Hell in a Cell, and the combatants waging war in the cell have a deeply rooted personal rivalry that has only grown more personal, and more heated as it has gone on. But with every rivalry, as with every story...it does come to an end. And the end is in sight, for at Cyberslam they go to war one final time over The North American Championship. But per the theme of Cyberslam there are 4 very critical stipulations up for your discretion to decide between, stipulations that add even more unpredictability and chaos to an already packed showdown. Tonight we hear from both Women as they address each other one final time, and address you directly in hopes they can influence your decision when it comes to voting for their match. So without further delay, please welcome first to the stage The Challenger...Five Feet Of Fury, Alexa Bliss!
The crowd rises up from their seats cheering as Alexa's music plays over a speaker and the camera cuts over to the left side of the stage where the challenger's podium and banner is. We see Alexa Bliss walking up the steps dressed in a black studded top and black tights along with a pair of black combat style boots and her hair is flipped up with a slight poof. The Challenger makes her way to her podium, waving to the cheering people in attendance for this debate then she grabs her coffee and takes a sip before looking to the right of the stage for the arrival of The Champion.
[Michael Cole] Now please welcome to the stage, she is The Defending North American Champion...God's Greatest Creation Mandy Rose!
The crowd remains on their feet for the arrival of the North American Champion, however, it is done with the intention of voicing an enthusiastic boo of disapproval. This sound has become quite synonymous with the reigns of Mandy Rose over the last six months, but regardless, the Champion appears in the spotlight on the right side of the stage. Her toned and tanned abdomen is on perfect display courtesy of a white, sheer, and lace crop top, paired with a white cropped blazer and matching, tailored pants. Rose stands six inches taller than her natural height due to the custom red bottoms on her feet. Her platinum, golden locks cascade down her back, not a single hair out of place, and her pristine North American Championship rests on her right shoulder. As she begins her ascent up the staircase, a security guard runs up to her side and offers his hand. The booing reaches an all-time high once Rose stands in front of the podium. She doesn't even pay her Challenger a passing glance, but instead goes to strike her signature pose from behind her podium. Rose spreads her arms out to her sides and then raises her belt up high with a fully extended arm, allowing her opposite to glide down behind it slowly before combing through the length of her hair. She glances down at her own image as shown on the monitor which brings a smile to her face. Michael Cole is forced to postpone his following comment for nearly 30 seconds to accommodate the overcompensating and disapproving portion of the audience which consists of the fans.
[Michael Cole] Ladies, we'll start things off with an opening statement. How did we get here? We'll start with the challenger.
[Alexa Bliss] I mean, one night I'm The Last Woman Standing on the grandest stage of them all, while Mandy's left lying on her back in defeat...the next, we somehow are apart of the same Number One Contenders match despite one of us clearly not deserving it...and Mandy beats me, and somehow ONLY AFTER we've done the match and Mandy's won...then The North American Championship is stripped from The Champion who just left her unconscious the last chance she had at her, and the title is handed to her as if that's how things work in this business. I naturally took exception to the fact that she can lose and be given opportunities, yet I lose my only opportunity I've had in a year...and I'm supposed to just chill in the back of the line? No, I refused and she and Mr. McMahon refused to treat me with the same fairness she was shown. I never wanted this to get this far, but I'm a Woman that refuses to be told no, especially when there is zero reason to be told so. I'll end my statement at that as we'll certainly get into the things that followed thereafter...but that's how it began, at least for me.
[Michael Cole] And now an opening statement from the Champion.
The focus then shifts to the right side of the platform where Mandy Rose is adjusting locks of her hair over her polished Championship.
My opponent can try to say I was undeserving until she's blue in the face, and she has, but the fact of the matter is that if she was truly more deserving than I was when I rightfully inherited this North American Championship, then she would have beaten me to earn the Number One Contendership herself. But instead, by divine intervention, I was the one to pin her. That fact alone shakes the foundation of her whole argument. She's bitter because she wasn't capable of beating me, and because she knows that once I earned my place the stars aligned for me, and not her. So in conclusion, her entire claim to my Championship is defunct and this debate and our match at Cyberslam are collectively a colossal waste of my time and an inconvenience to my reign as well as to the rest of the Women's Division. However, because I carry myself with the utmost grace and always welcome the opportunity to prove my doubters wrong, here I am.... You're welcome.
Mandy flashes a billboard smile to the crowd of people witnessing this debate live before brushing the tips of her manicured nails through the front section of her hair. The camera cuts over to a reaction for Alexa who just rolls her eyes in disgust
[Michael Cole] Let's talk about The North American Championship, because ultimately it is what brought this rivalry to fruition, it is the very constant that has held the two of you together, whether you've wanted to be or not. Now, it was introduced almost a year ago as the answer to a division that has always asked for more, but rarely been granted it. History had been made, practically every bit of history that could be, had been. But now there was a second Championship for The Women of XWL to contend for, and some might say quite easily really that the title was the victim of a bad circumstance after the other, it lost it's shiny new sparkle not long after it's first Champion was crowned. But since the introduction of your issues, the title has been the talk of not just The women's division but all of XWL. What influence do you believe individually you've had to bring this title to such a high standing while other challengers and champions have failed before you two? Mandy we'll start with you this time, as the current Champion what have you brought to the table that led to the spotlight that now shines on not just this match coming up at Cyberslam, or the previous matches, but the title itself?
Mandy picks up the fat stack of magazines on her podium, spreading them out into a large fan. People Magazine, Maxim Magazine, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Cosmo, basically any publishing company you can think of, and it has her face on it. She fans herself with it playfully before smiling and leaning in to the fixed mic.
I think it's no secret that I've already become the most publicized figure in professional wrestling. Notice on these magazines, Michael, not only are they all graced with stunning covers photos of myself, but on every cover you can find the words: "NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION." Quite simply? I am this title. I pulled it up out of the ashes that it was buried under, and shoved it into the mainstream spotlight. After all, I am #MainstreamMandy. Unlike the crooked thinking of my opponent, this Championship is more than just an accessory to me. At this point, it's a part of my identity, and if there's one thing that we can agree I take the utmost priority and care of, it's myself and my image. Would I still be a star without this Championship? Of course. Would she? Well, look back at her history. Most likely not, and that's okay! Not everyone is born equipped with the tools to be a Champion. Not all Goddesses are created equal, as you can see, but to wrap up my point I'd say that I'm not only a North American Champion to XWL and its Women's Division. I'm North American Champion to the media, to the press, to the general public, and to the world.
Mandy seems rather proud of herself with that response. She glances across the stage to Alexa for the first time since she arrived with a confident "ball's in your court" look on her flawless face.
[Alexa Bliss] While Mandy has been focused on how great the title looks on her umpteen magazine covers...I've been focused on what The North American Championship was supposed to be the night it was introduced. I haven't been plastered all over mainstream media, I haven't had a single magazine cover in the past 6 months, and you know what? I also haven't degraded that title by having my panties magically float from the heavens and onto the title as I shout "daddy." My influence on this match, this story, this title? Is being a challenger who challenges the thinking of The Champion that just quite frankly doesn't get "it." She thinks she can waltz in here and be a star, and maybe...maybe she is a star, maybe she has brought eyes to this title, but will those eyes still be watching when The North American Championship eventually, sooner rather than later...is no longer in her possession? My "influence" is just working hard each and every day to be the best version of myself that I can...and even when I'm screwed with, I don't give up. Because a lot of people watching tonight have been screwed over in their lives, and my continued fight for what I want? Shows how much this title means to me, how much I want to be it's Champion, and I used to think it was cliche...but the truth is heart has a whole lot to do with something catching fire and something just fizzling out. I have the heart that will lead me to do anything and everything, no matter how difficult, and that heart is what makes a Champion. The title may not have been mine for most of the duration of this rivalry? But you have seen my heart, and FELT it every single step of the way. So someone else can be on the posters, the magazines, or all over E! news...because 6 months from now no one will even remember a single bit of that. But what they will remember is whether I'm Champion or not? That the title meant so much to me that I was willing to go against this entire company to have it.
[Michael Cole] So a huge piece of this encounter is the very personal nature of your rivalry. I'm going to ask you what tipped the scale and made this delve into such a real and raw dispute? How did it come about? Why did it come about? What in your words made this go from a simple title feud to the straight up bad blood that now exists between you?
[Alexa Bliss] I only need 3.84 seconds to answer that, Cole.
Alexa's glaring gaze veers off to the direction of Rose, giving her a dirty look if we've ever seen one, before directing her focus back on Cole.
[Alexa Bliss] It all happened at Downpour, the night of my first ever North American Championship match...a night that going in, I knew the deck was stacked a little against it, I didn't know how far it truly had been until it was all over...but going in, I was focused. Mr. McMahon stated that if I wanted a North American Title match against Mandy? I needed to scratch his back, in order to get my own scratched. One of the competitors in The Women's Elimination Chamber Match had gotten injured, and they needed a sixth competitor. So he said if you're willing to take her place, then I will give you the match you've been asking for. Of course that very match saw my best friend Kairi Sane defending her Women's Championship and now agreeing to be in that match meant I was now one of her challengers. I knew there was an underlying reason to all of it, that it was clearly to drive a wedge between us, but our friendship was strong enough to withstand it, and it did. I didn't win, but as cool as walking out with 2 titles would have been? My goal was clearly The North American Championship. So I got my knee wrapped, and walked back out for my first title match against Mandy. She had nowhere to run and it was everything I knew it would be. I whooped her butt, I was closing in on victory, and then...this bitch gets herself disqualified.
[Michael Cole] Alexa, please language.
[Alexa Bliss] I'm sorry but that is the only way I know how to describe it. I go in, limping, hurting from being apart of an Elimination Chamber Match for the majority of it...I'm about to take her title, and she gets disqualified. Of course, in the back of my mind I knew she would try something, but to make me jump through all those hoops, only to pull that? I was furious, or at least....I would have been, had I been conscious. You see, she struck me with my own Bliss Stick and that knocked the lights out in me. And while that happened? Mr. McMahon came out, and RESTARTED THE MATCH! Crew members cart my lifeless body into the ring, and Mandy covers me, AND THE BELL RINGS AS IF THAT'S HOW ANY OF THAT EVEN WORKS! Mandy pins me, and the record shows she successfully retained? Oh no, I knew from then on? There was something foul going on, and it went further than I dared to previously think. She was disgusting, this whole situation was, and that is the night it all became personal to me, because SHE made this personal by thinking she could get away with something like that, that she could get away with EVERYTHING that had been going on.
As soon as Alexa finishes her statement, we hear a faint snickering coming from the other side of the stage. Mandy has placed her hand over her mouth, concealing a grin stretching from ear to ear in absolute delight with herself.
[Michael Cole] .... Is something funny, Miss Rose?
Oh, don't mind me I'm just thinking back on all of my monumental victories over this professional underDOG that has the pleasure of competing against God's Greatest Creation yet again. Somewhere in the midst of that Natalya Neidhart cue card she was reading, she said that I just don't get "it..." What she doesn't seem to get is that her time leeching off of my spotlight? It's finally coming to an end next week at Cyberslam. She can read off and dwell on scandals and rumors all she wants, it's her pathetic life to live, but at the end of the day I was created to be a star. Vince McMahon didn't make me famous, but I made HER famous. She said it herself, she never had a taste of the spotlight before I came along, and this spotlight has never burned brighter than when it's burned on me. Clearly she's gotten a taste of my lavish lifestyle and success, and is having a hard time letting go. I can't say I blame her, but with her little Pirate pen pal doing freelance work now, she doesn't seem to have anyone to snap her back into her sad reality and tell her when enough is enough. So it looks like once again that burden falls into my lap, but as for when this all started for me? I would say that it never really did. I mean, look at her, and look at me... Stevie Wonder could tell you that there's no competition between the two of us. I view our "rivalry" as more of a.... pest infestation. My title reign is a beautiful, elegant mansion in the Hamptons, and she's the roach scrambling around in the cracks and the shadows that will finally meet her maker next week at the heels of my custom red bottom shoes.
[Michael Cole] Sticking with you for another moment Miss Rose, you have both lost the North American Championship to each other at one point or another. So, regardless of your strong or self-serving opinions of each other, you have both bested one another in the ring. Whether that be by whit, by strength, or by any other means, that is the history that you both share. What about your opponent made them better than you for those three critical seconds?
"Better" isn't the word I'd use, but I can't deny the record books. My opponent did defeat me for this Championship, but at the very next opportunity? I took it back and brought it home. Those record books also show the I am the FIRST and ONLY two time North American. Those record books show that I am the LONGEST REIGNING North American Champion. Those record books show that the score between my opponent and I? Is MAJORLY skewed. Out of all of our bouts, she's come out on top of me once. As the old saying goes, every dog has her day, but if I had to narrow it down to one trait I'd say that it has to be because of her incessant need to always keep going. She doesn't stop. Yes, that might have worked out for her ONCE in the past, but I promise you that it will also be the reason that she will forever go down in history as the "bitch," as she put it, who THOUGHT she could defeat Mandy Rose.
[Alexa Bliss] Nothing about Mandy made her better than me for three seconds, she had Mr. McMahon bend the rules, create new ones, and move heaven and earth, TWICE...in order to "defeat" me. The only time she bested me was in that Number One Contenders Match, and y'know...maybe if I didn't elbow drop someone off a ladder, through another ladder the night before, while she caught up on her beauty rest...even that would have been a different story. She is a corporate creation, manufactured to be the star, at any cost...even if that means dragging the rest of this show down in the process. I beat her the one time Mr. McMahon's guard was down, then he made sure to make me pay for that the next month when he ties a hand behind my back, and forgets to tie Mandy's so she rolls me up, and she pulls the tights, and then he fast counts...so again, superiority? Not proven by her. Especially not when stage 3 came, and Mr. McMahon had to "bump" into the ladder causing me to fall to my doom, and EVEN THEN WASN'T ENOUGH BECAUSE HE HAD TO PULL OUT A PAIR OF HANDCUFFS AND HAND THEM TO HER SO I LITERALLY COULDN'T STOP HER FROM CLIMBING THE LADDER AND PULLING DOWN MY TITLE!
Alexa's shouting fires up the crowd who can feel her anger and frustration.
[Alexa Bliss] She isn't better than me, she's never been better than me, the whole world already knows that...but at Cyberslam? She'll come face to face with the ugly truth that ALL of this? Ultimately was doing nothing but delaying the inevitable. When we step inside Hell in a Cell? I will beat the holy hell out of her.
[Michael Cole] Let's talk about Hell in a Cell, it is the most unforgiving match type in all of XWL. There are no disqualifications, there is no escaping, there is no stoppage...it will go until one of you pins or submits the other. The referee is simply there to call the match, and they are under specific orders to do nothing but count a pin or call for the bell following a submission. What this entails is a barbaric match, where you can do anything to the other person, no restrictions, nothing to hold either of you back. What makes you believe you're ready to step inside Hell, and that you can avoid being brought down in flames? Alexa, seeing as you decided this match type, we'll start with you.
[Alexa Bliss] The past 6 months, have been hell. I don't care if I'm trapped in there with her, because I said it already...I haven't been running away from anything this entire time. Mandy however? Has avoided facing me in a fair ONE ON ONE fight since all of this began. But her "boo" is gone from the equation, and as much as she might love to run away, there is nowhere to run once the two of us are locked inside that Cell. It's her turn to go through hell, and believe me...I will put her through the most hellacious match she has ever, and WILL ever go through in her entire career. There will be a lot more than broken nails and ripped out extensions, I am going to make her feel every bit of my fury, and the fury that exists in that cell. I will be The Last Woman Standing...and I'll be left standing over her ashes.
A major exasperated sigh falls out of Mandy's mouth as she rolls her eyes to the heavens and begins to speak.
I'd like the audience watching to pay close attention to the less than professional manner that my opponent loves to carry herself with. Getting so hot and bothered, not being able to get through a statement without screaming and using expletives? That's the mentality of a wounded animal. That is the mentality of somebody who is clearly not Championship material. She's losing what little grip she has because she knows she's fighting a lost war, and after Cyberslam she's not going to have all of those reasons she just listed to pull out of her little bedazzled bag of excuses anymore. When I beat her in Hell in a Cell without Mr. McMahon, as I've already done in the past, she's finished, and she knows that as well as I do. Me on the other hand? I couldn't be more at peace with the situation. Am I annoyed to have to defend my title against the same whiny little whistler blower that has been riding along on my coattails for six months now? Of course, but the last thing I am is worried. Worry causes stress lines, crow's feet, and forehead wrinkles, which is why regardless of how many layers of foundation the XWL Glam Squad cake onto my opponent, under my bright and ethereal spotlight you can still see that worry peeking through the cracks of her hopes, her dreams, and her face. Her excuses, her slander, and her constant conspiring against me is getting almost as old as her supposed claim of Contendership for my title. That is why I find absolute satisfaction in knowing that this time when I pin her inside of Hell in a Cell, it will finally be for the LAST time.
[Michael Cole] I think that this is the perfect opportunity to segue into my next question, which pertains to the stipulations for this match. Being that your Hell in a Cell match is taking place at Cyberslam, it is XWL tradition that the fans be involved in the deciding factors going into the match. Linda McMahon has given you both two stipulations, that will give our audience a total of 4 options to choose from when voting via XWL.com or the XWL mobile app. Mandy, we'll start with you. Please remind the viewers of your two stipulations, and what possessed you to select those alternative consequences.
As I mentioned on the Golden Globe Awards red carpet last week, my first stipulation entails that I be granted an immediate restraining order from my opponent as soon as the match concludes. I chose this stipulation to prevent my opponent from the opportunity to try and weasel and excuse herself into yet another title match. It was also done for my own personal protection. As I mentioned earlier, this is a clearly unhinged individual who has absolutely nothing to lose and needs to be bound by a legal contract not to take her inevitable failure out on me or my brand. The second of my stipulations, and my personal favorite, is that once I retain my North American Championship, my opponent's contract with XWL will be terminated. I think our Women's Division has become a considerably safer work environment since the release of her unstable best friend, and I look forward to continuing that momentum with the release of that individual over there.
[Alexa Bliss] Moving on to options you actually want to vote...the first, you know...if you don't hate friendship...will be the immediate rehiring of my best friend Kairi Sane who was WRONGFULLY fired during my North American Championship defense against Mandy at last month's Pay-Per-View Warzone. When I win, she will be back in the division that she previously had been quite successful in, and most important of all...my pirate pal will be back by my side. She was there for me when I didn't deserve it...and she has supported me more than any other friend I've ever had...so I'm asking you to vote this option because I want to be there for her, and make her sacrifice last month not be in vain.
[Michael Cole] And your second option?
[Alexa Bliss] As I said, if you hate friendship...then there's another option that might appeal to you. The immediate FIRING of Mr. McMahon as The General Manager Of XWL. He's let his decision making become tainted by his choice of company, and clearly has overstepped the boundaries of professionalism. So when I win, he will be fired...just like he fired my best friend. We deserve a General Manager that won't allow someone to seduce them into being made the centerpiece of this company...we deserve someone who won't destroy the very fabric of our basic rules and regulations. I'm all for bending the rules, but he straight up shoves them under a rug and acts like they don't exist period. Furthermore, he got physically involved in last month's match by making the ladder tip over, an event that unlike Miss Rose's absurd accusation of an "unsafe work environment" was ACTUALLY putting me at risk. Whether that's due to his investment in her, or his incompetence at not backing into a ladder someone's currently at the top of doesn't matter. It's evident he is unfit in his role, and if you vote so...I will officially remove him from the power he has abused this entire time.
The camera then shifts back onto the moderator of this debate, Michael Cole, who gathers his notes and paperwork before shuffling them together and looking up at the camera.
[Michael Cole] Well ladies and gentlemen, you've just heard the opinions of the North American Champion and Challenger, as well as their respective stipulations heading into Cyberslam next week. Now, the choice is yours. Log on to XWL.com to cast your votes, as we look forward to the long-awaited conclusion of perhaps the most controversial feud of the year between Mandy Rose, and Alexa Bliss. On that note I'd like to thank both of our participants, as well as our audience both physically present and viewing at home. I'm Michael Cole, signing off.
Just before the segment concludes, we get another shot of the two blondes staring off at one another from across the stage. Well, one more than the other. Alexa Bliss is periodically tapping her glitzy nails across the edge of her podium while narrowing her eyes and raising the corner of her lip up in disgust. Meanwhile, Mandy Rose is extending her freshly manicured french tips in front of her face, sticking her nose up to get a good look at them from every angle under the bright lights. After a moment, she pulls her hand back to comb it through the ends of her golden blonde hair as she locks eyes with Bliss, not seeming the slightest bit concerned with the absolute bullet holes that she was currently having burned through her. So much history and scandal has led to this moment, and it all comes to one, nasty, cumulative head next week at Cyberslam, inside Hell in a Cell. Five Feet of Fury vs. God's Greatest Creation for the North American Championship, one last time.
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