[Backstage, Drew McIntyre appears to confront Nick Aldis]
Drew McIntyreNick, I've had a chance to calm down since Elimination Chamber. Now, let's be reasonable. I'm the face of your brand. We had an agreement when I won this title. There will be no rematch for Cody unless he wins the Rumble, unless he wins the Chamber. He won neither. So make this right.
McIntyre
Make it right.
Reasonable? I'll tell you what's unreasonable, is you looking me in my eye and telling me time after time that you were gonna let things happen the way they should and leave it alone, and you couldn't do it. So you went back on your word, I went back on mine. So now, it's time to put up or shut up. Defend the Championship tonight... unless, of course, you want to forfeit the Championship.
McIntyre
[attempts a small smile] Forfeit the title? It always feels like Drew McIntyre against the world, doesn't it? I've beat Cody before. I'm gonna beat him tonight because the only way he'll take this title from me is prying it from my cold, dead hands.
All right. Lace 'em up tight.
[A furious Drew McIntyre comes out after losing the Undisputed WWE Championship to Cody Rhodes]
Drew McIntyre
Aldis! Aldis, you can take that contract and shove it up your arse! [to a fan] Move! [climbs over the barricade] Hey, you see what happened last week?! [stands on the commentary table] My damn title was stolen from me! You couldn't help yourself, could you, Nick?! You had to make sure your golden boy Cody Rhodes got the title match before WrestleMania! You're gonna get out here right now, and you're gonna make this right! I'll stay here all night long--
[walks out; interrupting] Let me explain this to you in plain English. There is nothing to make right. Part of being Champion, as you well know, is defending the Championship, and I made you do that in a fair one-on-one contest. A contest in which, by the way, you head-butted a referee, and it still didn't go your way. And now you're out here playing the victim again. Drew, you're looking for somebody to blame. What you should be really looking at are the consequences of your own actions. [steps into the ring]
McIntyre
The consequences of my actions? Yeah, beside the fact Jacob got involved, you had to make the match with Cody, yeah, yeah, yeah, even though we had a deal. He lost the Royal Rumble. He lost the Elimination Chamber. But you had to make sure the corporate Champion got his belt, right, you corporate stooge!?
Don't you dare call me that! You know who I am! You know where I came from! You want to talk about the Rumble? You want to talk about the Chamber? Oh, you mean those two matches where you screwed Cody out of his shot? Real rich, for the guy who claims to keep getting screwed. So you listen to me. You did everything you could to prevent Cody from getting a fair shot, and now I understand why. 'Cause the first time he got one, he beat you. [McIntyre furiously jumps off the commentary table, steps into the ring and marches right up to Aldis]
McIntyre
You know it, and I know it. THIS IS BULLSHIT! Now, you are gonna make this right, or else!
[Jacob Fatu's music hits and he marches out to the ring]
Well, just when the threat level seemingly could not get any higher, enter the Samoan Werewolf!
JTJoe Tessitore
The temperature has risen here in Phoenix. [Fatu steps into the ring]
CCrowd
[chanting] Fatu! Fatu! Fatu! Fatu! Fatu!
JFJacob Fatu
[to the crowd] Yadada mean?! [the crowd cheers; to Drew] Fix? [scoffs] Fix what? Huh, Drew? You wouldn't even be Champion if it wasn't for me. So let's state the facts. I fixed this situation last week so Drew McIntyre is no longer Champion. So this isn't about him. [points to Aldis] This isn't about Cody. This isn't about anybody else. So you pointing fingers…
FFatu
…you blaming people…
FFatu
…blaming everybody else.
FFatu
But let's keep it 100 with you.
FFatu
I'm the one that screwed your ass. So let me break it down to you, Drew. What the hell… you gonna… do… about it?
McIntyre
What am I gonna do about it? You want to know what I'm gonna do about it? You, Nick, Cody, these people… I'm done with you all. [marches up to Aldis] I quit. [leaves, much to Aldis' shock]
JJoe
[shocked] Quit? What? Drew McIntyre's just walking off, Wade.
JFJacob Fatu
Yadada mean?!
CCrowd
[cheering; chanting] Fatu! Fatu! Fatu! Fatu! Fatu!
FFatu
I'm limping, busted open, cracked ribs, and it's all got to do with one person. It got to do with you, Drew, huh? What the hell? What the hell is wrong with you, huh? You tried to take me out? You tried to end my career, huh? You tried to take food of my fam-- Man, you tried to take food off my kids' table, Drew! What, you thought kicking my teeth down my throat was gonna keep me down? What, you thought hitting me in the head with the title was gonna keep me down, huh?! You thought hitting me with the car, pulling me out through the windshield and banging my head on the car until you see blood, you thought that was gonna hold me down?! Hell, you thought throwing me off the side of a building was gonna hold me down, huh?! HELL NO! HELL... NO!! [winces at the pain in his ribs]
CCrowd
[chanting] Fatu! Fatu! Fatu! Fatu! Fatu!
FFatu
Hey, Drew, you did all that, but I'm still standing. I'm still here! And as long as I got air in these lungs, then that means every week, every week, Drew, I'M GONNA DOG WALK YOUR PUNK ASS! [does the Fatu shake and winces again. Drew McIntyre's music hits. A battered McIntyre stands in the entrance way]
Drew McIntyre
Look at you out here, playing the victim. You're not the victim, Jacob. I am. You started this whole thing when you... you accused me of a crime I didn't commit because I'm Drew McIntyre. I'm always guilty until proven innocent, right? Well, you're Jacob Fatu. You're straight guilty because you're a damn criminal! You committed the crime, and you did the time, and ever since you got out, you stole. You stole. You stole. You stole my title. You stole WrestleMania from me. You stole everything from me! Talking about taking food off your family's table, taking food from your kids' mouth? THAT'S MY FOOD! I want to... Look me in the eye, Jacob. Look right in my eyes with your stupid, beady eyes 'cause I mean this from the bottom of my heart. SCREW YOUR DAMN KIDS! [Jacob angrily starts to limp towards McIntyre until Nick Aldis arrives]
Enough! Enough. You just stay right there, Jacob. Both of you just stay right there. It's obvious to me, especially after talking to medical, that neither one of you are in any condition to beat the hell out of each other again here tonight. But I have a feeling that you'll be okay by, let's say, April 18 at WrestleMania. That's right, Drew. You get your wish. You get your match at WrestleMania. Drew McIntyre, Jacob Fatu, one-on-one. But here's the deal. You two have become liabilities to yourselves and the company, so I won't be held responsible. WWE won't be held responsible. There will be no disqualifications, no count-outs. The referee is only there to count to three or call a submission. There will be a winner because your match at WrestleMania is unsanctioned.
JTJoe Tessitore
Well, isn't that fitting for these two currently walking wounded.
Two beaten up and broken down human beings whose appetites for destruction are seemingly undulled. And now they get to do whatever the hell they want to each other at WrestleMania in an unsanctioned match!
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