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"If last year's Grand Rampage ended the way this year's did;
I'd have had a very different reaction.
Before my hiatus, matches like my bout against Minerva would have gotten to me, and gotten to me hard. After I lost in the Empress of Elite finals I was at an all time low, and I continued to beat myself up over it. After I lost my shot at challenging for the Answers World Championship, I beat myself up over it. I was my own victim. Today? I know that, ultimately, all I’d be doing is an injustice to myself. I won’t deny that I’m not very happy that I came out the loser however, in some ironic form of gaslighting, I’m not UNHAPPY either. I could sit here and do what Minerva’s former challengers did, but at the end of the day, I’m still going to prove her wrong, even if she was the better woman at Grand Rampage. I could sit here and black out my profile picture on all my social media, I could do whatever the fuck some of these Elitists have been doing which is all ridiculous especially considering most of them lost a Grand Rampage match which is, like, a match every single Elitist ever has lost. The most low stakes high reward match in the game, getting eliminated means nothing and realistically shouldn’t even count as an L on your record given you didn’t get “beaten.” I’ve decided to take the high road and prove why I am above the rest of the roster. Something I have failed to do countless times before. I’m going all out. I’m putting all of my chips into the bet that I will live up to EVERYTHING I say that I am. I WILL live up to my reputation, and have the most beautiful World Championship victory this company has ever seen. And I mean that shit too. That isn’t just hyping myself up. This four year long journey will come to an end. I’ve had to come to terms with my position in EAW ever since I returned. I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I have to work harder than I ever have before in order to make the whole world realise that the reputation I’ve garnered is an earned one. I can’t just coast off of the fact that the top of the top, the upper echelon, the industry titans - they all see something in me that they don’t see in others. They hear my words, they hear my promises, and they say “Yeah, she’ll do it.” I’ve grown into my shoes. I’ll do it. But I have to prove it. If that means working my way back up to the top, then so be it. That’s a hell of a lot better than sulking over the loss. I know who I am and I know what I am worth, I know that I can become the World’s Greatest, and I know that I can become the Universal Women’s Champion. I may have lost to Minerva at Grand Rampage, but truth be told?
Nothing has changed.
In my eyes I am still the number one contender. Harper Lee probably thinks that this is a situation where she can repeat what happened last year, and I’ll wait to see whatever happens with that match; I am STILL the number one contender. Why? My mindset has not changed. From the week that I challenged Minerva, I promised myself I wouldn’t lose another match until I LOST the Universal Women’s Championship. I didn’t win it to begin with, and yet, my ideals are left unshaken. I see no reason to turn back. I see no reason to switch it up. I see no reason to do what I did last year, I see no reason to let this affect my game. I’ve shown results, and those results will resume. Those results led to me defeating Rex McAllister fresh off a marquee match with Hikari Kanno. Those results kept me at the top of the top, facing nobody but the best. Those results will NOT slow down. Last year, in this very position, I told Alex Myers I didn’t care about beating them and just wanted to punch my frustrations into somebody. I went into that Fatal Five Way, and I fucking dominated, but it was that very thought process that became my unfolding. I’m not making the same mistake. I’m heading into this match, against Donovan Duke, and I’m coming out victorious. Because I WANT to win. I WANT to win more than anything. I have no reason to lose.
This time, I mean it.
Donovan, you and I have a lot of history. We’ve competed against one another at least once every year we’ve been in this company together excluding 2020. We were on Voltage together, Showdown together, now back together on Voltage, and largely, you are in the same position as I. I can acknowledge that, now in the Endgame of this season, ready to breach into the next; you and I are after the same thing, which makes you a threat. I respect you, I respect you a hell of a lot more than I do most of the people in that locker room, but at the end of the day, this is about me. I am fully focused on myself. I am fully focused on moving onward, moving forward, and not looking back. Which means… I can’t let myself care about your goals. Once this week is over, I’ll wish you the best of luck with them, however, this week isn’t over, our match hasn’t concluded, there still has to be a winner between us and thus I have to be the one who gets the win. I have to be the one to come out on top. Not for any other reason but to live up to the very promises I made at the very start of this video. I know that I’m not going to get another shot at the Universal Women’s Championship this season unless the opportunity presents itself. I know that there are numerous Elitists gunning for that title, and some perhaps who have contracts to challenge for it, or any other world title; and I know that I’m going to work my way all the way back up again. The road isn’t clear for any Elitist, that much I’ve learned. The road isn’t just THERE. Perhaps not literally, but to become World Champion you need to check off some boxes on the way there. Whether that be earning it by dominating the roster and clearing out that road yourself, whether that be having the proper conviction, whether that be truly ingraining yourself into the Elite Answers Wrestling culture; each Elitist has their own path. For me, it was the conviction. I didn’t dominate the roster, I didn’t need to. I had my reason to win, I had my backing, and I failed. Not for any other reason aside from the fact that it just wasn’t my night. Next time? I’m coming in with all of the above. I’m coming into that Universal Women’s Championship having beaten everybody, having conviction that is unrivalled, having truly ingrained myself into this company by working week in, week out, and just being me - making up for the time I spent away - I am not going to stop until somebody dethrones me as the Universal Women’s Champion. That’s how far my mindset reaches. That’s how far into the future I am seeing. That’s the reach of my vision. That cannot stop now. Day 1 of the Holly Arrow Revenge Tour cannot be a SETBACK.
I’m not losing to you, Donovan. It’s as simple as that. I won’t now, I didn’t a year ago, and that is for one specific reason. When it comes to this business? I just want it more. Not to say you don’t want it at all, I’m sure it’s close. This game comes down to the slimmest of margins, but the fact of the matter is, I want it more. POTARA wanted to beat Donovan Duke and Jon Kelton more. Holly Arrow wanted to eliminate Donovan Duke more than Donovan Duke wanted to eliminate Holly Arrow. And just as I said last year, I’m sure the result would have been the same had it been me and not Veena Adams competing for that National Elite Championship. The result stays the same HERE. I want it more than you. You have a lot of potential, you are a future World Champion and if anybody tells you otherwise you’re wrong. If anybody, new or old, tries to deny that fact, they’re wrong. Hell, even if you walked into Pain For Pride THIS YEAR against Charlie Marr, I’d be betting money on you. However, it doesn’t come down to how good YOU are. It doesn’t come down to Donovan Duke. It didn’t with Rex McAllister, just as it didn’t for a lot of others to come before you. I said this to Hikari Kanno, but in recent years it has been among the rarest things in this industry. Beating me clean as a whistle, that is. Kassidy Heart did it, Impact did it, Harper Lee did it, Minerva did it. As did the woman who catfished everybody into thinking she was a main eventer but the less said about her the better. There are just a handful, and there’s a good reason for that. There’s a good reason that a lot of the time I’m beaten, or even if I don’t lose, it takes fuckery, outside interference, or something of the sort. A lot of people just don’t have the fire inside of me that I do. It takes the most winningest Elitists and Harper Lee to actually get one over me, and that is reflected in the names I have beat also. People like Milli Banks say it time and time again, the very things I just said, there aren’t many people to straight up beat her, and I’m ALWAYS the first name that she drops. Why? For good reason. I did the unthinkable. As she was on the rise, I submitted her, before anyone could truly prove any sort of superiority over her. That testament stands true for so many names. I just want it more. I always will. You could be World Champion and I’d want it more. You could be a Hall of Famer and I’d want it more. You could be Methuselah and I’d want it more. It comes down to that, and it’s going to carry me over the finish line before you do, Donovan. That’s my journey.
My journey runs straight through you and whoever stands in my way. Whether it be the best of the best or the worst of the worst. This IS the conclusion to the past few years of my life. This IS where it all comes to an end. This IS the final stretch. This IS the final saga. Then, I can move on. The next time you see me challenge for the Universal Women’s Championship I will be the winner, and that’ll come at the expense of people like you Donovan. I intend to walk into my next World Championship contest with a win over you. With a win over Harper Lee. With a win over anybody else that stands in my way. Not just so I can claim that I have beaten people like you, Donovan. Not just as justification for being in that match to begin with. Not just so I can stand there and say “look who I’ve beaten” but so I can prove to myself that I am worthy of it. You may feel a little disrespected by the fact I have sat here and just said that it’s all about me for the past few minutes, but trust me, that’s not the case. There’s no disrespect to be had here, if anything, this entire video may just be the biggest compliment you will ever receive in your entire career. If I can beat somebody like YOU? I KNOW I deserve that top spot. Because, if not for me? There is none more deserving than a World Championship than you. You are this season’s Adam Lucas, you are this year’s Limmy Monaghan, you are this era’s Jake Smith. You are that type of Elitist who everybody is just dying to see come out on top, you are that type of Elitist who - once they come out on top - will have everybody throwing their hats in celebration as if it were a college graduation. There is nobody that everybody wants to see win more than you… except for me. That’s why I have to win. There’s nobody who has earned it, deserves it, wants it more than you; if not for me. I am the one name that stands in front of you in this line, and I’m not budging. I’m not moving from my spot. I’m not moving from my Jujutsu Kaisen “strongest sorcerer in the world… second only to Satoru Gojo of course” position, with me being Satoru Gojo. I am not moving from that number one spot. You are the greatest, behind me. You are the best, behind me. You are the most deserving, behind me. I’m a scarred woman. I am a hurt woman. I’ve earned those scars. I’ve earned that hurt. My career has felt like a tragedy but I know now that it was those very losses that has put me in this position. Those very setbacks that has made me THE, undisputed, undeniable, most deserving Elitist to win a World Championship. There is nobody who deserves this more than me.
I have to beat you. I just do. If there’s any victory that proves all of those claims, it’s beating Donovan Duke, and I don’t intend to settle into second place after Grand Rampage. I just don’t. You may have been here longer than me and you may have had more experience as a Single’s Champion than I have but at the end of the day, it’s me who will rise to the top before you do. Every victory from here on out is, essentially, the resume to the new Holly Arrow. No more “I beat Cleopatra, I beat Chris Elite, I beat Andrea Valentine” - I am going to beat the best in THIS run, I am going to beat the best in THIS era, I am going to beat the best THIS year. And this time? They won’t just “happen.” They won’t just go nowhere. They will be the victories that push me closer and closer to the gold I have been waiting to hold onto ever since I signed pen to paper. Donovan, you will be the first name on my brand new resume. You may be the loser. You may be second place. But that isn’t anything shameful.
Stand proud.
You are strong."
