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“Like clockwork, the very first thing to come out of our opponents mouths is… Exactly what I figured it'd be as soon as this match was made. I can't really be mad about it, I guess. Even if it was expected, I guess it's still worth talking about.
…Except, I already said everything I needed to.
If you weren't listening, that's on you. I'm not trustworthy. We know. We've been over that. The Jaded Hearts don't have any reason to believe a word I say, and I wouldn't even expect them to. I know what kind of person I am, and even if I for some reason forgot about my history, I have enough history with the Jaded Hearts for them to not want anything to do with me. They obviously don't think much of me, and I don't like them either. On paper our team shouldn't be able to work out, but how many times do I need to mention that I've worked with people I didn't like before? Are you forgetting that I teamed up with Holly Arrow and WON right before Pain for Pride this year? Are you forgetting that I teamed up with Aria earlier this year and didn't lay a hand on her until AFTER she fumbled? Say what you want, but I actually have her a chance! You could even look at POTARA’s history alone and see that I can be willing to put my beliefs to the side and work with people I don't like as long as it actually benefits me, and in a match like this, it DOES. Like if anything, MOST of the tag team matches I have are with people I don't like! I'm just capable of figuring out whether or not a match is actually worth my time, and right now I'm in a match against two of my Road to Redemption opponents and the Universal Women's Champion. This is the best shot I'll have at gaining momentum heading into that Chamber and proving I'm ready to become the Answers World Champion, so here's what I want to know.
What would YOU do here?
Not once did I lie to myself about this match. I didn't ask the Jaded Hearts to trust me. I didn't ask them to get along with me, and I'm definitely not pretending to be their friends. I'm just doing my job, because right now I don't think I gain anything by giving up a win like this. I guess I can understand why Milli would miss what I said in my last video because it wasn't directed to her, but Kelton flying right past my point just for the sake of doing exactly what I told him wouldn't be beneficial in the first place is exactly the kind of thing I wasn't looking forward to this week. You guys aren't even giving our team any real thought beyond what's right in front of your faces, yet here you are acting like you actually said something substantial by stating the obvious. Yeah the idea of teaming with those two makes me want to vomit, but I'm also the kind of person that hates losing, and don't you think that if ANYONE would know that, it's the Jaded Hearts? I mentioned it. Milli mentioned it. Sienna mentioned it. Honestly I think I'd be perfectly fine if everyone would just stop bringing it up, but Sienna Jade ended two of my Championship reigns and Kassidy was right there with her for the second one. They were right there when I turned my back on Holly Arrow. They know probably more than anyone else how much I hate losing, so what reason do they have to doubt that I'll actually deliver besides the idea that I'll actually throw this match away JUST because I don't like them? Like I said, I'm not about to face the Jaded Hearts. I'm not going after the Unified Tag Team Championships. I have more to gain by actually winning this match than by turning on them, and if any of you actually think that's wrong you might just be stupid. I accepted a long time ago that I'm not trustworthy, but reducing me to nothing but a snake that ruins literally every team I touch is such an empty-headed way of looking at me. You're getting ahead of yourself if that's really all you have fueling this idea that us working together for this one match isn't possible, and I’ll gladly shut you guys up.
I think I'm most surprised to hear all this from you, Milli. I already realized years ago that Jon Kelton is mentally handicapped and Bronson just doesn't have a whole lot of history with me, but you? You don't really have an excuse other than you still being emotional over what I did to Holly. I can't really blame you for still hating me, but don't you think you should be able to at least try a lil critical thinking when you have opponents like this facing you? Other than the Jaded Hearts, you should be the one person in this match who really understands just how much I don't like losing matches, and I ALREADY missed out on two chances to beat you this season. Do I really need to miss out on a third? I'm not gonna lie to you Milli, either outcome sucks for me this week. Either I lose to you again or I spend like twenty minutes working with the worst people I know, but do I really need to tell you what the lesser of two evils is here? Trust me, I know a whole lot more about working through struggles in the tag division than you're giving me credit for. You weren't even here until 2022. You missed out on entire chapters of my career. Chapters where I had to do EXACTLY what I was doing alongside Holly Arrow for a year. Chapters where I had to carry the Unified Tag Team Championships knowing that there were teams in the division way more complete than the Realm was ever going to be. Chapters where I competed in matches like Brand Warfare without a single one of my teammates having my back. Don't let my hatred for matches like this fool you, I have more than enough experience working with others to understand that sometimes you don't have any choice but to work with what you have. There's a reason I hate working with people to begin with, but I'm also not enough of a moron to take the losses I did to the Jaded Hearts and still not give them credit where it's due. If I had to be in a match like this alongside people I was never gonna get along with, at least my teammates are people who can actually handle themselves. This is one of the rare occasions where my struggles in a team setting DON'T come from my partners being incompetent. I've won matches just like this with worse partners, so why can't I win with the…
…”Tag Team of the Decade”? I don't like Kassidy or Sienna and I'll be so relieved when I can finally get away from this, but if there's anything I want right now after the season I've had so far it's to end Showdown with my hand raised and you staring at the lights. That's the perfect ending to Showdown as far as I'm concerned, and this really just goes back to what I said weeks ago. I'm an opportunist. I'm the type of person to look for whatever outcome benefits me most, whether it be throwing my future opponents off their game or picking up momentum by defeating World Champions, so if I were you I'd probably be prepared for the scenario where I push through the most frustrating match of my life all for the best win possible heading into Road to Redemption.
I don't know why you guys love to treat me like a kid and not a former World Champion that's been doing this whole professional wrestling thing for five years now, but you need to stop looking down on me. I'm constantly being told how I'm insecure, how I'm a lost cause, how my actions are gonna come back to bite me and all that and for some reason you guys tend to let this stuff create your assumptions on how I'll approach my tag team matches over literally anything else. It’s annoying being reduced to this, especially coming from you after the conversation we already had. Milli, serious question here. If you didn't get banned from the Olympics, do you actually think you'd ever regret saying what you did to that gymnast? I get it, you're not who you were back then. You changed and that's fine, but you say you eventually might've shot yourself in the foot no matter what and the way I see it, that was only ever true because you were in a setting that for some reason cares as much about your behavior as your actual talent. I don't think things should be that way, and clearly I'm not alone in that seeing what the wrestling industry’s been built off of. If you were allowed to keep your career as a gymnast and compete in the Olympics after what you said, I don't see why you would've ever stopped. You would've hurt a lot of people's feelings, but if you were any good that wouldn't matter. Once they were done crying they'd have no choice but to acknowledge how good you are, because you'd still be successful regardless of how they felt. That being said, I'm not like you. I didn't join an industry that punishes you for knowing how good you are. Instead I'm in a place where it's sink or swim, and if you're not good enough to make any impact you're gonna drown. Maybe we see things differently because I never made it to the Olympics like you. Maybe we see things differently because I didn't have that kind of fame before EAW. I never experienced any of this before I got here, and because of that I had to learn how this all works the hard way. I've been on both sides of this. I was the one coming out to cheers at one point, but I know what really got me to my first World Championship and I don't see why I'd let go of that. Milli, look at the names who've become Hall of Famers over the years. How many of them were fan favorites? How many of them would even be wanted back in 2024? The list is probably smaller than you think, but they're still Hall of Famers, right? You and I both know I'm a future Hall of Famer, and that'd have to feel great, wouldn't it? I'm sure they'll be booing, I'm sure they'll hate every part of it, but would it matter? Being rewarded for everything I've done since I joined this company in 2019 is all I wanted, and I shouldn't HAVE to play nice to get that. I shouldn't have to try and cater to people for them to recognize the talent I have. It doesn't even make sense for that to be how it works, so whether you like it or not I'm going to keep doing things my way, because I actually know what I'm doing.
At the end of the day, your wrestling ability is what determines where you stand around here. There's a reason you can compare me to someone like Miku Sakai (gross btw) and I'll still be twice the Elitist she is. Like, sure we both tend to get on people's bad sides but one of us is about to become the Answers World Champion and the other peaked in her debut year. I lost to you because I was so obsessed with trying to prove something to my old partners that my mind wasn't where it should've been. Being right about an old teammate was never gonna matter once you're fighting for World Championships. What does matter is what you're willing to do in order to succeed and the kind of restrictions you place on yourself as a wrestler, and ever since I realized that three years ago I've only gotten better. If the Harper Lee you're constantly asking for was here right now, I don't think she'd stand a chance in a match like the Extreme Elimination Chamber. For some reason everyone's favorite narrative to run with is that I've taken a step back because I lost a couple of World Championship matches, but if anything it's the exact opposite. I have NEVER been better than I am right now, Milli. I've never been as skilled as I am right now. I've never cared about reaching the top as much as I do right now. I've never been more willing to do whatever's necessary to become Champion again than I am right now. I’m a more complete Elitist than I've ever been in my life, which is why I'm consistently in the World Championship picture in the first place. I don't know if you know this since you were just getting started when it all happened, but I didn't have months to build myself up for the main event scene when I was first getting there. I had been in some huge matches by then, but I didn't spend half a season feuding with former World Champions and competing in Iron Survivors before I finally became World Champion. No, I was the Specialists Champion when the Iconic Cup tournament started, and only weeks after I lost the title I won the tournament. The week after that I won the Universal Women's Championship. I didn't change. I didn't grow a whole lot as an Elitist at that time. Who I was as an Elitist when I first became the Specialists Champion is essentially who I was when I lost the Universal Women's Championship, and now I've had two years to become a better version of myself. The fact that you'd even play this game and say I don't have what it takes anymore is crazy. I'm more focused than ever, and if you really think I still have yet to prove it, I'll use this match as my opportunity to change that. After all, in a place where your ability means a whole lot more than your attitude, I’d like to see what happens when the “face” of the women's division loses to the three of us. Going from beating one World Champion to dethroning another is gonna help prove who the best really is, and sooner or later these people are just gonna have to catch on.
This goes all the way back to what I told you about the assumptions you make about my place in tag matches. You think there's no way I can work with my teammates, and it's not that I don't understand where you're coming from. I never said it'll be easy and I have more than enough reason to think this match could fall apart even without your input, but too many of you think us working together isn't even possible because you focus more on my attitude and my history than what this match actually means for me. You were smart enough to understand that Elysium should have even more drive to win this match knowing that they lost their last match against the Jaded Hearts, so it should've already crossed your mind by now with the history we have that maybe… Just maybe… Part of me really DOES want to win this match. It's not about saying whatever will sound good. I don't even think what I say matters to Kassidy and Sienna. What matters is whether or not I actually do my part, and I shouldn't have to tell you that I’ll do that when you just beat me this season. Like considering who our opponents are, I’d say I really have the best reason to compete in this match on our team. The circumstances suck, but if you three can keep holding our hatred for each other against us I think it's only fair I remind you that this is both my opportunity to finish what I started against you two weeks ago and beat two of my Extreme Elimination Chamber opponents at the same time. It should be common sense that I’d at least TRY to work through this match, but you guys are so lazy in your approach it's like you're completely ignoring just how much of a threat you'll be up against should your bold prediction turn out to be completely wrong. Between you, me and the Jaded Hearts we can all argue who the best female Elitist in EAW is but at the end of the day you're the one holding the Universal Women's Championship. Not only that, but I personally still have yet to win against you while the other two haven't faced you in a while. Anyone with a brain can see exactly why you or anyone else would think you're the best the division has to offer, but shattering both that AND the idea that Elysium is actually gonna be a force in the tag division by winning alongside the Jaded Hearts of all people would make a pretty big statement, and that's what I'm still missing, right? A win that actually makes a big impact this season? Decisively beating both contract holders in the same match to qualify for the Chamber to begin with obviously wasn't enough to some of you, so are you sure you wanna hold onto this idea that I'm not gonna be able to work with the Jaded Hearts? Like yeah, there's always the chance that things go wrong between us. I can't say I like being threatened by those two, and they don't like me as is. Obviously the possibility is there, but use your head for once and think about all the motives we could possibly have for competing in this match and not just immediately abandoning each other, because it's really not as complicated as you'd think it is. How high do you think the chances really are of us sabotaging ourselves and gaining nothing from it when your opponents are people who like winning more than anything else?
While you think about that, I just gotta say that Jon Kelton’s a loser.
Like, a REAAAALLLLYYYY big loser.
It's honestly impressive how sad you look sometimes, dude. I think my new favorite thing is when people who can't actually win anything say “but I main event shows!!!” as some sorta argument against their incompetence. Like, cool! You main event shows, so that MUST mean you're a top tier talent! It's not like Showdown was main evented by Ryan Joseph Wilson just a few weeks ago! God, you reek. You know it's bad when the best Milli can do for you is call out the most ESPN stat possible in “one of three Elitists to hold the Interwire, National Elite and New Breed Championships”. Seriously, was that a joke? Who cares about that? Is this something people are actually paying attention to? You're not even the only one to do it, how is that important?? Should I start patting myself on the back for holding three tri-brand Championships? You know what, we're getting off track. All I gotta say is there's a pretty common theme between both your mention of main eventing shows and Milli’s mention of the Championships you've won, and it's the fact that everything you've accomplished can be done by literally anybody in this match. The only exception to that is the New Breed Championship, and that's only because most of us outgrew it too quickly and don't need to spend our time smurfing because we're not good enough for anything else. I never even fought for the New Breed Championship, and as far as I'm concerned BRAE can keep that title. My eyes are on the Answers World Championship right now, and while you can make your own predictions on how that Chamber’s gonna end, you should probably remember that only ONE of us is batting zero when it comes to winning World titles. Washed narratives and “Harper Lee isn't untouchable” conversations don't mean anything coming from someone who returned to EAW only six months after I started my career and got passed up in just one year. I left you in the dust and it's not like you ever caught up. You tried everything, but you're never gonna reach the heights that I already have nor are you gonna outdo me in the present. You surrounded yourself with a bunch of bums and that didn't work out. Now you're teaming up with someone that doesn't totally suck, and if anything you only look worse because of it. The last thing you need to do is tell me who is and isn't winning the Chamber, because Kelton I can guarantee that you won't even come close to touching that title.
It's funny because common sense would've told you that the little clip you took from my video was in reference to tag team matches since that's actually relevant to the match we're literally about to face each other in, but you'd rather use it for an argument that doesn't even end any better for you. You “knew” I wasn't half the Elitist I thought I was back in Brand Warfare in 2021, yet I outperformed you. You “knew” I wasn't half the Elitist I thought I was back when POTARA faced you and Donovan in one of our first matches as a team, yet you and Donovan lost with you being pinned. The only thing that could get you to get any sort of upper hand over me was me literally handing you a victory, so you should probably be more worried about making sure YOU'RE half the Elitist I am. At the end of the day I know who I am Kelton. Like I said, I had to earn my spot in the Chamber, just like I had to earn my spot at Territorial Invasion. Even against Milli I was walking into that match undefeated following my Pain for Pride win, but you? You got this opportunity handed to you, just like your ticket to the Unified Tag Team Championships was handed to you by the same guy that started this season beating you. You just keep finding your way into these matches, and the result is always the same. You're not fighting your way back to these spots. You're not climbing back to the top. You're just being put in spots you don't belong in. You haven't been in those main events because you're at the very top of the Showdown roster, you've been in those main events thanks to circumstance. When it comes to talent you're nowhere near the top, and I can promise that no matter where you think I am, you are WAY below me. Yeah, I lost to TLA and Milli Banks. Two of the three times I've been pinned this season were in World Championship matches, and the third only happened after a briefcase shot that I made sure Donny paid for. Do you really think you sound smart reducing me to a statistic with that alone? You don't. Instead you just sound annoying and hypocritical. Going 15 years without touching a World Championship is fine but I go two without it (one of which I spent holding the tag titles) and my career is over? Okay. When is it your turn to step up? It's been long enough. You returned four years ago, and since then there's been #EAW15 returns that got closer to a World Championship than you have. This Chamber is supposed to be your big time to shine and I'm totally looking forward to an entire week of listening to you explain why this is the one, but let's just be honest with ourselves. You don't belong in that match. Not just because you didn't earn your spot, or because you're not good enough, but because you also just don't care enough.
I can give you SOME props, Kelton. You can win matches… Here and there. You won the National Elite Championship and you held it for a while. You won your Pain for Pride match. Even when you first returned you earned the opportunity to win any title you wanted whenever you wanted. When you put your mind to something there's times where you're able to get the job done, so there's obviously gotta be something stopping you from doing the one thing you had in the back of your mind for your entire life. You had opportunities. You had chances. You could've become a World Champion, but you never did, and I just don't think you care enough to. Maybe I'm wrong and you truly are just garbage, but like this season was probably your best chance to break into the World Championship picture for the first time, and while you're shaming me for actually trying to become a World Champion for the second time in my career, you're basically nowhere to be seen. Your loss to Bronson at the start of the season should've told you what this season was gonna look like for you, but you didn't get the message. Instead you agreed to team up with him. You agreed to turn to the tag division, and this is right after yet another Brand Warfare match where you did next to nothing for your team, when this entire time you could've been the one in my position. You could've been the one facing TLA at Territorial Invasion, and maybe you'd have gotten the job done. Instead your Brand Warfare “win” is going to a Chamber you wouldn't have even thought about if Kennedy didn't take matters into her own hands. You need to start thinking about who you're up against at Road to Redemption before you start talking about this being your time, because unlike you I care about becoming World Champion again above all else. That title is all I want, and even if I wasn't trying I know I'd outlast you in that Chamber, but a lazy Harper Lee isn't something that exists. There's a difference between an Elitist like you and Elitists like us. You want points just for being there. You want points just for existing in main events. You want to be seen as a legitimate threat just because you happen to compete in these matches, and that's not enough for us. Say what you want, but I don't have to like the Jaded Hearts to know what kind of Elitists they are. Anything less than a win isn't enough for us, so your complacency is gonna hold your back in matches like this and at Road to Redemption. This is gonna be like your third match against me Kelton so you should've already known by now what kind of Elitist I am, but if you're still in the dark I don't mind letting our win tell you everything you need to know.
You're less of a loser Bronson, but you might be just as stupid as your partner, who by the way, I don't have anything personal against. I don't have a whole ton of history with Jon Kelton or anything like that. I've just been in the tag division long enough to know an obvious weak link when I see it, and I'm not the kind of person that sees any reason to respect people who started their wrestling career when some of our roster members were in diapers and still can't compete at a high level. You weren't much better off than Kelton was for a while, but you at least managed to push through and become a World Champion, so you're getting a bit more respect from me than he is.
Here's the problem, though.
Why am I called every name under the sun for losing two World Championship matches while every loss of your career is treated like some sort of admirable effort?
I already mentioned the fact that you chased after the World Heavyweight Champion in losing efforts for the entire first half of the year, but you only stopped because your attention turned to Methuselah. You ended up losing that match, so why are you receiving props for “risking everything to protect the brand you're supposed to lead” when you couldn't even get the job done? What's stopping anyone else on the roster from doing what you did if they don't even have to beat Methuselah? What's so special about your efforts if they didn't actually go anywhere for you? That's what I'm failing to understand, and you're not making things any better than your partners are. One second you're giving me props for still going even after the losses I've taken, the next you're blaming ME for being hit in the face with a briefcase during my match against Diamond Dixon. It's actually insane coming from you, because your track record is far from spotless yet here you are making my pride out to be the issue just to tell Sienna something that could've come out of my own mouth. “Things are never settled to me until I come out victorious” is something I basically live by, yet here you are pointing out how I was “humbled” by Milli Banks right before I get another chance to beat her. Do you guys even think, or do you just say the first things that come to your mind? You talk about my pride like it's this big problem and refuse to elaborate because “it's not your purpose to put me on the right path”
, but if anything is giving me reason to even give this match a shot, it's exactly that. I don't need the record books to say I'm 0-3 against Milli Banks, especially when the second match only ended because of a Miku Sakai attack. I don't need to walk into Road to Redemption with that on my record. I know I'm the best this place has, so this isn't gonna be as easy as me just throwing the match away or not giving it my all. In any other situation I can't make any promises that the Jaded Hearts and I would make it through an entire match together, but this? I'd be an idiot not to bring everything I have to this.
We're not as different as people think, but the differences we DO have led you to believe that you're in some way better than me when I really don't think that's the case at all. You're making the same mistakes with your career that I made years ago, all because you think “putting your pride to the side” is some amazing quality even if it's not actually resulting in success. You guys are right, I'm not the type to work well with others. I'm not the type to fight Methuselah at Pain for Pride for the sake of my brand. I'm not the type to think about anyone but myself, but you ARE and how did all that turn out for you? If you're gonna hold your own mentality over mine you should at least have something to show for it, but between everything with the 420s, what happened with Methuselah and that Temple of Trials match, your ability to think about others hasn't exactly resulted in a whole ton of success for you. I'm not gonna overlook your War Games win, but you and Milli both know that what happened that night didn't exactly come down to the ability to put pride aside or you guys having better team chemistry than anyone else. It came down to you guys being able to capitalize on the opening that was given to you by Joso. Voltage was out of the picture, and Joso interfered to cost team Dynasty. You'd have to be the worst wrestlers in the world to screw that up. The difference in our beliefs is that you're the type of Elitist to put yourself in the position to even be in that Temple of Trials match. The difference in our beliefs is that you're the type to hand Dynasty over to Kensingten and Richard. I told Jon Kelton that he didn't care enough about the World Championship enough to ever touch it, but you? You care too much about this place for your own good, and your belief in people who aren't gonna be able to have your back is gonna backfire once again on Showdown when you lose to a team that shouldn't even be able to co-exist. I hate the Jaded Hearts, but one thing I hate a whole lot more than those two is mediocrity, and that seems to be the one thing the three of you are okay with as long as it's on your side. You guys are willing to completely overlook any issues in your team because you think it sounds good being a team without any flaws, but you're not that. You're far from it, and if you really think you can go without addressing the issue it's gonna take a real long time for you to ever touch those Tag titles. Elysium didn't fail in the Temple of Trials just because of the circumstances, Bronson. It wasn't just because you two were inexperienced as a team.
Remember, only ONE person in that match can say they competed in it two years in a row.
…And if my memory serves me correctly, the result was the same both times.
I don't mind you calling me a wildcard when it comes to this match, but something that's clearly being overlooked is the fact that I literally spent like half of my career doing tag team work. I know what I'm talking about. I don't know how you're the only one to even entertain the idea that I'll actually work with the Jaded Hearts, but even that isn't saying much when you compare this match to the one you and Kelton had with Roberto and TLA. Like first of all you probably would've won that match even if they worked together perfectly because Roberto just sucks, but besides that neither of them were even gonna try matching you guys when it comes to teamwork. TLA is normally the type of guy to do things on his own, and while La Familia’s always been a thing Roberto only ever had them so they can help him out. They weren't going to give a legitimate team a fight, which is part of the reason I didn't bother wasting my time on TLA last time we had to team up. I think this match is pretty different, because all three of your opponents have years of experience in the tag division, and two of them are literally the Unified Tag Team Champions. If the only question surrounding our ability to work together is if we'll actually co-exist and not if we can win if we DO co-exist, we obviously don't have the same flaws a team like that did. You guys have your work cut out for you on Showdown, because this might be my first match against you in a very long time, but I know more than enough about your teammates. Milli is overconfident, and more than ever she's accepting the bare minimum from her team. Jon Kelton is incompetent, and has spent his entire career proving that he's not capable of thriving in the main event picture. You're right there in the middle of those two and once you lose to us on Showdown and lose to me at Road to Redemption you’ll have more than enough time to think about why you're still not a World Champion again even after all this time, and why the winner of our Chamber was the one with the “unfortunate mentality”.”
…Except, I already said everything I needed to.
If you weren't listening, that's on you. I'm not trustworthy. We know. We've been over that. The Jaded Hearts don't have any reason to believe a word I say, and I wouldn't even expect them to. I know what kind of person I am, and even if I for some reason forgot about my history, I have enough history with the Jaded Hearts for them to not want anything to do with me. They obviously don't think much of me, and I don't like them either. On paper our team shouldn't be able to work out, but how many times do I need to mention that I've worked with people I didn't like before? Are you forgetting that I teamed up with Holly Arrow and WON right before Pain for Pride this year? Are you forgetting that I teamed up with Aria earlier this year and didn't lay a hand on her until AFTER she fumbled? Say what you want, but I actually have her a chance! You could even look at POTARA’s history alone and see that I can be willing to put my beliefs to the side and work with people I don't like as long as it actually benefits me, and in a match like this, it DOES. Like if anything, MOST of the tag team matches I have are with people I don't like! I'm just capable of figuring out whether or not a match is actually worth my time, and right now I'm in a match against two of my Road to Redemption opponents and the Universal Women's Champion. This is the best shot I'll have at gaining momentum heading into that Chamber and proving I'm ready to become the Answers World Champion, so here's what I want to know.
What would YOU do here?
Not once did I lie to myself about this match. I didn't ask the Jaded Hearts to trust me. I didn't ask them to get along with me, and I'm definitely not pretending to be their friends. I'm just doing my job, because right now I don't think I gain anything by giving up a win like this. I guess I can understand why Milli would miss what I said in my last video because it wasn't directed to her, but Kelton flying right past my point just for the sake of doing exactly what I told him wouldn't be beneficial in the first place is exactly the kind of thing I wasn't looking forward to this week. You guys aren't even giving our team any real thought beyond what's right in front of your faces, yet here you are acting like you actually said something substantial by stating the obvious. Yeah the idea of teaming with those two makes me want to vomit, but I'm also the kind of person that hates losing, and don't you think that if ANYONE would know that, it's the Jaded Hearts? I mentioned it. Milli mentioned it. Sienna mentioned it. Honestly I think I'd be perfectly fine if everyone would just stop bringing it up, but Sienna Jade ended two of my Championship reigns and Kassidy was right there with her for the second one. They were right there when I turned my back on Holly Arrow. They know probably more than anyone else how much I hate losing, so what reason do they have to doubt that I'll actually deliver besides the idea that I'll actually throw this match away JUST because I don't like them? Like I said, I'm not about to face the Jaded Hearts. I'm not going after the Unified Tag Team Championships. I have more to gain by actually winning this match than by turning on them, and if any of you actually think that's wrong you might just be stupid. I accepted a long time ago that I'm not trustworthy, but reducing me to nothing but a snake that ruins literally every team I touch is such an empty-headed way of looking at me. You're getting ahead of yourself if that's really all you have fueling this idea that us working together for this one match isn't possible, and I’ll gladly shut you guys up.
I think I'm most surprised to hear all this from you, Milli. I already realized years ago that Jon Kelton is mentally handicapped and Bronson just doesn't have a whole lot of history with me, but you? You don't really have an excuse other than you still being emotional over what I did to Holly. I can't really blame you for still hating me, but don't you think you should be able to at least try a lil critical thinking when you have opponents like this facing you? Other than the Jaded Hearts, you should be the one person in this match who really understands just how much I don't like losing matches, and I ALREADY missed out on two chances to beat you this season. Do I really need to miss out on a third? I'm not gonna lie to you Milli, either outcome sucks for me this week. Either I lose to you again or I spend like twenty minutes working with the worst people I know, but do I really need to tell you what the lesser of two evils is here? Trust me, I know a whole lot more about working through struggles in the tag division than you're giving me credit for. You weren't even here until 2022. You missed out on entire chapters of my career. Chapters where I had to do EXACTLY what I was doing alongside Holly Arrow for a year. Chapters where I had to carry the Unified Tag Team Championships knowing that there were teams in the division way more complete than the Realm was ever going to be. Chapters where I competed in matches like Brand Warfare without a single one of my teammates having my back. Don't let my hatred for matches like this fool you, I have more than enough experience working with others to understand that sometimes you don't have any choice but to work with what you have. There's a reason I hate working with people to begin with, but I'm also not enough of a moron to take the losses I did to the Jaded Hearts and still not give them credit where it's due. If I had to be in a match like this alongside people I was never gonna get along with, at least my teammates are people who can actually handle themselves. This is one of the rare occasions where my struggles in a team setting DON'T come from my partners being incompetent. I've won matches just like this with worse partners, so why can't I win with the…
…”Tag Team of the Decade”? I don't like Kassidy or Sienna and I'll be so relieved when I can finally get away from this, but if there's anything I want right now after the season I've had so far it's to end Showdown with my hand raised and you staring at the lights. That's the perfect ending to Showdown as far as I'm concerned, and this really just goes back to what I said weeks ago. I'm an opportunist. I'm the type of person to look for whatever outcome benefits me most, whether it be throwing my future opponents off their game or picking up momentum by defeating World Champions, so if I were you I'd probably be prepared for the scenario where I push through the most frustrating match of my life all for the best win possible heading into Road to Redemption.I don't know why you guys love to treat me like a kid and not a former World Champion that's been doing this whole professional wrestling thing for five years now, but you need to stop looking down on me. I'm constantly being told how I'm insecure, how I'm a lost cause, how my actions are gonna come back to bite me and all that and for some reason you guys tend to let this stuff create your assumptions on how I'll approach my tag team matches over literally anything else. It’s annoying being reduced to this, especially coming from you after the conversation we already had. Milli, serious question here. If you didn't get banned from the Olympics, do you actually think you'd ever regret saying what you did to that gymnast? I get it, you're not who you were back then. You changed and that's fine, but you say you eventually might've shot yourself in the foot no matter what and the way I see it, that was only ever true because you were in a setting that for some reason cares as much about your behavior as your actual talent. I don't think things should be that way, and clearly I'm not alone in that seeing what the wrestling industry’s been built off of. If you were allowed to keep your career as a gymnast and compete in the Olympics after what you said, I don't see why you would've ever stopped. You would've hurt a lot of people's feelings, but if you were any good that wouldn't matter. Once they were done crying they'd have no choice but to acknowledge how good you are, because you'd still be successful regardless of how they felt. That being said, I'm not like you. I didn't join an industry that punishes you for knowing how good you are. Instead I'm in a place where it's sink or swim, and if you're not good enough to make any impact you're gonna drown. Maybe we see things differently because I never made it to the Olympics like you. Maybe we see things differently because I didn't have that kind of fame before EAW. I never experienced any of this before I got here, and because of that I had to learn how this all works the hard way. I've been on both sides of this. I was the one coming out to cheers at one point, but I know what really got me to my first World Championship and I don't see why I'd let go of that. Milli, look at the names who've become Hall of Famers over the years. How many of them were fan favorites? How many of them would even be wanted back in 2024? The list is probably smaller than you think, but they're still Hall of Famers, right? You and I both know I'm a future Hall of Famer, and that'd have to feel great, wouldn't it? I'm sure they'll be booing, I'm sure they'll hate every part of it, but would it matter? Being rewarded for everything I've done since I joined this company in 2019 is all I wanted, and I shouldn't HAVE to play nice to get that. I shouldn't have to try and cater to people for them to recognize the talent I have. It doesn't even make sense for that to be how it works, so whether you like it or not I'm going to keep doing things my way, because I actually know what I'm doing.
At the end of the day, your wrestling ability is what determines where you stand around here. There's a reason you can compare me to someone like Miku Sakai (gross btw) and I'll still be twice the Elitist she is. Like, sure we both tend to get on people's bad sides but one of us is about to become the Answers World Champion and the other peaked in her debut year. I lost to you because I was so obsessed with trying to prove something to my old partners that my mind wasn't where it should've been. Being right about an old teammate was never gonna matter once you're fighting for World Championships. What does matter is what you're willing to do in order to succeed and the kind of restrictions you place on yourself as a wrestler, and ever since I realized that three years ago I've only gotten better. If the Harper Lee you're constantly asking for was here right now, I don't think she'd stand a chance in a match like the Extreme Elimination Chamber. For some reason everyone's favorite narrative to run with is that I've taken a step back because I lost a couple of World Championship matches, but if anything it's the exact opposite. I have NEVER been better than I am right now, Milli. I've never been as skilled as I am right now. I've never cared about reaching the top as much as I do right now. I've never been more willing to do whatever's necessary to become Champion again than I am right now. I’m a more complete Elitist than I've ever been in my life, which is why I'm consistently in the World Championship picture in the first place. I don't know if you know this since you were just getting started when it all happened, but I didn't have months to build myself up for the main event scene when I was first getting there. I had been in some huge matches by then, but I didn't spend half a season feuding with former World Champions and competing in Iron Survivors before I finally became World Champion. No, I was the Specialists Champion when the Iconic Cup tournament started, and only weeks after I lost the title I won the tournament. The week after that I won the Universal Women's Championship. I didn't change. I didn't grow a whole lot as an Elitist at that time. Who I was as an Elitist when I first became the Specialists Champion is essentially who I was when I lost the Universal Women's Championship, and now I've had two years to become a better version of myself. The fact that you'd even play this game and say I don't have what it takes anymore is crazy. I'm more focused than ever, and if you really think I still have yet to prove it, I'll use this match as my opportunity to change that. After all, in a place where your ability means a whole lot more than your attitude, I’d like to see what happens when the “face” of the women's division loses to the three of us. Going from beating one World Champion to dethroning another is gonna help prove who the best really is, and sooner or later these people are just gonna have to catch on.
This goes all the way back to what I told you about the assumptions you make about my place in tag matches. You think there's no way I can work with my teammates, and it's not that I don't understand where you're coming from. I never said it'll be easy and I have more than enough reason to think this match could fall apart even without your input, but too many of you think us working together isn't even possible because you focus more on my attitude and my history than what this match actually means for me. You were smart enough to understand that Elysium should have even more drive to win this match knowing that they lost their last match against the Jaded Hearts, so it should've already crossed your mind by now with the history we have that maybe… Just maybe… Part of me really DOES want to win this match. It's not about saying whatever will sound good. I don't even think what I say matters to Kassidy and Sienna. What matters is whether or not I actually do my part, and I shouldn't have to tell you that I’ll do that when you just beat me this season. Like considering who our opponents are, I’d say I really have the best reason to compete in this match on our team. The circumstances suck, but if you three can keep holding our hatred for each other against us I think it's only fair I remind you that this is both my opportunity to finish what I started against you two weeks ago and beat two of my Extreme Elimination Chamber opponents at the same time. It should be common sense that I’d at least TRY to work through this match, but you guys are so lazy in your approach it's like you're completely ignoring just how much of a threat you'll be up against should your bold prediction turn out to be completely wrong. Between you, me and the Jaded Hearts we can all argue who the best female Elitist in EAW is but at the end of the day you're the one holding the Universal Women's Championship. Not only that, but I personally still have yet to win against you while the other two haven't faced you in a while. Anyone with a brain can see exactly why you or anyone else would think you're the best the division has to offer, but shattering both that AND the idea that Elysium is actually gonna be a force in the tag division by winning alongside the Jaded Hearts of all people would make a pretty big statement, and that's what I'm still missing, right? A win that actually makes a big impact this season? Decisively beating both contract holders in the same match to qualify for the Chamber to begin with obviously wasn't enough to some of you, so are you sure you wanna hold onto this idea that I'm not gonna be able to work with the Jaded Hearts? Like yeah, there's always the chance that things go wrong between us. I can't say I like being threatened by those two, and they don't like me as is. Obviously the possibility is there, but use your head for once and think about all the motives we could possibly have for competing in this match and not just immediately abandoning each other, because it's really not as complicated as you'd think it is. How high do you think the chances really are of us sabotaging ourselves and gaining nothing from it when your opponents are people who like winning more than anything else?
While you think about that, I just gotta say that Jon Kelton’s a loser.
Like, a REAAAALLLLYYYY big loser.
It's honestly impressive how sad you look sometimes, dude. I think my new favorite thing is when people who can't actually win anything say “but I main event shows!!!” as some sorta argument against their incompetence. Like, cool! You main event shows, so that MUST mean you're a top tier talent! It's not like Showdown was main evented by Ryan Joseph Wilson just a few weeks ago! God, you reek. You know it's bad when the best Milli can do for you is call out the most ESPN stat possible in “one of three Elitists to hold the Interwire, National Elite and New Breed Championships”. Seriously, was that a joke? Who cares about that? Is this something people are actually paying attention to? You're not even the only one to do it, how is that important?? Should I start patting myself on the back for holding three tri-brand Championships? You know what, we're getting off track. All I gotta say is there's a pretty common theme between both your mention of main eventing shows and Milli’s mention of the Championships you've won, and it's the fact that everything you've accomplished can be done by literally anybody in this match. The only exception to that is the New Breed Championship, and that's only because most of us outgrew it too quickly and don't need to spend our time smurfing because we're not good enough for anything else. I never even fought for the New Breed Championship, and as far as I'm concerned BRAE can keep that title. My eyes are on the Answers World Championship right now, and while you can make your own predictions on how that Chamber’s gonna end, you should probably remember that only ONE of us is batting zero when it comes to winning World titles. Washed narratives and “Harper Lee isn't untouchable” conversations don't mean anything coming from someone who returned to EAW only six months after I started my career and got passed up in just one year. I left you in the dust and it's not like you ever caught up. You tried everything, but you're never gonna reach the heights that I already have nor are you gonna outdo me in the present. You surrounded yourself with a bunch of bums and that didn't work out. Now you're teaming up with someone that doesn't totally suck, and if anything you only look worse because of it. The last thing you need to do is tell me who is and isn't winning the Chamber, because Kelton I can guarantee that you won't even come close to touching that title.
It's funny because common sense would've told you that the little clip you took from my video was in reference to tag team matches since that's actually relevant to the match we're literally about to face each other in, but you'd rather use it for an argument that doesn't even end any better for you. You “knew” I wasn't half the Elitist I thought I was back in Brand Warfare in 2021, yet I outperformed you. You “knew” I wasn't half the Elitist I thought I was back when POTARA faced you and Donovan in one of our first matches as a team, yet you and Donovan lost with you being pinned. The only thing that could get you to get any sort of upper hand over me was me literally handing you a victory, so you should probably be more worried about making sure YOU'RE half the Elitist I am. At the end of the day I know who I am Kelton. Like I said, I had to earn my spot in the Chamber, just like I had to earn my spot at Territorial Invasion. Even against Milli I was walking into that match undefeated following my Pain for Pride win, but you? You got this opportunity handed to you, just like your ticket to the Unified Tag Team Championships was handed to you by the same guy that started this season beating you. You just keep finding your way into these matches, and the result is always the same. You're not fighting your way back to these spots. You're not climbing back to the top. You're just being put in spots you don't belong in. You haven't been in those main events because you're at the very top of the Showdown roster, you've been in those main events thanks to circumstance. When it comes to talent you're nowhere near the top, and I can promise that no matter where you think I am, you are WAY below me. Yeah, I lost to TLA and Milli Banks. Two of the three times I've been pinned this season were in World Championship matches, and the third only happened after a briefcase shot that I made sure Donny paid for. Do you really think you sound smart reducing me to a statistic with that alone? You don't. Instead you just sound annoying and hypocritical. Going 15 years without touching a World Championship is fine but I go two without it (one of which I spent holding the tag titles) and my career is over? Okay. When is it your turn to step up? It's been long enough. You returned four years ago, and since then there's been #EAW15 returns that got closer to a World Championship than you have. This Chamber is supposed to be your big time to shine and I'm totally looking forward to an entire week of listening to you explain why this is the one, but let's just be honest with ourselves. You don't belong in that match. Not just because you didn't earn your spot, or because you're not good enough, but because you also just don't care enough.
I can give you SOME props, Kelton. You can win matches… Here and there. You won the National Elite Championship and you held it for a while. You won your Pain for Pride match. Even when you first returned you earned the opportunity to win any title you wanted whenever you wanted. When you put your mind to something there's times where you're able to get the job done, so there's obviously gotta be something stopping you from doing the one thing you had in the back of your mind for your entire life. You had opportunities. You had chances. You could've become a World Champion, but you never did, and I just don't think you care enough to. Maybe I'm wrong and you truly are just garbage, but like this season was probably your best chance to break into the World Championship picture for the first time, and while you're shaming me for actually trying to become a World Champion for the second time in my career, you're basically nowhere to be seen. Your loss to Bronson at the start of the season should've told you what this season was gonna look like for you, but you didn't get the message. Instead you agreed to team up with him. You agreed to turn to the tag division, and this is right after yet another Brand Warfare match where you did next to nothing for your team, when this entire time you could've been the one in my position. You could've been the one facing TLA at Territorial Invasion, and maybe you'd have gotten the job done. Instead your Brand Warfare “win” is going to a Chamber you wouldn't have even thought about if Kennedy didn't take matters into her own hands. You need to start thinking about who you're up against at Road to Redemption before you start talking about this being your time, because unlike you I care about becoming World Champion again above all else. That title is all I want, and even if I wasn't trying I know I'd outlast you in that Chamber, but a lazy Harper Lee isn't something that exists. There's a difference between an Elitist like you and Elitists like us. You want points just for being there. You want points just for existing in main events. You want to be seen as a legitimate threat just because you happen to compete in these matches, and that's not enough for us. Say what you want, but I don't have to like the Jaded Hearts to know what kind of Elitists they are. Anything less than a win isn't enough for us, so your complacency is gonna hold your back in matches like this and at Road to Redemption. This is gonna be like your third match against me Kelton so you should've already known by now what kind of Elitist I am, but if you're still in the dark I don't mind letting our win tell you everything you need to know.
You're less of a loser Bronson, but you might be just as stupid as your partner, who by the way, I don't have anything personal against. I don't have a whole ton of history with Jon Kelton or anything like that. I've just been in the tag division long enough to know an obvious weak link when I see it, and I'm not the kind of person that sees any reason to respect people who started their wrestling career when some of our roster members were in diapers and still can't compete at a high level. You weren't much better off than Kelton was for a while, but you at least managed to push through and become a World Champion, so you're getting a bit more respect from me than he is.
Here's the problem, though.
Why am I called every name under the sun for losing two World Championship matches while every loss of your career is treated like some sort of admirable effort?
I already mentioned the fact that you chased after the World Heavyweight Champion in losing efforts for the entire first half of the year, but you only stopped because your attention turned to Methuselah. You ended up losing that match, so why are you receiving props for “risking everything to protect the brand you're supposed to lead” when you couldn't even get the job done? What's stopping anyone else on the roster from doing what you did if they don't even have to beat Methuselah? What's so special about your efforts if they didn't actually go anywhere for you? That's what I'm failing to understand, and you're not making things any better than your partners are. One second you're giving me props for still going even after the losses I've taken, the next you're blaming ME for being hit in the face with a briefcase during my match against Diamond Dixon. It's actually insane coming from you, because your track record is far from spotless yet here you are making my pride out to be the issue just to tell Sienna something that could've come out of my own mouth. “Things are never settled to me until I come out victorious” is something I basically live by, yet here you are pointing out how I was “humbled” by Milli Banks right before I get another chance to beat her. Do you guys even think, or do you just say the first things that come to your mind? You talk about my pride like it's this big problem and refuse to elaborate because “it's not your purpose to put me on the right path”
, but if anything is giving me reason to even give this match a shot, it's exactly that. I don't need the record books to say I'm 0-3 against Milli Banks, especially when the second match only ended because of a Miku Sakai attack. I don't need to walk into Road to Redemption with that on my record. I know I'm the best this place has, so this isn't gonna be as easy as me just throwing the match away or not giving it my all. In any other situation I can't make any promises that the Jaded Hearts and I would make it through an entire match together, but this? I'd be an idiot not to bring everything I have to this.We're not as different as people think, but the differences we DO have led you to believe that you're in some way better than me when I really don't think that's the case at all. You're making the same mistakes with your career that I made years ago, all because you think “putting your pride to the side” is some amazing quality even if it's not actually resulting in success. You guys are right, I'm not the type to work well with others. I'm not the type to fight Methuselah at Pain for Pride for the sake of my brand. I'm not the type to think about anyone but myself, but you ARE and how did all that turn out for you? If you're gonna hold your own mentality over mine you should at least have something to show for it, but between everything with the 420s, what happened with Methuselah and that Temple of Trials match, your ability to think about others hasn't exactly resulted in a whole ton of success for you. I'm not gonna overlook your War Games win, but you and Milli both know that what happened that night didn't exactly come down to the ability to put pride aside or you guys having better team chemistry than anyone else. It came down to you guys being able to capitalize on the opening that was given to you by Joso. Voltage was out of the picture, and Joso interfered to cost team Dynasty. You'd have to be the worst wrestlers in the world to screw that up. The difference in our beliefs is that you're the type of Elitist to put yourself in the position to even be in that Temple of Trials match. The difference in our beliefs is that you're the type to hand Dynasty over to Kensingten and Richard. I told Jon Kelton that he didn't care enough about the World Championship enough to ever touch it, but you? You care too much about this place for your own good, and your belief in people who aren't gonna be able to have your back is gonna backfire once again on Showdown when you lose to a team that shouldn't even be able to co-exist. I hate the Jaded Hearts, but one thing I hate a whole lot more than those two is mediocrity, and that seems to be the one thing the three of you are okay with as long as it's on your side. You guys are willing to completely overlook any issues in your team because you think it sounds good being a team without any flaws, but you're not that. You're far from it, and if you really think you can go without addressing the issue it's gonna take a real long time for you to ever touch those Tag titles. Elysium didn't fail in the Temple of Trials just because of the circumstances, Bronson. It wasn't just because you two were inexperienced as a team.
Remember, only ONE person in that match can say they competed in it two years in a row.
…And if my memory serves me correctly, the result was the same both times.
I don't mind you calling me a wildcard when it comes to this match, but something that's clearly being overlooked is the fact that I literally spent like half of my career doing tag team work. I know what I'm talking about. I don't know how you're the only one to even entertain the idea that I'll actually work with the Jaded Hearts, but even that isn't saying much when you compare this match to the one you and Kelton had with Roberto and TLA. Like first of all you probably would've won that match even if they worked together perfectly because Roberto just sucks, but besides that neither of them were even gonna try matching you guys when it comes to teamwork. TLA is normally the type of guy to do things on his own, and while La Familia’s always been a thing Roberto only ever had them so they can help him out. They weren't going to give a legitimate team a fight, which is part of the reason I didn't bother wasting my time on TLA last time we had to team up. I think this match is pretty different, because all three of your opponents have years of experience in the tag division, and two of them are literally the Unified Tag Team Champions. If the only question surrounding our ability to work together is if we'll actually co-exist and not if we can win if we DO co-exist, we obviously don't have the same flaws a team like that did. You guys have your work cut out for you on Showdown, because this might be my first match against you in a very long time, but I know more than enough about your teammates. Milli is overconfident, and more than ever she's accepting the bare minimum from her team. Jon Kelton is incompetent, and has spent his entire career proving that he's not capable of thriving in the main event picture. You're right there in the middle of those two and once you lose to us on Showdown and lose to me at Road to Redemption you’ll have more than enough time to think about why you're still not a World Champion again even after all this time, and why the winner of our Chamber was the one with the “unfortunate mentality”.”
