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[The camera fades in as Nick Johnson and Bonez are sitting in a nice café. It is mid-afternoon and the place isn’t too packed.] BONEZ: Nick, your just not getting it. It’s not about the money. Sure, I will be guaranteed almost twice as much as I was making in EWO, but you gotta understand that I made all the money I need for life. Last year I reached the top of the ladder when I held the EWO/OSW Heavyweight Championship. After EWO, I had one more big gig in the Insane Tournament Version 1.0, at which the years of punishment I’ve taken started to set in. I haven’t been on an active roster in a year at the end of next month, when I’ll also be turning 39. NICK: Ya, but age has nothing to do with it. C’mon, Bonez, your still a big draw for crowds. At age 37 you were at your best. So what if you’ve gone down a lot in this one year, your still one hell of a fighter. BONEZ: Nick, listen, one year ago I could go toe to toe with Smitty and Conan, I may have felt a little different about this situation if a month ago I hadn’t stepped in the ring with them and got my ass whooped. They’re retiring now because of political reasons, I’m retiring because of physical reasons. NICK: Bonez, you don’t understand. After what happened to WLW they didn’t want to take anymore chances because of all the problems it cause. You, on the other hand, don’t want to take chances anymore because you no longer are at the level to go against two of the best in the business. No one expects you to be able to match up with them. BONEZ: (smiles) Wow, man, you sure don’t know how to take no for an answer. I have the opportunity to do what few wrestlers ever do, leave the business healthy. I have more than enough money to take care of myself for the rest of my life. I am leaving because I am not as good as I used to be, and I am lucky enough to have the option of leaving while I’m still in great shape. Now Nick, I told Mindtrip I’d meet him in a half an hour, so I gotta go. NICK: This isn’t the end of this (grins). One. BONEZ: One. [Bonez exits the café and jumps into his blue, 1988 Fire Bird and starts it up. The scene changes to outside a New York high school with a semi-trailer truck parked in its parking lot. The Fire Bird pulls in and parks. Bonez walks through a door into a gymnasium where the seats are packed with people. In the center of the gym there is a wrestling ring, on which it’s apron says “USW”. Inside the ring are two amateur wrestlers trying to make it. Bonez walks around and gets to a door where a paper that says “VIP’s ONLY” is taped on. Bonez walks in and is an little hallway, which is set up as the backstage area with refreshments. Bonez walks by many no name wrestlers until he meets Mindtrip who is wearing a “USW” shirt and carrying a clipboard.] MINDTRIP: Welcome to United States Wrestling, my little project. BONEZ: How did you put this together? MINDTRIP: Well, I was doing a lot of work with the Indy-Feds while in WLW, scouting for talent. So finally when the fed shut down, I managed to get some LEW equipment and put together an Indy of my own. Whaddya think? BONEZ: Not bad at all. Do you got anything going good with this? MINDTRIP: Well, I promote city to city. I call whatever local wrestlers I know that are with in that area, and there are a few that I can always call to make a show. Like those four guys over there (points to 4 no-names), I have one show a month and they’ve got a great match that they do every month for me, no matter where I go. The two on the left have a lot of potential to move up, but they need work on their promo skills. This is the Federation’s third show, they’ve been to the last two. Anyway, I wanted you to come down and see a show and gimme some feedback on what you think. BONEZ: Mindtrip, I’m the last person who wants to be around wrestling right now. I’m finally retired for good. MINDTRIP: Your serious, huh? BONEZ: Don’t tell me you spoke to Nick. He’s stuck on getting me into XW. I’m done, for good. I don’t need wrestling, and it can do with out me. MINDTRIP: C’mon, Bonez, you may not be as good as you used to be but your still a damn good wrestler. BONEZ: So what? What have I got left to prove. I haven’t been on an active roster in about a year and I’d like to keep it that my last televised match was a memorable one. I’ll never get the chance again to team with Jesse Gunn against Smitty and Conan, and I’d like to keep it my last match. Losing is what showed me that I was done. MINDTRIP: If that’s what you really want to do. But what are you going to do now? BONEZ: I dunno, I’m still trying to figure that out. Last I talked to Smitty and Conan they weren’t sure yet, but they’re getting out of the biz and into something else. I haven’t talked to Jesse since his retirement, and TUW and the rest have sorta lost touch. Nick is set on having me in XW, so I’m thinking about going out to LA. MINDTRIP: Oh. (looks away) Look at this. [Mindtrip brings Bonez over to a door and points to the ring, where now the four wrestlers pointed to earlier are in the ring.] MINDTRIP: On the left is Kodiac and Saunder, and they’re against “Marvelous” Michael Williams and “Wild” Bill Saprano. BONEZ: They got good chemistry. [The crowd is buzzing as the action in the ring is high paced and the team of Saunder and Kodiac are working like a well oiled machine, and while not totally dominating the match, hit some pretty impressive moves getting a good reaction from the small crowd. They win with an impressive move that looks similar to a double fisherman-suplex.] MINDTRIP: I love those guys. I really think they could get a good deal on TV. Anywho, I gotta go get ready. Were still running a bit low on names that the people know, so I gotta main event it. BONEZ: Damn, I wish I could stay, but if I’m going to LA then I really gotta get going. MINDTRIP: Your driving?? BONEZ: HELL NO! But I gotta catch my plane, my car is special cargo. MINDTRIP: What’s in LA, anyway? BONEZ: I gotta go see somebody. [With that, Mindtrip is left in question as Bonez walks away and the camera fades out.]***
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