The FFW logo appears on the screen before “Focus” by Ariana Grande begins to play. Then we see the studio being set up, the glass table sat in the center being cleaned, two cups sat on opposite sides of the table. Next we see Zack Hudson tying his shoes and checking himself in the mirror before he heads out to the set as a producer puts a microphone on his shirt before sitting down. When he looks across, we next see the various women who make up FFW and Future Shock flash by in images from their career until it finally stops on the reigning FFW Champion standing in the ring before the picture comes to life.
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Kelly glanced from Missy to the corner, and headed towards the corner. She made her way finally to the top rope, and watched as Missy rose to her feet. Kelly delivered a moonsault meteora that crushed the champion into the mat before she grabbed both legs for the cover!
Zack: WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?! METEOR DROP!!
ONE!!!
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Zack: Well I’ll be damned!! Look who made it to the top of the mountain!!
Stringer called for the bell as the fans rose to their feet yet again. Kelly didn’t believe it at first, causing her to look at her husband and then the referee before she got her hand raised.
Vincent: I have nothing but respect and praise for both of these women, and I can only tip my proverbial hat to Mrs. Kincaid. Let’s allow our ring announcer to make it official.
Stringer handed Kelly the FFW Championship, which brought tears to her eyes as she held it against her chest. She dropped to her knees, and held it against her body as fireworks shot off through the rafters.
Kat: Your winner by pinfall…...AND NEEEEEEEEEEEWWWW FFW Champion…...KELLY KINCAID!!!
Zack: Over 10 years since she walked in the door to FFW, Kelly Kincaid has finally become what she wanted to be from day one…. A decade plus journey for that woman has culminated into being the new FFW Champion!!~ ~ ~
As the video ends, we go back in the studio and find Zack seated across from Kelly Kincaid, whose FFW Championship is sat prominently on the glass table as he addresses the camera.
Zack: Hello there, fans! Thank you for tuning into the very first episode of Focus here exclusively on FFW All Access. I’m Zack Hudson, and this show is meant to help you learn more about your favorite girls from both the FFW and Future Shock rosters. You already know their stats, you know what they’ve accomplished. On Focus, we’re going to try to tell the story that brought them here. And maybe dispel a few myths that propagate from places like dirt sheets or Wikipedia.
His attention directed towards the blonde bombshell across from him next.
Zack: And who better to start our series premiere than the woman on top of the mountain as the reigning FFW Champion Kelly Kincaid. Welcome to Focus, Kelly.
Kelly: Hi Zack. Pleasure to be here and this should be pretty interesting. First one up and a walk into the unknown. I’m interested to see what myths are out there about me in the dirt sheets and on my Wikipedia page - though I’m sure there’ll be some people out there that will probably watch this and go straight to my Wikipedia to add something even more outrageous.
Zack: I did look into some of those sites, but instead of using them for fact, I consulted two people who I think you’d agree know you better than anyone. And that was Scarlett and your husband, Christian. I think we can call them credible sources, don’t you?
The blonde smiled.
Kelly: Christian certainly is a very credible source. Scarlett is probably credible right at the moment but if you asked during one of those times that we’ve been at each other’s throats, she might be a little less credible. Hell, she might even have started some of the rumours that we are about to dispel - she can sometimes be like that.
Zack: I’d like to start practically from the beginning, because I do know that you were singularly raised by your mother, Carla. The only time fans might have heard her name was late last year when Lacey and Kyle claimed to have brought her to the arena in the leadup to your match, where she was going to share some seemingly unpleasant thoughts about you. So I’d like you to tell us about the woman who raised you, and whom Wikipedia said was a motorcycle stunt performer for a living.
Kelly: A motorcycle stunt performer?!? She wasn’t quite that exciting. But yeah, I think it’s fair to say that she did the majority of the parenting. The truth is that just like me - and most of the family I grew up with - she was an acrobat and a trapeze artist. At Coney Island we were a family act. I guess this is where I tell you a couple of things that probably aren’t in my bio or on Wikipedia and for good reason. I have two step brothers and them, my mother, my father - the one who we’ll charitably say raised me for now - a cousin and eventually me were all part of the act. The reason they don’t get talked about is because they all pretty much took after my father who I think it’s fair to say, didn’t really like me all that much. I was another mouth to feed; I was someone who needed to pull her weight.
She shrugged her shoulders.
Kelly: And I get it, you know. I understand. Before I was born he and my mother had their issues and my mother umm…had her fun…and I guess I reminded him of that. He was hard on me, demanding of me and my mum, well she was a mum and she loved me and raised me and eventually, after I started wrestling, left him for good and moved into her own place.
Zack: Was she actually in the arena that night when Lacey and Kyle said they were going to bring her out for everyone?
There was a defiant shake of her head.
Kelly: No. Even when our relationship has been at it’s rockiest, she’s ALWAYS had my back and stood up for me and fought for me. If she’d been in that arena that night, her and I would probably have spent most of the day hanging out, talking, shopping, grabbing lunch and coffees. That’s how I knew it wasn’t her they were bringing out and there was no way in Hell I was going to let them masquerade someone out in public putting words in my mum’s mouth.
Zack nodded as he heard that and took a sip from his glass.
Zack: I had a feeling that was the case, but that’s why we are here. To learn more and refute what needs to be. Let’s talk about your dad, Eddie McGuffin. Neither Scarlett nor your husband had a lot of glowing comments about him when we spoke, but it’s because of him Scarlett is your half-sister, right? And your unofficial Reddit thread claims he now works as a consultant for Warner Brothers. Tell us about him.
She let out a laugh before she reached for her glass and took a sip herself.
Kelly: It says he works as a consultant for Warner Bros?
Her shoulders rose and fell in a shrug.
Kelly: Maybe he does. Honestly, he’s never really spoken openly about his work. I’m sure when…if you talk to Scarlett - probably got her lined up for the big season finale - she’ll talk more about why she doesn’t have glowing comments about Eddie. What can I tell you about him? He’s a guy who traveled a lot, bedded quite a few women and that’s the reason why Scarlett from Louisiana and a blonde circus performer from New York were half sisters. To me, he’s always been good. I knew my father in the circus wasn’t my biological dad, he told me as much and my mum she sat me, told me it was Eddie so she helped a ten year old me write him a letter. He replied and then pretty much every month he turned up, took me out somewhere. It was him who took me to my first Jets game, my first Rangers game and every year for my birthday he’d buy me that season’s Jets jersey with my name on it. The issues between him and Christian are that he sees some of himself in Christian and doesn’t believe a leopard can change his spots - because he’s never really changed his as far as I can tell.
Zack: He has no one but himself to blame there. That’s where the irony comes into play, because he’s the one who introduced you to Christian to train you in becoming a wrestler. Is that right?
She took another sip from her glass.
Kelly: That’s right. I like to think that he had two reasons for doing that. First was purely selfish in that he hoped that if I got into FFW, he’d be able to tag along and maybe try to build a relationship with Scarlett. Secondly, he knew that if I stayed in the circus I’d probably push myself to take more and more risks and eventually chance would catch up with me and I’d get badly hurt - I know I say I defy gravity, but I haven’t quite learned how to fly just yet. He introduced me to Christian because he figured who better to train an acrobat than probably the best high flying wrestler in the world - especially one who already had a track record of training talents? I’d say it worked pretty well, wouldn’t you? Eddie certainly isn’t stupid.
Zack: It’s hard to argue with success. I hate to bring this next part up again, but we’re here partially to dispel myths. So I want you to tell me about school. Because for all we’ve been told again by Lacey and Kyle late last year is that you were an awful student and tried to skate by on looks, that sort of thing. I still remember that teacher they brought, Mr. Webster. So you tell us about school. What cliques did you travel in? One of the popular girls? Athletes? I can’t see you as one of the geeks, but you tell us.
Kelly: I went to Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn; a place where a lot of famous and very accomplished people attended before me - by some of their standards, I might well have been an awful student, but that’s talking about the likes of Arthur Miller and Nobel Prize Winners.
She smiled as she paused for a moment.
Kelly: I was pretty much a solid B student. Could I have been better, worked harder? Probably. I’ll hold my hands up to that. As for cliques…I don’t know if I really had one all that much. Maybe I did and don’t realize it? I was never going to be Prom Queen or Class President or anything like that, but then I wasn’t unpopular. Obviously I was athletic and the acrobatic and trapeze work helped a lot in gym class. I didn’t really have a lot of extra curricular activities because my father pretty much demanded I focus a lot on getting homework done and getting my role in the circus act down to the point where I could sleepwalk through it backwards - because that would pay the bills and it was the least I owed him.
There was a roll of her eyes.
Kelly: As for everything else…it’s like I said after Kyle and Lacey wheeled out that lecherous old pervert. I was a teenage girl, so yeah I wanted to look good and yeah I tried to maybe get some attention from the hot guys in school - just like so many other girls did and still do today. I don’t apologise for that. Hell, if anything I encourage girls to be comfortable in their own skin.
Zack: See, that’s where I’d have gotten it wrong. I assumed that with the acrobatics background and all that, you’d have been a natural for the cheerleading squad. You fit the bill pretty well, after all.
Kelly: I probably would have been - I’d like to have been. But my father was dead set against me doing anything that I didn’t have to do that might cause me to get hurt and stop me from doing the show. He didn’t want me to get thrown around or get dropped on my head for something like school spirit or trying to get people to cheer for a high school sports teams. He can probably still quote injury statistics for high school cheerleaders nationwide from the early 80’s to late 90’s.
Zack: We’re about to wind up here, so let me ask you this. If you could go back, what would you tell yourself from those days that you think would have helped shape your life for the better? What advice would you have for high school graduate Kelly?
Kelly: That’s a good question Zack. And I think I’d probably tell her what she already knew. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Trust your instincts. Believe in yourself and stand up for yourself - especially when you have so called experts trying to tell you that you’ll never amount to anything, most of the time they’re talking out their ass.
Zack: Finally, is there something you’d change if you could? A decision in your life that if you could step back and change that one thing that it’d make your life more ideal in your mind? I guess what I’m asking is if there’s any major regret.
There was another shake of her head.
Kelly: Nope. Not a single thing. If I changed anything, I wouldn’t be the person I am today. I’m not going to say everything happens for a reason or that there’s some grand master plan…but there’s nothing that keeps me awake at night; nothing that I had control over that I think I’d like to go back and do differently. Now…if I could go back and had carte blanche to play God and charge something that I didn’t have full control over at the time? I’d either go back and make sure I beat Caroline in the Femme For All…or go back to Unstoppable at Wembley and change that result, but that’s it. Personally, nope, nothing. I’m happy with where I am and how things have gone.
Zack: I’ll tell you what. Whenever we have you back, we’ll dive into some of the conspiracy theories I discovered about you. There’s some pretty wild stuff out there, and the tamest is that you have a secret OnlyFans site. While some of the wilder stuff I found has you having Cuban connections.
He shook his head with a smile.
Zack: We could easily do another hour on those.
Kelly: A secret OnlyFans? Hey if there’s a girl out there who looks close enough to me happy to do and makes a couple of grand from gullible fans, more power to her - just so long as she doesn’t use my name. Personally, I think the strangest conspiracy theory I’ve seen is that I died six years ago and was replaced by a girl from Minnesota called Maureen.
She shrugged her shoulders.
Zack: Thank you again for joining me today, Kelly. And thank you all for watching. You’ll find out who my next guest on Focus will be on the next edition of Future Shock, so make sure you tune in for that, of course. Until next time, this is Zack Hudson saying I’ll see you at the arena.
He turns his attention back to Kelly as they continue discussing something before the first edition of Focus fades….out of focus.
