**All of a sudden the arena goes black. Nothing can be seen, NOTHING. The titan tron begins fuzzing out
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The sound of the static fades into an ominous rumbling and the titantron feed slowly refocuses, enough to see an image of a great black swan fading in and out of view. The titantron feed goes black and an image of the Earth impaled by crossing swords appears. The colour of this image changes every couple of seconds. This continues for ten seconds before the swan comes up in front of it, rising from the bottom of the screen. The first toll of the bell sends silence across the arena; with the second toll the titantron goes dark again.
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"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Metallica blares from the speakers and the arena shakes violently. Twin light beams, one silver the other red shoot out from the tron and flly towards the ring. When they hit the ring the beams fly upwards to the rafters and are joined by a dark grey beam. The beams criss-cross each other until a pentagram has been formed in the rafters.
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The pentagram casts a disturbing glow upon the ring. The lights come back on, however darkness still dominates most of the arena, including the ring, and a man wearing black leather pants; a black leather coat with an "X" on the left side of the chest over a black long sleeved T-Shirt with a black lightning design on it; a metal wristband on each wrist; black metal rings on each finger and a black fabric hood steps onto the stage, a komodo dragon tooth necklace hangs off his neck. Josh Goodwin looks up, rips the hood off his head and raises his signature hand sign to the pentagram as it appears to lower down to the ring with accompanying pyro. Josh determinedly storms down the ramp and struts up the steps.
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He drapes his right arm over the top rope so it is hanging on the ring side of the ropes; he then proceeds to do a 270 degree turn so he is facing the crowd with both arms over the ropes. Josh climbs in the ring and stands in the center of the pentagram as an ominous, unnatural wind blows through the arena; lifting Josh's coat. The wind abruptly stops and the pentagram fades away.**
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Josh Goodwin: And so it begins...
What begins is the dawn of the era of dark light. Dark light, seems contradictory right?
It is, but I couldn't care less; the light of darkness is a dangerous thing in this world. The light of darkness occurs in people when they feel that they are doing some form of good to the world where in reality, they are damaging it.
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**Josh takes a deep breath; looking out to the crowd before continuing his cryptic speech.**
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Josh Goodwin: I have identified with the light of darkness on two seperate occasions.
Nowadays though, I prefer to identify with the direct polar opposite of the Light of Darkness.
I choose to identify with the Darkness of Light. I look at myself as delivering the ultimate evil; but I'm doing good in the universe.
So then, as I said a while ago, I'm a liar, and I always lie. So, therefore, I'm telling the truth, through the paradoxial nature of the statement.
So, I have a match tonight, my opponent is of no consequence to me.
I'll hit him more times then me, that's the game.
But I see people contantly trying to change the game. But they don't know how to.
Cobra, do you want to change the game?
Well to change the game, you gotta be more like us higher folk.
To change the game you gotta stay ahead of it.
How do you do that?
You don't. I do. Simple as that
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**Josh awaits his opponent.**