Johnny Maverick- See the Future. Be the Future.

We're in the Mind Palace as usual. Johnny is smiling.

"Psychic Warfare is real." Johnny Maverick says directly to the camera. There is a long pause.

"A lot of you are probably saying; 'Johnny, you stunning stack of sexy, isn't that how you usually END these addresses?'. To answer your question, Yes I do know how I end my own promos. I mean, I didn't even start with my typical greeting. Well, I decided it was important to start with the 'Psychic Warfare is Real' part this time because frankly we have a lot to talk about. Oh fine, I guess I will do the greeting since you guys all love it so much." Johnny says, he takes a deep breath.

"Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Neighbors, Fellow Vibrations in the mind of the one true God whose name is Love. My name is Johnny Maverick and I am your future Redemption World Heavyweight Champion. I've known that for some time now. So few of you actually believed me and I knew that would be the case as well. Well I want you to think long and hard about something. I want you to think of the journey I've been on. I want you to consider what I've been put through, between throwing matches to get Devlin Scott to accept another match with me to being stuck in an idiotic conflict with Danny Hall... I want you to look back at all of that and remember the smile I had on my face the whole time. Do you know what that smile is? That smile is the smile of a man who has had a very clear vision. A vision so clear it has to be real. That vision is of me, exhausted, being handed the Redemption World Heavyweight Title by the referee. I can feel the fire in my lungs as I raise that title to the sky. I can hear the crowd chanting my name and I have never heard or felt anything so pure and wonderful and...CORRECT. That's what that smile is. That's the smile of Bobby Fischer watching as you all struggle to understand Checkers." Johnny says with a sly smirk.

"A few more of you believe me now but I sense there are still many doubters. That works out just fine for me. If they don't believe in what my amazing mind is capable of they can believe in what Yujiro believes in. They can look at my list of accomplishments and know that I am mathematically the exact opposite of the kind of guy you want to fuck with. But hey, I left all of my past accomplishments burning in a field for good reason. A reason I'm sure will come to me here in a second....right! I left my past accomplishments burning in a field because all that matters now is the future. Those titles may as well have been won in another life. I do remember that life, lest I am doomed to repeat it's failures. I remember being slammed down by my father every day for hours and being told I'd never amount to anything in this industry. I know exactly who the hell I am and it's not a list of belts." Johnny says.

"I like you, Yuji. You've certainly never given me a reason to dislike you. I will warn you about the weight you seem to be putting on the value of World Titles. Yeah, they're nice to have and everyone should be fighting to get where you are but... Have you ever heard the saying 'The clothes don't make the man'? It's pretty applicable here. Matthew Shields was a guy who didn't understand the difference between a Championship and a Belt. He thought that so long as he kept that belt at any costs he was right and mighty when you and I both know that the manner in which he kept that belt made it nothing more than leather and gold. I've held a couple belts in my time. I told everyone how important I was because I was holding those belts and I posed and I flexed and I told everyone how great I was and whenever anyone tried to tell me I wasn't I'd rub my belt in their face and tell them how wrong they were. I'd won a fair few belts before I ever became a Champion. Do you understand that, Yuji? Champions don't measure opponents in Win-Loss records and title histories. They measure them by the look in their eyes when they meet face-to-face. You're good, Yuji... Great, even. I just can't wait to see what you are capable of when you realize you're a Champion whether you have a title belt or not. I believe in Yujiro Fujiwara. That's why win or lose I am going to shake his hand after this match and know that great things are in his future. Just know Yuji that before that future comes I am going to bend you, break you, hit you, rend, and tear, and scratch, and claw because that is what Champions do." Johnny says.

"So let's really find each other's limits, Yuji. I want to push you past what you thought you were ever capable of and I want you to do the same for me. I want people in the audience to question if either of us is going to leave that Arena on our own feet or in the back of an ambulance. I have more than my psychic vision on my side, Yuji. I have experience, I have skill, and I have more than a little bit of aggression to work out if I'm being honest. I can see it now...the referee handing me my title... I can hear the crowd cheering, Yuji. Can you hear it? Don't worry, you will." Johnny says with a cocky smirk.

"See the Future. Be the Future. Say it with me one more time folks....PSYCHIC. WARFARE. IS. REAL." Johnny Maverick says before we fade to black.