"There is a hell of a lot of soul searching to be done in Ring of Honor"

Adam Pearce: "[an seinen Lakai Shane Hagadorn gerichtet] Hagadorn, the eyes are the gateway to a man's soul. Go find him.

[Pearce wendet sich zur Kamera] My name is "Scrap Iron" Adam Pearce. You can call me the Scrap Daddy. And I'm here to let you know there is a hell of a lot of soul searching to be done in Ring of Honor. You see, five years ago, this company began running a few events in front of a few hundred people in South Philadelphia. And as time has gone on, the number of the events grew. The territory spread from Boston and Chicago. And soon became an international phenomenon, stretching from the United Kingdom all the way to Japan. But as I stand before you today, understand, Ring of Honor has taken its biggest step. Now, live, in front of 50 million homes, on Pay-Per-View. Every member of the Ring of Honor locker room now has to step up, you see. They have to make that step, they have to ask themselves 'what am I willing to do, to take my piece?'.

[Hagadorn kommt zu Pearce und erklärt, dass er BJ Whitmer gefunden hat]

Follow me.

The man down the hall's name is BJ Whitmer. This is a man whose soul is in so much pain that even he cannot reveal it to the world. B.J. has made sacrifice after sacrifice after sacrifice for Ring of Honor, and for Ring of Honor's fans. He's had his flesh torn and his bones broken, and made a hell of a lot more than one trip to the hospital. A few months ago, B.J. lost in one of the violent feuds in history to Jimmy Jacobs. And now he sits there a man before you whose spirit is broken. Every day he will have to look into the mirror and ask himself 'how can I break free?'.

As if that wasn't enough, we can add one more thing to the resume as now, BJ Whitmer, is forever going to be known as the man who lost the very first match on Ring of Honor Pay-Per-View. Every night as he sleeps, as he dreams, and wakes up the next day, the question in his mind: 'What do I do to get relief? How do I make peace?'

Huh. How do I make peace? How do you make peace when the pressure is on? How do you make peace when the stakes that have risen continue to rise, and soon it's over your head. How do you do it? Every man's going to react in his own way. And as I've said, everyone now is forced to dig deep, to search within, to find that spot in their soul where clarity lives. They have to truly know, truly know what they're capable of.

I know what I'm capable of. And soon, every single one of you will know it too."