Roleplay #: Six [6] - Record: 02 - 01 - 01 - Next Match: [vs] MNM, The Basham Brothers and Benjamin & Haas
Steel Punishment: Tag Team Championship TLC match

All Pro-Wrestling's first Pay-Per-View since it's return looks like it will be a fantastic event, with some excellent matches that will surely go down in APW history set for Steel Punishment. At the top of the card, two phenomenal superstars, Rob Van Dam and Randy Orton, will battle it out for the APW's World Heavyweight Championship. The winner of that one will also know who his next major challenge will be as the No.1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship will also be decided in the Cage Chaos match, with Mr. Perfect, John Cena, JBL, Sting, Lance Storm and Scott  Steiner all looking for the win. The Television, European and X-Treme titles will also be up for grabs but the one we'll be focusing on is the Tag-Titles which will be decided in a TLC match between Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas, MNM, The Basham Brothers and The Natural Born Thrillers. The match looks amazing on paper and following some good performances of late, a draw with former World champion Carlito and  a win against Mark Henry, Mike Sanders is very confident of getting his hands on the gold.

The APW logo fades up and the camera shows a hall, possibly backstage at an APW event, where a number of photos are hanging on the wall. The pictures feature some of the best-known and greatest tag-teams ever to compete in pro-wrestling, with the likes of the Midnight Express, the Road Warriors and The Rockers all shown... and of course The Natural Born Thrillers, Sanders and Jindrak must be there as well. Mike Sanders and Mark Jindrak are both standing against the other wall of the corridor looking at all the photos that are just across from them.

'ABOVE AVERAGE' Mike Sanders: " The Legion of Doom, The Fabulous Freebirds, Rock N' Roll Express, the British Bulldogs, the Midnight Express... and Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas, now who's the odd one out?  "

'NATURAL BORN THRILLER' Mark Jindrak:  " Even I can work that one out, Mike. "

'ABOVE AVERAGE' Mike Sanders: " Exactly... it's painfully obvious who doesn't fit in there, Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas. There's no way they could possibly rank alongside tag-teams like the Fabulous Freebirds or the Midnight Express. The teams that are shown on this wall are clearly great tag-teams, they were the best tag-teams of their time and they rightfully deserve recognition. Now I think that it's an insult to all these excellent teams for Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas to come along and claim that they are... the World's Greatest Tag-Team. Benjamin and Haas might believe that they deserve a place on this wall, in this Hall of Fame of sorts, but that belief is tantamount to spitting in the faces of all the truly great tag-teams that have came before them. In my eyes and in everybody else's Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas are far from the World's Greatest Tag-Team... they are simply, a very below average tag-team. "

Mike Sanders then steps away from the wall and walks up and down the hall alongside the photos, checking each as he goes, before stopping and standing back once more.

'ABOVE AVERAGE' Mike Sanders: " It is all too easy to see that Benjamin and Haas don't belong among the alumni of pro-wrestling tag-teams, but what about those of the more recent past and those of the present... are Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas a great tag-team when compared to average tag-teams like the Dudley Boyz or the Hardy Boyz? Again, the obvious answer is no, Benjamin and Haas can't argue otherwise... they haven't proved themselves as anything but a team that could win matches in one of the worst WWE tag-team divisions of all time. They didn't even have any real opposition, yet they struggled to keep hold of the tag-team titles... when average team could have dominated the whole tag-team division. Looking at their achievements, if they can be called that, Benjamin and Haas don't even have the right to call themselves an alright tag-team, never mind the World's Greatest Tag-Team. They might have been able to get along in the WWE but this is the APW, it's a whole different ball game... they'll actually have to face up against some above average tag-teams, or at least one above average tag-team... the Natural Born Thrillers, Mike Sanders and Mark Jindrak. It'll be a shock for Benjamin and Haas I'm sure... I saw them last week struggle to beat old-timer Shawn Michaels and his even older buddy Marty Jannetty, a guy who can hardly stumble his way into a ring these days. I've also seen Shelton try to compete in a few singles matches... Haha, and they say he's the strong link... Charlie Haas must really be pathetic. The guy has only succeeded in making the huge mistake of crossing paths with myself, from night one he thought it would be clever to get in my face, and then he thought that he'd interfere in my match before jumping me backstage. It's just been mistake, after mistake, after mistake for you Shelton... but you won't be able to just get in a cheap shot and head for the hills this Thursday... you'll have to stand toe to toe with me in the ring. That's when you'll realise exactly how huge an error you've made, 'cause it'll be payback time and you've got plenty coming to you. "

'NATURAL BORN THRILLER' Mark Jindrak:  " And while that's going on I get stuck with the Bashams, right? I've got to do the dirty work... as ever. Facing up to the two ugly guys, who can barley put a sentence together and haven't got a hair on their heads. Sounds like fun. "

'ABOVE AVERAGE' Mike Sanders: " Haha... well you know we're going to be doing this as a team... I just thought we'd take a divide and conquer approach. I'll beat the living crap out of Shelton and Haas and you can at least be up against some guys of similar intellect to yourself.  Well at least you get it easy... I'm telling you those two can maybe swing a fist but they don't know how to wrestle,  their wrestling is almost as ugly as their faces. You should be able to take them out in no time, without JBL by their side they won't have a clue what to do, never mind where they are or who they are for that matter. I just hope JBL doesn't get rid of them, they wouldn't be able to fend for themselves in the big bad world. Anyway once I'm done with Benjamin and Haas and once you're done with the Bashams we can really work as a team and take out MNM... not that'll be easy. Then it'll be a quick step or two up the ladder and we'll be tag-team champions, we'll have earned our place alongside the other great tag-teams on this wall. "

'NATURAL BORN THRILLER' Mark Jindrak:  " You make it sound so easy... Oh, and Mike, I don't think our photo is up on the wall. "

Mike Sanders then pauses glancing again down the line of pictures.

'ABOVE AVERAGE' Mike Sanders: " Hmm... you know you're right, our own pictures are missing from this collection, just an oversight... I'm sure. Although, I suppose it is true that we've not actually teamed together too many times but we've certainly worked together plenty of times so that may account for the oversight. However, it won't be long until people mention Mike Sanders and Mark Jindrak in the same breath as the Road Warriors or The Rock n' Roll Express, 'cause Steel Punishment will undoubtedly see the start of a long tag-team titles reign for the Natural Born Thrillers. You see people will remember Steel Punishment not for when RVD battled Randy Orton or for Cage Chaos, but for when the Natural Born Thrillers won the tag-team titles.  It's going to be a great night for us Jindrak but Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas, the Bashams and MNM are going to be ...

'ABOVE AVERAGE' Mike Sanders: " And you know what that means... Haha. "

Fade to static.

All-Pro Wrestling Achievements: Coming soon...

Below Average: Kurt Angle, Mark Henry.