Equalizing

~ Egyptian Sports Channel NILE SPORTS Interviews SFT world champion Candace ~

Yara Fahmi: Assalam Alaikum! (Peace be with you) Welcome to Nile Sports Saturday Night Live. I am your host Yara Fahmi and joining me here tonight a very special guest, residing in New Orleans, Louisiana but hailed Al-Qahira (Cairo, Egypt), she is the reigning Strike Fantasy Tower heavyweight champion, Dalia Mohammad known as Candace by her ring name.

Candace: Walikum Assalam! (And peace be with you too)

Yara Fahmi: How are you doing?

Candace: Alhumdulillah! (Praises to be God)

Yara Fahmi: Candace, the belt that you have been carrying here with you, I just feel like to put it on myself. Its real gold, right?

Candace: Haha! Yara, its not a belt. Is a CHAMPIONSHIP. Yes, its full of gold and being a woman you can understand how much craze we have to actually wearing so much of golds and silvers around us. Its so precious to have one with you no matter where you go. Its a symbol that defines art.

Yara Fahmi: And this belt.. excuse me! This championship right there defines YOUR art.

Candace: Sah! (Right!)

Yara Fahmi: That's beautiful! How did you get that ya madam (O Madam)?

Candace: How did I get that? Hmm! There are two answers to that question. One short and the other long. But both of them are the harddest pills to swallow. So which one do you want?

Yara Fahmi: How about both?

Candace: Justice! The short answer that I have got this fragrance of magnificence and excellence around me which forced this gold to gravitate toward me. The long answer is; I have got a lovely opportunity to compete in a Goldrush tournament where eight other men... and when I say MEN, I literally mean it. Eight other men that were unaware that their rates of success were about to collapse as bad as the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Yara Fahmi: WOW! So you are the ONLY woman in the entire tournament?

Candace: Fortunately! And if there were any other women besides me that won't be effecting the end-results anyways. I bulldozed 04 other participants with my handy skills and that was including eliminating the champion himself, Lucas Balkan. With all due respect the head of The Flock - a formation to rule the wrestling business.

Yara Fahmi: Right. And Dalia, you are also the first Arab-American woman to do this?

Candace: Yes! The first SFT world champion of an Arab origin, and the 16th ever to be champion. Clean swept 03 former champions: Lucas Balkan, Emerson Embry and Jamo. Neat & Clean. Not only that but I am in a great lineage, same class as someone like Glen Owen, Lucas Balkan and Emerson Embry who have won this title more than anyone else. Even though he and Louis Cypher are two of the baddest men of SFT who I got an opportunity to smack them down the most.

~ Candace looks at the camera with a wide smile, addressing Embry and Cypher ~

Candace: Sorry guys but that's the truth.

Yara Fahmi: Alright! So..

~ Candace gets her back off of the couch, straighten it and interrupts the host ~

Candace: Excuse me! Sorry to cut you off here but you and whoever is in this studio listening to this, and millions watching at home should know that these two gentlemen, Embry and Cypher are actually teaming up with eachother against me and Jack Jones at Titans 104. It was fascinating than to face them in single contests, and it still will definitely be an interesting turnout to face them in a tag team match.

Yara Fahmi: If I ask you to define what is in the hearts of your opponents when the hear your name or know that they are about to face you. How will you define that?

Candace: Fear!

Yara Fahmi: Fear?

Candace: Yes! Fear and disappointment. Because both of them arrive as a unit of sadness. It is a grief, an ending, and they both know it very well. I am not saying that they aren't exceptional. NO! I am not that narrowminded person and I need to admit that they are exceptionally good in in-ring athleticism. But sometimes you need to realize that over every authority there is an authority and sometimes over every Wazir there's a King or a Queen who sometimes need to rule out all other demigods to prove their supremacy. So when Louis Cypher or any other competitor talks about me they have to mask their fear and they have a right to. No smart man would ever reveal his weakness to his enemies.

~ Yara holding a small list in her hands and reads out some names from there ~

Yara Fahmi: Well I will be honest with you that I myself don't watch much of Pro Wrestling but I really have got some questions for you after going through your wrestling career in SFT. You challenged Redd for a match last month. How will you define the result of that?

Candace: That's a good question and it is truly justifiable for someone to pose that. I have seen my fair share of promising sunrises become starlight, yet in that darkness I realize that there will be another sunrise. One must a wait, enjoy the starlit canopy, and in time there will be new rays of light upon the horizon. Its not the end of the world that your plans don't work out. The end of the world for you is when you stop trying. This is difference between me and most of the rosters out there who are booked against me, is that I don't back down, I don't give-up, I may stumble my step but I always find something to clutch on. That's why I have this.

~ Candace holds onto her championship and kisses it with her pale pink lips, like rosebuds ~

Candace: Trust me! This championship right here, if it has senses like us human do it will feel the sensual state of intoxication. Louis Cypher might be wondering that the last match he compete me with ended with no contest, which means I am about to lose the championship. No darling! That's not happening by any means. This gold is never written in yours or anyone else fate as long as it is wrapped around my waist. Oh, that's an entire different thing if I have to or forcefully need to vacate the belt for some reason. Trust me, I have a history of doing that from the place where I came from. This is not it but you also need to know that I will hopefully be going down simaltanously as the greatest and youngest SFT champion of all time.

Yara Fahmi: Fair enough! I am jealous of that heavy gold to be honest but I know I cannot do such hard work to earn it so I need to forget about that.

~ Yara and Candace both laughs out loud ~

Yara Fahmi: Ok! One last question. What is really going on between you and Jack Jones? And how it is going to shape your match at Titans 104 against your opponents. Sorry that sounds like two questions but these are two parts of one question.

Candace: I am fine even if they are two different questions. But first in, first out so Jack Jones - after I met him, I realized that this man is full of potential and has got a good soul. He has something in him that can help to change the world. But sometimes to change something, you need to entirely change yourself or in other words upgrade yourself to that level so you can get the job done more efficiently. He likes me and his love toward me is a debt. That makes me what? A debtor.

Yara Fahmi: Right!

Candace: So, I have to release those debts from me and the only way I can do that is by loving him back for the sake of mentoring him under my supervision. I want to elevate him to the next level. We are so different, him and I, yet together we are balance, beauty and strength, Perfect match! Perfect bond! Now as for our tag team match next Tuesday so our bond is going to put 10 stars to our tag team In-Sha-Allah (God's willing). Because I always talk about the evolution, the progress to upgrade oneself and improving your today from yesterday. Reaching the mountain top with battered soles and then figuring out how to make the right shoes to protect those whom follow. For a master is one transmits their well earned wisdom to others for the least possible emotional and physical cost, yet in a way that renders the learning solid. For only then will the peaks of followers be higher still, creating new masters, and the rise of mankind to choose a noble path.

Yara Fahmi: Any message you want to give to your opponents on camera?

Candace: The rungs of the ladder to success are the failures you learn from. So there is no shame in being defeated by the best of the best. Instead it will honor you in one way or another.

Yara Fahmi: Any message for Jack Jones?

Candace: What a wonderful life, For as long as you've been at my side. And I want you to know, I loved you so.

Yara Fahmi: Wow! That's romantic. You do poetry as well?

Candace: Yes, but this one is entirely from Alter Bridge.

~ Both women laugh and stand from their couches to hug each other and end the show. As Candace leaves the room, she shows the determination that the SFT title she carries is her own treasure and it has become almost like an organ of her body ~