"Yeah, it really was." Fiona kept her voice low, even though there wasn't much risk of them being overheard with the muffled crowd noise as the show went on without them tonight. "My guess is that it'll keep going like this until the titles are decided. Mr. Deguara probably wants to make sure [i]his[/i] people are the first ones wearing the belts here. That would be a... 'chest thumping' statement, as you put it."

She couldn't help but wonder if she'd put a target on her own back, and Kendra's by extension, with her segment on the mic last week. Fiona was seen as a rising star from NMWW with a ton of potential especially given how young she was, clearly one of Mark Trenton's favorite hires from the past year. Her debut had made former CSW fan-favorite Ada Eberhard look pretty bad, and then they asked her to talk up her own title chances, even if she didn't truly feel she was on that level yet...

[i]Yeah, I need to keep on the lookout. So many people in this company I can't even begin to trust...[/i]

"I wonder if they'll try to go after Isabella the same way. Her and Raven are gonna end up at the center of all this." As the two former champions from NMWW and CSW, and the two clear frontrunners for the women's title here, their rivalry had immediately become very symbolic. Their no-contest fight at the grand opening had resolved nothing, and fans were already begging for a rematch. Isabella Cadiz had always seemed untouchable to Fiona while at NMWW, but after what had happened to Jay Wyatt, Fiona felt like no one was safe around here.