[Place - House Show: Detroit, Michigan]
[Time - 4:03 p.m.]
[Setting - Stage ]

As the echo of the parts of the ring are clacking and clinging together, Michael Kelley walks to where the show will take place. Michael takes a deep breath and smells the scent in the air. Fresh smell of canvas and steel
Flows through the entire arena. Michael walks down and starts to help put up the ring, a job that the developmental Guys should be doing but from the things he has learned in japan he is to this day paying dues and showing respect to the crew by lending a hand.

As everything is set up, Michael walks to the locker room to set out his gear for tonight's show. He approaches his cubby and sits on the chair in front puts a towel over his head and puts his head down. Plotting, thinking, praying, and gathering up all the memories of his career as a pre show/match ritual. Cycling through photos from his early days, and days in japan. Michael takes a deeper breath and starts unpacking his gear, fumbling through his variety of gear to find his knee brace. The knee brace that he from time to time wears in his matches. He takes another breath and drops it next to his pads, and he begins his warm ups that consist of; sit ups, push ups, stretches, and a quote that he repeats to get him on his A game. Honor, Discipline, and Courage.