Cecilia Northman Vs. Panther Risako - Two out of Three Falls Count Anywhere Match!

Risako was breathing hard as she slumped against the ropes, one eye open as she kept an eye on Cecilia. The Queen of Queens wad already on the move, charging forwards, raising her leg to spear her right in the chest with a running boot. Such a move would have been devastating, painful, would have put Risako on the back foot for most of the match...if Risako had let it hit.

Instead, Risako grabbed the ropes and elegantly flipped over the ropes to evade Cecilia's kick and make her leg get stuck between the ropes. If that happened, then Risako would use her grip to swivel her body sideways, aiming to ram both legs in a kick to the back of Cecilia's head and drive her face into the turnbuckle! "HYAAGH!"

Risako's counter attack worked perfectly, the direct hit to the back of Cecilia's head creating a perfect collision between the blonde's skull, the turnbuckle, and Risako's boot. As Cecilia flopped to the mat, one leg still caught in the ropes, Risako nonchalantly brushed her hair back. She could not deny that Cecilia was a skilled opponent...but so far, there was one key difference being demonstrated in this match, and that was that everything Cecilia did, Risako did as well, but with elegance and grace. And that, more than anything else, was the difference between a brute and a queen.

Taking advantage of Cecilia's prone position, Risako sat down on Ceclia's chest, inadvertently (well, maybe not that inadvertently) giving the Swede a nice view of her ass as she grabbed Ceclia's trapped leg and pulled it back, hooking it for a pinfall. "My my," Risako purred, "that looked like it hurt."

"ONE!! the referee counted.

For the briefest moment, Risako thought she had Cecilia-- that her Swedish opponent was too stunned to kick out in time, that she would be able to claim this round and move on to the next. But then the Northern Queen had the temerity to kick out, to disrupt the pinfall and just keep fighting. Risako admired her for it, but all the same, felt more than a little annoyed by Cecilia's tenacity.

"Fine, I guess our duel will have to continue then," Risako said as she rolled up to her feet. Grabbing a hold of Cecilia's arm. Shifting her grip, Risako would twist hard on Cecilia's arm to double her over, before running forwards, aiming to leap forward and bulldog the Northern Queen face-first into the mat!

It was at this point that Risako began to wonder if maybe, just maybe, she was getting overconfident. On the one hand, she was now thoroughly in control of this match, outmanouvering and outfighting her blonde opponent in a display of prowess and skill that the audience must have found thrilling. On the other hand, she had no guaruntee that Cecilia was quite stunned enough to pull off this bulldog against her-- otherwise Risako would have gone for something a little more elegant, like an axe kick to the head or a nice abdominal stretch.

As it was, her eyes widened in surprise as Cecilia's arms wrapped around her waist...before she was tilted back, and slammed down into the mat in a brutal back body drop! A wordless cry of pain escaped her lips as she bounced off the mat, flopping down onto her side next to Cecilia, breathing hard. Her spine was in a world of hurt, and she mentally kicked herself for having left herself open like that...

Risako's eyes were screwed shut as she pressed a hand to her back, groaning as her spine throbbed dully from Cecilia's quick and effective counter-- clearly, those muscles on the Swede weren't just for show. Slowly, she rolled onto her front, trying to get her knees under her so that she could push herself back to her feet.

Cecilia, however, was two steps ahead of her. Feeling the superior weight of Cecilia pushing down on her back, Risako was alarmed to feel Cecilia's legs scissor around her shin. The next thing she knew, Cecilia's arms locked under her chin, wrenching it back in a painful STF! She barely suppressed a cry of pain as her head was wrenched back painfully, and her arms pawed at Cecilia's as she tried to force her way free.