Re: Hunting the Biggest Game: Cadence Cahill (Debut) Vs. Ryo Kamiya

by **Old_Man_Tai** Sun Apr 10, 2022 9:24 am

Laying on the mat, the speedo clad Ryo was holding his aching nose, tenderly checking it and making sure it wasn't bleeding or broken. Thankfully, it wasn't. Where the hell had that knee come from? Ryo had been told that his opponent was supposed to be a nobody jobber, no different than others AFW had put him up against when they didn't have a real opponent for him, but either this dude was getting really lucky, or he was better than Ryo had been told.

...Oh those bastard bookers...

Feeling his leg grabbed, Ryo looked up as the bigger man dropped into his leg, twisting his leg around into a complicated looking hold with the ease of someone who had clearly done this several times before, Ryo's eyes widening as he realized whatever was about to happen, it was going to hurt.

"W-wait, sto-AHH!"

Oh good, he was right. Now locked in a very, very painful kneebar, Ryo threw his head back and let out a scream, kicking his free leg out, trying to smack Cadence in the face with his bare foot, while scrambling his arms on the mat, desperately trying to pull his body and Cadences towards the ropes. Somehow, he was able to drag both of them, but it was extremely slow going, and despite only being in the center of the ring, the ropes never seemed so far away as he desperately tried to reach even a finger on the rope to break this hold!

by Agent Hunter Fri Apr 29, 2022 6:16 pm

Honestly, Cadence couldn’t help but be a little impressed at Ryo being able to pull both himself and Cadence to the ropes, even if it was just from the center of the ring. Though it was an extremely slow, and most likely painful process for the young man, Given Kamiya’s screams and desperate flailing of his free foot at Cadence’s face; Ryo did manage to get a finger on a rope and a ref to start counting Cadence out for the rope break. Deciding to let go of Ryo's leg as the ref reached two in her count, Cadence rolled to his feet, taking a moment to look down at the, most likely still in pain, young man before giving something of an impressed grunt.

“Well aren’t you the little trooper, pushing through that hold like it was no problem…” Cadence joked, knowing full and well that Ryo was probably still a little sore after the leg hold; moving to one of Ryo’s sides, the former soldier continued, “- while i’m very curious as to where all that strength you just used was during our little lock-up, I’m far more curious as to how well you’ll hold out against some more aggressive tactics.”. Bending down to get closer to Ryo, Cadence reached out and took a hard grasp at the young man’s hair, slowly wrenching the lad back up to his feet by said hair. “I’m certain our audience would love to see how well one of their ‘Top Tier Fighters’ could hold out, too…”, Cadence said, not only letting loose about what he was told Ryo was by the booking team, but emphasizing the words, hoping it’d convey that the former soldier had some skepticism towards that title. Pulling Ryo in, and placing his head under one of Cadence’s arms in a loose headlock; Cadence took his free hand, reaching out and grasped the hem of Ryo’s speedo. “-So what do you say? Let’s ‘entertain these nice people’.”, Cadence continued, mimicking one of the first things Ryo had said to Cadence during the start of the match as the man began to pull up on Kamiya’s speedo, attempting to lift him up into a vertical suplex.