Cyber Saturday 2024 - Panther Risako vs Ellie St. James

Ellie was good. Better-- far better -- than expected, managing to evade one of Risako's traps, nail her with a decisive counter attack, and actually cover her for a pinfall. It was, of course, going to take a lot more than that to take down someone like the Queen of Queens-- at least, that was what Risako told herself as she rolled to the side, doing her best to keep the look of annoyance from her face. She wasn't about to let Ellie know how much that counter of hers had irritated her.

Ellie, as it so happened, was already helping Risako to her feet-- that was, before turning and driving her hip hard into Risako's midsection. "OOOOOFFF!" Risako gasped, doubling over from the blow. A second later, Ellie was circling an arm around her head and grabbing the back of her leotard. Risako knew what was coming next: she had been on the receiving, and delivering, end of this move dozens of times before.

Letting loose a rasping growl as Ellie squeezed her head, Risako balled a fist and tried to drive it hard into Ellie's side. If this did the trip and softened Ellie's grip, then she would grab onto Ellie's wrist with both hands, and, pulling her head loose, spin her body elegantly, before dropping down top whip Ellie face-first into the mat with an arm drag. However, if Ellie's grip held-- or if Risako's blow simply didn't land in time-- then she would get nailed hard by the spike DDT and be left on her back, staring up in a dazed at the arena lights...

Now that she had finally managed to claw control back to h r side, it was all about keeping it. A careful dance of measured offense to keep from gassing herself out when laying it on Risako. A good hip check was a start, feeling the woman buckle against her got a small smirk playing across her face. This was a champion in her grasp, and she was here to claim their belt. She asserted herself as such, tucking the other woman's head, hiking up her leotard as she gripped the fabric ready to make her real statement that she was here for the gold with her opponent's face stamped on the canvas.

“Kuh!” All the best laid plans however seemed to fall apart under the stress of championship gold though. Risako drilled the rookie with a hook into her exposed side and the impact showed. Panther was strong and her fists reminded Ellie with guts tangled into knots. While she managed to keep her footing, the champion grabbed hold of her wrist and wrenched her head free. The Brit moved with Risako's motion, being tossed to the mat.

She tucked her shoulder, twisting her body as she hit the mat hard on her side and rolled through with the momentum, taking all the brunt of the blow with a tumble but managing to right herself in the process. She came to a skidding halt on one knee, facing Risako from a distance. Slapping her hands to the mat she kicked off the mat to surge back towards the champion, covering the distance between them in a few quick strides. She snapped her legs out, throwing her body forward to try to catch the champion with a low missile dropkick.

And just like that, Risako managed a successful counter, hammering a fist hard into Ellie's midsection. As the surprised English girl doubled over, gagging, it was elementary for Risako to grab the girl by the wrists and yank, elegantly flipping her opponent hard to the mat.

Well...except that Ellie hadn't gotten the memo about the whole "being elegantly flipped to the mat," part. Showing an admirable fluidity of motion, Ellie rolled with the toss, sliding across the ring before hopping back up to her feet and spinning, ready to face Risako once more. Risako raised an eyebrow, admittedly impressed by Ellie's quick recovery time.

So quick, in fact, that Ellie was already lunging at her, hoping to nail her with a missile drop kick. Now it was Risako's turn to counter quickly, bringing her arms up in a crossed motion to block the missile drop kick. Even so, Ellie's move came in so fast, so furious, that Risako was knocked off her feet by the blow. She instinctively rolled with the impact, tumbling backwards before landing in a crouch, ready for whatever follow up Ellie had.

At that moment, the crowd burst into applause, impressed by this show of move and counter move being done by the two wrestlers.