Wrestling Extravaganza! Tessa Price vs Daisuke Takeuchi

Inter-brand promotional match

Rules: Standard pro wrestling
Victory conditions: Pinfall/submission/KO

It was a special occasion tonight, two brands coming across in one ring for a classic Friction vs Tension pro wrestling match. Both contestants had a little flavour of wrestling the other brands roster atleast once in their career before, although for Daisuke, he had developed a couple of rivalries within Friction- namely with Alaina Sanders, Santa Tigresa and Minerva. However, today it wasn't about settling a score or a heated match. Tonight, it was a simple all out wrestling match between the two brands. It was on a volunteer basis and not a skill basis, thus it wasn't the best of tension vs the best of friction in any way.

Since it was a special occasion, the wrestler's were going to be announced and interviewed in the ring for a brief moment before the tussle would begin. The announcer/interviewer was inside the ring, wearing quite formal clothing as he waited to announce the first combatant in this special wrestling event.

Spoiler:

The self proclaimed 'Wrestling Prince' of Tension was in his locker room, having just stepped out of the showers and quickly dried himself off as he prepared to wrestle his opponent. He changed into his wrestling attire, putting on a pair of standard black wrestling briefs, with matching black leather wrestling boots- polished to perfection. Finally, he slipped into his knee and elbow pads as he was all geared up to the match. "Right then, let's see who we have brave enough over in Friction to even think about stepping in the ring with wrestling royalty such as I" he snarled, stroking his hair back while flexing his muscles a bit, as he looked himself in the mirror to inflate his own ego.

Once he was ready he moved backstage, grabbing his robe to conceal his wrestling attire as he wore it around his body. Daisuke moved towards the neutral position that lead to the special arena for tonight. As his theme cued, Daisuke brushed past the curtains and moved towards the arena, for a brief moment he stood on the top of the ramp as he looked down the path that lead to the ring. With a shrug of his shoulders, he began to walk down towards that ramp in a arrogant posture. He stepped up the steel steps and entered in the ring, quickly moving towards his corner of the ring as he seemed disinterested in the crowds reaction. "*Sigh* Time to entertain all these peasants" he said as he leaned against the corner of the ring, waiting for him to be announced.

"Right then! Ladies and gentlemen, representation 'Tension' we have The wrestling prince himself- standing in at 5,10 and weighing in at 150 pounds- Daisuke Takeuchiiiii!" the announcer announced the first competitor and as he did so, Daisuke stepped forward a bit as he untied his robe and revealed his attire, he took it off and placed it to the side before moving back towards his corner. He started to roll his shoulders and stretch out at the waist- finally he would bounce on his heels for a quick warm up.

Tessa had suffered some setback recently. Her last defeat was a particular harsh one, although she had looked kind of good in the match, but nut really good after the match. It had been a really simple thing that had taken her out of the match and, what was much more worse, at the mercy of Minerva Larsen.

Normally she would have brooded all over that loss for a while, but then, crafty road agents had offered her a chance she had wanted to take, a match with a guy Minerva had mentioned. She already liked him, despite him probably being a total asshole because the enemy of an enemy was automatically a friend, but that would not stop her from attempting to give her all for the win here. And beside of that, she wanted to see that special snowflake of a man that had even gave pause to Minerva.

A Harrier jet opened on her titantron, crossing the sky in top speed while some aircraft warning horns to aid her Entrance were showering the people with sound. She was stepping, under solid cheers despite being relatively unknown in Tension, through the ropes under her entrance music and with her usual silver wrestling dress. Fatherhead's TZDV was playing while the audience had only a little bit of time to await her disrobing to show her usual wrestling attire after which she would swing back and forth in the ring ropes a little bit until it would be time to come in the middle of the ring.

The prince waited for his opponent to enter the fray, while he waited he started to do his pre-match warm ups by stretching out at the waist and hopping up in place while loosening up his shoulders and neck. His opponents rather unique entrance theme and style intrigued him, he leaned onto the ropes as he saw his opponent make her way down towards the ramp that lead to the ring, clad in her silver wrestling dress which covered her true attire, much like his own wrestling robe. The Tension crowd was quite welcoming to the Friction star who was relatively unknown in Tension but still received quite the applause.

She entered the ring and dis-robed herself to reveal her stunning wrestling attire, a low cut wrestling trouser with her wrestling top exposing much of her fit,toned body. With both wrestlers dis-robed and ready to wrestle, it was almost time for the main event. Daisuke walked over towards the middle of the ring to meet with his new opponent, the two stood face to face, head to head as Daisuke glared into her eyes, staring her down in a classic face to face confrontation of two new opponents. She looked quite fit and tough, toned enough to give him or anyone in the ring a tough time but the wrestling prince was still very confident, maybe overconfident.

However, the host stepped in between to cool things off "*Ahem*cough* First of all, I'd like to thank both contestants for agreeing to this very special inter-brand promotional match, especially you Miss.Price since it's quite uncommon for yourself to be doing an intergender match, so thank you very much. Now before this contest begins, we want just a few words from the two wrestlers so we can get their thoughts before the real battle begins."

Daisuke stroked his hair back a bit before taking a step back and allowing the host to step in between the two wrestlers.

"Right then, Daisuke, what do you think you can expect from Tessa? Both of you have wrestled a common opponent in Minerva and both of you came up short and lost your oil wrestling matches to her. Any particular strategy do you have to out-wrestle your opponent? "

Daisuke still had his eye on his opponent as he tried to play mind games with her, tried to intimidate her. "Well, I know she's a good wrestler, I've seen a couple of her matches and I think she's quite an accomplished wrestler, she's tough and she's got some skill I'll give her that. As for Minerva, yeah, we both lost to her but I wrestled Minerva twiced and once I drew with her, it gives me an edge. My strategy would be mostly submissions coupled with some slams, in the end you can expect her to tap and.....I'm ready to prove Tension is the better brand, and no one better to represent this brand than the prince himself" he said grinning.

He nodded before facing the wrestler from Friction"Right then, over to you Miss.Price. What do you think about Daisuke and your chances in this bout? How different would he be from a competition with Minerva and do you have any particular strategies to out-wrestle this prince?" he said as the host turned over his attention towards the German.

Without a doubt, her opponent was a picture of a man just like Minerva had mentioned. She stepped into the middle of the ring to meet him, smiling friendly but confidently. The cards were not clear here, different types of matches had been fought, different styles of matches had been done, different measures had been taken. So chances were as good as ever now.

“Yeah, well, thank you for having me here. I am always excited to show my very best for our common AFW fans!”
She explained, waving left and right with her friendliest and most honest of smiles before turning back to the host and Daisuke again.
“My opponent is a very well trained man and surely has the physical advantage over me. I can imagine how woman want him and men will want to be like him, he´s living the dream so to say. Comparing him to Minerva is difficult as I had a gimmick match with her that was strictly mat wrestling. I am myself not a submission, power or flyer wrestler, I trained under various banners and brands and took some stuff from here and there to make it my own tactics.”

The two wrestlers were face to face as they had a few words with the interviewer, when asked the specific questions. After Daisuke finished it was Tessa's turn to share her thoughts as well, her smiles and waves drew a couple of cheers from the crowd as she played to the crowd before turning her attention back towards her opponent and finished her speech. Tessa, like Daisuke, looked quite relaxed but confident in her chances in this match. To be fair, Daisuke was feeling quite content with Tessa's compliments towards him.

"Right then, that's it from these two amazing wrestlers representing each other's brand. Now, goodluck to both of you and may the best wrestler win!" he said as he backed off from the middle and moved out of the ring, leaving Daisuke and Tessa in the ring, one on one, face to face. For a moment, Daisuke just stared her down while they were in the middle of the ring. "Goodluck, you're going to need it" he said before taking a few steps back from her and raised his hands up infront of him.

*DING*DING*DING*

As the bell rang, Daisuke took a low wrestler's crouch position with his hands out infront of him, calling Tessa out to start the match up with the traditional collar and elbow lock up as he slowly started to circle her with a slight distance to wait for her response.

“Good luck to you too.”
Tessa was not really as confident as Daisuke at this point. That loss against Minerva had gnawed on her confidence, and Daisuke had indeed already tied her once. Things did not really run that well for her in the last time, but Tessa Price was not a girl that gave up easily in the face of difficulties. And as a first step, she had already suggested to her opponent that he was the superior wrestler and person. And hubris was the downfall of the mighty anyway.

Following the move of her opponent, she would do him a favor and engage in the collar and elbow lock, wanting to let the flow of the match get a grip on her to see where she could use a weakness.

Daisuke nodded in approval when she wished him the same, now it was time to get down and see who the better wrestler was.

Daisuke didn't know much about Tessa or her style, he would simply have to see what she does in the match and adjust his tactics accordingly. While he had wrestled a couple of other Friction wrestlers in the past, he found it difficult to cope against the quite competent wrestling ability of Friction wrestlers.

The two circled around for a bit, feeling each out out mentally before Tessa accepted his offer and the two lunged in and locked up in a classic collar and elbow lock up. Daisuke let out a small grunt when he engaged in the lock up, his body pressing into hers as they went head to head and chest to chest. The wrestling prince planted his boot firmly against the ring cavnas as he pressed into his opponent, trying to push her back if he could and test her strength and technique in the grapple.

“Gh!”
Although Tessa was as an experienced wrestler no slouch in general regarding bodily fitness, it was pretty obvious for her that she could not really stand against a muscular man who on top of all things happened to be a wrestler too in such a test of strength. It was more of a test for her to see what power the man commanded, so she gave it her all to find that out in the hold, sometimes turning from left to right to see his strengths and weaknesses in muscle movement.

Still it was pretty obvious who was in charge of the move in general for her after the initial clash was over.

Both wrestlers locked up into the grapple, letting out a slight grunt as they did to show their effort in this wrestling contest.

Daisuke could feel Tessa's strength and her determination in the lock up, as she did quite well against him in the lock up initially but after a few moments of stalemate it was clear that Daisuke had a better advantage than Tessa as he managed to push her back a couple of steps. Content with making a statement to his opponent, the wrestling prince attempted to slip out of the grapple and step to Tessa's side, looking to bring his arm up and wrap it around the German's head tightly and give it a squeeze.

Daisuke also pressed the side of her cheek against his chest as he attempted to lock in a standard side headlock to get things going on. "Mngh come on! Is that it? Might as well give up now Tessa" he smirked as he looked down towards her, squeezing her head under his armpit while keeping her close to him.

Soon enough, the lock up transitioned into a side head lock, unfortunately with her as the head locked person. To be expected, but not the less very annoying, even more so if you already knew what was coming but could not really do anything about it.

“Agh!”
The squeeze around her head was uncomfortable to say the least, but it was not something to quickly throw the towel in.
She would attempt to hit him a few times in the back with a clenched fist until the head lock loosened up a bit so that she could attempt to shove him to the ropes and hip toss him on the mat.