Akino Sanada vs. Peggy McIntyre

Match Type:  Standard
Victory Conditions:  Pinfall, Submission, Countout, DQ

Peggy McIntyre was a woman on a mission.  Tonight she wanted to show the world that she could handle her half of the workload for the Irish Amazon's.  Decked out in her green leopard print attire, a more fit, firm 146lb Peggy stood in front of the mirror looking herself over.  Next to her was her trainer and partner also in her own leopard print green attire.

"Damn Pegs you really rock that leopard print like a champ."  Alaina said with a wink and whistle.  "You are gonna make me look bad and give me a run for the money they way it clings to that money maker ya got."  With a chuckle Alaina stood up and smacked Peggy's backside as the younger woman jumped.

"Allie!  Are ya tryin' ta make my ass look redder n' my hair?  Ya need to realize a light smack from you is a full on punch from the average lass."  Peggy said as she turned to face Alaina with her hands on her hips.

Peggy lnew Alaina had a history with Akino.  During a down stretch, Alaina nearly injured Akino in the ring.  She went out of her way to make amends and as far as Peggy knew she had.  Now Peggy's tag partner was acc9mpanying her to the ring as Peggy faced the skilled submission specialist.  Peggy knew she was a mark.  

The weak half of the team.  A possible payback target if Akino felt the need to get back at Alaina by virtue of taking it to Peggy.  There were a number of reasons the normally confident-bordering-cocky Peggy was anxious.  Most of all she didn't want to let Alaina down or make her think she had to carry the tag team.

As Peggy's music played the crowd roared as they saw the team.  Alaina was high fiving fans on the way down as Peggy looked stern, walking in an all-business manner.  At the base of the ramp Alaina paused to flex and Peggy did the same to show off her leaner body.  Alai na stopped and motioned to Peggy before clapping and firing up the crowd to get then behind her.  

Peggy walked to the apron and jumped up into it from the ground.  Next she grabbed the top rope and vaulted over strutting around the ring with her arms held high.  

"Standing 5'6" and weighing in at 146lbs from Ireland..... Peggy McIntyre!"

Peggy stood with her arms on her hips in the middle of the ring looking up the ramp.  Behind her, Alaina strut her way over to the announce table, grabbing a headset.

"Hey guys, do ya mind if I join ya?  I have a bit of a vested interest in this match and watching from anywhere but here just wouldn't do."  Alaina said with a wink as she sat down.  She turned to the crowd behind her and blew them a kiss, earning a cheer from that section.  "Who knows?  Maybe I found a new part time gig?"

Akino:

Reputations were a difficult thing to shake in this particular business, especially once they started becoming almost synonymous with your name. Akino's latent disability was always something she strove not to be limited by so she wouldn't be looked down on by others and be branded with their pity, which would just be insulting to her. She never wanted to be viewed as a hard-luck case for others to look at and be saddled with their sympathies, but her subpar wrestling career was doing more to stagger her stubborn pride than any half-hearted condolences...

A crushing, humiliating loss that routinely had her stretchered out back to wallow in misery on a hospital bed for several weeks, only for her to rest...recoup...return...and suffer the same indignity all over again. It was the woeful, destructive pattern that had her feeling as battered, bruised and defeated on the inside as she did on the outside. Her uncanny resilience through it out all having earned her a burgeoning swell of fan support from her never say die approach and refusal to stay down no matter how much life, Carmen, or Samiya beat her back down. A fan backing didn't matter to her one iota to...but redemption did. And starting tonight, after a particularly lengthy hiatus and switching up of managers, Akino wanted to start making strides towards removing the brand of being just another loser underdog...

"And standing 5'4" and weighing in at...uh...undisclosed...from Japan...Akino Sanada!!!"

A more melodic version and live-action version of Akino's theme began playing right after her opponent's music, with the surly maid taking determined strides down the ramp with her gloved fists clenched and her glaring eye centered squarely on the red-head in the middle of the ring. The cold shoulder she offered the fans did little to quell their applause as she approached the ring in her frilly maid outfit before hopping up on the apron. She never faltered on her approach toward the middle of the ring, save for one shifting glance towards Alaina at ringside. She briefly recalled the Amazon and what she put her through...both the good and the bad. Her attention than being brought back to the Irish Amazon standing before her.

"...you're friend there. She brought me cookies in the hospital after taking a few months off of my career. I can honestly say I didn't see that coming, but she was nice to me, and it seemed like she didn't mean it. So out of respect, I'll try not to do the same thing to you. But if it happens anyway, I'll bring you cookies too. Store bought. I can't bake." Akino tersely uttered, her friendly banter coming off as a threat...or was it her threat coming off as friendly banter?

Peggy watched as Akino came out, keeping a close eye on her. She knew the type, Akino could win the match with a single move so Peggy had to be careful all night. As Akino spoke, Peggy wasn't quite sure of what to make of it.

"I ain't goin' anywhere I don't want to and if ya think you will out me in the hospital you are crazy." Peggy said, puffing her chest a bit and smiling. She heard the bell ring and began to circle. She knew she had to be quick, but hard and not set herself up for a nasty reversal into a devastating counter. Easier said than done.

Peggy moved in close and quickly brought her foot up, trying to catch Akino with a fast toe kick to the abdomen to start things off!

"Well...I guess that makes me certifiably insane than, doesn't it?" Akino glowered from the boastful red-head with the thick Irish brogue. Akino's attempt at being impartial and showing some modicum of restraint as a favor to Alaina had went about as well as she thought, which is why she never normally does such a thing. Next time she'll just keep to her more traditional sadistic threats and menacing stares.

Akino took a deep breath and started circling the ring in tandem with Peggy in an attempt to calm her nerves from what was her first match back in ages. It was that sense of nervous apprehension that may have led to the maid maybe jumping the gun in her approach, the maid expecting a lock-up and instead got a rigid boot to her stomach for her troubles.

"HGH!!" Akino grunted from the unforeseen strike and backpedaled a few steps while cradling her stomach, her wincing good eye shooting upward at the Irish woman with the temporary advantage in the match that was already off to a rotten start.

Peggy grinned and got the opening she wanted! At least, she hoped so. Peggy was faster than people thought, could strike and she had an affinity for suplexes.

Right now could be the perfect time for one! Peggy grinned as she stepped up, wrapping an arm around Skin's head and the other hand grabbing her ring attire at the waist. Peggy heard a whistle and clap from Alaina ringside as she knew what was coming. With a grunt Peggy lift Akino up high keeping her vertical for a split second before attempting to bring her crashing to the mat to complete the vertical suplex!

Whether or not it was Peggy's strategy to intentionally keep her distance from Akino, or if it was just dumb luck on her part, remained to be seen. But Akino knew that she needed to get up and close and personal in order to lock in any of her submissions, and the stiff stomp to her midsection stopped her approach dead cold. Though she didn't have too long to stew about her momentary setback before the obnoxious redhead was already cinching in a firm headlock and tugging on the waist of her maid outfit.

"Nygh!!" Akino held her breath while she was briefly held upside-down before being slammed onto the canvas, the irate maid arching her pained back before rolling to her front side. She bitterly punched the floor while gnashing her teeth, beyond frustrated with herself as she began shuffling upwards at as fast a pace as she could muster.

Peggy grinned as she saw Akino getting more and more frustrated. She got back up to her feet and saw Akino scrambling up. She figured one good duplex deserved another and rushed behind Akino, trying to grab her around the waist!

Meanwhile outside Alaina watched and had a small smile of approval on her face. "Peggy has a ton of energy and really wants to win. She's worked very hard to improve her game and I think it shows. Akino however has an insane submission game. Wrestlers like her can turn a match around in one single move and put women away. Hell, I remember when I did all I could to break Cassie Elliot in half and she used my finisher against me, made me pass out after I wrecked her for the entire match. Peggy knows to be careful and has a way better ring sense at her age than I did when I began." Alaina said at the table below as she watched the action.

Peggy grabbed Akino around the waist, locking in her grip. She bent her legs and was intent on trying to deliver a German duplex to her foe. Peggy wanted to leap out in front and frustrate Akino. Make her mad. Take her off her game so she wouldn't be able to slap on her holds with such accuracy and clarity. In theory it sounded great, but in practice it would be far harder to pull off!

There was enough blame and teeming frustration to go around as far as Akino was concerned. The irate maid was thoroughly bitter towards both the Irish red-head and herself for being put on the defensive so early on in the match. She had eerie flashbacks to her through dismantling at Samiya's hands in record time, that match being an embarrassment she would shoulder for the rest of her life... but the only thing she could do now was make sure it never happened again.

"Tch..." Akino groaned and tensed up when she felt Peggy's muscled arms encircled around her waist, the one-eyed maiden unwillingly being hoisted upward with Peggy's full breasts compressed against her back. Akino fought hard not to lose her cool and composure so early on in the match, instead focusing her efforts on denying Peggy her German suplex by hooking her leg behind the Irish lass' left leg. Akino than rocketing several elbow strikes into Peggy's abdomen to hopefully have her ease up and give the maid some breathing room.

Peggy tried to lift, but wasn't able to as Akino had managed hook a leg and prevent that one from happening! "Ngh.. damn it ya pesky - Oomph!" Peggy groaned as the elbows began to hammer the side of her head. She knew a losing proposition when she saw one, letting go and stumbling back, her hands grabbing her throbbing, aching head as she staggered about!

If it was breathing room Akino sought she got it. Peggy was stumbling about in a slight daze as she tried to recover from the rain of strikes that just assaulted her skull.

Outside, Alaina continued to call the action and give her commentary. She was enjoying it, but did not enjoy seeing Peggy lose her momentum. "Ya can't sleep on Akino. She is a tough kid who will fight and claw at ya to get back into a match. When you are stunned, not fully able to fight back and such that is when Akino is really dangerous.." Alaina said, recalling her match with Akino. There was a bit of worry in her voice as Peggy was now very vulnerable!

Akino probably should have come to expect suplex after suplex from someone who professes to be under Alaina's tutelage. Given her petite size and stature, it was always a tempting reflex for her opponent's to send her flying across the ring at Mach 2. Luckily for the maid, that made it easier for her to predict what her opponents maneuvers were going to be, and think of ways to counter it before she was turned from a one-eyed maid into a flying one-eyed maid.

Akino breathed a sigh of relief when she felt Peggy wisely ease away before her head pains got any worse. She turned in place to spot the reeling Peggy and immediately saw blood in the water. She dashed over and turned her back to Peggy while clutching onto her red-haired head from from over her shoulder. Akino than dropping to one knee for a flinging hairmare to have Peggy be flipped into a seated position, with Akino attempting a securely cinched in sleeperhold while on her knees.