Giulia La Rocca vs Kyo Akamatsu - Grudge In Chains

Giulia's little evacuation plan turned out to work well, as her escape on the other side of the turnbuckle provided exactly the desired results. In fact, not only did Kyo's chest impact the corner post, but his knee got a solid hit too! Finally there seemed to be some good news for the Italian in this match...

And what she saw looked good. So good. The Samurai clearly lost the air from his lungs, and nearly his balance too. It was obvious that this was it - this was Giulia's moment to finally strike, and to turn the tide of the match to her favor. And she should not, she could not let it slip.

As Kyo seemed to be incapacitated for a moment, the Italian quickly slipped back inside the ring by the turnbuckle. Then she started climbing the ropes, hoping to reach the top of the corner post as fast as possible. It wasn't often that she did so, but right now it appeared like a feasible choice to do. For better or for worse, it was worth the risk.

When gotten up, Giulia had a clear target. Her plan was to pull Kyo first a little bit closer with the chain, then jump up on his shoulders, wrap her strong thighs around his head and then hopefully smash his head against the turnbuckle with a diving hurricanrana. Surely that had some great potential to yield extremely beneficial results...

Kyo felt himself losing his balance, almost toppling over-- held upright, embarrassingly enough, by the chain attached to his opponent. He was quick to right himself, but he winced as his knee throbbed slightly. This was an unexpected, and unwelcome, reversal.

Focusing back on Giulia, he saw her clambering the top ropes, her dark hair shrouding her face. He sprang into action, lunging for a stunning right hook-- but by that point, Giulia was already moving, jumping forwardband clamping her strong thighs around his head. He gasped as his vision was momentarily imprisoned in the walls of her strong thighs, before his head smashed, face-first, into the corner post.

Stars exploded across his vision, and he slumped afainst the corner post, sinking to his knees. Though he couldn't hear it past the ringing in his skull, but the crowd was cheering now: after the way Kyo had been dominating this match, they were now starting to see La Forza Italiana as a plucky underdog against the seasoned veteran.

Giulia took a chance by climbing up the ropes, but at least this time her risk-taking turned out to pay off marvellously. Certainly this was a move to perform at many other occasions too... Not only had it been effective, but probably appeared very skilled and flashy too, as the reaction from the crowds suggested!

Kyo had fallen victim to the power of Giulia's thighs, and the hard smash of his head against the turnbuckle had sent the Samurai to his knees. Now, the Italian was determined to position herself behind his vulnerable back. This had to be the best opportunity she could possibly get to turn the so far devastating tide of the match to her favor!

Pressing her body against Kyo's back, Giulia decided to utilize their close proximity and Kyo's vulnerable position. The Italian first tried to wrap the chain one loop around the guy's neck for added control, before starting to deliver stiff knee strikes to the Samurai's upper back, and the back of his skull! Those should work as a nice initial phase to soften him up...

Kyo's world was one of ringing and pain as he lay slumped against the corner post, groaning. Giulia was continuing to show her own ring skills in this battle, reversing his earlier domination in this match and leaving him dazed and defenceless. It was a position that the Italian was sure to capitalize on. Sure enough, Giulia was soon wrapping a chain around her Asian opponent's neck, in a move of restraint and dominance...and one that evoked how Giulia had liked to imprison all of her previous male victims...

And then the knees came, first two into Kyo's back, causing him to wince with each hit, followed by one to his noggin. Colours danced across his vision, and he gagged, the impact causing the chain around his throat to tighten. Breathing hard and dazed from Giulia's assault, Kyo was nonetheless far from defenseless: although he could barely see anything, his body acted on instinct, yanking on the chain with one hand while shooting an elbow back with another, hoping to land a hit on something, anything...just to make Giulia stop.

Finally things were working well. Finally Kyo was in a position where Giulia wanted him to be. And finally she was the one dealing out all the damage.

Kyo had first gotten a hard impact onto the front side of his head by the turnbuckle, and now that the guy was helplessly in front of the Italian, Giulia was sure to pummel the back of his head with the knee strikes too. The wrapping of the chain around his neck was mainly just for show again, although it certainly had some effect to his airflow as well. But the most important part was that finally, to the crowds Giulia appeared to clearly be the dominant one.

Kyo wasn't foolish enough to not defend himself though. His attempt at elbow strikes was average at best, clearly affected by his dire circumstances, but they were still something Giulia couldn't ignore. In fact, a certain hard hit to her belly prompted the Italian to cease the strikes and move on to the third phase of her plan...

Jumping up onto the middle ropes, Giulia took a good hold of the top rope with her hands, one from each side of the turnbuckle. Then she jumped up again, but this time hoping to land her thighs around Kyo's shoulders, before actually wrapping them around his head. Now that the Samurai had gotten his head pummeled from front and back, Giulia was curious to see how the crushing squeeze by her thighs to the sides of his head was going to be received...

To Kyo's relief, the knees into his back stopped. His spine was throbbing dully at this point, but the chain was still there, constricting his breathing, tightening around his throat, weakening him more and more. And even though Giulia had paused in her assault, she still had more tricks up her sleeve...as she demonstrated by jumping up onto her shoulders, the weight of her smaller form pressing down and causing him to bend down further. For a moment, the chain was released, and Kyo gasped hungrily for air...before Giulia's legs clamped tightly around his head.

"Ggggk..." he rasped, pawing at Giulia's powerful thighs, his fingers scraping against muscled flesh as his breathing was constricted yet again. He swayed unevenly, held upright by Giuliua's grip on the ropes. He opened one eye, mouth gaping open as he struggled to breathe, a bead of sweat trickling down his forehead. He was trapped. He was fully under Giulia's control.

"You...left...yourself...open..." he managed to rasp, taking a few steps backward, hoping that this would force Giulia to lean forward as she held onto the ropes and squeezed his head. If this happened, then he would suddenly drop down and kick both booted feet up at his opponent. If he hit her in the chest, then this would hopefully leave her nice and breathless, and if he hit her in the face, hopefully this would stun her. Either way, he hoped it would be enough to make her let him go.

No rope breaks -stipulation always brought some new threats, but some new opportunities too. And Giulia's mind was filled with ideas of those opportunities - that's why she couldn't let a match with her own rules such as this go to waste. No, moves like this - rope-aided headscissors - were definitely part of her plan tonight.

Not only because they were fun and flashy, but they were very effective too. Not only were the crowds enjoying what they were seeing, but the strength of Giulia's thighs was bringing Kyo deep trouble too. Not only was the Samurai in immense pain, but under the Italian's full control as well.

All of that was accurate until he managed to come up with some words? So Giulia left herself open? And how exactly was that?

The answer to those questions came soon enough. The Italian had been too concentrated on trying to keep up the hold to notice the imminent danger... And as Kyo dropped down, his plan worked exactly how he had wanted it to. Giulia had to finally release her grip of the ropes, and was promptly greeted by a pair of Kyo's feet to her chest. That impact in turn was greeted by a huge cry of agony out of the Italian powerhouse...

Now it was Giulia's turn to be in a helpless position against the ropes in the corner. While she was clasping at her chest, her back was resting on the mat and knees on the middle ropes, leaving her legs hanging by the ropes at each side of the turnbuckle.

Kyo's plan of escape worked far better than he had anticipated. His boots hammered up into Giulia's chest, not only surprising her and driving the air from her lungs, but also flipping her forward, propelling her head over heels into the corner post. The end result was that the Italian girl now law sprawled on the mat, clutching at her hurting chest, her legs propped up on the ropes.

A whole bunch of possible moves immediately sprang to Kyo's mind-- a Tree of Woe, a rolling Koppo kick, even a leaping stomp down on her chest from the top rope-- all of which would have been rendered impossible by the short length of chain binding them. Instead, whatever he tried would have to be short ranged...and something came to mind at that moment. It had been a while since he had last shown off some of his own flexibility.

Clambering through the ropes so that he was standing outside the edge of the turnbuckle (making sure the chain was over the rope in the process), Kyo grabbed a hold of Giulia's boots so that the were tucked under his boots, and leaned back a little, pulling the Italian girl's upper body off the mat slightly. The moment that happened, Kyo's legs snapped out, scissoring around his opponent's head. If all worked out as planned, then Kyo would end up stretching Giualia's body upside-down against the corner post, bending her legs back over the ropes even as he anchored her in place with his scissor, in a reversed version of a Spider Net hold.

"Give up, Giulia!" he would shout as he stretched away at his opponent, beads of sweat running down his forehead even as the crowd screamed for Giulia to escape. If, after one or two minutes, La Forza Italiana still refused to submit, then Kyo would simply unlock the scissors and let gravity take its course, dropping back and using his grip on Giulia's legs to slingshot her over the ropes hard onto the floor outside!

Kyo Akamatsu was no Killer King, but based on Giulia's experience, he was turning out to be much harder to beat than the masked giant. King was someone La Forza Italiana had managed to defeat in her debut - no matter how unlikely it sounded like - but the Samurai was someone who had already managed to defeat the Italian once. And based on how this match had gone so far, the second time did not seem to be too far away...

Giulia's difficulties were causing despair inside then tiny powerhouse. She had just managed to finally turn the tide, finally get control over Kyo, but he had managed to reverse it all again with a single blow. The Italian was sprawled against the corner in a precarious position, of which Kyo was naturally entitled to take all the advantage he could get. And he wasn't wasting any time with it.

The Samurai was climbing up the ropes, and pulling Giulia's legs up onto the top rope in the process, sending even more blood rushing to the Italian's head. And by the time La Forza Italiana mustered up enough strength to start resisting his actions, the Japanese guy had already locked her boots under his own, and began pulling her body up... And while Giulia was clueless of what was about to happen, she did not have to wonder for long before Kyo had already wrapped his own legs around the girl's head!

The Italian was very proud of the strength of her legs, and the devastating effects her scissorholds could deliver. And as proud as she were, it was almost equally rare that someone decided to use the headscissor hold against her. But Kyo did just that. He was paying Giulia back her earlier scissorholds in a devastating fashion.

Under normal circumstances, it might had not been that bad. But now, Giulia's head was already bursting with blood due to her upside down position even before Kyo's strong legs wrapped around it, and her legs were being tortured against the top rope too. And she was really, really tempted to do exactly what Kyo was telling her to do.

But she couldn't. She just couldn't. Having to submit in her own challenge, with her own rules, against the guy she had specifically come out here tonight to pay back her previous defeat to, who was now fully using her own rules against her, that would have been just too humiliating. There was probably no level of pain that could have possibly overriden all that determination to somehow beat Kyo tonight.

Or especially, the determination not to let Kyo beat her like this.

But the only consolation were the distant roars of the crowds telling her to keep on going. Telling her to escape...

Escape was something that the Italian could not manage to do, but her extended period of suffering in the hold finally came to an end as the Samurai acknowledged Giulia's stubbornness to keep on enduring. Finally, there was release.

Release that sent La Forza Italiana flying, and crashing abruptly down on her back onto the floor. It was obvious that her body was thoroughly beaten, thoroughly devastated by now as the Italian laid spreadeagle on the floor. And under usual circumstances, there would have been a fair chance that she may not have made it back up into the ring on time.

But now there was a question... How was Kyo going to be able to stay inside the ring, while being attached to Giulia with the chain at the same time?

The crowd went wild as Giulia was catapulted down to the ring floor, crashing onto her front and lying in an unmoving heap. Already, the fans were desperately screaming for her to get up, urging her to get back into the fight, or else yelling verbal abuse at Kyo. Although a core of Kyo's fans were still cheering their guy on, the majority of the audience seemed to more or less be on Kyo's side-- something that irked him far more than he thought it would, even as Giulia's fall dragged him down with her, tumbling off of the ropes.

He landed with catlike grace on his hands and knees, next to his fallen opponent. He could tell that Giulia had taken a lot in this match, but he also knew better than to better than her at a time like this-- an opponent of her calibre could still turn this match around fairly quickly. Yanking up on her chain, Kyo hauled her to her feet and moved to slide her under the ropes, rolling back into the ring alongside her.

From there, he would pull her up to her feet, before sliding in behind her, using his chain to wrap Giulia's own arm around her throat in a Japanese stranglehold! Leaning forward, he would lift her off the mat by the chain, reaching back with one arm to grab for her leg to turn the hold into a modified stranglehold/backbreaker, stretching Giulia even as he cut off her air circulation...

...that was, before suddenly tilting sideways, dropping her hard to the mat in a suplex!