Megumi Mutoh vs. Maria Tempesta - Sucker for Pain

Still reeling from earlier, Megumi was unable to stop Maria from yanking up her hair before she went to ram her head first into the turnbuckle. "Muurghhh!!!" She grunted in pain, left disoriented from the collision before her body slumped near the turnbuckle. At the moment, the former Wrestle Angel was seeing stars, and her opponent seemed to hold an upper hand over her.

"Erghhh..." Groaning, Megumi would try to push herself up, but things didn't seem too good for the former Wrestle Angel at the moment, and would need some time to recover from this if she ever wanted to turn things around in her favor. So far, it was quite difficult for her to accomplish, if not impossible.

After seeing Megumi's slump in a daze against the turnbuckle, Maria raised her arms, basking in triumph even as the audience rained boos down on her. She simply smiled, giving them all a mocking bow before striding on towards the downed Maria. Let them all boo, she thought. She would give them all something to cheer about in a few minutes.

Grabbing a hold of Megumi's long brown hair, dragging her up to her feet and pushing her back against the turnbuckle. She would lean up against her opponent, her chest briefly pressing up against Megumi's. "I hope you're enjoying this as much as I am, Wrestle Angel," she'd sneer...before leaning in to surprise and stun Megumi with one of her trademark moves: a sensuous kiss on the lips, her tongue darting briefly with her opponent's in meant to titillate the audience as much to distract her opponent.

If the distraction worked, though, then she would take the opportunity to wrap one arm around Megumi's thigh and another around her shoulder, lifting her upside down as she tried to hook Megumi's legs around the turnbuckle, trying to knee her in the chest as she did so in order to keep her stunned!

Megumi wasn't in a good condition at the moment after being driven headfirst into the turnbuckle. As she groaned and writhed in pain on the mat, Maria decided to pull her up and start taunting her. "Uuurghh..." She groaned, feeling Maria's chest pressing against hers. And then, she was caught off-guard by her opponent suddenly pressing her lips against hers, her eyes widening as she felt her tongue darting briefly into her mouth, which prevented her from making any actions. Her cheeks reddened from this. While she wasn't a stranger to anything erotic, this still managed to catch her off-guard.

This allowed Maria to then set her up at the turnbuckle, lifting her upside down with her legs hooked around the turnbuckle. Then, she took a knee to her chest, causing her to gasp out in pain before she ended up coughing violently. "Phaghh!!! *cough* *cough*... uurghh..." Her situation had gotten even direr than before, and she needed to get herself out of this predicament if she ever wished to turn things around in her favor and make her opponent pay for such disrespect that she displayed earlier.

Things were definitely looking up for Maria. Her dominance was continuing unabated: she'd even been allowed to enjoy a few seconds of a teasing, sensual kiss with Megumi before setting her up in a helpless, upside down position, hanging with her ankles hooked under the top ropes. With her opponent now at her mercy, Maria arrogantly pressed a booted heel down against the other girl's throat as she hung upside down, leaning back and bracing herself on the ropes as she did so. At this, the crowd starting booing even more loudly, and the ref girl got in her face, demanding she stop-- casually, Maria stopped, raising her hands in an innocent motion as she backed away. "What, I was just stretching!" she laughed. "What's all the fuss about?"

While Megumi was still hanging from the corner post, Maria backed away, eyeing her opponent's red-clad form, like a red cloth before a charging bull. It was time to finish this Wrestle Angel off. Backing away almost to the end of the ring, Maria burst into a charge, aiming to unleash El Rayo-- a long diving kick aimed at Megumi's midsection or chest. Unless Megumi found a way to counter or get out of the way in time, she was in for a world of hurt!

Hung upside down by her opponent, Megumi was then forced to endure another humiliation when Maria pressed her booted heel against her throat, causing her to let out choked noises. Thankfully, the referee intervened, stopping Maria from humiliating and torturing her even further, but Megumi was still in a very precarious position at the moment, and if she ever wanted to get herself out of this position, she needed to do something.

With the little time she had for herself to recover, Megumi saw Maria preparing herself for her attack. She knew this was her only chance to escape this, and it was a gamble. Then again, the former Wrestle Angel was used to gambles like this, and she was confident that she could pull it out. All she had to do was to believe in herself as she would try to make use of what she had in her disposal at the moment.

Megumi's whole body was in great pain, but with determination driving her and adrenaline dulling her pain, the Combat Genius was prepared for what to come. Seeing Maria charging towards her, presumably trying to land some kind of massive attack, Megumi would spring into action, looking to straighten her legs to unhook them from the ropes, letting herself fall onto the mat before Maria could reach her. Hopefully, Maria would hit nothing but the turnbuckle, and while Megumi was down, she planned to grab onto one of her legs as she would try to bring her down with a modified version of dragon screw takedown!

Megumi was strung out, upside down, helpless and gagging. Maria smiled, her tongue flicking the corner of her lip as she spared an appreciating glance at her attractive target...before breaking into a charge. This was it. As she accelerated, she leapt forward, aiming to spear both her boots hard into Megumi's midsection and drive all the air from her lungs in a single, devastating strike...

And then, all of a sudden, Megumi unhooked her legs. Time seemed to slow down as Maria, gliding in midair, watched, Megumi roll to the mat, out of the way of El Rayo, her arms snatching up for one of Maria's boots.

"Whaaaaat theeee fffffffff---"

What happened next happened so quickly that the audience was barely able to follow it. Without a target, Maria slammed hard into the turnbuckle, her knee, shoulder and elbow colliding hard with it and causing the Cubana to shriek. The moment she went toppling backward, Megumi, holding onto her leg, rolled over, twisting at the trapped limb and flipping Maria over in midair, bringing her down knee-first onto the mat with a loud slam. Maria screamed at the impact, rolling away from Megumi instantly, hugging her hurting knee as she did so.

The audience was silent in amazement. In a single, decisive counter, Megumi had just turned the match around completely.

It all happened way too fast that Megumi herself wasn't sure the exact details of what she was doing. But when she finally came to her senses, she managed to bring Maria down with her dragon screw. "Gaahha..." Breathing out heavily, still having difficulty to focus thanks to everything that she had taken earlier. Still, she would try to get up, with great difficulty, and soon, she was able to get herself back onto her feet, albeit a little wobbly.

"Haa... y-you thought you could get away with that, didn't you?!" With a yell, Megumi would close in and try to land a stiff shoot kick right into the side of Maria's body, looking to leave her stunned and reeling in preparation for her to grab onto her head in order to drag her towards the center of the ring. She had some big plan in store for the masked woman, and she would make sure that Maria would pay for everything that she had done earlier, especially that humiliating kiss.

Maria's world was pain. White-hot agony was throbbing up her leg from where her knee had collided with the ring floor. Her eyes were clenched shut behind her mask, fighting back tears of pain as she rolled onto her side, clutching her injured knee. She still couldn't believe what had just happened, or how quickly Megumi had just moved. She really couldn't think of much else, other than how much her goddam knee hurt at this moment.

Megumi quickly gave her something else to think about, however, as the other girl's boot ploughed into her side. "GUGGGH!" Spittle flew from her mouth as the blow caught her by surprise, sending her rolling onto her back, sucking in air. A second later, her scalp burned as Megumi yanked her hair. "Aaaaaa--" she moaned weakly, stumbling to her feet, her injured leg threatening to give out underneath her as she was weakly dragged along by her opponent...

Moving was quite a chore for Megumi, but she steeled herself, knowing that stopping would give Maria an opportunity to recover, and she didn't want that. Pulling Maria up, she would then turn her around, putting herself behind her as she would snake her arms under the armpits of the other woman, seemingly going for a full nelson. She would clasp her hands together right on the upper back of her opponent, looking to apply pressure around Maria's shoulders as well as to make her thrust her chest forward.

"So, you thought you could get away with kissing me like that? Don't make me laugh..." Megumi said through gritted teeth as she would yank back at the full nelson, looking to hurt her opponent some more before she relaxed it for a while. But it was a preparation for her to ready herself to throw Maria over with a dragon suplex, in which she would quickly go for a bridging pin, getting herself on her tiptoes in order to have the referee count for the pin as Maria's shoulders would be pressed against the mat.

As soon as they were at the centre of the mat, Maria felt Megumi's arms snake around her arms from behind. A second later, her arms were wrenched back painfully, her generous bosom thrust forward as she was locked in a hammerlock. She cried out as her shoulders and arms were bent painfully, her breathing laboured as the vengeful Megumi stretched away at her.

This was all before her world suddenly spun upside-down. Blood rushed to Maria's face, before there was a world-shattering impact of her head against the mat. Her entire body jerked crazily from the impact before going still, her legs flopping over uselessly as she was held down on her shoulders, her ass lifted unceremoniously in the air while Megumi arched gracefully behind her, her arms still around her shoulders. In an instant, the countdown began, the crowd going wild at their favourite getting a pinfall.

"ONE...TWO..."

Maria's legs suddenly jerked, getting a shoulder up as she flopped down to her front. She still had some gas left in the tank, it seemed.