Cowgirls & Bandits - Bandita (D) vs Cassidy Ryder

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The look Cassidy is met with when she drops down to meet her gaze is hurt and confused. There's a cultural disconnect at play here, and the teen is trying to wrap her head around it. Her first impulse is to become fiery and tempered, that's quite normal for her. But here? When things seemed to exciting and fun, when this blonde American seemed so theatrical and entertaining, when they traded compliments; that fire ate her heart instead. There's some cultural shellshock to process, and social whiplash on top of it.

She blinks innocently back at Cassidy.

She was called cute as a button.

"Ngh.." She's drawn back up to her feet, Cassidy having to do the majority of the heavy lifting. Bandita's midsection doesn't want to cooperate yet and unclench. But once she's found her footing, it's immediately taken from her again. The two race across the ring, and- BAM. Bandita collides with the rectangular pad of the turnbuckle.

Dazed, the girl staggers back - or would, were Cassidy not supporting her.

BAM.

Her delicate face meets the turnbuckle again.

Weird as it might be to consider, this is actually the more familiar scenario. Things impacting her face? That's normal. It's just fists that get the heat. And now that the moment of previous pain and confusion is being buried beneath fresh bursts of aching impact, training and experience can take over again.

Bandita's particular style of lucha libre is fluid, versatile, and difficult to predict. Some would even call it frightening; not out of a fear of the pain caused by moves, but out of the myriad ways it takes offense from an opponent and suddenly, without warning, mirrors it back onto them. And this particular scenario plays directly into one of her strongest counters.

As Cassidy prepares to fire off another collision, Bandita raises her left foot to plant the sole of her boot against that turnbuckle pad, halting the push sharply. Her arm reaches back to hook around Cassidy's neck to anchor herself, and presses her back into the blonde's sturdy frame. Her right foot kicks up against the turnbuckle next, 'walking' up the pad in two, three powerful strides!

With a final push, the agile Latina launches herself into a backwards somersault, rotating above Cassidy's head! The loop around her neck swaps sides, left arm around her throat, the right hand grabbing her shoulder firmly as the momentum carries her in a single, elegant arc up, over, and descending sharply behind her. The force of the kick-off, Bandita's weight, and gravity's merciless intervention powers a sharp downwards plummet for the Texan, driving her shoulders and head-first backwards to the mat in her "sliced bread" signature.

Even before Bandita has hit the mat in a seated position, the commentator's table are fired up and shouting it as the debut of Bandita's Látigo Bandolera on an international stage.