Maria C./Tina A. - Sizing Up

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Maria had almost instinctively turned to ready herself against the heavy bag with her fists poised after she cleared the needed space. The tall Italian was clad in her usual wrestling gear - that of course doubled up as gear perfect for any strenuous activity such as bouts of training. But as Maria stood tall in the changing room a moment ago, sliding those tight black shorts of hers upon her frame, Maria had spotted a figure she simply must introduce herself to just heading out the doors ahead of her.

Picking up her pace in her outfit change and only stopping out of instinct against the heavy bags, Maria was pacing so quickly she near enough tripped over her untied shoes, before all at once she caught up with the figure who had gone ahead of her.

"Excuse me...You're Tina Armstrong right?"

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Tina had been at the gym trying to keep working towards trying to make herself dominant again. She wasn't going to stop until she was the dominant middleweight once more. She was wearing wrestling gear, but it was all black boots, kneepads, briefs and a sports bra. Tina was working on hard, heavy kicks targeted to specific spots so her variety of knockout strikes could be expanded. She was trying to become better at striking, also as a way to simply be more than a younger, smaller Alaina as some people called her.

It was then that Tina heard the voice stopping her strikes, peeking around the big hanging bag. "Yeah, hey there. I'm Tina all right, and you are...?" Tina said giving this tall, powerful looking woman a smile. She cut quite the figure and one that Tina found incredibly strong yet attractive looking.

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There was no point being coy with Tina - given that this girl didn't get to the top of the middleweight division from playing games. So Maria wouldn't either, albeit she'd be sure to stay as respectful as possible. Given that she herself was a novice compared to the gal before her!

"Maria Catalano." She'd bow a little, with her hands clapping together. She knew that Tina and Maria's own longtime rival Diana Accera had frequented before, but there was little use mentioning such here. She was out to further her own training, and not have it based on her darker haired counterparts feats and accomplishments.

"I'll be quick to the point...I was wondering if you would do me the honor of a sparring match?"

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Tina looked at the woman and nodded. It wasn't often that someone was this direct or polite honestly. Tina smiled a small bit as she was already dressed for ring action, looks like her in-ring practice would be much more than she expected today but that was plenty fine. "All right, you want it you got it." Tina said to the muscular, much bigger wrestler before her. "Standard rules and honor system with pin counts work fine for ya?" Tina asked before she headed to one of the practice rings.

Tina climbed up and through the ropes stretching and eyeing her challenger. Tina was a strong woman, not just for her size but she knew she was outclassed in that department in the ring today. She had to be fast and smart in this one. "So how long have ya been in LAW?" Tina asked as she stretched herself.

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Maria could almost jump off her feet when Tina accepted the offer. Win or lose, this was to be a fruitful opportunity for the newer Italian. For whilst Tina was of the weight division below her own, this would give the taller beauty an idea of what was required to reach the top spot in LAW in general!

Clambering up through the ropes, Maria nodded at the suggestion of standard rules, given she was about to suggest the same. Stretching out her long legs before making sure to do her arms as well, Maria would give one lively jump on the spot before deeming herself ready.

"Not long. Not long at all actually."

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"Oh? No prior experience to coming to LAW huh? That was me too when I began back in 2017." Tina said as she finished stretching and stepped up to the middle of the ring. "Okay.... ding ding ding!" Tina said acting as the ring bell herself.

Tina circled the bigger woman and would try to step up to kick the sides of Maria's legs to hopefully land a few stinging hits before hopping back out of striking distance. She was going to sting and chip away at the bigger woman as she wasn't in a rush to grapple with the powerhouse just yet in the spar....

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Maria would have happily have talked with Tina all day - to pass back and forth stories between herself and the more experienced middleweight, which would no doubt end up including their mutual relationship with one Diana Accera. But with the spar now underway, Maria's focus was completely shifted. There would be plenty of time to talk after taking this encounter in, as much as she could!

Finding Tina sticking to the outside, she'd respond in kind with outside strikes and the like. Raising her leg to check a few of Tina's kicks, she'd snap back with her own longer limbs in an attempt to knock the base out from underneath her foe.

Before all at once throwing caution to the wind, with a strong step forward via her right. To then use that leg to pull herself forward, for a thunderous hook right to the abdomen of her foe!

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Tina grunted and stumbled as the kick smashed her leaving her open for the follow up strike! "Ugh!" Tina groaned as se stumbled back dropping to a knee. This was bad, one hit from here leveled Tina and left her shaking her head trying to stumble back up to her feet. Tina knew she was not as strong as that, but this woman had a lot of power to her. Power Tina couldn't hope to directly match.

She tried to recover as best she could hoping that her bad position would lead to the woman moving in as the tigress attempted to jump up and extend her legs hoping to catch Maria in the chest with a dropkick to do something to her. Tina also knew that if Maria was already on top of her she would be grabbed and likely tossed about the ring given her precarious position after taking that big blow to the abdomen.

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Maria was already closing in following the knee, with her confidence leading her to make motions that she would have otherwise deemed unwise. With her arm raised, she'd close in with intention to hook it around the head of her foe to snap Tina down to earth in a DDT. It only seemed natural, given her bent forward position!

Only Maria would find Tina suddenly kicking up into the air with her figure straightening out - if anything she'd use said motion to kick herself off the ground all the further, bringing further speed to her big strike!

with Maria completely caught out as she came in, with the feet of Tina landing hard on her collarbone. In a manner that needless to say dropped Maria to her back, as the arms and legs of the Italian gave way before she outright fell!

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Whew.... Tina had some breathing room and could stop and think for a split second. She had to hit hard, use her speed and try holds... she wasn't sure what the technical skill of her opponent was but Tina was going to try to find out. She move in and grabbed the arm of Maria falling to a seated position on the mat as she wrapped her legs around the outstretched arm hoping to yank back and apply a solid arm bar to her opponent on the mat! Tina had a few ideas in mind but this was one she could apply quickly....