Shot at Redemption: Sakura Hagiwara vs Sarabeth Chummers-Ashworth — Standard Match

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Sakura was in utter agony right now, her legs felt like they were at their limit and the ropes were still a few feet away.. It was making her tempted to tap in fact she may... she just may have too as her hand started shaking and hovering over the mat... Only for it to come down and stay down as with a final, monumental push against the mat Sakura would drag herself forward, trying to close the last bit of distance necessary to reach out and grab the bottom rope!

[Pegasus]

Sakura crawled and crawled barely managing to secure her grip on the bottom rope as Sarabeth had to be notified. Sarabeth pulled on the legs not caring as she wrenched hard and hard as the referee argued with her counting as the crowd was getting a little concerned about Sarabeth’s anger being boiled over. At the count of 4, Sarabeth finally let go and the referee gave her a grave verbal warning stating it was a disqualification the next time she didn’t let go immediately. Sarabeth almost lost on purpose and she would have every justification, in her mind, to batter Sakura silly for being a horrible pay-per-view opponent. This was her debut and she felt like she was getting nowhere. It was almost as if Sakura just wanted to mock her by being a fodder opponent.

Sarabeth then went back to Sakura grabbing her by the hair hard and almost yanked her up which got her another warning from the referee. “No pulling or yanking, Sarabeth!” barked the referee as Sarabeth flipped her off which immediately got her another verbal warning. The crowd was a little put off by the stepdaughter of Astrid as Sarabeth ran the ropes leaving a wobbling Sakura in the middle of the ring! Sarabeth bounced off going for her patent Cuckoo Knee (Running Knee Strike)!

[Bare]

Desperately holding onto the rope for some form of relief it wouldn't come easily as Sarabeth held the submission on for as long as possible, only letting go because of the thread of disqualification hanging over her. Gasping in relief Sakura wouldn't even have the chance to pull her leg in to check the damage done to it before Sarabeth was right back on her, grabbing her by the hair and forcing her up to her feet!

"Agh! Let go!" Sakura yelled out, but as the saying went careful what you wish for. Because Sara did let go and while Sakura was able to stay on her feet for a bit it wouldn't be for long before Sara came right back at her with a running knee! "NGH!" She cried out, getting blasted off her feet and down to the mat, seemingly out like a light!

[Pegasus]

Sarabeth connected the shot and took the former idol down as Sakura flopped on her back. Sarabeth sat there for a moment as she let her anger fuel her and just got even angrier at the thought this would just be the end if she went straight for the pin. Sakura took pity on her since she knew Sarabeth was going to be determined to get a decisive victory and it drove Sarabeth wild that the idol wouldn’t even let Sarabeth just have the glory of beating a worthy opponent. She respected Sakura last time, but not this time. It was a damn form of mockery to be this dull and easy! She needed to show Sakura she meant business!

Sarabeth huffed going to get to her feet and grab Sakura’s right arm hooking it back and grabbing the head laying down on her back to lock in an Anaconda Vice! She wasn’t going to take the easy way out. Sakura was going to submit to her!