Meeting Your Idols: Astrid Ostberg (c) vs. Tina Kelley

[SimplyWoo]

By this point, Tina's hands were gripping at her elbows with how tight she has cinched her grip on Astrid. However Astrid was a tough cookie, rightfully so and grunted as Astrid managed to shift herself from being over one of Tina's shoulders to being breast to breast with her. She suddenly felt Astrid swing her arms low to lock around her own waist in return as Tina suddenly looked up into the air and let out a scream of pain, now feeling in return the tight embrace from a World Champion.

She let out some sexy grunts as she looked back down, looking face to face with Astrid as she rested her forehead against Astrid's own through gritted teeth as Astrid's pressure caused Tina to lower Astrid back down to her feet. The two were now on even ground with each other and back in a different form of a test of strength. As Tina would respond in kind with each squeeze delivered from Astrid would be a squeeze of her own sent right back. Beads of sweat from their body heat slowly rolled down their upper body to merged together where their breasts were pressed together before rolling off their side. As some breathy moans escaped from Tina's lips. She attempted to try to keep the advantage of the lock by swaying their upper body from side to side and with her squeezes, pull upward with her arms as well to try to force Astrid to tip toe on occasion.

[CaptainL]

Even Astrid couldn't deny that Tina had mastered the bear hug - she couldn't help but be impressed. By locking onto her elbows, she had efficiently and effectively anchored the hold in place, ensuring that it would take a herculean effort to break - and the force she was exerting on it was already crushing; when Tina had started out small and escalated things further over time, building up the pressure, Astrid couldn't help but wonder if Tina's bear hug still wasn't at its full power, and just what it might look like if it was! Had Astrid been a lesser wrestler, she would doubtlessly be out by now. But Astrid was a champion, and she was determined to fight tooth and nail to stay that way. That was pushing her the extra mile to get her arms up and around Tina's sides - and to clamp down as hard as she could with a bear hug of her own!

The Norsewoman fought to even out the pressure. Her teeth clenched in a grimace, her eyes squeezed shut and her face reddening from the strain as sweat beaded on her brow. Her back arched even further against the strain on her spine, both from Tina's efforts as well as the exertion she put herself through. With the space in between them swiftly narrowing, their bodies were pressed tightly against each other, chest mashing into chest as their sweat-slick and muscled physiques ground and rubbed into one anothers'. In such a firm and intimate embrace, Astrid could feel every inch of Tina's body, and every breath that passed in between them. The heat was growing intense, and the pressure was building by the minute; her vertebrae popped backward one by one, and she could feel the groaning and grinding of her bones buckling against the force. But Astrid couldn't stop now. She couldn't give in, not if it meant losing her title. And for a woman as proud of her family's legacy as Astrid was, the last thing she wanted to do was to concede defeat in a contest of bear hugs, and admit that her own couldn't hold up against Tina's!

As Tina cranked even harder on the pressure, raising Astrid up off the ground, suddenly a thought came to the champion - she knew how she could use this to her advantage! She swung forward with her hips, chest, and shoulders, attempting to bump them into Tina's enough to create more space to manuever in between the two of them, and to buy her time. If she could stall the challenger's advances even by a few seconds, she would attempt to will a little bit more of that strength into her legs - if she could, she'd lift them off the ground a little higher, moving to throw them around Tina's waist and squeeze to compound the bear hug with a standing bodyscissor!

[SimplyWoo]

As Tina continued to squeeze she suddenly looked surprised as she looked at Astrid's arms shifting up to her middle back and suddenly felt Astrid hop up from her tip toes to clamp her legs around her waist and squeeze. This surprised Tina as the extra squeezing ended up causing her to release Astrid, dropping to her knees as she screamed out in pain as Astrid was now acting like a muscular snake with two coils around the bluenette's body, her arms and legs. Tine knew she was in trouble and was panting from the pressure on her body. She let out some sexy grunts of effort as she wiggled her upper body against Astrid's own, making her breasts rub back and forth against Astrid's own as she wiggled her shoulders up and down as she made it her number one priority to slide her arms free from Astrid's muscular prison.

[CaptainL]

Astrid sucked in a breath and clenched her teeth. Her entire body had tightened and tensed as she fought to force herself into position, even with the crushing pressure of Tina's embrace whittling away at her stamina. Her muscles ached, her body felt heavy, and her face was red from the strain she put herself under. But she knew she had to fight through it! No matter how much it hurt, and how much it sapped her strength, Astrid couldn't let Tina beat her with this. She was in this to defend the Heavyweight Championship, and she wasn't about to let it down! Tina had proven herself to be a worthy foe; Astrid could easily see her taking the title. If she did, she couldn't say it wouldn't have been well-earned. But that didn't matter - as long as Astrid could still draw breath, she still needed to fight back with everything she had. To do anything less would be doing a disservice to her championship!

Astrid knew it was risky, bringing her feet off the ground and disrupting her stance in order to double down on the pressure she exerted against Tina's waist. But that was a risk she was willing to take, and if Tina was already lifting her off her feet, she might as well use that to her advantage! Now, as Astrid's strong legs clamped around her foe's sides, the pressure was reversed. Tina dropped to her knees and let go - it was now Astrid who was controlling the momentum, and Tina was the one struggling to escape!

The Norsewoman smirked a little wider. She knew this was a step in the right direction. But she couldn't stop now. She could feel Tina's body rubbing and writhing against her own as the challenger jockeyed to get free, and she hissed through her teeth, tightening her muscles even more to keep her in place as she too rocked her hips from side to side to grind into her foe's. She knew that if she could push this a little bit further, she could win it all!

Looking to take advantage of positioning, she went to throw her weight over to the side, attempting to roll the two of them over so that Tina would be on her back, with Astrid on top of her. Astrid's limbs were growing sore, and she wasn't sure how much longer she'd be able to hold on. She'd been doing this for some time now, and Tina had already done a number on her even if it hadn't lasted. But even if Tina managed to escape, she'd still be vulnerable if they went to the mat!

[SimplyWoo]

Tina let out a groan of relief after an exhausting amount of struggling, finally managed to pop her arms free from Astrid's grip. It didn't do her much good though as Astrid immediately picked up the slack as Tina's elbows rested on Astrid's shoulder with her hands held up in the air almost in a pleading like manner as Astrid immediately squeezed closed the slack that Tina created by no longer having her arms pinned. The move was looking a little suggestive as Astrid added a rocking motion with her hips, which made Tina's body jiggle and sway and to make things even more suggestive, a beautiful sounding moan escaped from Tina's lips as she looked to the air with her eyelids fluttering as she felt the pressure of Astrid's bearhug/body scissor combo.

To make things worse, she suddenly felt Astrid press her body forward, forcing Tina to let out a yelp as she fell back on the mat. She stretched her arms out to her sides as her breasts heaved up and down, panting from Astrid squeezing the fight out of her, she then noticed the ref slid down beside the two of them and started slapping the mat. Shit, Astrid forcing her to lay on her back now put her in a pinning predicament. As the ref slapped the mat for a two count Tina raised a shoulder up, but moaned out as Astrid squeezed her to the point of her shoulder coming back down, to which the ref started slapping the mat once more and Tina lifted her shoulder back up again, this time just barely avoiding the three count.

She knew that she needed to get out of this and fast, because keeping her shoulder up while having the life nearly squeezed out of her was rapidly draining her. Her arm fell stretched out to her sides once more and the ref went to slap the mat. "1!.....2!....." but it was at that moment, out of desperation that not only did Tina lift up one arm, but lifted up both, swinging them forward together to slam her forearms into pop Astrid's ears to try to disorient her as Tina swung her arms with enough force to make her hands clap together behind Astrid's back of her head, trying to free herself from the clutches of the Astrid Constrictor!

[CaptainL]

Bringing her legs up to take control of the pressure was what tipped the odds in Astrid's favor, and little by little, the pendulum started to swing back around. Gritting her teeth, her brow furrowed and slick with sweat as she pushed her body to bring forth even greater force, Astrid clenched down as hard as she could, tightening every muscle in her body firmly around Tina's waist and ribs. The crowd was cheering louder and louder, encouraged by the prospect of another victory for the champion. But Astrid was only getting started! This match had shown her how capable her opponent was, and she wasn't about to let her get away with any slack she could pick up. Astrid had to take the threat of Tina seriously - and she needed to use every weapon in her arsenal against her! It was to that end that she threw her weight over to the side, looking to bowl her over and take the two of them to the mat.

The referee had begun to count the pin, as Tina's body strained against the force of Astrid's crushing grip all the while. But Astrid wasn't even concerned about that, and the focused look on her face and the grimace of her clenched teeth didn't waver. She wasn't even trying to pin Tina at this point - she was just trying to turn every ounce of pressure she could bring to bear against her! Rolling on top of her was going to help hold her down against Astrid's weight, making it that much harder for her to get out - and all the more likely that she would pass out under the sheer force of her combined bear hug and bodyscissor. When Tina brought her shoulders off the mat, Astrid didn't care that she had broken the pin. What she did care about was what came next - as Tina's forearms came crashing together around her foe's head, boxing Astrid's ears in the process!

Suddenly, Astrid could hear nothing but ringing, and the world around her blurred. Gasping from the sudden pain that overtook her head, she shrunk back from Tina, forced to release her bear hug in order to clutch at her aching ears as she bellowed in pain. The body scissor came undone next, after Tina smacked her on the back of the head, causing an even greater wave of pain to shoot through Astrid's skull! Still dizzied from the attack, Astrid had no choice but to let go, and she rolled over on her back, off of Tina as she writhed on her back and kicked her legs. It was a vulnerable position to be in, but she had no choice!

[SimplyWoo]

As Astrid rolled off of her, Tina gasped out a few times, gulping back in some air that she lost from Astrid's ongoing squeeze as she covered her ribs. "Phew, well I did...nhhhh, enjoy getting to be close to you in a intimate manner...if only for a little bit." She managed to joke despite the pain of nearly being finished there. She slowly shifted herself to her hands and knees and brought herself up to a standing position, though she was still bent over a little, feeling the pain of the bearhug/body scissor combination.

She noticed Astrid getting up to her feet as the crowd started to chant Fight Forever, and also noticed Astrid positioned to where her back facing the roped. She suddenly shifted her body sideways and she grunted out as she hopped herself towards Astrid, lifting her closest leg towards Astrid up and thrusting it sideways. She was going for her signature Kelley, Kick, but instead of aiming for the chin like most of her opponent, she tried to target her in the ribs with enough force to fling her to bounce off of the ropes so she could twist around to clamp scoop Astrid up into her Kinetic Krush of a bearhug once more, hoping the targeted strike to Astrid's midsection would help assist her in making the hold a little more problematic for Astrid to catch her breath.

[CaptainL]

As the two women finally broke apart from one another, Astrid clutched at her side, panting for breath. She had kept the pressure on Tina with a valiant effort, but in the end, it still hadn't been enough to take the challenger down. Now, the fatigue of having pushed her body to its limits was setting in, and Tina had been no slouch herself when it came to her attempts at evening things out with a hold of her own. Now that the excitement had died down a little and Astrid had the chance to catch her breath, that pain was returning to her, causing her to wince. Still, as she rolled up onto her knees, she had to look back up at Tina with a smile. The challenger's tenacity had still been worthy of recognition - many lesser opponents would surely have crumpled beneath Astrid's force in a similar predicament, but not Tina. Tina was determined to walk away with the belt, and not even the Ostberg bear hug was going to stop her! If there was anyone who stood a chance at taking her belt away from her, Astrid was sure she was looking at them right now!

As it turned out, though, in clutching at her ribs, Astrid had inadvertently given Tina an edge. She now saw where the blonde was hurting - and she knew just where to target! Suddenly, Tina came charging forward, closing in on Astrid from behind. The Norsewoman had been basking in the cheers of the crowd as she shook herself out, but now the voices that had been praising her gave way to cries for her to be careful, or to look behind her. Raising an eyebrow, Astrid began to turn her head around over her shoulder - but it was too late. Tina was right upon her, and her kick slammed right into her sore ribs, knocking her backward!

Astrid cried out in pain as she stumbled away from Tina, falling against the ropes. She stretched the cables against her back, only to go bouncing back toward Tina - right into the path of her arms, as she swung them outward to latch around the champion's waist! Suddenly, Astrid found herself swept up into the air, letting out a gasp as she found herself high above the ring - and then, as Tina's arms began to squeeze inward, she began to gasp and gag, her face contorting into a pained grimace as she found herself back in the bear hug, this time with no way of reversing it! Her face went red from the strain as she cried out in pain. Astrid was already hurting from the damage she'd taken before - and now, Tina wasn't even giving her a chance to catch her breath!

[SimplyWoo]

Tina was putting it all into this finish, her half of the fans rising up to their feet and going nuts with how tight the move looked cinched in and how in distress Astrid looked. Tina shifted the side of her face to rest against Astrid's breasts as she panted, then gritted her teeth as she grunted out and began to give Astrid a few bounces and went back to sliding her grip tighter and tighter with each bounce. She shut her eyes tight as it was all she could to push herself to fight through the exhaustion and try to squeeze either a submission out of the champ and her idol, or to try to get her to pass out in her tightening embrace as one arm was over top of the other, gripping at her own biceps to keep Astrid pulled in as tight against her as she could.

[CaptainL]

When the two heavyweights last met in a clash of bear hugs, it had been Astrid who had managed to come out on top, taking control in the end. Now, though, the tables had turned. Astrid was tough, and her endurance had been named as one of the most valuable assets in her arsenal. The fact that she had been capable of withstanding the pressures that Tina summoned against her earlier in the match was evidence enough of that. But she had been putting everything she had into bracing herself against the pressure, and paying Tina back in turn. She was hoping that would be enough to take the challenger out - but after the dust cleared, when Tina came right back at her for another round, Astrid didn't have anything left to defend herself with, and all she could do was take it.

All she knew was one thing - she wasn't going to tap out, now. Not to this - not to a hold that she herself had mastered, and not in a match that meant so much to her! She knew she had to fight to the last breath in order to hold onto her title - in this case, quite literally. She had failed to do the honor justice in her match against Rose Gold, and now, she was determined not to make that mistake again. If Astrid gave up now, if she submitted to an opponent with less experience and expertise than she did, that would be all but proving that the Heavyweight Championship meant nothing. But when Astrid had built her entire career on the glory of the belt, and living up to it in the name of giving it the respect it deserved, that simply wasn't something she could have happen. If she was going to go out, it would be on her feet, no matter what! That was how a true champion did things!

As Tina's grip clamped down even harder against her sides, a shudder went straight through Astrid's entire body. It started at her head, traveling down her neck; her shoulders trembled, and her ribs sucked inward as she took in a gasp; even her thighs squeezed together as every muscle contracted. She was buckling against the sheer force she was under, but so too was she determined not to give up. She couldn't even let out a scream, lest she seem weak in this moment of defiance. Not even as her face grew red, or her ribs felt like they could splinter under the ironclad grasp of Tina's arms. Her shaking grew faster and faster; her temples throbbed as all the blood ran to her head, and she sputtered through teeth that were locked into an unbreakable grimace. Her lungs grew hot with all her pent-up breath, and she felt as though they could burst at any moment. All Astrid knew was that she would need to be defiant to the end.

But the hold was taking its toll on her, too. The more Tina squeezed, and the tighter her hold became, the more Astrid's motions began to slow - the twists and turns she'd taken to fight against Tina's grip had all but ground to a halt; now, she diverting all her energy into keeping herself still and rigid and not giving up. Up until, with one last hoarse exhale, Astrid suddenly slumped forward, her head falling against the side of Tina's chest as her arms went slack at her sides.

It was as though all the tension that had built up in her body, in one second, had all been let loose, and she had nowhere to go but down. There was barely a sound to announce such a change. But it seemed as though the fight had, suddenly, left Astrid.

Seeing her go still, the referee moved in to take Astrid by the arm, lifting it up. Sure enough, it fell slack at her side once again. The crowd looked on, eyes wide, mouths agape, and all silent and still. Could this be the moment a new champion would be crowned?