Victory by KO only
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A tournament with these stipulations was exactly the type of thing that Marceline signed up for when she joined LAW after a successful career in Savate and MMA fighting. The freedom of tactics of a pro-wrestling match, but no excessive gimmicks. Just an all out battle with her opponent until one of them was too incapacitated to respond to a 10 count. As with a knockout match, that entailed a great deal of brutality, doing enough damage to one's a opponent they wouldn't get back up, either from what put them down in the first place or fear of what might their fie might do to them if they dare to get back up. But for that to last a whole 10 count required even more than a typical knockout.
Between that and the fact tap outs didn't lead to releases, if one happened to come across someone one didn't like in the tournament, it would be a perfect opportunity to seriously injure them. For Marceline's part, there was no one in the tournament she felt that way about, so she'd only do enough to keep her opponents down, which would be painful enough in its own right. She had some moves she intended execute on her first Opponent, Christina that were certain to have devastating effects, if she had the opportunity to pull them off.
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We begin the tournament with the first round being Christina Perez vs. Marceline. When the Filipina heard of this tournament, she was very curious and wanted to join as she believed this would be a great way to test her skills against fiercer competition. Christina had been in L.A.W for what seemed like a year, and during that time, Christina had improved her wrestling skills.
For the rest of the tournament, it was going to be a K.O. only matches, which was fine with the Filipina as long as someone doesn't seriously get hurt.
Starting the tournament off, Christina was the first to make her entrance as the Filipina wanted for her theme music to play.
"Making her way to the ring! From San Diego, California and representing La Union Province, Philippines... Christina Perez!!
When the beat started to drop, Christina came out from the curtain, wearing red and blue boxing robes.
She would pop and lock, dancing her way to hype up some of her fans. As soon as she reached the ring, she climbed the apron and smiled, taking off her robes and revealing her Phillipines Leotard before entering the ring to continue her dance. Once she was finished, she would go to her corner waiting for her opponent while stretching her hamstrings.
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Next, Marceline's theme would begin to play.
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"Making her way to the ring, from Paris, France, at Six foot four and 220 pounds, it's Madame Guillotine, Marceline Gagnon!"
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Now in the ring at her corner, she'd shadowbox for a few moments before laying back into her corner.
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Christina was polite enough to exit the ring for her opponent as Marceline was able to get the full spotlight of her grand entrance. The crowd would cheer for the rather tall and athletic French woman as she made it to the ring to complete her entrance.
Christina would climb back inside the ring and get to her corner as well as she bounced up and down on her feet before the ref would call both women up to the center for a quick staredown.
When the Filipina went face to face with her opponent she can instantly feel the size difference. In the Announcement Marceline was 6'4 while Christina was 5'7.
"Damn girl...you should've tried basketball instead of MMA...I don't think they even have a weight class for your size in the UFC or ONE Championship...although Japan is known to put on some rather gimmicky fights before."
Christina commented on Marceline at the staredown. The Filipina wasent that scared even though her opponent looked like a Create a Character with max stats on. The two women would staredown with Christina smiling and laughing at the weird exchange before going back to their corners for the actual match to begin.
Many questioned how Christina would be able to pull this one off as the bell would ring and the match would begin with Christina circling around Marceline.
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"You'd be surprised what I can cut to meet lower weight classes, though admittedly my competition tended to be a bit lacking. That's why I'm here, where I don't need to hold back." Marceline responded before the march began.
As Christina began to circle, Marceline responded in kind, waiting for her moment. Suddenly, Marceline sprung forward, aiming to grapple with Christina and force her back towards one of the corners.
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Christina had to be smart about wrestling with Mareceline. Her opponent owned the size and strength department, so the Filipina would try to use a trick as she lowered her stance. She was hoping that Marceline couldn't see what her move was when Christina made herself even more shorter.
Waiting for her opportunity when the Frenchwoman sprung forward Christina immediately went for an Imnari roll as she tried to pick off Marceline's right leg, trip her down to the canvas and try tried to lock in a heel hook!
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Marceline had been hoping, perhaps too optimistically, that Christina would accept the lock up and allow Marceline to push her back. Unsurprisingly, she had immediately recognized that such a test of strength would be pointless and opted instead for another tactic: a quickly executed drop into a heel hook around Marceline's left leg.
The sudden fall to the ground with her leg awkwardly pulled downward was enough to illicit a groan of discomfort, from Marceline, but she had far too much experience in Mixed Martial Arts to panic.
A move like this from Christina, in a match without tap outs, would only do her any good if the she willing to pass or at least reach the brink of breaking Marceline's leg.
As far as Marceline was concerned, Christina deserved a harsher reply than a simple escape. Immediately, Marceline went to work attempting to defeat the effectiveness of the hold.
First she pushed herself upward with her left arm and her right leg. Now with her hip of the ground, she'd roll her hips counter clockwise while pushing down with her right leg in one swift motion, using her left arm to help spin herself around as well.
Part way through the spin, with Marceline's right foot off the ground, with her torso and left arm doing all of the work to roll her over, she'd pull her right leg back, then suddenly kick it forward to boot Christina in the face.
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If there anything Christina learned from her time getting her ass kicked by taller guys in BJJ was the smaller person had to be quicker and get in perfect position.
When Christina went for the Imnari roll she had a perfect opportunity to lock in heel hook. Despite the match being a K.O. match, Christina needed to work on cutting down the tree...the tree being Marceline and Christina having to chop her down and the first thing she needed to do was weaken the Frenchwoman's legs!
However Marceline would pull off an escape as she would lift her own hip above Christina while trying to rotate counterclockwise. The Filipina was rather insistent and when Marceline went for the spin, Christina would begin to roll with the spin. It was also a bit hard to keep a grip and once Christina got to her knees she would have to let go of the heel hook and rise quickly back up way before Marceline could as she tried to grab her long legs again!
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The last thing Marceline wanted to deal with so early in the match was a drawn out ground battle. Even if she could eventually get the upper hand, it was a poor usage of her size advantage over Christina. So in the midst of their rolling, Marceline would take the opportunity of Christina loosing her grip on The French woman's foot to use her arms help push away Christina and eventually get to her feet.
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As they rolled Christina tried to get back on top of Marceline but the Frenchwoman push the Filipina away as she got back to her feet.
'Damn' Christina cursed under her breath as both women were back on there feet much to Christina's annoyance.
While they circled around again Christina was trying to get closer to her opponent as she needed to close the distance and avoid Marceline from using her height advantage.
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From before the start of the match, Marceline had intended on attacking Christina's torso as her main target, but her attack on Marceline's legs convinced her to respond in kind. Staying just within her own kicking range, Marceline would pepper Christina with a series of kicks to the side of her thighs. When she felt that she had the shorter woman sufficiently off balance, she moved to grab one of her arms as if to Irish whip her into the corner, but instead Marceline moved to pull her into a hard knee strike to her gut.
Immediately afterward, Marceline would attempt to whip Christina into the corner, before attempting to deliver a signature of hers, a running cannon boot to the gut.
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Christina cursed to herself when Marceline gotten up to her feet. It was a real pain for the Filipina as she knew her opponent was gonna use her length as an advantage against her and immediately Christina started to close the distance...only to get peppered by kicks to her thighs which stopped her advancement and merely annoyed her. The advancing Christina tried to get to a lockup but her opponent would get her off balance with another well placed kick to her thighs, then Marceline would grab her arm, pull her closer and knee Christina right in the gut! This caused the Filipina to groan in pain as she doubled over. The Frenchwoman would use this opportunity to whip Christina to the corner! However when whipped to the corner, the Filipina would turn to her back to brace herself against the turnbuckle! With a thud Christina crashed hard in her back, but she was still standing!
While Christina was in the corner Marceline tried to charge back at the small brunette with a running Canon boot...however Christina would try to dodge it! If successful then Marceline's foot would be stuck by the middle turnbuckle as Christina would shift and place at least three roundhouse kicks to her opponent's back to soften the giant Frenchwoman up.
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Marceline had managed to land a succession of kicks to her opponents thighs and nail her with an knee to the gut, but most devastating of all was meant to be her signature canon boot with shorter the woman up against the corner. A powerful kick that'd drive her considerable size into torso. Unfortunately for Marceline it didn't play out like that, instead Christina managed to dodge the kick, leaving Marceline's left leg dangling on the turnbuckle and herself vulnerable. A vulnerability that Christina quickly exploited. Throwing multiple vengeful roundhouse kicks into Marceline's back.
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The Filipina put force after force with each kick to Marceline's back! Christina was trying her best to soften up the tall French woman as for her next move Christina would turn her opponent around and place a couple of knee strikes! Just like the kicks, Christina placed each knee to Marceline's gut with much force till the French woman was in a seated position.
Taking in a few breaths Christina felt now was the time to go for something big as she would grab Marceline by the head and pull her back up to her feet and a few feet away from the corner.
Christina would attempt to wrap her arm around her opponent's head and her other arm pulling on her pants trying to lift Marceline up and preform a snap Suplex!
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Christina clearly wasn't afraid of going hard at Marceline, after she finally managed to get her leg down from the middle ropes, that woman simply turned her around at went after her with a variety of knee strikes to her gut until the Filipina forced the Frenchwoman to the ground. Obviously, she couldn't blame her, attacking an opponent relentlessly like this was just part of wrestling, but even more so when the only path to victory came with the lengthy incapacitation of one's foe. This sort of attack was almost the least of it, either of them winning would require doing much worse than this to each other.
When Christina wrapped her arm around her neck, seemingly in preparation for a suplex, Marceline responded by wrapping her arm around Christina's neck. But just as the shirt her woman reached down to grab hold of Marceline's pants, the Frenchwoman would hop up and wrap her legs around Christina's torso, putting her in The Silence Mill.
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Christina was generally caught off guard when Marceline would jump up and wrap her legs around the Filipina while wrapping her arm around the lighter skinned woman's neck!
"Graaaggghh!"
Christina began to groan as the hold went on for a couple of seconds. However it was far too early to pull off any finishing Moves as the Filipina would start to punch at Marceline's kidney area before attempting to slip her head off of the frenchwoman's grip. Once she was out Christina would drop down to her knees and slam Marceline on her back with a quick spine buster! After that move the Filipina would rise to her feet and stagger back to place a hand on her aching neck.
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