Aslaug vs. Lennox: Knockout Match

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"The following is a one-fall knockout match!" Began the Ring announcer as Lennox Rose prepared to exit from backstage. It wasn't exactly a hardcore match, but there was no escaping the fact that it was destined to conclude brutally. Nothing that she couldn't handle. It remained to be seen how her opponent would fare.

Next, her theme began to play

As she left backstage in her signature jacket

She tugged down on it once she reached the edge of the ramp, looking side to side, observing the crowd as they cheered, if not so much for her, for the match.

"Standing at 5'11, weighing in at 165 pounds, is The Sovereign of Spikes, Lennox 'Thornette' Rose!"

The announcer introduced her as she headed to the ring and walked up the steel steps. She took off her jacket & beckoned to the referee to take it, revealing lean toned arms. Next she stepped between the ropes and headed to her corner waiting for her opponent to arrive.

[Wagy]

The air conditioner in the arena turned to a much more lower temperature, some of the spectators even felt like clutching their shoulders shivering from the chill turn the atmosphere had.
Images of snow and of white dragon head pierced by a spear flashed throught the titantron as the Lunatic Wyvern, dressed in her usual quite revealing black attire with a revealing thong and blue clawstyled armwarmer made her way throught the ring.



"And introducing our other contestant. Standing at 5'8 and weighing 124 pounds she is the Lunatic Wyvern of Ice, Aslaug Gunn!
The whitehead received mixed response from the public, she wasn't exactly that well loved despite not being an hell. Mostly because of her...troublesome personality.
Still...she semmed to be quite pleased and in a good mood today as she walked nochalantly into the ring and through her corner. Fixing her golden eyed gaze on her opponent she would say, with a small smirk.

"I heard you're pretty though "Thornette", I have decided that I’m gonna fight you with seriousness so don't dissappoint the buildup."

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Thornette watched her opponent as she walked down the ropes & headed into the ring She was smaller than her, which was a good sign for the Sovereign of Spikes chances, as she wasn't one to rely on brute force in a match so having that advantage was a bonus.

"Oh, I'm tough alright, you'll have a hard time knocking me out. I don't know if I'll have a tough time with you, though, we'll see soon, huh?" Lennox replied. The woman was on lighter end of being a middleweight. So flipping her upside down and dropping her on her head until she stopped moving wouldn't be too difficult, as long as she could do it enough before she herself was knocked out.

As soon as the match started, Thornette would open it by feigning an invitation to a 'lock up' by raising her arms up and out, but if Asalug approached, she'd try to stomp kick her into her gut, then if she was bent over, close in & attempt to slam a right uppercut punch roughly targeted at her liver to keep her hunched over.

[Wagy]

"Indeed, but I'm nothing if not patient. And don't worry...I'll do it gently for someone as cute as yourself~" The wyvern replied with a challenging smirk on her face. That being said Lennox would be quite the foe to defeat as she was farther than her in the middleweight category, but still she had experiencing dealing with people much more heavier than her current rival...
And right away, as the blonde opened up with an invitation for a grapple she recognized a trap that she herself would use sometimes. She would indulge though.
As Lennox tried to sneak up her kick, the whitehead caught her foot and held it in place with her hands.

"Sorry but, fellow cheaters recognize each other."

Alsaug said before making the other wrestler spin in place by flailing her caught foot to the side, making the most of the opportunity to try and connect with lariant right off the bat.

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Lennox's 'trick' hadn't played out like she intended it to, at all. Rather than get a chance at a kick followed by a punch to the torso to set her opponent up for further offense, she'd find her foot intercepted and held in place. The only good news was that in speaking before acting, Aslaug had given thrornette enough time to catch her bearings for what came next.

As her opponent spun her in place, Lennox curled her outside hand into a fist. As she completed her spin, Thornette brought the same hand around to punch at the woman's face as she hit her with the lariat.

[Wagy]

Aslaug lariant didn't fully connect as she expected as she her opponent semmed to catch on her idea and used the momentum of the spin to land a solid punch to her cheeck for her troubles. They traded, or atleast the whitehead made sure they traded as Aslaug kep her arm a bit higher during the lariant in order to still hit the throath of Lennox.
Obviosly, she wasn't able to hit the technique perfectly but the mere fact that she was able to hit a much more tender spot of the body, would compensate for the reddened and a bit swollen cheeck she had gotten.
The wyvern recoiled, nursing her cheeck with two fingers, before smirking.
Oh yeah, this was going to be good.

Aslaug went in for the offense this time, guard raised semmingly to double down on the area she had hit with a chop, but just like the blonde had done previously this was a rouse to get her guards up or to force her to preper for evasion, as Aslaug would stomp of the other woman feet to keep her in place and provide a momentary moment of stun to then try an connect with a low gut punch instead.

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While Aslaug's lariat didn't knock her flat on her back as it otherwise might of, thanks to its momentum partially being robbed by her Punch, Lennox still took a solid hit to her throat that sent her staggering back a few steps and gagging. But at least the offense that her opponent had managed to get off on her wasn't exactly free.

A few momeents later, Aslaug managed to get her guard back up before Thornette had full recovered from the hit to her throat, so in anticipation of a strike to her upper body, Lennox brought up both of her hands up high. As it turned out, this was a mistake on her part. The first thing that'd come was a stomp on her foot, which hurt, though it was clear enough tgat its purpose was to keep her from retreating. But the pain had also managed to distract her from the fact the Aslaug was now shifting downard, driving an unexpected punch into her gut.

Punches to the gut were nothing minor even when one was fully prepared, but Lennox didn't see the punch coming at all. So her abdomen wasn't tense for impact, but fully vulnerable. When combined with her restricted movement backwards from her foot being stopped on, Aslaug's fist buried painfully deep into her gut. She'd have screamed in pain right then, if it weren't for the fact the air had been completely knocked out of her.

[Wagy]

The whitehead reserved no mercy for Lennon as soon as she was got stunned by her full force attack to her gut, she grabbed the woman by her twintails and drive her face right into the path of a deadly knee. And if such an attack connected, the blonde would get another knee in the face for her troubles...

Following that, Aslaug shifted her gameplan, her arms went around the bi colored middleweight head for a side headlock and at the same time, she tripped her opponent to take the action right onto the mat. Lennox fall was slightly lessened in impact as the wyvern didn't aim to smash her face into the ground...
Still, the blonde would find herself trapped in an headlock depriving her of breath as her opponent focused her weight on her back to keep her nice and calm as she was being deprived of strenght...

"Usually, they give up at this point...
But you don't have that easy way out~."

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Winded, Lennox was helpless to defend herself from having her head draged down into a power knee strike to her face, which had, of course, only added to her vulnerability. That vulnerability would produce an opportunity for a second unopposed knee strike. Thornette was not only hurting from the sucession of unopposed strikes, but largely unaware of her surroundings as well.

That would start to change as she was put into a headlock and forced to the canvas. Her focus was additionally aided Aalaug's taunting. She'd make her pay for it. Though she didn't make use if them all that much, Thornette was no amateur to the world of submissions. Mostly, her focus was the matter of escaping them. So she knew to use the foot away from her opponent to prop herself up on her side, rather than allow herself to be forced flat on her back while using the arm on the same side to reach around and grab Aslaug's shoulder.

"You need better, opponents, then." Lennox responded.

From there, she'd force her own head toward the ground while bringing the foot that had be propping her up around her opponent's leg, in order to roll over and on top of her opponent. From that position, rather than bother focus on finishing with breaking the headlock, she'd bring to bear the most devastating of all her strikes, the Hammer fist, bashing away at Aslaug's ear with vengence.

[Wagy]

Thornette's scheme endend being succesful as Aslaug ended up dropping her on the spot and rolling away immediatly to clutch her damaged ear.
Static filling her senses in that moment.

Yet, through clenched teeth and a squinted eye the norsewomam still managed to slyily smile and respond with...

"Looks like I've found one then."

She would proceed to get back to her feet, mantaining distance for now and conceding to her opponent a neutral situation once again.