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

[Bare]

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)!