Flashback 1979: The Landers Sisters (Audrey & Judy) vs Pink Lady (Mie & Kei)
HWA Tag Team Championship MatchIt was as the match neared the 30 minute mark that it began to spiral out of control. The high flying style of visiting Japanese superstars Mie Nemoto and Kei Masuda had proved vexing to Audrey and Judy Landers, who found themselves relying more and more upon rougher tactics as the match progressed. Of course, as they swiftly learned, the deceptively sweet looking Asian girls were more than happy to resort to dirty tricks to fight fire with fire.
Things were chaotic both in and out of the ring now; at ringside, Judy and Mie were trading judo chops, both staggered by the chest-thumping blows. In the ring itself were the two legal contestants of the moment, Audrey and Kei. Audrey has just hoisted her opponent up for a body slam, but Masuda managed to wriggle free and slip down the American's back. Momentarily confused, Audrey pauses just a few heartbeats before whirling around to face her foe...but that was all the time Kei needed to reach into a hidden pocket in the cleavage of her ring suit, pull out a small plastic bag, and hurl the contents...salt...into the blonde's face. The referee doesn't see the illegal act, but the sudden shriek from Landers, followed by her staggering backwards, knuckles furiously rubbing her eyes to clear them, indicates her evident distress.
Wasting no time, the Japanese battler scales up the turnbuckles of the nearest corner, perches precariously upon the top ropes, and then flings herself into the air, delivering a cross body splash that flattens Audrey to the canvas. In a blur of motion, Kei hooks a leg...and grabs a handful of the blonde's tights just to make certain she doesn't kick out...and the referee drops to his knees to start the three count. From ringside Judy sees what is transpiring and dives under the bottom rope to save her sister, but suddenly finds her forward motion halted and then reversed as Mie grabs her around the thighs and drags her back out of the ring.
And three seconds later, the Hollywood Wrestling Alliance has new tag team champions!
As Pink Lady strut around the ring holding aloft their newly-won leather and gold, Judy climbs into the ring to help her sister up, and both of them get in the face of the ref, furiously contesting their loss. Suddenly their battle senses flare and they whirl around...but only to be met by Mie and Kei slamming the belts down across their foreheads. The blondes are left splayed across the mat, blood staining their golden hair and trickling down their faces, and have to be carried out of the ring on stretchers, and the new Champs bask in the boos and jeers of the fans.
Flashback 2000: Sarah Michelle Gellar vs Rachel Bilson"How 'bout it, Rachel?" the referee asked. The brunette's only response was a loud moan of pain and a gutteral,
"PH-PHUUUUCCCCKKKK NOOOOOO!" Bilson had found herself in the one place she didn't want to be...snared in Sarah's figure four.
For Gellar, this match was personal. Rachel had been a holy terror of late in the HWA, most recently using every illegal trick she could think of to not merely beat Sarah's tag partner, Alyson Hannlgan, but to sideline the redhead for at least a month with injured ribs. Rachel made it plain she was setting her sights next on SMG, and the blonde welcomed the challenge. She was going to put a stop of Bilson's reign of terror, and teach her a much-deserved lesson.
Of course, that was easier said than done. Their match had been more or less a stalemate as the two beauties saw control shift back and forth between them. But now Sarah had her most devastating finisher locked on, and it would only be a matter of time before her victim submitted. Maybe the blonde would release her, or maybe she would keep the hold locked on until the brunette passed out from the pain...SMG decided to see how she felt when the moment came.
But instead of giving in to the blinding agony that tortured her shapely leg, Rachel's fighting spirit demanded that she make one last, desperate attempt to escape. With a sudden twist of her body, she struggled to roll over to her side, and to take her tormentor over with her. Not expecting this, Sarah hadn't properly braced herself with her arms, so she found herself being turned over onto her hip. She struggled with all of her might to return the pair to their backs, and for a long moment they remained frozen in place.
But then with a roar, Bilson managed to turn the two of them over onto their stomachs. Their legs were still entwined, but now by the laws of physics, all of the pressure was reversed, and it was Gellar who was suffering! Her own hands tugging at her flaxen mane to try and block out the pain to her leg, Sarah let out sharp squeals of pain, her body thrashing as she tried to pull herself free. But now that she was in command, Rachel wasn't about to relinquish it. Pressing her hands to the mat, she pushes her upper body up, adding to the pressure torquing the blonde's entrapped gam, and causing SMG to shriek all the louder.
Her legion of fans begin chanting "DON'T TAP! DON'T TAP! DON'T TAP!", but although her magnificent spirit is willing to endure the anguish, her flesh is too weak to continue, and suddenly she begins to frantically pound the canvas with her open right hand, sobbing,
"I GIVE! ENOUGH! I GIVE UP!!!"But the black-hearted brunette isn't quite so ready to put an end to her fun. She continues to pour on the pressure, until finally the referee threatens her with reversing the decision if she doesn't stop. Giving an exaggerated schoolgirl's pout, Rachel reluctantly frees her victim, and Sarah rolls back and forth on the canvas, clutching her throbbing knee as tears streak down her face. She would be joining her tag partner on the injured list for the next few weeks, but at least the time off would give both Sarah and Aly ample opportunity to plot their revenge on Bilson.