Entry #19
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The lights suddenly went out, which was then followed the fading in of music. The opening music of the song sung by Strawberry Jam was very soothing. Some of the guys took out their phones and waved it from side to side to the beat of the song. As for others, they were cheering out loud, waiting anxiously for the nineteenth entrant to arrive. They are aware of the woman's reputation, ability and toughness. They couldn't wait to see her in action once again.
After a few measures of drumming, the chorus repeated once more. The lights in the arena turned back on. And there, standing in the center of stage was a thirty year old Japanese woman. She bowed toward the crowd, giving them their respect and thanks for watching her perform on the national stage once again.
She had short collar-length dark brown hair with bangs parted to the right. She wore a white sports bra with dark blue strips and turquoise design along the sides. Her shorts had matching colors as well. Protecting her knees were white kneepads. And rather than the traditional wrestling boots, this woman wore black shoes with a small reddish design on the insides and outside part of the footwear.
"Whoa! What about this woman?"
"It's Ayumi Kurihara! She has come out of retirement just to compete in this one match! This woman has accomplished so much in her years as a pro wrestler in Japan and around the world, winning numerous singles and tag team titles! But if she survive and capture the Ryona Rumble event, this might be her biggest win of her life!"
"You can see the look in her eyes, Al! She's not afraid of any one of those competitors in the ring! She will face anyone, no matter how big, how tall, how strong or how many of them!"
"There's no doubt about that, partner! Kurihara is one of the toughest women on the planet! She can take a beating or two, and yet still come back firing on her opponent, which could be critical in this matchup!"
"But then again, coming in at #19 would help out a lot!"
When Ayumi slid into the ring, she was immediately on the attack. The first competitor to greet her was Gail Kim. The thirty year old woman ducked underneath the TNA wrestler's short-armed clothesline, bounced off of the ropes and retaliated with a dropkick to her opponent's jaw. Kurihara quickly sprang back to a vertical base, just in time to see Hitomi coming at her with a jumping sidekick. The Japanese wrestler blocked the adolescent's attack and countered with another dropkick to the face, knocking Hitomi to the mat.
Sadly, her offense was cut short by the double team of Jaycee and Michelle Chang. The masked wrestler clubbed Ayumi right in the back, sending the Japanese woman on all fours. The mother-daughter pair continued the assault with more vicious stomps on the thirty year old wrestler's body and head, just like they've been doing with their other opponents. Kurihara tried to sit up straight, but a boot from either the fourteenth and/or sixteenth entrant would prevent her from doing so.
Shortly after, Jaycee and Michelle Chang helped Ayumi back to a standing position. The team then Double Irish Whipped their opponent to the other side of the ring. Once Kurihara came the other way, the mother-daughter pair linked arms and was ready to the Japanese competitor a double clothesline.
But the thirty year old woman ducked underneath the joined arms and ricocheted off the opposite ropes. Next, Ayumi sprinted toward the #14 and #16 entrants, jumped up and rotated her body off of its axis. She landed horizontally on Jaycee's and Michelle's torso, forcing them to the canvas. Upon completing the diving crossbody, Kurihara faced the sellout crowd and rose her fist to the sky.
"YATAAAAAAAAAA!" The enthusiastic woman shouted.
"Absolutely amazing! Kurihara is one hell of an athlete! She just took down four of the world's greatest fighters just like that with no trouble at all!"
"See what I mean? This woman is fearless! It didn't matter if she was up against a five-time TNA Knockouts Champion, a blooming fighter with so much potential or a mother-daughter team! Ayumi Kurihara will take on all fighters with the heart, feistiness and competitive attitude she has whenever she's in the ring!"
But despite her passion for wrestling, Kurihara still has the tendency to celebrate prematurely. She failed to see Sakura Hagiwara back on her feet and ready to mount some offense that she had been struggling to come up with since the start of the match. The seventeen year old girl turn the thirty year old woman around and unleashed vicious roundkick to her opponent's temple. She then followed up with a second roundkick to Ayumi's right side, and then a spin kick to her gut, forcing her opponent to double over.
Sakura then dashed the other way and bounced off of the opposite ropes to gain a little bit of momentum. The teenage idol extended her arm out, ready to give the nineteenth entrant a huge clothesline to the sternum. But Ayumi immediately recovered and was in position to counter Hagiwara's attack.
Kurihara tucked her head under Sakura's right arm and reached across the young woman's chest, wrapping around her neck with her near arm. The thirty year old veteran then simultaneously lifted her opponent up, turned 180° and fell backwards, bringing the #1 entrant over her body and slamming the young woman back-first on the mat.
"GUH! ITAI!" screamed Hagiwara, feeling the full effect of the uranage slam.
Kurihara made sure Sakura stayed down with a jumping elbow down to her sternum. The seventeen year old clutched her bruised midsection, unsure how much longer she could last. Ayumi concluded the assault with few more stomps to Hagiwara's body, followed by pressing her foot against the side of her opponent's head. Sakura kicked her legs about, doing everything she can to endure the pain. She felt like she's going to puke.
"Just look at Kurihara go! If you have seen her in action back in Japan, then you will know that she loves to go fast! Her kind of offense revolves around constant running and keeping her opponents on their heels!"
"And that's exactly what we're seeing here! So far, no one has been able to slow down Ayumi!"
Like the commentator had analyzed, not one of the competitors so far has an answer for the newest entrant of the Ryona Rumble. Kurihara sprang off of her feet and gave another standing dropkick to Gail Kim. The TNA Knockout rubbed her jaw to check to see if any of her teeth had been knocked out. Ayumi quickly returned to a vertical base and found Hitomi back on her feet. She sent the adolescent back on the canvas with a double knee facebreaker.
The thirty year old wrestler then helped Jaycee back to her feet and Irish Whipped her to an unoccupied corner. Afterwards, Kurihara did the same thing to Michelle Chang, except she threw her to the corner on the opposite side where her daughter is. The Japanese veteran then raised a fist toward the ceiling and screamed from the top of her lungs to get the crowd involved. The audience reacted by cheering as loud as they could.
Suddenly, Ayumi Kurihara sprinted toward the turnbuckle where Jaycee was standing at. When she was close enough, the thirty year old wrestler jumped and tucked her legs into her chest. The result was a running double high knee to her opponent's chest, making the masked luchadora fall on her butt. Kurihara then used the ropes to elevate herself in the air, before coming down with another dropkick to Jaycee's upper body.
Ayumi sprang back to her feet and rushed toward Michelle Chang's corner. Just like she did with Jaycee, the Japanese wrestler jumped and brought her legs into her body. Her knees crashed into the sixteenth entrant's upper body, causing a winded Michelle to sit on her bottom. Ayumi then sprang off the ropes using both of her hands. She then finished the combo with dropkick to her opponent's chest.
"Man, where does Ayumi Kurihara get this kind of energy? No one can stop her with so much momentum on her side!"
"Ayumi gives it her all every time she competes! Hopefully, this energy will last throughout the match!"
The nineteenth entrant kept her run going by going back to work on Michelle Chang. She gave the sixteenth entrant more stomps to the midsection. She then pressed her foot against her opponent's throat. The forty-one year old woman gaged and waved her limbs around, but Kurihara kept the pressure on her opponent.
Luckily, her attention was focused on Michelle. It only took a matter of moments for the fourteenth entrant to recover from Ayumi Kurihara's combo corner attacks. Once she saw her mother being assaulted by the Ryona Rumble's freshest entrant, she sprang back to her feet, dashed after Ayumi and axed her in the back of the head. The Japanese wrestler fell to the ground and clutched her aching head.
As the mother-daughter team got their payback on Kurihara, there was other action going on in the ring. Beth Phoenix and Anne-Marie had already gotten bored with their double submission move on a hurt and exhausted Cammy. Beth Phoenix picked up the British woman until she was on her feet. The Glamazon then wrapped her arms around the Delta Red soldier's waist and lifted her off of the ground.
"KYYYAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Cammy shrieked when Beth Phoenix applied more pressure on the bear hug.
But her cries were cut off when the seventeenth entrant came from behind the British competitor and wrapped her arms around Cammy's neck, causing her to gag in the sleeper hold. With one of her opponent's crushing her ribs and another cutting off her air supply, the twelve entrant could only endure and wonder how long she could last before someone knocks her out of the matchup.
Elsewhere, Nina Williams was already in the process of eliminating one of the competitors. The Irish woman shoved Sakura Hagiwara into an unoccupied corner and gave her a few good shots to the Japanese teenager's head and midsection. Again, the seventeen year old idol could not do anything to protect herself from all of Nina's hard strikes to her exposed face and belly. Each hit was more painful than the last. A few noticeable bruises appeared on various parts of Sakura's body.
The teenage idol then felt her opponent grab her by the leg and try to hoist her out of the ring. Her tummy hurts like hell. Also, she seemed to have one of the worst headaches ever. But she had to fight through it to save herself from being eliminated. So, she hooked one of her arms and legs around the ropes. That was enough to stop Nina Williams from trying to hoist her out of the ring, despite how hard she pushed.
"Again, Sakura Hagiwara in trouble! Hagiwara very close to being eliminated here! On the top rope! Can Nina Williams get that final push and toss Sakura out?"
"Resiliency! This young girl sure has a lot of it! She may have took a hell of a pounding throughout the entire match, but the #1 entrant is still in it!"
Realizing that she wasn't getting anywhere, the eighteenth entrant went back to on Sakura's body. Nina Williams clubbed her forearm on the seventeen year old girl's exposed midsection. A loud noise echoed throughout the arena every time the Irish woman's arm bounced off Hagiwara's belly.
Once her opponent had been worn down enough, Nina Williams stood underneath the Japanese wrestler and put her in an Argentine backbreaker rack position. The eighteenth entrant then made her way center of the ring. The blonde the pulled down on Sakura's head and leg to forcefully flex the teenage idol's back.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! ITAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" The first entrant squealed in pain as Nina Williams pulled harder on the torture rack.
The blonde then feel sideways, driving Sakura's head and upper back to the mat. The crowd went nuts at the vicious impact of the Burning Hammer throw. Hagiwara wrapped her arms around her head, fighting what seemed to be a possible concussion. Too bad that Nina Williams wasn't in the mood for showing any mercy. She continued to relentlessly stomp on Sakura, who could not defend herself.
Elsewhere, Gail Kim had Hitomi over the top rope. The TNA Knockout pushed with all of her might, trying get the twenty year old fighter out of the ring. But the brunette countered by giving the Korean wrestler a few elbows to the temple. This had Gail Kim staggering backwards for a little bit. Hitomi seized the opportunity by shoving the TNA Knockout back into the same corner and retaliated with more quick strike punches.
As the fifteenth entrant tried to eliminate the Korean wrestler, numbers appeared on the titantron once again, signifying that the next competitor was about to make her entrance. As the audience stood on their feet and cheered, they could only guess who would appear next.
"We're about two-thirds of the way through the Ryona Rumble! The countdown is on, as the twentieth entrant gets set to enter! Who's it gonna be?"
"We're about to find out soon, Al! Hold on to your hats! I got a feeling that this is going to be epic!"
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*BEEEEEEEEEEEP*
Entrants
(x) = Eliminiated
#1 - Sakura Hagiwara
#2 - Kelly Kelly (x)
#3 - Gia Primo (x)
#4 - Tina Armstrong (x)
#5 - Candy Cane (x)
#6 - Beth Phoenix
#7 - Angelina (x)
#8 - White Lotus (x)
#9 - Tara (x)
#10 - Harley Quinn (x)
#11 - Gail Kim
#12 - Cammy White
#13 - Sumiko (x)
#14 - Jaycee
#15 - Hitomi
#16 - Michelle Chang
#17 - Anne-Marie
#18 - Nina Williams
#19 - Ayumi Kurihara
#20 - ?
#21 - ?
#22 - ?
#23 - ?
#24 - ?
#25 - ?
#26 - ?
#27 - ?
#28 - ?
#29 - ?
#30 - ?