Again Fiona went for too much, too soon, and this time she paid for it [i]badly[/i]. Elina moved swiftly from one brutal attack to the next, seemingly knowing exactly what she wanted to do. Her crossbody left Fiona reeling long enough for Elina to pull her up and land a vicious kick to her midsection, then dropping her with a DDT before she knew what was happening.

The crowd loved it. Fiona couldn't remember a fight where so much of the crowd was hoping to see her face down on the mat, and it wasn't making it any easier for her to shake off the DDT and get up. That left her wide open to half a dozen merciless stomps to her back. Fiona felt the vitriol in every one, like Elina had taken personal offense to Fiona daring to fight back in this match.

She was lucky the referee stepped in to break it up, but with the sudden massive aching across her back, Fiona struggled to rise. Elina helped her with that, tugging the straps of her top to roughly yank her into a shaky stand. [i]Got to get out of this fast...[/i] But she wasn't as decisive as she needed to be, unable to land an elbow strike or shove her off before she was walked to the ropes and subjected to a second DDT, the springboard giving this one much more force.

Fiona actually was lights out for just a moment as she lay face down on the mat again, but her senses returned as she was rolled over, the lights hitting her eyes filtered through the dark hair strewn across her face. She felt Elina on top of her, Fiona's right leg hooked and pulled up, her shoulders down...

"One! Two!"

Fiona kicked out at two, getting her right hand up, and then hearing the jeers of Elina's fans. She groaned in pain, laying back to the mat and brushing the hair out of her eyes, her other gloved hand instinctively finding her lower back, still aching from those stomps. [i]Shit, this is bad.[/i] The two DDTs were giving her a lot of dizziness to fight through, too much for Fiona to handle at the moment.

"Did we learn nothing about counting Fiona out too early, Brent?" Rhonda asked after the kickout. "Still, that was as brutal as it was stylish. Elina really showing Fiona why she's a former champ."

What had been an even fight not long ago had now swung heavily in the luchadora's favor. Fiona wasn't going to be put away by that early of a finisher, but for the moment she was still completely vulnerable to Elina continuing the assault. [i]Gotta keep calm and focused. If she gives me a good chance to counter, I can't afford to miss it...[/i]