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@xmetawolf
Boy let me tell you. Reading your character sheets was an amazing experience. I am speechless, you get a thumbs up from me.

Steel Cages and Iron Wills. Jake the "Under" Taker vs Red Streak Fergus MacBrainan

@Skallagrim
Once my way home now, I'll have my post up within the next couple hours.

Steel Cages and Iron Wills. Jake the "Under" Taker vs Red Streak Fergus MacBrainan

@Skallagrim
Another big downside of a reverse guillotine is that it's over handed instead of underhanded. You could take the elbow pretty easily and twist the arm away. Without the other hand for grip and stability it's kind of weak.

And you could go for underarm and gut punches to break his grip. Which would break pretty easily since he won't have had a chance to breathe since the liver punch.

Other readily available responses are illegal moves, since there are now blows to the back of the head, back of the neck or spine. So my response will have to be entirely leg and left arm, which is where you have me at a disadvantage.

I've got an idea and I'm keeping it on the back burner until I figure this out.

Steel Cages and Iron Wills. Jake the "Under" Taker vs Red Streak Fergus MacBrainan

@Skallagrim
I'd have control over your head but you'd have control over my legs. You could pick me up and then slam, the choke would break and you'd have achieved your tackle and mount. The choke would amount to nothing other than a point on the score card really. And since there's no card it wouldn't even matter then.

Though on the reverse I could take the choke into a full slam of my own. Dropping Fergus' weight backwards and pinning your head down. Problem is, his entire stomach and chest would be totally exposed to a beating.

Steel Cages and Iron Wills. Jake the "Under" Taker vs Red Streak Fergus MacBrainan

@Skallagrim
Well it looks like you're going for a takedown and full mount, using the window after the uppercut to get the upper hand and secure a victory.

But, at the same time you wouldn't leave yourself as open as you did to a guillotine choke(Though an inverted one.), which with the position both of them are in you're totally exposed to.

So I'm left at a loss. You wouldn't have willingly left yourself open without compensating for potential replies.

Steel Cages and Iron Wills. Jake the "Under" Taker vs Red Streak Fergus MacBrainan

@Skallagrim
I at least see one step, probably not the rest.

I'll be home in four and a half hours, I'll post then.

Steel Cages and Iron Wills. Jake the "Under" Taker vs Red Streak Fergus MacBrainan

@Skallagrim
I'll be frank, I was not expecting you to go for exactly what I thought you were gonna go for. I had to think of five different other possibilities just in case.

Steel Cages and Iron Wills. Jake the "Under" Taker vs Red Streak Fergus MacBrainan

@Skallagrim
Yes.

Steel Cages and Iron Wills. Jake the "Under" Taker vs Red Streak Fergus MacBrainan

Won't need luck. Thought Fergus as he backed to his corner, never once letting his gaze drift from the Undertaker. He said something to his corner but the crowd was too loud for him to actually understand, so too did he lack the ability to read lips. Wishing right about now that he did, maybe it was strategy talk.

Fergus shook his head and made his advance as well, he entered a midway stance between Krav Maga and Muay Thai. With both hands raised about to eyebrow height, fingers loose within the clenched fist. Like he was holding something valuable that he didn't want to drop, but also didn't want to shatter in his grip. It was a mental trick to give himself the perfect practical fist. His center of gravity was kept low and his knees were bent slightly, he walked on his toe with his leading right and with the flat on his left.

He always kept his hands at even distance because he didn't want to immediately reveal his right handed lead, but his footing revealed that secret far too often. As they moved within striking range Jake opened with an exploratory right ab that Fergus made an unconscious defense towards.

His left arm raised slightly before him and he turned his hip, he put his elbow between himself and the jab and checked the blow with the sharp of his arm. After the block he stepped in with his left foot and planted it hard, quickly rotating his shoulder and torso to add force to his reply. The left block dropped back into its resting defense. His right leg was brought forward quickly and he extended his right hand in a clean cross towards the cheekbone of Jake. His hand rotated slightly, his grip tightened and his shoulder raised a bit to add impact to the blow. It would be an easy strike to avoid but a hard one to take.

If his hand struck clean or if it missed entirely he would quickly withdraw his arm and pull his weight back onto his right, flattening his heel to the ground to return to a sturdy posture. He'd loosen his hand and raise it back to his eyebrow, returning his guard.

Edit: Spelling Error.

Steel Cages and Iron Wills. Jake the "Under" Taker vs Red Streak Fergus MacBrainan

@Skallagrim
Colds are the worst, but at least they're over quick(ish).