Harumi Nemoto vs Lucy Pinder

Inaugural AHW Champion Match

Results by Lookout, Story by BenLegend443

Ms. Barbara Jean Blank, formerly known as Kelly Kelly of the WWE, will be serving as referee for this match.

Tonight, total domination is the game - both physically and psychologically. This is the match that will crown the inaugural AHW champion.

Lucy arrives in a blue bikini, and Harumi in a black one. The championship bout sparkles beneath the bright lights, new and undonned. Tonight will see it worn.

Action is high from the start, with both girls charging hard at the other as soon as the bell rings, a standard opening to a wrestling match. Harumi wins the charge, forcing Pinder to the ropes. She pounds Lucy in the stomach with her knee, forcing her down and pushing Lucy into the corner. However, the younger woman reverses the move, and instead pulls Harumi down, slamming her head into the turnbuckle. Harumi crumples. While Harumi lies slumped in the corner, Lucy runs to the opposite corner and back, slamming her booty into a dazed Harumi. Then, she drags Harumi to the centre of the ring, then ascends the turnbuckle, before leaping for a diving crossbody.

Harumi manages to regain her senses and rolls out of the way as her opponent comes crashing down to earth, slamming into the hard mat. Both girls simply lie there for a good while, neither able to overcome the pain. Finally, each gets up at about the same time as the other, Harumi a little dizzy, Lucy clutching at the spot that hit the floor first. Lucy is the first to act, charging at Harumi and knocking her down with a Thesz Press, then repeatedly pummels her in the head. Harumi shoves her away. The two women scramble to their feet, then run at each other, each taken down by the other's clothesline simultaneously.

This happens once, twice, then in the third time Lucy catches Harumi as they charge at each other, slamming her to the mat with a reverse STO. As soon as they hit the mat, Lucy rushes to seize her for a pinfall. Although hurt from the STO, Harumi knows what's up, and does all she can to evade her opponent's attempts and tries to lock in her own move. They are eventually tangled in a heap of limbs, having achieved nothing but tying themselves together. A good ten seconds is spent on getting out.

Once untangled, the girls charge at each other once more, this time Lucy winning out, throwing her opponent into the corner. She rushes at the older woman with an elbow strike, but Harumi slides out of the way, letting Pinder run into the turnbuckle. She then grabs Pinder by the hair and drives her into the mat with a bulldog. To hurt the younger woman more, she picks her up then slams her down again with a sitout facebuster.

However, the tides turn as she bends down to pick up her opponent, for Pinder kicks Nemoto in the stomach, doubling her over. The younger woman spanks the bent-over arse of Harumi, angering her beyond description. She throws all of herself behind the clotheslines she attempts as Lucy runs the ropes, but Lucy ducks them all before locking in the headscissors and taking Harumi for a spin. It is a move out of Kelly Kelly’s arsenal, and the ref, the former Diva herself, looks on with approval.

It sends Harumi tumbling to the edge of the ring, where she's hit with a baseball slide that knocks her to the ringside. Lucy is fast to act, picking Harumi up by the bottoms like a bully would her victim, but she's not here for lunch money. She drags Harumi back through the ropes, and swiftly applies the Boston Crab. The move bends the older woman’s body into a “C” shape, stretching her muscles taut. Harumi screams at the top of her lungs from the pain, and attempts to get to the ropes for a rope break, but Lucy does not let her, shifting to the ring’s centre. It is a tug of war to determine who can last longer - will Harumi tap before she reaches the ropes? Inch by inch, Harumi gets closer…

She’s at the ropes before she taps! The ref signals for Pinder to let go, but she holds on for a good extra second before she obeys. Then, Lucy goes for a pin.

1… 2… Kickout at 2!

The younger woman’s clearly frustrated as she sets Harumi up in the corner, striking her a few times to make sure she stays put. Then, she climbs the turnbuckle herself before wrapping her arms around Harumi’s torso as if she were going to do a suplex. And she does, sending themselves going up in a perfect arc then crashing down in a spectacular superplex, the first of its kind in AHW. Most of the arena stands up in surprise. Nemoto’s body bounces once, twice, before settling in the ring’s opposite corner, clearly out cold, but Lucy’s not faring much better. She had underestimated how much damage she’d do to herself with the move, and the pain shows on her face as she struggles to get to the prone Nemoto. After twenty seconds or so, she’s close enough to drape an arm over Harumi’s chest, who’s awake by now but still has eyes clouded by pain. The ref counts one, two…

Harumi rolls to the side just before three out of sheer desperation. The crowd goes wild at Harumi’s tenacity while Lucy strikes the ground in anger. The belt was nearly hers.

She moves to pick Harumi up for another devastating move, but her opponent rolls her up for a 1 count. They get up and charge at each other, then Harumi kicks Pinder in the stomach before picking her up and twirling her around into a backbreaker submission hold. It’s Lucy’s turn to scream and struggle, much to Harumi’s delight, but it doesn’t last for long, for a backbreaker is much easier to escape than a Boston Crab. She’s not done with her, though, and takes her opponent for a ride with a belly-to-belly suplex. Pinfall for a two count.

Both women are hurt and tired as Harumi whips Lucy into the corner, Pinder sliding onto her bum. Harumi takes this opportunity to shove her supple arse into Lucy’s face and rub it in with a few twerks - the classic stinkface, a timeless humiliation. The crowd laughs at a struggling Lucy, and her opponent basks in the laughter, beckoning for more. The superplex earlier has clearly taken a toll on her, though, for Lucy manages to reverse an attempted neckbreaker and puts Harumi into a headlock.

Harumi twists around in the hold trying to get free, but her opponent holds on tightly, continuing to cut off her air. She’s almost out as she slams a few weak punches into Pinder’s belly. Finally, Lucy relents before Harumi passes out, the punches having loosened her grip. She’s not to be deterred, for she seizes Harumi by the hair and throws her to the mat.

A scissors kick is attempted as Harumi gets up, but she dodges the blow, Pinder's leg whistling mere inches past her nose. She then tries to run the ropes for a drop kick, but Harumi sidesteps the kick and executes a quick leg drop bulldog on her opponent who has fallen to the mat. It connects, and Lucy is barely conscious as Harumi sets her up for the finishing move.

Harumi grabs Lucy by the arms and lifts her up high, displaying her to all the crowd, signalling her opponent’s imminent demise. She drops her in a classic Glam Slam. From there it's a simple one two three.

Winner: Harumi Nemoto via pinfall at 18:42!

Post-Match: Harumi doesn’t waste any time with the defeated Lucy. She takes the belt from the ref, and holds it up high in triumph. Finally a champion at 40, Harumi weeps tears of joy, possibly the oldest champion counting by age at winning the belt, barring Seniors.