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You may remember that last update Sabrina was in rough shape with Jennifer looking to put Ultragirl away. Instinctively, Sabrina was able to stop herself from getting KO’d by Jennifer’s finishing move and on top of that, regain the advantage.
I know for a fact that a lot of you have been waiting for Sabrina to turn it around, and hopefully she didn’t disappoint. The crowd’s back in it and Sabrina is pressing her advantage. On top of that, Sabrina didn’t pause to cheer, pout or showboat. Sabrina MUST be ill! Or maybe, she’s learning? Slowly, painfully, but yeah, maybe starting to put it together.
Judging from that last panel, the question has gotta be, who is this move going to be worse for more: Sabrina or the Hell’s Belles?
And in case you missed it, New Voting Incentive!  One half of the Catgirls, Snow kitten!
Attaway! Sabrina’s back in town! I don’t know what this’ll leave for our lady in the shadows or even Sun to do, but I guess they’ll manage.
Panel 1: “Ultragirl” Sabrina Mancini grabs the ropes, and looks like she kinda used her head to hit Jennifer Needles chest. coz of the wavelike in front of Jennifer Needles..
Panel 2: I like Jennifer Needles here..
Panel 6: who is this move going to be worse for more? I really have to say all.. obviously”Ultragirl” Sabrina Mancini will hit both Katherine Smith and Jennifer Needles, the problem is the landing.. “Ultragirl” Sabrina Mancini might hitting on the ground with an injured elbow.
M.G.C. cheers [Background Music Ninja rap] :GO GO GO GO! GO NEEDLES! GO NEEDLES GO! GO NEEDLES! GO NEEDLES GO! GO NEEDLES! GO NEEDLES GO! GO GO GO GO GO! NEEDLES! NEEDLES ROCK! NEEDLES! NEEDLES ROCK! NEEDLES! NEEDLES ROCK! GO GO GO GO GO..GO NEEDLES! GO NEEDLES GO! GO NEEDLES! GO NEEDLES GO! GO NEEDLES! GO NEEDLES GO!
M.G.C cheers on: LET’S GO NEEDLES! LET’S GO! LET’S GO NEEDLES! LET’S GO! LET’S GO NEEDLES! LET’S GO! LET’S GO NEEDLES! LET’S GO! LET’S GO NEEDLES! LET’S GO!! LET’S GO NEEDLES! LET’S GO!
M.G.C. battlecry: (Roar)! JENNIFER……NEEDLES…….ALL….FALL….TO…..THE…..HELL’S……BELLES….. (Roar) RAAAR
Huh ? How the hell can Sabrina suddenly grab the rope ? Nevertheless, Sabrina at least managed to avoid the Nose Job and gain her momentum back.
Anyway, Wrestlemania 25 is this week. Will there be anything special to commemorate it here in rivalangels.com ? Perhaps a cameo of WWE superstar or diva in the crowd or something like that, or maybe a whole page a tribute to WWE diva or Wrestlemania.
Well, not the counter I expected, but the fast dropkick was right out of the luchador playbook again. Sabrina loves those sorts of moves I’ve noticed.
Got to say I agree with MGC for a change too. I love the dazed and confused Jennifer in panel 2 also. She’s so clueless, it’s priceless. Even better is Kat and the whole ‘it’s okay baby’ bit. Just how good a friends are they? I’m just sayin’… 😉
Anyway… you can see how safe they are. And this could be the break Sabrina needs. Roll Jenifer in, jump to the top rope. Ultrasplash. Watch the Marquis run for ringside, but not make it. Ninja save of the post match beating. After all, she didn’t want help -during- the match. No shame in coming down after.
I’ve noticed that those two are very… close… indeed. XD And this is classic weaselly heel tactics — when your upper hand evaporates and the face rallies, get out of dodge. I’m also glad that the story of the match wasn’t ended abruptly. When I mentioned Chekov’s gun regarding the previous strip, what I mean is this: several strips went out of their way to point out that Chloe is armed and waiting in an ambush for the Upstarts. Therefore, it’s safe to say that this is an important plot point for this arc. So — somehow her being where she is with her ‘toys’ needs to become an issue. Either she needs to intercept an Upstart doing a run-in, or she’ll need to realize she’s not doing anything useful and dash back towards the ring (ideally just a bit too late to interfere in the match).
I don’t actually expect that to be the end of it unless Sabrina bails out of the ring in a hurry. The Belles are nothing if not petulant when things don’t go their way, and I can definitely see a post-match beatdown attempt coming. THEN I can see Sun and possibly Krystin doing the save. The condition of coming out was for during the match after all… after the match is fair game. Pretty much what Salazen said, in other words.
Juuuuust a little speculation here.
So my idea of Sabrina grabbing the ropes to counter was a stretch, huh? :p
Hmm, the 5th panel made me wonder something. Ya know how cheap heel tag team heat has always been to have them hug and act “gay”? Well, in RA that would make them lesbians. To the average wrestling fan (and Eric Bischoff…) would that make them like SUPER FACES?
Death to the Hell Bellies! Um… yeah – great counter there. Hope Sabrina survives the landing. If she wins the match but screws up her injured elbow, she’s just setting herself up for a world of hurt in her next match…
Albone: great match so far – you sure know how to keep us on the edge of our seats!
SongMaker says nice art, specially the panel 2.
DreamMaker says yes yes! great counter though.
Spaceman says the commentator name ghosteraser, is being unconsiderate in here. a character killer! and that’s not nice to say in the comment here. being bias, unconsiderate, that’s not nice at all very unthoughtful of him.
SongMaker says I agree Spaceman! I agree one n his comment, Sabrina survive.. yes Sabrina survive, but adding hope is making doubt in her.
DreamMaker says da! sabrina always survives. she is pretty lady.
Spaceman says sou! sou!
SongMaker says it ain’t so bad
DreamMaker gonna make you mad
Spaceman says everybody look down
it’s all in your mind!Â
Hey Darkmark, glad to see you excited about the turn of events. There’s still time and opportunity for our favorite De Sade and Ninja. 😉
MGC, I think you’re right, this maneuver is going to take them all out. Who gets up first? I’m thinking it could be Kat, but with all eyes on the pileup, she won’t be able to inflict any sneaky damage. Or will she?
PS2kid, it was the only counter I could think of for the Nose Job, I think I saw Eddie escape Syxx’s attempt by doing that. WrestleMania 25 is going to be huge, and all of its discussions will be handled over at the forum. I do love me some Gail Kim though. 😉
Salazen, a couple of updates ago I had to hold my tongue because you mentioned something about Sabrina going airborne on Kat. XD As to how good of friends Jen and Kat are, check out this page. It’s not much but it might help steer you in the right direction. I know Sabrina would like your plan, rolling Jen in and Ultrasplashing her, so we’ll see if heeds that good advice.
Hey Adon, yeah still some more story left in this fight. I think we’ll get a bit more ‘perspective’ on it come next update. 😉 Your Checkov’s gun is very well noted, if you get my meaning. Excellent speculation too, we’ll get to see how it all turns out.
What can I say, Adam? You were right on the money, so I thought you might like the comment in hindsight. 😀
Ah bd, that’s hilarious! Midnight Express immediately come to mind for this. 😛 Lesbians are cool, but definitely not a default face does it make, at least not in the Belles instance. They’re very bad girls. *reads what I just wrote* Okay, I can see how that could make them faces, but their actions say otherwise.
Good point, GhostEraser, if Sabrina wrecks her elbow in a win, she’s setting herself up for future headache. But if I know our little Ultragirl, she’s thinking that she’s got to throw caution to the wind if there’s going to be a next match. It wouldn’t be much either, but she’d take a loss better knowing she pulled out all of the stops. Thanks for the kind words, man!
Thanks SDS!
You know… I took the talk on that page as teasing the first time through but looking back there are a few things I missed… like the fact that with all that space, Jennifer and Kat are real close… and the arm around Kat. Iiiinteresting. I approve! I mean… uh… well done. 😀
The move that was banned from WWE, outside the ring, nice. I think it hits and leaves all three of them sprawled out. Could see it going to countout, but that would be anticlimactic. I say Sabrina gets the pin but takes a post-match beatdown.
I’m a bit torn on the moves that have been mostly banned from WWE. Piledrivers.  The SSP. There ARE exceptions (Undertaker being the biggest example), and I understand the reasoning: these moves are dangerous if not done properly. That said… people should I think get the chance to learn to do them right. At least in one sense the piledriver’s regained some of it’s mystique — few moves aside from the DDT have undergone such degradation from match-enders to transition moves.
Piledriver is still banned in WWE. Otherwise, Jerry Lawler could use it if he stepped in the ring for a match. But now he’s just using Diving Fist Drop as his finisher. Tombstone Piledriver however is not banned, as we can still see Undertaker (and ocassionaly Kane) use it often to finish all of his opponent.
450 Splash & Shooting Star Press is banned because last time those moves were used by Paul London & Juventud Guerrera, they ended up injuring their opponent. Evan Bourne however managed to convince the management that he will be able to execute the move perfectly (and beautifully) each time, thus the management give him the green light to use that move.
Another example of banned moves in WWE: Vertebreaker (used by Hurricane Helms before) and Crippler Crossface (used by “he-who-must-not-be-mentioned-in-WWE”, although lately HHH & HBK used the move as normal submission not finisher)
Wow, a great match so far. Awesome work on the artwork + wrestling credibility once again albone 🙂 Have to say, I disagree with all the comments about Kat Smith and Jen Needles. Heel tag teams always do this kind of thing, it riles up the crowd, and sets them up for air attacks on both at once. As we’ve seen from the SSP 😀
My prediction for the rest: The Rookie Posse (Except for “Aphrodite” of course) comes out to check on Ultragirl, and Chloe comes out to stop them. While Kat and Chloe are both preoccupied, quick counter in the ring, single power move, and ULTRASPLASH! 😀 Can’t wait for Friday.
That’s kind of what I was getting at regarding the SOME exceptions, PS2kid. The exceptions to the piledriver ban list in WWE is very small. It does seem strange they won’t let Lawler use his, as if anyone knows how to do one without hurting his opponent, it’s an old hand like him. But he’s not a full-time wrestler, so I suppose they don’t really feel the need to make the exception.
I’m not arguing at all for wide-open rerelease of these moves… they are indeed dangerous if performed incorrectly, or are TAKEN incorrectly (remember that it takes two to do a move, one giving it, one taking it, and I can imagine the one taking it needs to know how to minimize the damage to himself before going into it). But I do think that if someone is demonstrably proficient with the move, like ‘Taker with the tombstone, they should be allowed. Still, I can see why they are leery of opening Pandora’s Box even a crack there.
Lots of cool discussion on banned moves. I remember when Papi Cholo and Taka Mitchanoku were allowed to do some crazy stunts, but long are those days. TNA and the indy feds still get away with doing quite a bit. I remember this insane move that Elix Skipper did. Crazy.
Salazen, like I said it wasn’t much….’teasing’ as you put it, but with some intent behind it.
Ken, I hope you’ll find to your liking that there are not that many moves banned in Rival Angels. 🙂 Countout? There’s always that danger, but I think Sabrina learned her lesson about that from her match with Susy Love. 😉
Hey Shredster, glad you’re digging the match! Thanks for the kind words too. Cool prediction, let’s see if it comes to pass! And yeah, the heel tag teams that console each other are a great bit in wrestling. 🙂