LadySports ::: GOING TO EXTREMES ...

A good rule of thumb for any champion is, Always Expect the Unexpected!

When Nikki Roxx inked the contract to wrestle at Columbia Clash, it was with the understanding that she would be putting her PGWA belt on the line against Passion. However, 24 hours before the event, Passion had to bow out due to a family emergency.

PGWA officials and Commissioner Penny Banner didn't have to debate very long on a replacement they just had to accelerate their plans. Josie had so impressed the PGWA, it was agreed that she would make a worthwhile opponent for Nikki someday soon. Well, that day came sooner than expected, and she was penciled in to fill the vacancy caused by Passion's departure.

But Fate, as it often does, had other plans....

Josie was already scheduled to wrestle Mickie Knuckles in Nashville, some 50 miles away, that same evening. If all went according to plan, she would have enough time to make it to Columbia for the semi-main event. But naturally, the plan changed; an alteration in the line-up among the roster of men working on the CWA half of the card meant fewer matchesand a shorter running time for the show. Now it looked very possible that Josie could not make it down in time for her match with Nikki.

Faced with having to fine yet another challenger for the Champ, the solution seemed obvious, at least to Nikki. Also on the show that night was MsChif, who was set to battle her longtime nemesis, Mickie Knuckles. As Mickie was, like Josie, also now running late, MsChif also needed an opponent. "We can wrestle each other", Nikki said to the black and green haired grappler.

"No!", came the unsympathetic reply.

The locker room went silent. Had MsChif just turned down a shot at the PGWA title? Yes and no. It turns out she wasn't interested in fighting Roxx unless it was on her own terms.

No holds barred, falls count anywhere, Mschif sternly demanded. You won't be able to DQ yourself out of losing to me.

Nikki ignored the obvious insult and readily agreed. She had seen MsChif in action before (although theyd never faced one another), and she was impressed with her and her hardcore style which mixed skillful technical moves with all-out brawling. But Roxx was no stranger to hardcore herself, thanks to her frequent tours of Mexico. She had fought LuFisto, after all, so how much more challenging could MsChif be, she no doubt asked herself.

She was about to find out.

What followed over the course of the next twenty minutes or so (it had to feel like a full hour to the two combatants!) was less a wrestling match than it was an all-out war between the women! The first few minutes see the wrestlers trading some basic moves, testing one another. But once that was out of the way, both began taking advantage of the fact that they couldn't be disqualified, starting with both Nikki and MsChif taking the fight out o f the ring and on to the floor.

MsChif then decided to give the fans their moneys worth, and she took the action right to them by throwing Roxx into a row of chairs, scattering the crowd. The challenger then put one of those steel chairs to good use by wrapping Nikki up in it to apply a specialized Sharpshooter!

The Champ escapes, and both women begin slamming one another into chairs, the cement floor, and the walls all though the arenapunctuating it all with liberal doses of chops, stomps, and a little choking. Nikki even grabs a couple of soda cans and crushes them against MsChif's skull! MsChif returns the favor shortly thereafter by grabbing the PGWA title belt and slamming it's metal plate first into Nikki's noggin!

There are few chairs left standing when the two brawlers finally make their way back into the ring. MsChif is on full throttle, hitting the blond with everything she has and, it seems to many, on her way to winning the match and winning the belt.

But what makes a champion isnt how she performs when shes winningits what she can draw upon and use when it looks as if defeat is looming. Calling upon the last of her strength, Nikki suddenly locks up MsChif in what is now dubbed, simply, The Finish: A reverse hammerlock, a half-bearhug hoist into the air, and then a return trip downwardflush into the blondes outstretched knee! The sudden devastating impact stuns MsChif badly, and she is ripe for the three count.

It was, in many ways, as important a championship victory for Roxx as when she first beat Pippa LVinn for the belt, or when Nikki defied the odds and successfully defended it against Christie Ricci. It was a supreme moment of glory for the PGWA Championat least until MsChif snatched it away from her.

Without warning, MsChif charged at Roxx and spat a mysterious green mist into the Champs eyes. With an agonized howl, Nikki hit the floor, her face covered in green, her hands desperately rubbing at her eyes. An hour later in her suite, her face and hair were still discolored, but her vision was slowly returning. The following day, despite numerous scrubbings, her skin and hair were still tinged green, and her vision remained a bit blurry.

Nikki had her win, and her belt, but at a cost paid and a lesson learned. The good news is that Roxx is too clever to fall for the same tricks twice, and next time shell be better prepared for this particular challenger.

MsChif, meantime, had no W in the record book, but she could claim an important victory nonetheless. She had taken the Champ to the limit, and she had gotten the final laugh on Roxx. Next time, MsChif is certain, she'll walk away with the gold as well.

And when that next time comes, the PGWAs most important task will be to make certain it happens in an arena that can withstand the explosion to come!

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