Grudge Match: Ryan vs. Aaron RyanCarrWeber

In elementary school, one bullied the other. In middle school and the first few years of high school, they were the best of friends. By the beginning of their first fight in Teens Wrestling, they were bitter adversaries.

Ryan and Aaron had led pretty parallel lives. Both were born into upper-middle class families, were sent to Catholic school through eighth grade, and then to the same private boarding school for 9-12. Boys Wrestling had come into being during their seventh grade year, and both got involved, solidifying an acquaintanceship into a solid friendship. Both were athletic, albeit differently built. Ryan's game was strength, endurance, and skill. Aaron thrived on speed, strategy and technique. Both of these styles find synthesis in amateur wrestling, and both boys joined the community team in their eighth grade year, and continued it in ninth. They were inseperable.

Then, when they arrived at prep school for their sophomore year, they found that the program had been cut. Ryan chose football to focus on as a replacement and urged Aaron to follow. Aaron, however, chose to cut sports out of his schedule (save for regular weight training) and focus on more academic-leaning extracurriculars. They were roommates that year, so they still saw plenty of each other, but eventually ran out of things to talk about. Ryan had made friends with the team he was now very much a part of, while Aaron became somewhat of a bon vivant, getting involved with the Student Government and other such activities. They grew apart, though still remaining friends.

Aaron had always been more successful romantically than Ryan, and this caused no small amount of contempt from the larger teen. And when Ryan found that one of his few girlfriends had cheated on him with Aaron, their relationship became volatile. Aaron vacated the room. The next year, they avoided each other, except when Ryan had his teammates hassle Aaron. While home for Thanksgiving, they heard about TW.... and both knew they'd do it during the summer.... and that their first opponents would be each other. Aaron was only slightly daunted by the size difference, confident he could use his speed to overcome Ryan's power. The match was on.

The announcer called Ryan to the ring first: "First, in what has been dubbed a grudge match, we introduce the challenger - at seventeen years of age, weighing in at 258 pounds, Ryan!" Ryan, remembered by many from his BW days, got a warm welcome from the hot day's small crowd. He stood in his corner and stretched in preparation. He had never fought Aaron before - in BW, they were in different weight classes (and therefore unable to fight each other) - and he wondered what it would be like. All he knew for sure was that he had no intention of being merciful.

"And his opponent, another former Boy Wrestler, also seventeen and weighing 173 pounds, Aaron!" Aaron trotted down to the ring to an equally warm ovation, if a bit more enthusiastic on the part of the female members of the audience. Aaron stepped through the ropes to be assaulted immediately by his heavyweight opponent with a forearm accross the back. The announcer got quickly from the ring as the bell rang and Ryan threw his former friend into the ropes, clotheslining him to the mat. Aaron got up quickly to be pulled into a side-headlock by Ryan, who cranked on the hold hard.

After a few moments' struggle, Aaron managed to push Ryan into the ropes. Ducking an attempted clothesline, Aaron met Ryan's second rebound with a technically perfect dropkick which put the football player on his back. Aaron followed with an elbow to the lower back which connected just as Ryan got to his hands and knees and which put him right down on his front. Another connected and then Ryan rolled over. Aaron went to stomp his adversary, but found himself pulled down to the mat by his ankle. Ryan wasted no time in getting himself up and ready, when Aaron rose, to ram him into the corner.

The smaller teen was crushed under his former friend's weight, and Ryan had no trouble following up by hip-tossing Aaron out of the corner. A stomp to the gut further winded the teen and when Aaron got up, Ryan was waiting with a kick to the mid-section and a double-axe handle accross the back which put Aaron right back down on his hands and knees in front of the big footballer.

Aaron didn't know what he had gotten himself into, and he wanted out but it was too late as Ryan stood over the middleweight and butt-stomped his lower back several times till he was laid out on the mat. Ryan was enjoying his success, almost wishing Jenni were there to see who was really the better man. He pulled Aaron to his feet and backed him into a corner. Aaron shot a fist to Ryan's gut, but the big teen just ignored it and reciprocated with a knee to Aaron's, which doubled him over. Another hard knee lifted Aaron off the mat briefly, as his washboard abs were pummeled with the blow.

Suplexed to the center of the ring, Aaron arched up from the pain in his back only to have a fist plunge into his belly. Ryan was surprised, somewhat, at how easy this was and took his time as he bounced off the ropes and dropped an elbow to the weakening gut. Aaron doubled over, rolling onto his side only to receive a stomp to his head. Ryan grabbed a handful of hair and yanked Aaron up. Ryan tucked Aaron's head between his massive legs and was surprised when the smaller teen pulled off a back-body drop, landing the heavyweight squarely on his back.

Aaron, however, hurt his back in the process and lay on the mat holding it. The ref started a double count. At three, Ryan got to one knee and by five, he was up, bearing down slowly on Aaron. When Ryan was within range, Aaron put all he could into a punch to the big guy's gut. Ryan felt the blow and faltered, but not so much so that Aaron's attempted double-leg takedown was successful. Ryan stood there a moment and then slammed both of his forearms accross Aaron's back. Aaron started getting right back up, and Ryan smashed him down again. Once more, Aaron came back for more, and this time Ryan let him get to his knees before kicking the middleweight's gut.

The crowd was riveted as Aaron simply ignored the stomp to his gut, a wild look suddenly overtaken his face. He got to one knee and Ryan pounded a fist to his head. Two knees, and the heavyweight kneed him in the chest, hard. Ryan didn't give Aaron the chance to get to one foot, as he threw the middleweight in the ropes. Aaron ducked a clothesline and returned with one of his own, nearly felling the big guy. A second had the heavy teen on his back and the crowd was going nuts as Aaron was on fire. Ryan got up to be dropkicked right back down and Aaron continued the offensive with three stomps and an axe-handle.

Aaron guided Ryan to his feet and pushed him into the ropes. A chop accross the chest for the return trip was heard around the TW arena. Aaron tripped the heavyweight to the mat and tied him into a cross-face, pulling Ryan's head painfully towards his feet. The football player resisted the stretching as best he could but was very relieved when Aaron let up. Ryan got to his feet only to fall under a moonsault from the top turnbuckle which landed Aaron sitting accross Ryan's face, pressing down on his chest for a pin.

The ref got to two and Ryan rolled out of the weak cover. A legdrop kept Ryan down and dazed, and when he stood Aaron easily locked him into a tight armbar. The high schooler winced from the painful armbar and quickly dragged Aaron over to the ropes, where the ref forced a break. As soon as Ryan was off the ropes, Aaron dropkicked him, sending the heavyweight between the top and middle ropes and to the floor. The crowd, which had started out disinterested , was now mostly on its feet. Aaron was, after all, giving up 70 pounds and still dominating.

Ryan took a moment to regroup outside the ring before rolling back in. Aaron stomped the big teen, but Ryan got to his feet anyway. Aaron still felt on fire and went for a clothesline. This pushed Ryan into a corner and the middleweight went to follow up with an acrobatic kick maneuver. Ryan, however, saw it coming and moved, leaving Aaron's chest to smack into the top turnbuckle. Ryan followed quickly, compressing the smaller teen into the corner. Ryan turned around, so that his back was to Aaron's, and rammed himself into the teen several more times.

When Ryan moved, Aaron turned around, very much holding onto the ropes for support. He was still in it, though, and when Ryan approached, he got a kick to the head which sent him reeling back. Aaron approached with a side-headlock and Ryan used it to push his opponent into the ropes. Ryan bent over for a back-body drop only to get kicked in the chest and backed into the ropes. The heavyweight ducked a clothesline and came back with one of his own, resulting in a double clothesline that laid out both teens. Again, the ref began to count both out.Ryan was up very soon, though, while Aaron was groggy on the mat. The heavyweight pulled Aaron to his feet and backed him into a corner. A huge Irish whip put Aaron into the opposite corner, and the 258-pounder followed with a full-body block. Aaron was done for. Ryan picked Aaron up from behind and gut-busted him in the center of the ring. Several stomps were followed by a huge standing leg-drop accross the face. Ryan hooked a leg for a cover which Aaron found strength somewhere to kick out of, and the heavyweight got up to do more damage - he'd wanted to hur the teen, anyway.

Ryan hoisted Aaron up and turned him upside-down (tombstone piledriver position); he jumped, and, slammed down onto Aaron full-weight. Sitting back onto the boy's chest, Ryan plowed a fist to the gut before getting up to avoid a pin. Aaron rolled on the mat, in obvious pain, and Ryan reveled in it. He pulled his former friend to his feet and once more tucked Aaron's head between his massive thighs. A piledriver followed, leaving Aaron practically unconscious.When Ryan moved, though, Aaron was still trying to get up, searching for stamina somewhere. Ryan punted Aaron several feet accross the ring with a huge kick to the side and followed with three stomps to the same location. With the last, he muttered, "this is for Jenni."

Aaron got once more to his hands and knees before Ryan sat, ever so gingerly, on his back. Aaron strained to stay up, but Ryan gradually added weight until his full weight drove the middleweight back down to the mat. Ryan sat for a moment, wondering whether to go for submission or pinfall, and decided on the former given that his weight alone could guarantee a pin. So he picked Aaron up for a few more power moves. First, he powerslammed the smaller teen in the center of the mat, his full weight smashing again onto Aaron's torso. He rolled Aaron onto his stomach, and dropped a few elbows to the lower back. Finally, Ryan bounced off the ropes and vertical splashed full-weight onto the teen's lower back, causing a grunt of pain from Aaron.

Ryan sat there, Aaron beaten and pinned under him, and smiled as he pulled back on one of Aaron's legs, stretching the smaller teen in a painful single-leg crab in which Aaron had little choice but to submit. Ryan felt vindicated. He extended a hand to help Aaron to his feet. Not out of respect or friendship, but sportsmanship. And when Aaron swatted the hand away, this mood quickly changed and Ryan splashed down upon the teen once more before leaving the ring to enjoy his victory. Ryan gets girl. Aaron steals girl. Ryan kicks Aaron's ass. Ryan liked this scenario.