This is an old match from way back when I did. It was a fight between the undefeated OPW champion (Glory) and the undefeated number one ranked female fighter in the world (Allison). I've been exchanging e-mails with some of you and a couple of pms and I mentioned Allison, but when the board crashed, most of her fights were lost, so here's one. Happy Holidays... more solo stories coming soon
Glory vs. Allison Payne: Post Fight Press Conference
Both women are seated on opposite sides of the long series of tables with a podium in the middle. The 6’2” 170 lb Rosario Dawson looking Glory is dressed in a white pinstriped business suit and with her long black hair down. Her left eye is swollen and has a cut above it, splitting her eyebrow. The 5’8 150 lb redheaded hazel eyed Halle Berry lookalike Allison Payne is dressed in a red tank top and black jeans and is wearing sunglasses to hide her two black eyes. Her nose is busted and she has icepacks on both of her hands.
Q: Okay everyone, we’re ready to begin. First question will go to Glory. What was it like coming in to this fight.
Glory- (laughing) Well, it was a lot more hectic than a usual OPW show. Everyone made this seem like it was for something a lot more important than the OPW World Title or her MMA, Cagefighting and boxing titles. This was for the so-called title of world’s best fighter. But for me, it was about respect. She said--
Allison- I have a name. You can stop calling me ‘she.’
Glory- You are a ‘she,‘ aren’t you? Anyway, she said a lot of mean things about me and I said a lot of mean things about her and I knew and I’m sure she knew that this was going to be a fight.
Allison- I was coming in the kill her and she was coming to kill me.
Glory- It wasn’t hard to get motivated to fight somebody like her. After the way she treated Nikky and after the way she acted towards me after that fight, I knew I had to take a piece of her.
Allison- There were some almost fights between us at the press conferences and when we had to do the photo shoot. Glory was just being a b.itch and if she was gonna act like a b.itch, then I was going to be one right back. No matter what happened or what happens, you can’t intimidate me. I have been through waaay too much in my life for you to try to intimidate me.
Glory- Thank you, Allison.
Q: So tell us about the fight.
Allison- I was watching Glory come to the ring while I was in the back. I don’t usually do that, but I had to see this for myself. She came out with her usual music, her usual hair doo in that Mohawk, but her outfit was different.
Glory- I don’t always wear one pieces, sometimes, I like to change it up. I had on a silver one piece but I had an oval opening in the middle; people say I don’t show my abs enough, and I’ve got a great set of abs so why not show them? I had on my thigh highs, and I had on my black gloves.
Allison- She did the usual Glory entrance thing. I’ve been to enough OPW shows and I’ve been a fan of the company and all the wrestlers since I was a child, so I know all about wrestlers’ entrances. She got in the ring and climbed the corner and raised her fist. Everybody was chanting her name, as usual.
Glory- I got some boos; I got lots of boos. This is your home town; so I expected to be booed. I do have a question for you, Alley. You know all about entrances and you’re a fan of all the wrestlers? Are you a fan of mine?
Allison- Kiss my ass, Glory. Anyway, I got my mind ready to come to the ring. You know, one thing that Cutter tells me when we’re training is to not work myself up so much that I’m burned out before the fight. Glory said she was gonna destroy me and kill me and hurt me and do all these things to me--
Glory- And you said the same things about me… it’s called promoting the fight. All that stuff I said about you was in promotion of the fight, and you know it. When we were all at the charity event earlier this week, you and I were only five feet apart, but I didn’t come up to you and tell you anything. We were going to fight and that was known; so I wasn’t being a b.itch to you every time I saw you. Glory is a businesswoman and Glory doesn’t have to--
Allison- There she goes again with her god complex.
Glory- You talk about god complexes? I get in the ring and wait for Allison, but she doesn’t come out for another ten minutes. We said we were going to do this straight-up without any stupid mind games and she had me in the ring waiting. But she finally came out to her Tupac entrance with the usual black and red hooded robe and the usual head down in pure pessimistic, fatalistic, whatever you want to call it attitude she has before a fight.
Allison- Look who’s talking. I get into the ring and there’s a human wall of security and police separating us.
Glory- It’s something I’d never seen before and I didn’t think it was necessary.
Allison- Then you obviously didn’t see Mike Tyson vs. Lennox Lewis.
Glory- I could beat both of them.
Allison- At this point, I’m not looking at her. At this point, I’m looking down and that’s what I usually do before fights. I don’t want to have mercy on my opponents, so I don’t look them in the eyes until right before.
Glory- They’re building a cage around the ring and closing in the top. There’s only going to be one other person in the ring for this, and that’s the referee. He was Silas Sumpter, former kickboxing champion, former wrestler, and a really big guy.
Allison- Security was still between us when he gave us our instructions. Glory was looking at me with what everybody calls her ‘sinister’ grin. I call it her ‘sh.it-eating’ grin. I guess they had the cage inside the ring because she and I are from two different sports, so they tried to mix it up. They knew I wasn’t into all that stuff running out of the ring and using chairs and slamming people into steps like she was.
Glory- Can I help it if I’m brutal? I guess I can, but I wouldn’t have much of a reputation if I wasn’t, would I? Security filed out of the ring and we were in opposite corners. The crowd was just flat out electric; I really had a hard time not taking one more look at all the people who were cheering and stomping. But I knew that it was time for me to go to work. The bell rang and I charged right at her.
Allison- She was hitting me with punches, but I had my arms up because she was mainly going after my face.
Glory- I was really on her. The objective was to smother her with punches and get my hands on her and end it. Like she said, she did have her arms up, but I don’t mind punching her in her arms because they are her primary weapons and that’s exactly what I did. I caught her with an uppercut and her head snapped up, then I hit her with a right hand to her ribs and she had her back on the cage. I held her arms with my left and pounded her with my right.
Allison- I knew Glory was fast, but she was really fast the way she came out. The punches she was hitting me with hurt, but when you’re fighting, you don’t really feel them until afterward. But that wasn’t what was going on with this fight. My adrenaline was high and every time she hit me, it still hurt.
Glory- I started kneeing her in the stomach and she was really weakening. I mean, I had her groaning and moaning every time I kneed her. She would come out of her guard and throw a right hand at me and I would duck it or she would try a left to my liver, but I got my right arm in the way. And when her hands came down, I hit her in the face and I could hear her groaning. I knew she was getting frustrated and it was only making me want more. I figured I was bigger and stronger and I could impose my will on her. She is a puncher and some people would say that it was unwise for me to punch with a puncher, but I knew what I was doing.
Allison- She got her arms around me and she pulled me off the cage. I had a feeling she might try for the Rock bottom on me, so I tried to lock up her right leg with mine, but she was too strong. She picked me up and slammed me on my back and she got on top of me. She started punching me in the face, and her fists were like basketballs coming down on me.
Glory- (giggling) Allison’s a tough girl; I won’t take anything away from her because she took some shots that could’ve taken the head off a rhinoceros. I was really trying to hurt her, but I was also trying to get her to tap out before I did permanent damage to her. She got her legs around my body; I was in a dominant position, but she got me in a body scissors. It really hurt, but I was in the zone and I just kept fighting. One thing about Glory is that she has energy for days; if I’ve got you in trouble and you get me in a submission, I’ll sacrifice that drain on my stamina if it means that you’ll still come out worse when I break the submission.
Allison- The idea behind using a body scissors on her wasn’t just to drain her energy; it was to trap her in one spot. See, people don’t know this about me, but I’m a trained submissions fighter and a very good one at that. I know how to fight off the ground; everybody knows me for right hands and knock outs, but I really know how to submit someone. So, Glory was in a tough spot, whether she knew it or not.
Glory- I knew if I wanted to, I could pull her and slam her down again. I was in the dominant position, so I decided to stay there and keep punching her. I brought my left arm down to try to pry the body scissors off of me, and I managed to get it between her right leg and my body.
Allison- Which is exactly what I wanted her to do. The only reason why she got her arm there is because I loosened my grip on her to allow her to put her arm there. When she did that, I brought my legs up around her neck and shoulder for the triangle hold, but my intention wasn’t to get her in it. Once I grabbed her arm, I punched her in the face, right under her left eye. It hurt her and she shuddered to her right, so I brought my legs around and slammed her on her back while keeping her arm in my hands. I had her down and in an armbar. That was what I wanted and if she had kept punching me, I wouldn’t have been able to get it on. I would’ve had to do something else, but she made it easy for me.
Glory- I don’t know if I want to believe that she planned the armbar. I was on my back and she was pulling my arm, but it wasn’t a problem. One thing I want to say to anyone who plans on being in any wrestling organization, learn to counter an armbar and really, study as much about submissions and submission reversals as you can. OPW is full of girls who use armbars; I have been in enough matches to know my way out of one. With my strength, I turned in her direction and her legs bent, taking most of the pressure off my arm. Then I decided to try and pin her in her own move, so I just rolled her on her shoulders and pinned her, but she got out at 2.
Allison- She had me down on my shoulders and now she got her hand around my throat because I had to release the armbar to kick out of the pin. It wasn’t a good position to be in. She pulled me up and I had a chance to kick her in the crotch, but I don’t do stuff like that, so I got choke slammed, but I got out of it at the count of 2. So far, she had out punched me, and she had outwrestled me. I remember thinking that I can’t fight in my home town, New Orleans, Louisiana, and just let her dominate like this.
Glory- I was in control of the match and once I get in control, there’s no turning back. She was down, so I came down to mount her and give her some more shots, but she rolled back on her feet and we went toe-to-toe again. My objective was the same as before. Back her up against the cage, and pound the hell out of her.
Allison- Before she caught me off guard with her speed, this time I got my arms up early, but she kicked me in the stomach. I’m not gonna lie; it hurt. I couldn’t breath, so it was easy for her to DDT me.
Glory- I didn’t expect her to double over the way she did, but she did, so I dropped her. But the girl kicked out at 2 again. To her credit, Allison performed well to say she had never been in a match that had pinfalls. I pulled her back on her feet, but she nailed me with an uppercut under my chin.
Allison- When I hit her, her whole body shook and she made a noise. I was still trying to breath, but I knew I had caught a rest when she took a step back. I knew it wasn’t going to last very long either, so I cracked her in her left eye and hit her in her solar plexus just to make sure.
Glory- Both punches hurt me, and she heard me grunt, but I smiled and nodded at her when she hit me. I was still going to come forward because I figured she was the in worse condition. I backed her up and started drilling her with body punches; I was really hitting her ribs. I don’t know why I spent so much time punching her; I think it was because she wasn’t giving me many opportunities to use wrestling maneuvers on her. I got a knee into her side and she yelped and looked at me. I had her near a corner.
Allison- That knee really hurt and it pissed me off. My back was about three feet from the corner and Glory was moving in, but I stood straight up and right when she moved forward, I caught her right between the eyes with a right hand. I dropped her like a bad habit.
Glory- I don’t remember what the impact felt like. I just remember being on my back and wondering how I got there. She was on top of me and I felt her before I saw her.
Allison- I drove both my knees down on her stomach and I went full throttle on her face with right hands. Her left eye was cut with the first one that landed, and when I see blood, I don’t stop.
Glory- I’ve bled in just above every major match I’ve been in, so the blood wasn’t a problem. She was hitting me, but I was laughing at how angry she was looking. She didn’t understand that taking pain is a part of what I do to be victorious. I moved my head a little and she missed a right hand, then I took her head and slammed it into the mat. I mounted her from behind and put a body scissors on her, but instead of using a choke on her neck, I went with a double eye gouge.
Allison- My right hand had bent funny when it hit the mat after missing Glory’s face. It was feeling kind numb, so I thought it might be broken, but she had me. I didn’t know Glory could use a body scissor, but she’s had it used against her so many times, I guess it was worth a try. I couldn’t see and my own blood was burning in my eyes, but I knew I hadn’t moved from where I was. So I stood up and cupped my hands under her and helped her stay on my back.
Glory- I’m taller than Allison by six inches, but she’s only twenty pounds lighter that I am. It still surprised me that she was able to carry me with a body scissor around her like that and my fingers in her eyes. I started slamming my fists into her eyes from behind, but she blindly ran right at the side of the cage. My left eye was bleeding bad, but blood motivates me.
Allison- I was smart enough to know that I was coming near the cage wall, so I bent forward fast and the idea was to throw Glory off of me and on the mat near the cage wall. That way, when I open my eyes, I could mount her and have the cage for extra leverage.
Glory- (chuckling) Instead, this girl gets too close and when she sends me off, I go face first into the cage. I’m laughing at it now because I’m surprised that she didn’t intend to do it that way. I was stunned and really out of it, and she stepped in and drove a left to my stomach. I doubled over and when I grabbed her, she hit me with another shot to my stomach and a left hook to my jaw and I went down again. But I got right back up and pushed her back against the cage. It was on; it was really on now. She had gotten me with some really good shots and I was feeling them and I know she was feeling what I put on her. It was time for me to take her out.
Allison- I could look at her and I saw that she was woozy; I was woozy too and she hit me square in the nose and then suplexed me. She started stomping on me, but when she tried to step over me for a modified arm wrench, I pushed her off of me. I got up and I tried to pull her into a kimora submission, but she got her hands under my neck and crotch and picked me up.
Glory- I had her high above my head for a gorilla press. I pressed her up and down a few times for effect like I usually do, and then I threw her head first into the cage like a spear. I don’t ever want to permanently injure any of my opponents; I wasn’t trying to hurt Allison too bad that she couldn’t compete another day, but I had to win. I noticed that she was only trying to hit me with her left and I knew something was wrong with her right hand. Allison can be over reliant on her right hand and I figured I had her. I clotheslined her, I pulled her up and I reached across her for the Rock Bottom.
Allison- She had me in her finisher. I hit her with some lefts to the side of her head, but she shook them off.
Glory- The momentum was with me. She caught me with three left hands and I figured no problem; I still had her and I was going to drop her. But then… bang. I couldn’t breath and I felt so bad and so nauseous. I doubled over and I went down. I was in a fetal ball and I felt like I was dying. I felt her on top of me and I heard the referee’s voice and felt the mat smacking 1,2,3.
Allison- She had me and I knew I had one punch to throw or else it may have been over for me. My right hand was numb but my wrist was hurting badly, but I threw it as hard as I could right in her stomach. I heard her make this really funny sounding high pinched sound and then I heard her gurgling. Her whole body wobbled and she folded over and went down. She was looking at me as she was falling and her mouth was open and she looked like she was in shock, then right before she hit the mat, she smirked at me and rolled her eyes. I beat Glory.
Glory- I got caught… it happens.
Allison- I could’ve milked it and let her stay down and take a ten count, but I decided to go ahead and pin her. She said all that stuff about what she was going to do to me and I did exactly what I said I would do to her. I beat her, and I did it with a body shot. She has a big bruise right where I hit her.
Glory- (sad) I do. I have one right around my bellybutton. I lost tonight and I can live with that. But all I did was lose a fight, the people of New Orleans have lost so much more, and it was just an honor to be a part of such an event.
