It’s the latter. An absolutely epic performance by Rage, with a display of flexibility, power and aggression, all of which are trademarks of a Rage fight!

Despite Luke coming in ready, and showing that he is not the guy who got ragdolled by Axa in a similar setting, he has no answer to Rage’s powerful leg traps and her fighting spirit. This is a rough match, with some intense moments, but Rage is able to achieve a truly spectacular victory, scoring 6 points over Luke’s 0. She’s even able to sweep and get on top of Luke without using her arms several times, and apply a real facesit smother submission at one point during the match.

Unexpectedly, after the match is over, Rage turns what was supposed to be a simple victory pose into a full on humiliation finish, with facesitting, foot worship, trampling and choking. When asked why in the post-match interview she replies that she had to show him “his place,” since he was arrogant after his win over Sasha, claiming “we’ll see” about the result of this fight.

During the post-match interviews, seeing Luke’s disappointment, Rage consoles him by lifting him in a cradle position and swaying him, which only adds to Luke’s visible humiliation.

We then ask the two wrestlers to wrestle a couple of rounds without the handicap, which they graciously agree to do, and you can finally see, once again, the real difference on the mats between Rage and Luke, as Rage quickly manhandles and submits her male opponent twice, pushing his face into the mats at the end.

Match outline: introductory interviews, staredown, the match itself (20 minutes), unplanned humiliation finish with long victory posing (4 minutes), concluding interviews, 2 more rounds of wrestling without the handicap.

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