Panther Risako vs Suzumi Ishikawa

Risako felt Suzumi twist underneath her, and rolled off of the other girl, breathing hard as she spun up to her knees to face her opponent. Meeting Suzumi's gaze, Risako's expression seemed to harden. Those in the audience who had seen Risako's brawl against Chris Morgan recognized that face, and knew at this point that the Queen of Queens was not going to be holding back.

Springing to her feet, Risako suddenly lunged at Chris, faking a knee strike. At the last minute, however, Risako spun, aiming to unleash a blinding series of chops to Suzumi's face and chest that were specifically aimed at leaving her opponent breathless and stunned-- easy meet for the Panther's follow up.

Suzumi prepared herself to face Panther Risako, however as Suzumi blocked the knee strike she found out all too harshly that it was a simple feint. The speed, power and ferocity of the chops caught her totally off guard! "Wh- arghhh! Ahhhh!" Suzumi shouted as the blows rained down on her, staggering her! Suzumi got her hands up and blocked quite a few blows but the constant force behind them made her stagger back even more!

Suzumi fell to a knee, gasping for breath and on the defensive. She was in shock of the sudden, speedy offensive and in horrible position to withstand further attack from Risako whether it be chops or something else!

Risako's blows were fast and furious, raining down on the stunned Suzumi and forcing her onto the defensive. The Queen of Queens didn't relent, didn't give Suzumi a chance to pause and defend herself: she just kept attacking, and before long an out of breath Suzumi had collapsed to one knee, breathing hard.

Closing in for the kill, Risako moved to ram a knee into Suzumi's chest. If that doubled the girl over, then she would spin with almost balletic precision to Suzumi's side, kick a leg up so that it was almost level with her face, and bring the heel slamming down hard on top of Suzumi's skull!

Suzumi felt the knee, which further stunned her... but that was nothing compared to what was in store for her seconds later! The kick came crashing down on the back of Suzumi's head and she let out a fast, high pitched cry of pain as her body flopped down to the mat in a heap like dead weight! Suzumi's vision was dazed, and she grabbed the back of her head while moaning in sheer agony.

The Tsunami stayed on her stomach, lightly kicking the mat here and there as the only signs of life she showed. "Ungh.. come on Suzumi... you are better than this..." She mumbled to herself, slapping the mat in frustration, but still essentially laying still. In her foggy daze, she could see that Panther was wrestling with intensity and ferocity.... but not with her usual sense of ring smarts.

Suzumi vowed to take advantage of that.... provided that Risako didn't do something to end her while she was still down and out!

The crowd was getting rowdier now, but more than winced asas Risako's heel slammed down hard on Suzumi's skull, leaving the girl dazed on her front. Before, Risako had seemed clumsy and confused in the ring, as though she had only been half fighting. Now, however, it was as though a flip had switched and Risako had gone to the other extreme. Not only was the Queen of Queens fighting better, but she was now being more brutal than she needed to in what had started off as such a friendly match.

Risako, however, wasn't going to give Suzumi a moment's rest. In an instant, she dropped down, ramming her knee into Suzumi's prone back. Pressing her knee down, she would reach over to grab at one of Suzumi booted feet and pull back on her leg, stretching it across her shoulders, while her free hand cupped at Suzumi's chin. If she managed this, then she would pull in two directions in modified boston crab, threatening to snap Suzumi in two like a wishbone, her expression dark and serious.

"W-wha....AHHHH!" Suzumi shouted as she found herself very quickly in a nasty submission! Her body felt like it was being bent in ways it wasn't supposed to bend! To say pain wracked her was putting it mildly, as her screams of pain could attest to. She flailed her arms about and tried to squirm as much as she could but this hold was locked in good!

She felt shame, a submission wrestler like her helplessly trapped inside a hold she hadn't seen before. Suzumi had to save face and get out of this, no matter how much she wanted to tap to end the suffering. She reached up and grabbed at Panther's hands and dug into the trying to claw, rip or pry them off of her all while twisting. If she could get her chin free it would be that much easier to try to worm her torso to the side and kick away at Risako to try to get her to let go of her leg..... Suzumi had been in the hold so long that pain was shooting through her body, and she knew she couldn't hold out much longer. Even though the match was fairly fresh, Suzumi was in a "now or never' spot.

Risako clenched her teeth as she leaned back, giving her submission expert foe a valuable lesson as she curved her slender body into a C-shape. She heard Suzumi screaming underneath her as she was twisted painfully, but Risako held on, waiting for Suzumi to say the magic words. The fact that she was tormenting someone whom she considered a friend was lost on her: her only thought was on winning, by any means necessary.

As Suzumi twisted underneath her, she thrashed her head forcefully enough to free her chin. A second later, a leg crashed into Risako's side, causing her to wince in pain. "UNGH...why you little..." Risako responded by standing up, relaxing her grip on Suzumi's leg...before swinging it downwards, aiming to slam Suzumi's knee against the mat!

Suzumi was free of the hold, but her knee bouncing off the mat did put a dent on her escape plan a bit! She let out a yelp as she rolled to the side, trying to get up while favoring the leg that didn't get its knee slammed off the canvass. She shook her leg a bit to ease the pain of the knee slam as she got up, keeping her eyes on Risako.

"Risako baby, you are going to have to totally do better than that if you think I am gonna tap to you!" Suzumi called out defiantly as she moved in towards Risako. Suzumi had done a few feints before so she felt that now was the time for direct action. She went straight for Risako, looking to hammer her abdomen with a hard knee strike. If she could connect on that it would be a big enough opening for Suzumi to jump up to try to hit Risako with a hurricanrana!

Risako had hoped that having her knee slammed against the mat would slow Suzumi down, to leave her grounded on the mat long enough for her to transition to another hold. Instead, however, Suzumi was already getting to her feet, a defiant look in her eyes. She felt her eye twitch a little as Suzumi taunted her, her fist tightening somewhat. Normally, she would let the comment slide, but today she felt more conscious than ever that the audience was watching. More importantly, that Chris was watching.

You haven't broken me, Chris. I'm going to show you that today.

As Suzumi lunged, Risako reacted quickly, spinning to the side as Suzumi lunged with a knee strike. If she moved quickly enough, then she would catch Suzumi's outstretched leg in one hand, keeping it elevated off the mat, before driving her elbow hard into her outstretched knee. She would then instantly follow up with a hard chop to Suzumi's chest to floor her!

Suzumi had everything planned out perfectly in her mind... unfortunately reality was proving to be quite different! She had her leg grabbed and was mercilessly chopped down to the mat before she could even register what was going on! "ugh... damn it!" Suzumi cursed as she kicked the mat, grabbing onto her chest.

Suzumi laid on the mat stunned for a few moments before slowly began to make her way to her feet, the pain of the sudden hard chop still fresh. She rubbed the impact area, wincing at Risako as she did her best to keep eyes on her foe. The confident look was gone however. Suzumi knew she was the underdog in this fight, with Risako proving why she had that nickname Queen of Queens.