Mikoto Kusanagi vs. Suzumi Ishikawa: Friendly Foes!

Suzumi was like dead weight as Mikoto quickly positioned herself and nailed Suzumi with a thunderous suplex! Suzumi kicked the mat as she grabbed at hwr back! A loud scream again escaped Suzumi's lips as she was clearly in a lot of pain!

There was no remark. No comeback. Suzumi couldn't deny that Mikoto was effortlessly making her look like an inexperienced ragdoll who had no place inside the ring. Suzumi screamed out again, less because of the suplex and more because of that realization!

Chuang leaned in his seat with interest as his expression, in an instant his girlfriend had managed to turn the situation around. Mikoto's graceful moves served to pop the crowd well, but Chuang was guaranteed to do so. Still Suzumi served to make things difficult, from his near front row seat Chuang saw the body language and nuances. Suzu was struggling with all she had, which truth be told would probably be how Chuang would be also. Back home you never tucked your tail between your legs.

One of the things that Chuang liked about Miko was that judo background of hers, she could throw you with precision and have you on your back just like that. It was a far cry from the Chinese warrior's approach to combat, but Mikoto just did it so well it was inspiring. With a nice O-Goshi hip throw on Suzu, Chuang clapped his hands and said "Woohoo!" his eyes looked on Miko's hair. Shining elegantly in the ring lights.

But Miko wasn't done there, Chuang couldn't hear the words exchanged. But his girlfriend set Suzumi up for an exploder suplex, Mikoto's time in the ring was greater than Chuang's. It showed with the finesse of how it was executed. The crowd cheered loudly and the man of Beijing shouted with "Awesome Mikoto! That's the way!" and he counted himself a lucky man he wasn't on the taking end of those moves.

The howling screams of her former friend gave Miko reason to hesitate, the priestess now back to her feet as she concernedly examined Suzu's writhing form as she stood over her. Being thrown around like a judo test dummy by her former pupil was no doubt just as damaging to Suzu's ego as it was to her bruised lower back. Miko lowered her head to hide her eyes under her bangs of hair and clenched her fists, but ultimately refrained from showing the same caring sympathy that got her into this mess. Instead she lifted her foot and firmly stomped down on Suzu's lower back right above her bubbly backside, the priestess keeping her foot there until she glanced into the ring to notice the referee's echoing count out.

4!!...5!!...

"...*sigh*...I know if I told you to just stay down, you wouldn't listen to me. You never did...but...maybe you would be better off returning to your movie career, Suzu. For your own sake..." Miko somberly stated while looking down at Suzu, then using her foothold to step off of Suzu as she approached the ring and rolled under the bottom rope. The priestess standing back up and turning back towards her downtrodden friend outside as the ref continued to count...

6!!...

Suzumi screamed out as Mikoto's foot came crashing down, digging in on her lower back. "Argh! Yeah... go back to doing something I didn't love like this... just go back to a hollow existence. Easy for you to tell me to do that isn't it?!" Suzumi hissed as the count continued!

Suzumi struggled to get up to her feet and as the referee called out eight she grabbed onto the apron and sluggishly climbed up on top, rolling underneath the ropes. She was still gasping for breath but not as badly as before. She glared at Mikoto as she worked her way up to her feet. She moved forward, reaching out in an exhausted attempt to grapple!

Stretching her arms and catching her breath as the referee counted on, Mikoto would patiently bide her time while examining her former friend's haggard state. Suzu was breathing erratically with a sluggish hitch to her step, but despite her setbacks she was still barreling forth and hoping to power on through by attempting another grapple with Mikoto.

Mikoto shook her head from Suzu's brash stubbornness when she should be calmly rethinking her strategy. Perhaps taking as much time as possible on the outskirts of the ring to catch her breath, though by now she had come to expect nothing less from her obstinate opponent.

Standing firm and strong with her arms extended in the face of the charging Tsunami, Miko would attempt a swift boot to Suzu's midsection just to stop her in place and hunch her over. The perfect position for Miko to apply a constricting headlock while entwining her legs around Suzu's waist. The priestess applying a locked in front facelock to add to Suzu's breathing woes...

"Oomph!" Suzumi grunted as she nearly dropped to a knee, bending over as Mikoto landed a fast, hard kick to her abdomen! To make matters worse, Suzumi was again being choked out!

"Ack! S-stop... choking me!" Suzumi growled, barely able to breathe yet again! She had Mikoto latched onto her and it was not going to be easy to get her to let go! Suzumi was practically down on one knee again and knew if she didn't get out of this fast she was going to be in a very bad spot! She let out a scream as she tried to raise herself back up, aiming Mikoto's back at a turnbuckle and ramming her into it as hard as she could!

"Then...just...stay...down!!" Miko groaned out while reasserting her vice-like grip on Suzu's trachea, exerting intense pressure on the front facelock while leaning back to hopefully further coax Suzu into letting gravity take over. Her lean legs clamping down tightly on Suzu's waist in what Miko felt was her best opportunity to finally subdue Suzu's boundless energy and bring her down to the mat. Whittling away at her endurance had taken some time and patience, but it seemed like her efforts were finally going to pay off when Suzu seemed to be on the verge of dropping to one knee...

"H-Hey!!...Hugh!!" Until Miko gasped out in wide-eyed shock when she felt herself elevated upward, her lengthy hair flowing in the breeze from being bullrushed into the nearest turnbuckle!!The full-powered spear plowing straight into her stomach and knocking the wind clear out of her sails. The priestess now winded and dazed as her arms dangled over the top ropes, slumping limply between the corner turnbuckle and the curvy frame of a thoroughly irate Tsunami.

Suzumi was not operating according to a gameplan, but on instinct now. She was gasping for breath again, but knew Mikoto would recover more quickly than her. to that end, Suzumi pressed her attack as well as she could in her worn out, short of breath state! She began ramming her knee's into Mikoto's abdomen over and over to take the fight out of her and prevent her from putting away Suzumi for good!

"I'm not done yet Mikoto! I know you want me out of the ring but nothing is going to take me away from doing the only thing I've ever loved doing!" Suzumi shouted in a bit of a rage, but moreso in a sense of self affirmation!

Mikoto own fleeting hopes of blissfully knocking out her former friend without causing her any more harm were seemingly on the horizon before they summarily dashed in one charging tackle that still had the corner turnbuckle shaking from the impact. Mikoto's own gameplan taking a turn for the worse as she slumped against the turnbuckle with her head tilted low, wincing from the aching pain in her midsection before Suzu would only made matters worse.

"HGGH!!..OOPH!!" Mikoto grimaced with every knee plowing straight into her bruising abdomen, each blow making her continuously lurch forward with her curvy backside pressing against the middle turnbuckle pad. Her wincing face was twisted with agony as she doubled over and eventually slumped heavily against Suzu. Resting her weary head on Suzu's sweaty shoulder in something resembling a boxer's clinch.

Suzumi felt Mikoto slump against her and grabbed onto her, lifting her up and spinning, in an attempt to deliver a powerslam to her former friend! Suzumi stayed on top of Mikoto and hooked her leg for a pun attempt!

"One!"

Suzumi was motivated to win, as usual. However tonight she felt like proving herself to Mikoto, Chris Morgan, and the other women who urged her to retire was at the forefront of this match. In addition to those voices, there was the one voice Suzumi had to silence most of all: Her own nagging self-doubt.