Julia Knight vs Starlight

Alright that sucked, still her tactic helped a little as Tabitha backed up and was unable to actually target her body anymore, which she would be lying if she wasn't thankful for but she knew that there was no way Tabitha was just going to let her just get away from this corner and because of that her eyes were focused on her opponent as she did so just waiting for her to make her big move.

This finally came as she saw Tabitha moving in for a kick that looked like it was going for her face. Acting fast Julia did the only thing she really could have done in that situation. Putting up her hands she tried to block the kick as best she could and move in so she could go for a jab afterwards.

Starlight put everything she could into the leg kick. Ideally it would have connected cleanly and Julia would be out. No questions asked, it would have been a clear and decisive knockout. Starlight had underestimated her opponent a little it would seem as Julia had some fight left in her still. Maybe Starlight was too slow to launch the kick, but Julia was able to deflect it with her arms. Now that Starlight was off balance, Julia would be able to land a jab that sent Starlight stumbling.

Mostly only from losing her balance, Starlight had moved away from Julia. With the round about halfway done there was still time to mount an offensive. With Julia looking like she was moving forward, Starlight needed to make sure that she was not the one on the receiving end for the rest of the round.

That got her off balance, just like she was hoping for and now she had a little bit more room to breathe thankfully as she moved around, not pinned to the ropes by the more experienced kick boxer. Though her firs instinct was to run in and start swinging, Part of her remembered that that was likely the thing she was expecting from her, it would make sense and she could counter that fast enough.

Instead she moved closer and feinted a an uppercut to the belly when instead she would be going for a right hook to the face. If that worked it could stagger her enough for another good jab to the body to keep o the attack.

Starlight was expecting this novice to simply begin to try to capitalize on the advantage. Stumbling further away than she normally would want to at least gave Starlight the moment she needed to right herself and hopefully look to counter whatever wild attack Julia would attempt. Seeing the arm of her opponent dip down, Starlight knew an uppercut was coming and she would move her arms down to deal with it. Instead what Starlight got was a right hook that caught her completely by surprise.

Almost having been spun around by the attack, Starlight was now starting to stumble involuntarily as her legs were wobbly at this point. With her arms up to prevent another attack to the head, Starlight was all but stunned in place by a shot to her body. Wanting to simply fall down again, Starlight was crouched forward from the body blow and could not shift her weight properly to fall down. Instead, Starlight would try to move forward in an attempt to clinch Julia and tie up her arms for a moment.

Thankfully she had gotten the girl off guard with her punch, with results that were better then she could ask for. She stunned Tabitha and with the girl in front of her she was wide open for another lovely shot at her tummy. Julia figured continued focus on that spot would break Tabitha eventually and be much easier to hurt then anything else.

Though as she tried to continue this she was unable to get any further as Tabitha attempted to clinch to save herself. Holding on tight she tried to move her hands around so she could get lower and try to dig them into her sides a few times while trying to push her off.

Starlight could feel Julia trying to work her way lower in the clinch. For a strictly boxing move, it was a wise one. However this was kickboxing and Julia may have not realized this due to her inexperience. With such tight quarters, Starlight would attempt to take the direct route with a knee aimed in toward Julia's body.

Starlight could feel Julia starting to dig in with a few punches, but that meant her arms were almost certainly in no position to defend against the attempt toward delivering a knee. With there being little more than maybe 15-20 seconds left in the round now. This would hopefully be able to send a statement just in case Starlight was not able to follow through with delivering a clean knee strike.

Julia wanted to try and get the advantage once more by knocking Tabitha down a second time. It may have not been a match that was all about it but it still would have done something to mess with the girls head if she was downed twice in the first two rounds. A good way to break her confidence so to speak. Though once she got her hands down to strike she was met with some knees in retalitiation.

Though her punches were still connecting she was was forced to slow down as the knees caught her body as well. Making her cough and grunt as she was hit she knew she needed a knew plan. Trying to break the clinch she would break away and leave as she sent a knee of her own into her opponent to end the close contact.

Starlight could not get a clean shot in, but that really did not matter as it was more to spoil Julia's attempts at doing more damage than trying to go for a knockout blow. Were she afforded the time to have thought this through, Starlight would have tried to pull Julia's head down and hit with her knee directly into Julia's face. Since that was not what actually happened, this would end up in a stalemate of sorts with Julia backing out of the clinch.

Hearing the clap of the timer, Starlight knew there were only a few moments left in this round. To be honest, she was feeling it a bit and was perfectly content to just circle around and not engage Julia until the end of the round. Just keeping Julia at bay until the end of the round was going to be likely what Starlight would need to settle on for the time being. If she can get through this round at least, Starlight needed to evaluate her position and adjust accordingly. Hopefully Julia would not press the issue with only a few seconds left in the round.

Julia was smart to not let Tabitha have much time in control. it may have been kick boxing but she knew enough to know that like boxing momentum can shift on a dime if ones not careful and you may not be able to recover if you let it happen. So once she go there hits n and the clinch was broken she knew she was still in good shape. Yeah Tabitha got away but she felt in control and sometimes that's all that took.

As she move in for the final second she heard the time reaching its end and with Tabitha backing up he ultimately decided..it wasn't worth it. Last time she did so Tabitha either just dropped to the ground or played possum and she wasn't going to fall for the same trick twice. Instead she simply waved off her gloves and backed up to head to her corner, her eyes still on Tabitha but not expecting anything in the closing seconds.

With Julia backing away there was little that could have been accomplished in these last seconds of the round. As the bell sounded, Starlight would simply remark "Smart.." to her opponent in a veiled taunt and compliment as they had both seemed to agree to disengage for the closing seconds of the round.

Sitting in her corner now, Starlight would realize that she had taken far more damage than she had thought she did. Allowing the rush of adrenaline to subside a bit would allow the pain of all the blows she had sustained previously to start to creep its ugly head into her thoughts. Hopefully the pain would subside again once the third round would start, but by the looks of it Starlight could not keep going the way things were or it would likely result in her being defeated by this less experienced opponent. For the next round, if Starlight could try to chop down the tree a little by working over her opponent's body, it should be enough to set up a knockdown or even knockout blow.