AZUMI vs. Katori Kimura

Her arms tightly locked around Katori's waist, Azumi stomped her feet into the mat as she snapped backwards to jerk Katori with her and plow her neck and shoulders first into the mat! Azumi's hands would release, letting Katori crumple on the mat as it was too early to attempt a pin or to try and go for more german suplexes. The stamina needed for that and the possible chance of Katori reversing on her was too great to considered a continuous string of them. She wasn't a beast or anything of the sort.

However, now that she had Katori winded Azumi would look to press her advantage as she rolled up on to her feet. Moving towards Katori's legs, she would try to grab both of them and tuck them underneath her armpits and kept her arms as tight as they could go around them. Where she would try to lift and turn Katori over into a boston crab!

Katori is not having a good time as the tide is back in Azumi's favor, having been slammed in a German Suplex she laid folded over shortly before being released. She needed to get back into the game soon if she was to stand a chance again Azumi. Having fell onto her side, Katori rolled onto her front and tried to quickly push herself up this time. But once again, Azumi wasn't having that.

"O-oh come on!" She shouted as her legs were seized and locked under Azumi's arms, preventing Katori from getting back up and already telling her what's possibly coming. The angel tried to lean to the side and pull her legs free as her opponent tries to turn her over, but the grip on her legs was tight and was unable to break free as Azumi turns and sits on Katori's back and puts her in a Boston Crab submission! "A-aaaahhhh..!" She lets out as she moans and grunts in pain before clenching her teeth.

Managing to hook both of Katori's legs, turning her over was simple afterwards as she sat on her back and began to wrench backwards to fold Katori into a painful bend. Keeping the ankles of Katori locked against her armpits as her legs were spread out on the mat, planting the bottom of her feet to keep her solidified right on top of her opponent. Looking to increase the pressure on Katori's back and increase the stability of her grip, Azumi would pull her hands closer to each other as she attempted to hook her fingers together.

If that was successful, she would let out a smile before bending back to increase the power of the Boston Crab! "How is it Katori? Is this something you'd tap out too?" she let out, looking over the shoulder to see how her opponent was fairing.

Having already been put into a submission hold early in the match, Katori's back hurt under the pressure of being bent and sat on from the Boston Crab. As she was mostly healthy she was able to endure it, but it would be in her best interest to break free as soon as she could. Katori was about to make a move when Azumi, after bracing herself and locking her fingers together, pulled back more on the angel's legs, causing her to make a short but louder pained grunt.

She was then asked by Azumi how the hold felt, and if she would tap to it. It almost felt insulting to be asked that this early. "N-not on your life...!" Katori lets out as she clenches a fist before pushing her hands down on the mat to lift herself up. "And e-especially... not THIS early...!" She'll finish as Katori uses all her strength to crawl towards to ropes, continuing to endure the pain as she does so.

Azumi smiled having locked in the crab, it was a simple move but extremely effective with the proper leverage as Azumi was sitting right on the small of Katori's back. Feeling her opponent beginning to fight against the hold, feeling her pushing and dragging them towards the ropes, Azumi would grunt out as she attempted to focus on pulling the legs back. Keeping her balance was a difficult thing to do with how Katori was pulling, accidentally letting up on the hold as she had to lean forward in order prevent herself from falling over.

"I like the spirit on you! However!"

But she wasn't going to let Katori escape so easily as she attempted put an end to her dragging. They were much closer to the ropes, but it meant all the more to Azumi to jerk backwards and attempt to sit down higher up on Katori's back, trying to stretch her out even further for a high angled boston crab!

Katori had gave herself some leverage while trapped in Azumi's painful Boston Crab, managing to lighten the pain for her and slightly topple her opponent's balance and lock on her as she crawled towards the ropes. Admittedly, this trick the angel was using was one that Sakura Hagiwara came up with to make it easier to escape from this submission, and there was nothing wrong with using the same tactic as someone else after all.

Thanks to her effort the Mighty Successor was so close to the ropes and was just a few reaches away from freedom. It seemed that Katori would be free sooner then she'd thought, but. "Wha-?!" She felt her legs get pulled up higher, further raising her pelvis from the mat as Azumi sat back down on her again close to her neck to further intensify the Boston Crab and the pain on Katori!

"Aaaaaahhhhh...!!" Katori shouted in pain as she stopped her crawling from the sudden adjustment to the hold and increase in pressure. Her back was really starting to burn and she really needed to get out of this submission now. Clenching her teeth tightly, Katori mustered all that she had to resume her crawling to pull off that final push to freedom! "Come ooooOOON..!"

If she managed to reach the ropes uninterrupted, Katori will quickly throw her hand towards it to grab them with a tight grip, refusing to let go or yield. "Rope!!!" She'll shout while taking deep breaths with the ref-girl telling Azumi to release her.

Azumi was placing a lot of pressure and torque on Katori's back with the elevated boston crab, hearing Katori cry out in pain as she was sitting right near the shoulder blades as she had stopped the crawling. Not only did she cranked up the pressure of her hold but the new position would make it almost impossible for Katori to continue crawling unless she had a burst of energy to help spring her out of this dangerous hold.

Smiling to herself, this left Azumi in a good position as even if Katori wasn't going to tap to the hold the damage alone was going to force Katori to exert even more stamina just to move let alone fight back. But that didn't mean that Azumi wasn't going to just let Katori off without a fight as she held onto the legs to keep her as folded as can be.

With a mighty jerk of Katori's twisted body, she lunged for the ropes that forced Azumi to lose her balance as she fell back on to her butt, releasing the legs as the ref called for a rope break. There was no need to dwell on the fact that Katori escaped and instead chose to keep the attack going as she quickly got back to her feet and would grab on to Katori's foot, attempting to jerk her off of the ropes and back into the center of the ring!

Even after grabbing onto the ropes, Katori still had her teeth clenched and held in her pained grunts and moans as Azumi still held onto the Boston Crab on her even if her burst made her go a bit off balance which in turn released some pressure from the angel. It wasn't until the ref-girl declared the rope break that Katori finally let out a sigh of relief having broken free from the submission hold she was trapped in.

This was not looking good for the angel, if she doesn't start a comeback soon she might be put into more unfavorable situations that'll make it so winning would not be possible. She can't have that, if Katori wants any shot at winning she needs to act soon, and fast.

With her hand still gripping the ropes Katori took that chance to take a quick breather and let the intense burning pain in her back settle down. Unfortunately her opponent had other ideas. As the angel laid there, Katori yelped as Azumi grabbed one of her legs and dragged her from the ropes to the center of the ring. Her heart raced as she was pulled, she couldn't let Azumi continue whatever she was gonna do or she would be in deep trouble!

Thinking quickly, Katori will twist her body to roll onto her back, hoping it will weaken Azumi's grip on her foot. Whether it does or not, it won't matter as Katori's main idea was to raise her other leg up and to kick at her opponent repeatedly with that leg until she broke free from Azumi's hold! "Let. Go..!!"

Grabbing the ankle, Azumi pulled Katori roughly to yank her off of the rope, dragging her back towards the middle of the ring. Azumi was not willing to let up on her opponent, she was in control of this match and looked to keep it that way as she attempted to tangle her leg with Katori's and drop into an STF!

However, Katori was not an inexperienced fighter who froze up while under pressure. Katori knew the trouble she was in as she rolled onto her back and with her free leg started kicking Azumi in her face. It would take a few hits, one hit, two hits, three hits of that boot crashing into Azumi's face and chest before Azumi finally decided to release Katori's leg, stumbling backwards as she was covering her jaw from the last blow.

Azumi recovered halfway through her stumbling and turned it into a controlled backpedal, it was a small thing but it gave Azumi more control of her situation as she bounced back into the ropes. Using the spring she rebounded towards Katori, looking to deliver a boot to try and keep her on the defensive!

Having broken free from a painful as hell Boston Crab torture, Katori was not gonna let her opponent try again as she rolled over and kicked at her repeatedly to get her to let go. It took a few hits to the face, but Azumi soon finally lets go of the angel. Immediately after breaking free Katori desperately crawls away from her to get some distance and catch her breath, she needs this if she is gonna try and counter attack against Azumi.

Having rested enough the young blunette pushes herself to her feet, and looks up just in time to see Azumi charging at her! Katori's eyes widen in surprise but she didn't let that phase her here, as she was not gonna let this woman put her through that again. Once Azumi got close and threw her foot at Katori, she'll dodge to the side and attempt to catch her leg.

If successful, the angel will twist and roll her body, clenching her teeth as she did from the pain in her back, to try and throw Azumi off her feet to bring her down. From there with her hands still gripping the leg, Katori will try to roll Azumi onto her front and stomp hard on her back before dropping her knee onto it as well, keeping it buried there then wrapping her opponents leg around her neck to put Azumi in a Stretch Muffler hold as payback.