SS 17 Tag team title - Imperial Order (c) vs. Sonic Boom (ladder match)

Alaina thought she had things under control as she pummeled Akiha however she felt a sudden, sharp, grating sting in her eyes as Akiha already was resorting to a cheap shot tonfrre herself!

Alaina howled in pain as she got off Akiha, rising to her feet as she stumbled around the ring blindly trying to rub the pain out of her hurting eyes!

As the crimson hair wrestler was taken to the ground and started to receive a brutal beating, she would take a brutal and cheap swipe at the Amazon face. A smirk would appear on Akiha face as Alaina cried out in pain and got off her. Though it was a dirty trick, it was perfectly legal in this kind of match, then again almost anything was legal in such a match.

She would then enter a sitting up position, taking a second to recover from the pounding she had received. Then she would get onto her feet. If Alaina didn't make a move, Akiha would then jump in the air, twisting her leg, attempting to perform a spinning heel kick, aimed right for her opponent head, trying to knock the Amazon down early.

Suffice it to say, Gwendolyn took immense satisfaction in graciously reminding Julia of the caliber of striker the heiress was, and how a lifetime's worth of grueling and nigh unbearable ballet training can do wonders for your leg muscles. The offending punt being delivered with enough sheer ferocity to briefly have the prone cowgirl lifted a few inches into the air before she began writhing madly on the canvas and shielding her battered abdomen. Resplendent memories of inflicting wanton agony upon the insufferable cowgirl all came flooding back to Gwen in one glorious moment, the heiress having found her smile once more at the thought of reliving those delightful memories as she casually strolled over to Julia.

Gwendolyn continuing to press her advantage by than digging her hand into Julia's flowing locks and applying a steely grip onto them, than viciously hauling Julia up to her knees to now have her be facing the audience with the heiress by her side. Another spiteful tug back on Julia's frizzy and unkempt curls ensuring that every clamoring Sonic Boom fan at ringside could see the anguished look on their hero's masked face.

"What's up, Cairo~..." Gwendolyn pompously proclaimed with her free arm waving grandiosely over the audience in an blatant mockery of Julia's earlier crowd pleasing gesture, though Gwen's version would be met with the polar opposite reaction of vehement booing and downward pointed thumbs. Her haughty smirk shining brightly before the heiress would than use her free hand to grasp the back of Julia's frilly tights to elevate her back up to her feet but at a hunched over angle. Gwendolyn than attempting a short sprint and a quick release to maliciously reacquaint Julia's masked head with the steel steps just ahead!!

It'd be a bit of an understatement to say things weren't looking good for Julia. Perhaps it had been accomplished thanks to a successful blindside attack, but the cowigirl couldn't remember the last time she'd been this winded and battered this early into a match. The ball was certainly in the champions' court at the moment, and naturally, Gwen was making the most of it.

Julia hissed as her hair was yanked. Her hands initially went to try to pry Gwen's off of her, only to move right back down over her ribs after the movement prompted another surge of pain in her aching midsection. Hurting and panting, she was unable to fight back while her foe brought her to her knees, taking a dominant stance next to her while mocking her in front of the crowd.

The wave of boos that followed was greatly appreciated, but did little to help the luchadora. And unfortunately things only continued to go downhill from there. Again Julia was pulled, this time all the way up, only to then be dragged along and flung right into the steel steps! "Agh!!" the masked blonde cried out as her head met the unforgiving steel, and her body collapsed to the matted floor in a daze once again.

Meanwhile, the situation for the amazon was going from bad to worse. Being blinded left her as an easy target for Akiha inside the ring. The kick hammered her in the head and Alaina dropped to the mat on a heap, hands covering her face and side of her head as she laid on her back kicking in disoriented pain!

Akiha was now stalking her opponent, waiting for the Amazon to get on her feet. She would watch like a predator about to go in for the skill. Once she saw Alaina get on her feet, the crimson hair wrestler would move in. Jumping in the air, she would twist her body and send her leg spinning forward. The heel of her leg would connect right into her foreign opponent head. The Japanese wrestler then watched as her opponent went down to the ground.

The crimson hair wrestler would then take a second to see how her partner was doing. She would see Gwendolyn send her opponent right into the steel steps. Seeing that her partner was just doing fine, Akiha would focus on her opponent once again.

Taking a few steps forward, she would try to deliver a few stomps onto her opponent back, trying to soften her up. “Come on, the match just started and the two of you are already getting decimated, what happened to the so called best tag team in the world that you claimed to be? I guess that was just more typical foreigners bravado.” stated Akiha in a mocking tone.

Never one to miss an opportunity to belittle and humiliate her unrefined foes, Gwen took supreme satisfaction from turning Julia's crowd pleasing words words against her. The constant schmaltzy pandering to these uncultured philistines being one of many subtle nuisances she could attribute to this lowly, pathetic, masked cowgirl she had just plowed headfirst into the mounted steel steps.

Gwendolyn casually sauntered up towards the site of the head-on collision with carefree glide to her steps, a pretentious smirk on her face as she surveyed the aftermath. "Care to reconsider my generous proposal now, dear Julia?...Though I doubt even my own sublime tutelage could have been much use to a case as pitiful as yourself~..." Gwen chimed in with a stiff kick to Julia's side to roll her over.

After nudging Julia over to have her be flat on her back and gazing upwards, Gwen continued her approach towards the nearby ring apron. She noticed Akiha was handling the impudent Amazon well enough. It was reassuring to know that her partner could handle matters on her own, and that the superior team was in the lead. She than hopped up to a seated position and yanked on the middle rope to have her now be standing tall over the languishing cowgirl. Her intentions becoming crystal clear as she than leaped up and tucked her legs in, attempting a double footed stomp onto Julia's aching midsection!!

"Ugh..." Julia groaned as she laid there on the floor, head throbbing in pain thanks to the vicious impact it had just taken against the unforgiving steel steps. The downed cowgirl was too dazed to hear Gwen coming toward her, and was only just able to make out the taunting words directed at her, though the stiff kick that blasted Julia in the side prevented her from offering any sort of retort.

"Guh! Fuck...!" she cried out as the blow rolled onto her side, before another nudge of Gwen's boot put her flat on her back. The match was barely a few minutes old, if even that, but the damage Julia's ribs had sustained was already intense and making breathing a far more difficult task than she'd like. Unfortunately for the luchadora, her hated rival was only going to make that matter even worse. She saw Gwen climbing onto the apron, but made the mistake of assuming the blonde heiress was about to return into the ring. It wasn't until her foe was already descending toward her that she knew what was coming, and by then it was simply too late.

"UGHHH!!!" Julia cried out in agony as Gwen's feet slammed down onto her wounded ribs, bringing all of the girl's weight behind the devastating impact. The crowd groaned at the sight, while Julia could only squirm and writhe about on the floor while clutching at her ribs, though her ability to do even that would be limited depending on how long Gwen's feet stayed planted on top of her.

Alaina laid there trying to get up as Akiha degraded her, stomping her back and sending her back to the mat! "Arrrghh!"

Alaina was tired of being a whipping girl. She had a score to settle with Akiha as well, and she wasn't about to take it lying down. Gritting her teeth and fighting through the pain she tried to get on all fours again, reaching out to grab Akiha's legs and pull them out from underneath her!

Akiha managed to get some stomps in, weakening her opponent who didn't seem to have much to say to here. A smile would appear on her face as she heard the yell come out of the so called Amazon. “Come on, got no snarky come back?” stated Akiha in a confident tone as the beginning of the match had gone so well. The crimson hair wrestler would move in for another stomp, wanting to humiliate her opponent, after all, she couldn't let Gwendolyn outshine her.

Yet just as she went for another stomp, Akiha legs would be grabbed and she would suddenly find herself falling as her opponent managed to grab them. “Gauh!” stated the Japanese wrestler as her back hit the ground as she closed her eyes for a second. At the moment she would be at the mercy of Alaina but the Crimson hair wrestler wasn't expecting any mercy, not after everything she had put her opponent through.