Showdown '19: White Gale (C) vs Akamatsu Siblings: Tension Tag Team Title Match

Both women were quick to change their positioning following the kickout, though Makie was a smidge faster than Dai was as she forced her foot into Daisuke's ribs from the side, stopping her attempt to stand back up. Sion wasn't sure what sounded worse, the sound the impact made, or the noise that came out of Dai's mouth. Either way this wasn't going well for them, even more so when Makie grabbed Dai's leg and put her a leg based hold that actually impressed him. The sounds of discomfort coming from his wife/tag partner quickly snapped him out of the thought.

On the other side of things, wild not flopping like a fish on a sugar high, Daisuke wasn't feeling great and it showed as she tried to cope with the pain Makie was dealing out while trying to somehow get out of her predicament. The only good thing about what was happening was while there was a chance of indirectly giving Makie an on/off spike of extra leverage, depending how Makie moved too, if at all, Daisuke's shoulders weren't still long enough to be considered in a pinning situation. Sion's natural thought in seeing her like this would be to get in there and break the two apart, but he fought the urge to do so, also looking over at Kyo momentarly.
Fortunately for her, during Dai's movement, Lina managed to get eye contact with Dai after a bit of time and tried to tell at her to settle and control her breathing, which was easier said then done. She still was still moving in reaction to the move and trying to get free, but her level of panic dropped enough to her Lina inform her she's close to the ropes and to grap them. While she wasn't as close as Lina made it seem to be, Daisuke could see them and attempted to shift her way closer to them as Lina encouraged her on.

Makie managed to lock her boots just below Daisuke's knee, forcing her leg to remain straight and unbent as she leaned back, pulling back on Dai's trapped boot and, for good measure, started twisting her foot in the wrong direction. Her "Giant Killer" was a fiendishly painful move, designed to take down larger opponents and hamstring them (though if Makie wasn't careful, there was a possibility she might literally do that).

Caught in such a painful move, Dai could only do what Makie expected her to do: try to drag them towards the ropes. Makie felt her butt being dragged along the mat, and responsed by arching her body to torque the hold, twisting Dai's foot a little further. It must have been agonizing for her, but Dai finally managed to get a foothold on the ropes.

Sighing, Makie stood up. She was still a little sore from her earlier treatment, and needed time to recuperate. Standing back up, Makie stomped down on Dai's leg to keep it sore, before grabbing her opponent by the arm to pull her to Kyo's corner.

Kyo, meanwhile, had been meeting Sion's gaze from across the ring, knowing that he would eventually have to face this man in the ring. His attention went back to Makie, however, as she pulled Dai towards their corner. Reaching out to let Makie slap his hand, Kyo would climb up to the top of the turnbuckle, while Makie dropped down to her butt, pressing both knees up against Sion's back and grabbing for her arms in an attempt to prop her up in surfboard hold.

If Makie managed to prop Dai up without incident, then Kyo would leap off the turnbuckle, aiming to spear Dai with a well timed drop kick.

A short clap was Lina's reaction to Daisuke making it to the ropes, but she was soon where she was not long ago with her hand on her hip and letting out a small sigh at Makie's follow up.

While it wasn't something she didn't like to see, there was no objections from her end when it came to Makie taking out, though even if there was she wouldn't have a say in the matter. She did however take issue with what happened following the tag, where Makie began to apply a surfboard, but stopped halfway and held Daisuke in the seated surfboard stretch position. "Hey get in there ref!" If it wasn't for the fact a tag was made, she wouldn't have been as vocal as she was. Sure earlier on her had some action go on then they tagged, but not to the same extent.

"Oh come on!" Lina exclaimed in frustration, for while the referee was in the process of getting on Makie's back about holding on with the move while she was no longer the legal man, she saw Kyo come off the top rope and dropkick Daisuke in the mid-section. If there was anything good about that exchange it would be that Kyo's aim wasn't a few inches higher, that would have really smart.

The elevated drop kick from Kyo hit home with incredible force, ploughing down into Dai and sending her crumpling into the mat. Wearily patting her brother on the shoulder, Makie slid through the ropes to let Kyo take over, ready to rest and recuperate after the rough first round she had had. This was the moment the match had, arguably, been boiling towards: given how the match between Kyo and Dai had ended, the two were no doubt itching for payback against one another.

If that were the case, then Kyo was already getting some of that payback. Knowing that he could not afford to hold back against an opponent of Dai's calibre or let her recover, Kyo grabbed a hold of Dai by the head and pulled her to her feet, before sliding an arm around her thigh and shoulder. Unless he was interrupted, then he would waste no time in lifting Dai head over shoulders in and effective scoop slam onto her back, before hooking one of her legs for a quick pin!

As Kyo advanced on Daisuke following the flying dropkick while being held in place, Lina was sure Kyo would have tried to pin Daisuke right there, given how big of a visual it was. She was a bit surprised to see Kyo not do that right away, though she tried to not have her face show it, but him bodyslam Daisuke before going for the pin. As far as Daisuke was concerned, Kyo didn’t give her any time to react after Makie let go and he followed up slamming her.

She did, however, throw her shoulder up at a count of two and a third.

To Kyo's complete lack of surprise, Daisuke got a shoulder up. If there was anything that Kyo had learned in their last match, it was that the Canadian was a tough competitor. Sooner or later, he knew, he would have to face Sion as well, and he.had already seen what he was capable of against Makie.

Still, if he could win against either of them-- and fairly-- then it would do a lot to absolve what had happened in their earliern match.

He shoved Daisuke onto her front, and moved to straddle her back, before grabbing at her leg-- the same one that Makie had stretched earlier with her legbar submission-- and tried locking in one of his own signature holds, bending her leg back across his shoulder in a stretch muffler!

Sion was ready to get in there, all Daisuke had to do was get to him. On the upside, Sion had the time to ponder what he might do now that's Kyo's in there, on the flip side Daisuke wasn't in the clear just yet.

Lina began to sweat upon seeing what Kyo did next, continuing to target the leg Makie did earlier on. She knew this was going to be a tough one, but for some reason at this exact moment it felt more so than she thought it would be. It also didn't help that, other than the referee and Kyo, she was closer than anyone else to both seeing and hearing Daisuke's discomfort.

Luckily for Daisuke, whether it was through no thought of Kyo's or her own arm movement in reaction to the pain being delt, this wasn't the variation of the move Kelly once taught her back when she first started training many years ago. Of course she was still feeling it, telling the referee know each time she was checked on if she wanted to give up, but she had both of her arms free. While continuing to not let this move break her, though by the sounds coming out of her mouth it sounded like she was just about close to wanting the match to end, she put her palms down and attempted to push herself up.

Trying to minimize the pressure as well as giving her some mobility, she continued to push herself up. Kyo was still holding onto the leg, but Daisuke felt that she could move the weight and body positioning of Kyo being less of a hindrance and began to crawl towards the ropes.

Lina encouraged to keep going, saying she was almost there the closer Daisuke got. When she got close enough she quickly shot her arms out towards the middle rope to grab hold of them, though if she missed she'd easily grab the bottom one on the way down.

Kyo was able to get his signature stretch muffler locked in without any difficulty, and before long, he had Daisuke right where he wanted her. Elevating her leg so that her lower leg was now stretched across his shoulders, he folded her leg into almost a total C-shape, testing his opponent's flexibility in a painful way. He was sure Daisuke remembered this brutal move from their last match, but this time, her leg was already sore from Makie's earlier legbar submission. Judging by the sounds Dai was making, it hurt. A lot.

But also just like last time, Dai was digging into her reserves of willpower and dragging the two of them towards the ropes. Kyo maintained the hold for as long as possible, punishing Dai's hurting leg even as the Canadian woman pulled them both to the ropes. Finally, at long last, Dai grabbed the bottom rope, forcing Kyo to release her.

Just like last time, Dai had managed to escape. This time, however, Kyo wasn't going to fall for Lina distracting him.

Taking a deep breath, Kyo stood up, grabbing Dai by the arm. Knowing that her leg was hopefully hindering her now and slowing her down, he would try to whip her across the ring towards the ropes...but would hold onto her wrist at the last minute, yanking her back just in time to nail her with a snap kick at her chest!

The pressure was off both Daisuke and Lina, only momentarily though as Kyo gave Daisuke very little time to breath before pulling her up and away from the ropes. Lina could only quietly sigh as Kyo did that and proceeded to shoot Daisuke towards the rope. Lina didn't have a reaction when Kyo quickly pulled Daisuke and kicked her in the chest, causing her to let out a groanish moan and fall backwards.

Thus far, Kyo had been dominating the match against Daisuke, keeping her on the defensive and weakening her with repeated slams and submission holds. He couldn't afford to hold back against her, he knew: he remembered all too well from their last match how tough she was, and how much pain she had inflicted on him throughout their bout. That kick to the chest, at least, would keep her gasping for a while, and slow her down along with her hurting leg.

As Dai was rolling on her back, Kyo ran towards the ropes and bounced off, aiming to nail her with a leg drop across her chest or midsection. If either hit without incident, he would grab one of her legs and try to wrap her up in another pin attempt!