Kamikaze (Akashi+Taylor) vs Shiro Shinde (Naoko+Stephanie)

Taylor immediately pounced on her prone opponent, taking a seat on the small of her back. While grinning and sticking her tongue out at Naoko, she wrapped Stephanie's long red hair around her hand and jerked her head back. She wrapped her other arm around Stephanie's neck, so that her throat was in front of the crook of her elbow, and when the referee began to chastise Taylor for her hold on her opponent's hair she let go immediately.

"Sorrry." She said, still grinning. She clasped her hands together to squeeze on Stephanie's neck and began to pull back as well with a spine-bending camel clutch of sorts. "Say bye-bye to your boy-toy!" She taunted. "Ya know your boyfriend probably gets off on seeing you like this. Maybe you could toss him a good moan, make it worth his while, since I'm neevver going to let you tag out!"

Stephanie was too stunned to stop Taylor from stradling her back. The punky-girl grabbed Steph's red mane and easily maneuvered the redhead into a choke, only letting go the hair after the referee gave her a warning. Stephanie's hands immediately went for Taylor's arm, trying to pull down to make some room for her throat to breath, and to ease the strain in her neck and spine that Taylor's pulling was starting to cause. The non-stop taunting was really starting to infuriate Steph, specially since she could smacktalk back. But what really made the redhead furious was that she knew Naoko may be considering coming to help her. And that was something she couldn't allow.

With her face twisted in a mask of agony and slightly turning red, Steph, used one hand to keep a weak hold of Taylor arm. Moving her other arm to the side and then firing it back, aiming to hit Taylor on the ribs with a sharp elbow.

"Ow! Stop that!"

Taylor winced as Stephanie's elbow jabbed into her ribs. With a little growl, she grabbed Stephanie's hair again with both hands and slammed her face down onto the mat. Then she reached to grab both her arms at the elbow and pull them up to hook them over her knees and trap them there. She reached for Stephanie's chin again to continue bending her back.

"You're really not so tough, are you? Your boyfriend must be sooo disappointed."

The difficult position in which Taylor had her made it impossible for Stephanie to strike back with all the power and fury she wanted, and her elbow didn't managed to cause enough damage to stop her tormentor from beat her some more.

"Ughhh!" Stephanie groaned as her face was slammed into the mats, her nose husting horribly after the stunning hit, that made it all the easier for Taylor to trap her in a camel clutch. The redhead gang girl had never thought wrestling was any serious at all and believed all its practicioners to be nothing but clowns, but now she was finding out that wrestling moves actually hurt... a lot. That didn't changed the fact that wrestlers were clowns. Specially Taylor, who was the most annoying clown Stephanie had ever met. The redhead face was quickly getting a matching red tone from the mix of pain and anger.

Steph kicked her boots on the canvas as her body was arched painfully. The wannabe yakuza pushed with her arms, trying to free them from the prison that Taylor's thighs and knees had become while she endured the physical and verbal abuse.

Naoko meanwhile watched, slightly amused as her friend was getting embarrased. She knew how tought Stephanie was, how much abuse her foreinger friend could take, and was sure that what Taylor was doing to Steph was hurting the redhead's pride more than her back.

Taylor was a little worried by how much Stephanie was struggling. She had to remind herself that the girl was a lot stronger, and while her size advantage did nothing while she was face down on the mat it would certainly be a factor if she was on top. She instinctively shifted her hands so that the wrapped around Stephanie's face, over her nose and mouth.

"Hey! Stoppit!"

But then the redhead managed to slip an arm free. That was a bad sign. Taylor knew better than to try to hold onto a submission hold when her opponent was slipping out of it. She reached for Stephanie's wrists and stood up, pulling her arms up and behind her back, lifting her upper body off the mat. She braced a foot on the back of Stephanie's head and rowed back to bend her as far up off the mat as possible before letting go of her arms and stomping down to slam her face back into the mat again.

Stephanie's determination finally paid off as she began to slip from the hold. She had little to no idea how to escape things like this, so she had to rely on pure fury to escape. She then felt Taylor's fingers over her face and she would have surely bit them if the punky girl hadn't moved them away quickly enough.

She hated to be manhandled by what she considered a weakling; Stephanie blamed her lack of knowledge in wrestling for this humiliation and was already swearing to herself that she will make Taylor pay for all this embarrasment, while Taylor pushed her arms up, lifting her upper body from the canvas. When Stephanie felt the foot on the back of her head, she guessed what was going to happen next and turned her head to the side, so when Taylor slammed her down, she hit the canvas with the side of her head instead of the face, which was still very painful, but a lot less damaging...and stunning.

The redhead took a couple of seconds and a breath to recover from the dizziness enough to fight back. She moved her hands up to cacth Taylor's foot behind her head by the ankle and twist and pull it, trying to make the punky girl lose her footing, at the same time she sweep one leg across the mats, trying to hit Taylor's support leg and make her fall.

It felt like Taylor had nearly put a hole through the mat with Stephanie's head. Damn, it felt good. She was totally in control, and the crowd loved it. Naoko wasn't even going to recognize Stephanie after Taylor was done with her.

She shot a grin back over her shoulder to Akashi, but something snagged her foot. She looked down, and the girl who should've been unconscious or dead or something had latched onto her ankle.

"Hee-ey! Leggo!" She hopped on her other foot for a second. She wasn't going down. She had excellent balance. Before she could think of a way to make Stephanie pay for her efforts, her other leg was kicked out from under her, sending her crashing to the mat.

"Grrr..." She landed on her back, and immediately got to her feet with a smooth kip-up. She had to get her eyes back on Stephanie before this got out of hand.

Hearing Taylor fall made Stephanie half grin throught the pain. Her head was still ringing, specially her ear, and her back and neck hurt quite a bit, but at least she had got out of Taylor's hold. Stephanie got up slowly, rubbing the side of her head with one hand to find out that Taylor was already on her feet. The redhead frowned and raised her fists back into a combat stance.

This girl was too fast and Stephanie didn't liked it. Knowing that direct punches will most likely not be fast enough to catch the elusive Taylor, Stephanie decided to try a different approach; she lunged towards Taylor raising her right hand as if she was going for a power cross punch, this was of course a feint, aimed to make Taylor's attention focus on that fist to then quickly raise the right leg, aiming a furious side kick to the punky girl's ribs.

Taylor wasn't smiling this time as Stephanie came at her. She was moving well still, light on her feet and bouncing, ready to move. She saw Stephanie's right hand coming a mile away, but the punch never came.

She got her arms around quick enough to block the kick, Stephanie's shin slamming into her forearms and making her wince. The force of it forced her to back up, and she backpedaled quickly until her back hit the ropes.

The girl kicks hard, thought Taylor. She did not want to be in the way of another of those. She bent her knees and rested her back against the ropes, this time when Stephanie came at her she wouldn't be a sitting duck. She couldn't afford to be.

Stephanie didn't had the satisfaction of connecting Taylor how she wanted, but she fought the frustration and reminded herself she had to stay calm. Rushing to attack was only going to end in dissaster.

The redhead took a deep breath before charging towards Taylor. Naoko looked interested from the corner, she had always favored a defensive style of combat, that was the basis of Shotokan, but Stephanie was too aggressive... and Naoko wanted to see where that aggressiveness will take her.

Stephanie swung her right hand from above with a high descending chop style strike that was intentionally easily blockable. She wanted Taylor to catch that hand, to then lift her left fist up, aiming to hit the punky girl with a sort of upper cut to the solar plexus; trying to keep her trapped against the ropes.