World Title Semi Final: Michael Northman Vs. Zero Kotobuki

Michael looked on at Zero as she was making her way towards him, and as she did Michael was ready for what ever she had to throw at him, she move in swiftly as always and send her punches, Michael was ready and was going to have to be as swift and fast as he could be, trying to quickly step around the array of punches that came at him and dodge the hits, when that kick came though...Michael wasn't sure what to do, as it came up and crashed into her ribs, " Ugh!" the flame of courage let out as his arms coiled around the leg and grabbed onto it...by instinct or muscle memory he still tried, and if that worked her would try and toss himself and his weight around so that he could attempt and throw Zero down onto the ground with a viscous leg drag.

Michael wouldn't even try and waist a second, biting through all the pain and punishment he had taken in this match as he would try and let go of Zero's leg if he had managed to drag her down to the ground, and in that moment then he would attempt to jump up and over onto Zero's torso, trying to double stomp her between her chest and stomach.

Zero's eyes would widen when Michael managed to snag her attacking leg after landing her kick, and Zero xould guess at what was about to happen next. Of course, that didn't mean she could do anything to stop it from happening. "UGHH!!" the woman cried out as she was thrown to the mat, landed on her back with a grunt. It hurt, but it was hardly stunning, and therough the pain she saw an opportunity. Michael still held onto her leg, and that was all the opportunity she needed. Her other leg would spring up, trying to hook the one Michael held onto. It she succeded, she would tightly wrap her legs around his neck, and the arm he had used to grab her, trapping Michael in consctricting triangle choke.

Michael took Zero down and just as he was about to try and charge in and jump up at Zero's body, trying to hit her with that stomp, her felt Zero's strong sexy legs trap him, they coiled around him like serpents and within a moment he was stuck before he could even act, "Agh...dammit, you're...gah...damn awesome " Michael said as he looked down on Zero, trying to remain standing on his feet for now, It wasn't a lie to say that Zero was most likely the best wrestler that Michael had ever faced in a real match, while he hadn't had many official matches in any federation he had had a good number of real matches and in those he had faced a lot of strong women and men, but none of them could compare to Zero, in beauty, in skill or in will.

WIht the triangle choke now locked firmly in place Zero's powerful legs would begin to squeeze the very life out of Michael, tighening like pythpns around his neck and arm, cutting off his catroid artery and depriving him of much needed oxygen. With practiced skill she would attmpt to wear Michael down, and in such a deadly hold as this it wouldn't take long.

Noticing that Miachel wasn't going down right away from her choke, Zero would now improvise. With her hanging slightly from him by her legs, Zero would reach forward to attept to grab both of Micheal's ankles and ynk them out from under him. If that worked, Michael would end up falling backwards with Zero coming with him. Maichel would ended up on his back, and Zero's triangle choke would find a new position as she sat on his chest, turning her hold into a mounted triangle choke.

Michael kept his eyes on Zero's face as he thought of a way to try and get out of this hold, it wasn't a good hold to be in for a long amount of this, and he could already feel himself growing weaker and weaker, blood flow slowing down and his air flow being cut off at the moment, it wasn't good for him, that flame dwindling down at the moment, was he really not good enough to win this match, he wanted to, he had to and it wasn't like he was just going to give up.

Michael's fire began to light up, the best thing that he could do would be to try and fight with all he had, with that before Zero could grab a hold of his ankles, Michael would attempt something, a counter attack, the way it worked was simply but effective as He would give it all he had and pull Zero up a bit more and then try to roughly step around and turn himself around, in that way he would attempt and turn Zero around and try to get her over onto her stomach, if he could to that then he would try and wrap both of his arms around one of Zero's legs, even locked up if he still was he would attempt to do this, to seat himself down on Zero's back and then begin to pull back on her legs in a type of Boston crab like Submission hold, he wasn't one to often do submission holds, he found them slow and boring, but in this case he had to, and he had encountered them enough time to know how to lock one in.

Unfortunately for Zero Michael seemed to be one step ahead of her, and before she could grab his ankles she would be turned over with her own traingle choke, grunting as she was forced to roll onto her her stomach. Then Michael would set himself on her back, and the pain came through immediately. "AHHH!!" Zero cried out before silencing herself. The pain and odd positioning made her release the triangle choke, trapping her in a full boston crab, much to her dismay. She clenched her fists on the mat, forced to endure the pain for now.

Michael wasn't able to keep up the boston crab hold for long, he did the best he could go get out of the triangle choke and succeeded, he managed to counter the hold and get Zero into a good position, but even so, when she finally released him from her own hold he couldn't keep up the boston crab for much longer, and soon found himself letting go of her legs and staggering forward, before dropping down to one knee and a hand on the other knee to leverage his body up, and make sure he wouldn't fall down on his face, he panted heavily for air as it looked almost like he was done at this point.

Zero's forehead pressed against the mat as she endured against the boston crab hold, her face a grimace of pain as her back was bent into a near U shape. It hurt quite a bit, and couldn't get over the fact that her own move had put her in this situation. It was quite a predicament, and Zero was about to make her way to the ropes, when she felt the pain of the bostpn crab begin to to lessen. Zero blinked in surprise, but did not move until her legs were back on the ground, and she gasped in releif. She didn't know why Mihael had done that. Perhaps she had worn him down more than she thought. Either way, she was free, and was going to make the most of it.

Crwling back to her feet just behind Michael she would wait for him to get back to his feet, and when he turned around to face her, she would spin in place, stetching her right arm out to deliver a monstrously powerful backhanded punch directly across Michael's jaw in an attempt to hit him with her finisher, Uraken.

Michael breathed out heavily as he was still on one knee, he really had no idea how he even countered that Triangle choke or managed to get out of it, and ever pull Zero into a hold, maybe adrenaline or something, but that fact was that it was short lasted and when he finally found himself in the hold, his body ached to much and his head felt to groggy to keep it in place, and he was forced to abandon the hold and take a breather.

He was barely sure of how he was still standing, cheer will power perhaps, nothing was looking good for Michael at this point, and when he finally managed to get enough breath to just make it up to his feet, and turn around, at that moment her was knocked out, never even knew what was coming before it hit his jaw and snapped his head around, the force causing his body to spin around before slumping down like a rag doll on the mat.

Zero's Uraken had taken Michael out completely it seemed as he didn't real release any sound or anything like that.

The cerowd groaned in sympathy for poor Michael as Zero's devastating finisher nailed him across the jaw, and he fell to her feet like a limp doll, apparently knocked out from the hard hit. Zero would waste no time then. Immediately after he dropped she would fall on top of him, covering him up and hooking his leg, going for what she hoped was a final pin attempt.

"ONE!" the ref girl shouted.