AV 14: Akashi Tanikaze Vs. Rebecca Tomko - Last Woman Standing

Preceded by: Entropy Title Match: Silver Ace Vs. Gwendolyn-DuPont-Bettencourt
Followed by: Adrian Kytes Vs. Kelly Conway for the Friction Title Contract

Akashi Tanikaze


Vs.

Rebecca Tomko

Match Type: Last Woman Standing
Winning Condition: The wrestler who cannot beat a ten count will be declared the loser.

Two titanesses face off but only one will remain standing.

This would be the 3rd time that the giantess Rebecca Tomko would face off against who many wrestlers regarded as the "ace" of AFW, Akashi Tanikaze, but only the second time in a wrestling ring and after the last encounter, the amazon was feeling more than a little smug about the upcoming match as she stood backstage for a last minute interview.

"Miss Tomko," The interviewer began in Japanese, trying her best not to be intimidated by Rebecca's muscular frame as she spoke. "Your issues with Akashi Tanikaze have spilt over to the boiling point, and it seems you yourself have made it a quest to insult her tradition at any possible-" before Rebecca cruelly snatched the microphone out of her hands.

"You wanna talk tradition?" She snapped. "Cause that's what you're all about in Japan, isn't it? Tradition this, tradition that, about how hundreds of years ago was so important to whatever the fuck we're doing now. So what did tradition do for either of us except hold us back?" the amazon asked.

"I mean look at us, two daughters of fighting legends, strong enough to kick the crap out of any man or woman that wants to take us on, and what do we get? The big 'No women allowed' sign shoved in our faces, and she still acts like its a good thing that the most obvious way we wanted to make our dads proud got taken away 'cause we were born without dicks whereas I see it for the bullshit it is." she ranted on, her smile fading away. "And that's only part of why Akashi's currently the dumbest motherfucker in Switzerland."

"Do you remember what I did to you back in Tokyo?" Rebecca asked, looking straight into the camera as though she was talking to Akashi directly. "I laid you out. Twice. I gave you a beat down worse than anyone had seen you take in years, and you want to fight me again."

"Remember what I said, 1st you got to walk home, 2nd time was hospital. 3 strikes: you're out." the amazon threatened, shoving the mic back into the interviewers hands before she made her way out to the ring

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~If there's a new way
I'll be the first in line
But it better work this time~

Rebecca made her way out to an a somewhat mixed reaction, some cheering because 'yay wrestlers we don't get to see normaly who are a big deal', others who understood what she'd said in the backstage interview booing her, others just stuck speechless at the size of the amazon. Even out of Japan where a lot of people were shorter, 6 foot 6 was massively tall and her muscled frame gave onlookers shivers at the thought of what she could potentially do. "{Standing at 2 metres tall and weighing in at 108 kilos, the Amazon Enforcer: the giantess of the East Coast, Rrrrebeccaaa Tooomko!}"

Akashi calmly stepped up to the entrance way while she waited for Rebecca to finish getting into the ring. She had spent the day away from everything. She took a tour of everything Geneva had to offer until it was time to get ready. She had spent a lot of time alone recently reflecting on everything she needed to do. Rebecca was a menace and a beast and if not for the things she had done to Akashi personally, for the sake of others and her own national pride, she needed to take her down. Her "exit interview" was proof enough of that.

Akashi had caught it but declined her own interview. She needed to remain calm and decided to save her energy, spending the last few minutes after she was ready in quiet. Taylor would be out until her match was ready to go and after she took care of her own business, Akashi would be there to celebrate with her sister and her new title.

Akashi stepped up and took one last deep breath as the arena darkened. The crowd was still murmuring and cheering despite trying to keep hushed. When the first haunting chords of her music began to play, the crowd got a little louder. Akashi smiled and waited for the crescendo to hit before a flash of pyrotechnics sprayed the entrance way and Akashi ran through them. She wore her usual red leopard print mawashi and red sports bra with the shide on it. However, she also had a large rope belt around her and draped over her lower half was a huge and well made keshō-mawashi . It was deep burgundy and had a very ornate embroidery on it.

Akashi threw her hands in the air and the crowd roared even more loudly. She marched down the entrance ramp as the ring announcer called her name. She then slipped into the ring and looked at Rebecca.

She then began her traditional dohyou-iri ceremony, pantomiming everything before she bowed to all four corners. She then looked at Rebecca and turned her back on the giantess.

She called for the microphone and when it was in her hand, she raised one fist in the air. "HEEEEEERUUUUUUUUBEEEECHIIIAAAA!!!!" She screamed into the air. The crowd reacted as she called out their home country.

"It is an honor to be here! Though I am far away from my homeland, everyone has been quite welcoming. Although, I don't claim to understand the culture or pride that is here, I have come, in my short time, to see that there are some things we do share. A fierce independence, a hard work ethic and national pride. I'm here, most definitely, to represent my home country of Japan, but I would hope that when I win that you will feel the victory is yours as well. Some victories cross many borders."

Akashi waited for the applause before she took off her keshō-mawashi and handed it to the ref. She then slowly turned around with a deep look of determination in her eyes. "This is the last time I see you in this ring." She said and then crouched near the corner, putting one hand's knuckles down into the mat.

"I am not stopping until you don't get up." She growled and tensed her muscles, waiting for the bell to ring.

Rebecca didn't move from the center of the ring as Akashi paraded around the corners, instead waiting patiently for the Sumo to face her and get this match started. "That's fine with me." she growled as she crouched down as well, mirroring the Japanese woman until the bell rung.

The amazon, with surprising speed for her normal ring movements, charged straight at Akashi to try and bulldoze her foe into the corner. The last time she let Akashi have the initiative, the Sumo had surprised her. This time the ebony giantess was not taking any chances and refused to give Akashi any space for the opening moments.

Akashi bolted as well as soon as the bell rang. She charged with reckless abandon at the Amazon but was surprised when SHE was charged in return. If their bodies collided, even Akashi's expert sumo knowledge might not be enough to keep Rebecca from barreling her over. The Amazon was strong and hard.

However, there was ONE place that no amount of training could help to strengthen. In this kind of match, it'd be the one who threw every last bit of caution to the wind who won. Akashi even wondered if the winner might end up being the one WORSE for ware in the end. She didn't have too much time to think though.

Akashi lowered her head with the intention of meeting Rebecca head on- literally.

The sound of their heads colliding was loud and sickening and rang through the gasping arena as well as any forearm chop to the chest.

At the moment of impact, Akashi's world went white.

Akashi couldn't see. She wasn't even sure if she was conscious or not but she felt herself stumbling. She stayed on her feet for a few steps, continuing towards Rebecca's corner, past the giantess before she dropped to one hand and one knee. She was taking deep breaths and trying to blink so her vision would return. Her free hand came up and ran against her slippery forehead. Her hazy vision focused on her red palm before the rest of her body gave way and she collapsed unceremoniously in a heap on the canvas.

Here we go! Rebecca thought as her charge mirrored Akashi's, the big woman ducking down to lock horns with the sumo... and then everything went white for her.

The amazon's eyes blinked open to find herself slouched down in one of the corners, a big blur that she guessed might have been Akashi lying down in the opposite corner as a white and black blur stood in between them... and that was all Rebecca could really make sense of at the moment. The ringing in her ears was drowning out the murmuring crowd and her breathing was slow and heavy. She wanted to ask what had happened but it came out as an unintelligible groan as she flopped face down on the mat below the second rope, feeling as though she was going to puke.

The referee looked between the two fallen titans, not really sure of what to do. Both ladies looked like they needed urgent medical attention right now, but the match was technically still going, and woe betide anyone who tried to call off a PPV match just after it had started when the company was trying to expand into new areas, she'd be treated to one of Lukretia's 'special' punishments at best. There was only one thing for it, hoping that the two could go on without medics for a minute she began her count. This was a last woman standing match after all. "One!"

Akashi did not hear the one count. She didn't hear much of anything until nearly a five count. When she opened her eyes, she still saw nothing but haze and a big splotch of red on the canvas.

Her body moved on instinct and the referee's count was a nebulous sound in the distance, just barely protruding from the muffled noise of the crowd. She relied on her sense of touch more than anything as she grabbed one rope and then another until she was propping herself up in the corner. She leaned against it and just huffed. She wasn't sure if she beat the count or not. Really, she barely even knew her own name, but she didn't hear a bell. That must have meant the ref hadn't gotten to ten or Rebecca had gotten up as well.

She turned her head and blinked as the haze began to retreat from her vision and looked to see which one had happened.

Rebecca gripped the bottom rope tightly, dry heaving while her vision slowly refocused on the confused crowd through a red filter and she could just about hear someone shouting "Six!" fairly close by. the match..? she thought, trying to piece everything together as her large frame slowly but surely came back to life.

moving her hands up to the middle and then the top rope, the amazon pulled herself up to her knees, still relying on the ropes for support as her head hung over the top, a few drops of blood dripping down to the floor below as she shuffled closer to the corner for a sturdier grip either side of the turnbuckle. With a mighty pull, the giantess hoisted herself back up to her feet, staggering around in the corner as she brought her hand to wipe away the blood so she could see clearly once again, focusing back onto the first thing she saw, Akashi standing opposite her. "Its..." She breathed, unsure if Akashi could hear her or not "gonna need more than that to keep me down."

Akashi smiled as blood dripped down her cheek and onto the turnbuckle. She propped herself against the turnbuckle and sighed deeply. Her vision was still blurry at the edges and her head rang but she had collected herself enough to know who she was, WHERE she was and what she was supposed to be doing. And that thing was kicking Rebecca Tomko's ass.

"Good." Akashi said and looked back at Rebecca.

Akashi then lifted up her head and stepped on the bottom rope with one foot and then again with the other. She held onto the ropes and steadily began to climb, one after the other like the corner was some magical stairway to Heaven. She didn't know quite what she had in mind but her mind wasn't exactly in the best condition right now.

Rebecca pushed herself out of the corner, forcing herself to move closer to the sumo, a lot slower this time, the amazon was in no state of mind to recklessly charge once at Akashi again, it was difficult enough trying to focus with the noisy crowd and the Japanese woman seemingly getting taller with every step, it was getting to the point that Rebecca was having to look up at her opponent.

Akashi hadn't grown a foot and a half in the time since they collided, so was she... climbing up the ropes? The hell? "Get back down here..." the giantess growled, reaching to grab Akashi by the waist and pull her back down to ground level if she could get across in time