Reira Kirishima vs Julia Rogers

Hmph...High flyers could sometimes be oh so predictable.

All she needed was for Julia to start baiting the crowd and with luck, the masked girl played right into Reira's hands.

With Julia halfway across the ring, Reira would charge out of the corner herself, swinging her arm out. With no distance between them, and their equal height making even ducking unlikely, Reira was confident she'd be about to smash Julia down with a hard lariat!

The smart thing for Julia to do certainly would’ve been to approach with caution. Just because Reira looked hurt didn’t necessarily mean she was, especially considering she already knew the champ had employed far more underhanded tactics than this before.

But, Julia wasn’t really one to worry much about caution. And while that made it easy to win the fans over, it didn’t do any favors for her now. The blonde rushed forward, only for Reira to unexpectedly come bolting right toward her. Before she could react, one of Reira’s arms blasted right into her with a lariat! The masked girl was sent into a backflip upon impact, and fell right down onto the mat. “Ugh...”

With Julia down, the champ pounded her chest in confidence. All she had to do was keep the masked woman down on or near the ground. If she couldn't fly, then Reira doubted she'd have much chance.

While her own style usually kept one or both of her own feet on the mat, she decided to leave it entirely this time, jumping up high and sticking her arm out, trying to land an elbow onto Julia's back!

Julia groaned slightly as her hand came to rub over her aching head. That lariat had hit with full force, and the luchadora was going to need some time to get her wits back together after taking that brutal hit.

But unfortunately for her, Reira had no intention of giving her that time. Julia pushed herself up to her hands and knees, only for a powerful elbow to drive right into her spine! “Agh!” she shouted out as her body was planted right back down on the mat again.

"You know, I love that sound! Why don't we hear it again?"

The redhead yelled, getting up to her feet before dropping down a second time for another elbow drop. Sure, it was repetitive and made the crowd boo, but who gave a crap what they thought anyway? If it hurt Julia AND pissed off the crowd, then it was even better!

"Get up! Move!"

Drake is livid backstage. He didn't like the idea of Julia going out on her own, but he understood the reasoning. Reira called her out. This was Julia's opportunity to take her down a peg. He's anxious for his own opportunity to appear again, but he can be patient. His girlfriend is incredibly supportive - he can do the same. Besides, he genuinely wants Julia to do well; she deserves that.

But right now, she seems to be taking elbows to the back.

"Get! Up! Come on, baby, come on..."

The young model is on his feet, glowering at the television monitor suspended in the corner of the locker room. It currently has a great view of his beautiful girlfriend lying on her stomach with Reira looking to be ready to drop another elbow against her spine.

For as much as he wants Julia to not get too badly beaten up, the match has been a clean one so far. Nevertheless, Drake is already in his wrestling gear. If Reira starts that tricky crap again, Domino will be ready. Hopefully it won't come to that, though. In a perfect world, Julia will pin her down and Domino will only make an appearance to give her a celebratory hug.

Julia moved an arm over her aching back after the point of Reira’s elbow drove into it and planted her right back onto the mat. And after hearing the champ’s words, she tried to pull herself together in time to move out of the way, but reacted too late.

“Ugh!” she cried out again as the second elbow came driving right into her back again. Not wanting to leave herself vulnerable for a third, the blonde then pushed off the mat and tried to roll over toward the ropes. She doubted she could do anything to keep Reira from following her over there, but if she could just be patient and get some more favorable ring positioning, maybe she could find an opening to turn this around.

Reira had gone for a third elbow drop, but Julia rolled away in time, Reira grunting as she hit the mat and rubbed her arm as she got up to her feet.

Julia was near the ropes now, but was still down, giving Reira the perfect opportunity. The champ ran towards her, dropping and kicking both feet out into the masked woman's side, trying to dropkick her through the ropes and out of the ring!

For a brief moment it seemed lady luck was favoring Julia a bit more, as the blonde’s roll to the side to get away from Reira saved her from eating a third powerful elbow drop. The champ’s elbow instead came crashing onto the mat instead of Julia, but the masked woman wasn’t out of the woods yet.

Before she could hoist herself up, a pair of boots came crashing into her side, dumping Julia out of the ring and onto the floor. “Ugh!” she grunted as she collapsed onto the ground. Reaching out to grab the ring apron, she used it for some extra leverage while starting to pull herself up to her feet.

Reira laughed loudly, standing at the apron and raising her arm up, congratulating herself before stepping through the ropes and landing outside of the ring.

"Is this really the best Tension can throw at me!? What the hell does that bitch calling herself Friction Champion see in you anyway? Maybe Domino should get her to fight me instead of you!"

Reira yelled, mocking Julia for what she had heard of the masked womans recent involvement in Taylor Parkers dojo.