No DQ match: Ivan Komorov vs. Henry Clayton

Ivan's punch landed right in the middle of Henry's chest and it was even strong enough to force him back. Ivan didn't move an eye away from Cronos and raised his arms to protect his face after seeing him bouncing off the ropes. And Henry indeed attacked his head and even with arms protecting the face it hurted.

His arms absorbed some of the damage, but punch was still strong enough for Ivan to feel the hit. Good thing that he protected himself, since this could end way worse than just stumbling backwards. Ivan moved step closer and decided to attack Henry's legs now. He'd swing with his own leg, trying to land a kick on opponent thigh.

Blows between Ivan and Henry were exchanged and the two kept coming back for more. Henry wanted to get another blow in after Ivan blocked his last punch, but Ivan took a step forward and took advantage.

Ivan kicked at his thigh and scored a hit. Henry took it well, but considering that was the leg that Ivan kept attacking it wasn't doing well. Using his good leg, Henry pushed forward and tried to tie up with Ivan hold him in place.

While Ivan wasn't the smartest guy out there, he knew very well that focusing on only one part of opponents body will bring positive results. And choosing leg is defintely, since it affect all body.

Ivan didn't try to stop Henry when he got closer toward him; he was perfectly fine with upclose battle. Russian giant would try to get firm hold on Cronos' body and attempted to lift him up to place him over his shoulders. Based on size of the man it will be really hard task to do so, but if Ivan would manage to succesfully lift him up, he'd throw him back down with Samoan drop.

Henry pushed forward and continued to fight on, but Ivan was a step ahead of him. The Russian Giant took hold of him when Henry stepped in and attempted to lift him. It was surprising that someone tried to lift Henry up, but if anyone could do it then Ivan could. Though even Ivan seemed to have trouble getting him up, he was able to finish with a Samoan drop.

It wasn't often that Henry was slammed to the mat and he had to take a moment to shake the shock off his body and fight. Henry took a moment before trying to roll over away from Ivan slowly work his way up on his feet.

Ivan showed some great dedication and amazing strength to lift and place Cronos over his shoulders. Even all who hated him just watched and admired what he just displayed. He didn't wait for too long, since keeping Henry up was pretty big task. After the slam was performed, Ivan took a few breaths before trying to hook opponents leg for pinfall attempt.

But Ivan's break was bit longer and Henry was already rolling away. Ivan sighed, got up on his feet and prepared himself to continue with fight. At least he had advantage of being first back up, so Ivan walked toward Henry and reached toward his head with one arm. He tried to hold it to stick a thumb in his eye before sending a punch toward his ribs with other arm.

Henry had admit that Ivan was an interesting opponent. He was strong, tall, and did whatever he could in this match without remorse. A gentle giant couldn't defeat a beast who only wanted to maim and kill his prey for sport. As Henry was thinking about this, Ivan was coming at him with evil intentions.

Ivan reached out and jabbed Henry's eye with his thumb before following it by punching him in the ribs. Henry had to keep his eye shut to try to dull the pain and also use one arm to cover his ribs after the punch. Now Henry has little experience with being beaten down like this and now he was getting angry. He wasn't angry at Ivan for fighting dirty, but more at himself for not thinking that a fighter like this would ever face him. Down on his knees and in pain, Henry used his anger to fuel his will to continue this fight and stand.

Ivan looked down on Henry with grin in his eyes - he didn't even tried to hide the eye poke and as consequence received nice amount of hate from the audience. He was impressed with Henry's endurance and dedication to keep on fighting. But unfortunately dedication doesn't alway bring the victory - beating your opponent does.

"That's right, get up..." Ivan would say and grab Henry's neck. He would start squeezing it quite hard while "helping" him to get back on his feet. Ivan would try to lift and hold Cronos upside down beside him, just so he could drop him down on the head with Brainbuster suplex.

Henry was already trying to get up before Ivan decided to grab him by the neck and help him to his feet. From there Ivan got him into a suplex position and thats when Henry fought back. Sure his neck was still hurting, but this his moment to do something. Henry used one of his legs and hooked one of Ivan's to stop him from lifting him off the canvas.

Using his free hand, Henry threw some punches at Ivan's kidneys/back. Assuming that Ivan released him, Henry would stand up and wrap his hands around Ivan's body and lift him with an overhead belly to belly suplex and slam him down behind him.

Drawback of going for suplex with such a big guy as Henry is his weight and height. While Ivan is certanly strong enough to lift and throw him back on canvas, it does require some extra effort and time. Small opponents are done in seconds - Cronos wasn't. And this extra time that Ivan had to spend to lift Henry was enough for American to reverse situation and get away. While stomp wasn't too painfull, it was definitely annoying and distracting... distracting enough so Cronos could capitalize the situation.

"URghhhhG...." Ivan grunted after the punches hit his body and completely released his opponent. When Henry grabed Ivan, Ivan did the same. They kept grapling for some moments when finally Henry prevailed and shook the ring by slaming Ivan down on the canvas.

Cronos rose to his feet after managing to throw the large Russian over his head. After pulling off a big move like that, Henry felt great about himself. "Aaaaah!" Cronos roared loudly as he raised one hand to the sky. Now he wanted to give Ivan some payback for what he's done to him.

He gave the ring a good stomp as he stood ready for Ivan. Cronos stepped toward Ivan and threw a kick at his head. Hoping he would stay down, Cronos would start randomly stomping on Ivan body and legs.