Kozue Kaburagi vs Ricardo Keyes (Debut)

Ricardo was still on his knee as he tended to his ribs and leg. The cartel member was trying as quick as he could to get the feeling back in his lower limb as the numb pain still resided from the hold Kozue had on him, shaking it and trying to get the blood flowing once more. After a few seconds he started to get the feeling again, and he prepared to get back up to his feet, when suddenly he was met with a charging view of his opponent's rear end!

Slamming directly into his face, the momentum caused Ricardo to fly onto his back as the crowd erupted in cheers. His vision momentarily dazed from the "attack", if you could call it that, Ricardo suddenly realised what had happened....and his cheeks flared up in embarrassment.

Feeling his nose to make sure it wasn't broken, Ricardo shouted "Just who do you think you are?! Nobody does that to me!" in an embarrassed yet angry tone, before rushing back to his feet and running straight towards Ninjette, wildly swinging a left arm out in hopes of connecting with the girl.

Since coming to the AFW, Kozue had learned to take pride in certain things. Her body for one - she’d grown more comfortable using it, showing it off, displaying it. But she’d also learned how useful her unique ability to piss people off could be, especially in a fight. Before, she’d just done that sort of stuff to be doing. Now, it was all part of the attack plan.

Ricardo was falling right into it, too. She stood there, giving her butt a little shake, begging him to come at her from behind, and the big lug fell for it. Broke right into a crazy charge, coming straight for her.

Of course, she was ready. She was more than ready.

Before he could strike her, Kozue flipped back, shot her leg up and over as she fell, and tried to cut him off - if the timing worked just right, Ricardo would end up running right into a nasty Pele Kick, cracking him right on the nose. Risky, but worth it.

Ricardo could feel his nostrils flaring as the ninja wiggled her rotund backside at him, as if mocking him for the previous attack. The man had obviously not thought straight when he charged up in anger and threw the fist out to strike, as Kozue managed to flip and connect her shin directly into his nose with a brutal looking Pele Kick.

Hearing a crack in his nose, Ricardo fell back once more, swearing under his breath as he wiggled his nose once more, she had drawn a small amount of blood, which he cleared up quickly in attempt of hiding any weaknesses. It appears that Kozue was doing a fine job of getting under his skin, and it was costing him dearly. Crawling back quickly in hopes of getting away from her opponent, Ricardo pulled himself to the corner turnbuckle and entered a sitting position, before attempting to use his arms to pull him back to his feet.

"You really are a nuisance..." he muttered, a vicious look in his eyes.

Kozue nailed the Pele Kick, landed on her shoulders, then immediately shot her legs back up and got back to her feet with a kip up, standing up straight as Ricardo crawled towards the corner. She took a bow as the audience applauded, making sure to give her opponent a good view of her favorite weapon. ”Ta da.”

She was doing good so far, but as Kozue’s looked over her shoulder, she saw a good opportunity to do even better. There Ricardo was, busy checking his fucked-up nose, sitting the corner and begging to be attacked. She could work with that.

”Yeah, I have that effect on people.” Kozue turned about and started sauntering towards Ricardo…’starting’ being the key word. When she was halfway there, she broke into a run, jumped towards her opponent and came at him with a harsh kick to the face, trying to slam his head against the turnbuckle.

Ricardo's head was throbbing as he growled in the corner. So far this match had NOT gone the way he wanted to, and he needed to find a way to get back in this match, and fast. The man grabbed the middle ropes to pull himself up, but it appears his thinking had cost him as his opponent bounded towards him and planted a boot directly into his face!

Grunting out in pain, Kozue's foot charged directly into his cheek and the momentum caused him to slam the back of his head directly into the turnbuckle, causing his ears to ring out. Slowly slumping in the corner, Ricardo listened to the crowd celebrate how the match was going so far, and it was driving him nuts.

He quickly stretched his legs under the bottom rope and pulled himself out of the ring, gaining some boos from the audience. Taking a few seconds to catch his breath, Ricardo turned to the crowd and began shouting at them, saying "estupido! Shut your fat faces!" as he did. Eventually he turned back to his opponent, sliding slowly under the bottom rope and getting straight in her face.

"Those idiots mean nothing...and I'm tired of your games!" he said quietly before attempting to grab the back of Kozue's head with one hand and connect a European Uppercut with the other!