Ogata Akiko and Ilaria Santarossa vs Animal Kingdom

[Lederface]

Susumaru as she fell to the ground from the Suplex, clearly felt regretful for having been so naive, with her body on the canvas, Akiko had wasted no time and seemed ready to hurt her although what left Susumaru wondering would be the way she would do it. When her body was put face down her whole mind started discarding ideas of moves and adding others, but it was when her chin was taken that she knew what it was about, so even though she was technically put in a camel clutch, she would not let her arms be taken, avoiding to close the grip, but above all, to have a chance of how to respond, if Susumaru was an expert in submissions, it also meant that she knew how to face them.

[ThatPolishDude]

Not being able to get her opponent's hands trapped the way she'd like them to be, Akiko settled for a simple approach, pulling her chin even further up. It wasn't perfect but it would still hurt though it left her open for counters. Not that she paid much mind to that fact. She was far more concerned about the attack than defense at this point.

[Lederface]

Some would think Susumaru was in trouble even if she was still trapped in the grip, but Susumaru knew how to buy herself more time in some grips, and when she realized that Akira bet everything on offense, so Susumaru went for Akiko's ankles, pulling on them to try to break the grip, and if she succeeded she would try to pull Akiko off her to get away a bit

[ThatPolishDude]

Akiko did not expect Susumaru to pull a counter at the point that she did, her ankle pulled, she got off balance enough to have to let go and break her fall with her hands before scooting back. She was running on fumes already and her foe managing to break free was not a good sign. As she was she would back up to her corner, seeing Ilaria reach out to tag and this time she would take it. Sliding out of the ring as Ilaria got in. The redhead was certainly not winning them this match but Akiko hoped she would buy enough time for her to recover.

[Lederface]

Susumaru managed to break Akiko's grip, which was a great achievement for this point in the fight, but the biggest problem would come when Akiko managed to escape before anything happened and managed to make the switch with her friend, but clearly even she knew she needed a little time to recover, so Susumaru sat down on the canvas and took a deep breath as she recovered.

[ThatPolishDude]

On her best days, Ilaria was a bad wrestler to speek nothing of her bad ones. Still, even she could see an opportunity when she faced one and having an opponent just sit down did feel like one. Not wanting to let it go to waste, she would charge forward and jump into the air to deliver a dropkick which by comparison to Akiko's was slow and clumsy, giving even seated opponent time to react.

[Lederface]

Susumaru when she kept sitting while waiting for her opponent, she saw how she came to see how she was approaching for an attack, Susumaru would be ready for whatever happened, although when she saw how Ilaria jumped against her, Susumaru rolled away as fast as possible, although it was a direct attack.... even Susumaru would know that someone was not... the best at doing some attack, while polka watched and waited to see what would happen, standing in the corner.

[ThatPolishDude]

Having completely missed her attack, Ilaria landed in an ungraceful heap on the mat, panicky scrambling to her feet and away from where she thought Susumaru would be, trying her best to get herself ready to defend.
Meanwhile, Akiko felt like her exhaustion only grew as the adrenalin from the fight subsided.

[Lederface]

Susumaru was panting, though it wasn't much damage, she was starting to run low on her energy, though at least Ilaria didn't seem to be the best about it, so when Susumaru got the chance, she would move to her corner, her plan was to get Ilaria to attack, if she fell for it, Susumaru would try to pop a kick in her stomach if all went well

[ThatPolishDude]

Ilaria circled Susumaru for a bit but when she wasn't being attacked, her patience run thin. She would dart forward, trying to deliver a big overhand punch but before it could ever connect she was stopped by her opponent's leg digging into her soft belly. She gasped in pain, doubling over as she stumbled back, fully exposed to a possible strike from her foe.