Zeuxis vs Io Shirai
This was a better showing for Zeuxis than her first round
match, she looked nicely aggressive and the equal of Shirai here. Neat fast
rope running exchange ends with Zeuxis baseball dropkicking Io off the apron
with full force into her shoulder. I liked this, Shirai had steamrolled her way
through her first round match, this was she started the match with a
disadvantage. Shirai hits a nice handstand knees to the face and a nice suicide
dive, but her crossface is easily broken by Zeuxis thanks to the bad wing.
Zeuxis misses a moonsault with a nice thud, and her Spanish Fly is reversed to
a top rope rana. Overshot moonsault gets the win for Io, and this was nice
stuff.
Xia Li vs Deonna Purrazzo
Xia Li is legit, guys. Considering her experience levels,
she looks tremendous here. Her first round match had seen her work in some neat
kung fu, but here she bumped like a boss, faceplanting on a drop toehold, and
nailed some lovely looking moves. Some neat strikes, good legdrops and a really
great elbow drop. She also hit a great kick from the second rope. Purrazzo
wisely focuses her attack on the arm to set up the armbar, she hits a great
divorce court. Li escapes an armbar by rolling though to a cradle for two, but
her aggressiveness proves to be her downfall. She kicks Purrazzo from the
corner, but dives off the top into an armbar and Purrazzo locks in a Rings of
Saturn to get the tap. Really loved this.
Tegan Nox vs Nicole Matthews
The shortest match of the show, and Matthews suffered from
wardrobe issues again (despite it being a different outfit, hard not to feel
sorry for her). Nox dives right into a forearm from the floor in the opening
stages, made it look like she wasn’t expecting it. Matthews hits nasty kicks on
the apron, as well as a big clothesline and a neat Northern Lights suplex. Nox
hits a vicious headbutt (complete with woozy sell) and a great Wild Boar style
cannonball, before the shiniest wizard gets the win. Good little sprint.
Kaitlyn vs Mia Yim
Hey, Mia Yim’s phantom hand injury returns. Despite
suffering no ill-effects from chopping the post during her first round match,
they’ve seemingly decided to run with it as a story point here. Kaitlyn looked
great here, loved her sliding clothesline and her bodyscissors, due to the muscularity
of her legs, made it look deadly. Yim starts working Kaitlyn’s leg after a
missed baseball slide, and you can see the bruising on the thigh after a bunch
of nasty kicks. Yim hits some punches with the “bad hand”, but when she punches
the mat, Kaitlyn really goes to work on it, wrenching it backwards in a manner
not previously seen on this apparently devastating injury. It looked nasty from
Kaitlyn, and actually made it feel like a real disadvantage. Yim hits a shaky
Eat Defeat for two, and a great looking Kaitlyn spear also only gets two.
Kaitlyn misses a stomp on the hand, and Yim takes her down, locking on a
kneebar for the submission. Thought Kaitlyn looked great here, hope it’s not
just a brief return.
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