Message #22099

[Adam Grant]

Kat: The following match is scheduled for one fall to a finish and is for the FFW NO SURRENDER CHAMPIONSHIP!!!

Zack: One of the hardest fought matches at Sin & Sacrifice is about to see it’s rematch in what I suspect to be an even harder match tonight.

Mai: Not to mention both of them have to come back later for the Global Wars battle royal, and both want those five points!

The entire arena goes dark as the sound of wind blows through the PA, after a moment a strange whine kicks on, slowly getting louder and drowning out the wind as blue and white light starts to slowly creep along the stage.

The silhouette of a woman walks out, shaded by the increasingly intense lights she comes to stand center stage before hunching over at the waist slowly as the sound and the light dim slowly. The sound turning down to nothing and the lights going so dull as to barely be perceptible.

A moment passes.

“FIGHT!”

BOOM!

The stage erupts with blue fireworks as the tron rains down white sparks just behind the now revealed Miko Ayano!

Kat: Introducing from Saga, Japan. Standing five-foot-six-inches tall and weighing in at one-hundred-eighteen-pounds, “THE WARP-DRIVE DRAGON” MIKO AYAAAAAAAAANOOOOOOOOOO~!!!

The Japanese woman surveys the crowd as the vocal droning of Anneke van Giersbergen heralds the Ayano’s arrival. After a moment Miko starts her trek down the ramp.

“Now we’ve arrived in a new time and world,
And elements are we of gold,
How many times are we able to see,
In the infinite void of the soul”

Miko arrives at ringside, she hops up onto the apron on a knee then comes to a stand, resting her forehead on the top rope for a moment.

“All that way,
Gonna give it away?
You’re gonna give it away to some muscle?”

With that she bolts to the corner from the apron, standing with one foot on the top buckle bracket and her other on the middle buckle bracket she raises surveys the crowd again.

“Long, long way,
Til the pain is at bay-”

Miko lifts her arm then with the scream of Devin Townsend-

“-SO HIT IT-”

- and pumps her fist-

“ONE!”

-to-

“MORE!”

-each-

“TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!”

Word!

“FIGHT!”

BOOM! White sparks start falling from overhead as Miko leaps into the ring. The music twisting into a medly as the crowd is split between cheering and screaming along with Anneke’s backing vocals.

CROWD: ALIEN WORLD!

“ARROGANT MENTAL!
This world seems arrogant,
Sick and demented!”

CROWD: ALIEN WORLD!

“SOOO you bet your body and soul?”

Miko comes to a stand dead center of the ring as the chorus arrives, she slowly bends at the waist to rest her palms to the mat, the lights of the arena dimming as she lowers.

“IT HURTS, SO MUCH!
AND THAT IS WHY THEY FEAR IT!
BUT NEVER FEEEEEEEEEEEEAR!
ALL IS HEEEEEEEEERE!”

A blue strobe light pulsates with every word Townsend belts out.

“IT HURTS, SO MUCH”

At this Miko starts to rise slowly to a stand.

“AND THAT IS WHY WE FEAR IT!”

At this white spotlights star to spin around in dizzying patterns, highlighting the crowd in the darkened arena.

“BUT PAY NO MIIIIIIIIND!”

The entire arena starts flashing blue and white, just as-

“REJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOICE!”

White and blue pyro explodes from each corner of the ring as Miko stands dead center of it, arms spread wide and head tilted back as powerful white floodlights illuminate the ring to an almost painful degree. The crowd roars and hucks several blue, silver and gold streamers into the ring for her as the lights slowly go back to normal and the music fades out.

Freeing herself from the streamers, Miko walks over to her corner to await the opening bell.

Mai: We could have started this match about ten minutes ago if Miko didn’t have a crowd sing-along for this awful song she likes to use.

Zack: I’ll let you take that up with her, because I know how that will end. Miko won the title at Unstoppable 9, and she’d love nothing more than to be a two time champion tonight.

Sounds of thunder and lightning cast out, setting the atmosphere of the incoming Conqueror. The lights in the arena die out to allow for the spontaneous bursts of light that reflect the internalized storm.  As the silence takes hold, the startling opening guitar screech of Rammstein’s “Sonne” overtakes everything. It is followed by the infamous countdown.

“EINS, ZWEI, DREI, VIER, FUNF, SECHS, SIEBEN, ACHT, NOIN, AUS!”

Darkness falls over the entire arena, only broken by the miniscule twinkles of camera flashes in the crowd. A threatening violin floods the airwaves, with smoke collecting on the stage. As another section of the orchestral livens up, a sudden spotlight blasts onto the stage with a jet of pyro flying high up into the air. As it does, the Orchestra of Justice truly comes into its beautiful existence. On the stage, Artemis Kaiser appears, donning a new set of entrance apparel. Embroidered with many shimmering designs, Artemis’s military trench coat lightly moves as she rises onto the stage with her arms outspread. Bearing fangs fashioned onto a facemask and her eyes hidden behind shining red shades, Artemis steps down from the platform and into the smoke.

Kat: On her way to the ring...fighting out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada by way of Mt. Pearl, Newfoundland, Canada...weighing in at an 135 pounds...she is the reigning and defending FFW No Surrender Champion...she is the Last Empress...ARTEMIS KAAAAAAAAAISER!

Artemis marches down to the ring with her arms behind her back, not breaking her forward gaze. As the call concludes, the shot shows Artemis revealing her face to the camera and the audience. She removes her glasses, tucking them into the breast pocket of the coat. When she raises her head, the red streak, her scowl, and her stern expression completes all she wishes to do at her entrance. She continues to the western side of the ring, scaling the apron to stand on. She unbuckles the different pieces of her coat and politely hands it off to the stagehand. On her waist is the championship that she proudly carries. She abandons the athletic backflip in lieu of just stepping down to the ring.

Artemis steps slowly back into the center of the ring. Her head rises to scan the audience as she remains in the dead center of everything, of her personal universe. The Last Empress rises off the mat, tugging on her black gloves. She pops each of her knuckles by pressing her index finger over them. After that and with her theme dying out, she turns her head to back to reality. She walks over to her corner, and gives the turnbuckle a brisk kick and stretches out.

Zack: Artemis, just like her opponent, has a long night ahead of her win or lose here, but you can bet the champion loves opportunities like this  to push herself harder and harder than before.

Mai: Well short people rarely make good decisions, otherwise they would have decided to be taller.

Kaiser unhooked the title belt from around her waist and moved towards the middle of the ring, holding the Championship aloft as she looked over at the Warp Drive Dragon. She handed the title off to referee Kevin Fisk who showed it to the challenger before handing it off to the ringside attendant and called for the bell. As it sounded Miko darted out of her corner towards her opponent and the pair began to exchange vicious right hands. Kaiser’s stiff strikes got her the upper hand, causing Ayano to take two steps backwards only to throw out a front kick that caught her opponent in the gut, following it up with a second kick to the gut. As Kaiser doubled over, Miko brought her knee upwards into Artemis’ face standing her upright which allowed the Warp Drive Dragon to take her down to the canvas with a hip toss which she followed with a spinal tap kick that caused the No Surrender Champion to arch her back in pain.

Zack: I think most would try to end this quick, but both of these two dislike each other so much that I’m sure they are going to savor this and worry about the battle royal later.

Mai: That’s what makes them both stupid too, if you’re right.

The wrestler formally known as Whiskey didn’t give the Last Empress any time to recover as she dropped down to a knee behind Artemis and pulled her arm into an overhead wristlock. As the God of Anger pushed upwards to her feet, Ayano transitioned the hold into a hammerlock. Kaiser attempted to work an escape from the hold by throwing back elbows towards Miko’s head, connecting with two before the Warp Drive Dragon released the hold only to jerk her foe backwards into a hair pull backbreaker.

Zack: Look at the speed of those shots from Miko rocking Artemis’ head with each and every one of them.

Mai: She had to aim all of them down since Kaiser barely reaches up to her ass crack.

The No Surrender Champion rolled over and pushed up onto all fours only to get three stiff kicks to the ribs from her challenger. Kaiser pushed up further onto her knees, only for Miko to hook her head, yanked her upwards onto her feet and into a snap DDT. As the pair landed on the canvas, Ayano floated over to grab hold of her foes right arm and pulled it into a fujiwara armbar. Artemis immediately started trying to jerk her arm free as she kicked and pushed against the canvas before she reached out for the bottom rope and managed to wrap a hand around it. The referee called for the break, getting it on the two count from the challenger.

Zack: Notice how Miko is taking no chances. Some would have to four to break, she was out at a two count.

Mai: Yeah, and that’s two extra seconds she could have done more damage. What a moron! You couldn’t get a guest commentator for this match?

Artemis rose to her feet and Miko ran towards her, catching the champion with a raised knee to the gut, followed by a second and then a third. Ayano quickly yanked her away from the ropes by the wrist, spinning around behind the Champion and applied a rear waistlock that saw her snap off a perfect German suplex. Quickly the Warp Drive Dragon floated over to take Kaiser’s right arm, pinning it to the canvas before she delivered three double knee drops to the arm. Again the referee called for the break only for Ayano to pull the defending Champion to her feet, applying an arm wringer as she did so and took Kaiser straight back down to the mat with a leg sweep as soon as she’d gotten her back to her feet. Again Miko went after her opponents arm as she stomped away at the limb. The official once more ordered Ayano to let Kaiser get up from the canvas only to see the Team Japan member stoop down and took hold of her right arm once more, applying another arm wringer.

Zack: Miko’s starting to remind me of Sophia with this armbar, and that’s the woman she knocked off at Unstoppable to become No Surrender Champion in the first place.

Mai: Yeah, at least until she failed at Sin & Sacrifice and lost to the Canadian version of Webster.

As she pulled the Last Empress up from the canvas, the Mount Pearl native fired off a closed fist into her middle, followed by a second, a third and a fourth. Ayano stepped backwards and received a spinning back fist that dropped the Japanese wrestler to the canvas. The Warp Drive Dragon pushed back up to her feet, Artemis delivered a push kick to her gut that sent her opponent stumbling backwards towards the ring ropes, following after her as she began to throw forearm shivers to the Miko’s jaw driving her all the way back to the ropes. As Ayano hit the ropes, the God of Anger began to bring knees up into her gut before she fired her across the ring with an Irish whip. As the challenger hit the ropes and came back towards the middle of the ring, Kaiser darted forward and left her feet to deliver a high knee to her jaw, knocking her down to the canvas once again.

Mai: Now that was some height for little Artemis! If the NBA had a midget league, I think she could play for the Bulls. Hell, she could play for them now.

Zack: One day, all this is going to come back and bite you in the ass. And that’s when Lyn comes and takes over.

Miko started to come back to her feet and Artemis pulled her into a half nelson, using her grip to jerk her the rest of the way to her feet with a vertical base before she delivered multiple curved knee strikes into her rib and kidney area. Five blows connected before Kaiser slammed her opponent down to the mat with a half nelson backbreaker. The wrestler formerly known as Whiskey rolled to the side and came to a sitting position that saw the Last Empress plant a knee into her foe’s spine as she locked in a rear chinlock. Miko fought against the hold, beginning to push up to her feet, Kaiser keeping the hold locked in as they returned to a vertical base and began to drive knee strikes into her spine before she released the hold. Miko took a couple of steps forward and Artemis left her feet and jerked Ayano downwards into a double knee backbreaker.

Zack: Artemis is showing Miko she’s not the only one who knows how to implement those backbreakers right there.

The Warp Drive Dragon held her back as she rose to her feet once more; the Last Empress bouncing off the ropes and coming back towards her foe to put her down on the canvas with a running neckbreaker. Kaiser pulled her opponent upwards, only to put her straight back down on the mat with a snapmare roll into a kick to her spine. Miko sat straight back up and got a kick to the chest for her trouble that put her flat back on the mat again. As Ayano rolled onto her front, Kaiser delivered a knee drop into her back and then wasted little time in hooking her legs and head as she rolled backwards and applied a bow and arrow submission hold.

Mai: I know Artemis lives for this kind of thing, but I wonder how much Miko is thinking about the battle royal later tonight.

Zack: Miko’s not going to give it up for another match, that’s asinine.

The referee dropped down to ask Miko if she wanted to quit, getting a definite ‘No’ from the Japanese wrestler. The defending No Surrender Champion increased the pressure in the hold as she tried to get the submission, causing Ayano to grimace in agony but still she refused to quit when asked the question by the official. Kaiser released her hold on her opponent, sending her to the mat before she rolled to her feet and pulled Miko up with her into a Muay Thai clinch that saw her deliver knees into her midsection before straightening her up and sending her barrelling into the nearest corner. Miko struck the pads chest first and stumbled backwards two steps only for the Last Empress to charge forward, leave her feet and deliver a dropkick into the small of her back, sending her chest first into the turnbuckles once more. Again Miko stepped backwards, holding her chest before Kaiser lifted her upwards off her feet and into a back suplex, dropping her on her spine.

Mai: Win or lose, neither one of them are going to be walking erect when the main event rolls around. I doubt Miko will even be on both feet.

Zack: She wanted this rematch, and asked for it almost immediately after Sin & Sacrifice. She obviously knows what she’s doing in there.

Miko arched her back in pain as Artemis quickly rolled over, grabbed hold of her foot, pulling her away from the ropes and applied an ankle lock, dropping down to the canvas to grapevine the leg. The Warp Drive Dragon grimaced in pain, shaking her head defiantly as she refused to quit while slapping her palms against the mat in frustration. It only prompted the Newfoundlander to further torque on the joint, Miko giving out a strangled cry of pain as she gritted her teeth and began to use her free foot to kick out at the No Surrender Champion. It gained Ayano the break as Kaiser rolled away and came to her feet and took off towards the ropes, coming back towards her foe as Miko pushed up onto her knees and got a low running big boot from the Team Canada member.

Mai: Did you know that Artemis is my second favorite wrestler in all of FFW?

Zack: Who’s the first?

Mai: Everyone else.

Ayano rocked backwards to sit on her heels and Artemis took full advantage of her position to twist her opponent’s arm around in the shoulder socket with an arm wringer. The Last Empress used the hold to pull Miko up to her feet and drove side kicks into her midsection, landing four to double over the Team Japan member before she transitioned the arm wringer into a hammerlock, holding the arm up her back as she hooked her head and delivered a quick hammerlock suplex. Kaiser popped her hips, pulling her opponent up to her feet with her as she straightened out Miko’s arm and yanked her downwards into a single knee armbreaker. As they landed on the mat, Artemis kept hold of her foe’s arm as she floated over and attempted to apply a crossface chickenwing submission that saw the challenger fight it off, managing to free her arm in the process and rolled away to come to her feet.

Zack: Miko anticipated that, and couldn’t get away fast enough. Why stick around and take it if you can stop it from happening?

Mai: I can’t tell you how many men I’ve had to answer that question for, but that’s neither here nor there.

She found that the No Surrender Champion was on her feet and already upon her as the Canadian came towards her and looked to fire off a high roundhouse kick. Miko got her arms up to block the shot, shoving the leg away from her causing Artemis to spin around and as she came full circle, Miko caught her with a discus forearm shot to the jaw, spinning around and followed it with a leg sweep sidewalk slam. Miko rolled away and forced herself to come to her feet with her back towards the rising Artemis only to surprise Kaiser with a pele kick to the top of her head. Again Ayano rolled away to the ropes and pulled herself upwards, grimacing in pain as she held her back and then her shoulder before she took off towards the No Surrender Champion as the Newfoundlander got to her feet. Miko left hers to land on her foe’s shoulders and snapped off a perfect hurricanrana that sent the God of Anger back to the mat, Ayano landing on top of her in a pinfall position but immediately began to launch into hammer blows to Kaiser’s face before changing her target and started to fire the point of her elbow into the right arm.

Zack: No pins in this match, so Miko’s happy to hammer the hell out of Artemis’ head and face with impunity!

Mai: To be fair, she has one of those faces you really would enjoy abusing anyway.

Miko rolled away at the referee’s instructions and came to her feet as Kaiser moved onto all fours, Ayano moving quickly towards her, picking that arm and pulling it away from the mat before she dropped a leg drop across the limb. Again the Japanese wrestler kept hold of her foe’s arm as she came back to her feet and this time she delivered a curb stomp to the Canadian’s shoulder blade driving her straight back down to the canvas from all fours. Kaiser grimaced in pain as she reached across her body to hold her shoulder and got another three stomps in quick succession to the same point. Quickly the challenger dropped down and looked to take a page from Sophia Pike’s book as she went to apply the Space Needle fujiwara armbar, only for it to prove to be well scouted by the Mount Pearl native who scrabbled and fought and managed to pull her arm free before it could be locked in.

Zack: You can tell that these two have watched a lot of tape on one another with how they seem to know what the other is about to do at times.

Mai: Don’t give them so much credit, Zack. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.

Kaiser scrambled to her feet and immediately jumped into the air to catch her opponent with an Enter the Dragon flying side kick. Ayano tried to get her arms up in the way of the blow but stumbled backwards from the force of the blow regardless. Quickly she found her balance only to receive three stiff chops across her chest from Kaiser before Artemis spun around and caught her across the temple with a back heel kick. The Warp Drive Dragon dropped down to one knee and wobbled from the force of the blow as she started to shove back up to her feet. The God of Anger bounced off the ropes and came back towards Miko, leaving her feet for the Execution Kick axe kick across the back of her head… and got nothing but air as the Japanese wrestler pulled her head backwards out of harm’s way. Artemis landed on her feet and spun to face her challenger who caught her with a push kick to the abdomen, causing the No Surrender Champion to step backwards a couple of steps before Miko darted towards her, left her feet and locked in an octopus hold, pulling back on Kaiser’s arm that she’d be working over earlier in the match.

Mai: There’s a move you don’t see that often. Wasn’t that one of Jodie Gray’s favorite moves?

Zack: That it was, and it looks Miko has it expertly applied here. That could spell a lot of trouble for the champion.

Quickly Fisk got into position to ask the defending Champion the question, getting a shake of the head ‘No’. Miko pulled back further and further on her foe’s arm, trying to apply as much pressure as possible. Kaiser let out a short cry of pain but still refused to submit to the hold, shaking her head from side to side as Fisk asked the question, trying to pull her arm free of the submission to little effect; Miko wrenching harder on the limb and getting another cry of pain from her foe as she continued to shake her head ‘No’. The Last Empress began to stagger backwards, building up momentum as she refused to tap and drove the wrestler formerly known as Whiskey into the turnbuckles to finally get the release.

Mai: That’s a good way to break most any hold. Look at Artemis, she does have a couple brain cells in that little boy body of hers.

Zack: What does her figure have to do with anything? Not everyone blows their life savings on silicone and Botox.

Artemis walked forwards towards the middle of the ring, cradling her arm as Miko came back to her feet and quickly climbed to the top rope where she measured her foe up. As Kaiser turned to face her foe, Ayano launched herself from the top rope and looked to deliver a meteora only for Artemis to dart forward underneath her, catch her and drive her down into the canvas with a powerbomb. The pair rolled away from each other on impact and lay on the mat for a couple of moments, the referee checking on both before they started to stir, coming to their feet simultaneously. Miko charged forward, leaving her feet and locked in a flying armbar on her opponent. Artemis staggered backwards, leaning against the ropes as Miko tried to pull her off balance and to the canvas only for Artemis to hook an arm over the top rope to stop her before she started to throw knees into her opponent’s body and head.

Mai: I bet Miko thinks it’s raining knees right now, except from the wrong direction. That’s some speed right there.

Zack: I don’t think there’s a speed advantage tonight in this one, or if there is, it’s entirely negligible.

Ayano released the hold, rolling backwards to come to her feet and Kaiser charged towards her with an attempted clothesline from Hell. Miko though, ducks underneath the attempt, spinning around as she did so and quickly applied a rear naked choke on the No Surrender Champion, leaving her feet to apply a body scissors to her as she managed to jerk her down to the canvas and tightened up her grip.

Mai: I enjoy a little choking from time to time, Zack. Lean over here, and I’ll show you what I mean.

The referee checked the hold and then on the Team Canada member as Miko tightened the choke hold as Kaiser tried to find an escape, scratching at her opponent’s arm in an attempt to pull it away from her. The challenger refuses to release the hold and Kaiser’s movements begin to slow. When she stops moving altogether, the referee raises Artemis arm in the air and watches it drop to the canvas. The official does it again and again it drops. Once more Kevin Fisk raises the No Surrender Champion’s arm in the air and lets it drop once more.

Zack: We are one arm drop away from Miko recapturing the title she left behind back at Sin & Sacrifice.

It stops halfway to the canvas and begins to waver in midair, making circular motions as her feet start to kick against the ring mat. Slowly, Kaiser manages to roll onto her front and started to push onto her hands and knees. Miko tried to tighten up the choke and the bodyscissors even further, causing Artemis to start to pound the mat with her fists as her rise came to a momentary halt. Finally Kaiser started to push upwards, getting her feet underneath once more before she stumbled and staggered forwards towards the ropes, dropping to her knees and allowing her momentum to take Ayano throat first into the middle ring ropes. Miko staggers away gasping for air and before she can recover, the Mount Pearl native hurled herself at her opponent’s legs, taking the Japanese wrestler down to the mat with a chop block. Quickly the Last Empress forced herself to move, grabbing hold of her foe’s feet as she pulled her into a Haas Of Pain submission hold.

Zack: I didn’t see that one coming, and neither did Miko either! The challenger is in a whole world of trouble now!

Mai: Yeah, I don’t think they make that shade of nail polish she has on anymore.

Immediately Miko let out a loud cry of pain, as her hand went to her back but refused to submit as the referee asked her the question. Miko let out another loud cry as Artemis pulled back further in the hold, bending her back on herself. Still the Warp Drive Dragon refused to quit in the submission hold, pushing upwards instead and walking back on her arms in an effort to relieve the pressure on her back. It saw Kaiser shake her head and release the hold, rolling away to the ring ropes and pulled herself upwards. She measured the Team Japan member and as Miko came to her feet, Kaiser charged forward, leaving her feet and caught her with a Falcon Punch.

Zack: Big time falcon punch from the champion, and Miko got caught flush with it! And down she went!

Mai: Down and to the side….just like the Zapruder film. No wait, that was down and to the left.

Miko dropped back down to the canvas and rolled to the side, trying to pull herself to her feet only for Artemis to drag her back to a vertical base and whip her into the corner. As the Warp Drive Dragon hit the corner, Kaiser charged in behind her and drove a Falcon kick - running single leg drop kick - into her chest. Miko tried to stagger out of the corner and as she did so, Kaiser lifted her up onto her shoulders before executing a gutbuster. As Ayano hit the canvas, her body spasmed in pain, the girl holding her ribs in agony. Kaiser straightened up and with a smile she pointed a finger gun down towards her opponent, taking a shot at her. Miko tried to start to rise only for Artemis to dive on top of her as she looked to lock in the AK-93 submission hold.

Zack: AK-93! Let’s see if Miko has a plan in mind for this one! She’s managed to escape the other holds eventually!

Mai: I think if she just offers Artemis platform shoes that it might make her feel better and lighten up the hold.

As soon as she tried to lock in the hold, Miko desperately jerked away from her, pulling her arms out of Artemis’ grasp. Kaiser shook her head and pounded the mat in frustration before diving at Miko again as she got to her knees and delivered a European uppercut to the jaw, followed by a second and then a third. The blows brought Miko up to her feet only for Artemis to jerk her head downwards into a single knee facebreaker. The Warp Drive Dragon reeled backwards into the ring ropes and Artemis grabbed hold of Miko’s hand and whipped her across the ring, catching her on the return to pop her up into the air, looking for the Chestburster kick...but Ayano countered with a modified bicycle kick, catching her foe in the face; Miko landing on one knee.

Zack: What a bicycle kick! If this match had pinfalls, she might have put Artemis away right there! But the challenger is hurting too!

Mai: She should be, think how I feel having to call a match between two people I don’t like in the slightest.

Quickly Ayano pushed upwards as Kaiser recovered and got to her feet, Miko launching herself towards her and catching her with the wormhole kick that took her foe off her feet and down to the canvas once more. As soon as she connected, Ayano went to lock in the Cross Armbar on the No Surrender Champion. Kaiser immediately interlocked her fingers, fighting hard to stop Miko from fully extending her arm and preventing her from getting the hold locked in. Ayano tried to separate her fingers by driving her leg downwards repeatedly into Kaiser’s face. Still though the Last Empress kept her fingers locked, preventing the submission hold.

Zack: Artemis is doing everything in her power to keep Miko from successfully applying the submission! It’s a battle of wills at this point!

The Warp Drive Dragon gave up trying to lock in the hold and rolled away to her feet. She waved Kaiser back up to her feet before she skipped forward and into another bicycle kick. Artemis spun out of the way of the blow and as Miko tried to regain her balance the Last Empress shoved her forward into the corner and lunged after her with a heavy elbow strike. Quickly Artemis followed up with another four alternating elbow strikes as her Hate Parade started to build steam as Miko covered up. A series of stiff puroresu style strikes came next before Kaiser started to fire off stiff kicks into her foes midriff. Fisk ordered her to let Miko out of the corner only to see the Last Empress back away to the middle of the ring and charge forward with a running high knee. Miko slumped down to her knees as Artemis wheeled away and took off across the ring to come back with a running facewash that caused Ayano to fall backwards against the turnbuckle pads. Kaiser quickly pulled her opponent out of the corner and into a running bulldog, slamming her face first into the canvas and allowing Kaiser to float over into the AK-93 armlock crossface with a straitjacket applied using Miko’s free arm.

Zack: She’s got it locked in again! And this time, I don’t think there’s gonna be an escape! But Miko is welcome to prove me wrong!

Mai: Huh, I’d like to see her get out of it this time! I’m not liking her chances though.

Fisk dropped down in front of Miko, asking her if she wanted to quit and getting a ‘No’. The Japanese wrestler tried to pull her hands free only for Kaiser to have her held tight in her grip. Still Miko struggled for freedom, her motions starting to slowly fade in the submission hold. When she realised there was no escape route available to her, she submitted to the hold. Fisk immediately called for the bell and Artemis held onto the submission for a long couple of seconds after it finished ringing before she finally released her opponent.

Kat: Here is your winner… AND STILL FFW NO SURRENDER CHAMPION!!! … “THE LAST EMPRESS” ARTEMIS KAISER!!!!

Zack: Miko knew when she was caught, and she did the smart thing! And Artemis Kaiser’s reign continues as the queen of the submission division!

Mai: Well given what she said in her promo for this match, I’m betting she’s very happy about it and maybe even licking her chops for later tonight. I’ll give Webster credit this time.

The Canadian rolled away, holding her arm for a moment as she pushed slowly up to her feet and took her title back from the referee, holding it aloft in one hand while Miko was still trying to recover on the canvas. The screen showed the Global Wars scoreboard, updating the standings with the new points totals before the show cut elsewhere.