Well, the first day of matches saw some pretty interesting events unfold. The night got underway with the pairing of two championship hopefuls in Eliza Dushku and Jessica Biel. By the end of the night, we had seen some brutal slams, painful holds, dirty tricks and surprising finishes. In the end, Kelly Monaco and Jessica Simpson walked away the real winners, pocketing 15 points each for impressive victories. Dushku, Brooke Burns and Christina Aguilera looked impressive in losses, but lose they did and this puts them behind the 8-ball, points-wise. We also filled 6 of our 8 spots in the tag-team tournament that will take place on Saturday. A couple of wrestlers are trying to put “feelers” out to see if they can get in, too. The point-structure will be: 5 points for participation, 3 for a first-round win, 5 for second-round win and 10 for a win in the championship for each team member. Once all 8 teams are in, we will randomly draw the match-ups and announce them as soon as we have them. Hopefully, that will happen this evening. We’ve also had a grievance filed by a competitor regarding activities outside the ring. The accusation being made is very serious and we are looking into the matter intently. When we have details to share, an announcement will be made. Anyway, it’s been an awesome experience so far and we’ve barely gotten started. It’s time to get night two underway, and I see both competitors are in the ring…

Shannon Elizabeth and Sarah Foster will be getting the evening started. The ref has gone over his pre-match instructions and both girls are back in their respective corners awaiting the start. Shannon has been working really hard in preparation for this tournament and is in excellent condition. Her beautiful 5’9 frame looks amazing in her white string-bikini. I mean to tell you, I hope she didn’t pay much for that top, cause there just isn’t much material there at all. Sarah, too, has put a lot of effort into this and admittedly, she started her workouts in better shape than her opponent and it shows. We knew she would tower over most of her competition, being 5’10, but we didn’t realize how hard she would work to get in tip-top shape. There may be a lot of fans out there wishing she’d wrap those legs around them, but you can rest assured that her opponents won’t like it should she get them trapped in there. Her blue string-bikini also leaves little to the imagination as it looks like both girls came out with the idea of getting the crowd behind them.

The ref signals for the start and here we go, night two underway. Both girls approach cautiously, neither wanting to hazardously expose themselves to attack. They lock arms, each trying to exhibit some measure of strength on the other. About 15 seconds of stalemate gives way to a break by both. They circle, still looking for an opening, both seeming a bit surprised at the strength of their competition. They lock again, this time with Sarah starting to move Elizabeth back. After a brief struggle, Sarah has Shannon backed into a neutral corner. The ref has her break and Sarah releases but maintains her position in front of her opponent, trapping her in the corner in a manner of speaking. As Shannon starts back out of the corner, Sarah grabs her hair and bends her into a front-face lock. Shannon, clearly fazed by the ease with which she had been forced into the corner, hadn’t expected such a quick return to action and finds herself bent over and trapped. Sarah pours on the pressure, getting lower and forcing Shannon to bend further down, hurting the supply of oxygen her opponent receives. After about 45 seconds, Elizabeth realizes she is still close enough to the corner and reaches the ropes, forcing a break.

As the ref tells Foster to break the hold, she jerks Elizabeth around and slings her into the center of the ring, tossing her on her stomach. She strides over to her surprised foe, who has just rolled into a seated position with her back to Sarah, and stomps her right between the shoulder blades. She keeps her foot squarely in the center of Shannon’s back, driving her head down between her legs. Again, this is really affecting the amount of oxygen Shannon is able to take in. As she tries to escape, Foster continues to apply pressure and has almost pressed her face down into the mat. This is creating an enormous amount of pain in Shannon’s back, compounding the issues she’s having with her breathing. Finally, she taps a submission, prompting Sarah to break the hold.

As the ref checks the time, Shannon gets back to her feet and moves back into her corner, trying to get her wind back. Shannon, stalking her opponent, follows her to the corner, crowding her and waiting for the restart. As Shannon tries to move passed her, the ref signals the restart and Sarah immediately locks onto the back of Shannon’s head and drives her throat down over the top rope. She leans on Shannon, further cutting the oxygen supply as the ref counts. Once he reaches four, she pulls Shannon’s head up and drives it into the corner buckle, a move she repeats 5 times before strangling her again over the top rope. After another four-count, she turns Shannon and forces back into the corner. As her panting foe rests in the corner, Sarah climbs up into a sitting position on her shoulders, legs securely wrapped under Shannon’s arms. She thrusts forward violently, forcing Shannon into a flip, slamming her down on her back and keeping the head tucked against Sarah’s crotch. Foster then applies a vice-like head-scissors squeezing away at the sides of Shannon’s head. As her face reddens from the pressure, Shannon submits a second time, facilitating the release of the hold.

Sarah gets back to her feet effortlessly, eyeing her opponent as she does. Shannon has gotten into a seated position, shaking her head and trying, still, to get her wind back. She finally starts to get to her feet as the ref signals restart. Sarah immediately grabs her hair, helping get her up then lifts her up and slams her down. A thunderous body slam has Elizabeth rolling to her side trying to rub her back. Sarah scoops her up again for yet another slam, drawing the same reaction from Shannon. She grabs Shannon up again, this time slamming her down over an outstretched knee in a bone-crunching back-breaker. Shannon grunts her disapproval as the pain pulses through her. Sarah clasps her fists together and drives them down into Shannon’s exposed belly as she lies, bent helplessly over the knee. Sarah continues to punish the mid-section of her defenseless foe with 7 more punches before finally discarding her to the floor. As Shannon tries to curl into the fetal position, Shannon grabs her hair a pulls her up off the mat again. She swings Shannon into the corner, slamming her back again and drawing more grunting from her weakening opponent. She confidently strolls over to the corner, grabbing Shannon by the wrist and sending her across to the opposite corner. As she starts to release Shannon, though, the move is reversed, diving Sarah into the corner. Sarah’s back takes the impact, but her face shows bewilderment as opposed to pain. Just a second ago, she was abusing her enemy, able to do whatever she wanted. She didn’t think Shannon had anything left, considering the two tap-outs.

Shannon approaches her stunned opponent and wraps her hands tightly around her throat, literally trying to squeeze the life out of her. The ref starts his count and Shannon releases at four only to start again. The ref again gets to a four-count before she releases. Shannon then starts driving her fists into Sarah’s rib-cage. One after another, right then left, she works Sarah’s ribs. The ref breaks the torture by stepping in and forcing Shannon back. He tells her she has to let Sarah out of the corner. Shannon obliges by grabbing a handful of Sarah’s blond locks and dragging her to the center of the ring. Sarah is gingerly holding her ribs as Shannon moves around behind her. Shannon wraps her arms around Sarah’s unprotected head and clamps on a sleeper hold. Instantly, Sarah’s hands move up to try and break the hold, but Shannon has it on tight. She starts to feel a weakness in her knees and tries to fall to the mat, but Shannon is strong enough to hold her up. Without the support of her legs, the hold is stinging her neck with pain. Sarah realizes she’s in a world of trouble here and submits, causing Shannon to release the hold and allowing her, finally to drop to the mat.

Sarah tries to clear her head during the break, but she’s clearly having all kinds of trouble. She’s on her hands and knees trying to crawl to a corner as the ref signals restart. Shannon, who had stayed right beside the bewildered blond the whole time, drives a kick into the right rib cage area, forcing Sarah to flop over on her back. As she completes her flop, Shannon drops her knee down on Sarah’s left rib cage. She then grabs Sarah by the hair, standing her, then lifting her up and dropping her right rib cage across an outstretched knee. Sarah bounces off of the knee and lands on the mat, clutching the wounded area. Shannon then drags Sarah up again, this time locking her into a full-nelson. She drops Sarah down to a seated position, maintaining her hold, and wraps her legs around Sarah’s waist, crushing her ribs in a leg-scissors. Sarah’s ribs are on fire with pain and she shrieks a very quick submission.

Shannon stands above Sarah through the break, Sarah making no move to escape. At the restart, she drags Sarah up again and latches on an abdominal stretch. As she secures the hold, she drives her right fist into that right-side rib cage again and again, drawing a third submission. This time, Shannon is overcome with the feeling of domination and she continues to punish her foe through the four-count before she releases her. After her early-match woes, Shannon has shown a skill for isolating an area and punishing it to the maximum of her opponent’s endurance.

At the restart, Shannon again grabs her foe off the mat, this time clutching her wrist and violently twisting the right arm over her head. This puts an enormous amount of pressure on Sarah’s right shoulder. Shannon seizes another opportunity and drives a kick into her once-again exposed right rib cage, sending Sarah to a knee. Sarah is reeling from the pain in her rib cage and her arm is lit up with pain, too. She starts to see that she has not only lost control of the match, but has been made unable to either defend herself or counter her attacker’s aggression. Shannon has effectively beaten her down. As she considers her fate, Shannon, yanks her up again by the arm and twist it even further. This time, though, Sarah does counter. Her feeling of defeat yielding to anger, she twists Shannon’s right arm now. She then bends the arm and yanks, really pressuring the shoulder socket. Again she yanks the arm, drawing pain-filled screams from her challenger. Now she steps back and, as was done to her before, drives a kick into Shannon’s ribs. Shannon hit a knee this time and as she does, Sarah steps over the arm, straddling it. She leaps into the air and comes down on the outstretched limb right above the elbow causing a hyper-extension of the elbow and pressuring the shoulder socket again. Shannon collapses to the mat with Sarah still holding the pain-stricken limb.

She continues to hold it as she drops a knee into Shannon’s shoulder. Shannon’s arm is chicken-winged back and Sarah is grinding her knee into the shoulder, really pouring on the pain. Finally, Sarah grabs Shannon up by her hair, releases the arm and lifts her into another powerful body slam. As she slams her nemesis, though, her ribs remind her of the beating they took earlier. As the pain courses through her, she staggers away from Shannon, who is trying to rub the pain out of her shoulder.
Shannon sees an opportunity and gets herself up, heading towards Sarah. As she approaches, though, Sarah sends a quick side-kick into her unsuspecting belly. With Shannon bent over, Sarah slides her arms around her head and drops her in a devastating DDT. Shannon had no way to protect her head as it was driven into the mat and her body shudders as it lays, face down. Sarah rolls her over, covering for the pin: 1, 2, 3. She looks into Shannon’s glassy eyes and says, “I never thought you would put up that kind of fight. Good luck the rest of the way.” With that, she crawls out of the ring and heads to the back. Her partner for this weekend’s tournament, Kristanna Loken meets her at the top of the ramp. She sees how hurt her partner is and helps her to the dressing room. Shannon finally comes to her senses, realizes she has lost the match and staggers off to her dressing room.