Io uses her positioning

Io keeps her grip as she drops Dakota to the canvas and, before Dakota can even react, Io grabs Dakota’s purple bottoms and rips them down to the knees! Dakota screams out as Io uses her leverage of standing up to easily pull the bottoms past the knee brace and gets the bottoms to her feet. She tries to reach up to her bottoms, but it’s no use as Io gets the small shorts off Dakota, leaving her white thong out for all to see.

After whipping the bottoms off her feet, Dakota’s legs drop to the mat and she immediately throws her hands over the front of the thong. The audience cheers as both women strip each other of their clothes, but some feel bad for Dakota and want her to push on. Dakota, at the moment, is only thinking of all these people seeing her like this. All the fans in the arena, the people at home watching on the USA Network, the viewers that will watch this on the WWE Network, they all see her in a white thong that will show off her butt once she stands up.

Standing up isn’t an option right now because, before Dakota can even move, Io grabs Dakota’s leg and flips her over onto her stomach; exposing the backside of her thong which shows off more of her cheeks than she probably hoped the fans would see. Io steps through and bends Dakota’s right knee under the weight of her legs, and entwines her hands together around the face of Dakota. Io pulls back on her STF hold and Dakota reaches out with her hands in pain. This submission hold won’t win her the match, but Shirai knows that this will wear down Dakota and could drain whatever remaining fight she has in her.

Dakota knows this situation isn’t good: Io has her locked in this STF and continues to pull back, her ass is completely exposed right now and she can’t cover it even with her hands, and there is no way she can fight back right now. She digs her elbows and fingers into the mat and slowly drags herself across the ring. Io pulls herself closer to be able to transition her hold from Dakota’s face and slips her hands around Dakota’s throat. Now Dakota is having the air choked out of her, and this will only end badly if she doesn’t make it the rest of the way.

After a bit of more of crawling, Dakota gets her hands to the bottom rope and pulls herself forward; able to slip out Io’s submission hold and get outside the ring. Dakota rolls under the ropes, is able to quickly get her balance, and looks to her left and right as she stands in the alley way. People. Fans. Just feet away from her, Dakota embarrassingly puts her left hand over the front of her thong and her right is placed over her butt cheek; allowing herself to feel her skin and feel how exposed it is. The Kiwi turns around and looks at the fans that were behind her in the alley way, as the fans clap and cheer.

Those fans could very well be cheering for her, but in her predicament she feels they cheering her being stripped, them seeing her butt, them seeing her white underwear. Dakota looks horrified at this idea, but is quickly brought out of her train of thought as a smack echos across the NXT Arena. She moves her hand from her front and has a hand on each butt cheek after Io Shirai snuck behind her and gave her a slap across the butt!

Dakota turns around to Io, who has a wicked smile on her face and is biting down on her tongue very sex like. However, she is the snapped out of HER head as Dakota swings her hand around and slaps the taste out of Io’s mouth! Io steps back from the impact, and Dakota grabs her by the pants and hair. After throwing her back into the ring, Dakota spins Io around so her head is outside the ring, and connects with a pump kick to the side of her face.