Not a chance

Just as Io is able to stand up straight, Toni reappears and locks the champion into a side headlock. Toni cranks on the headlock, squeezing Io’s head with all her power. This match has not been going Io’s way since the very beginning. Ever since “The Joshi Judas” got slapped across the face at the start of the match, she has barely been able to hold the advantage.

After keeping Io in the headlock for a bit, Toni transitions her right arm to be under Io’s chin. This releases the side headlock and allows Toni to flip Io over onto her butt with a snapmare. Io grits her teeth from the impact, then shouts out her pain as Toni quickly delivers a forearm to the back of Io. Toni is quick to stay on the offense and forcely yanks Io up off her butt and into a standing position.

She then lifts Io into the air with a suplex but Io is able to land on her feet as she goes over! Io is able to free herself momentarily before grabbing Toni herself and dropping her with a neckbreaker. Toni grabs her neck from the impact and Io is relatively quick to her feet. She grabs the wrist of Storm and stands Toni up. Io sends Toni to the opposite side of the ring with an Irish whip. As Toni bounces off the ropes, she throws her arm out to hit a clothesline.

Toni swings her arm forward, however Io ducks the move then performs a leg sweep. Io’s leg catches the front of Toni’s ankles and causes her to trip and fall face first onto the mat. The audience laughs at the grounded challenger as she lays on the mat with her face down and ass up. Toni’s large butt, of course, being emphasized by its position and stretching of her pants.

Io Shirai runs over and hits a hard dropkick right into the ass cheeks of Toni Storm, causing Toni to throw her hands back to her butt and kick her feet from the pain! Toni groans from the hit, but rubs her hands against her butt does seem to massage the pain. Her hands being there doesn’t soften the blow of Io delivering a soccer kick right across Toni’s ass cheeks. The hit causes Storm to slide forward and lie flat on the mat. To pull Toni back to her feet, Io grabs a hold of Toni’s right wrist to drag her up.

Once both women are standing, Io performs a knee lift into the midsection of Toni to bend her over. With Toni now bent over, Io hooks Toni’s arm back and throws her left leg over Toni’s head to lock on an abdominal stretch in the center of the ring. Io has her right leg wrapped around Toni’s leg and left arm, making Toni carry all of her weight with no way of escape. While holding the submission, Io digs the point of her right elbow into the rib of Toni to add an extra bit of pain. Toni can be heard yelling in agony and the longer this submission stays locked in, the louder the yells gets.

With “The Joshi Judas” keeping her grasp on blonde Kiwi, Toni drops down to one knee. Io nods her head in excitement. This is exactly what she needs to have happen. If Toni slowly loses all her energy to fight Io, she will have no way to save herself from being stripped. Io takes her elbow off Toni’s side and moves her hand to Toni’s pants. This might have woken something in the challenger, as suddenly Toni pushes herself back to both feet. Seemingly in seconds, Storm jumps off the mat and throws herself backwards to drop Shirai with an unconventional Samoan drop!

Now both women are down on the mat together. Io holds her hands to her red bra, either trying to hide it or maybe thinking of what could come next. Toni, on the other hand, lies on her side taking deep breaths as she tries to regroup.