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With Candice sitting on the ground with her back to the steel steps, Io rushes toward her and drives her two knees into the face of Candice LeRae! Candice’s whole body goes slack as her head gets squished between the steel steps and Io’s knees. The temporary moment grants Io a moment of peace to try and fix the strings of her gear.

First grabbing the one on the right side, Io tries to loop the strings through the holes but they immediately unloop themselves. She could take the time to try and tie both sides but time is limited at the moment. Her gear is slowly falling apart on both sides and there seems to be nothing she can do to stop it.

The camera catches Candice crawling around the steel steps and away from Io as the champion continues to think of a game plan. Io is able to see Candice moving away in the corner of her eye, and decides to be on the attack rather than be attacked when her guard is down. She decides not to try and tie her gear back together, allowing the strings to at about mid-thigh on both legs.

Io is able to grab Candice by her hair and violently pulls the challenger up to her feet. Candice yells from the pain of her hair almost being ripped out of her head, but her screams don’t concern Io. The champion wraps her around the head of the bent-over challenger, and then quickly lifts Candice into the air and drops her onto the floor with a brainbuster!

Now with Candice down and seemingly out from the brainbuster, it seems like a perfect time for Io to try and strip her. However, it seems like Io might have other plans. The Joshi Judas limps her way around the ring and back over to the table that is still laid out in front of the ramp. Grabbing the edge of the table, Shirai lifts the table off the floor and slides it into the ring. She quickly follows after it by rolling into the ring. With some time to herself now, Io grabs the broken string on the right side of her gear and tries to tie again.

Just like last time, though, it doesn’t work.

Basically giving up on saving her pants legs, Io turns her attention back towards the table. Easily, she is able to open the table legs, flip the table up right, and place it in front of the bottom left corner of the ring. Out of nowhere, Candice slides back into the ring and charges towards Io. Candice tries to dive to hit a chop block on Io’s knee, but somehow Io sensed Candice and jumped out of the way. Then with LeRae still laying on the mat, Shirai jumps up and crushes Candice’s back with a double stomp!

Candice arches her back in pain as Io uses the nearby table to pull herself back up. Shirai shakes her right leg out a bit before standing up and grabbing Candice. Io keeps Candice bent over, hooks her hands, then lifts the Poison Pixie off her feet into the air, before dropping her across her left knee with a Double Underhook Backbreaker! Io drops to the mat in exhaustion and stares up at the lights all while Candice is moaning from the pain.

How the hell is she getting her ass beat up right now? She smashed Io with that tombstone and hit her across the face with the laptop… and this chick still fights back! While Candice is in her thoughts, she doesn’t even realize that Io has made her way back over to her trying to pull off her top! Candice screams as Io lifts the front of Candice’s top a bit to reveal a dark blue bra. The exposure doesn’t last long as Candice kicks her leg up and hits Io right in the head.

Io breaks her grip and has no time to guard herself before Candice jumps on the offensive and rakes the eyes of The Joshi Judas. The champion throws her hands to her eyes to shield them, allowing Candice to grab the strings again and begin pulling them through more loops! More and more of Io’s milky white thighs are revealed on both sides and soon enough both of the strings are ripped away from the gear! Candice throws one of the strings aside, and then wraps the one she has left in her hands around Io’s neck.

The champion starts kicking her feet and flailing her arms around as Candice chokes her. The referee tries to step in but LeRae just keeps yelling “it’s no DQ! It’s no DQ!” With Io trying to escape Candice’s chokehold, each kick has the sides of her split pants legs flail around and reveal the side of her buttcheeks. The champion reaches back to wrap her arms LeRae’s head, then drops to the mat to stun Candice and break the hold!

Candice stumbles backwards and Io is quick to return to her feet to drop Candice with a flapjack. LeRae pops up onto her hands and knees and tries to regroup, but Io makes sure that doesn’t last as she drives her feet into Candice’s face with a dropkick!