Things start off pretty exciting!

"And now, we have the first match between students of the two Hero Courses, where I hear there is a bit of a rivalry going!" Present Mic announced, making Itsuka's eye twitch, and she shot a glare in Monoma's general direction.

Oblivious to her annoyance at his spreading rumors, he shouted down, "Kick his ass, Kendo! Show him Class 1B is the superior Hero Course!"

"...I am SO sorry for him," Itsuka sighed to Izuku, who shrugged helplessly, not holding it against her.

"Moreover, both Midoriya and Kendo are the class representatives of their respective courses, so this is a battle of class representatives as well as a battle between classes! Let's see which class picked the better fighter!"

"Begin!" Midnight shouted before Present Mic could work up any more steam in his long winded intros. Itsuka wasted no time, and went straight for offense, throwing a punch right at Izuku, her first immediately expanding to maximum size.

"Whoa!" Izuku yelped, throwing both of his hands out, and catching the fist in them. The **** of the blow made him slide back, and his arms buckled slightly... Then the first immediately shrunk, letting Itsuka get closer, and Izuku was thrown off balance by the sudden loss of resistance, her other hand already expanded, and swung in a chopping motion at him from the side. With him slightly off balance, he was unable to to defend himself from the blow, which hit him like a tone of bricks, and sent him rolling across the ring.

"Oh, that's gotta hurt!" Present Mic declared as Izuku managed to grip the ground and give himself enough friction to stop his momentum right at the edge of the ring.

"...that was close," he panted, grimacing as he clutched his side. If he didn't know about Recovery Girl, he would have figured that would leave a nasty bruise. He looked up on time to see Itsuka rushing him, swinging a hand she was already enlarging again, aiming to straight up bitch slap him out of the ring. He immediately jumped, clearing the hand, and landing behind her, and whipped around, aiming to rush her and knock her out of bounds.