Big cheers for OOKAMI no Chi who’s been making a decent name for herself lately, becoming the first four-time holder of the GFP World Extreme Championship. Not so much with the cheers for Diana Tremblay, former number one contender to the World Heavyweight Championship and current World Tag Team Champion thanks to a blatant display of Silas World favouritism at the last event. In a callback to the final moments of Steel This Show, Diana is greeted with a shower of refuse from the stands. She sneers at the fans for the disrespectful act as she enters the ring and locks eyes with OOKAMI, who’s bouncing side to side on her feet and rolling her wrists.
Diana Tremblay vs OOKAMI no Chi
The two competitors circle to start with. As soon as they lock up, OOKAMI opens the bidding with a gutwrench powerbomb and a cover! Diana kicks out and as OOKAMI whips her into the corner, Diana uses the ropes to push herself backwards over the charging OOKAMI’s head, and she drops the wolf-blooded warrior with a sitout neckbreaker for a two count of her own. The early portion of the match continues in much this way, with the two women continuing to trade bombs and kickouts for an almost exhausting amount of time. The closest fall in the first act goes to OOKAMI, from a military press dropped into a sitout piledriver – even Diana seems surprised that she got the shoulder up in time, although of course she doesn’t admit it. The passionate OOKAMI makes the mistake of getting caught up in mourning her chance, and pays the price when Tremblay connects with a big kick to the face.
Diana holds the advantage. She works through a sequence of connecting volleys of stiff strikes, then using a takedown to move OOKAMI into a new position for a new set of kicks or elbows. After a couple of minutes of this her opponent is visibly flagging, and Diana goes for a series of covers, which OOKAMI has either the strength or the deep-coded bloody-mindedness to push out of. Diana lands a running step-up knee smash and covers again, getting a two point nine, and then as OOKAMI gets to her feet, Diana gets yet another near fall with a bridging Aztec suplex. Diana takes a second to scout, and aims a spinning heel kick at OOKAMI as she rises – and OOKAMI throws all she has left into catching Diana in an Argentine rack and, in the same motion, twisting and dropping her on her head! Chasedown bomb! The fans go crazy, but OOKAMI has no energy left even to crawl across and drape an arm over Diana.
The two wrestlers both only just beat the twenty count, and come together in the middle of the ring. Diana goes for a back chop. OOKAMI absorbs and fires back with an open palm jab to the forehead. Diana stumbles, but comes back hard with an elbow smash right across the jaw that whips OOKAMI’s head nastily. But OOKAMI spins and answers with a roaring elbow! Diana drops to her ass, and OOKAMi hits a shining wizard. She covers and Diana kicks out on the two. Diana pushes herself to her hands and knees but OOKAMI’s already coming in with a running dropkick to the face. Diana digs deep and kips up, but her face comes straight into where OOKAMI is already placing a superkick. Tremblay flops down and OOKAMI drops backwards over her and pulls a leg up by the tights. Diana thrusts a shoulder up. OOKAMI pounds the mat in frustration, then stands. She crouches down, perhaps looking for a spear, and launches as soon as Diana stirs – and this time her decisiveness costs her, as Diana stays on the ground and finds a drop toehold to trip OOKAMI and send her headfirst into the ringpost! Diana leaps in with a knee to the spine, then drags OOKAMI back to the middle of the ring and treats each of OOKAMI’s legs to a spinning toehold.
The self-proclaimed God’s Gift to the World signals that it’s time to stop playing OOKAMI’s game and bring things down to her own pace, and she flies into a cross armbreaker as OOKAMI hobbles upright. The niece of Jun Ikeda thrashes and tries to find some way to brace herself, but Diana wrenches back harder. She starts yelling at OOKAMI to tap, but OOKAMI in Chi – teeth gritted, face as red as her ring attire – shakes her head. With a roar, and demonstrating incredible explosive strength, she pushes herself off the mat and into a standing position with Diana caught over her shoulders! OOKAMI goes for a second chasedown bomb, but Diana kicks away and lands behind her. She trips one of the wolf’s ankles out and then drops across her as she falls an elbow spike and a clubbing double axe handle, both to the spine. Tremblay then wraps OOKAMI’s legs up in her own and pulls back her arms with a surfboard stretch. Still OOKAMI refuses to submit, and eventually Diana stands – but keeps the hands held, and drills OOKAMI face-first into the canvas with a kerb stomp!
She goes for a cloverleaf, but OOKAMI manages to roll her into a cradle. Diana pushes out of it, and finds herself schoolgirled back down for a two count. OOKAMI with the jumping knee drop but Diana avoids it and goes for a double chickenwing stretch across the knees. OOKAMI breaks out of it, but Diana spins on her side and manages to reattach, this time with a bow and arrow. After a moment OOKAMI pushes back and manages to roll against Diana into a pin, forcing Diana to let go. Diana pushes out from under OOKAMI and rolls her up for a two count. As OOKAMI rises again, Diana goes for The Gift – no! OOKAMI counters into a hammerlock! She looks for the cobra clutch to set up her Blood Moon, but Diana sandbags forward to flip her overhead. OOKAMI tries to respond by lifting Diana up over her shoulders for a Chasedown Bomb, but Diana twists round and manages to slide in a triangle choke! OOKAMI tries to fight, but after a couple of escape attempts fail she has no choice but to tap out.
Your winner, Diana Tremblay!