Someone else looking to get to their best is Leanne Evangelista. With Matthews and Echo now both out of her side of the tournament brackets things could prove to be slightly easier for the young woman from the North West. But first she has to get past Mark Evil. This is the most mis-matched pairing I’ve ever seen. The 7 footer Mark Evil, the tallest man ever in FRONTIER, and the 5’1″ petite frame of Leanne Evangelista, the smallest person ever in FRONTIER!
But thankfully for Leanne she has pace in abundance and was soon running rings around the big man, flying across the ring, from the ropes and even leaping through his legs on a couple of occasions. The problem for Evangelista came when Evil caught her and dropped her hard to the canvas. Plucky is one word that I don’t think gets used enough, but I’m bringing it back right here. Leanne was plucky here tonight. Every time she got dropped by Mark Evil, every time she found herself face down on the mat she got herself back up to her feet and back into the match. The fans were beginning to get behind her because of that and she seemed to draw energy from those chants.
Evil went for the Evil bomb but Leanne got a kick into the gut of her opponent as he had her in the air. He dropped her back to her feet and she quickly took him down with a roundhouse legsweep. She lept up to the top rope and as Evil was getting back to his feet she leapt into the air, grabbing his head and bulldogging him to the mat. She tried a cover but the powerful Evil easily kicked out at two. Evil fought his way back to his feet and picked Leanne up for a side slam. But Evangelista wriggled and Evil was losing his grip on her. She got her leg wrapped around his and leaned forwards before throwing herself back, managing the Filipina Legsweep without her own feet even being on the canvas!
She climbed to the top rope once more and pulled off a picture perfect Moonsault, only for Evil to kick out once more. But Evangelista was fired up now and landed a jumping elbow to the jaw, followed up by a headbutt from the middle turnbuckle. Evil was dazed and Evangelista took her chance to take the big man down with a missile dropkick, connecting sweetly on the jaw of Mark Evil! She leapt straight back up onto the turnbuckle and landed another Moonsault, this time leading to a three count and a pass into the Quarter Finals!