Freida Pinto vs. Zoe Saldana

Freida is a sportswoman, and approached the match as such, a smile and an offered handshake. Zoe . . . took the handshake, but was not very sportswoman like during the match. Freida put up with it and landed some pretty solid moves. At one point, she had Freida in a Boston Crab. In this tourney, there were no rope breaks. Zoe was forced to twist and kick until Freida’s grip was lost.

Zoe got up to her feet pretty quickly thanks to the corner ropes, and Freida let her up. Probably a mistake, really. Freida went for an elbow check, to ram her fellow actress into the corner, but Zoe spun out and let her eat it instead. Zoe moved swiftly after that, grabbing Freida by the hair and ramming her head into the turnbuckle three times in a row. Zoe grabbed her opponent by the hair and turned her around, letting the women face each other. With her belly open, Zoe laid into her with three consecutive knee strikes to Freida’s abs. Freida doubled over, clutching her stomach, but was forced back up by a chop across the chest.

Zoe then followed that up with a monkey flip that flung the Indian woman into the center of the ring. Freida clutched her back as Zoe climbed to the second rope. Freida rolled onto her hands and knees as Zoe took to the air and crashed her elbow into Freida’s back, laying her out flat.

It took a moment for her to recover, but Zoe user her dominant position to hold Freida down. Straddling the Indian’s shoulders, Zoe wrapped her fingers underneath Freida’s jawline and pulled her back in a camel clutch.

Freida’s hands flailed and she kicked in expressions of pain, but soon adjusted to the hold and began working to free herself. Freida tried to get up to her knees, but Zoe pulled back to far for that to work. neither could she muscle out of the hold. She bucked her hips up to try and dislodge the Dominican woman, but did not do so entirely.

But she did see an opportunity.

With one more buck, she used the reprieve it provided to get to her knees and then push herself up from underneath Zoe. Zoe held on and turned the move into a hanging sleeper hold. This almost brought Freida down again, but she stabilized herself and rammed Zoe into the turnbuckle back first. The first blow rocked Zoe, but the second one she was ready for. After the slam, she locked her legs around the turnbuckle and held on. Freida tried to pull away, but like a chain leash holding a pit-bull, it didn’t give.

Zoe pulled her back in and then leapt off the top rope. She spun around Freida and planted her in the canvas with a DDT. The momentum of the driver flipped Freida onto her back, leaving her in an absolute daze when Zoe applied the finishing blow: a face sit that would make J-Lo proud.

Freida was left a quivering mass on the mat within seconds and Zoe moved on, ready to face Grace Park in the next round.

With the day’s matched finished, the Open Rounds also began. Eliminated combatants could be asked by patrons (or request it themselves) to perform in a match of their choosing. They could accept or decline as they saw fit, but they were now fair game for each other.

The tournament may have narrowed, but I figured there’d be about the same number of matches.

Made me wish I could make a request, but as the help, I got diddly.

Winners:
Jessica Biel vs. Eliza Dushku
Christina Hendricks vs. Michelle Rodriguez

Losers:
Jessica Alba vs. Anne Hathaway
Grace Park vs. Zoe Saldana
Morena Baccarin vs. Summer Glau
Chiaki Kuriyama vs. Natalie Portman

Challenge Match Applicants:
Rosario Dawson, Lexa Doig, Scarlett Johanson, Freida Pinto

Suggest Away, patrons!