WARNING STRONG VIOLENCE AHEAD

Welcome back to 31 Days of Deathmatches Volume 2. The second edition of the annual deathmatch advent calendar put together by yours truly. Each day we will open another bloody door on the calendar and explore another deathmatch until we hit Halloween. We’re going to explore a ton of different companies, wrestlers, and stipulations as the days go on with a few surprises here and there. So, strap in as we prepare for another round of blood, broken glass, and barbed-wire on our road of deathmatches. This is our first guest spot as SteelChair’s own French Nygma brings her own pick of a violent bout to the calendar.

Taya Valkyrie and Tessa Blanchard had a long and complex feud, for as long as I can remember. Valkyrie tried multiple times to grab the Knockouts belt off Blanchard’s waist but, at Homecoming PPV, Gail Kim as a special guest referee of the title match was so pissed off at Tessa she helped Taya become Champion (the longest ever reigning Knockouts Champion, as time will show us). This Street Fight is in fact Homecoming‘s rematch. When it was announced this title rematch would be a Street Fight, it was not a surprise.

Blanchard jumped on Valkyrie on the ramp but Valkyrie started kicking her down to the ringside apron. Blanchard grabbed a chair and set it between the ropes in the corner, tried to whip Valkyrie into it, but Taya put the brakes on, hits a go-behind, a hard German suplex, a few kicks to the spine, and some elbows. She tossed Blanchard out of the ring and tried to dive, but ran into a cookie sheet. Blanchard mocked Valkyrie and tossed her between the ring post and the barricades. She grabbed a chair and threw it into Valkyrie’s head, before hitting a running dropkick into the chair. Taya connected with a kick to the gut and a shot with the cookie sheet. She charged but got back body dropped into the crowd, she grabbed a beer from a fan and smacked Blanchard with it. Valkyrie tried to jump off of the barricade, but Blanchard cut her off and grabbed a chair, wrapped it around Valkyrie’s head, and slammed her into the ring post. Blanchard grabbed some spare cable and started choking Valkyrie with it. She bailed on that and tore the other shirt off of Valkyrie’s ring attire, spat on it, and tossed it into Valkyrie’s face. Blanchard tossed loot into the ring, charged at Valkyrie but Valkyrie drop toe held her into the chair that was set up in the corner to take the momentum.

She connected with clotheslines, then a series in the corner and a running double knee strike. Valkyrie set the sheet metal between Blanchard’s legs and golf swung a chair into the metal. Blanchard countered a Road to Valhalla and started laying in shots with a chair. Blanchard tossed a bunch of chairs into the ring, slammed Valkyrie into one of them, and tried to go up top. Valkyrie recovered and threw a chair into her face. Valkyrie went up top now and hit a Samoan drop onto a chair. They traded chops and slaps while seating on chairs, Valkyrie folded up her chair and kicked it into the face of Blanchard. Blanchard speared Valkyrie into a table in the corner, but the table didn’t break, the second time too. She grabbed another table, tossed it into the ring, set it up near the corner, and draped Valkyrie on it. Blanchard went up top but again was cut off. Valkyrie pushed her to the outside, then climbed up to the top rope and jumped onto Blanchard on the outside. Valkyrie tried to set up her STF variant but Blanchard kicked her off. She got set up on the table after a knee from Valkyrie. The table partially collapsed, but Valkyrie got a double stomp through the table to retain her title.

Impact Wrestling have never been afraid of putting his Knockouts in danger. Last Knockout Standing, Six Side of Steels, Monsters Ball, female wrestlers have always been put on the same level as men. All we could expect from this Street Fight was a certain level of violence to fit the hate between the two Knockouts, and also the Mexican crowd who is so used to hardcore wrestling. And it was violent, it was hardcore, it was IMPACT. Some would say women should not wrestle this way, my advice for them would be to look elsewhere while some are enjoying it.

All images, screenshots, and videos courtesy of Impact Wrestling and Basil Mahmud