The last fight of the first half of Monica’s Wrestling Centre’s summer spectacular promised a very intriguing match between two very different wrestlers.

Jaki is the dark-haired muscley powerhouse amazon with immense combat skills, a fact not lost on her curvy blonde opponent Beth Bennett.

As The Referee introduced them and announced they ‘knew what they had to do’, Beth laughed and replied ‘survive’!

But she is selling herself very short there as she is not just a beautiful face - she has strength and wrestling ability of her own and, as Jaki was soon to find out...

The last fight of the first half of Monica’s Wrestling Centre’s summer spectacular promised a very intriguing match between two very different wrestlers.

Jaki is the dark-haired muscley powerhouse amazon with immense combat skills, a fact not lost on her curvy blonde opponent Beth Bennett.

As The Referee introduced them and announced they ‘knew what they had to do’, Beth laughed and replied ‘survive’!

But she is selling herself very short there as she is not just a beautiful face - she has strength and wrestling ability of her own and, as Jaki was soon to find out, she doesn’t enter the Ring of Pain with the intention of being cannon fodder for anybody!

And sure enough, it was clear this was going to be a tough battle with neither wanting to roll over and submit easily and both keen to get their power into play.

Both Beth and Jaki had moments in the ascendency and you could see (and hear!) the sheer effort and hard work they were putting into trying to get the other to submit. These aren’t the kind of girls to give gift-wrapped tap outs!

We saw body scissors, head scissors, leg locks, arm bars, head locks, grapevine pins, arm locks, ankle locks and combination holds throughout as the battle wore on.

They were impressively resisted on many occasions, earning the admiration of all of us who were watching this encounter unfold live. Despite the intensity, the match was also fought in a great spirit with a lot of respect between the two fighters.

By the close of play, one of these warriors did emerge the clear winner but you could see it had been a titanic tussle just by looking at how exhausted both Beth and Jaki were at the end of this one!