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00:00Hey, Caprice, everything all right?
00:02Oh, yeah, because we got a problem in ROH.
00:06This match is going for a 20-minute time limit.
00:11Introducing first, let's have a full Dover.
00:14The problem, Marina Shafir.
00:18Marina Shafir.
00:21Definitely won us honor.
00:22Zero hour, one more bout in 59 seconds.
00:27There's less than a minute against top-tier competition.
00:31On the run of a lifetime right now.
00:35Everything coming together.
00:37And this barefoot combat fighter.
00:41Someone's going home with a souvenir here tonight.
00:45Supernova from Moldova.
00:47Test on her hands here tonight.
00:51Her opponent, Tiara James.
00:54Tiara James, a great competitor.
00:58Trained by Damian Adams, who has quite a reputation as a trainer
01:02among the women's division.
01:05Some prized pupils include former ring of honor world champion
01:08Deanna Perrazzo.
01:10I've seen Tiara James in New Japan.
01:12I called one of her bouts there.
01:14Look at this, offering the coat of honor.
01:19This is a trap.
01:21Marina is dangerous on the ground.
01:23Wait a minute, caught there.
01:25Marina didn't even want to pin.
01:28Look at this.
01:30She's staying on it.
01:32Wait a minute, shoots the half.
01:34Don't shake it.
01:37Tiara James grounded.
01:39Look at that.
01:42It's the balance that Marina has is frustrating.
01:47Balance and striking ability.
01:49And the control, ducks to the right.
01:51Clothesline, Marina just absorbing these big clotheslines.
01:55Wants the damage to come.
01:57That just fires her up.
01:59That just gets her going.
02:01Tiara put it on her though.
02:03Yeah, look at that.
02:05These shots here.
02:07Knees in the bread basket, throwing those forearms in tight.
02:09I like it.
02:11I tell you what, I've seen Tiara in New York City, New Japan.
02:13Goodness.
02:16She is well prepared.
02:18But how do you prepare for this?
02:21That's the problem with the body.
02:23It's hard to do it.
02:25And Marina's saying that's what she wants.
02:27She wants that kind of fire.
02:29Marina, man, that transition that she made from MMA wrestling,
02:32being a training partner of Ronda Rousey,
02:34into professional wrestling.
02:37She just brought it with her, man.
02:39She's not here to do wrestling moves.
02:41She's here to win fights.
02:43Those Judo throws, those knees to the stomach, these strikes,
02:46and all this dangerousness, it's hard to prepare for,
02:48especially if you're just training for wrestling.
02:52And James trying to get back to her feet.
02:54But it's Shafir.
02:56Oh, goodness.
02:58Probably as close to a wrestling move as you're going to get
03:00from Shafir right here, that belly-to-back suplex.
03:02Well, and let's be perfectly clear.
03:04All of these Judo throws, these jiu-jitsu moves,
03:06they're all perfectly legal.
03:08Oh!
03:10And she can wipe that down through the back,
03:12driving the breath.
03:14And this confidence.
03:16This is something that when Marina Shafir first came,
03:19we saw her on Dark Elevation, we saw her on Ring of Honor.
03:22Kind of ice.
03:24Yeah, this confidence now just driving her.
03:26She's realized.
03:28That knee's keeping Tiara in place,
03:30getting her from moving.
03:32And it's controlled, too.
03:34Look at the control Marina has here.
03:36Oh, and now a stretch here.
03:38Goodness.
03:40On those pointed shins.
03:42Just trapping Tiara.
03:44Uh-oh.
03:46The lights could go out sooner rather than later.
03:48Guys, Tiara's fading.
03:50She's fading.
03:52Oh, switching the grip.
03:54Oh!
03:56Out of view.
03:58Can't go up the nose.
04:00But look at that.
04:02Transition to that arm bar.
04:04Trying to lock those fingers.
04:06Shoulder scissors.
04:08Tiara's fighting.
04:10But unfazed is Marina.
04:12And this is...
04:14What's crazy about this is Tiara...
04:16Yeah, Tiara James, one of the fastest
04:18rising independent stars right now.
04:20Marina is just very calmly
04:22almost treating this like a sparring.
04:26Oh!
04:28This is beautiful.
04:30From Marina, spreads the legs in,
04:32turns around.
04:34Mother's milk is locked in.
04:36Daddy's eat you, choke you, put you to sleep.
04:38Mother's milk.
04:40Mother's milk.
04:42Tiara James fading.
04:44The movements, the legs.
04:46And she is out.
04:48Stephon.
04:50Goodness.
04:52The winner of this match by record in
04:54summary, the Pugla
04:56Marina Champion.
04:58Look at this.
05:00Staring at home.
05:02One of the homes of everyone who's watching
05:04tonight on Honor Club.
05:06And that, to me, was someone who's
05:08staring a hole at the
05:10Ring of Honor Women's World Television
05:12Champion, Red Velvet, at the World
05:14Champion, Athena. This is a woman
05:16who is confident in her ability,
05:18who has control of everything
05:20that's around her. Marina should be a
05:22victorious.
05:26Fans following this huge victory in pure
05:28action earlier this evening.
05:30The cameras have caught up with Angelico,
05:32who's with Serpentico.