Tatiana is Stunned by Juliana at the Tournament at the Mansion

The 2025 Tournament at the Mansion is underway and it began with an intense first match, not to mention a shocking outcome that no one saw coming.

Featuring eight fighters, the 2025 Tournament at the Mansion format is that each fighter has 3 preliminary matches followed by a single elimination playoffs. Everyone will make the playoffs and will be seeded from one to eight based on their preliminary match results.

Each match is two five-minute rounds. After each round judges will award one or two points to the fighter who is deemed to be the most dominant during the round (sort of like a boxing match). Points can also be obtained during the round for a submission (3 points) and 10 second schoolgirl pin (1 point). Finally, bonus end of round points can be obtained for having your opponent trapped in a bodyscissors or schoolgirl pin (1 point) when the clock hits zero, or for a headscissors or bodyscissor plus rear naked choke combo (2 points).

The first match of the tournament displayed the return of the undisputed Underground Mixed Wrestling Club Championship Belt Holder Tatiana, going up against gym girl Juliana. As the current champion belt holder, former From Dusk to Dawn Tournament champion, and owner of a 9-0 recored, Tatiana was highly favored to win this match.

Meanwhile, Juliana has been absent the Kinksports Underground Mixed Wrestling Club for almost a year, however she is in great shape and does hold an undefeated recored of her own at 2-0.

Tatiana has about a  7 pound and 3 inch height advantage over Juliana, and a considerable upper body strength advantage. It was thought that Tatiana also had a lower body strength advantage, but as the match got underway it appeared that both had equal leg strength.

Juliana's leg strength was a big surprise to many watching the match as they had been accustomed to seeing Tatiana using her superior leg power to dominate other women. However, in the match Juliana was not having it and found herself overpowering Tatiana at times.

This became a defensive battle as both fighters struggled to get a submission on their opponent. The fight went back and forth with one taking control for a few seconds, only to find themselves reversed and being controlled a few short seconds later.

Seeing these two roll around on the mats was like watching an old cartoon where cats and dogs start fighting and the artist just draws a much of smoke with parts of the animals randomly appearing on screen for a second or two before being engulfed by the smoke again. As both Tatiana and Juliana were wearing dark clothing, it was sometimes difficult to see who was winning.

In the end this match could have gone either way, an upset in itself as Tatiana was expected to start the tournament off where she had left off with a dominating win. Half of the crowd gasped when the referee announced that Juliana was the winner.

Though with all of the back and forth wrestling, Juliana was able to secure a 10 second schoolgirl pin in the middle of one of the rounds where she showed complete dominance over Tatiana for a short period of time as the champion laid on her back, head stuck between the surprisingly strong thighs of Juliana, looking up at her opponent in shock.

As the announcers noted at the end of the match, overall Tatiana is the better athlete of the two and slightly stronger, but Juliana proved to be the slightly better grappler and wrestler. Juliana also had an impressive rear naked choke and bodyscissor combo during the match where she jumped on Tatiana's back and locked her up with her legs and arms.

Of course Tatiana had her moments as well, securing tight bodyscissor holds and lightening quick take downs.

Overall this match was fast paced with lots of intensity. Juliana came into this match as the second least likely to win the tournament, but all of a sudden it seems unsurprisingly if we don't see these two rematch each other in the semi-finals or possibly Championship.

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