By the time Artemis and Lia Labowe finally stepped onto the mats, almost everyone staying at the FightingStyle villa had come outside to watch.
For days, this was the fight people had been talking about.
Artemis arrived at the Fighting Style summer event as one of the most technically skilled women there. With a background in traditional martial arts and experience working as a female police officer in Germany, she came to the annual gathering specifically looking for demanding, realistic physical competition that could test her fighting ability under pressure.
Lia Labowe offered exactly that.
The experienced American catfighter had spent years wrestling and fighting other women and quickly established herself as one of the strongest competitors at the event. As Artemis and Lia worked their way through matches against other women during the week, both winning repeatedly, conversation around the villa naturally began turning towards one question:
What would happen if Artemis and Lia fought each other?
Most FightingStyle summer matchups developed informally. Women would talk around the villa, challenge each other and eventually agree to meet on the mats. One afternoon, Artemis and Lia found themselves sitting together beside the swimming pool when the familiar debate started again.
This time they decided to settle it.
They agreed to fight that night under an unusually rough catfight submission wrestling ruleset. Submission grappling would form the foundation of the match, but full-contact face slapping and hair pulling would also be permitted.
For Artemis, that was important.
She wanted opponents willing to push beyond ordinary controlled wrestling and give her the kind of intense resistance she believed could better prepare her for real physical confrontations. Very few women at the FightingStyle events were willing to compete at that level of roughness.
Lia was.
The two women deliberately waited until the Greek sun had disappeared so the intense summer heat wouldn't shorten their fight. At approximately 9pm they returned to the outdoor mats expecting a long, exhausting contest.
Then the rain came.
Under the darkness of the Greek night, with rain falling around the villa and spectators gathered alongside the mats, two of FightingStyle's strongest female fighters finally collided.
Traditional martial arts experience met years of competitive catfighting as Artemis and Lia wrestled, grappled, pulled hair and exchanged hard open-hand strikes while attempting to force submissions.
This wasn't simply another FightingStyle women's wrestling match. It had become the unofficial showdown of the summer.
For fans of Lia Labowe wrestling, Artemis FightingStyle, competitive women's catfighting, female submission wrestling, hair-pulling catfights, face-slapping fights, outdoor women's wrestling and martial artist vs catfighter matches, this rain-soaked encounter captures everything that made the Fighting Style summer gatherings unique.
Two elite competitors. A villa full of spectators. No excuses from the heat.
Just Artemis and Lia Labowe fighting deep into a rainy Greek night to answer the question everyone at FightingStyle had been asking:
Who was the best female fighter at the villa that summer?