Scotland's Isla Dawn takes on Canadian ring veteran Nicole Mathews. Video courtesy of the award-winning WWE Network.

It took Nicole Matthews a long time to be a featured competitor in a WWE ring. Therefore, it’s not surprising that once she got the opportunity against Scotland’s Isla Dawn in the First Round of the 2018 Mae Young Classic, she demonstrated tremendous patience in ensuring it ended in victory.

The Canadian ring veteran controlled the pace with her methodical power game, though Dawn’s suplexes and brutally hard kicks gave Matthews plenty to worry about along the way. When it looked like Dawn could be on the cusp of victory Matthews stopped her dead in her tracks with a clothesline.

Realizing that Dawn was critically damaged by the blow, Matthews sprang into action and bent Dawn into a modified Boston crab. Pinning her knee into the back of Dawn’s cranium for added pressure, Matthews made sure the Scottish sorceress had no place to go. Indeed, the tapout was not far behind.

Photos from the Sept. 19, 2018, edition of the Mae Young Classic, including eye-popping images of Nicole Matthews' back-bending Boston crab, Io Shirai's long-awaited in-ring debut on WWE Network and much more.