Second, balancing pages so that they’re not too long or too short is important.  Even i was getting tired of the Sabrina match by the end, but it was an important match so I can’t see it being much shorter than it was.  Only 1 page per match is too short unless the match is almost over before it starts; but, one way to get through all the matches faster would be to have someone summarize them, or show a ‘highlight reel’, or something else that has some of the matches happen ‘off screen’.  Some of that could happen when the girls go to the bar, and someone there could tell them what they missed.  Of course, this assumes that some of the matches could be skipped without it effecting the story.  If they are important to the story they should be shown, and they should take as long as they need to take to tell what happened in them; both with the number of pages needed, and the number of panels per page needed.  If the story became too formulaic it would be boring, but having a basic idea how long the matches should take is good for general pacing.

-A. mouse

Pacing is one of the great arts in storytelling, and can never be completely reduced to fixed formulas.