User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Volume 2 episode 11: No brakes/@comment-3146930-20141024021616/@comment-24218038-20141025000329

Barbara Dunkelman stated that Yang never gets hit until the end of the fight. Thus never having her semblance activated. She is punched 2 times at the end of the fight and falls unconscious.

Neo was toying with her letting Yang swing and miss.