Posted by simguy on 7/10/2009, 9:03 am

BEFORE: "I've dominated Jenny at every stage of our careers for two reasons," says Neve in prefight, "comprehensive physical and mental supremacy. Jenny's a specimen, but I've always drawn her into fights she doesn't want. It's tactical checkmate, every decision she makes: protect her chin, Neve's bangin' her body - checkmate. Go shoulder to shoulder to get respect: Neve's weight of shot is too much - checkmate. Try to stick and move: Neve cuts off the ring and automatically takes initiative - checkmate. Time and again, I've proven the superior woman, and if I have to do so again to hammer the point home - so be it!" McCarthy nodding ruefully, grinning wryly: there's no debating Neve's career edge. "Look at the numbers like a simpleton and you say 'Neve's dominating Jenny' - but the numbers don't tell the whole story. To me - as long as I look at a girl and think 'I can take this slut' - then I'm not dominated, and when it comes to Neve, I can DEFINITELY take this slut! Girl breaks out the baseball bat to the body - no argument; she cuts off the ring as well as anybody in boxing - affirmative - but you know what? Neve can be beaten down at 120. No fancy gimmicks, no big dossier (although big thanks to Rachel Mac - I got the package!) all I'm gonna do is test Neve's 'physical supremacy' toe to toe. Keep chippin' away at a wall and it cracks; that's my strategy!" Jenny in scarlet bikini with the big ring connection at left hip; small black gloves; shoulder length blonde bob. Neve in black lace push up/leopard print bikini bottoms; small black gloves; glossy black hair in tight french twist.

During R1: Gradual, stepping approach - both women pumping out stiff poke, then closing shoulder to shoulder - both girls holding hands cheek-high. Jenny: digging right in behind Neve's left elbow, stuffing up under right breast; double that. Neve: overhand right against Jenny's pate; swinging left loud to waist. Jenny: right uppercut tight to chin; back in under the left breast with the tucking right. Neve: hook-hooking Jenny's right bicep; bashing a short overhand right off Jenny's pate. Back and forth, two-beat blockbusters. Girls keeping dukes up, leaning in nearly head on head; each right there for the other. Punch for punch it's Neve: Jenny's holding her canvas stoutly, but giving up heavy, heavy hits against hairline and liver as Neve pours in broadsides for points. Bell: Neve's cold-eyed stare unmistakable - silently affirming physical supremacy through 1.

R2: Jenny ranging in with jabs, then she's head on head, guard on guard, looking to break Neve's will through main force. Campbell obliging: she's more than happy with these terms. Girls viciously at each other with 2 beat bursts, covering up tightly to receive medicine in turn. Neve working overhand rights in concert with scouring lefts underneath. Jenny digging right uppercuts to brunette ribs and chin - employing the hook to break up the rhythm. Bitter slugging inconclusive for two minutes, but Jenny's stubborn insistence on holding ground causing her to accept a steady drumming of Neve's hooks against rightside ribs and taut tummy...becomes the difference late. McCarthy's output dropping noticeably in the third minute; Neve's pace sustains, her fists clubbing at/bouncing off Jen with the same pummeling fury of the first round.

R3: Jenny stepping to Neve again: standing in front of her; trading with her. Jenny gritting her teeth, grunting as she places right hand in behind Neve's left arm, digging in under Neve's left breast: it's a breathtaking punch - should be winning the fight. In exchange - Neve's ripping her hook clean to Jenny's liver, doubling it up into blonde armpit, then bashing Jenny a right to pate. McCarthy staggering after a minute of withering trade, still refusing to take a backward step: Neve able to concentrate a pair of heartbreaking hooks to liver - popping hips-right, weight on that front (left) foot as she twists into the blow. Jenny gasping a moist little groan - she sinks to all fours in pain, sitting back on haunches to regroup. Mac bravely up before 10, brazenly asking ref to see if Neve can continue! Resume: Campbell marching on McCarthy, attacking her at ropes: blonde with left across her body/right palm-out at her left cheek - Jenny just cringing hurt at the ropes, stoically riding out the storm. Bashing beatdown - Neve unopposed, just setting her hips, ripping her licks and hammering Jenny into stupor through 3.

R4,5,6: Jenny stubbornly ignoring corner advice just to take a half step back and walk Neve into counters: McCarthy growing more and more bullheaded the more Neve appears to be gaining the upperhand. No retreat at midring means Jenny's guzzling Neve's best hooks: rich, meaty strokes delivered with shouts of effort from hamhanded brunette as she beats at blonde body-resistance. McCarthy visibly wearing down, growing groggy: she's sacrificed her body in mindless head-on assaults, determined to slug-with Neve. By the fifth, Campbell able to reach in under Jenny's arms, walk her back to ropes: becoming a simply job of work for Neve to secure Jenny on the aprons, and reduce her with bashing flurries. In the sixth, heroic resistance sees Jenny battle Neve to a standstill midring, but at heavy cost: Neve has the reserves to burn; Jenny can no longer afford punch-for-punch math.

R7: Jenny's breaking down, legs starting to give way: she battles raggedly on, ignoring her corner during the rounds and breaks both. Neve rocking Jenny now, staggering her, walking her down. Hooks rip at waist, then stroke jug, then carom off skull, dazing Jenny, sending her wandering about. Mac sputtering, but bracing herself and swinging - occasionally engaging Neve in exchanges to prevent a brunette jail break. Down the stretch, concerted effort by Neve to place hooks in Jenny's waist fairly chops blonde in half: McCarthy cries out, doubles over, backs away and takes a knee at the bell, visibly crippled.

R8: Jenny won't punk: bridge out, engineering in flames - good ship McCarthy keeps shellin'. Neve clipped a stout right hand on her way in: trade in hooks give Jenny early hope as blonde backs brunette up a step. Neve regroups, steps to Jenny with a tight overhand right to pate, then pops hips to swing the hook home underneath: blonde groaning as she accepts Neve's brutal load. Digging, shrugging shoulder-to-shoulder grinding results: McCarthy stunning onlookers with her resolve, employing short-jerk right uppercuts to Neve's chin, forestalling brunette's work.

R9,10: Neve grimly going at the battered remnants of her blonde: Jenny just as determined to deny Campbell satisfaction. Jenny a badly battered vixen at this point, frequently staggering away from Neve haymakers: it's almost always Campbell walking Jenny down after brutal exchanges. Late the ninth, MAC GOES RACK! Jenny erupting to Neve's jugs with shoulder-shrugging glee - blonde hup-hup-hupping effectively, momentarily stymieing brunette advance. Comes back to haunt McCarthy as Neve OPENS the tenth with a brutal firestorm against Jenny's hooters - carpet bombing assault hammering blonde breathless at ropes. STILL Jenny refuses to capitulate - pushing Neve away, then trying to wade in punching! Neve brushing aside weak blonde attack with a parrying block; hooking her once to gut; bumping her onto her heels, then; hooking her HARD to liver. Blonde sobbing aloud, cringing like she's going down, but Jenny stays up, albeit paralyzed, stooping forward behind her mitts. Neve cleans up; thumping barbarism to the flanks - brunette just tucking in behind blonde elbows, dipping side to side and popping hips to hoist home the hurt. Jenny ashen faced, lips parted, eyes glassy as she leans in, absorbs and refuses to take a knee to the bell. Comes back UD10, Neve Campbell.

After: Jenny crippled on her stool, rapidly tensered up and having her ribs tended to: Neve approaches, offers blonde a professional handshake of acknowledgment for Jenny's hard-nosed, though poorly thought out battling. "Umm - tough fight." Neve assesses in immediate aftermath, hands on hips. "Jenny's just determined to beat me at my own fight, and it's not working. Once again: supremacy. My body, my will overwhelming hers. She's combative as hell, but I'd like to see some kind of acknowledgment from her that I'm the better woman. She's never going to overtake me now. It's time for Jenny to throw in the towel and move on: I'm just too tough a nut for her to crack."