REEBOK BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE

Posted by Simguy on 3/11/2001, 12:43 pm.

Before: Liu retiring from the field of bantam battle doesn’t clear things up much—confluences of styles and talent makes the sub 120 belts the slipperiest in boxing. Kiana owns Fishel, but both Hu and Pressly have the Hawaiian Hammer figured out. Dani exposed Jaime last time out, but Pressly’s lithe slugging an adventure for Hu—sooner or later someone has to emerge dominant, impose her will on all the pretenders, and it starts tonight. Hu in black leather bikini, slick ponytail, Jaime in orange bandeau top, light blue bottoms, slick ponytail.

During R1: Hu wants her legs to control this fight—she’s pivoting sharply left, snapping off the hook and using the belly jab to mess with Jaime’s timing. Takes Pressly w minutes to cut off the ring and out her slinging power to work—Hu backed to the ropes, twisting her torso, raising her arms to ward off blows—tactical round to Kelly,.

R2: Kelly continuing to peck away—she’s dancing left, reaching into Jaime’s tight belly with the jab, jumping in sharp right hands from the shoulder, and biting the hook off the blonde’s temple with dizzying accuracy this round. Jaime stalking, left low, right at her cheek, but she can’t get off this round—classy shutout Kelly.

R3: Jaime times Kelly’s belly jab, lashing a licking left hook up and across Hu’s face and DOWN GOES KELLY! Perfectly executed punch completely changes the fight—Hu struggling to beat the count is a wrecked beauty—she sags to the ropes, gloves at her temples, covering up to take a withering beating this round. Jaime doesn’t spare the horses—she ladles on the punishment, sweeping wide, whip armed lefts and rights to the sides, using her elbow hard against the mouth, then curling punches in between Kelly’s gloves. Hu stumbling, moving her head, gi8vinbg up her body—she soaks up horrific punishment this round to survive to the bell—Pressly raising her mitts, nodding as Kelly comes away cut at the hairline.

R4: Another crunching shutout for Pressly. Hu still badly hurt—she reels around the ring in the first minute, Jaime walking her down, snapping in the jab to the face and bending into slashing right hands that chase Hu ropeside. Middle minute—Kelly trying to rope-a-dope, but Pressly freezes her with slicing right hands to the body, fist bouncing loudly off the taut stomach to buckle Hu’s legs, meanspirited beat down in the final minute as Pressly just curls lefts and rights against Hu’s face and ears, cuffing her along the ropes into the corner where a slinging barrage of lefts and rights leaves her staring at the bell.

R5: Kelly not the same fighter without her legs—she bravely stands flat footed and slugs tough in the first minute, but Jaime loves the trade. Midway through, Pressly using the shoulder bump, shakes Hu up, then CLOOCKS the Asian with a slashing overhand right—Hu bending badly sideways looks like she may go down—instead she staggers to the ropes, gloves at her face as Pressly hungrily goes downstairs. Final minute a gruesome display—Jaime standing tall, bending her lean body into whip action lefts and rights behind Hu’s elbows as the Asian cringes forward, trembling on shot legs. Pressly grinning ear to ear as Hu spits blood at the bell.

R6: Pressly all loose and limber with her arms, walking Hu down, opening with a shoulder feint then licking that Trinidad rising hook across Hu’s face to drape the Asian on the ropes again. Kelly busted up, helpless, she bends forward and back slowly, on autopilot as Jaime lets her hands go. First minute has ringsiders screaming for a stoppage—Hu getting torn apart, refusing to go down as Pressly paints hard stays on her prey. Middle minute, Jaime has to slow down, gather herself—she backs away from the ropes and coaxes Kelly to walk into some slapping jabs to the mouth and tummy. Down the stretch, Jaime luring a devastated Kelly forward, blonde just patting that backhand jab to the stomach, suddenly tenses, twists into a crashing right hand on the eye and Hu buckles, nearly going down, straightening sloooowly and Pressly lays in another gobsmacking  right across the face. FINALLY Hu topples, pitching to her back after bending forward one again—she’s out cold—KO6 Jaime Pressly.

After: Hu taken out of the ring on a stretcher—vicious, vicious beating from Pressly one of the blonde’s most devastating performances. Hu in control early, basically got knocked out in the third and somehow pulled it together to take an UNGODLY beating in this one, Pressly happy to punish a willing opponent—still shots of her smiling as she digs into Kelly’s body or cracks back Hu’s defenceless head are chilling.

Reposted by Archer 1/14/10.