BEFORE: Lively in with one of the best top-20 veterans...is she ready? "I'm more than ready," Blake contends in prefight. "I'm younger, taller, harder...Eva's soft momma-bear curves don't impress me one bit. My legs will dominate the fight - dictating every second to her. You'll see me enveil the classiest jab of my career...this is going to be a text book destruction of a girl who's been hanging on way too long in this sport!"

Larue unconvinced, playing the 'show me' card in rebuttal. "Blake's a one hit wonder," Eva says, referring to Lively's stunning KO win over Charlize Theron. "She's seriously under-nourished in terms of round-minutes, and I'm going to prey on her inexperience. She thinks she'll box me: she can't outbox me. When she realizes that, she'll try to out slug me, and I'll knock her out. Pride is her only real weapon, and once I've broken her spirit, she won't even have that. I agree that Blake can be a force in the future, but right now, she's a Maria Menounos level blonde with delusions of Yvonne Strahovski running through her head. That's just going to get her hurt in this fight!"

Blake in beige push up bra with white knit ballet shrug covering her arms and upperback (but exposing the chest); white bikini bottoms; beige gloves; long blonde hair loose/tangly. Eva in green sport top; baby blue bikini bottoms with silver belly chain; white gloves; brown hair loose/tied off her face over either ear.

During R1: Blake in wide stance/forward aspect, looking to place left jabs: Eva dukes up,weaving, looking to counter. Lively getting it done: jab off front (left) leg is stiff - penetrating and surprising Larue. Dip-n-dig left uppercuts off left leg short, jagged to Eva's ribs/tits, backing Larue off/leaving her susceptible to right-hand chasers. Larue caught backing away midway through - hard right hand to chin turns her head, loosens her knees: Eva retreats to ropes, digs in behind earmuff. Confident blonde pursuit: Lively hard-eyed, sets up off Larue's bow, shelling defenses via hard jabs/leaning in righty to keep Eva pinned down. Comprehensive blonde bell-to-bell domination in the first.

R2: Eva closing stance - pointing left shoulder at Blake; dangling left hand; weight on right (back) foot, setting herself to counter. Blake in forward aspect, long legs wide-spread: she's rifling in the jab, looking to clean up righty. Larue much better reading/countering this round - biting off short hook receipts inside Lively's jab, scoring to tits or chin; shooting sharp right hands over top Blake's jab, ticketed for chin. Lively punished, but bravely facing into punches: meanwhile, Larue's weaving head movement/slide-stepping mini-retreats lowering blonde accuracy. Eva dipping low/coming up with left shoulder hard under Blake's chin while tying up/turning her...cute veteran moves helping to manage youthful vigour. Larue reverses the tide, touches Blake up for points.

R3: Eva slips under Blake's jab - Lively's left hand missing over Larue's left shoulder: brunette answers back a vicious, swinging right to Blake's leftside ribs, crippling blonde ingenue a minute in. Lively grimacing, blinking away tears: she retreats to ropes, sets up peek-a-boo as Eva wades in. Brutal, close-in clean-up - Eva on Blake: Lively pushing her head in between Blake's mitts, punishing the body, pushing on Lively's inner-elbows to wrestle apart the guard. Lively suffering, trying to lock up her long-sleeved arms around Eva's head...bumping and slugging at close-quarters favours compact brunette. Down the stretch - desperate Blake slugging wildly off the ropes: right uppercut picks up Eva's chin, putting her wobbly butt, forcing her to clinch. Larue hurt, takes her chips off the table, clinching/bodying Lively into ropes, securing the points before blonde girl can build on that good shot.

R4: Blake banged up, but resolute: she takes midring in forward aspect, looking to reclaim initiative. Larue calmly countering out of the closed stance - neatly rolling Lively's jab with the left shoulder now, answering back sneaky screened right crosses/right uppercuts; catching Blake whirling check-hooks off the back (right) leg. Blonde girl stubbornly pressing her offence up the middle for diminishing returns: Larue answering back and scoring at will. Down the stretch, clapping hook takes Blake on the mouth, finally unhinging her knees...blonde girl stumbling to her left, punched out of her stance, pursued to ropes. Blake butt-in-cables, stooped forward in earmuff: Larue heaves in a thick right hand hand behind blonde left elbow, shaking Lively to her toes before administering general beatdown to either flank.

R5: Blake's blazing eyes, flaring nostrils, bared teeth signal a change in tactics as she lunges off her stool: Larue reads the signs, adjusts on the fly to anticipate and neutralize young blonde ferocity. Free swinging, lust-for-life haymakers from Blake: Larue covering up, dipping inside the arm-span of blonde punches, allowing them to wrap about her shoulders while Eva shrugs home short, sharp counters to ribcage. Lively panting, whining as she brawls her heart out: Larue so calm in the pocket, weaving shots, picking apart long blonde torso, really sapping Lively's legs/will. Final minute sees Larue crowd Blake to ropes - still letting the blonde get off wide n' wild while dipping inside to score points. Eva making a point of humbling Lively's full breasts with a late-round shrugging shoe-shine: Blake losing composure, shrieking at ref to do something about Larue's jug mugging!

R6: Eva overestimating the damage done: she brazenly walks in to clean up...spearing herself on the end of Blake's still-potent left jab! Lively circling to her left in long-legged stance - weight on front (left) leg, right heel up off canvas as she denies her tormentress. Middle minute sees Larue continuing to force the issue up the middle - now eating right hands as well as jabs - accumulation of which puts her wobbly-butt. Larue convinced, backs off, goes over to defence: blonde girl stalks her brunette from a respectful distance - jabbing Eva around the ring to secure points.

R7: Blake stays with the boxing look: Eva shifts to closed-stance, neatly countering Blake inside and out of her jab. Larue picking Blake apart with good variety: left hooks whirled off the hip to blonde teeth or tits; right hands chopping quick to chin, or swinging thick to ribs. Lively mouthbreathing by the end, touched up, but very brave...she's still trying to hurt Eva through 7.

R8: Eva ducks under a Lively one-two: Larue up out of the crouch with a swinging right to jaw punches blonde girl to her back a minute in! Lively hurt, slow to rise, but defiant with ref: she sets up shabby/determined at ropes. Eva wades in - encounters free-swinging blonde desperation - Lively hurling leather, blonde hair across her eyes as Larue is forced back to midring. Eva eventually able to lean inside Lively's stroke, carrying thumping leather into blonde breadbasket and ribs: grimacing Lively wrapping either arm acround Eva's brown shoulders, gasping in receipt, hanging on for breaks. Larue smudging Blake's jugs when clinched, working her forearm in on meat as poor Lively whines in protest.

R9: Blake rallies off the deck, shows her heart, shows discipline in resuming forward aspect/good boxing form to issue a steady stream of punishing jabs early. Larue forced to weave-and-retreat - circling to her right with a little frown of concentration. Sporadic counters from Eva potshot Blake, but Lively basically in command at midring, turning and rejecting Eva's angling assaults. Lively stabilizes her front, frustrates Eva for points as Larue can't close the show. Blake even spanking a few revenge-jabs off Eva's plump rack throughout the 9th.

R10: Blake continues to bang Larue lumpy with that jab - long blonde poke more than a nuisance as Eva can't penetrate. Larue forced onto her back (right) leg, looking to counter from closed stance: Lively pivoting clockwise, keeps up a steady pounding dose of lefts, punctuated by drilling, long right crosses. Larue unhurt, but clearly defensive as Blake takes the 10th. Comes back UD10 Eva Larue.

After: Blake punished, but unbroken: proud young blonde looking dejected, but pundits recognizing several signs of growth and maturity from Lively's effort. "I let her off the hook," Larue shrugs - left side of her head puffy and sore from Blake's pounding poke. "I could hit her and hurt her at will, but I underestimated her resiliency. Blake Lively wants to be a fighter - doesn't always know how, but you knock her down and she will get up swinging. She's a determined girl - I thought I'd break her will with my body attack, but the kid hung in there. Not a lot of blondes I know can say that!"