Posted by Simguy on 1/14/2005, 6:57 am.

Before: Dani working hard to get this dangerous fight made--there’s calculated method behind the competitive madness. “A lot of these ‘Dani Busters’ are just bad jokes hoping to get themselves noticed,” says Fishel in preflight. “Mack’s not one of them--she’s the biggest threat of the bunch to my mind. I’m going straight at her to break the back if this Dani-Busting movement before it even gets started. With Allison down, I’ll mop the others up piecemeal. I’ve got a good shot at winning 10-15 fights this year against these girls, so it’s important to discourage the serious fighters first.” Mack looking solid, confident--she’s anxious to make her mark on Dani at last. “This is the year I start phasing Fishel out,” says a brazen Ali. “It won’t be easy, but I want this fight to be the first step in a whole campaign to ease Dan I to the sidelines so I can take over where she left off. We had a lot of other Busters in camp to work with--Bev Mitchell gave me some rounds--Rachel Stevens was a real workhorse. Let me tell you, with the sparring I had for this fight, I know I’m not the only girl who’s going to give Dani hell this year.” Fishel in sporty navy bikini with large baby blue polka-dots, bandeau top supported by bra straps, white shoes and thick white socks rolled down, punching ponytail--Mack in royal blue sports bra, Superman insignia stretched across the rack, snug red super-trunks, white shoes an thick white socks. Brawny stare down--fireplug battlers making somber eye contact,  shaking rounded arms out, rolling their heads, clenching and unclenching jaws in exaggerated fashion.

During R1: Dani wading in, punching as she steps--right hand off Mack’s chin, hook on the jaw, right hand on the forehead--Mack driven ropeside. Fishel crowds in rough with her left shoulder, feet planted and RIPPING hooks to Allison’s breadbasket! Mack in shock--6,7,8 digging blows (picture DeNiro in “Raging Bull” jack hammering away)--breathless blonde finally ties up, legs on the verge of giving. Ref’s break--Dani pushes back in, bodying Mack upright, going to her ribs now with rights--PILING them on--6,7,8--driving in with her upper body to pancake Ali upright and foil the clinch. Dani shoving, resetting, back on the body with multiple chugging hooks. Bell to bell Dani just ON Allison, pumping away one hand, then the other for a hard-charging first. Allison slumped, stunned-grinning Dani mocks her by pretending to warm her hands on Mack’s steaming tummy after the bell.

R2: Allison wades into Dani with the similar short-arm, walking barrage, bashing lefts and rights against Fishel’s head and shoulders, backing her up. Fishel covering, riding it out, then answering back thick body-shots hooks, keeping right hand tight to her chin. Mack soaks it up, then answer back in kind--torrid hooking action to paunch, right hand tucked in under her chin. Back and forth--girls often changing places to work each other over at the ropes, staying close in, bumping heads and shoulders when not working. Bell” neither girl lets up--ref has to enforce a break on jiggling juggernauts.

R3: Dani stubbing out short jabs on Allison’s face, hooking her body, clouting her right hands on the ear--Mack covering up, staggering under the wallop. First minute action--Allison leaning forward off the ropes, dukes at her temples--Dani going short right uppy on the chin, thick right hand on the paunch, right uppy--chin, right hand paunch. Mack frozen, head getting lifted up, body soaking up big booming digs and ALLISON TAKES A KNEE! Dani shouting in triumph, jogging happily away--Mack blowing hard through pursed lips, shaking her head as she gingerly gets to her feet. ON COMES Dani! Fishel bulling in head and shoulders to pancake, then breaking out the crowbar downstairs. Brutal, non-stop work--series of thudding right hands followed by struggling shove-ups, then series of withering hooks, Mack sullen, getting jammed up and belted--she’s discouraged, windblown during the break.

R4: Alli Mack keeping her head in the game, refusing to punk or panic despite some HUGE Fishel minutes. Alli standing her ground in the fourth, bumping up guards with Dani midring, hooking from there to the ribs, doubling up left uppercuts off the body to clip Fishel’s chin. Dani backing up, laying in but not getting off--Alli’s getting good, good ripping leverage on body shots and it’s keeping Dani from answering. Latter half of the round, dose of her own medicine: Mack stacking Dani up brawny, going at her with digging rapidfire hooks or right hands. Thrilling stuff, not really a boxing match: both girls just taking turns pounding away as Fishe; gets sent achy to her corner in the fourth.

R5: Upperhand: Dani. Close, competitive round as girls are getting used to tempo, contact--each pressing in with heads and high guards, looking to bump n’ slug. Alli’s ribs ticketed for destruction as Dani bites hard swiping lefts and rights beneath the breast-line, backing Mack to ropes, then muscling up for the jackhammer stuff. Big red “S” on Mack’s chest takes the hooking of a lifetime this round as D sets her feet wide and pulls lefts into offending rack. Mack peeping in hurt, eyes wincing, tieing up beefy around Dani’s arms for much needed breaks. Dan marching in after ref’s breaks, sorting Mack out with palms on shoulders, then going at her--Fishel starting to club rights and lefts to the ears, mixing things up after savage body work has mack softened up.

R6  OH they bang away. Toe to toe, both girls taking turns--it’s mouth on shoulder, compact brawling at it’s very best. Girls covered up and hunkering in close--both heads popping up occasionally from uppercuts inside, ribs tidied up, paunches pounded. Mack really taking care to pound away on Dani’s biceps--something Dani’s not doing. Now it’s Alli stepping Dani back, now it’s Dani edging into Mack. Almost too close to call, but Mack landing some scorching sidearm lefts and rights across Dani’s waist late might have nipped the points.

R7: Hammer-and-tongs continues. Girls seeking the warmth of one another’s weaty tousles and brawny bodies--neither getting enough o the thick body-swap downstairs. Anyone reaches round the other’s back? Good opportunity for the other to jam away short to the hip and ribs. Punches so short, no backswing--just tucking and jerking, backs and legs providing all the thrust. Girls fighting by feel--laying in with each other and hook midsections blind, trying to body the other back and impose will every second of every heat.

R8: Dani’s output drops: she’s looking weary--first telltale sign of a break one way or the other as Alli steps up the pressure. Mack shouldering and walking Fishel to ropes, keeping her there with a stubby chop jab out of the high guard, brawny shoulders bumps, pancaking body-ups. Alli patient, eyes alert as she paws at Dani, then heaves in vicious right hands to paunch and shoulder, bludgeoning Fishel as she leans forward. Other side: mack doubling and tripling up her hooks, her head in close to Dani’s raised gloves so murderous lefts can land flat to Fishel’s throbbing ribs and pain wracked breadbasket. Dani breathing hard, standing in one spot--she soaks up a pounding this round and suffers a bold taunt after the bell: Mack chesting up, forcing eye contact with Dani-Busting arrogance.

R9: Dani digs down, roars off her stool, attacks Mack with renewed vigor all around the ring. Now its Mack uncertain, stooping forward behind her gloves, giving up her ribs and paunch on the chap as Fishel clobbers away beefy. Dani bullying Mack to ropes, stacking her up sweaty, bashing away at her. Allison fighting back in spots, trading thudding hooks to the body, but she can’t get her butt off the ropes in the 9th.

R10: Murderous two way punching continues--both girls lumping up nicely, fighting on autopilot, Struggle on the inside--girls adept at tieing up one or the other of the opponent’s arms and plugging her hamhanded with the free mitt. Dani grinding away with her hairline on Mack’s pudgy left eye, draws a sobbing wince from blonde, Mack throwing very short hooks and uppercuts, connecting with enough elbow inside to make any roller derby team in the country. Bell: Nobody listens--both girls weary, but staying on each other in a rugged stumbling, hating mass. Finally reefed apart--eyes flashing, chests having: neither girl’s appetite is satiated yet. LONG delay as close cards are tallied and retallied--comes back one point duke…ALLISON MACK!

After: Dani speechless--announcement hits her worse than the tuffest body shot she took all night--eyes bleak, brimming. Mack covering her mouth with her hands and bursting into happy tears, then jumping up and down with clenched fists: it’s the biggest win of her career. Dani certainly landing the gaudiest, heaviest single blows of the fight--but Mack just smidge more consistent, outworking Fishel in a few very close heats. These girls haven’t seen the last of each other--HBO’s “Celebrity Bearhug” booking the two for an episode, Atlantis Resort hoping to finalize the deal for an invitational La Conquista game between the two, and more boxing almost certainly expected--but first blood to Allison Mack in her campaign to utterly subjugate Ms. Fishel for good and all.

Reposted by Archer 7/10/10.