Posted by simguy on 4/15/2005

Before: "I need to work out some kinks," says a confident Jenny Love in prefight, "get some rounds - Burton's just the thing to get the juices flowing. She's not prime-time material by any stretch - but I'll be able to work on some things with her - especially my body punching. I'll chop her in half, get her gasping, then put the hammer down - Hilarie won't suffer one more minute than is necessary - I promise." Burton anxious to mix it up, emerging as the most adept rookie in the class and looking to step up the comp. "I've sparred with Hewitt types my whole career," an upbeat Hilarie chirps in prefight. "I'll keep her on the end of my jab, belt her some big right hands - I've got a good solid game plan for Jen. She says she'll chop me down, but to do that, she's got to pay the toll and believe me: it's gonna be pricey!" Hewitt in lucky white string bikini - Hilarie in black/red plaid bikini with bra straps.

During R1: Hewitt repulsed time and again early - Hilarie fighting tall, banging out the jab, loping left with the right hand cocked at her chest. Jennifer frowning with concentration, mixing in more head movement, bending at the waist, trying to weave that stick - she finally gets in, only to get nailed an evil-looking counter right uppercut. Even Syren surprised, clapping: Hilly hasn't shown that punch before and it's a beaut against a shorter vixen. Hewitt forced back out, circling warily - Burton over to offence. Hilly stepping in the jab to Hewitt's breasts, bringing a crimson flush to Jen's cheeks: the NERVE of this ingenue, brazenly humbling perhaps the proudest jugs in all boxing. Jen's blood boils - she comes pinwheeling in - Hilarie lopes out of range, pinging out the jab to score points - blonde showing mature distance management. Round ends with a saucy one-two on the jugs - Hilly grinning as she bangs it in: Hewitt on her heels, glaring as ref jumps in. Burton's round.

R2: Hewitt turns back the clock - once upon a time she was a pretty stylish boxer under Kelly Packard's harsh tutelage, before the slugging bug bit. Jen pivoting left, thoughtfully jabbing to Hilarie's body, stooping low to slip Burton's right cross. Hewitt stepping smart, economical with her feet, touching Burton's pale, hard midriff, making the blonde miss. Burton adjusts late with more leg - stepping out, circling around, using the ring, keeping the right hand holstered and going back to finding Hewitt with stick. Jen shooting right hands to the body, but coming up short as Hilarie gets back to using her height.

R3: Burton closing quickly, angling in with a long one-two off Jen's exquisite jugs - while Hewitt's dealing it with it, Burton reloads and spanks rack ANOTHER one-two! Hilly backing off, circling left with a mocking grin: it's too much for Hewitt. Jen enraged, surges in, looking to take Hilarie's head off a looping right hand - Burton easing back out of range, letting Jen rush in and THERE'S THAT RIGHT UPPERCUT! Hewitt clipped clean, staggering to her right, knees hyperextending as she stomps around for balance - she's a hurting beauty! Hilly steps right, lips against her right glove as she lines Hewitt up, then kisses her a shearing cross on the jaw! Poor Jenny all lit up - she reels wobbly butt to ropes, tragically hanging on with her right arm over the top strand - HILARIE'S ALL-IN! Burton stepping-to and POUNDING away, slapping lefts setting up rifling right hands - Hewitt's head on a swivel as she takes a series of concussive blasts on her left ear/jaw. REF STEPS IN - IT'S OVER! Good Lord - TKO3 Hilarie Burton!

After: Burton blasting out Jennifer Love Hewitt - Hilarie hopping away and exulting at the triumph, hugged up off her feet by an overjoyed Syren. Hewitt all rung up, staring, stunned - never in her wildest dreams did she envision being pounded out at the ropes by the curly-headed blonde - deep denial setting in as Hewitt's people attend to her. "I worked so hard on the right uppercut - it's a punch I really need at flyweight with all these small-fry sluggers around - gotta keep 'em off my chest," beams an exuberant Burton in postfight. "This is a huge, huge win for me. Jennifer's been there, done that - she's a world class fighter, but we knew we had the tools to beat her and I just never counted myself out. I think she really underestimated me - I'm no Katie Holmes - I'm a serious fighter with serious ability and I'm hard to handle at 110. I feel this fight gives me a lot of credibility - I look at the ranked girls in the division and to be honest - a lot of them are looking pret-ty vulnerable right now!