Before: Couple of tough KO losses have Connelly grouchy: she's surly with press; running closed sparring sessions and reportedly working over her partners with chilling ruthlessness. "I hear the whispers," Jennifer admits in prefight, accusatory eyes glaring at the media reps in the audience. "Jen Connelly's finished - Jen Connelly's chin-shy - Jen Connelly's legs are shot. Don't even get me started on that Fishel Jinx rubbish! It's all that typical BS you guys trot out everytime an elite fighter stumbles just so you can snag a couple of extra readers. I'm fresh, I'm fit, I'm healthy, and just so you clowns can see it for real, I will destroy Milla Jovovich in the ring. Nothing against her personally - I know her as a class act and a good fighter - but every so often a lamb must be slaughtered to appease the media, and Milla's it."

Jovovich in good spirits - lithe, limber and quick - she's got a lot of tools with which to vex her classy foe. "I know Jen's blood is up," Milla says, "but everyone knows she's struggling. I'm not too afraid you know, because it has been a long time since Jennifer has 'destroyed' anything in the ring: mostly, it has been Connelly doing the suffering! With her trying so hard to hurt me, I feel it will be easy for me to catch her and lay her on her back."

Jen in white string bikini - Milla in pink ruffled two piece, sport cut top with spaghetti strap supports.

During R1: Milla up off her stool, takes a right hand on the chin, sprawls sideways against the ropes in shock. Jen attacking off Jovovich's left shoulder from a very oblique angle - hooks catching Milla in the stomach and chest, right hands smashing against her backbone. Jovovich sliding along the ropes, rights herself, pushes back leather: Jen twisting her hips, leaves her feet with a series of withering hooks - straight arm shivering upon hard contact with Jovovich's skull and MILLA'S DOWN! Milla goggle-eyed, trembling on all fours - she's up quickly, reeling at the ropes as ref wipes her gloves. Jen pounces back in - stoops, drills a straight right hand (palm down) into Milla's gut, straightens to tug chin a hook. Jovovich staggering under the blast, leaning into the ropes for support, hands low - Jen up on her toes, twisting furiously into those hooks - bat, bat, bat upside the head and MILLA'S DOWN! Jovovich hammered to her knees again - Connelly stomping angry butt to neutral corner, eyes glaring: poor Milla's up and swaying at 8. Jen striding back in, jabbing at Jovovich's face to brush her back, stooping to thrust in that straight right to gut, then up on her toes to unleash those lariat hooks! HOOK! HOOK! HOOK! Jovovich spilling to her left along the ropes splashes down, rolls to her back stretched parallel under the bottom rope and it's OVER! Poor Milla knees flexed as she lies on her back, chest rising and falling in convulsive shudders, back of her right hand on her forehead - she's hurt, she's done. KO1 in dynamic fashion, Jennifer Connelly.

After: Connelly promising a statement in prefight, needing a statement to quell the rising tide of gloating at her expense, delivers EMPHATICALLY on an unsuspecting Milla J tonight. Jovovich much, much better than she showed - simply never got out of the blocks as the usually methodical and tactical-minded Connelly pinned her ears back and went right at her Czech foe with heartless determination. "Any questions?" Jen taunts the press on camera. "I'll probably drop another point in the rankings because Britney Spears has a new hair-do or something."