UNIFIED BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE

(Poster Courtesy BI PHOTO LAB)

Originally posted by Simguy on 5/17/2003, 8:11 am.

Before: Storied rivalry with Britney on top this time, Dani looking to take it all away as she’s done so often in the past. “A lot of people consider Alyssa Milano my greatest rival,” says Dani. “but to my mind, Britney’s really more on my level, which makes for better fights. I’m worried about her though—Spears needs to start thinking for herself. She’s swallowed all this new-guard crap from promoters and it’s getting her into trouble. You can’t call it smart management to be facing Dani Fishel in your first defence.”

Britney always sensitive to charges of being a management puppet, testy in prefight—“Boxing’s undergoing a face lift at the moment—the old nags like Cat Bell and Dani Fishel are being put out to pasture, and it’s high time frankly. BSE has been instrumental in levering these girls out of positions of power, and I’m doing my part by INSISTING that Dani have a title shot, just to convince her that it really is beyond her grasp at this point.” And the plan of persuasion? “A lot of girls are tempted to bust Dani up, but they ignore her dirty little secret: Dani can’t take body punches, There, I said it, Dani Fishel is creamy downstairs, and I’m going tummy on her. Attack powerplant on Fishel and she’ll crumble.”

Fishel chortling at the suggestion on her side of the dais, adding—“PLEASE go to my body Britney! Just be where I can find you and let’s get this over quick!”

Britney in pink bandeau tankini,. Dani in teal sports bra, gray stretch cotton boy cut trunks.

During R1: Britney surprised Neve Campbell with power shots and she UNLEASHES early and often in this one! First minute, Britney using her legs, drawing Dani in and SCORCHING her with a sudden step-in lead left uppercut jagged to the jaw. Fishel put wobbly butt, staggering back on her heels. Second minute sees Spears ransacking Dani along the ropes—Fishel arms crossed, sliding numb to her right—Brit letting her hands go in blockbuster rips—bludgeoning lefts and rights against firm paunch, coming up to bash Fishel’s head side to side. Last minute, Dani digs in in the corner, well aware Britney’s trying to finish her—INSANE slugging ends as the girl hunker down shoulder to shoulder and work! Bell sounds, both girls hammering away—ref pulls  Britney back to reveal a badly shaken, busted up challenger grimly defending her patch of canvas.

R2: Spears using her legs to undress Dani—bouncing in, sliding out, steppin right behind the backhand jab off the hip, looking to turn into sudden, screened right hands. Fishel dukes up at her eyebrows, bobbing, trying to get inside, but end of the first minute, she’s caught again by that vicious Spears uppercut. Brit tagging chin with her left hands, pivoting to the left as Fish unravels—blonde swings a sidearm right to the right to the face to get Fishel clattering backwards, Spears brawny at the ropes, riding up on Dani with her guard, jostling her, then digging to the body as promised. Fishel slumping forward ashen faced, groaning, hugging her belly—Britney straightens, right hand at her cheek, cranking hooks rightside and across the lower back to invest in those kidneys. All Britney working to break down her foe—getting off, propping a weary Dani back with the left shoulder, then going back the banquet downstairs. Spicy uppercuts from either hand curl tight on the inside, Britney working Fishel’s face as she droops forward. Bell to bell Britney leaves Fishel in a daze—champ is all OVER her girl through 2.

R3 OH! THE PUNCHING POWER! Dani ragged, bobbing slowly side t side—she’s frozen by a classy Spears shoulder feint, then ROCKED as Brit cracks a blistering right cross over Fishel’s shoulder. Dani put wobbly butt AGAIN, covering up hurt midring, right mitt at the left cheek, left hand across the gut—Britney edges in tuff! Spears using her left shoulder to prop Dani up in th chesr, then putting together harsh leather in close—scraping uppercuts, hooks and shoving rights hands to the body, nudging up then pivoting around the challenger to keep Dani’s feet moving. Fishel fighting back tepidly in spot, now busted up over both eyes, bleeding from the nose—the PASTING she’s taking. Spears lavishing Dani in the final minute with hardest shots—lusty right hands sweeping across the offered back, ripping lefts up underneath and spanking against the face,. Fishel swaying, in tatters at the bell—Spears scowling as she surveys the damage, passing Fishel en route to corner, scored 10-8 without the knockdown this thing’s turning into a massacre.

R4: BRITNEY TEARS UP ON DANI! Fishel barely able to set up her clamshell defence when Brit scoots in and lights her up brazen with that lead left uppercut, Spears hopping back outside, feathers a jab, then bends in with a gorgeous short right hand—fist spanking off Dani’s face, jamming her head back on her neck as she crouched forward. Fishel’s eyes going blank, not answering back—she’s just tilting into the wind, covering up and letting Britney savage her. Spears thumping away to gut with her hardest right hands—sweat flying off her brow as she pumps it in, back foot coming off the canvas with the effort. Stepping right, Britney tears at Fishel’s face, raking hooks, then leans in to slam home right crosses to the ear/jaw. Through it all, Dani numb, battered, somehow stays upright, crouching, reacting late, but standing in the pocket resolute. At the bell, Spears stands back, guns smoking—she’s in awe as Dani reels, but makes it back to her corner. Another 10-8 without a knockdown—Fishel being queried by the ref, refusing the offer to submit.

R5: Cue comeback! Spears arms are shot—she’s on her bicycle trying to leg out the round and Dani’s on the march! Fishel cutting of the ring, getting her head on Spears’ chest and going to work—payback big time to the abs as Dani twists her torso to get leather on tanned meat. Spears grimacing, tying up, holding for breaks—Britney seems shocked that there’s still this much fight in the challenger, Smearing shutout against the ropes, Dani—she nods defiantly as she pushes off Brit at the bell.

R6: Britney boxing now, jabbing while circling left, changing direction and stinging Dani hestitation rights over Fishel’s left shoulder. Dani trying to bob low, come out of the weave with a hook to Britney’s side, but movement giving Fishel some problems. Final minute—Dani reaching—Spears stepping to a spot, timing a gorgeous pre-emptive right BINGO off the face, then leaning back, pivoting away as Dani’s thighs give a quiver.

R7: Dani won’t punk! Fishel charging the ring, drawing on unguessed reserves and she packs Britney into her home corner for a beat down. Britney bright hand at her chest, left across her body, desperately turning her torso to accept Dani’s bashing shots. Fishel; gnashing her teeth, using her forehead hard against Brit’s upperchest, knuckling he champ’s shoulders back, slamming away to hips and breadbasket downstairs. Spears can’t get out of the corner and she’s having much luck typing up—Dani goes bell to bell and beyond the ref has to pull her off late.

R8: Crowd groans as Dani walks into that slashing, lead left uppercut—Spears scoring then walking to her right, left hand down, right at her chest as Fishel stiffens, bent over hurt. Spears clinical, stepping in with a blunt lead right on the face, jamming Dani’s head straight back as she crouches forward—while Fishel’s leaning, Brit dips and digs a loud hook in behind the elbow, Brit straighten, walks to the right again, just looking her girl over, freezing Dani with power potshots. Another short right hand off the face—Dani posing for the shots, not reacting—Britney stands in to dig home that gouging left to the body and Fishel’s shabby with hurt. Spears picks up the pace—right hand off the face, left hook to the body, curling left uppercut on the chin—Spears arms crossed fielding the blow, not answering back and THE REF STEPS IN! Dani dazed, trembling in the man’s arms—Spears thrusting her mitts skyward, head back, bellowing in triumph—glorious TKO8 Britney Spears.

After; Rugged, rugged beating for brave Dani Fishel who somehow survivies a scalding first 4 rounds to extend this thing.  Britney dipping both hands into a bucket of ice afterwards—she just lit it up tonight, carrying over that gorgeous power punching from Neve to Fishel to prove the is in strong hands, “Told ya,” Britney grins in post fight. “We watched hours and hours of Kiana and Alyssa working on Dani and I realized I could combine what they did to devastate Fishel. The uppercut was there all night, but the body work—I tell you I crippled that girl to the body. Fishel proved she can take a shot on the chin all night long, but you mix in the powerplant and she’ll succumb. That’s another nail in the old-guard’s coffin—you can see, Dani’s still got the will, but she’s shot, she’s done. I’d say she’s probably more far gone than Cat Bell even, just from the punishment she’s taken all these years. I hate to be the one to prove it, because I have nothing but respect for Fishel—but deep in her heart, Dani knows she’s used up.”

Reposted by Archer 6/22/09.