MAXIM WELTERWEIGHT TITLE Ch Ali Landry vs Jeri Ryan

Posted by simguy on 9/20/2003, 9:46 am

Before: "I just don't like her," Jeri says of Ali - blonde never one to sugar coat. "I'm not going to get into personal stuff in a press conference, but let's just say we've got issues, and we're going to settle them. As far as I'm concerned, I've beaten this girl in the gym. We've all seen Ali roll out of bed and get to camp at noon. We've seen her quit hitting the pads before the whistle. When a girl hurts Ali in sparring, that girl isn't invited back the next day - you know? I'm always the first one at the gym and the last one to leave. I don't see how Ali can call herself a leader: you've got to be made of sterner stuff to get that kind of respect." Landry smiling throughout, takes the indirect approach in her comments. "A lot of so-called pundits look at intra-stable bouts as a sign of trouble, but for me, this fight is about clearing the air. It's disruptive for the smaller girls to see Jeri talking back to me all the time, fighting me over every little thing - there has to be one voice in the gym and everyone knows that voice is mine. Everyone except Jeri. I know I can decision her - easily - but it's going to take a knockout, maybe a brutal one, to beat Ryan into compliance. My big concern is that Jeri really isn't good looking enough to be on an Ali Landry promotion. I'm a fantasy girl for my fans - something unobtainable, and they want to see me in with other great looking girls. Jeri's just...well who hasn't 'obtained' a Jeri Ryan? Jeri's the girl you slept with when you couldn't get Ali to talk to you, you know? There's just something...uppity about her that has to be slapped down." Ali cutting her eyes sideways to guage the effect on Ryan - Jeri sitting coolly, lips pursed as she smolders: pageant princesses know how to twist that knife all right. Ali in gold bikini, Jeri in red.

During R1: Ali staying on the outside, but directing her attack to the body - using lateral movement, changing directions to get Jeri's feet moving. Landry bending low, reaching in the jab to body, or jabbing up high, bending to pound a straight right hand off the body before escaping to the side. Nice two-beat, in-out stuff from Landry - Ryan just turning, reacting late, unable to get off with her feet not set. Final minute - Ali steps in off her jab, gets a short hook to Ryan's chin and gets the blonde moving backwards. Ryan extending her left as she backpedals - Landry stepping with and hammering right hands over top it - blonde shipping clout on her jaw as Ali drives her ropeside at the bell. 

R2: Jeri showing a smart adjustment - Ali trying to shear off on an angle, Jeri stepping out, circling to the left, intercepting Landry with a pounding jab to disrupt brunette early. End of minute one - Ali frustrated at Ryan's pre-emptive stick, better than expected foot work, it's all heel-and-toe from a straight-legged Jeri. Brunette hanging around outside, posing - Jeri steps, leans and drops a withering right over Landry's left. No set-up jab - Ali just caught cold - knees buckling - Landry's driven into the ropes under a hail of straight-jutting blonde lefts and rights. Middle minute - Jeri punishing Ali systematically at the ropes - Ali covered up, bent forward at the waist and rolling her torso to slip - Ryan wisely ignoring the head - bending side to side to lavish either flank with straight arm, batting blows. Ali open mouthed, shabby by the final minute - reaching in around Jeri's waist to slow the beating - Ryan stacks her up and goes to work out of the wrap. Jeri with her left around Ali's shoulders, slumps the brunette forward and pumps away righty to jug, just a-shoving brutal, heartless leather into that glorious, world class rack. Landry helpless, blubbering in outrage at the damage done - Ryan standing up tall, right arm just plugging away to the bell as she stares over top Landry into the crowd - deep in snarling concentration. Scored 10-8 without a knockdown - Landry snapping at her corner during the break like it's their fault. 

R3: Jeri jabbing, bringing the left back low - Ali's seen the tapes and takes advantage. Landry timing stick, bends her head in low, pulls the right hand hard over top, clanging away to Jeri's jaw to take the initiative back in the first minute. Landry able to lean in on her front foot off the right hands, lean back onto her back foot with rising hooks - she's snatching lefts at body and jug to good effect. Jeri getting influenced to the ropes - still not a great fighter moving backwards - Ali smart as she slides in low, banging single rights to the ribcage, sliding back out with hook picking up Jeri's chin. Shutout Ali - Ryan's face shining up nicely under the punishment. 

R4: Ryan stepping into right hands - Ali fading them, circling away, getting the rhythm. 60 second mark - Landry stands in the pocket, slips under a Ryan right, twists up out of the crouch and lands and EXPLOSIVE counter-hook clean on the jaw: RYAN GOES DOWN! Jeri dropped by a post-card perfect blast - bouncing off her tump with a stunned 'O' on her lips - she's up shabby. Landry intense, not wanting to rush - she preps Jeri with jabs up against the ropes, just cycling 'em in from the shoulder, getting Ryan's guard up, then driving in to gut with pounding straight rights. Ali systematic, methodical - leaning in and out, getting her touches, not getting hit back and final minute - she bodies up big-girl. Landry working out of the wrap, slumping Ryan forward with a hungry left around blonde shoulders, then pumping vindictive, pay-back rights up and in. Blonde jugs ransacked - hard smile on Ali's lips as she stuffs in cruel leather, mugging the plumpness of Jeri as the blonde sits hurt in the ropes. Ryan trying to tie up with her left around Ali's waist - brunette just palming Jeri's left shoulder to keep her open, then heaping on the abuse as the bell sounds. Ali's still plugging away like a tit-punching robot - ref finally pulling the bronzed brunette off her trembling quarry.

R5: Ali circling left, showing that educated pageant jab to Jeri, marking up the blonde's eyebrows, then dipping into that flat tummy. Ryan using little half-steps back to fade, get Ali missing - midway through, blonde able to walk brunette into a jolting right on the mouth - Ryan dropping it sweet from the shoulder, turning her body into it - Landry put wobbly butt as she immediately clinches for a break. Jeri stepping forward, banging away jabs on Landry's beautiful face, backing her to ropes, then lashing the wide right hard to the body - Landry groaning as she folds forward on the take. Ryan palming up on Ali's shoulders, just getting set, then WELTING away to the flanks - big batting straight arm shots, blonde getting her hips into it, really shaking her foe. Landry all stiff with body-hurt, she's bobbing to move her head - Ryan can't find that chin, but blonde's taking all she wants downstairs as Ali finishes up shabby at the bell. All even after 5, Ryan's eyebrows busting up, Landry's left eye looking angry, both beauties feeling it in pain-wracked bodies.

R6: Jeri stepping right, well out of range - then a long step in, little flicking left and plowing right - Ali just not reading it well, catches flush on her chin over that irresponsibly low left - brunette stepping in fence post holes as blonde slides forward to work. Right uppercut from in close, short left hook - Ali stumbling straight back, staring in hurt as Ryan puts explosive compact combos to work. Jeri bulling in, lowering her head - thump/thump right-left on the belly, then a tuff left shoulder bump to prop Ali up - Ryan just applying the beat down. Landry cowering, pointing her left shoulder at Jeri, left across her gut, right at her cheek, trying to roll the incoming - Ryan just raking her girls hooks across jug and sternum, fitting meanspirited rights in behind the left elbow - Ali has to clinch as her legs give way. Ryan pressing her girl up against the ropes for breaks, then pushing her way past the ref to get back on - Landry open mouthed, really labouring as Jeri pours on the punishment. Nice clipped combinations from Jeri in the final moments - body shots setting up uppercuts and hooks - she's extending the left elbow to reset, just welting away as Landry covers up sullen. 

R7: Ali with nice torso movement midring, getting low underneath Jeri's punches, coming back underneath at the blonde, rights and lefts countering hard up into the ribs. Ryan backing up early, trying to recalibrate - she pushes out an uninspired right and Ali's waiting for it. Landry slips inside and under, gives Ryan a little nudge in the belly with the right shoulder, then rips out of the crouch that vicious left hook and RYAN GOES DOWN! Jeri dropped to her back, hands above her head - OH she's hurt! Ryan spasming, trying to get herself right, roll to her hip and get up - she barely beats the count, but she's swaying in the wind! ON COMES ALI! Landry snarling, hungry to finish - throws caution to the wind to tear at her foe. Landry just letting her hands go, pounding away hooks and right hands to the face - Ryan staring back in stupor, facing into blows, hands dumb at her chest - she leans into the storm as Landry POUNDS away! Bell sounds - Landry seething with frustration - she lands a late right hand on the jaw - Ryan shipping boozy, out on her feet but refusing to go down. 

R8: Ali winded, adding credence to Ryan's prefight criticism of brunette training habits. Jeri badly slobberknockered, flat footed, hurt - Landry reaches under blonde arms and bodies her girl into the ropes for some trench warfare. Ali just mauling Jeri, pressing her into the ropes, palming her hips back, palming her shoulders, shrugging in tight lefts and rights to the body, then curling leather to chin. Ryan just absorbing shock, arms crossed at times, arms limp around Ali's shoulders or waist at others - blonde too weak to tie up properly as brunette keeps working in the grasp. Final minute all jug, all the time. Jeri riding her left arm weak around Ali's shoulders, left cheek pressed wetly against Ali's right cheek, both girls fighting with eyes closed, mouths open - Landry leaning in, palming ribcage for room, then jamming away tight lefts and rights to rack, just fitting 'em in snug between the bodies. Bell sounds, ref pulls mindless brawlers apart - boozy looks, fluttering eyes as girls sway, face each other down. 

R9: Ali shopworn, walking to her right, shying away from contact - Jeri tired too, but hungrier, wanting to close and work. Girls step in behind right hands - Ali comes away wobbly butt, face discouraged as she bodies up, tries to bull her girl back, but it's Jeri doing the stepping. Landry might have been the stronger in the first, but she's not in the ninth - brunette can't hold her ground, sobs aloud in frustration when her back finally creases against the ropes. Ali covering her face in her hands, leaning forward onto Jeri's chest - blonde standing tall, palming Ali's shoulders to brace her, then getting off. Ryan skidding tight right uppercuts off Landry's guard, picking her up off Jeri's chest - then Jeri strapping the waist a thick left hand, packing it in double to fold Ali up again, riding a lazy right around the brunette's shoulders. Landry suffering, laying on Jeri's chest, taking it from a heartless, hardworking blonde to the bell. Ref pulls Jeri back - Landry's face wet with tears as she moves her mitts away from her face. 

R10: Jeri flat footed, pushing off her right toe to ram home a still-punishing jab - Ali retreating after eating a couple, batting at the unforgiving stick with her open right palm, fading to the ropes. Jeri stepping to her girl - Landry proving more combative this round as she greets the blonde a clipping counter hook to chops on the way in. Ryan hooks her back to tit - girls get into a sullen back and forth, each taking turns twisting her torso to haul a clubbing power shot in, laying over on one side or the other to cover up on follow through. Slowly but surely, groggy, bashing trade goes Jeri's way - Ali covering her face and trying to crowd, pressing her gloves and face against Ryan's robust rack. Jeri setting a steady cadence down the stretch - right uppercut mostly blocked on Ali's guard, but licking left hooks searing that trembling gut, or packing snug to jug in between Landry's protective elbows. Ryan using a light wrap, holding Ali around the shoulders with one arm while stroking her the free mitt - bell sounds - Jeri's still sampling the goods - ref has to tug her off to enforce the break. Side by side for the announcement: comes back UD10 by a single point...ALI LANDRY! 

After: Snapshot contrast: Jeri on the left, spasming as Landry's hand is raised in victory - call hits Ryan like a CZJ low blow. Landry breaking down into practiced pageant tears, strutting forward with hands held high, nodding her head "YES!" - what a fight. 5 rounds a piece, but that extra knockdown in the 7th the difference: entire fight comes down to one left hook from Ali to separate the combatants. Both women beaten unrecognizable, crippled in their bodies, but Ali musters some wincing grins and unkind words in postfight. "That's Jeri Ryan looked after," gloats the brunette. "I wasn't buying into the Ryan mystique tonight. She hit me some right hands: I shrugged 'em off. I discouraged her in the body - really busted her up down there, took her legs away. I think I was fresher down the stretch due to my tremendous conditioning - she just couldn't compete. Ref probably should have stopped it when I laid her out for the second time, but of course the officials bend over backward for Jeri - I had to take her to the bell, but she really didn't have a whole lot left."