Posted by Simguy on 4/21/2006, 6:59 am.

Partial Report

PPV Undercard

Lauren in black cotton two piece underwear
Rebecca in mauve cotton cami-strap tank and panties

10 rds DRAW

It was supposed to be another notch in Becky's belt en route to ultimate dominion over the welterweight division--just another ho-hum tune up over unremarkable comp. But Lauren Graham has a history of standing up to glamorous blondes and making them work for their prize money. Tonight would be a case in point as Ms. Graham would test the Romijn chin, legs and heart in ways that we haven't seen thus far in Becky's latest comeback.

Graham took the first two rounds by storm, attacking Becky with kamikaze fearlessness, backing the bigger blonde up and hurting her with clubbing right hands in the second to force bewildered blonde clinches. Reebs battled hard in the following two rounds to claw back the points, but Lauren's resistance proved that even when the favourite held the upperhand, the fighting would be intense, bitter and competitive.

The fifth bore all the earmarks of a kettle finally boiling over as all the tension of the first rounds burst forth in a swinging orgy of power punches. Reebs reeled around the ring from a zesty barrage of looping rights and lefts from Graham, but in reckless pursuit, Lauren soon found herself staggered by thudding rights to body and mop up hooks to head. With both girls stamping and staggering aorund, upper bodies sloshing sloightly on liquid hips, Becky would hammer down the points with coincussive right hand slugging nearly blasting Lautren out with sidearm wallops upside the head, In the Romijn corner, Becky's people were jubilant: "You just won the fight baby--she's got nothing left!" They were so wrong, that PPV viewers at home, able to hear the corner commentary, simply had to laugh.

Bitter negotiations continued in the 6th and 7th, with the women trading rounds--Graham relying on clouting flurries, forward pressure and volume--while Becky looked to land the harder single shots, often stepping back to walk Graham into uppercuts or cuffing hooks off the right foot. Again, in the 8th round, Rebecca was able to land so hard and so often, that Lauren appeared out on her feet and a ruined beauty: again, the Romijn corner crowed in premature victory and the sheer relief on Becky's face spoke volumes. But this relief would be her undoing: with Rebecca relaxing and assunming victory, Graham would marshal her reserves and come out swinging with irresistable fury over the last two heats to stun all blonde boxing with the gritty come-from-behind effort.

It is no exaggeration to say that Rebecca Romijn was nearly ut out at the ropes in the 9th round--she was simply lolling there drooping to her right, taking punches from a rallying Lauren Graham at the bell. Becky's strong body held her up, but mentally, she had collapsed, blubbering on her stool about wanting to quit--only a form hand from her trainer managed to coax the shattered blonde out for the 10th, Lauren would muster control, but she too was simply too battle-worn to force the KO: a clawing, pushing, mauling pursuit along the ropes would give Graham the 10th, and secure a draw where after the 8th round, mostly only saw a Rebecca Romijn victory.

Another gritty denial of a glamorous opponent for Graham, who always seems to be overachieve the more her opponent is favoured. For Becky, a shocking wake-up call as a supposed tune-up fighter gave her all she could ever want and then some over a 10 round duke, For the fans? Some disillusionment as Becky would announce--face badly puffed up, eyes swollen, that: "There will be no rematch. I battered this woman here tonight and if the judges couldn't see that, that's their problem. I'm chalking this fight up personally as a win over Lauren Graham, and moving onward and upwards with my career. I repeat: there will be no rematch. I did not see enough out of Lauren to merit squandering any more time in her." Not exactly the words of a doughty take-on-all-comers warrior queen--the kind of fighter fans expected their welterweight champion to be.

Reposted by Archer 7/16/11.