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26 Jan 2002 Jeri Ryan vs Charlize Theron

Page history last edited by Dradis 15 years ago

 

Before: Ryan stung by Theron's label of 'game loser' - Jeri more belligerent than usual with the press, clearly in a bad mood - Charlize blissfully serene throughout all prefight functions. Theron handled Jeri easily last time out - Ryan thought to be too slow to ever be able to use her power - a smart Charlize Theron has to be favored tonight. During ring instructions, an angry Jeri gets into Charlize with an aggressive chest bump - Theron laughing, shaking her head in amusement.

 

Charlize in cream bikini, Jeri in red and white candy stripe bikini.

 

Round 1: Charlize on her toes, steps right to lick the hook across Jeri's left eye, steps left behind her jab, snatching at Jeri's breast with nipping right hands - Ryan snorting, stomping after her foe, but clearly outclassed early. Down the stretch, girls reaching at each other with extended lefts, just measuring one another. Then JERI SNAPS A HARD LEFT TO THERON'S RIGHT BREAST that turns her body halfway around, then rockets over the top with a slinging right cross, clipping her clean and THERON GOES DOWN! Charlize sprawling on her back, hands above her head OUT COLD! KO1 JERI RYAN!

 

PANDEMONIUM!!! It will go down in FCBA history simply as "The Punch" a single, diamond cutter stroke to the chin that turned Theron into a helpless victim and laid her out flat. Countless replays as HBO has time to kill before the next fight - shot from every angle - Theron's head snap, eyes going out, she cranes forward momentarily then spills to her back, head bouncing dangerously off the canvas. Ryan insane with victory - ref pushing her back as she screams and jeers at Theron, pounding her chest with her right glove - Charlize unable to hear the tirade of course. Theron out for many minutes, finally comes around and is moved in stages to her stool. Poignant moment as Janet Jones on one knee, gently explains to Charlize what happened - Theron shaking her head in drowsy "No", simply unable to accept the verdict. Ryan jostled and crowded by her entourage during postfight,

 

"I knew I could hit Charlize with right hands, I just had to keep throwing them; I mean, we trained for a long fight! I was just trying to establish the punch! When I hit her, I felt it in my hamstrings - 'this girl's not getting up' - NOBODY takes my right hand on their chin like that and gets up! She called me a loser, you know, and I'd just like to know: baby, how's it feel? You tell me, 'cause I ain't EVER been done like that!"

 

Losses to Landry, Nolin, and Diaz didn't really hurt Theron's rep much, but there's no escaping the 'Sleeping Beauty' still shots of this fight - Charlize the butt of cruel jokes on Leno, and the subject of Letterman's top 10 list - it's a humiliating, costly defeat.

 

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