Before: Hu negotiating her biggest ever purse for defending against Jennifer - squeezing every last nickle out of the Oscar-toting brunette's big name and really settling in atop the 120 pound dogpile as a fearless fighting champ. Connelly on arguably the best run of her career comes in razor fit, demurely standing at the dais, pulling up the bottom of her navy satin tank top to reveal tight, flat abs to an appreciative audience. Jennifer reportedly putting together the best camp of her career, quietly confident and respectful in all Kelly-related comments. Two classy fighters - best woman should win. Jen in sporty black bikini, supportive top keeping the rack tidy and tight, athletic bottoms, white gloves and shoes - Kelly in black soft leather zipper sport top, boy cut trunks, low ponytail, white gloves and shoes.

During R1: Kelly in closed stance, pointing the left shoulder, tucking the chin behind it, right hand tight to the chest, left hand low and lithe. Jenny fighting with a plan - jabbing to close even though she knows she won't land - Hu sliding back, rolling the stick with her shoulder. Connelly throwing a hurtful chop-right hand against Kelly's back and flank: Hu's going to close up her stance that much, Jen's going to take what's there. Rights are backing Kelly up with wince, and setting up Jen's hook to chest and chin - Hu turning to slip them, but edging into the ropes. Kelly triggering the sneaky counter-right hands from her screen, but Jen's anticipating them, punching with Kelly and hitting her right hands simaltaneously - Hu rattled to be getting touched and Jen's putting hooks on top to take advantage. Tough, smart pressure from Connelly has Hu opening up, trying to punch off the ropes - Jen punching with and getting the better of suddenly banging trade. Final moments - Jen pumping the jab and shifting to the right, shoots a right from the shoulder, missing, then torques the delayed hook as Kelly hooks back and HU GOES DOWN! Shattering blow on the right eye drops Kelly open-mouthed to her butt. Bell sounds - Hu whining about a thumb, but it was the fist attached that did the damage - Kelly's right eye swells up grotesquely between rounds as corner desperately ices it down.

R2: Jen systematically going about the pursuit - jabbing, punching right hands with Kelly, steadily backing her up. At the ropes, Jen careful, but methodical - nasty chopping rights in Kelly's leftside back and hip, abrupt hooks loud on the jugs or firm on the chin as Hu's not seeing the incoming. Kelly rattled, on her heels, rolling her left shoulder while leaning onto her back leg, getting low and trying to nudge Jen back at the hips, but Connelly's staying focused. Jen loose limbed, hands up - jabbing, dipping to pump the right off Kelly's belly, twisting her hips to lick in the hook, then jabbing to reset her feet - Hu getting dismantled by a very clinical, very determined Connelly. Down the stretch, consistent pressure has Hu breaking down - Jen able to feint, sweep a wide right hand across the Asian's brow and KELLY'S STUNNED! Hu sagging back against the ropes suddenly dazed, legs giving way - Jennifer stepping over and bang-banging that body a licking right/left. Woozy Hu draping her arms around Jen's neck, but it's weak - brunette able to separate her hips and thump away with hard, hard leather to breadbasket. Kelly frozen in gutshot stupor, taking on her body, buttocks jumping in her leathers as golden brown legs stiffen up sweet at the bell.

R3: Kelly shopworn, corner in shock - she's getting her ass kicked and nobody seems to know what to do. Connelly strong across the ring, bending to the right to spear the jab into Kelly's mouth and Hu's head rocks back as she staggers in retreat. Jennifer closing, feathering the jab to screen, stepping in and lashing a right across Kelly's ribs to draw a howl from the faltering champ. Hu crippled to the ropes, elbows in --Jennifer stepping to her strong and squaring away. Jennifer cuffing Kelly's ear to move her over, then leaning in to lick that right flank, sinking hooks thick behind the elbow. Kelly bent forward, legs shabby - she's drowsy with hurt, not responding. Jen tidies up the body, shifts onto her back foot and pulls a biting hook across Kelly's swollen right eye, picks her up a clipping right uppercut on the chin and KELLY SITS HURT IN THE ROPES! Hu undone, hands drooping - Jennifer locks on cold and lets her hands go. Banging lefts and rights target Kelly's vacant face in a blistering bash of sudden impacts and HU GOES DOWN! Kelly bludgeoned to her hip, palms on the canvas - she's a pathetic sight trying to push herself up but it won't happen! KO3 for the winner and NEW Bantam weight champion - Jennifer Connelly!

After: Hu in shellshocked denial - beaten as comprehensively as she ever has been in her entire career, face a smudged ruin from hard, accurate Connelly bombs. Damaging loss - not only does she drop the belt, Kelly takes a vicious beating. Not only does she absorb a beating, she gets stopped. And not only is she stopped, but Jen Connelly lays down a perfect blueprint for other skilled bantams to follow against Kelly Hu - ex-champ doesn't seem as mysterious after getting her head handed to her like this. Connelly offering post fight comments not from the ring, but from the locker room where she finishes up ON AN EXERCISE BIKE, getting in the 10 rounds Kelly couldn't give her in a demonstrative show of iron discipline. "I totally committed to fighting and beating Kelly Hu in a way I never have before and the results speak for themselves. We took Kelly apart tonight and we'll go back to the drawing board for the next girl and do the exact same thing. We have the best competition in the world at bantam, and I'm going to bring each and every one of them to heel." HBO happy - they've finally got an A list name atop the lucrative small girl division. Tech suits fawning over Connelly's achievement, drooling over the lucrative options in from of Jen - from dangerous superfights like Dushku or Blalock, to pay-days against Moore, to round-the-horn fights against other stables' bantam stalwarts. Sure is good to be the queen.