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28 Nov 1999 Catherine Bell vs Katie Holmes

Page history last edited by Archer844 15 years ago

Originally posted by Simguy on Sunday, 28-Nov-1999 11:20:40

 

Before: Bell the favourite against a smaller, more fragile Holmes, but both girls fight a very similar, no nonsense style. Neither all that quick, but good deliberate fundamentals, a good balance insure hard punching if an opponent stands in front of them. Bell in powder blue bikini top, navy bikini bottoms, Holmes in retro cut yellow bikini.

 

During R1: Girls trade exploratory jabs, then Bell pounds down the defense midway through with an advancing series of wide rights, snapping left hooks that force Katie to the ropes, Katie hurt, covering up, and Bell goes to the body, setting down on digging single left hooks to the ribs, hunching over Katie and keeping her bent over in pain to the bell.

 

R2: Bell stepping in, hooks off the jab and cracks a beauty off Katie’s chin to start the round. Holmes getting punchy, form breaks down, and Bell drops the right foot to get leverage on rising left hands to the midsection. Brutal slugging leaves Holmes helpless along the ropes as Bell crunches into her foe with both hands

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R3: Cathy wants Katie’s midsection, and steps straight in, reefing left and right uppercuts with a deliberate rhythm. Holmes bunching up, taking much of the punishment on her arms, and, late in the round, Holmes begins to punch with the wide open Bell. Katie scoring lead right hands across the mouth, turns Cathy’s head to the side, and Bell stumbles past Holmes to lurch face first into the ropes. Holmes a little excited, pastes a sharp one two across her foe’s exposed kidneys before ref jumps in. Girls touch gloves to acknowledge the unintentional foul.

 

R4: Holmes able to take advantage of Bell this round as Cathy looks uncertain how to proceed. Katie pushing the jab, but turning into a serviceable right hand, is finding Bell’s mouth with distressing ease. Bell blocking rather than loving or slipping punches—isn’t in position to counter.

 

R5: Cathy returns to the jab, hook routine and soon has Holmes covering up on her heels once again, Bell punches too hard for Katie when she gets off clean, and midway through the round, the youngster goes wobbly butt as Cathy hooks around the high guard to crack the jaw/ear area. Holmes floundering once again, looks to clinch, and Bell punches around the girl’s outstretched arms with straightarm lefts and rights to the body to the break.

 

R6: Cathy putting it all together, planting the lead leg, stabbing out a stiff jab, then dipping the shoulder and hooking hard to Katie’s chin. Holmes can’t take it and fades to the ropes with a doomed expression. Midway through the round, with Holmes’ hands hands too high to protect from Bell head hunting. Cathy bends into a spanking right off the solar plexus. Holmes cringing in pain, folds up on all fours, spitting out her mouthpiece and clutching at herself—but able to beat the count. Bell wades in to work the body, but Katie catches her with a clipping right uppercut and BELL IS HURT!! Katie immediately clinching up under Catherine’s arms, spins the stunned brunette onto the ropes and mugs her, cracking away with gooning right hands across the jaw as Bell rocks back over the ropes. At the bell, both girls are wobbly-legged ruins, holding each other to keep from going down.

 

R7: Battered fighters shuffle to center ring, hands low, bruised faces looking stark and determined. Both reach in to the other girl’s body with right hands and left hooks, and Katie comes up the middle with that right uppercut, snapping back Cathy’s head and putting her sleepy eyed on her heels. Slug fest ensues as Katie looks for the KO, Cathy chugging away with side to side lefts and rights to keep her foe off. Down the stretch, it’s Holmes who keeps her composure, able to straighten out her punches, and pound the right up the middle to leave Bell shaking at the break.

 

R8: Cathy sucks it up, having been outfought last round, and she comes at Holmes with the spearing jab, hook combination, and once again Katie begins to break down. Circling slowly, Cathy turns the left into a slight uppercut, clipping Holmes face as the girl bends forward, and Holmes is undone. A quick follow up right hand on the teeth is enough to send Katie hopping onto her right foot, then down to her hands and knees again. Holmes slapping exhaustedly at the canvas in disappointment, gets up and clinches her way through the rest of the round.

 

R9: Katie Holmes shows she’s here to compete, standing shoulder to shoulder with the stronger woman, trading hooks and right hands, and it is Bell who is backing up. Holmes stepping in, putting her left shoulder into Bell’s chest, sometimes reaching around the brunette with the left to anchor her for swatting right hands, has Catherine taking for much of the round. Bell smothered, and when she does punch, always gets two in receipt.

 

R10: Katie with a last ditch effort, reaching in with the left and looping over the top with the right and BELL IS HURT! Cathy with her gloves at her lips. Reels to the left after a right hand caroms off her temple. Desperate pursuit from Katie soon turns into trench warfare along the ropes as Bell defends well, keeping her arms in, bobbing under Katie’s wide swings, coming back with short chopping blows inside. Bell survives, sitting on the ropes, clipping and swatting at a frustrated Holmes to the bell. Girls hig after a well fought bout—Decision comes back 5 rounds a piece, but knockdown gives it to Bell.

 

After: Surprising effort from Holmes, who simply refuses to be out-womaned and gave us good as she got to the finish. Bell’s heavier hands the difference as she could take Holmes’ best and recover, but Katie proved unable to keep her feet when rocked. Good learning experience for Catherine as she wins a tough distance fight.

 

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