Before: Redemption at hand for one unlikely combatant - gangly starlets both badly mauled in respective debuts, anxious to make amends. "I am mortified by how I acted against Biel," Rachel admits, still haunted by that performance. "I totally bailed and the whole world saw it. I will do anything to beat Jennifer tonight - ANY thing."

Finnegan even more rudimentary in terms of her skills, but she's assertive enough at the dais. "I was beaten by a better fighter," Jennifer acknowledges at the podium, "but Rachel punked out like a scalded dog. That was the most pathetic thing I've ever seen in an FCBA ring - up until she quits in THIS fight of course! The girl that bared her throat to Jessica Biel won't go the distance with me - I guarantee it!"

Nichols in black bra and panties - non regulation fishnets drawing the ire of boxing purists: Jennifer in leopard print bra and panties.

During R1: Rachel apparently better schooled: dukes up, stepping in with a long, robotic jab - textbook approach. Finnegan dukes at chest, bug-eyed with nerves - she's looking to loop crazy right hands, but Nichol's straight pokes winning the races. Midway through, nicely turned Nichols right plows into Jennifer's jaw, spinning tawny haired ingenue to her right with stomping baby-steps - Rache follows up with a lunging right hand flat to lower back, chasing Finny to ropes. Beat down: Rachel squaring away, lips curled back, getting awkward and wild as she swings lefts and rights onto a cowering Jenn. Finnegan wailing, turtling up - punches pelt off her head, shoulders, upperback as she has no clue how to prevent the drubbing. Bell, Rachel seething, chest heaving - she's pushed back as Finnegan straightens to reveal tear-stained cheeks, snivelling upper lip.

R2: Rachel still looking to prove she's the technical boxer, but Jennifer's looping wildness disruptive. Nichols buffetted and slapped by shots - she's off balance, turning her head away on reflex - she's got good intentions, but Finnegan's rangy swings have both girls looking amateurish. Wrap-around punches produce long-armed clinches - struggling lanky bodies twirling into ropes, tumbling to canvas. Tawdry stuff as snarling girls attempt to slug and push at each other on their knees - warnings dished out as ref pulls 'em up by their elbows. Sloppy stuff even by APARTMENT boxing standards - girls with bad intentions and not enough sound ideas about how to implement them.

R3: Rachel with firm right hand strokes - she's just finding Jenn first with the jab, dropping the left hand to hip and flowing through with the cross - Finnegan's chin repeatedly pounded early. Series of walloping blows has Jenn spinning in a blur of tawny curls - her arms out to the side, her head tossing dramatically - she's dropped to her knees near the ropes as Nichols prances past, nostrils flaring. Finny up at 8, cut in the lower lip, eyes blazing - she comes off the ropes looping and actually backing Rachel up - Nichols with arms outstretched as she backpedals, head turned away from the frenzy aimed her way. Sloppiness ensues - girls wrapping long-armed around one another's heads and torso, tackling each other to canvas, pushing up off each other to be the first one standing. Rachel finishes up strong by getting Finny in an illegal front choke, holding Jen in the crook of the left arm, jamming away righty to her back at the bell.

R4: Jennifer snarling, dukes at chest - she's putting together basic one-twos - pushy jabs and slapping right hands, but she's got Rachel backing up. Midway through, Finnegan looping the right hand - Nichols moving straight back catches full extension on her left eye - Rachel spins face first to ropes, covering up turtle as Jennifer sails into vulnerable back. Ref's break restores order, but it's Finnegan stalking an alarmed Nichols - Rachel's had her bell rung and wants out of there. Jennifer loping after Nichols, swinging away lefts and rights - most of it's useless batting, but Rachel backing straight up occasionally gets licked with leverage, buckling her knees. Jenny able to tackle Nichols to ropes late, push her upright, then gallop amidships with a series of rangy, gangly lefts and rights to belly and ribs. Rachel open-mouthed, wobbly butt: now SHE'S crying freely as Finnegan rolls to an ugly shutout.

R5: Jennifer surging after Rachel - Finnegan so THERE for countershots, but Rache lacking the judgement or resolve to take advantage. Nichols compounding the problem by pulling straight back - punches that would have wrapped around her head harmlessly are bouncing hard off her skull and hurting her. Jennifer attacking without rhyme or reason - when she's close, she'll lap her long arms against Rachel's ribcage, tucking in as best she can. When she's outside, she's headhunting - having better success than she should due to Rachel's complicity. Midway through, Nichols staring, crouching, pushes out a lazy left and eats the best right hand Finnegan's ever thrown in competition. Jen leaning into the blow, pulling it onto Rachel's chin - Nichols paralyzed on the spot - she poses as Jen resets those long legs, shifts her hips and pulls ANOTHER clanging right through to jaw. RACHEL GOES DOWN! Nichols numb, turns slowly to her right and drops to her knees at the ropes - right hand slipping off the middle strand as she tries to clamber up. IT'S OVER! Rachel Nichols blubbering, unable to get off her knees sees a 10 count pass her by - Jennifer Finnegan shrieks in delight the KO5 victrix!

After: Finny beside herself, removing gloves and clapping happily, bruises forgotten in the wake of pounding Nichols down and out. Woozy Rache to her feet and tended to, but FINNEGAN WANTS MORE! Jennifer bouncing over all tawny blonde curls and limber limbs - she greedily pulls Rachel away by her hips from behind, rides the right arm snug around the waist and takes blubbering Nichols for a well deserved walk of shame! Jennifer beaming, waving: Rachel tilting her head, traipsing along and wishing it all away - almost as bad as quitting against Biel for a struggling ingenue's psyche.