Posted by simguy on 5-29-04

Thanks to Ginny for this repost.

Extreme catchweight bout a challenge to both women. Will Kilcher be dead at the weight (120)? Will Kirsten carry her punch up virtually 2 weight classes? Dunst coming in after supposedly dropping Shannen Doherty in sparring (unsubstantiated, but several eye witnesses claim it's true). "STOPPED Shannen Doherty," Kirsten corrects reporters in prefight. "I stopped her, I didn't just knock her down. Kilcher isn't Shannen Doherty quality, regardless of how big she is - I'll chop her down to size." Kilcher fit and trim as she's ever been, unconcerned by her foe's bravado. "Kirsten can chirp all she wants," Jewel says. "I'm welterweight strong in a bantamweight body. I don't see what she's got to counter that." Both girls tawdry tight cotton tanks and panties, pink for Dunst, pale blue for Jewel.

During R1: Good news for fight fans, Kirsten's fighting Jewel straight up. Dunst not cute with her feet, but possessed of a stinging ramrod stick, tracking Jewel on the way in and channelling her into chopping right hands tidy off the shoulder. Jewel getting tagged, walking through it, then bogging down as Dunst ties up around the arms, waltzes for a break. Stop and go first - Kirsten collecting points, wrapping up, posting a workmanlike shutout.

R2: Jewel still coming forward, but warming up - she's moving her hands, head, punching out of the crouch as she rotates her torso. Dunst basically jab-right hand - good combination, but predictable - Jewel able to get underneath the cross and come back with hooks. Final minute - Dunst throwing hard off the ropes - Jewel slips under the right, twists into a clanging hook on the chin and SITS KIRSTEN DOWN! Shock drop puts Dunsts on her haunches at the ropes - Jewel with a little smirk of approval as she hops to the side.

R3: Dunst still pumping jabs, but getting a little more creative to solve Jewel's head movement. Fishook left uppercuts off the jab, left hooks in the waist - Kilcher walking into punishment and grunting on impact. Dunst's bread and butter right more effective as a result, and down the stretch, a pair of chopping rights on the jaw put Kilcher wobbly butt. Dunst snarling as she steps right, loads up and keeps hacking away righty - tomohawk chops to the ear and jaw finally bludgeoning bleary-eyed Kilcher to her knees. Kirsten's chest heaving with effort, eyes blazing with satisfaction - poor Jewel shaky beating the count.

R4: Dunst busting Kilcher up the jab, pounding away eye and nose, stepping back a step to walk Jewel into short left hooks or uppies, then driving in off the back foot to get that withering right. Kilcher getting drummed in the first two minutes - stacked up the stick, then chin-checked and driven backward - Jewel ineffective off her heels. Down the stretch, Kirsten feeling her oats, stepping forward behind rangy one-twos, connecting at a high percentage and then DUNST GOES DOWN! Jewel banking on Kirsten's predictable right, slips it, back with the hook - Dunst on her back, head up woozy off the canvas as Kilcher struts to the neutral corner. Power of Jewel Kilcher erases a lot of good Kirsten Dunst work this round - bigger girl's heavier hands starting to tell.

R5: Jewel finally able to execute her plan - bodying Kirsten to the ropes, then getting after that lithe torso with bludgeoning work, both mitts. Kirsten stooped forward, elbows in, twisting her body side to side to help sop up the punishment, chopping back little counters when she can - but this is Jewel's fight. Kilcher with brawny shove and slug, puts some quality miles on Kirsten's supple chassis this round.

R6: Dunst a scrapper - she just won't give in. Dunst keying off her jab, fixing Jewel's position with it, stopping Kilcher's forward progression, then hacking away righty. Kirsten swinging the right with a slight sidearm delivery to catch Jewel's ear/jaw; Kirsten straightening the right to bang back Jewel's face, mopping up tidy left uppercuts off her front foot to get extra touches on Jewel's chin. Kilcher busting up nicely - she's taken a good punch tonight, but getting all chewed up in the process.

R7: More muscular Jewel Kilcher work at the ropes - Dunst unable to clear her back from the strands. Nothing fancy - Jewel fighting off Kirsten's chest, bodying up regularly to jostle and prop, making the naturally smaller woman feel the weight. Thumping body shots yielding results - creeping paralysis spreading through Kirsten's limbs and legs - Dunst open mouthed, looking increasingly shopworn as Jewel stays on her for a shutout.

R8: Just when Dunst looks done - she sucks it up. Energetic straight punches - Kirsten drilling Jewel up the middle, then advancing with that swinging right on the ear to stagger Jewel to her right. Kilcher not the same fighter when she's not coming forward - it's the critical key to this fight.

R9: Jewel puts her foot down. Dunst driving in with right hands, collecting hooks off her front foot, but Kilcher refusing to be backed off, keeps driving forward. Jewel bullying Dunst to the ropes, palming and bumping her, then clubbing away hooks and right hands - bashing free-for-all at close quarters much to Jewel's liking as Dunst starts to wilt. Previously - Jewel's hurt Kirsten off the counter - now Kilcher gets in Dunst's grill and pounds away at the slender blonde, dipping side to side with the effort of swinging in the leather. DUNST GOES DOWN! Kirsten simply cudgelled to all fours, mouth open, weeping for breath - Jewel wiping her face with a hard working forearm, strutting away all angry butt - she went at Kirsten hard and put her down: mission accomplished.

R10: Dunst relatively meek - pushed and bullied to the ropes - Jewel finally imposing herself last round, rides the advantage to the bell. Kilcher just crowding, keeping her body on Kirsten, punching non-stop to the body and driving ever forward to stack Dunst up - good pressure bell to bell. Kirsten not shutout, but her little counter right uppercut doesn't have enough on it to turn this thing around. Comes back UD10 Jewel Kilcher.

After: Kilcher proves the stronger, better woman - imposing herself on Kirsten and simply carrying the fight with harder punching, better pressure. Dunst with a decent right hand and heavy jab, but lacking the requisite footwork to give a grinder like Jewel real problems. "I got her off her feet," says a glum Kirsten D in postfight. "I have to be satisfied with that