Part I

Simulation by Simguy; Writing by Hawkeye & Archer

“I got a fight! I got a fight!” Elisabeth Harnois had literally been jumping up and down when Marvin Fox called with the news. The Communications Director of Foxfire Boxing may not have been the stable’s best fighter, but she was certainly it’s most eager. Then Dani Fishel, the newest member of the stable asked:’

“Who are you fighting?”

Beth’s happy dance came to a sudden halt as she realized the answer to the question: “Michelle Williams.”

“Oh,” Dani said, as Beth’s face fell. Dani quickly added: “Just because you haven’t beaten her yet doesn’t mean you can’t beat her this time.”

“She’s been fighting all the time. I am lucky to get a regular sparring session in. You really think I can win against her?”

Dani put her arm around Beth: “Sure you can, Mishy thinks she’s unbeatable, but the library has plenty of film on her getting the stuffings knocked out of her—sometimes by me. I’ll help you get ready.

“Thanks, Dani,” Beth said managing a hopeful smile,

Dani and Foxfire trainer Nia Peeples did enroll Beth in a crash course “Beating Mish 101”. Beth tried to follow all their advice and instruction and she thought she was making progress. Beth’s natural optimism then kicked in and soon she was doing prefight expressing her confidence that she could beat the HISC blonde.

For her part, Michelle Williams was bouncy and breezy at the press conference. She made it clear she was happy to be off the road and have a little warm up on her return. “Harnois fits the bill perfectly,” Mish noted with a sparkle in her hazel eyes. “She actually has to get in and do a job inside of repping her fighters. ‘Bout time she felt the sting of the ring in person rather than through Carters tall tales.”

“I’ll try hard not to disappoint you,” Elisabeth said with a sarcastic smile, though Mish pointedly looked the other way instead of replying.

So it was that Beth found herself in the ring wearing a particularly attractive baby blue bandeau bikini, dark blue gloves and matching boots. Her blonde hair had been gathered in a loose battle braid, with golden ringlets coming down on her forehead. Beth looked tense, but somehow adorable as she answered the ref’s motion for the fighters to join him at center ring.

Meanwhile, Michelle had been bouncing on the balls of her feet across the ring from the Foxfire mouthpiece, giving her the once over. Mish herself was clad I her zebra twist-tie bikini, white gloves and black boots with black-n-white fringes. If Harnois could use her body, probably a bantam one at that, she might be able to do some damage, but as far as Williams was concerned, the skills and the will were always the questions mark she could exploit. Shorter in height, it’s still Michelle who commands the center ring when the blondes meet the ref for instructions.

“I hope they’re not paying you by the minute,” Mishy chortles as Elisabeth scowls back.

R1: No surprises as Mishy is fast out of he corner, crossing the canvas between her and Elisabeth, and flinging white leather in ham-handed fashion at any piece of sturdy blonde that present themselves and some that don’t. Elisabeth wheels out of her corner to make some room, but Williams is like a pit bull on a poodle, pinwheeling rights and lefts with abandon, staying on Harnois like she’s catnip. To her credit, Beth’s time away doesn’t seem to have totally degraded her skill set. Defending well under the rain of blows, she keeps herself vertical and unharmed, but it’s hard to score when your paws aren’t pushing toward your foe and Michelle clocks in with a bell-to-bell shutout on sheer volume alone.

R2: Beth is lectured by Nia Peeples to start showing some offense, but Mish thwarts this by maintaining the heavy pressure on the Foxfire blonde. Beth is forced to stay on the defensive, moving, trying to keep away from the ropes, but Mish is right with her. Gaining confidence, Mish starts potentially fight winning haymakers from the minute mark on. Beth takes one after another on the chin and she is sent reeling back against the ropes. Beth tries desperately to slide along the ropes and get away Mish, but Williams is practically jumping out of her trunks, flinging in hammer and tongs, hoping to finish this. Beth’s adorable face takes a terrible pasting and when she puts up her gloves to protect herself, Mish works the midsection and flanks with those sweeping lefts and rights. Yet despite this awful pasting, Beth remains on her feet to the bell and is even able to take advantage of a wide-open Mish to land some stinging straight rights and uppercuts. The round ends with Mish looking pleased at the damage she has so far inflicted on the Foxfire blonde, but Beth walks determinedly (if slowly) back to her corner, her lumped up jaw defiantly set. Goes 10-8 Williams, with no knockdown and ringsiders are impressed with Elisabeth’s pluckiness under the Williams hailstorm.

R3: Steadfastly in control both physically and psychologically, Williams seems content to walk down a struggling Harnois instead of chasing her like a blonde bat out of hell. Mishy pops short stubby combos to belly and juggs of Elisabeth, unconcerned with reprisals, of which there are few. The Foxfire mouthpiece flashes a little leather, Mish staying inside most of the power behind the shots, but Harnois seems more worried about survival than attacking. Williams keeps firing to the body, the body, the body, keeping some of her powder dry through these three minutes as she consolidates her winnings with another shutout, solid if less extravagant than Rounds 1 and 2.

Posted by Hawkeye & Archer on 8/31/2009, 7:04 pm, in reply to "Elisabeth Harnois vs Michelle Williams: Another Foxfire/HISC Co-Production Pt. 1"