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Posted by Simguy on 3/31/2001, 10:29 am.

Before: boxing equivalent of “chicken”--two cars racing headlong towards one another, something’s gotta give. Nervous preparation in both camps--there’s no easy way to in this fight--somebody is just doomed to get ground up--trick for trainers to keep their fighter’s minds off the coming torture. Plenty of respect between the combatants in pre-fight--no hype needed to sell what is guaranteed to be  a high contact collision inside. Liz in black 2 piece gymnastics togs, Dani in teal sports bra, grey stretch shorts.

R1: Girls mid ring in identical stances--right hands at their cheeks, left hands across their midriffs, Both shoulder up to start, using that left shoulder and elbow to push off for quick little hooks, then falling back in to post up. All Liz Shue as Dani seems stunned from outset. Shue snapping off a hook to the face, one to the breasts, one to the belly then bumping her girl roughly backward. Liz also able to slide her left tricep up under Dani’s chin, propping the girl’s face up for the clouting left or chopping right. Rounds ends with Dani seated on the ropes, not punching, just stooping forward. Bobbing her head slightly, but getting routinely clobbered as Shue just stands, shoves and gets off with punishing method this round. Shutout Liz Shue.

R2: All Dani Fishel this round--she’s getting off with clouting little hooks off the bump, clubbing the face, breasts and belly of her foe, nudging Liz onto her heels, walking her back. Final two minutes see Shue seated on the ropes, hunching forward--eyes alert, but she’s just bending forward t take punches. Dani bouncing, cranking tight hooks with no backswing, just scrubbing up the blonde’s pretty face and bruising up her body. Shutout Fishel. Girls straighten and stare at one another briefly at the bell--faces are starting to glow, legs tingle.

R3: Two=way action erupts as the girls slug away in a phone booth midring, Each taking her turn with tight hooks--they’re just standing in one another’s trunks, putting their body weight into the other girl’s chest, keeping everything short, Shue finally separates herself late when she doubles up her hook into Dani’s belly, getting the smaller woman’s hips to budge back--Fishel stops punching. Liz able to pile on the last minute, bouncing hard rights and lefts off the head and shoulder of her foe as Dani sinks into the ropes at the bell.

R4: Shue comes out confident this round, going right back to the pit of the belly with bigger hooks, getting her hips and back into the cranking motion--Dani’s buckling, not punching back--Liz putting her shoulder against Fishel’s nose starts nudging Fishel backwards to the ropes--Syren screaming for Dani to get off of there, but Fishel’s stupefied, getting methodically bludgeoned. Liz keeping it short upstairs, snapping the hook against Dani’s face, but she’s whipping the belly shots, buckling Dani’s knees and posting a grim shutpiut this round that has the yo0ungstrer crippled at the bell.

R5: Girls body up and trade monster hooks to the trunk line--2 from Shue, 2 from Dani--back and forth for several second and LIZ GOES WOBBLY BUTT! Shue covering up hurt--Dani shoulders up and starts the process of breaking her girl down, Fishel slugging and shoving her girl in stages to the ropes, then it’s all heavy lifting. Dani propping her girl back with the left shoulder and elbow, hacking in the right hand to the kidney, snapping off short lefts to the face, then bombing downstairs with the double tap left, Shue’s hips shooting back as Fishel gives it to her in the belly--Liz badly hurt, but refusing to clinch--girls are just maintaining their high right/low left looks regardless of how badly they’re being beaten. Fishel sends Shue back to her corner with a bad body ache that doesn’t go away during the break.

R6: Dani piling on as Liz comes out sluggish this round. Dani just jamming her shoulder into Liz’s mouth, pushing off with the left elbow, then snapping in the hooks--one to the face, push, one to the jugs, push, 2 to the belly. Shue retreating to the ropes once again--Dani pressing up on her and  digging furiously to the stomach with both hands. Fishel also twisting into some clocking right hands along the jaw off the bodywork--Liz just staring as she lumps up, Down the stretch, Liz starts to work again, bump and slugging her way off the ropes--fight meanders to midring with the girls laying in cheek to cheek trading those compact hooks to the teeth at the bell.

R7: Dani takes control definitively with this round, banking her third consecutive stanza and heaping on the punishment to the older girl’s body, legs and mind with ceaseless pressure. Shue on the ropes once again, twisting her body, grunting audibly as Dani’s hammering hooks fit in behind the blonde’s elbow to bash liver and ribs. Dani able to body to and push Liz into the ropes, then push off to get sick leverage on punches, Shue breaking down, eyes swelling sadly, mouth lolling open and still she refuses to clinch. Dani with another banging shutout, leaves Liz sagging wetly in the ropes at the bell.

R8: Girl go shoulder to shoulder midring, more agonizing toe to toe trade. Slow clockwise waltz, girls taking turns working off their shoulder bumps to jerk hooks into weeping bellies and tired faces. Down the stretch,  Shue gets her back into it, double pumping that hook into Dani’s belly, once again shooting the smaller girl’s hips back and leaving Fishel dazed, Shue following up with the fight’s first right uppercut, has Dani stunned more from the new variable than anything else. Round ends with Shue shoving and punishing Dani on the ropes--it’s becoming a personal matter to work your girl over in the corners or on the ropes at the bell as each girl strives to break the other’s will late.

R9 Dani reaches in with the left, then umps in a hook to the gut, feeling the life ooze out of Liz as she slumps forward. Fishel arching her back, curls the right uppercut to the pit of Shue’s belly, and the blonde staggers away with dim hurt on her face--she can’t offer back. Dani clipping her shots, leading with her shoulder soon puts Liz on the ropes and issues another brutal cudgeling this round. Midway through, Dani twisting her hips into that savage double hook to the belly button and SHUE GOES DOWN! Liz on all fours, tears welling up at the costly drop page--Dani bouncing to a neutral corner with new life in her legs--she knows the knockdown is huge in a tight fight like this. Liz beats the count, tries to roll to her right as Dani storms over the4 top with a running right hand, but Fishel clocks jaw clean, driving Shue sideways back into the ropes. Heartless beat down from Fishel as she feverishly piles on, getting wild for the first time in this bout as fists skid against Shue’s hips, back and shoulders as well as her hurting gut and puffy face. Big shutout for Dani Fishel who all but seals the deal.

R10: Shue reaching in with her left, then jumping in a hook on the teeth has Dani stunned, and the blonde goes to work. Alternating her head on either of Dani’s shoulder, Liz pumps away downstairs, body punching Fishel to the ropes then opening up as the younger woman gurgles in pain. Shue blasting side to side, opening up the offense, but she’s too damaged herself to get Fishel in trouble. Dani weathers the storm, then starts to bump and shoot off the ropes, pounding Liz back to midring. Fight ends in a volley of crisp, short left hands from both women--faces spanked red and raw at the bell as the crowd roars in approval. Girls fall into an exhausted hug at the bell--comes back UD10 Dani Fishel.

After: Fishel maintains her impressive record in fights of this nature, and maybe a torch of sorts is passed as she uses up one of the great pressure fighters of the 90s. Grueling bout decided on the ropes: whichever girl could get her opponent there could get off and pile up the mileage, and after the fifth, Liz was riding vinyl all night long. Crippling body blows early in round 5 shut Shue down for 5 minutes, costing her the middle heats, and the knockdown in the ninth put Dani over the top. Great hardworking title defense--Liz badly beaten claims she was dead weight and looks to campaign at 120.

Reposted by Archer 8/20/10.