Before: Just 6 weeks after an embarassing reversal of fortune left Dushku on her back for a 10 count, she's back in the ring, against another tough contender in Milano. "She comes on all tough," snipes Alyssa in pre-fight, "but when you get to her chin, Eliza's all punk. I know you guys love it when I beat girls down in the corners, but I can't promise you Eliza will last that long. I'm really afraid she can't give me rounds." Alyssa in gold tankini, blonde hair, Dushku in black 2 piece gymnastics gear.

During R1: Eliza stamping out the jab, doubling up on it as she nimbles left and she catches Milano early with a straight right down the pike that sends Alyssa stumbling backwards with a suprised expression. Message sent - Dushku gets down to work, textbook approach against a pressure fighter - lateral movement, stiff jabs, hard right right hands down the pike whenever Milano pops out of her crouch. Classy shutout Eliza Dushku as she paints Alyssa from a comfortable distance.

R2: Eliza continues to execute. Sharp jabs, weight on her front foot, she'll reject Milano's attempts to body up, then step in, deposit the hook in Alyssa's golden brown belly, then pivot around that lead foot to set up shop 90 degrees to the left. Milano turning, getting touched up fierce - she forces entry in the final moments to welt Dushku's sides. Eliza rotating her torso to take the punches calmly, easily carries the round.

R3: Milano not discouraged - she's been picked over for 6 minutes, but she continues to come forward, bobbing ala Frazier, working into range behind a round right hand to the waist, then scooping hooks to the body and head in close. Eliza's knees buckle early as Milano turns a left through Dushku's chin, but the brunette recovers well, continues to pivot to relieve pressure - Milano takes the round but can't find Eliza as much as she'd like.

R4: Alyssa finds her rhythm. Wide right hands to the body get Dushku stooping forward - she stops jabbing and Milano gets her head on Eliza's chest. Alyssa working her head rough under Eliza's chin, gets Dushku ropeside and continues to swab gut with both hands, occasionally pulling out to crank a hook upside the head. Dushku soaks up an official beating this round - several times her head snaps hard to the side as Milano lands flush - final minute sees Alyssa pile the rugged brunette into a corner for a crowd pleasing beat down. Eliza gritting her teeth, hands at her temples, rolling with Milano's punches - stocky blonde pounding the hips and sides, using her brawny shoulder to prop Dushku up and get space for hooks to the jawline. Milano ignores the bell, continues to lather away as Dushku sags helpless to the turnbuckle - ref pulls blonde scrapper away, leaving brunette humming, glassy eyed.

R5: Eliza recovering nicely after a rugged beating in the fourth - she's back on her toes, getting off first, giving Alyssa movement - compact blonde has to eat and turn without satisfaction. Middleminute, Eliza looking over her foe from outside, stalks to her right, then drops a quick left, HAMMERING right hand on the face as Milano is slow to react - ALYSSA IS HURT! Milano swooning forward, Eliza stepping back in good order, helps herself to breast and face with curling uppercuts and pounding right hands up the middle. Milano busted open at the hairline - Dushku stamps jabs to the forehead in a methodical final minute - putting the litte blonde wobbly butt and shutting her out bad this round.

R6: Alyssa's turn to recuperate - she storms back into action, chugging wild punches low, curling right hands around the back to scorch kidney - Eliza buckles and sinks into the ropes, hands high, battening down her hatches. Dushku calm, well protected - she takes most of the incoming on her shoulders and guard, moving her head, sacrificing her body as Milano spends up energy this round. Alyssa missing opportunities, stubbornly flailing wide to the body instead of mixing up her punches. It's enough to win her the round, but Dushku's out of danger in good shape.

R7: Eliza back in control with the stick - she's shown the ability to fight outside all night long - Milano obviously relying heavily on tape of the Alba fight seems to have the wrong plan. Almost easy for Dushku when she moves, gives Alyssa angles - Eliza's face calm, alert - she's shining Milano up nice with left hands, sinking in the occasional hook to the body, then turning her girl rather than risk the inside trade. Any bluster from Milano is met with stingy right hands that bar the door - Alyssa often knocked back several steps as she walks into these short, straight licks.

R8: More of the same - Dushku just tightening the noose, using her entire arsenal - Milano lumping up nicely, getting picked apart as Eliza puts punches together from too far away for the blonde. Meanspirited sequence midway through as Eliza triples up on a hook against Alyssa's left breast - brunette pivoting as she punches and Alyssa seems stunned at the violation, standing up pretty for the fight's hardest punch - a straight right hand off the inside plane of Milano's jaw that sends her reeling awkwardly away. Dushku finishing up strong, working her girl over at the ropes - Milano for the first time cowering in a defensive shell, feeling it all up and down her sides.

R9: Just a classy shutout Eliza D. Milano with arms crossed, bobbing sullenly as she comes forward - Dushku calmly leaning over her front foot to poke lead right hands, a brushing hook and tapping jabs, all the while sliding away or pivoting neatly to her left. Alyssa has no answers - Dushku luring the blonde all around the ring, getting off at will, moving at will - Milano clearly discouraged at the bell: she's Dushku's pet at this point.

R10: Eliza using hopping left and right movement early to diffuse Milano's last gasp, then it's back on the face with the jab, more circular movement, and down the stretch - hard hitting power as Dushku goes for the knockout. Crowd out of the seats as Eliza zeroes in - her right hand spanks back Alyssa's drowsy face, putting the blonde's butt on the ropes and it's a frenzied finish. Dushku snarling, putting a withering flurry together as Milano wilts, clutching at her battered body, slumping forward as fists bury into her luscious flesh. Bell sounds as an enraged Dushku continues to maul her helpless opponent - Milano out on her feet goes the distance, but those eyes are blank, staring. UD10 Eliza Dushku.

After: Even after 6, but Dushku put her foot down the rest of the way to lay a handsome beating on the favoured Milano. Alyssa with some clear tactical mistakes in this fight - but it's not obvious at all that she could have done anything differently. Eliza as comfortable outside as in, methodically broke her opponent down, worked the body and head, hurt Alyssa repeatedly and cut her up - a comprehensive statement from the rugged brunette