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5 Oct 2007 Jennifer Garner vs Tricia Helfer

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Posted by simguy on 10/5/2007, 7:03 am.

 

Before: Intriguing fight for Garner, given the bet HISC has made that Jennifer's best days may be behind her. "I guess I'm in show-me mode all over again," grins the dimpled wonder in prefight. "Because of my free-agency, a lot of people are wondering if it's time to make a move on me. When I was with HISC, I think I would have been made a comfortable favourite over Tricia, but now, I know people are withholding judgement. It's good for me - I think it was just assumed that I was going to win at HISC, and maybe I got a little complacent. Now I feel like a hungry ingenue all over again, and that's not good for girls like Helfer." Tricia another late bloomer not unlike Jen - she knows what it's like to be a mature fighter maintaining her skills in a young woman's game. "Garner's amazing," Tricia admits. "She's the total package - everyone knows that - so the question is, what does she have left at this point? And I look at the Biel fight and I have to say: Jennifer HAS lost a step." Pause to let the crowd noise subside. "That still makes her a solid top 10 fighter at lightweight, but this isn't a girl who can or should be favoured over me. I'll box Jen, I'll test her body, I'll test her chin - if she's feeling hungry, she has to know the rest of us are even hungrier to face her now." Tricia in metallic baby blue bikini, small white gloves; soft platinum curls ala BSG. Garner in scarlet bikini, small black gloves; slick ponytail.

 

During R1: Jen dukes up, chin tucked, coming forward - but it's bell to bell Trish. Feints from Helfer; quick-snapping jabs to dictate space and pace. Tricia bending at the waist, head low in close to Jen's body while pivoting 'round either Garner flank. Tricia using her left shoulder as a hinge for pivots - pressing against Jen while swivelling around, neatly cramping Garner's punches. Offensively - Tricia's jab doing most of the work - but she's turning on lanky right hands, twisting to the left on follow through, coming back with torquing, long-limbed hooks. Jennifer sponging good firm clout - blocking a lot of shots: she's unhurt, just not getting off against her sinewy foe in the first.

 

R2: Tricia lights Jen up the lanky right uppercut: while Garner's sputtering - Helfer clips a rangy hook, puts the right cross on top to SEND GARNER STOMPING BACK ON HER HEELS! Jen hurt - earmuffed up, digging in: Tricia on her with that long snapping jab, measuring the space, then turning on another slinging right cross, kissing it off Jen's forehead. GORGEOUS lanky hooks take Jennifer underneath - firm Garner tummy meat bunching up under cranking impact as Tricia pops hips-right and lashes 'em in. Trish easing onto her back (right) foot to change distance - she slinks to her right, flicking the backhand jab at Jen, then leaning in to clout Jenny another limber-limbed right. Garner wobbly butt, but firming - guard in place, she's facing into punishment, starting to move her head. Middle minute - Helfer circling, pivoting around scoring blows, moving her head and sliding her front foot: typically elegant lashing being dished to Jen. Down the stretch, Garner doubles her jab - misses a swift right hand as Tricia slips to her left: Jen stays with it, hooking Helfer's ribs, stealing the moment as Helfer can't get off. More body blows - Garner to Tricia: Jen wading in, rotating her shoulders, bouncing muscular lefts and rights off Helfer's abs and lungs. Helfer clinches, face strained: Tricia finishes up the round winded and hurt, even as Jenny's reeling from a pasting as well.

 

R3: Garner ensorceled: Tricia weaves her spell this round. Jen compact, elbows in, getting close - Helfer SEEMS available, but Tricia going rubber-bodied as Jen's getting off, just tilting and leaning inside Garner's blows, taking the edge off. Helfer face-in-gloves, rolling shots - then answering back cutey-pie: changing speeds, touching Jen tip-tap-WHACK! Tricia a master at lulling a girl with brushing nibbles to set up the one smiting stroke she really wants. Garner busted to chops via uppercuts and hooks, strapped amidships - Tricia easing in and out, using her wide-legged stance and supple upperbody to create illusions of distance. Still - Jen's coming stubbornly forward, putting pressure on her legs if not her fists - Garner avoiding shutout by bashing at Tricia's hips and flanks when available.

 

R4: Similiar stuff - Tricia steering and vexing Jen - dominating Garner from outside, bamboozling her inside. Tricia loose-limbed, swivel-hipped, supple-waisted - pivoting and swooping, licking and lashing away. Midway through, gorgeous right uppercut picks Jen's face up groggy: eyes closed, eyebrows arched high, lips pursed in a startled "O". Stubborn pressue from Jen sees her thump dutifully away to ribs and arms: Garner taking Tricia's cleanest leather flush, walking through it and continuing to compete through 4.

 

R5: Jennifer stabilizes, sloooowly takes initiative as Helfer's output drops. Bitter negotiations as Jen's spitting double jabs to close, then chopping a short right hand to Tricia's ribs, receiving the right uppercut in trade. Girls leaning in temple to temple - Trish lapping lanky at tummy; Garner snapping and snatching, really wearing out the Helfer torso. Fight drifts to ropes - Jen on top: she finally puts Tricia on the defensive down the stretch - Helfer going face-in-gloves to ride out the storm. Good thumping beat down administered - Jen scowling, working hard, setting her miler's pace: Tricia's willowy frame shaken as Garner hammers those long coastlines.

 

R6,7: Garner's stiff, jolting double-jab backs Tricia up: Helfer fights both rounds back-to-ropes. Garner fighting off Tricia's chest, jamming her head between Helfer's gloves, staying on the body. Garner at her biggest and brawniest - she's rolling that left shoulder into Tricia, jostling her - using the left elbow/tricep region to prop Tricia up out of her crouches. Heavy shelling of ribs and waistline the prelude to strong, determined head punching: Helfer being bludgeoned up top, trying to block the blows on her gloves and roll them best she can. Savage whack being dished out - no one punch doing, but dreadful accumulation adding up in Helfer's sensuous legs, buckling her knees. More and more, Tricia's sitting into ropes for support, twisting and turning in the pocket, clinching rather than punching back. All in all - 6 minutes of Jen maybe the worst 2 rounds of Trish Helfer's career: she emerges a different, shabbier woman than the one who went in.

 

R8: Tricia baring her teeth, slugging lanky: she's just got to back Jen off and get away from the apron. Garner nailed a cute right uppercut to chin, hooked hard in her waist, but she doesn't back up: snapping, short barrage answers to Tricia's biceps, breasts, ribs, beating down the resistance. Midway through, left uppercut rocks Helfer; left hook clouts her sideways to ropes; right hand chops into right ear as Tricia's leaning against strands and HELFER GOES DOWN! Tricia gasping on all fours, parallel to ropes: Garner seething, looks down hard-eyed, surveying the hurt. Tricia takes her 8, covers up face-in-gloves, sitting into ropes and absorbing a tremendous mop-up beating - Jen just staying on the body, beating Helfer numb.

 

R9: Helfer grimly resigned to fightiing off the ropes - legs in a wide, sturdy A frame; right beneath her chin, left across her bod she rotates torso, twisting and rolling Jen's heat. Garner pouring up the middle, rhythmically bouncing heavy hands off Tricia's weary biceps, tender chest, throbbing ribs and tummy. Jen turning on particularly juicy hooks hard behind Tricia's right elbow - great whacking spank sounding out as Helfer bites down on screams of complaint. Tricia refusing to punk - she's licking back left uppercuts; rolling with shots and answering back chop-right hands; dipping her left shoulder and hoisting home the odd lanky hook up into the offending torso. Jen won't be moved, but Tricia refusing to be broken: crowd-pleasing slugfest late as Garner concentrates on breaking down the last bit of resistance.

 

R10: Heavy, sustained beating for Tricia: more gritty resistance from stubborn Helfer off the ropes. Garner too strong now - head rough against Helfer's face and shoulders; tough bumping and jostling keeping Tricia squared up and pinned down - exposing her to the dreadful pulverizing effect of Jennifer's non-stop work. Helfer's face becoming available - Jennifer short, compact, clubbing and clouting her foe into stupor. Crowd roaring whenever Helfer's head snaps straight back from uppercuts: wiry legs refuse to give way as Trish just slumps into ropes and finds a way to soak up the hurt. Bell: Jennifer pushing up off Trish in amazement, then hugging battered blonde. Comes back UD10, Garner.

 

After: Jennifer strips away the magic, forcing Tricia into the disenchanted universe of uncompromising, no-nonsense pressure. "I was worried early," a relieved Jennifer admits in postfight. "I couldn't find her - she was so elusive - and she had me stunned a couple of times, so it took a while to get my rhythm. Once I got on top, I felt like I could wear her down, and that's pretty much what happened, but let me tell you: Tricia may look elegant, but she's tough as an old boot! I hit her some body blows that would have sent Biel or Theron howling to canvas - Helfer surprised me with her durability tonight." Tricia lumped up, well worked over, but she's gracious enough to offer comments in defeat. "Jen was razor sharp tonight," Helfer admits. "I might have to retract what I said about her losing a step - she's still unmanageable once she gets position on you. She just kept at me - my arms are just dead right now - she did everything she had to do to win tonight."

 

 

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