BOXING AT THE MIRAGE

#1 Best of 7.
Posted by Simguy on 5/6/2006, 1:41 pm.

Before: First fight of seven going on at "Jenny's Jungle Room" at The Mirage (affectionately known by the literary-minded at "The Heart of Darkness") - site of O'Dell's career-defining victories over Krista Allen and the source of Jenny's surging momentum these days. "Wiping Krista out really put me on another level as far as confidence goes," Jenny explains in prefight. "I know I can come off the canvas to win big fights. I know I can close tough girls out, and I know that when things get tense, I'll focus. Ali's more solid than Krista - maybe not as quick, but definitely stronger and more sure of herself - breaking her down will be the greatest challenge of my career, but I know I can do it." Ali less sanguine about Jenny's chances, making a point of dismissing O'Dell's best-of-seven triumph over Allen. "You can throw the Allen result out the window," Ali sneers, "Krista limped into those fights - she rolled over for Jenny: I don't do that. O'Dell's never been able to accept that she can’t compete with me inside or out of the ring. Let’s do the math: I ruled the welterweight division with an iron fist for years; Jenny beat Krista Allen. I chased Charlize Theron back to lightweight; Jenny beat Krista Allen. I turned back Jeri Ryan every time she challenged my position within our stable; Jenny - well, you get the picture, I'm out of O'Dell's league - these fights are going to prove what everyone already knows. Everyone except Jenny." Leopard print bikini with wooden ring connections, Ali. Jenny tan faux lion hide bikini, twist-tie halter style top, punching pigtails.

During R1: First minute Jenny - she jumps in a strong hook, blocked by Ali's stout guard and LANDRY BITES BACK A TIDY HOOK COUNTER! Gorgeous compact counter-off-the-block clouts Jenny on the chin, staggering her backwards into ropes - Ali hopping forward, ears pinned back. RIGHT UPPERCUT, ALI! Jenny caught leaning forward between her mitts - she slumps awkwardly in the ropes, eyelashes fluttering, lips parting: Ali pivots on her hips, hooking Jenny clean across the right cheek, getting good head movement on O'Dell. Another hook catches Jenny flush - she soaks it, tilts forward earmuff: Ali rips the right uppercut off the right foot to brush wilting blonde back woozy into ropes. Body: Landry muscling up to thick-mitt it downstairs - tidy, ripping licks to ribs-behind-the-elbows; sumptuous digs to paunch with arched-back delivery - poor Jenny groaning, absorbing the beating of her young life. And finally, jugs: Ali pushing Jenny upright, then going rack with heartless shoulder-shrugging glee - buffeting O'Dell's breasts, smudging them, clubbing them, humbling them. Jenny sobbing aloud, aghast at the punishment - FINALLY she's able to cuddle up and halt the pounding - Ali's hot breath moist on Jenny's cheek in the grasp. Ref's break - Ali's breathing hard, thumbing her nose, then wading back in for more Jenny: getting left shoulder in O'Dell's chest, bumping and jostling for left hooks and chop right hands on swooning blonde to bell. Jenny swaying on the spot - Landry chesting up smug and purring in O'Dell's face; brunette took blonde out back the woodshed in a statement-making 10-8 first.

R2: Ali opening behind her jab, showing pageant class with a firm, heavy stick, keeping right mitt at her cheek as she walks Jenny down. O'Dell dangling her left at her side, chin tucked behind left shoulder, right cocked under chin - she's slide-stepping back and to her right, rolling Landry's work, backhanding her jab up off her hip. Second minute, Jenny with a nice feint, leads a supple overhand right and POUNDS BACK ALI'S FACE! Landry biting on the feint, poses for the chin-check - she's wobbly butt, momentarily stunned at midring behind a hastily improvised earmuff: JENNY UNLEASHES! O'Dell snarling, ripping into proud brunette waistline with greedy, strapping lefts and rights - Ali stooped forward on the take; Jenny's mitts loose at her waist as she reloads and licks limber underneath. Jenny picks Ali up the left uppercut, then both girls trade whistling left hooks and O'DELL'S HURT! Jenny clipped clean, suddenly aswoon - both girls staggering, visibly dazed, but willing themselves to KEEP PUNCHING! Jenny tilts forward in peek-a-boo guard onto Ali's left shoulder - Landry left across her body, right up to palm at Jenny in close - brunette digging into blonde with short, swiping strokes to put O’Dell ropeside. Merciless body-punching - crowd groaning in sympathy as Jenny absorbs savage shellack in under her breasts and above both hips and JENNY GOES DOWN! O'Dell sinking to all fours, panting, trembling - Landry staggers back all I'm-better-than-you, sneering down at tanned blonde back en route to neutral corner. Jenny beats the count, swaying in the wind at the bell - Ali glaring into the BSE corner, making hard eye contact with Jenny's trainer for good measure.

R3: Jenny needs to stand, does so in a gritty third. O’Dell boxing this round - dangling the left hand, slouching in a closed stance - she slides to her right, pivots to her left, keeping distance between herself and Ali. Jenny's up jab very sharp, athletic - time and again she scolds encroaching Ali, keeping  Landry's dukes up and defensive. Jenny getting lead right hands off cute feints: slicing, tart rights carved sidearm to Ali's paunch as Landry crouches forward, dukes at temples; looped right hands clouted to ear, nipping in around Ali's left wrist. Landry poked and potshotted - she's stalking, but not cutting off the ring - Jenny given the chance to regroup, win her first round, and get her head back into this match.

R4: Ali looks to reimpose herself, jabbing to Jenny's chest to stabilize - but O'Dell's got early answers. Jenny with that dangling left, cuff-hook counters Ali on the mouth as she's coming in, pivots sharply left to change angle on Landry - Ali frowning in confusion at Jenny's newfound nimbleness. O'Dell feinting Carpenter-like, pivoting, moving her head - Ali's missing upstairs, over-extending forward and collecting withering body-damage as Jenny digs, ducks and steps to the side. O'Dell plowing into Landry with right hands flat to ribs, or ripping Ali with arched-back hooks - succulent stuff from Jenny has Ali gasping, stumbling around midring and LANDRY TAKES A KNEE! Ali suffering, grimacing, finally backs away from Jenny and sinks to her right knee, arms hugging a worn-out midsection as O'Dell breaks into the sunniest blonde smile this side of Venice Beach. Ali grimly up off her knee at 8, but still short of breath: Jenny pushes her way in to stack Landry up at the ropes.

And Jenny. Wants. Jugg.

Ali curling forward, trying to cover up, but Jenny won’t have it. O'Dell leaning in forehead to forehead, forcing herself on Ali's rack, shrugging up in there, turning over short-arm hooks with plenty of forearm chaser, cramming and jamming and slamming away at Ali's goods. Beefy mounds pushed up, smudged aside, lifted and cudgeled - Jenny pays back Ali for every excruciating moment of punishment suffered by O'Dell's bosom in the first. Ali deadweight-limp, trying to tie up: Jenny reaching in under brunette arms, bodying the bigger lass back, staying on top, being the boss. Jenny laps up every last morsel of jug, wriggling, writhing and slugging Ali senseless in a sloshing fourth. Ref's break: how-could-you tears in Ali's resentful eyes; hard-eyed glare back from Jenny as blonde starts to chip away at brunette lead in earnest.

R5: Ali answers, showing class/pride in reasserting herself. Landry doubling up the jab, covering herself as she steps forward - she’s closing on Jenny without being posited now, backing the blonde up. O'Dell defending at the ropes, dukes up: Ali flutters screening jabs at the face, then drives in sloping right hand blockbusters loud off Jenny's quivering abs. Jenny mouth-breathing - leaning back into the ropes, then giving a little torso roll to ride some of this out - but Ali's in great position, working methodically to the body, slowly mixing in extra punches and putting sequences together. Ali with the left shoulder in Jenny's chest to stabilize her - loose brunette hands tattooing blonde flanks, sample blonde paunch, swipe blonde rack. Jenny slowing, growing sluggish under the constant clubbing - head's becoming available as Ali gets little clipping left uppercuts and swat-left hooks on target. Rough shove-and-slug from Ali - Landry bullying Jenny from the halfway point on, slopping on the punishment, beating the hips, the torso, the arms and the head with a tidy array of compact licks. It's all too much - Jenny droops to her knees after a Landry right uppercut smashes clean to chin in close - Ali stepping back, chest heaving, eyes glaring down. Jenny rallies off the canvas as crowd chants "JEN-NY! JEN-NY!" - O'Dell reeling, loose and wobbly in the ropes as Landry takes a deep breath, wades on in. Ali into that rack in yet another bid to break Jenny's will. O'Dell rag dolled, soaking it up, reaching mindlessly around Ali's shoulders, but Landry too strong: Ali romping on rack to the bell and beyond - ref has to pull buxom brunette off her throbbing prey as Jenny's legs are just about to give way.

R6: The trudging steps, hooded eyes, open mouths of last-woman-standing action. Women fall in mouth-on-shoulder, snuggling in close to work, swaying and staggering around in constant, moist contact with each other. Both girls riding on a loose left hand 'round the other's lower back at times, or across her shoulders. Both plugging short, heartless right hands into pain-wracked tummies or smudging 'em across throbbing jug. Constant push of body on body - partial clinches, but neither girl completely restraining the other: it's more a nudging, writhing quest for leverage and punching room. Dangerous hooks unleashed whenever there's a little separation, then girls lay back on in to work off one another's shoulders. Hot slogging brutality all even till late - both girls ease in to right (back) feet to pull hooks across and ALI GETS HURT! Landry beaten to the punch, soaks it numbly, hands dropping as she stares at Jenny - O'Dell able to rebalance, push a right hand in across Ali's chin to get her toppling backward to ropes. Jenny sloshing forward - dim-eyed, open-mouthed, but aggressive - blonde pouring herself at shabby brunette as Ali leans back into ropes behind peek-a-boo. Jenny mopping up with fat, batting lefts and rights - big backswings and gorgeous hip rotation as she simply belts away at Ali's flanks and shoulders to the bell. Ali destitute - Jenny reeling - girls stagger mindlessly back to corners for emergency repairs as O'Dell claws out close points.

R7: Ali looking shopworn, tired - gloves at temples as she leans forward, giving Jenny the initiative. O'Dell punch-groggy herself, but still executing - she pushes her jab into Ali's guard, controlling Landry, positioning her, then plowing her a slanting right hand down into tanned brunette midsection. Ali biting down on a shrill squeal of pain - getting harder and harder to deny Jenny the satisfaction of hearing those plaintive grunts and whimpers. O'Dell forward - pushy left jab enough to keep Ali dormant, covered up. Jenny able to place hard right hands - leaning into 'em, shoulder behind 'em - straight down into the breadbasket to get Ali ropeside. Jenny pushing her left shoulder into Ali's chest, going at her big-girl: O'Dell with the left hand at her waist, right at her shoulder, executing brilliant bump-and-slug as Ali mopes on the ropes, face-in-gloves. Jenny methodical, beefy downstairs, really cleaning up on paunch and flank - Ali groaning, has to take a knee to relieve the suffocating pressure. Jenny prowling the neutral corner - face badly lumped up, legs trembling, but she's smelling blood in the water. Achy 8 Ali - she lolls in the ropes, obviously distressed, covering up face-in-gloves as Jenny wades back in. Sumptuous, thumping beat down ensues: Jenny in wide stance, pivoting in her hips to pull the hardest rights and lefts she possibly can into the firm meat of Ali's flanks and tummy. Rude, bumping shoulder-work props Ali, jostles her: Landry slumping forward, offering nothing back. Jenny just piling it on - her fists sounding out wet and loud against the beef. Ali stooping forward - Jenny edging back to give herself room to punch, easing Landry into extra hurt. Body blows, uppercuts, walloping shots on the ears - poor Ali slouching forward into it, eating it all - Jenny stepping back in good order and sloshing home the hurt and ALI GOES DOWN! Ali collapsing face-first to canvas, hands underneath her at her chest and tummy and IT'S OVER! Good lord - Jenny pounds out a sweltering KO7 to take the series in bruising fashion.

After: Jenny battered, hobbled, but jubilant - hugging her teammates, wincing/smiling as she lifts her right hand in triumph. Stunning outcome of a truly vicious encounter between these two - both rallying off the canvas, both showing spirit as well as skill, but it's ever-resolute Jenny who finds a way to last when Ali couldn't. "Right from the first round," breathes Jenny in post fight, "I knew we couldn't go the distance - one of us was going to break. I almost went out in the second - I can barely stand right now - Ali Landry was desperate to win this first fight and gave me everything she had. I used her up - that's so huge in a series. I know the kind of punishment I gave her will linger - it'll effect her in the next fight and I just have to stay on her. I just took the best Ali has to offer - that has to be killing her right now." Landry in obvious body-agony when she comes around - making hurt faces, hugging at herself - tortuous fight that is much worse when you're the KO loser: Ali with some soul-searching to do to come up with answers for the next bout.