Before: Aniston, Beckinsale, Mendes, Jolie, Decesare and Connelly - all rumoured to have made formal overtures to the Smart camp - young Amy suddenly on everyone's hit list as her film career heats up.

"Opportunity's definitely knocking - in AND out of the ring," an upbeat Amy beams. "It's that gunslinger mentality in the FCBA - if people see you doing good, they want to take you down a peg - but I'm up for it. I wanted Connelly first because she's the best of the big stars and the girl I've most patterned my game after. I know if I can compete with her, I can compete with anybody!"

Connelly affirming blonde's intuition on Smart's rising attractiveness as an opponent du jour. "Definitely, as Amy's face gets on the marquee more often, she becomes a much more attractive risk/reward proposition. For me, she's a chance to score a signature knockout win - that's really what I want out of her - and thanks to her movie success, we can finally make that happen. As for her 'competing' with me - well - if survival counts as competition, then maybe she's got a chance."

Connelly in white string bikini, white gloves. Amy in tawdry pink camisol top (cotton/clingy), pink panties, white gloves.

During R1: Amy strokes Jen a fine right cross on the chin - Connelly comes right back a volley of blows to the ribs and tummy: Jen willing to accept damage if it means getting Amy to open up. Connelly stepping Amy down - brunette weight on front (left) foot, chin tucked - she leans forward, twitches her hips side to side and stays primarily on the Smart midsection with robust, digging rights and lefts. Amy giving ground with a frown, covering up against the body beating, then stepping out - offering a little get-away-from-me jab and trying to time Jen for more right hands as brunette comes forward. Connelly punctuates the round late - flurry to Amy's breadbasket backs her up wincing - Connelly able to turn on a forget-me-not hook to chops to swivel blonde curls, putting Amy wobbly butt at the bell. Jen hopping away, batting her gloves, looking intense back to her corner: she wants that knock out!

R2: Jen back on Amy's body - prepping the way with one or two jabs, then sailing into gut right/left. Shivering tic-toc impacts on Amy's tummy and ribs - blonde grimacing, forced to back up - as she retreats, she becomes available for a juicy, full-blooded hook from Jen as Connelly steps in and bites it off. DOWN GOES AMY! Minute mark - Jen stepping-with and catching Amy that clout swivels blonde head and sits Smart down - Amy up quick, but dazzled: mouth open, eyes bleak. After Amy's 8 - Jen all serious, batting her mitts together and stepping-to Smart at the ropes. Thumping beatdown administered to the Smart abdominals, flanks and ribs - Jen pushing off the ball off her right foot, twitching those slender hips side to side and muscling home rugged rights and lefts has Amy bunched up and suffering in the ropes. Jen particularly vicious - twisting the fists into Amy's flesh, turning 'em over for extra leverage - Smart all cramped up, mouthbreathing at the bell as ref pushes seething Jen back.

R3: Jen back on Amy's body - pretty clear Connelly wants to reduce blonde in the most heartbreaking, systematic fashion possible. Smart groaning, covering up, giving ground - Amy making adjustments however: keeping her hands up/chin tucked when she backs away; turning at the ropes, keeping her back clear of the cables. Second minute - Jen just batting away at hips and flank - Amy stands her ground, absorbs shellack, then steps a hook into JEN'S available chin as Connelly's 100% focused on body. DOWN GOES CONNELLY! Crowd roaring to it's feet as prohibitive favourite hits the deck, propping herself up on elbows with stunned, wha' hoppened? expression. Amy: blonde curls in her eyes, teeth clenched, dukes rigid at her hips - she's just looming over Jen, daring her to rise as ref pushes seething blonde back. Connelly takes 8 and HERE COMES AMY! Smart steps-to, unleashes a Connelly-esque barrage of straight-armed, shivering body-lashes to hips and flank, forcing Jen to earmuff-up, crouch forward. Look at Amy DISH! Lips curled back, grunting little puncher's grunts as she digs 2 and 3 right hands to Jen's pale midriff, then shifts weight to lash hooks behind elbow. Scouring work at the bell - Amy all charged up. Jen riding it out well, pushing blonde away at the break - ref gets in there as tempers flare.

R4: Jen bats mitts together, wades into Amy, bangs her body, backs her up. Connelly lips tight, eyes pitiless - as Smart steps away wincing, Jen bats mitts together, steps in, stays on that torso. Ringing, shivering volleys - Jen pushing off the ball of that right foot, twitching her hips and lavishing on the hurt: poor Amy grimacing, covering up, just trying to keep her guard together under withering brunette pressure. Smart not giving up her chin when she backs up, so Jen starts launching hard right hands up top to loosen blonde guard, then swinging away hooks to liver - tic/toc combinations buckling Amy's knees, breaking her down incrementally through 4.

R5: Amy battles! Jen still the aggressor, still taking canvas away from blonde, still pouring home the hurt - but Smart choosing spots to stand her ground and trade heartfelt licks with the bully. Amy landing a good swinging right to Jen's taut breadbasket, and catching Jen the odd hook upstairs off the front foot. Connelly committed to punching, willing to accept punishment, but still doing a good job of keeping her hands up, blocking a lot of shots and timing Amy's openings. Combative round for Amy proves expensive as she's lumped up, looking shopworn through 5.

R6: Jen pressing her attack to Amy's body - Smart doing a great job of sliding back, walking Connelly onto cutey-pie check-hooks off the right foot, jabs, and intercept right hands as Amy picks spots to shift weight to front foot when Jen comes in. Connelly walking Amy down - pressure, pressure, pressure - but midway through - ringing blast on the chin buckles Connelly's knees, momentarily halts her progress. Jen backs away to regroup, turns boxer for the rest of the round: girls fencing on the outside, Connelly on her toes, weight on her front foot as she pops jabs, darts right hands and bounces to her left.

R7: Amy a good-looking boxer - a pretty jabber, gets good leverage pushing off the ball of her right foot as she extends on shots - but she's caught a sizzling hook on the chin early as Jen times a perfect counter inside Smart's jab. Amy staggering in fence post holes, earmuffing up with snivelling lips: Connelly right back downstairs with robust rib-work - thrumming away two-handed, wiry arms shivering as fists bounce off bone. Poor Amy! Groaning, blonde backs away in tatters, knees rubbery. Jen stepping-to - batting mitts together, stepping into Amy - brunette sensing collapse and POURING herself to the task. Smart in freefall - backing away, hitting ropes, covering up - she's just trying to escape the beating as Connelly hits the supercharger on her offence. Wrenching hook bites across Amy's waist as she's sliding to her right at the ropes - blonde sobbing aloud, staggering back into the cables all loosened up. BIG RIGHT HAND JEN CONNELLY! Jen steps, leans into a searing right cross flush onna button - tossing blonde curls as Amy's head flies back limp over top rope. Smart's entire body relaxes - still sliding right as she drifts down - blonde landing on her right shoulder and rolling to her back parallel and just under the bottom strand. Connelly looks down heartlessly, nods: she knows a KO7 when she sees one. KO7 Jen Connelly.

After: Picturesque whack - Amy very pretty with that soft blonde hair obscuring her features - slackened face shiny under the hot overhead lamps: Connelly gets what she was looking for, but at somewhat higher cost than expected. "Well, obviously, when she put me down in the third, I knew I had underestimated this girl," Connelly admits, dabbing at her lower lip with a white towel. "Amy came to fight and she backed it up with some skill - she's obviously well schooled, she's young, she's lithe - I think she can give some girls problems under 120. I wanted a showcase, but I also welcome good hard rounds whenever I can get them: Amy actually got my heartrate up and made me sweat for that knockout. As a competitor, I appreciate that."