Posted by Simguy on Sunday, 09-May-1999 11:35:09

Before: Fight scheduled to take place at Hollywood’s Hard Rock Café--expected to be parental advisory candidate between 2 big bangers. Berkley the infamous bully steps up and takes on the well-protected Shields in the latter’s first real test in months.  Insiders say Brooke is sick of being thought of as a paper champion, and wants the chance to show she’s a fighter’s fighter. Liz enters in “Showgirls” fashion, sporting fishnets, black panties and gold lamme push up bra. Hair in tight gold curls, pony tail. Brooke with gold highlights, hair curled, black jog bra and red high cut trunks. Batten down the hatches.

During R1: Liz’ eyes betray her as she comes out very tentative and defensive. Brooke comes forward, pounding to the tanned gut of her foe, shoving her back by her shoulders, and using her size to good effect. Berkley pushed around this round, takes swipes at Brooke’s face, but nautically too intimidated to get off this round.

R2: Brooke comes forward in the George Foreman crossed arm guard, and POUNDS Liz Berkley with body shots that have the crowd groaning in sympathy. Liz crumples and hangs on early as the blows hammer into her belly and ribs. Brooke shoves Liz back, and continues to chop away with her heavy hands, Midway through the round, Liz finally sets her feet and punches back, and connects with a left right to Brooke’s face. Brooke freezes and Berkley roars back, loading up on clubbing right hands and Shields is forced to the ropes. Berkley pours it on AND BROOKE SHIELDS IS HURT! Shields covers up as Liz gies ballistic, hurling lefts and rights at the cowering brunette as Shields sits on the ropes. Berkley’s hammering blows open a nasty gash over Brooke’s right eye, and she blubbers back to her corner at the bell as Liz’ confidence swings all the way to “meglo-mania” on the dial.

R3: Liz wades into Brooke--and promptly takes a right hand to the gut that folds her up like a K-mart lawn chair. Shields fighting big, shoves and slugs Liz rto the ropes and hammers away with lumbering blows, hurting Berkley to the body AND BERKLEY GOES DOWN!!! Blinking back tears, the showgirl looks stunned on all fours, as she barely beats the count. The round quickly degenerates as Liz goes low on Shields with three punch combinations, forcing the ref to intervene. Berkley runs, holds, and fouls the rest of the way and comes dangerously close to disqualification this round.

R4: Liz continues to run, eyes wide with frank fear as she desperately looks for a way out, Brooke walks her down, staying within herself, and in the final minute of the round, she  hammers away at Liz Berkley’s golden midsection with loud body shots. Berkley gasps and takes another knee, simply unable to take the vicious force to Brooke’s ponderous leather.

R5: Brooke cruising, even batting back Liz’s head with the jab as Berkley offers nothing in return.

R6: Brooke stepping forward, cutting off the ring and reaching for the blonde’s body, but Liz gets her legs moving this round, stepping around Brooke and nailing the big brunette with counter right hands. Midway through the round, and flush right to the jaw has Brooke momentarily stunned, and Berkley lets her hands go, splitting the big girl’s left with left hooks.

R7: Brooke falls into a dangerous pattern, walking after Liz instead of cutting off the ring, and the opportunistic blonde takes advantage with well-timed counter right hands to Brooke’s wide open head. By the final minute, Liz’s uncontested shots pile up, and Brooke’s legs begin to wobble as she covers up. Berkley wages in, heartlessly stuffing her left hooks into Brook’s trunks, and clubbing wide to the jaw with her right. AND SHIELDS GOES DOWN! Brooke wobbles to the mat under the accumulation of fouls and hard blows to the chin, and she is hurt. She rises at 8, and is immediately tackled to the ropes. Berkley goes insane, using her shoulders, elbows, and oh yeah, fists to shred a helpless Brooke Shields as she sags on the ropes. Shields’ head rocks to the side dangerously, and she slips to her knees again for the second knockdown of the round. Brooke survives, but is badly battered, and worse, it’s 10-7 round o the cards.

R8: Brooke continues to wade forward, and Liz continues to take advantage, using mobility to offset Shields’ power. Brooke can’t get an angle to punch, and instead, continues to walk into right hands, and again, she’s hammered into a vulnerable position on the ropes as Liz whups up. This is an artless beating when Berkley gets going--she’s simply throwing roundhouses, and elbows at Brooke with everything she’s got.

R9: Brooke bodies up effectively, keeping Liz close and smothering the blonde’s punching. Brooke’s face is a battered mess,  but she is dogged as she holds and hits Liz on the inside, giving a little back to the dirty blonde.

R10L Liz closes the show with a fine final round. Brooke unable to see the right hands, walks into countless crosses as Liz feasts on the big girl’s left side. Brooke almost goes down midway through the round as Liz nails her with a flush right, left, right to the face, but the big girl staggers forward and makes it to the ropes. Liz Berkley comes in hard with her head, snapping back Brooke’s head with a vicious intentional butt, then hammers at the brunette’s body to the bell. The decision comes back a draw, but Liz Berkley celebrates as though she has cleanly bested the big brunette.

After: Brooke Shields is escorted back to the locker room after being savaged by Berkley in this bout. Knockdowns and early success by Brooke were enough to earn a draw, but she clearly felt out of her element when Liz turned this boxing match into a cheap brawl. Liz calls out Cindy Crawford in the ring afterwards, and certainly seems to have gotten over her early jitters in a big way. Credit to Shields however, plenty of other girls would have quit under similar circumstances. There’s a fighter in there after all.

Reposted by Archer 8/15/10.