BEFORE: 

Couldn't ask for a better final, frankly, two of the hottest girls in the FCBA, and two of the most iconic racks as well. Both women a little worse for the wear at this point, but neither planning to walk off this beach without the JMDD title. 

"No one expected me to be here," says Alexandra with a shake of the head. "Everyone thought Kate would be here, but no one thought it would be me she'd be fighting. But, it is. And it's going to be me getting my hand raised at the end of the fight, too." 

"One more to go," says Kate with a nod. "One more girl to knock out of my way, and the title will be mine, just like it was always going to be. Let's do this!" 

ROUND ONE: 

Two thoughts here with both women having done a lot of work already to get to this point. Do you go after her quickly, try to take her out, or do you preserve your energy and settle in for the long haul? In JMDD, you'd think the former would prevail, but, at least for the first round, it's the latter strategy both women choose. Kate makes with the long left jab. She's got a bit of reach on Alex, who's a couple of inches shorter, and she makes good use of it. The jab sets the distance, sets up right hands. Daddario tactical as well. Bobbing the head, slipping the left, sending sand flying with good foot movement as she slips slightly inside Upton's defenses and gets off in combination. It's good, slick stuff from both fighters from beginning to end. Not much in the way of power shown. Not much in the way of rack worked. At the bell, it's Upton, who has the 10-9 lead. 

ROUND TWO: 

Kate upping the aggression just a bit, stepping forward behind the jab, banging rights to the body a bit more, looking to take, um, sand from Alex. Daddario not having it. Sturdy brunette beauty holds her ground, fires back hard and we get some scintillating exchanges. And, then, one of them goes sideways. A right hand from Kate wobbles Alex's great legs and Upton smells blood in the water. She's all over Daddario. Now's the time to put the end to this thing. Alex driven quickly back to the ropes and battered. Kate winging away lusty, stepping in to everything, wobbling Daddario several times and, when she's got her in deep trouble, going rack in a major way. Kate punishing the contents of Alex's bikini top viciously, digging in hard, then going upstairs to keep the brunette pinned to the ropes and on her heels. Referee again giving plenty of rope, and Alex uses it to survive the round, but it's Kate wide and the blonde now in control in the ring and ahead on the cards 20-18. 

ROUND THREE: 

Time to finish. Upton's offensive hits high gear from the opening seconds. She pours forward at Alex, forcing the game brunette back, firing hard shot at head, belly, ribs, breasts. Daddario in retreat, still not all the way back from last round. Then, the counter-attack. A beautiful right hook in counter from Daddario and Upton is HURT! That quickly, Alex changes the complexion of the fight and now it's the blonde in retreat. Daddario pursues carefully at first, still working to get her own legs back, but, as Kate retreats, Alex gets rolling, and she's quickly got the blonde on the ropes and in deep trouble. Now, it's Daddario digging body, wobbling Upton with hard shots to the head, and, of course, working that bra viciously, paying the blonde back for her insolence in round two. Kate hangs on, literally and figuratively, clinching, covering up, desperately trying to fight back. She makes it to the bell. But, it's Daddario wide and now in control. The cards, though, still say 29-28 Upton. 

ROUND FOUR: 

Alex wants to consolidate, and Kate's in no condition to stop her. Daddario, having learned from Upton's mistake last round, goes onto a sound, careful campaign to batter and reduce the blonde. She backs Upton up again and again, lining her up with hard left jabs, then dropping in vicious rights to head and body. Upton's legs being tested. They're passing, but they can't hold ground. Instead, Alex takes what she wants. Carefully, to be sure, but she takes it. Several times, she pins Kate to the ropes and batters her, working that rack, thumping the belly, banging home the odd hook to the head that shakes the blonde. Upton clinches, holds, covers up, fires back in spots. She's able to muscle off the ropes a few times to avoid being trapped there for the entire three minutes. But, Alex is in command, getting what she wants done, and there's nothing Kate can do about it. At the bell, it's another wide round for Daddario, who's now evened things at 38. 

ROUND FIVE: 

Alex after Kate in a big way, all over her from the beginning of the round. She's roughing the blonde up in every way possible, thumping her to the head and body, and, of course, paying special attention to the rack. Upton can't seem to solidify. Every time it looks like she's going to do so, Daddario lands another hard flurry and sends her back into retreat. By the third minute, Kate's taking almost exclusively, so, what happens next is no surprise. It's a solid three-punch combination to the head that sends Upton crashing to her back in the sand. Alex stands, staring down at Kate until the referee literally turns her around and gives her a little push in the direction of a neutral corner, and Kate needs all the delay she can get. Despite the extra time, she barely makes it to her feet, and the referee seems about to waive it off. Again. Rope. He waives Alex forward and the next 45 seconds are an absolute disaster for Kate. Daddario pummels her back into the ropes and batters her rack viciously once she has her there. Kate's gasping in agony as Daddario thumps shot after shot into her bikini top, clearly looking to knock her out to the chest. Kate seems about to sink to her knees when the bell finally rings, saving her from any further punishment, but Alex shoves up off her and stares her down before the referee again turns the brunette around and sends her to her corner in total control and on top 48-46. 

ROUND SIX: 

Daddario looking to finish now. Upton a shambles, legs unsteady, battered, unable to hold ground. Daddario stepping in to her punches, forcing Kate back, back, back. Trapping her against the ropes again and hammering away. Upton trying to answer back, but the brunette's volume suppressing her. Daddario's landing a decent percentage here, but, more importantly, what she's landing is power stuff. She's stepping in, committing, getting everything she has into the leather she's pasting every legal part of the blonde with and then she's DOWN! DADDARIO DOWN! Upton a right hand counter out of nowhere and Alex sent stumbling back to land on her rump! The brunette shaking her head in the middle of the ring as the referee counts, disbelieving what's just happened here. She sits watching until the count hits seven, then gets to her feet. Kate has to be crestfallen. Had to be hoping that one punch was enough, but it's not. Referee waives her forward and Kate gets to work. Now it's Alex giving ground, being bodied back into the ropes and taking leather to every legal part of her body. Kate gets some rack work done, but she's concentrating upstairs now, trying to take Alex out of here. She lands a couple of shots that wobble the brunette, but, again, rope. The referee watches, ready to move if he has to. But, he doesn't have to. Alex survives the round and now it's Kate pushing up off the brunette and quickly turning to march away. This thing is now, somehow, even at 56 and, moments after looking all but over, now seems to be anybody's fight. 

ROUND SEVEN: 

How things have turned. Less than two minutes ago, Daddario was looking to finish off a ramshackle Upton. Now, it's Kate in control. She's got Alex in full retreat from the opening seconds, stepping in behind that solid left jab, backing Daddario up with right hands, then going left jab, right hook and always finding rack with the latter. Daddario trying to counter, but the legs aren't back under her, and there's not enough power to dissuade Kate from simply walking through her, bullying her backward, and beating her up. The brunette tries to clinch, but Upton shoves off and thumps rack. Nothing's working for Alex, who's taking a serious licking to both head and body, and Kate every bit the hard-hearted vixen in dealing it out. By the end of the round, she has Alex butt-in-ropes and is simply battering her. Daddario's trying to crouch and cover as much body as she can while keeping the guard up, but Upton's fists are finding plenty of tender flesh to torture. At the bell, Kate has a couple of more shots for Alex's rack, sending the referee leaping in between them to turn the blonde back toward her corner, leaving the brunette's blue eyes to stare lasers into her back. It's Upton wide, and Kate now leads 66-65 with three to go. 

ROUND EIGHT: 

Upton continuing the pressure. Not overly aggressive this time, though, as she remembers well what happened in the third. She's again forward behind the left jab and Alex is quickly backed to the ropes. Daddario forms earmuff and puts the body on sale. Kate wants to stock up, but buys a face full of leather instead. BOOM! It's a brutal right uppercut into the face of a ducking Upton. The blonde stumbles backward and nearly goes down on her rump! Alex is off the ropes like a shot, charging Kate, virtually tackling her into the ropes, and pounding away with both hands. Now it's Kate in the earmuff as Alex works her body, leaning on her, making her take weight. And, soon, Upton's butt in ropes and Daddario's leaning down on her, rack pressing on top of Kate's rack, thumping uppercuts into Upton's bikini top while Kate basically paws at the brunette's flanks. Again, rope. The referee lets this go on without breaking, and Alex takes full advantage, battering Kate right to and past the bell, leaving her sitting on the ropes mouth breathing. It's Daddario in a shutout and we're all even at 75 with two to go. 

ROUND NINE: 

Alex again looking to finish. She charges Kate, and, to quote Pete Seeger, "When will they ever learn?" BOOM! Upton a scintillating right hand and Alex is stopped in her tracks! She wobbles and nearly goes down, and, cue the beatdown! There wasn't much love lost between these two when the fight started, and, it's safe to say with all the rack work, post-bell work, staredowns, and the rest, there's even less now. So, when one of these two sees the other hurt, bad things are going to happen. And bad things happen to the lovely Ms. Daddario for almost the entirety of the ninth round. Kate fires bomb after bomb at the brunette beauty, and, while some miss and others are caught on gloves, many land to head and body, and, while the power in same isn't what it was at the start of the fight, there's enough left to shake the brunette again and again. With about two minutes to go, the brunette is trapped against the ropes, gasping into her gloves as Kate thumps ribs and belly, moaning when the blonde goes rack, and wobbling when she comes upstairs to split the gloves with a right hand. The referee's been doling out rope, but he's about at the end of it now. Daddario's hanging on by her fingernails, only the pure will holding her up, only pure refusal to give in to a hated blonde rival stopping her from sinking to her knees at Kate's feet. But, the will is a powerful thing. In this case, more powerful even than barrage after barrage of Upton leather. Daddario's a wreck, but she's still afloat when the bell rings ending the ninth. It's Upton via shutout, though, and Kate now leads 85-84 with one to go. 

ROUND TEN: 

And, so it comes down to this. Four previous fights, two apiece. Then 27 minutes of warfare in this one. And, it comes down to three minutes. Three minutes for Alexandra Daddario to overcome Kate Upton's narrow lead. Three minutes for Kate to protect it. Three minutes to decide who'll become the first JMDD champion. One would think, after two fights apiece and 27 minutes of warfare, these two fighters wouldn't have much left. One would be wrong. Because, apparently, these two stunning beauties have hidden reserves on which to draw, and draw they do. This is not a tenth round between two exhausted fighters winging wild, weak blows at one another. It's not a tenth round where one fighter, with the lead, legs away and runs clock while the other desperately tries to bring her to battle. No. This is war. This is Alex Daddario stepping to Kate Upton and throwing everything she has at her. This is Kate Upton standing in front of Alex Daddario, refusing to back up the length of one of the grains of sand under their feet, and responding in kind. But, again, it's not wild stuff. It's sound, brutal stuff, with both fighters setting up their punches as much as they're sitting down on them. It's big shot after big shot. It's sweat flying and heads snapping back and racks being punished. It's "oohs" and "ahhs" from the crowd as each blow lands. It's a war of skill. Of power. Of will. And neither fighter is found wanting. Both have plenty of all three, and they demonstrate same again and again over these three minutes. And, when the final seconds of those three minutes pass, irretrievably into history, when the bell rings after a brutal, close round that sees reserves no one suspected either fighter possessed expended in a desperate effort to conquer the other, Alex had turned the trick. She's won a narrow victory in the tenth round, leaving the cards at 94-94 at the end of the scheduled length of the fight. Unbelievably, after four previous fights and 30 minutes of warfare, there's absolutely nothing separating blonde and brunette. Overtime is coming. 

ROUND ELEVEN: 

Reserves are spent. Neither fighter appears to have anything left as the eleventh gets underway. Both know what they need now, two consecutive points to do the trick, but neither appears to have any idea how to go about getting them. It's an effort for both to get legs, tired from two previous fights on and thirty additional minutes moving in the sand to work. It's an effort to get weary arms, taxed to their limits, especially in that last round, to respond. It's an effort to do just about anything. So, not much gets done, with even the racks being ignored. Both girls are game, but, the surprising energy of the last round has been replaced by lethargy. Both now look spent, exhausted. Both corners scream encouragement, pleading with their respective girls to dig deeper, to get that title. Both corners play psychological games, pointing out how spent the other girl is. Neither lie. But, both gloss over the fact that their own fighter is also exhausted. The three minutes seem like three years to the fighters. It seems as if the bell will never ring. It does, of course, and, both fighters trudge back to their corners, where, expectantly, they await the announcement of the scoring. It couldn't be more heartbreaking. A draw. 104-104. Three more minutes of hell, and neither any closer to victory. 

ROUND TWELVE: 

The battle continues. Both sets of legs are still leaden, and that's unlikely to change, but, after a round with very low work rates on both sides, the arms have come back a little, and both fighters get a bit more active. Head and shoulder movement is better, too, though defense is compromised by the lack of foot movement, so punches land with greater frequency, albeit with somewhat less power. The fatigue the fighters are feeling isn't just physical, of course, it's mental, too, but they're fighting through that as well, as witnessed by continued efforts to set up punches, create openings, and find spots for counters. They aren't just slopping power shots, and that, in itself, is a credit to both blonde and brunette. The fact that both are effective is even a greater credit to both. Neither is able to take control, though, at times, Upton is able to get on a roll and put Alex on the defensive, and, at other times, it's Daddario putting together flurries and Kate taking. By the bell, it's clear it's been a closely run thing and the announcement is eagerly awaited. It's Daddario's round. The cards now read 114-113 for Alex. If she can claim the 13th, she'll be the first JMDD champion. 

ROUND THIRTEEN: 

The situation now is the exact inverse of the tenth, when the brunette had to win the round to overcome the blonde's lead. Now, it's Kate who's in a do or die situation. If she can't win the 13th, all of this will have been for naught. She'll have come all this way just to come up short. And, it's clear from the opening seconds that Upton has no intention of allowing that to happen. She's off the stool with all the energy she has left and after Alex. And, like Kate was in the 10th, Alex is there to meet her. She stops Kate's advance cold and engages her on equal terms. And, again, amazingly, this isn't two girls slopping punches. They're working soundly, setting things up, probing for openings, even moving the feet a bit, despite legs that don't want to cooperate. There's head work. Body work. Rack work. For two and a half minutes, they battle like this, flurry after flurry. Punch after punch. Again, closely run. Not much in it. A microcosm of the fight itself. Two, gorgeous, evenly-matched beauties in an evenly-matched battle. The punch that turns it, finally, is, fittingly a left hook that blasts into a right bikini cup. That punch brings a gasp from its recipient and freezes her for just a second, just long enough for a straight right hand to land flush, blowing her, senseless, to her back. It's over whether she can get up or not, of course. This is two straight points and there's not going to be enough time to do anything about that. But, its academic. She can't get up, because she's out, lovely eyes closed, arms at her sides in the sand, chest heaving, belly pumping, legs stretched out in front of her as the count gets higher and higher. And, then, it reaches ten, with only ten seconds to go in the round. After four previous fights and 38:50 of this one, it's finally over. And your winner by KO13 and FIRST JMDD Champion is...Kate Upton! 

AFTER: 

The assembled crowd, including various roster members from across the league, media, loyal fans and JMD enthusiasts intrigued to see whether this 'new' JMDD would be able to match the success of the original JMD fight specialty. After the first tournament and certainly, this finals match, the answer appears to be a resounding YES! The crowd is stunned at first at the end to the brutal war between the two fighters, but soon breaks out into wild cheers as they alternately chant “J-M-D-D, J-M-D-D!” and “F-O-T-Y, F-O-T-Y!” as the fans applaud the efforts by both fighters. Kate has slumped back against the corner ropes, eyes closed as she catches her breathe for a moment and Alexandra is doing the same, slumped down against the canvas as her own chest rises and falls, the heaving cleavage the only sign of life at the moment from either fighter. 

But, after a minute of chanting from the crowd, Upton appears to be revitalized as she pushes herself up to her feet and looks out into the crowd, soaking it all in as her body glistens with sweat from the hard-fought battle between herself and Alexandra Daddario here tonight and then she sees on the sidelines the JMDD jewel-encrusted bra which will be awarded to her as the first-ever JMDD Champion as her eyes light up. Kate beams as she raises her hands into the air, just shouting with excitement as she slides out of the ring, tossing her gloves down to the sand before running around as she high fives fans closest to the ring and takes selfies with supporters holding signs as the crowd roars their approval. By the time she's done with that, Daddario is starting to really wake up as Kate slides back into the ring. 

Kate's hands immediately shoot down for Alexandra's hair as she grins and then grips her foe's dark raven tresses to yank her to her feet, planting her own before she whips her over to the turnbuckle. Alexandra's back thuds into the turnbuckle loudly, back arching with a low groan as she slumps back against it and pants out, leaning against the turnbuckle as she shakes her head, blinking in shock a bit as she gets a very rude awakening from her knockout at the end of the final round. Kate struts over as she goes to body up to Alexandra, chest to chest and face to face, just confidently smirking right into her rival's face, “Whose jugs stopped your jugs?” 

Kate presses in tightly as Alexandra is forced to respond in a half-moan / half-whisper, “Your jugs stopped my jugs....” and Kate grins, practically glowing when she hauls the brunette forward and stuffs her face into said triumphant jugs. Kate locks on a reverse sleeper, cupping her hand against the back of Daddario's scalp and the other cinching on the hold tightly, just guiding Alexandra's face tight between sweat-slick breast as Alexandra moans out. 

Daddario crying out in embarrassment and frustration, with both fighters knowing how close it could've been that the situation would be reversed. It's a full diet of jug for Alexandra at the moment, though, as she just moans out against it. Daddario tries to send short-arm forearms towards Kate's abs in a bid for freedom, but that's thwarted by a quick rising thigh from Upton to bury deeply into Alexandra's abs to double her over. It's a job of work from Kate to keep the brunette breathless and face deep into her cleavage as she just scrubs her cleavage in from side to side, flexing biceps to hold her in tightly. Alexandra starts to slump down, deadweight in Kate's arms slightly in this standing smother as Kate suddenly releases her and shoves her back against the canvas. Alexandra's lips are parted, face shiny with jug-sweat and what might be tears, just hugging onto the top ropes for support as Kate licks her lips. Officials go to come in with the JMDD bra as Kate wags one finger, indicating that she isn't ready yet as she takes a few steps backwards. Officials watch in puzzlement as Kate saunters backwards a few steps and then spins around to face Alexandra. 

Kicking her feet into the sand as if revving her engines for a moment, winking at the crowd as suddenly Kate charges forward. Jugs-a-jumping as she runs forward, building speed and momentum towards a helpless and jugged-out Alexandra, who has no idea what's coming. The crowd does now as they start to cheer in recognition of what's about to happen when Kate leaps up into the air for a crushing jug-to-jug impact, her cleavage completely crushing Daddario's chest with the full weight behind her in the splash as she then bounces off of her, hands upraised. Following the intense splash, Alexandra is not so lucky as she peels forward off of the turnbuckle, toppling like a felled tree as she collapses to the sand with a loud crash and Upton steps forward to nudge her towards her back. Kate then plants her foot across Daddario's cleavage and places her hands on her hips, nodding to the officials ringside to indicate that she's ready. 

Officials come in to place the tiara across Kate's blonde tresses as she beams and then two officials, who appear to have eagerly volunteered for the position, work to affix the diamond-studded push-up bra over her own bikini top as the crowd cheers. The JMDD Championship Bra fits snugly across Kate's chest as she thrusts her chest out victoriously and Kate poses for a moment, roaring to the crowd “MY JUGS STOPPED HER JUGS!” as she blinks back tears of excitement, being crowned the inaugural JMDD champion. Kate steps down across Daddario's chest as she hops across her over to the turnbuckle, mounting it quickly as she raises her hands up into the air, showcasing her victorious breasts in the championship bra as she bellows out with jubilation and the crowd roars back. Kate repeats this with each of the four turnbuckles, just glorying in the moment as an appreciative crowd cheers and an appreciative media takes pictures of the new JMDD champion!! 

Behind her, an unconscious Alexandra Daddario slumbers, but when she awakens, the two of them will have to fly back together to the movie that the two of them are starring in together (“The Layover.”) and who wouldn't want to be on that flight? If the two of them do have a Layover, with life imitating art and are stuck anywhere together for any period of time, who can imagine what could happen between two of the proudest racks in the league following a battle like this one? Today belongs to Kate, however but for Alexandra, there's always tomorrow and the war for jug superiority would appear to be far from over. If this tournament is any indication, it's likely that JMDD will be providing a perfect battleground in the future to settle these very important disputes!