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25 September 2015 Claire Danes vs Margot Robbie

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Posted by Lookout! Boxing on Deptember 25, 2015, 4:58 pm

 

Claire Danes vs. Margot Robbie
(Words: Front Street / Results: Lookout!)


BEFORE:

Nobody plays a tougher schedule than Margot Robbie. Nobody. This schedule would make USC, Notre Dame, or Alabama blush. VanCamp. Mitchell. Lilly. And now, Danes. But, the blonde stunner apparently likes it rough. "She's a Hall of Famer," says Margot with a fleet-launching smile. "Everyone knows how good she is. But, I'm good, too, and I'll prove it tonight."

"This is a girl I need to deal with," says a hard-eyed Claire. "She's coming hard, challenging top talent. She's looking to make a splash. And, she probably will. But, not on my watch."

ROUND ONE:

Margot starting this the same way she started against Lilly. She's looking to work forward. She has the gloves high and the chin tucked, bobbing the head, working the jab. Claire not about giving ground. She fires back with hard flurries, stopping the forward motion, trading with the Aussie...and getting ROCKED! It's a right hook that catches Claire and spaghettis the legs. And Margot's all in! She's looking to end this thing in shocking style as Claire backs and covers. Robbie winging heavy leather, battering Claire, trapping her on the ropes and pounding punches off her high guard. Claire shaken again by a left hook, clinches, holds the arms, does anything she can to run some clock. Robbie wobbles her again with an uppercut, breaking the clinch and pinning her back to the ropes. Danes taking a ton of punishment, but, as ever, she's slick. She's rolling with, picking punches off, jabbing back to keep the ref at bay. She takes a licking, but she keeps on ticking. She's scuffed but standing when the round is over. Robbie has the lead, 10-9, but she doesn't have the quick finish she was hoping for.

ROUND TWO:

Margot looking a little gassed as this one starts, and Claire still a little wobbly. Not much happening early. Both fighters trying to get the jab established, but neither getting much work done. The punches aren't coming rapidly, and those that do are short, wide, or picked off as the pair works at range, neither doing much with the feet. Stays that way until the final minute, when the pace begins to pick up. Danes gets the jab on target, begins following. The legs are coming back and she's slipping and dipping. Robbie's arms coming back to life, too, as she's finding the target with her own left, setting up solid right hands. By the final 30 seconds, we've gone from two fighters who are barely working to two fighters who are engaging in some serious exchanges. No bombs being thrown, mind. It's slick boxing, and, to her credit, Margot is holding her own with as good a boxer as the FCBA can offer, Claire Catherine Danes. By the final bell, there's not much in it, but it's Danes by the slimmest of margins, to even this at 19.

ROUND THREE:

Usually, when the term "putting on a clinic" is used, it's to describe one fighter taking the other to school, if you will. In this round, however, we're seeing a clinic on both sides. Danes is being Danes. She's boxing clever. She's all about angles and movement and setting up punches not just with other punches, but with feints and footwork and shoulder rolls. This is classic Claire, Danes at her finest, the stuff that's made her not only a champion in two divisions, but a Hall of Famer. And, that makes what Robbie's doing all the more impressive, because Margot's not only hanging with Danes, she's matching her punch for punch, slip for slip, dip for dip. It's pretty stuff, the kind of great technical, tactical stuff the purists love to watch, but also the kind of stuff that entertains the fans. Both fighters are busy. Both get plenty of leather home. Nobody's hurt, but everybody's touched plenty. And, when the bell rings, there's absolutely nothing in it. It's a drawn round, and, after three, it's 29-29.

ROUND FOUR:

The pair have been fighting at range since the first, and, while the results have been pretty even, Margot wants to change terms. Time to get back to what she did in her jailbreak first, forward, hands high, chin tucked, behind the jab. But, if Robbie thinks Danes has been chastened by getting caught in the first, she's sadly mistaken. Claire isn't about to fight going backward. She holds ground, fires back, and we're right back to the heavy exchanges of leather we saw early in that first. And, the results are exactly the same. Well. Not exactly. SOMEone's quickly caught and hurt, but, this time it isn't Claire, it's Margot. The punch is a right hand off a pretty left and it sends the Aussie back a step. The legs don't wobble, so it isn't immediately obvious she's hurt, but Margot's reaction tells the tale. She immediately covers up and Danes goes to work. Claire surgical in her precision, backing Margot up, using the excellent left jab to split the gloves and make room for rights. Robbie fighting hard to stay off the ropes, but, eventually, she's there and Claire takes target practice for the rest of the round. She can't finish the Aussie, but she scuffs her plenty and rolls up the points, taking her first lead at 39-38.

ROUND FIVE:

Danes wants to consolidate. She quickly puts the pressure on Margot, testing the legs and the determination. She finds neither wanting. Margot holds her ground and fires back with hard, accurate stuff. Danes far too crafty to push the issue. She's back to range and we're back to boxing. Claire precise, careful, busy. Working the left, always the left, everything off the left. Margot firing back in kind, landing combinations of her own. My turn. Your turn. Your turn. My turn. Rally after rally. Neither fighter willing to go to the defensive, and neither able to force the other there. Again, it's pretty stuff, subtle stuff, the foot and head movement, the hand movement, the feints, all the efforts to create small openings to fit leather through, and then the speed and skill to get that leather through the hole and on target. And, again, this is Danes' game, one she plays as well as anyone in FCBA history. So, when Margot Robbie actually BEATS her and narrowly claims the round, evening the fight at 48, well. That tells us plenty about the kind of talent the Aussie has.

ROUND SIX:

Back to ranged warfare. Both fighters comfortable here, extending their long, accurate jabs, using them to create openings for hard right hands. Both fighters putting punches together, both scoring in bunches just like the last round. Crowd getting into it in a big way as the flurries get longer and longer, and, despite good defensive work on both sides, more and more leather finds the mark. About two minutes in, with things just about even, Robbie backs Claire up with a right hand. Margot steps forward into the breach. Spider. Fly. BOOM! Danes anticipates Robbie perfectly, walking her into a perfectly-placed right cross. Margot stumbles, nearly goes down, and Danes is on her instantly, a buzz saw battering the younger woman back into the ropes and hammering away with both hands. Robbie's left to cover up and hang on, taking a vicious beating in the process. She manages to stay on her feet, but only just, and, at the bell, Claire has the round wide, and Margot's looking more than a little worse for the wear. 58-57, Danes.

ROUND SEVEN:

Margot's legs a little iffy as this one gets underway. Claire takes full advantage, getting to work with surgical boxing at range, picking apart a less mobile Robbie, getting onto the lead immediately and forcing Margot onto the defensive. This is what Danes has been trying, but failing to accomplish the entire fight, save, of course, when she had Margot hurt. She's dictating tempo, controlling the younger woman with her jab, making her back and cover again and again. Robbie game, countering in spots, but Claire's on a roll, and that's very, very bad news for anyone in the opposite corner, even a fighter as talented as Margot. As the round goes on, Danes firms her control and begins landing some nasty power shots. Margot's in retreat, getting touched, getting buzzed, trying to weather a storm of increasing intensity, but, it's all too much. A three-punch combination wobbles those great legs and a right hook sends her crashing to her back with 30 seconds to go. Margot tries to struggle off the canvas and manages to make it to a sitting position, but, she's still there, dazed, staring up at the referee, when the count passes her by. It's over. And your winner by KO7 is Claire Danes!

AFTER: 

Tough result for Robbie, who, for the third time this year, competes well against an elite bantam, but can't get the breakthrough victory. As for Claire, she's forgotten all about Margot by the time she gets pulled aside for the post-fight interview. "So, Dani and Minka, when you two finally get around to fighting, I want you to remember who whipped both your as**s. Who ever walks out of that ring with the belts is mine. I got next, girls. I got next." 

 

 

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