Before: “She’s the same fighter she was 5 years ago,” Blake opines in prefight. “I’m MUCH better now that I’m out of that JKO swamp pit. I only wish it had been ME defending the Mistress of the Body Saddle the other year. But once I put the spurs to her…. ” Blonde coming off a championship run looking for retribution, aiming to break an end-of-the-year cold snap.

Adriana speculative “So she want to be Mistress of the Body Saddle? All it takes is five wins. No other stable is in a position to challenge me, if she wants it she can challenge me in the fall.”

Adriana in red double-strapped bikini, with the top straps knotted over the breasts, and matching bottoms, hair slicked down her back, black gloves. Blake in orange tops, floral bottoms, hair primped and tossed around her shoulders, white gloves.

R1: Blake gloves up at temples, bending at the waist, moving her head low and trying to rotate up out of the crouch with hooks, Adriana loose-limbed, right hand at her chest, left across her stomach--she's wading in, twisting into side to side power shots, disdaining a jab in an effort to get blonde in trouble early. Thick two-way punching, but Lively getting the better of it. Blake riding with Lima's right hand, taking the edge off, then jamming back a stubby right to the chest, and a clanging left hook off the jaw, Adriana butt in the ropes late, not answering back as Blake plugs gut with shoving leather to the bell.

R2: Girls flat footed, falling in with power, Blake setting up her hook with rolling upper body movement, getting firm scores on Adriana's jaw. Lima lashing wide lefts and rights wide, finishing up close aboard to Lively in slinging trading. Even till late--girls turn into simultaneous walloping hooks and Blake's legs give way, totters back on her heels, minces forward a few steps--she's hurt and Adriana wades in. Lima with her slinging, walking barrage, clouting lefts and rights clobbers Lively to the ropes, shipping groggy shellack at the bell.

R3: Blake shakes it off, hands up high, blocking shots against her ears and jaw, dipping down and getting into Adriana’s breadbasket with stubby rising rights, turning over the hook on the chin. Lima backing up, then digging in with limber left/rights, girls falling in, struggling for more work. Lively showing improved head movement, making Adriana miss over the top, creating with some openings for the blonde in a close third.

R4: Blake back in that tight guard, dips under a right hand, comes back with a rolling hook to the chops Adriana's turn to funky foot hurt. Lively hard-eyed as she steps close, jams a downward chopping right onto Lima's mouth, digs her belly a hook and nails her a hard right cross as Brazilian falters straight back, hands down. Adriana dazed on the ropes, she closes up her stance as Blake climbs aboard. Scrubbing action straight out the Dani Fishel/Jenny O’Dell playbook, scalp rubbing hard against Lima’s face and upper chest, palms and shoulders shoving the brunette back, chugging, clubbing assault--short and thick up the middle, or bashing flat 'round the sides, Constant pounding assault leaves Adriana slack-jawed, throbbing as Blake goes bell to bell--struts back to her corner beaming.

R5: Murderous punching - girls throwing caution to the wind in search of decisive, spectacular victory. Blake head hunting - Adriana ducking shots, lashing hooks to ribcage. Two minute mark: Lima slips a Lively right, snaps another hook off the ribs, bobs, and gets a fishhook left uppercut off the front foot: BLONDE GIRL GOES DOWN! Blake lifted off her feet and deposited to backside and elbows, Adriana glaring down in satisfaction, batting her gloves together at her waist before strutting to neutral corner. Lively up quick, but woozy - after 8, she lifts hands rigid to temples, leaning forward, digging in: Lima's going to get some work done, stepping-to then HOOKS the ribcage, HOOKS the jaw, turns over the right hand to jaw. Systematic, Adriana pounding the body to set up the head, hammering her way around Blake's wrists to jam punches to ear & jaw. Lively woozy, but keeping her guard up, bobbing her head on occasion, leaning back into the ropes to try and slip: somebody's been taking notes from Charlize.

R6: Blake boxes&brawls Adriana to a standstill as neither girl can impose her will. Lima lumping up some from Lively’s educated jab, but negotiating it with her own jab and some spirited brawling righthand counters. Fight frequently migrating inside - girls shoulder-rubbing, working mouth on shoulder, jerking and tucking lefts and rights into hard-working bellies and jumping jugs. Little moist exhalations and breathy whimpers as girls get to each other in these moments - both taking opportunities to grab-and-turn the other to relieve a little pressure, reset inside. Red and orange smeared across both bodies as hard-working fight takes its inevitable toll on body art.

R7: A well-timed counter-right spears under Blake’s jab to crash against blonde jaw: Lively stumbling forward, nearly dropping to all fours as Lima chases staggered quarry to ropes. Adriana stepping-with, lashing Blake muscular right hands upside the head, leaves her covering up face-in-gloves as firm buttocks perch on turnbuckle. Lima’s lips curling off her teeth as she beats Lively with thumping right hands behind the elbow, leaning on upper back to further burden her, leaving a red blemish across her back as BLAKE GOES DOWN! Adriana hopping away, brightening at the sight of distressed blonde, Blake punching the sand she sits back onto her haunches--knockdown breaks open another close fight and both women know it. After 8, Lima surges in to finish, Lively awkwardly clinching Brazilian around her thighs/buttocks, gets a desperate ref’s break. Blake able to set up midring behind her jab and organize herself. Adriana attacking, but bogged down rest of the way, Lively breaking up brunette rushes with educated stick, then forming a hot-slogging arch to battle Lima to a standstill to the bell. Blake chesting up, forcing angry eye contact: Adriana pushes blonde off and ref has to restore order with barking authority.

R8: Blake looking to even things out, comes out swinging, Adriana pawing the jab, retreating in measured steps, luring blonde forward. Lima bobbing low, waits on Lively’s left hand, fits a tidy right to body, twists and gets that whipsawing full-body left hook on the chops and DOWN GOES BLAKE! Lively groaning, flat on her back—she stiffly fights off the KO, struggling to her feet and pitching face first into ropes as Lima hungrily stalks the neutral corner. Swaying 8 Blake—ON COMES ADRIANA! Lively sleepy-eyed, pushing her hands out to forestall the inevitable: punching raining down in irresistible sheets—it’s Lima at her terrifying best. Adriana on widespread legs, shifting weight one foot to the other as she hauls in the harm. Lefts and rights splattering off Blake, busting her and buffeting her—it’s all too much., Ref steps in to save a sobbing, battered Lively from her own stubbornness, giving a huffing, puffing, Adriana Lima the TKO8 victory

After: Adriana shucks her gloves into the sand, grabs Lively by the hair, gently leads her through the ropes, before pushing on her shoulder and shoving her down to her knees in position for the dreaded Victoria's Secret Body Saddle. After it’s fixed in place, Lima pushes her down to all fours and straddles the fallen blonde.

Adriana majestic in victory, crouching with knees pressed jockey-style onto the leather pads above Blake's hips, tucking her bare feet up under her as she secures a grip on the blonde's shoulders. Lively grimacing under the weight, legs shuddering as she is coaxed forward by her insistent rider. Several circuits of the ring exterior quickly wear out Blake and she staggers, then stumbles and drops to her knees; ridden to panting exhaustion by her tormentress.