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Before: "Walk her down and beat her up," Garner shrugs in prefight. "That's basically it. I'm not going get cute with Jenny and finesse her: I'm going to hurt her, discourage her and take the belts away from her - that's what I do". Jenny O'Dell one focused blonde, nostrils flaring as Garner's going through her checklist of things to get done on JOD, . "Looks like we're both going to be trying the same thing," O'Dell smirks at the podium. "That usually means a head on collision. I'm totally pumped for this fight - this is the fight I really wanted when I became champ, because I want to turn Jennifer back in a title bout and start beating her consistently. It's not about the money or the publicity - it's about fighting Garner on her stage, and beating her at her own game. I've accomplished everything I ever set out to do in boxing, and that's not good for Jen, because she's what I want to do next!" Garner in red bikini, scruffy ponytail, black gloves. JOD in black bikini (Shark), white gloves, hair straight and long.
During R1: Similar stances - dukes cheek-high as girls step-to and get off. Some positional boxing/jabbing to range-in, but girls basically taking turns unleashing snappy rights and lefts, head and body, bringing the mitts back quick. Tart, tart contact: one girl covering up as mitts bounce loud off flanks/shoulders/scalp, then immediately answering in kind. Harsh, concussive licks spanking out from toned, full bodies. Garner separates herself down the stretch with a workmanlike left uppercut, punching Jenny up out of her crouch, then tidying up with a hook chaser to turn O'Dell's head.
R2: Find each other midring, range-in with jabs, then go to work. Heavy handed trading - O'Dell getting banged HARD in early going - Garner just bashing away Miguel Cotto style, shaking the champ. O'Dell stepping back for the first time, looking to use her legs a little: Garner walks her down, stomp-stepping in a heavy jab, then hammering away rights and lefts, body and head. O'Dell bludgeoned about the ring for two minutes, but down the stretch, she rolls a Garner right, answers a corkscrewing right poke to chin and GARNER'S LEGS GIVE A SHIMMY! JG momentarily rocked, stepping in fence post holes - she crouches forward behind her guard and OH, the body blows O'Dell delivers. Gorgeous, succulent right/left bounces off the Garner paunch, punching the breath from Jenny G's body. Pair of sturdy left hooks tuck into liver "PAK! PAK!" at the bell, paralyzing HISC strongwoman with a groan. O'Dell steals a Garner round: champ grim faced and determined back to her stool. "I hurt her," JOD tells her trainer in between swigs of water - blonde upbeat, anxious to continue.
R3: Ringsiders roaring and wincing: these girls taking turns just beating the tar out of each other. Tight dukes-at-temples guards when they're not tossing - girls just gritting their teeth, tilting forward and suffering gamely as the other hammers away. Bashing, spiteful give and take - gloves spanking out loud from pinking ribs and trembling tummies. Both girls starting to lean in and grind with their heads, wrestling with the other's arms to open her up prepatory to harming her. O'Dell pushing up the middle - no finesse - just punching her way into Garner and forcing grudging brunette retreat. Both women score with tightly clipped uppercuts inside: that punch is going to be there all night if they stick to this geometry.
R4: Garner PUNISHING the O'Dell midsection - JG lowering her head, swinging away muscular, wading forward into O'Dell. Jenny grimacing, backing up, but banging back: she halts Garner's advance with a sumptuous right underhand to the ribcage. Girls reorganize, pushing in at each other's arms, rotating shoulders to dig short, bumping shots inside, heads a-scrubbing. O'Dell trading-with, then beating Garner to hooks as both lasses swing for chin and JENNIFER GARNER GOES DOWN! Jenny G's left waves, legs sadly loosened - she stumbles forward, then pitches to all fours, shaking her ponytailed head. Jenny O'Dell bellowing at the sight, batting mitts together impatiently in neutral corner as Garner takes a shaky 8. JOD pouncing in - Garner hurt, stooped forward behind her mitts, dug in on apron. O'Dell prodding her left to measure; reaming JG the right cross; hooking her right bicep; curling a flat-knuckle right onto left bicep. Methodical pound-down to the bell - JOD squared away, going at Garner with withering, bashing lefts and rights - systematically beating at her foe's stout body, strong arms to bell. O'Dell delighted, beaming: sullen Garner uncharacteristically cranky, pushes Jenny's shoulder as champ's turning away. Ref has to intercede as a FURIOUS O'Dell whirls to answer.
R5: Grim, banging trade, toe to toe. Turns taken: one lass tilts forward behind her gloves to receive; other slams away lusty, pursing lips with the effort of punching. Oh, the body work - both women simply swinging as hard as they possibly can to humble the opposing torso. Girls lean in, pushing each other back, but clinches are short: both want to work. Garner landing with terrific thump, but O'Dell's outworking her: JOD putting together crisp, no frills three punch combos - working her opponent's midsection, flanks, arms, and when Garner loosens, JOD's clubbing skull. Blonde pasting brunette at times - Garner just facing groggy into swiping face-clout as O'Dell whacks away (elbows in and down, side to side swats). Bell: Garner busting up: O'Dell uncharacteristically brightening at the sight.
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R6: More of it - girls pushing in head and shoulders to disrupt prepared defenses, then clobbering each other in tight, professional fashion. Garner's left hand now looking to gouge up into O'Dell's sternum and ribcage - JG dipping her left shoulder and jerking the uppercuts in: champ's giving ground, frowning. Middle minute exceptionally good for Garner as she lands some ferocious, bursting combinations, beating her way past O'Dell's guard and forcing her ropeside, consolidating with extra body work before skidding hooks off forehead. Down the stretch, Garner's pummelling JOD at the ropes, really working the champ over, and Garner goes jug. JG slamming up in there, humbling one of the proudest racks in boxing - big, busting lefts and rights club back and forth in tight - smudgin' the puppies. JOD lips parted, eyelashes fluttering: she's taking a pasting at the bell, not answering back.
R7: Bruising give and take continues - willful vixens leaning in head and shoulders, struggling for room, then working HARD to ribs, tummies, chins. Garner shrugging off O'Dell's leather, pushing the blonde into ropes, shoulder-bumping her, being very rough with her, occasional hook taking champ on the beltline. O'Dell busting up, working hard, fighting furiously in spots, but she can't punch JG back. Down the stretch, Garner hurts Jenny with a savage hook behind right elbow: O'Dell groaning, stooping forward behind her mitts, takes 3 right hands on the left ear as Garner muscles up, slams away. Body stack ragdolls champ against ropes: more body work softens up the O'Dell midsection; right uppercut picks up drowsy blonde face. MORE rack gobbled in the final moments - Jenny G helping herself, deliberately looking to break JOD's spirit with a heartless jug mugging for the ages. O'Dell slumped in the ropes, soaks it up limp and shaky at the bell - ref has to pull Garner off her foe as brunette fails to heed the bell. BSE trainer very concerned when Jenny wobbles back into port: O'Dell's eyes swelling badly, legs looking rubbery. "Baby, I need you to pump your jab, create a little space and box more, ok?" trainer urges. Jenny's head lolling, no indication she's listening.
R8: Hard, spearing jab, Garner to O'Dell, punches champ's head back, loosens up her stance. Garner missing a follow-up cross, but sinking her hook thick and deep to the O'Dell midsection, winning a soft sigh of hurt from champ. JOD folding forward to clinch, tieing up: ref's break sets Garner free - she immediately sets about knocking her jab against JOD's eyebrows. O'Dell staggering to her right, almost jogging to find her feet: Garner pastes her foe a full blooded right hand to chin, swiveling Jenny's skull. Blonde scatters to ropes, hands up, but very loose: Garner hopping in, getting off huge - it's a jailbreak. Poor JOD hounded, bounced off the ropes, chased from corner to corner as Garner pours it on: hook finally catches Jenny's face flush, punching her head/shoulders over top rope - she rebounds, falls to all fours. Garner strutting hands high, emotions getting the better of her - she punches at the neutral corner turnbuckle during O'Dell's woozy 8 count. HERE COMES GARNER. Battered JOD steels herself, but she's ragged, swinging weak haymakers from her hips in a desperate show of defiance. Garner looking to punch-with, ringing Jenny up the right hand, then turning over the hook as O'Dell's punches spray. Right hand, hook; right hand, hook - Garner pushing off the balls of either foot as she pounds away muscular. Dying moments - JOD trades her weak right cross for a strong one, gets bumped upright against ropes, eyes blinking, hands down. JOD rallying, tries to sweep a hook up off her hip, but Garner beats her to the punch - and HOW! TORRID, crunching hook turns over as Garner gets her hips into the motion, twisting into the blast: O'Dell's head flaps back and forth on recoil, legs immediately giving way and O'DELL GOES DOWN! Jenny imploding straight down, left leg bent awkardly beneath her as hands flop up above her head - it's OVER! Ref immediately waving the fight off as ringside physicians rush to JOD's aid. KO8 in brutal fashion - Jennifer Garner.
After: Garner mobbed by HISC suits and fighters alike - aging top gun proves she's still smokin' as she hammers out a spectacular KO victory to wrench the belts off O'Dell's waist. JOD electing to go out on her shield, obviously a little obsessed with beating Garner down toe-to-toe: champ could have been cuter, played it more conservatively, but simply wouldn't hear of it. "She fought me tough," a banged up, visibly drained Jenny G admits in postfight. "But as the saying goes, 'tough, ain't enough'. I'm just too much for Jenny - I think she knows that now. She's got heart, but she just doesn't have the weapons she needs to compete with me. She did a lot of talking leading up to this fight - talk about how she was going to add me to her list of accomplishments, but I don't see that happening. I turned her away hard tonight - really gave it to her good. When I started taking jug, I think she knew the jig was up - I could see in her eyes that she was quitting a little, and that was it for Jenny O'Dell."
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