(Written by Girls Friday/Results by Lookout!)

(Free Agent vs Free Agent)

Intro:
Two stunning flyweights fight now as Emily Bett Rickards meets Leighton Meester in MSG, these two wanting to prove they should be in the title hunt come 2018.
Emily is 26 years old, stands at 5'5 and holds a record of 7 wins, 6 by knockout and 2 defeats.
While Leighton is 31 years old, also stands at 5'5 and holds a record of 26 wins, 22 by knockout and 23 defeats.
The fighters looked respectful if not friend around each other at the press event, posing together for photos in silence before they head to their tables.
Emily speaking first to the press "I feel I am getting into the best shape of my life with the regular fights I've been having, after years of just having one or two fights, this has been a great run of fights with top girls"
She smiles as she adds "I've been feeling great also with the wins I've amassed, Leighton is a top fighter, I mean you don't fight for Front Street if you can't fight, but Kat Graham had as well and I beat her"
Leighton smirks at that comment, replying "Kat is great but honey I was always better then her in the stable, so much so that she now has a desk job at Front Street" some in the press surprised by that dig.
Maybe she isn't happy that Kat gets to use the Front Street facilities; while her and girls like Leven Rambin have to go out and train in public gyms.
Leighton continues "I know you guys will keep trying to push the narrative I need Wiz, hell Tess Valmore; a woman I thought would always have my back also questions my skills"
Turning to Emily, she tells her "look you are talented, but I am going to scrub the floors with you, because I am not going to become a bad fighter over night, no matter who thinks so" she gets up and marches off the stage.
While Emily shakes her head, she can be heard saying "we'll see on that" before waving to the journalists and heading off the stage.
Fight night; Emily comes out first, she is wearing a red sports bra with white trim, red trunks with a white waistband with "Rickards" in red written on it, white gloves and shoes, while her blonde hair is up in a ponytail.
She smiles to the fans as she makes her way to the ring, looking cool and collected for this big match, chatting to her coach before she jogs up the steps and gets into the ring.
Now out comes Leighton, she is wearing a black sports bra, matching trunks, shorts and shoes, her brunette hair is up in a ponytail.
She marches towards the ring with a stony expression, to say she hasn't been in a good mood the past few months is an understatement, Emily is going to be her punchbag in her mind.
Stepping into the ring, Leighton warms up by punching the top turnbuckle in her corner, maybe picturing Tess Valmore's face.
The girls are brought to the ring centre, Emily keeps loose by shaking her arms and legs, while Leighton stares almost hatefully at the younger woman.
Asked to touch gloves; they bump them with some force, before jogging to their corners, ready to start 10 rounds of flyweight action.

Round 1:
Both fighters come out looking to stamp their authority on their opponent from the off, jamming their jabs into the others guard as they look for gaps.
Soon enough they start going toe to toe, both the exact same height, sees both landing cleanly with their punches till they separate and reset themselves.
As they come back at each other, Emily starts to show she is quicker off the mark, snapping the head of Leighton back with a stiff jab, while moving her head out the way of a counter.
Emily showing she has the faster hands as she starts to rely on her boxing skills, starting to find gaps through Leighton's defence as she gets up more on her toes.
While Leighton struggles to land a meaningful punch, instead landing glancing punches off the gloves of Rickards.
The younger fighter controlling the pace, jabbing at Leighton's face to keep her back, moving quickly around her opponent.
But Leighton finds an opening; parrying a jab and stepping inside to land two hooks to the body of her rival, forcing gasps out of her.
Forcing Emily to fight in tight as both girls grunt with effort, letting their fists do the talking for them till the bell rings and the fighters separate to head to their corners.
Emily looking cool and relaxed as she sits on her stool, staring at Leighton; who chatting with her coach on what to do, she doesn't enjoy being roughed up without an answer for her opponent.

Round 2:
Again both fighters come straight towards each other without any an hesitation to start off trading early on, circling at midrange, it's a classic flyweight exchange with flurries of punches.
Emily though surprises Leighton by ducking under a right cross, coming up with an uppercut to knock Leighton onto her heels.
The blonde beauty powering forwards with four punches that slam into the guard of Meester, before slamming into the body of her opponent.
Leighton firing back over the top, landing to the top of Rickards head to open up space, moving back as the girls go back to trying at midrange.
The older fighter tries to step in tight to bang away to the body of Emily, after she gets in two body shots, she gets caught with a right hook to turn her head back.
Emily fighting off the backfoot; digging away at the guard of her opponent, before landing a hook to the side of her head to knock sweat off it.
Leighton covering up as she is driven onto the ropes, Emily banging away at her sides as her fans roar her on, the former Front Street girl grimaces behind her guard.
But she fights back, slugging it out with the blonde to try to get off the ropes, before shoving her to get the space needed to escape.
The girls circling and trading at midrange once more, Emily tries to step in to keep the pressure on Meester, maybe the brunette has seen something as she leans out the way of a right cross to counter with a straight.
The bell rings not long after with Leighton looking surprisingly much more relaxed, Emily looks slightly unnerved by that, she must be wondering what has changed as she won that round in her mind.

Round 3:
Emily tries to keep going with what got her going the last two rounds, but Leighton seems to have found an answer; moving her head more and countering over the missed punches of her opponent.
It's Leighton starting to win the exchanges, Emily's head starting to get knocked back as the older fighter begins to back her up.
Leighton banging a one/two combo through the gloves of the Canadian to grab the momentum, forcing Emily towards the ropes.
The younger fighter though is able to use her footwork to get out the situation, with both fighters trading single punches to measure each other up.
It's Meester who parries Emily's right cross and steps in to land two rights across the lips of the blonde to cause her to groan out loudly in pain.
Leighton pounding away at the face of Emily to drive her back towards the ropes, she is looking to finish this now but ends up getting dragged into a clinch.
The fighters grunt as they try to shove each other back, the referee needing to shout to get the fighters to break apart, with the fighters staring daggers at each other.
Both dance around each other, trading punchers; with their heads moving around, Emily trying to match Leighton's style.
The girls both have success as they land through the others guard with not long to go, Leighton surprises Emily just before the bell by stepping out the range of a left cross, coming back in with straight that catches Emily to the nose.
As the bell rings; the girls jog past each other, but can be heard trading "bytch" "c**t" as they pass, sitting down on their stools to be worked on by their coaches.
Emily has her nose checked but it seems OK, though as she admits "that last punch stung like hell" laughing it off.

Round 4:
Leighton again starts off strongly, using some tricks now to keep Emily off guard, using her left shoulder to push Emily back off balance; before opening up with a left and right across the face of her opponent.
The older fighter backing Emily up around the ring, landing through gaps in the defence of the Arrow star, Emily just trying to cover up as best she can and find her way back into this fight.
As it stands though; each time she tries to fight out her guard, but she misses and Leighton catches her with a straight punch to her nose.
Blood starts to run from the nose of Emily to make things worse for her, forcing her to stay behind her guard as she is driven towards a corner.
Leighton looking like she is measuring Emily up with her jab, before slamming her right through gaps in her defence, forcing groans from the younger fighters lips.
Emily starts to fire back though, knowing she needs to fight back or accept getting beaten to a pulp on the ropes.
The crowd roars the fighters on as a Emily catches her opponent across the lips, bloody starts to run down from the bottom lip of Leighton, who finds herself being backed up.
Emily starts to get back into her groove, the fighters still trading with both catching the other over their wounds, Emily though manages to bump Leighton back with her our left and lands a right over the top.
The Canadian snaps a straight to those lips to start backing Leighton back up, the American pulls Emily into a clinch with the girls falling into the ropes.
The referee again gets involved to pull the girls apart, with both trading single punches with seconds to go in the round.
The bell rings with the girls heading straight back to their corners, needing to be cleaned up by their coaches as they look messy.
Both getting advice as their coaches know the fight is on a hinge; the girls nod before locking eyes across the ring, growing more hateful of the sight of each other.

Round 5:
The fighters continue to move around and trade as their guards start to open up, Leighton lands a straight punch to the bloody nose of Emily to back her up a step.
The American manages to snap another double jab to the nose of Emily to continue to back her up towards the ropes, the blonde yelping out each time she is hit.
Emily needing to shove Leighton back to create space to retreat into, her own jab catching an overly keen Meester coming in on the top of her head.
Again both fighters settle into trading as they look for better angles to come in at, this time it's Emily who lands the better punch as Leighton tries to swing an overhand right in, Rickards steps back and lands a straight that knocks sweat off the head of Meester.
A follow up right hook pushes Leighton back a step, with Emily starting to land more cleanly again after her more experienced opponent seemed to have found an answer to her attack.
Leighton has to shove Emily back as the fighting becomes scruffy, the girls are sore and they are getting desperate by the looks of things.
Emily though catches her again with a right across her cheek to turn her head, before throwing a barrage of punches that snap the head of the brunette back.
Now Leighton is cornered; covering up as tightly as she can as Emily is ripping away at the guard, the crowd cheering loudly for their favourites as a dual chant begins ringing out.
Rickards lands two short sharp body punches to start to open up that guard, Meester though grabs onto her to stop being beaten, Emily can be seen taunting Leighton "getting tired are we?" As the referee steps in to pry them apart.
Emily keeping the pressure on her opponent as the round heads to it's conclusion, ramming her punches into the guard of Leighton, whose trying to find a chance to strike back but is being outworked.
The bell rings with both fighters going to their corners, Leighton looks to be hurting worse as she looks down at the canvas for a moment, sitting up only when her coach orders her as she needs her lips cleaned up, her cheeks are swollen.
Across the ring, Emily's nose needing to be worked on again; her eyes locked onto her opponent, almost as if working out how much is her opponent really hurt or her playing possum.

Round 6:
Leighton looks to get at Emily early, forcing her way to the inside as the fighters let their hands go, slamming into the others bodies.
Before Emily opens up and lands two uppercuts that rocks Meester back, the younger fighter backing Leighton onto the ropes with a four punch combo across the face of Leighton.
The American covering up on the ropes; her body taking a beating as Leighton looks to be welded onto the ropes by the aggressive Emily.
A BIG RIGHT HOOK CATCHES LEIGHTON ACROSS THE TEMPLE, DOWN SHE GOES IN A HEAP WITH HER LEFT ARM UNDER THE ROPES AND ON THE JUDGES DESK, THE REFEREE WAVING THE FIGHT OFF!

Winner Emily Bett Rickards KO Round 6:

After:
A stunning knockout from Emily! She stares angrily at Leighton, her eyes transfixed on her as the referee has to nudge her back so the doctor can get in the ring to check on Leighton.
Emily seems to awaken from her red mist as she looks to her corner and raises her fists into the air, relieved that she has won once again after a hard back and forth clash.
Leighton meanwhile has to be helped back into the ring to stop her sliding out onto the judges table, after a few minutes she wakes up.
The doctor though ushers for a stretcher as she rubs her head and lays looking at the ceiling, Emily starts to show remorse as her opponent looks to be stretchered out the ring.
But Leighton nudges the medics back and claims she can get up under her own steam, stumbling into the ropes as she tries to get up.
She is too stubborn to accept help, only her coach seems to be the one she will let near her, he helps her out the ring with a medic and the ringside doctor standing nearby.
Leighton helped up the ramp as the crowd applaud her, the ringside doctor adamant that she will be tested in the medical area.
Emily just shakes her head, not believing that Leighton could be so stupid in her eyes, the blonde enjoying the cool sponge on her face.
After she is cleaned up; Emily starts and waves to her fans, knowing she is getting closer in the title hunt the more she wins these big fights.
As she leaves the ring, Emily is optimistic that 2018 will be the year that she can get a title shot, maybe even management if she continues to prove her worth in the ring.
But she should maybe expect a call from Leighton's agent for a rematch, these two clearly not going to be friends anytime soon.