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11 January 2019 Valery Kaufman vs Rachel Hilbert

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FIGHT NIGHT LIVE: PROVING GROUND 2019 PPV

 

Posted by Girls Friday on January 11, 2019, 9:39 am

 

 

(Written by Girls Friday/Results by Lookout!)

(Free Agent vs Free Agent)

Intro:
The second semi final of the welterweight New Blood tournament sees Valery Kaufman and Rachel Hilbert step into the Bells Center in Toronto and look to get to the final later in the night.

Valery is 24 years old; she stands 5'11, she holds a record of 0 wins and 1 defeat, that was to Devon Windsor back in 2017 for the Russian model.

Rachel is 23 years old; she stands 5'10 and holds a record of 2 wins, both by knockout and 1 defeat since debuting also in 2017.

As with all the New Blood fighters this year, they were paired up with experienced FCBA fighters who acted as mentors through the month long training.

Valery was interviewed first with her mentor Milena Govich sitting beside her, the first question inevitability is about why it's nearly two full years since Valery made her debut that she is making only her second appearance in a ring now.

Sitting up looking annoyed at the question, Valery replies "because I guess the girls around here are scared of me, I had Devon beat but one mistake and that damn referee stopped the fight too early"

She continues "so I entered this tournament with two goals in mind, one of course is to win it; which I know I can, the second part is for that bytch Devon to give me a rematch, she failed in this tournament when she had her chance in it, I won't!"

When asked about her views of the other girls in the tournament, she brushes them off by simply saying "they don't matter to me, I'm after bigger fights then this lot"

The last question is to Milena, how she feels Valery has improved under her training, with Milena smiling as she answers "Valery is a good strong fighter, we've worked on her defence somewhat, she already has the drive and the power I like to see in a fighter"

Rachel has been put together with former FCBA welterweight champion Sarah Lancaster, the two looking all smiles as they sit together.

The first question is what happened last year, Rachel had a good end to 2017 when she debuted in the Victoria Secret tournament, but didn't have a single fight last year.

Rachel answers "well I didn't get any offers I hoped for, but I always keep in shape so if you think I'll be rusty well I won't be, this means too much to me to waste"

When asked to explain what she means about the importance of the tournament, she replies "I wasted my chance in the VS tournament, I got past the first round and if I'd won the second round then I'd have been in with the absolute elite, I didn't take my chance and I promised myself I wouldn't let this one slip by"

Sarah butts in to say "this is why I was glad I got Rachel in the mentors draw, she has this drive you don't see really of many fighters, sure they say they want to be champion but this right here is a woman who means it"

Fight night; out comes Valery first with Milena behind her, she look all business as she marches down the aisle to the ring.

She is wearing a black sports bra with red trim, matching trunks, black shoes with red laces and red gloves, while her brunette hair is braided.

Climbing into the ring; Valery jogs over to her corner so she can get straight to warming up, wanting to get going so she can make a statement tonight.

Rachel comes out with Sarah now, she looks a lot more happy as she heads to the ring, bumping fists with a few fans in the front row as she goes.

She is wearing a bubblegum pink sports bra with green trim, matching trunks, green gloves and pink shoes, her blonde hair is in a ponytail.

Stepping into the ring; Rachel waves to the fans as she heads to her corner, Sarah telling her to relax and let her punches do her talking tonight.

The fighters come to the ring center and square up to each other, Rachel's demeanor changing to match her opponents, Valery glaring at the blonde as she might be having flash backs of being in Devon's face when they fought.

Banging their gloves together with a loud thump, they turn and jog back to their corners ready to start 10 rounds of welterweight action.

Round 1:
Unlike the first semi final; these two know what to expect tonight and get straight down to business of trading shots as they circle around.
Valery starts off strong as she looks to lay down a marker, forcing Rachel to keep her guard tight as the American dances back.
Then Rachel surprises Valery by sidestepping her, countering with a right across her face as she shows off her speed.
Rachel now is the one dictating the pace of the round, moving in to work before moving back to range when Kaufman tries to land power punches.
Valery just can't do more at the moment then land one or two clean punches, taking more in return as Rachel looks great on the move.
The round ends with Rachel pumping her right fist in the air as she heads back to her corner, Sarah heard saying "that's why you are the best!"
Across the ring Valery isn't looking worried yet, she admits to Milena that she didn't get out the gates as fast as she hoped.
Round 2:
Rachel comes out strong again; drilling her jab between the mitts of her opponent to mark up her face and keep her boxing on the outside, which seems to suit the blonde down to a tee.
The problem for her is Valery is not simply going to stay where she wants, with the brunette dipping under a straight to move inside and start working the body with hooks.
Suddenly Rachel is finding herself being bullied onto the ropes, where she covers up as Valery keeps working the body.
Realising she needs to fight out this situation, Rachel starts firing back up top, leading to a fiery exchange between the two fighters.
Heads get turned around as they both land hard cross punches, with Valery landing a straight to the nose of her opponent to force her back to the ropes.
The round ends with both women staring each other down, knowing they are in a real fight for getting to the final later.
Valery getting the thumbs up from Milena for a much better round, Valery only has her eyes on Rachel though as blondes are clearly not her favourite people.
Round 3:
Both women start the round with even higher intensity, keep getting in close and nearly banging heads as they look to push the other back.
It is far from pretty as a lot of punches land on arms and gloves then the targets they want, leading to frustrated grunts coming from both women.
Till Rachel steps back and clocks her opponent with two hooks that push Valery backwards, the blonde starting to give her opponent a taste of her own medicine as she forces her towards a corner.
Where Valery looks to battle out of, unlike her though Rachel is landing crisper shots to her face to cause her bottom lip to bleed and keep her fenced where she wants.
After the Russian is forced to cover up; Hilbert switches to hook to the ribs of her opponent, making her groan out till she can clinch up.
The referee splits them up and the final part of the round sees both go toe to toe, Valery looks to be losing the exchanges though as Rachel keeps targeting those bloody lips.
The bell rings with Valery looking pissed off as she rubs her lips, seeing the blood on her glove seems to nearly set her off attacking Rachel from behind, the referee standing between them with a look that says "don't even try"
Round 4:
As the fighters come out; Rachel is trying to find a way to those bloody lips, doubling up her jab as she moves side to side.
While Valery tightens her guard up more, blocking a lot of punches as she shows that she has some good defensive skills.
She can also switch from defence to attack quickly it seems as she parries a jab and steps in with one of her own smacking Rachel clean on the nose.
It causes the blonde to cry out and as she steps back, Valery keeps up the assault with three punch combinations either landing cleanly or finding the guard of Hilbert.
This time as Valery is in charge, she is finding it hard to get Rachel onto a set of ropes, her opponent is moving more quickly and even firing out her guard to those blood lips.
So Valery uses her left to shoulder bump Rachel into the ropes, landing overhand punches over the top to the side of her opponent's head.
The dying seconds of the round sees Rachel trying to get off the ropes, but she is getting caught too easily and the bell rings with her face looking reddened.
Neither seems able to separate themselves from the other in this fight, with their coaches working on cleaning them up and using their knowledge to give advice on what to do.
Round 5:
As they start off this time, they stay behind their jabs for a little while, seeming to suit Rachel more as she lands several times to the lips of her opponent to make her wince.
When Valery goes to move inside, Rachel sidesteps her and counters with a left/right combo straight into the side of her face.
That gives Rachel an opening to work from, which she does by knocking Valery backwards with straight punches to her face.
A right hook lands across the eye of Kaufman, making her cry out as she'll have a shiner tonight, Hilbert doesn't care as she bashes her to the ropes.
Where Valery clinches up with Rachel, snarling "you f***ing cow!" Clearly not appreciative of the shot across her eye, with the referee separating both women as they trade insults.
Quickly they are back to trading fists as Valery comes straight at the blonde with a left cross and straight to knock her back.
While Rachel has controlled most of the round, she is the one finding herself being driven back behind her guard as Valery's temper drives her on.
The round ends with cameras catching that Valerie's left eye looks a little swollen, a big worry for Milena as even if Valery can make it through this fight, she has an even bigger target now on her face for Sofie Rovenstine to go for.
Rachel meanwhile is told by Sarah to keep on top of this, if she keeps trading rounds with Valery then they don't have control over how this will end.
Round 6:
Valery is up and straight at Rachel, leading to an opening exchange of toe to toe action that has the crowd roaring both on.
While Rachel looks to be getting the better of things as she lands punches to the bloody lip of Valery, backing her up towards the ropes.
But Valery dips down and lands a right to the body of her opponent, then lands an overhand left that drives the American onto her heels.
Rachel now is under siege as Valery comes on the hunt, smacking her punches off the gloves of the blonde to herd her around the ring.
She then catches Rachel with a left around her guard to the side of her head and a right slams into the nose of Hilbert to open a cut on the bridge of her nose.
That seems to waken Rachel up as the fighters slug it out, Valery looks happy to do this till she gets caught with a right across that eye again.
Things look bad for Valery as blood now runs from a cut above her eye, Rachel coming on strong as she hammers the face of the brunette.
The round ends with Rachel squaring up to Valery, both these proud women showing they won't back down from each other as the referee steps in to break them up.
Valery probably won the round on points, but Milena's face says it all as she looks deeply worried about her, working to patch up that eye as she may have lost this tournament here.
Round 7:
Rachel is quick to press Valery back, finding holes in her opponent's guard as she slams punches into the face of the brunette.
Who is trying to fight back; BUT ANOTHER STRAIGHT SMACKS INTO THE CUT ABOVE THE EYE, AN UPPERCUT SMACKS VALERY TO SEND HER TO HER BACK!
Rachel raises her right fist in the air as she heads to a neutral corner, 1...2...3...4.. Valery turns to her side with blood running from her cuts to the canvas, 5...6...7...8 Valery barely moves as the referee counts 9...10 and that's all she wrote for Kaufman!

Winner Rachel Hilbert KO Round 7

After:
Rachel has won this bruising encounter with a brutal finish, Valery has the ringside doctor and Milena beside her checking the beaten fighter.

While the winner jogs over to Sarah and both women chat about that ending, Sarah telling Rachel "do that to Sofie babe!"

Valery is helped to sit up, with the cut above her eye cleaned up and stopped bleeding, with Valery tearing her gloves off and covering her face as she starts sobbing.

Milena comforts her; telling her "you gave a great account of yourself babe, don't beat yourself up over this OK?" With Valery nodding as she calms down.

After being helped up and applauded by the crowd for her effort, Valery thanks the fans before she leaves the ring with Milena helping her.

Rachel is where all the eyes are on, her cheeks look a little swollen and that cut on the bridge of her nose has Sarah a little worried, she stops it bleeding as she praised her fighter.

Who celebrates by flexing her arms and shouts "I'm going to be the Queen around here" winking as she enjoys the chant for her.

Then she leaves the ring; Rachel and Sofie Rovenstine will now need to recover and be ready for their fight later tonight, battling to become the third ever winner of the New Blood welterweight tournament.

 

 

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