Before: Ashley still crowing over her Halle busting moment - black silk-screened shirt depicting the walk - she's ready to do more of the same with FCBA elite, starting with Ryan. "I'm breaking out," says Scott, matter of fact, "Jeri's in my way. I'm anxious to beat Jeri while her name still means something - frankly she looks like damaged goods to me, but I'm sure a lot of people still think this is a step up in class for Ashley Scott." Right side of the dais, Ryan non-plussed at the youngster's bravado. "First, I FROWN and Halle Berry takes an 8 count - that KO of yours means nothing. Second, Halle's earned her stripes - you don't stop her late and lucky, then take her for a walk like you earned her. Third, it wasn't Halle who got exposed in that fight - everybody knows she can't take a lick - it was you. You got brass, I'll give you that, but you're in some serious trouble girl." Ashley in black push up, black velvet boy cut trunks brunette tousle, Jeri in red bikini.

During R1: Scott's made up her mind to go at Jeri a bit - both girls bouncy at the knee, light on their feet, but they're getting into power punching range, setting and cranking with vigor early. Jabs sparing, just to set the table - both want hard right hands, hooks, usually in tandem. Nice, brisk lather, spanking impacts - both girls turning into right hands so as to generate serious torque on the comeback hook. Scott a little busier, little lankier with her left hand - she's backing Jeri up at times, hopping forward with a cheeky double-pump hook in the side, chopping down righty on the face. Girls lean into grazing rights at the bell, twist back into vicious hooks - Ashley gets all of Jeri's tits and belts the blonde back on her heels with a pained expression.

R2: More of it - crowd tense as the girls aren't smothering each other, aren't avoiding each other - each getting into range where they can punch compact, but get enough snap and extension to be throwing their hardest on a consistent basis. Back and forth - Ashley with a chopping right to Jeri's left side and a snap-hook off the mouth - Jeri right back with two lanky lefts to the belly, short right hand on the chin. Round progresses - Ryan showing a little veteran savvy, bending forward on occasion to slip under Ashley's right, then straightening, leaning onto her back foot to slip the Scott hook - Jeri timing brunette punches and landing cleaner, more effective shots in return. Down the stretch, Jeri slips under Ashley's cross, licks a hook to the sternum that has the brunette glum at the bell.

R3: Searing two way action continues unabated. Surprising that neither girl's legs have trembled, nobody's been really shook up - leather being landed would be enough to convince a lot of lightweights to quit, or at least box. After a minute of already high pace, girls settle into a murderous rhythm of hurt and be hurt - trading long armed licks, beating each other's flanks, stroking jawlines, checking chins. Ryan getting the better of it with timely head movement, countering off the block, taking a step to the side and hooking from angles. Jeri just ripping her punches, setting down on rights, coiling, and torquing the hook back with slicing power to Ashley's midsection and jaw. Kid can't stand her ground - she's beaten ropeside for the first time under a series of Ryan hooks and rights body and head at the bell.

R4: Scott goes to the jab just a bit, using her legs a little more - she's stepping out, changing distance, fading Ryan's stick and creating opportunities. Now it's Jeri missing or landing poorly, getting picked up clean as Ashley steps in and out, times punches better, gets the clean looks at Ryan's chin. Scott routinely prettying Jeri up with an overhand right on the face, comeback hook on the jaw, little backhand jab while stepping to the side - Scotty loosening up and looking good. Down the stretch, Scott in a groove where she slips in low under Ryan's right, licks hooks to belly or slashes hooks to breasts and backs the blonde up. Jeri finishes up ropeside, face woozy with punishment as Scott gives a confident smirk at the bell.

R5: Furious, but controlled pace continues - girls aren't flailing, every shot has leverage and bad intentions. Two-beat spank punctuates the minutes - crowd treated to a sustained, lusty lather as the girls pitch rights to the body or head, twist back into withering hooks belly, tits and chin. Not a brawl in the technical sense - both girls well balanced, bending forward to slip punches and catch the other off the miss - it's just that they're totally committed to hurting each other, no messing around. Crowd starting to moan in sympathy when Ashley's hook bites and snaps off Jeri's body, or Ryan blunts the right hand on Scotty's jaw, knocking her back a step. Close round, but Ashley's busier, throwing and landing more - when a rare retreat occurs, it's usually Ryan regrouping under pressure.

R6: They step into each with heartless right hands low to left sides, come back with chin-clocking hooks and we're right back in the middle of a classy donnybrook. Pattern developing as Ashley shaves out a series of a little advantages. Scott more apt to jab, change position to set up her slugging - Ryan's looking a little scuffed up, still relentless, but she's not moving her head as well, prefering to stand in the pocket dukes up, ride out the punches and answer back hard. Ashley sticking the jab to belly and torso, leaning into right crosses - she's turning Jeri's head with clean grease on the jaw - Ryan taking it well, but judges can't miss it. Both girls consistently throwing hooks off right hands, but Ashley's got the timing of it, beating Ryan to the left, moving her - Jeri just soaking up a tremendous diet of Ashley Scott's hardest licks, round after round - youngster getting a confident look in dark eyes after 6.

R7: Had to happen sometime - Ashley slipping in under Jeri's right, back with the hooks - tearing at Jeri's vitals, checking her chin - Ryan soaking up bombs and her legs finally give way with a spasm. Ashley able to get a sweeping right clean on the jaw, stepping away with a big smile as Ryan tilts forward, then recovers - Ashley looking to cap blonde's night, steps in to heap on. Ryan covering up midring, buffetted from one foot to the other as Scott unleashes a barrage of wide lefts and rights - but Jeri's alert, rolling it and coming back with choppy rights off her temple, snappy hooks - she's picking Scott's face up and moving her back! Jeri getting stronger as Ash ships leather - blonde dips and stabs the right straight to the body, slips low to the left and comes back out of the crouch a little hopping hook to catch Scott going straight back. SCOTT TO THE ROPES HURT! Jeri hops in, dips down, pounds her right hand off the body, bending to the left on follow through to let Ashley's right sail over top then COMES BACK THE HOOK! HEAD SNAP ASHLEY! Scott goes ALL the way out on her feet, corkscrewing limp into the canvas and pooling at Jeri Ryan's feet. Sensational KO7 Jeri Ryan.

After: Wow. Ryan back to her corner emotionless, drained - face all slapped up and shiny, muscles in her stomach, on her ribs twitching from pain spasms, legs shaking with adrenaline - what a fight. Scott all boozy and fluttery coming around - no clue what happened to her as she gets a taste of the Ryan express. Ashley actually looking much better in this fight than she did against Halle - courageously trading with and competing against the hard blonde Ryan who's no stranger to last-woman standing type wars. Jeri's no friend of Halle, but pre-fight sentiments were authentic - Rya

n helping herself to a groggy, stumbling Ashley Scott for a little post fight parade, just to show her what it's like. And knowing Samdog - maybe just a wee bit more.