Boxing After Dark


Posted by Simguy on 6/2/2002, 8:41 am.


Before: Some disagreement between camps as to whom the stepping stone in this fight is. Larue retreating from prime time, looking to re-ignite her fighting career as a way of upping her profile for Big Network. O’Dell retreating from the top tier at lightweight after a couple of stinging reversals to some of the division’s finest brunettes—she views Larue as an aging, failed ingénue ripe for the picking, Larue enters slightly heavier than in her primes, but still glorious—most are giving Eva the benefit of the doubt in a close match up. Larue in tight mauve, almost sheer tankini, thin straps—Jenny in navy triangle bikini top, white and pale blue splash print bottoms.


During R1: Larue giving ground early, walking Jenny into bolo right hands to the pit of the belly, then spring to the right—investing in velvety blonde gut for the future. O’Dell has some moments at the midway point, shoving Larue hard to the ropes and chopping at her chest and body with jamming rights and lefts—delivering the punches palms down and churning away. Down the stretch Larue’s legs are decisive—she’s sinking hard single sh*t body bows and leaping away without receipt as O’Dell slows at the bell.


R2: Larue almost playful with Jenny midring, palming the blonde’s forehead as O’Dell comes in, cuffing and slapping hooks off the jab, falling off to either side to neatly sidestep the impatient youngster. O’Dell reaching for Larue’s midriff with wide hooks and round right hands, can’t sustain the kind of pressure she needs—Eva gliding, shooting her potshots over Jen’s left shoulder or swatting paunch with a low slung, insolent left

R3: Jenny unperturbed, keeps on chugging, She backs Larue to the ropes early with that busy palms down assault, then gets rough. O’Dell shoving Larue in the face and neck, draping the brunette on the ropes, clouting her tits, chopping down into that body—Eva getting mangled as Jenny successfully turns this thing into a brawl. Larue takes a tactical knee to relieve the pressure—reprieve short-lived as O’Dell marches right back in to continue the pounding. All JOD as she piles on, chugging palms down to the torso, hacking her way into the hips and even tanned thighs of Larue, pressing in with her head and shoulders to keep Eva pinned. Larue swooning to all fours in the final moments, this time all used up—O’Dell taunting, buncing as the ref pushes her back.


R4: Jenny keeps coming Larue grimacing, ashen faced, cant keep the exuberant blonde off her—Jenny palming and crushing Eva to the toes, then going to work with Gene Fulmer like tenacity. Bulldozing sidearm rights spank over and over into that tawny guts, O’Dell bracing and pushing with her left to stabilize the target, Jenny piling in with that chugging palms down delivery, starting high in the chest finishing up on Larue’s thighs as the brunette groans, clinches up for breaks. Jenny just breaking on Eva like relentless waves on a passive shore—blonde heaping it on for a bruising shutout that leaves Larue, and her fans, open mouthed.


R5: Third consecutive shutout for Jenny—the same artless, crude, brilliant brawling up against the ropes. Larue’s legs not a factor, and her supple defense is being disrupted by O’Dell’s constant roughhousing. Jenny pushing under Eva’s chin with her forearms, bludgeoning those tits, rubbing in hard with her head, and constantly molesting the classy brunettes body with digging punches. Larue shake, windblown through 5—she’s getting badly worked over as O’Dell keeps peeling off her victim at the end with a fresh-faced, hard working grin.


R6: Larue makes some adjustments, shows she’s not just another victim. Jab finally makes O’Dell pay for real estate Larue sticking it in, making sure she stops Jenny’s forward progression before stepping out on the blonde, Larue turning Jenny, stepping right, dropping in that sneaky right hands over the blonde’s let shoulder, stepping right, biting that tight left hook off the blonde’s left eye. O’Dell walking through it all, but she can’t get into position to work this round.


R7: Jenny fights Eva to a standstill midring—an important achievement for the blonde. O’Dell moving her head, bending at the waist, getting under the educated left of Larue and coming out of the crouch with wide hooks to the breasts. Eva countering that move with well timed little uppercuts, hoisting ‘em up into O’Dell’s jugs as the blonde leaps in. Down the stretch, Laue fades to the ropes, closing up her stance, putting the left shoulder into Jenny, rolling with blonde punches while looking to counter, Eva being too patient, doesn’t pull the trigger—all judges see is blonde throwing punches from a strong, wide stance.

R8: Eva lounging on the ropes, using that left shoulder to nudge and bump her blonde, looking to sneak in quick counter strikes in between the blonde’s strokes, but it’s just not working. Jenny getting to Eva’s chest, pressing her flat to the ropes, sitting the brunet into the strands, and going to work with cudgeling force with both hands, simply breaks the brunette down with volume, Larue sent into woozy shock from sheer accumulation, educed to hanging on, tieing up with sweaty clinches as the blonde strains to free up her limbs for more harm. Shutout Jenny O’Dell—nobody realizes how hurt Larue is until she tries to stagger back to her corner for the break.


R9: Eva taking it to the ropes once again—Jenny’s pressure has the brunette staking all on counter punching and meanwhile, blonde’s winning the rounds on effective aggression. Larue using her shoulder to keep Jenny from crowding however—Eva able to get low, bump, lean into the rope, cuff a little hook, lean to the side to blunt an O’Dell haymaker—it’s slowly starting to work. Down the stretch, Larue leaning side to side, stuffs and crams hard counters underneath Jenny misses—O’Dell comes up lame as HER body feels some heat. O’Dell falling in breathless—clinching at the bell as Larue gets strong, twists her girl’s back to the ropes to send a message.


R10: Eva on the attack, backing Jenny up with a mean stick between the eyes, shooting straight rights to the midsection. Jenny stubborn on the retreat, brawling back with wide lefts and rights, but eventually her back touches ropes, then pounding right/lefts quick off her stomach, looking to capitalize on the face as O’Dell breaks down. Jenny swooning, taking big, head-swiveling shots and aching body blows just SOAKING it up and O’DELL GOES DOWN! Jenny sobbing on all fours—Larue excited as she skips away—but Jenny beats the count. O’Dell staggering, trembled-bodied as she staggers along the ropes wide eyed—Larue’s pursuit runs out of time as O’Dell makes it to the bell. Comes back a one point duke Jenny O’Dell.


After: Study in contrast—Jenny’s tears of relief as her hand is raised in victory—Larue’s blank chagrin as she knows she let herself get outworked for points in this one. Eva just too patient, not taking the fight to Jenny until too late, but credit O’Dell’s persistent pressure—knockdowns, body blows and effective fouling to the legs stole long moments of this fight as Larue languished on the ropes trying to figure out what to do. Fight considered am upset in many quarters—good win for Jenny--loss has pundits wondering if Eva still has the legs to make a serious run at the very vest in the star studded division.