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28 February 2020 Maia Mitchell vs Danielle Rose Russell

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OFFICIAL FCBA "NO LOVE LOST" PPV

Posted by Lookout! Boxing on February 28, 2020, 9:08 pm

MAIA MITCHELL VS DANIELLE ROSE RUSSELL

Results: Lookout Writing: Archer

Maia: 26 YO, 5’6 (1.67 m), 1-0-0, 1 KO since 2019, Knockout Babes

Danielle: 20 YO, 5’3 (1.60 m), 4-4-0, 4 KO since 2019, Foxfire Boxing

Before: “It took a while, but I am finally here for my second FCBA fight,” said a smiling Maia Mitchell at the pre-fight press conference. “Interesting that this will be my second fight against a Foxfire rookie. I beat Bailee Madison in my first fight. Now I taking on Dani Russell. Hey, I’ll be up to Rachel McAdams or Laura Vandervoort any day now!”

“I take my fights as they come,” DRR says when it’s her turn at the podium. “I know I’m young and I have a lot to learn. I’m happy to be 4-4, but naturally I want to do better. Maia’s older than me, taller than me, but I think it’s important for me to find out if I can handle opponents like her. There are plenty of them out there. I consider this a major test for me and I want to pass it.”

“The same goes for me,” says Maia, “I have one fight and one win. I want to prove that was no fluke.”

Fight night finds Maia in a white one piece swimsuit with little red roses on it. She has blue gloves and boots with white laces. Her bobbed brunette hair is loose, but wetted down. Danielle is a silver one piece with black hexagon pattern. Silver gloves with black laces, black boots with silver laces, and her red hair pulled back in a ponytail. No nonsense fight instructions are promptly covered. Gloves are tapped and the young fighters are back in their corners.

R1: Maia and DRR out in mid-ring, circling each other, gloves up around their faces and stabbing out some probing punches. Then Danielle seizes the initiative with fast driving right/left hooks into Maia in midsection. Maia’s high guard loosens and drives straight right over gloves and into the bridge of Maia’s nose. Maia put on her heels. Maia’s high guard back up and DRR goes to the belly with deep, scooping hooks. Maia doubles up with a gurgle and Danielle then lifts her punches up into Maia’s chest and face. Maia pulling back, trying to regroup and deploying her jab, but DRR pressing her hard with more body punches. Dani maintains the heavy leather pressure down to the bell. Bell sounds and DRR steps back. Maia looks a little woozy at first, but then stiffens and marches back to her corner with her head up. Danielle watches and smiles slightly and then goes to her own corner,

R2: Out they come again as the bell sounds for R2. Maia going right at Dani and landed some good clipping blows to the jaw and side of the head. Danielle dropping back, looking for an opening, but Maia strikes again, this time ripping an uppercut into Dani’s chin and sending her stutter stepping backwards. Maia follows up with crisp hooks to the belly and ribcage. Dani trying to circle out of danger and tries to employ jab. Maia staying with DRR and ignoring the jabs to keep pumping leather into the redhead’s body. Maia working to cut Dani off and perhaps get her into the ropes, but can’t pull it off before the bell sounds. DRR looking windblown and sweating hard. Maia smiles with satisfaction. She’s now won R2 by a wide margin.

R3: Maia again goes right at Dani R as soon as the bell rings, but DRR is ready for her and they have a fierce exchange of head shots. Both fighters land head swiveling rights and lefts that quickly have them both wobbling slightly. Then Dani sucks it up and goes plowing into Maia with a series of right/left uppercuts that fling Maia into the ropes. Dani rushes in with a right to the jaw AND DOWN GOES MAIA! Maia topples onto her side along the ropes and lies there in a heap. Dani trots over to the neutral corner. Referee moves in and starts to count. Maia is stirring and she grabs the nearby ropes and uses them to hoist herself to her feet. She just beats the count at “NINE!” Referee checks Maia over, she can be heard pleading: “I’m OK! I’m OK! I can go on!’ Referee lets her have her way and waves Dani back in. It becomes immediately clear that Maia is not OK, she gets her gloves up around her head, but DRR able to knock them aside and starts pounding away at the helpless Maia as she tries desperately to slide along the ropes. Dani going all out to try to take this stubborn Maia down, but she is somehow staying up as she takes frightening punishment. Ringsiders are screaming for the fight to be stopped! FINALLY! THE REF JUMPS IN! Official cradles Maia to safety as Dani wipes her sweating brw with her forehead and then raises her arms in victory.

THE WINNER: DANIELLE ROSE RUSSELL DEFEATS MAIA MITCHELL TKO3!

Before: Danielle has her gloves removed and then goes over to check on Maia who is slumped on her stool. Dani much relieved to hear medics say Maia is badly banged up, but otherwise fit. She gives Maia a hug and then goes back to her own corner.

“I am glad Maia is going to be all right. She should never have been allowed to continue the fight. Once it happened it was my job to finish the fight, but I’m not here to really hurt anyone,” Dani says later to the press. “I think she gave me a good fight, but she opened herself up I the 3rd and I took advantage. Some things about this sport you learn the hard way (and I should know!). So I’m hoping she’ll take this as a learning experience and maybe there will be a next time so we can see if she has become a better fighter. Of course, I hope to be a better fighter by then myself.”

Maia speaks briefly to the press: “I am disappointed in this fight. I thought I had Dani figured out after R2, but I was wrong and I paid for it. I can only try to do better in my next fight.”

Like many a rookie fight, this one was intense—and short. Youngsters give it their all, but one of them makes a mistake or two and the other grabs the win. This looks like the story in this one. Welcome win for the Foxfire rookie Dani R who now goes over .500 at 5-4. Losing your second fight is never a good thing, but Maia could well learn from this one. She does still have that one win and there are many rookies who can’t say that. Fun rookie contest while it lasted and fans are no doubt hoping to see more of both in times to come.