BY SIMGUY 

Before: O'Dell parlaying her Theron triumph into another lucrative payday - Debbe Dunning selecting O'Dell from a short list of attractive opponents on the strength of Jenny's last performance.

"Jenny O'Dell beat hell out of Charlize," grins Debbe in prefight. "That's all I needed to see. She's gonna have to be that good and just a bit better to avoid getting stretched by me again."

O'Dell basking in a glow that's been elusive at times in her career. "Battering Charlize and now getting the chance to retire a legend - this is the most attention I've ever gotten from fans and the media. I'm hungry for it - I like Debbe, but I don't want her to finish this fight. I want to leave no doubt in her mind but that it's time to hang 'em up."

Smiling, confident beauties during staredown, touching gloves like a couple of pros - no histrionics for this one.

Debbe in pink and white check print bikini, bra straps and twist tied top - Jenny in pink jogging bikini, battle bun hair.

During R1: Jenny defensive, dukes at temples, strong on her feet - she's letting Debbe spend up some money early. Dunning stepping-to her girl, releasing long, slamming lefts and rights. Double D starting in Jenny's waist with shellacking right/left action, working her way up torso to buffett Jenny's ears - O'Dell moved by the blows, but safe behind her guard, inching forward to start pressuring Deb. Dunning using her legs, stepping around, then striding in to pull hard leather onto O'Dell - not much coming back to discourage Debbe from posting a thumping shutout.

R2: Jenny's uncharacteristic slow start continues - she's covered up tight, blocking, then easing Deb into clinches, deliberately frustrating and bogging Debbe down. Dunning writhing in the grasp, confused - she and everyone else had been expecting a slugfest and O'Dell's not cooperating. Jenny slowly establishing her strength, pace on Debbe, bodying up and walking Dunning around, mauling her against the ropes for ref's breaks. Late the round - O'Dell stepping to the left around a good stiff jab, right hand at her temple as she pops and turns. Debbe pivoting to stay square, bemused and spanked as O'Dell pokes for points.

R3: Jenny spreading Debbe out with stick again, stepping lively left - breaking Dunning down midring. Deb batting at jabs with her right hand, turning, trying to set her feet and slug - Jenny denying brunette with simple, crisp lateral movement. Second minute, Jenny dropping the right cross in behind the jab, turning over that back ankle pretty, scoring clean to the chin and torquing Debbe's face to the side. Dunning facing into wallop, taking a great shot - down the stretch she eats a firm O'Dell right, comes rocketing back with a booming right on the teeth and WADES INTO JENNY LEFTS AND RIGHTS UNDERNEATH! O'Dell staggered, buckling under the strain of Debbe's sudden wailing barrage to the ribs - Jenny showing her experience, clinches with a wince on her lips, eyes squinting in pain as she holds Debbe close. Double D pumped, knows she got to O'Dell's legs this round - brunette upbeat, stomping happily to her corner as she steals a JOD round.

R4: Jenny boxing disciplined, stepping to her left, driving in jabs to Debbe's body and chest, banging back Debbe's face and dropping judicious right hands clean off the stick. Dunning facing into punches and taking almost half of everything Jenny's offering - O'Dell punching crisp and correct, but not putting 100% Jenny into the blows, content to systematically degrade her foe. Debbe lobbing right hands and trying to jab with Jenny, but coming up short - O'Dell's legs commanding the heights through 4.

R5: Jenny edging in off the one-two, deliberately closing with Debbe to pound those aging ribs. More shoulder to shoulder moments as the girls bump and strain on the inside, each trying to budge the other back and hook her midsection. Dunning hacking away righty over the top - Jenny reading it well blocking with her left and answering with blunt right hands on the chin - blonde just that much better in hammer and tongs trading. Round finishes up with Debbe's back in the ropes for the first time - Jenny methodically beating her arms, palming up on her shoulders, patiently working her over to the bell.

R6: Debbe giving ground as Jenny jabs - brunette suddenly stops, drives in with a slinging right hand flat to the belly, mopping up a CLANGING hook on the chops: head snap Jenny, feet squaring up in reflex - Debbe able to swing away from her hips right/left/right and JENNY GOES DOWN! O'Dell crashing to her back - terrific face punching from Dunning rendering blonde momentarily insensate - O'Dell sloooowly rolling to her hip and standing on shaky pins to beat the count. ON COMES DUNNING! Debbe wading into what's left - palming with her left and treating Jenny to a series of thudding right hands square to paunch. Poor O'Dell groaning, sits into the strands, dukes at her temples as Double D revs it up. Walloping shellack meted out - Debbe pinning her ears back, grinning wildly as she strokes and clouts away wide, winging punches. Deb none-too-accurate - plenty of punches wrapping harmlessly around Jenny's head or shoulders or missing altogether - but the sheer accumulation electrifying. Crowd giving Debbe a standing O at the bell, Debbe pulsing with exertion, chest heaving - she fronts up on Jenny and bellows into O'Dell's drowsy face as ref takes a hand.

R7: Debbe POURING herself at Jenny - brunette hands low, twisting her hips to stroke punches from her waist to Jenny's jaw. O'Dell dukes up, blocking, bobbing her head down to slip some of the wallop, sliding back in her crouch to walk Debbe into hooks and DUNNING GOES DOWN! So sudden - Debbe winging punches, coming forward - Jenny just coaxing brunette forward into a short, clouting hook - brunette spills to all fours as blonde strides past with a satisfied glare. Shaky 8 Debbe and ON COMES JENNY! O'Dell hardhearted as she steps to Deb at the ropes, pawing a right to load up the left, then HAMMERING away rights and lefts as Debbe comes unglued. Crowd screaming - Dunning blasted senseless in the first few moments of O'Dell's flurry but DEBBE WON'T GO DOWN! Senseless Arturo Gatti stuff - Deb craning forward, hands low, face up and staring into Jenny's attack - crashing blonde punching detonating off Debbe's chin, spinning her head too and fro. Jenny's fury abates into a more measured, slugging rhythm - she knows she can hit Debbe at will, now she's just loading up and tagging Dunning with career-ending leverage. Debbe finally wilting, staggering to her right - Jenny stepping with and ripping Dunning: right crosses, left hooks, right uppercuts. O'Dell easing up at one point to wave the ref in to stop this thing - guy shakes his head, obviously sensing a Deb Dunning miracle rally. Jenny steels herself, gets back to work - now POUNDING the body as Debbe's chin wouldn't go: paydirt. Debbe soaking up body-shock, crippled as Jenny digs a series of repeat right hands to the breadbasket - Dunning helpless when O'Dell shifts her weight and spanks a hook in behind the elbow. Double D drooping to all fours, lips pulled back in agony - Jenny seething, soaked with the sweat of her efforts - ref tackles her off at the bell as Debbe SOMEHOW manages to stand.

R8: Jenny marches on Debbe without joy: seventh round was a bloodcurdling slaughter and this fight should have been stopped - poor Dunning has nothing left. Aging brunette all busted up, shuffling on numb legs, right hand at her chest, left at her stomach, yet she steps to Jen and waves a looping right with nothing on it. O'Dell edging inside the arc of the punch, bouncing a thick right/left off the pit of Debbe's belly - brunette bunches up - Jenny leans in to dig hooks to the body, buckling Debbe's knees, prompting a breathless clinch. Ref's break - Dunning almost falls down from the ref pushing her back - Jenny strides in, starts loading up. Relentless pounding along the ropes - Debbe taking clean, bonecrunching rights upside the head, staring groggily back, stumbling to her right. Jenny pushes Deb into the ropes to stop her, then starts a systematic, heartless pounding of Dunning's mouthwatering rack - smashing, pancaking rights and lefts full onto Debbe's heaving, helpless hooters - blonde trying to make brunette quit rather than continue harming her. Debbe sobbing mindlessly, falling in to clinch - too weak to tie up - Jenny bodies her beefy into the ropes, then resets to keep up the pounding. Final minute - Jenny just unleashing - eyes never leaving Debbe's ruined face as rights and lefts crash onto brunette jaw, temples, cheeks and DEBBE GOES DOWN! O'Dell staggering near exhaustion, gulping air and lifting her hands. Debbe SO still, face down on the canvas, completely used up after a truly horrific beating. KO8 Jenny O'Dell.

After: Debbe Dunning going out on her shield like a true warrior, but it's a cringing, sickening ending for an all time great. O'Dell removing her gloves and confronting the referee in the immediate aftermath - blonde LIVID that this thing wasn't stopped when her fists first clearly rendered Dunning defenceless. Upon calming down,

Jenny has some words on this historic occasion. "You know - she was still punching incredibly hard, but I was just too strong for her this time. I didn't want to get tagged early - that was the whole thing: don't let her land in the first few minutes - so I boxed her, put some mileage on her. She caught me, but I think I'd taken the edge off her at that point and it wasn't too hard to come back on her. There's no way she should have been allowed out for the 8th round - I mean, only Debbe Dunning would even get the chance to see if she could rally from a beating like the one I gave her, but those mitts of hers are out of miracles. I truly hope she's as good as her word and hangs them up - and not just because I want to be the one to finish her. Debbe's vulnerable now - too proud and tough for her own good - I don't want to see her pounded into palookaville by younger girls looking for a cheap score."