Unified Bantamweight Title  

Posted By Simguy on 7/3/2003, 8:09 pm


Before: Both fighters come in off big wins, both fighters have pretty much cleaned up on bantam comp, but all boxing waiting to see if Britney can carry her golden year into this showdown with hated Eliza Dushku. "You look rattled kid," smirks Eliza on her side of the dais, cutting her eyes across to Britney, "I can smell the fear on you. You're thinking, 'is she going after my body again? Is she going to knock me out? Is she going to carry me?' Brrrr. I sympathize kid, it's gotta be tough, all that wondering." Spears keeping her cool, saying all the right things. "I'm not afraid of Eliza Dushku - I've never been afraid of her. People forget, I've beaten this tramp once already and I'm not about to let her bully me. I've put the work in - I KNOW Eliza hasn't run the miles, done the crunches, sparred the rounds I have - she looks pasty to me. I'm coming in bigger than I have in the past. I'm more mature. And I've improved - you can't say that about Eliza - she's always been good, but she's the same old girl she used to be. When we're done, Dushku's going to realize that this sport doesn't stand still for anybody." Red leather bikini Eliza, Black push up, black boy cut trunks for Brit.

During R1: Butterflies for Britney early? She's tentative, biting on feints - Eliza twitching her out of position, jabbing to her body, setting her up. End of minute one - Dushku jabs light to the midriff, gets the flinch and plows a banging right down broadway - SPEARS GOES DOWN! Eliza dropping her hands and shrugging, grinning as she saunters to neutral corner. Gut check for Spears, she's SO disappointed, sets up hands at her temples, elbows in, digging in at ropes. Dushku wants blonde body, edging in on Brit, reaching with the right hand to measure, cranking hooks Too Sharp Johnson style, welting Britney in the side, banging jaw around her guard. Brit partially blocking shots, but she's rattled, coming undone - E hops right, fits a biting hook into Britney's sternum and SPEARS GOES DOWN! Tears welling up as Spears sobs on all fours - it's all spiraling away from her. Another queasy 8, Brit swooning at the ropes - Eliza storming across the ring, shouting "here I come B!" Dushku driving the straight right in underneath Britney's heart, twisting to hook at her tummy, twisting back to club righty to jaw - OH the beating in this last minute. Spears out on her feet, dukes up limp, head swivelling, torso bunching up as Eliza dips and rips lefts in under the elbow. At the bell, Dushku standing tall, drinking in the sight with hands at her sides - Britney slumped in the ropes, smoldering with punishment - she's bundled to her corner for emergency repairs.

R2: Dushku stepping left, all business. Jab spearing between the eyes, spearing down into the body. Choppy-quick right hands sneaking past Brit's left wrist - biting hooks ripping past Brit's right wrist. Eliza pivoting smart to her left - now she wants the ribs, taking them with snapping, snatching hooks AND SPEARS WILTS GROANING TO HER KNEES! Second minute - Spears grimacing, favouring her right side as Eliza continually turns her, bites at her. Spears hurt midway through as Dushku comes off the body with a bang/bang left hook/uppercut combo, smiling as Brit staggers back. Eliza stepping in with a shunting straight right to the body - audible groan as Brit folds forward, reaching for Eliza's hips and getting STROKED the hook on the chops. Spears undone, reeling - Eliza hammers her to the ropes with straight lefts and rights from the shoulder. Now Dushku bodies up, gets her shoulder in Brit's chest, props her against the ropes, wedging meanspirited rights flat to the belly, turning over hooks/forearms ruff against the tits. Spears butt in the ropes, guard wilting - she's taking punches, sagging in the strands at the bell and SHE DROOPS TO ONE KNEE! Eliza smirking, hands insolent at her sides, trying to press her stomach against Britney's dazed face - Spears clutching at herself, squinting back the tears - she doesn't want to give Eliza the satisfaction. Brit beats the count but Dushku just draining Britney's tank through 2.

R3: Britney digging in flat footed at the ropes, looking to engage, but Dushku's up tempoing, gnawing on her with combinations. Eliza hacking at the waist, stepping to the right to hook at tits and chin, stepping to the left to sidearm rights back in at the trunk line. Brit covered up, punching back in spots, sliding to her left, but she's getting ground down. Dushku finishing up workmanlike, beefy on Britney's body, hunching the blonde forward and clubbing at her kidneys with spanking hooks at the bell. Eliza chesting up, taunting - "That's three - when're you gonna get in the game blondie?"

R4: Girls trade right hands, left hooks and ELIZA'S STUNNED! Brit winning the race, catching ALL of Dushku's chin - challenger staggering straight back to the ropes as blonde barrels into her. Spears pushing Eliza deep to the strands, then HEAVING hooks to midriff, great, bashing wallops, shoving on Eliza's shoulders as she slumps to a seat on the ropes. Spears unleashing - dipping her shoulders, ripping up into the breasts and ribs with left/right uppercuts, then double pumping rights to the belly, shoving a dazed Dushku back. Eliza swooning, eyes glassy - she's pushing back in a half hearted clinch, but it's all coming so fast. Brutal body work folds the brunette forward and BRITNEY LIGHTS UP THOSE KIDNEYS WITH HOOKS! Vicious, clawing work - Britney baring her teeth, right hand tight to her chest as she deals, showing a rare animalistic side as she welts away on a vulnerable opponent and DUSHKU GOES DOWN! Eliza on all fours, reaching for her back, trembling with punishment, ref bodying Brit back. Dushku takes 8, glaring how-dare-you daggers at Spears, but Britney's got her nerve back. Spears using her legs, darting in behind a stubby lead right, stepping out with the forget-me-not hook - Dushku getting clipped on her jaw, reacting late - she's just gutting it out to the bell. During the break, HISC corner let's the ref hear it - reminding him that punching someone in the back is SO wrong.

R5: BRITNEY GOES AT ELIZA! Spears first to midring, taking possession with her jab, stepping brisk to her right - Eliza wary, dukes up, turning. Spears utilizing a nice lead right, banging it off Dushku's guard, occupying brunette high and snatching at her ribs with wince-making hooks. Hard-hearted stuff - Spears feinting the right, leading with hooks instead - she's frequently wrong-footing, catching Dushku off balance, then mopping up with straight rights on the face. Round ends to the sight of Britney beating Dushku in the body - doubling, tripling up on muscular, batting rights. Brunette tucked over, elbows in, trying to turn her torso to absorb shock.

Spears/Dushku Title bout cont.

Posted by Simguy on 8:10 pm

R6: Brit going to the well too often - Eliza's timed that lead right, slips it and pulls her own right blunt to Britney's jaw as the girls fall in together. Spears legs give a shimmy - she clinches smart, tying up for the break. Dushku's turned the tide - she goes at her girl with crisp jabs, banging away up top, shooting the straight right down into Brit's tummy, then trying to snap-hook her chin as blonde folds to accept the body shot. It's Eliza putting punches together, patiently walking her blonde down - Britney looking harassed, skirting the perimeter safety first to the bell.

R7: Toe to toe, all action - Eliza inviting Britney to shoulder up and Spears obliging without hesitation. Good tight stuff on the inside, both girls rights at the cheek, lefts across the body, using the left shoulder to nudge up and prep the opponent. Spanking 3 punch combos ripping back and forth - both girls turning their shoulders on defense to roll the bursts, then answering right back. Both punching, then shoving the opponent in the shoulders to ruin the receipt - hard-nosed veteran material. It's close, but Spears' drilling right hand draws blood from Eliza's nose this round, and hook for hook - Britney is tearing up Dushku's tummy through 7.

R8: Swapping, spiteful trade continues, again Eliza making adjustments, taking away Britney's prior success. E going to the little right uppercut in close, banging Spears in the teeth, slapping her cheek the hook, then really committing on the snatching hook to the liver. Spears giving ground, but making Eliza fight for it - Spears bumping her shoulder like a veteran, spanking left/rights off the thick of Eliza's midriff.

R9: Crowd pleasing, two way mayhem continues - neither girl has been able to hurt the other since the early fire works - they're used to each other's power, willing to take it to give. Tummies are worked like gold mines - both girls bumping the shoulder, then giving their all to lusty, ripping hooks to belly. Nifty footwork in close, both setting traps by taking a half step out, picking the other up with tidy left/right uppercuts as opponent falls in. Brit with a nice swatting push behind Eliza's elbow, turns the brunette, leaving E vulnerable to the biting outside-in left uppercut. Close round - Britney freezing Eliza late with a sustained assault - blonde grinding her head between Dushku's mitts, curling her fists up into Dushku's ribs and jugs as brunette leans forward in mute acceptance.

R10: Girls drive into each other midring, wrapping up, trying to chest the other back, twisting and pulling, then finding their feet and punching. Crowd roaring as girls hustle punches back and forth - hup,hup,hup punching to tits and tummies. Action slows down the stretch as girls look to bump and thump power shots, both girls catching clean right hands on stubborn jaws. Bitter slugfest roars on past the bell - ref literally having to pull the girls apart by their arms. Chests heaving, eyes flashing - this one goes to the cards. UD10, Eliza Dushku.

After: Throw out the first two rounds - just toss them aside and Britney goes even up with Dushku over the balance of this robust, hardhearted dime. Britney DOES go down 4 times in the opening 6 minutes however, showing tremendous heart in shaking off the harshest treatment of her career - but it's an insurmountable lead for the Sheriff. Dushku marching to Britney's corner to take possession of the belts, forcing Spears to deal with it - Brit stoic, face a battered ruin, (Eliza's not much better) right hand across her tummy, looking numb as her championship is passed over.

Eliza breezy in postfight, belts across her shoulders, hands taped. "Gave y'all a thrill when I went down hey? Look, let's understand what we saw tonight. I let Britney off the hook. Does anyone really believe I couldn't have finished what was left after I blitzed her in the first round? I just carried this kid 10 rounds to use her up proper. She was actually trying to get out of this fight early, so I HAD to lay up - she knew what was coming and couldn't face it. So I don't want to read in BLONDE! how plucky and brave Britney was - she wanted to quit and I wouldn't let her. Somehow, the gold shines just a bit brighter when I take it off Spears' waist, don't it?"

Britney shaking her head when Dushku's words are repeated to her. "Yeah - she carried me, she toyed with me - whatever. You know what? That was a very beatable Eliza Dushku tonight and I let HER off the hook! She faded - I've been telling everybody that Dushku's not in great condition and it really showed tonight. I was discouraging her with my determination, I was hurting her in the body, but I just...I choked, I did, at the start. I'm so mad at myself - Eliza's beaten me before, but she didn't tonight and she knows it. She's the luckiest little tramp in the world tonight."