Posted by Simguy on 1/13/2006, 6:48 am.

Before: Oh what a difference a year makes--Carmella enters the favorite, sporting an imposing “Blonde Assassin” label--she’s a very confident, upwardly mobile gamine in preflight, “I feel I paid my dues last year--this year’s going to be about reaping rewards, I’ve worked hard. I’ve learned a lot and I feel I’ve improved,. Promoters like me against blondes and I’ve done well against them,” shrug, demure eyes. “If that makes me a ‘blonde assassin’--so be it--but I’m really just out there competing against whomever.” Poppy a sturdy name in ‘05, pitted against bigger girls for the most part--she looks to have a few pounds on Carmella in this one. “definitely, I’m the bigger girl, and I look to the Sanchez fight as indication that Carmella can’t handle beef,” says a cerebral Montgomery. “I know she’s slick and foxy, but I can take a lot of that away from her with pressure. If Kiele can drop Carmella, I know I can too--I just have to get work done on her each and every round!” Carmella in sporty pink puncher’s bikini--Poppy in black push bra (white lace trim), tie-side leopard print bikini bottoms.

During R1: Glancing blow atop the head unhinges Carmella’s legs--while she’s thinking about going down, Poppy clouts her a walloping hook onna chops and sends Decesare reeling to ropes. Pops strong to gut with both hands PUM! PUM! Then shouldering a gasping Carmella upright--buxom blonde beat down un folding as Decesare looks windblown early. Poppy compact, muscular, switching her shoulders side to side to pull cudgeling lefts and rights into Carm’s slender flanks; cuffing at the ears. Decesare mouth open, stooped forward, dukes at temples ships shellack through 2 hamhanded blonde minutes. Decesare licking uppercuts late, gets off the ropes and walks Pops into a firm-stroking right hand on the jaw to foil blonde shutout bid.

R2: Carmella snarling, pink with punishment--she creep-steps to her right, waving the jab off her hip and sizing Poppy’s chin up for buggy-whip right hands. Montgomery stepping warily forward, dukes up high--she’s blocking Carmella’s limber-limbed right, punching back with straight, stamping rights and lefts from her brow--dotting Carm’s brow and chest to move brunette back. Decesare having trouble with her footing--Poppy’s punches moving slighter brunette, dictating pace for more Montgomery points.

R3: Carmella more decisive with her jab--no longer waving it, but snapping it up off her hip, backhanding it at Poppy’s face to draw early warnings. Creep-step tight sets up supple, shearing Decesare right hands--she uncoils into the punch, bending in and down with it, pouring leather in over Poppy’s left shoulder--drawing oohs and ahhs from the crowd as blonde gets lit up. Montgomery just rotating, no cutting off the ring, not pressuring Decesare--blonde a relatively stationary target, posing for Carmella’s licking wallop and midway through: Poppy’s legs can’t take it. Cracking right cross crashes in over Poppy’s left hand, buckling her--delayed action as she stoops, frowns in pain, then sinks to one knee to clear her head. Decesare strutting to neutral corner, eyes narrowing as she watches Poppy shake off a very hard punch: brunette starting to think in tearms of a long night as blonde proves durable.

R4: Poppy punching her way into Carmella’s midsection: head down, shoulders rotating, feet stepping forward with a series of walking barrages. Decesare bumped off her stance crowded to ropes--Poppy fighting off Carmella’s chest very effective in nullifying brunette’s sinewy form. Montgomery rough with Carmella--palming her, reaching in under the arms to stack her, bumping her that left shoulder--Decesare gritting her teeth under the jostling, trying to keep her hands up, chin tucked. Carmella supple off the ropes, tilting to one side or the other to lap limber strokes up into Poppy’s body, then crouching (right hand under chin, left across body) to ride out the receipts. Hard working round goes to Montgomery--she smears Carmella against the ropes much of the frame.

R5: Carmella needs distance, buys it with a stinging jab, spring legs, Decesare rotating counterclockwise, keeping Poppy’s feet moving--gamine brunette can’t let voluptuous blonde get on top. Carmella  stooping to reach jabs into Poppy’s tummy, backhanding jabs against Poppy’s left cheek/eye, always looking to step right, then come rocketing over the top that slinging right. Midway through--pay dirt: Decesare finally lands the right cross shes been looking for, scorching Poppy’s chin, Montgomery spasming--right knee snapping up with cringe-reflex, but Poppy takes the punch. Carmella wide-eyed--stepping out to regroup, keeping the jab on poppy and circling to pocket points. Montgomery glaring, forcing hard eye contact at the bell: she’s growing more and more confident that Carmella hasn’t got enough punch tonight.

Montgomery/Decesare conc.

Posted by Simguy on 1/13/2006, 6:49 am.

R6: Poppy coming forward--dukes high, jamming jab from her eyebrow, stamping straight rights from her shoulder to get Decesare ropeside. Carmella back-to-ropes, bending forward, leaning back into the strands, showing supple: she’s twisting her shoulders side to side, keeping the right hand under the chin ass she slips punches--but this isn’t a good spot for her. Poppy able to square up and bash way--good thick pummeling applied to Carmella’s svelte limbs--blonde smothering brunette, keeping her pinned down at the apron. Decesare’s upper body movement keeps her chin relatively safe--but she’s soaking up a tremendous beating downstairs from a heavy-handed vixen through 6.

R7: More Poppy. Montgomery walking Carmella down with that rigid high guard, crowding her to ropes, then having her hamfisted way with the Playmate. Decesare grimacing, rolling punches with the right under her chin, left across her bod--trying to keep that left shoulder pointed at Poppy to take away surface area, Montgomery always striving to flatten Carmella up against the ropes, oppressing in and pancaking the slighter girl upright, then chugging at her waist and jugs. Decesare doing some smart clinching--tieing up behind Poppy’s head or elbows. Down the stretch, thudding blonde body work cramps Carmella up--she’s stooped forward, gasping when Poppy digs a left to tummy, doubles up tot get the left uppercut on brunette’s overhanging face and DECESARE’S HURT! Carmella stunned, ragged and staring as she sprawls against the ropes--desperation clinch saves her from a raucous blonde finishing run as time runs out on dominant Poppy in the seventh.

R8: Carmella lumping up, worked over, but combative--she rallies, executes to keep Poppy off balance in the 8th. Constant lateral shift to the right--Decesare never staying in one place for long. When Poppy tries to crowd--just a tad--Carmella able to get a strong step right, plant, and bend into her right cross to some effect. Even when  it doesn’t land--Poppy has to duck and cover, robbing her of forward momentum. By the time Montgomery straighten--Carmella’s already gone.

R9: Another bruising, blunt Poppy Montgomery round as she gets her body on Carmella, stacks her to ropes and bludgeons her. Decesare open-mouthed--bending and twisting sluggishly; sinuous chassis battered and bruised tonight by relentless blonde punching--starting to take its toll as Decesare stiffens up. Carmella’s arms constantly reaching for Poppy, draping on her, pulling at her head and arms--Montgomery forced to fight through entanglements--occasionally barking at the ref to do something about Carmella’s holding. Ribs and jugs, ribs and jugs--Montgomery just bashing away to the torso, piling on to smother when she can’t get her mitts free to punch.

R10: Decesare sucks it up, delivers a big tenth when she needs it most. Carmella sticking her jab like her life depends upon it--slowing Poppy’s advance, getting the blonde to lean back onto her right foot. Decesare slinging in that right cross, but not relying exclusively on it:  now she’s bringing a licking hook back across Poppy’s midsection, spanking away on quivering blonde paunch one-two. Montgomery in a funk, snarling, not punching--she doesn’t like Carmella’s snappy body blows one bit. Carm creep-stepping, bending into her punches, getting sinewy leverage--Playmate unleashing, pulling wallop onto Montgomery and finally outclassing her: blonde actually starting to back up under the cheek, then bends into a slinging right--tic-toc wallop swivels Montgomery’s head and PUTS HER ON ALL FOURS! Poppy punching the canvas in frustration, once again fights off Carmella’s power to beat the count, but it’s a huge knockdown late. Decesare gets on her bicycle, sticks and moves the rest of the way and takes her chances on the cards. Comes back a Tractorpull Special: Draw through 10.

After: Hard fought back and forth--Carmella’s lithe sharpshooting nicely offset bu Poppy’s smothering grind as neither girl imposes her will tonight. Pair of knockdowns and a late surge saves Decesare from an upset--but she lost 6 rounds to Poppy tonight, as BLONDE! Magazine is quick to point out, “Decesare’s been exposed,” one contributing editor gleefully chirps. “Kiele paved the way and Poppy just confirmed it--bigger blonde will have their way with Decesare!” Carmella non-plussed, pursing her lips when told of the comments, “I can’t let them (BLONDE! Magazine) get to me,” punch-shiny brunette says. “Too much has been made of the Sanchez fight--I was shutting her out when she caught me a legitimate shot--I really don’t think her size was winning the fight for her. As for Poppy--she’s big and durable and she takes a great punch--that doesn’t mean I wasn’t hurting her and moving her with my strokes. I’m not happy with a draw, but I fought back hard to get it. Guess BLONDE! didn’t notice it was POPPY on her knees in the tenth.”

Reposted by Archer 8/30/11