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22 February 2012 Tricia Helfer vs Yvonne Strahovski

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Tricia Helfer 04.jpg Yvonne Strahovski 07.jpg

 

 

CELEBRITY BOXING AFTER DARK

 

Posted by simguy on 2/22/2012, 10:51 am

BEFORE: "When I look at type-supremacy, Swanepoel's important, but it's absolutely critical that I dominate Yvonne Strahovski," business-savvy Tricia Helfer says in prefight. "I felt I overshadowed her on her own show, but she beat me in the ring, so I've got some work to do. Bringing yvonne to heel's a huge priority for me and my team, so I'm glad we're getting the chance to get after her." Strahovksi all too aware Tricia's coming in off an emotional win: she's determined to turn that against Helfer. "Tricia went all-in, body and soul, against Candace," Yvonne says at podium. "It's only natural she'd have a bit of an emotional let down after such an intense win. It's very hard to summon that kind of focus on a consistent basis, so I'm hitting Trish at a bit of a sweet spot, I think. Beaten her once, now's the time to put my foot on her throat and claim this space as my own. To me, she's an Yvonne Strahovski knock-off, and I'm sure she thinks the same thing in reverse. Only one of us can be right." Yvonne in bright, fighting yellow bikini; shorter tousle-cut hair from last season of chuck; small black gloves. Helfer in black lace push up/leopard print bikini bottoms; small black gloves; hair in platinum BSG look.

During R1: Long, rangy girls circle clockwise at range - gradually stepping in to reach jabs to offending midsections - leaning back out to avoid counters. Long distance range-finding gradually builds to slinging exchanges as girls bend into whipping lefts and rights: small mitts spanking PIK! PAK! off trim ribcages/flanks; sinewy arms shivering on contact. Down the stretch, Yvonne dips left shoulder/fits jagged left uppercut neat to Tricia's sternum...Helfer's face pinches in discomfort as she's forced to back away from the round's best punch.

R2: Helfer locating Yvonne with the jab early, punching face PIK! PIK! Slinging wide right bounces PAK! off Aussie lats; Yvonne forced into cringing earmuff early. Tricia hard-eyed, resolute - lean blonde sets hips, rips fists right/left in lashing tandem to either flank...Straho groaning into her palms as she's stooping forward. Helfer hacking away - stroking the palm-up right across 'Vonnie's trim waist; dragging a limber left in behind 'Vonnie's right elbow. Yvonne blinking away tears at the minute mark, but fighting back: chippy left uppercut grazes Tricia's face; trade in short right hands goes Yvonne's way, forcing Helfer to back out and regroup. Tricia loping to her right, elbows in, hands out to the side in gentle gull-wing when she's out of range...she's step-feinting at Yvonne, sliding away from her, making Straho hunt her down.

R3: Helfer loose, rangy, rotating to her left...she's feeding Vonnie the jab, keeping Straho covered up. Turning battle midring - Trish pinging away for air-superiority, then stepping in to apply lash to body...rich, thick pastings doled out to Vonnie's flanks as she stoops forward behind her mitts. Helfer bending into her shots, pulling sinuous arms around to bounce small gloves off toned Aussie flanks...Strahovski paralyzed, baby-stepping forward as she's beaten, turned. Helfer's eyes pitiless - it's just one tall, elegant blonde beating another in her body, and both girls know it. Bell: Straho's eyes shiny with "how could you" tears; Helfer's eyes absolutely heartless as she looks Yvonne over, searching for signs of quit.

R4: Long lasses step in strong, lick away rangy lefts and rights...each twisting on her hips, slinging shots from her hips to get the other in trouble. Withering stuff - small gloves biting into lean meat; bouncing off lats; cutting across sleek tummies. Both girls adept at leaning in on left legs, dipping left shoulders and fitting left uppercuts to throbbing ribs. Harsh, chiseling jabs seek out high cheekbones - the girl's punishing each other with cold-blooded intensity - each seeking to close the other's eyes. Down the stretch, Yvonne fits a jagged left uppercut in snug beneath Tricia's right jug; doubles the left uppercut to sternum; shifts weight to right leg and fits right uppercut to underjug region and HELFER GOES DOWN! Tricia's face sick from body hurt...she hugs her ribs while turning to her right, dropping to hands and knees in distress. Yvonne smouldering, glaring down as ref moves in...Straho visibly hungry to finish wounded Trish.

R5: Tricia with a hurt look in her eyes, but steps-to, working her jab to Vonnie's left cheek. Rangy hooks back from Strahovski; slap-choppy right hands to Helfer's jaw: Tricia rolling-with the rights, coming back lanky right uppercuts and swinging hooks in receipt. Girls flat footed, bendy at the waist as they twist and sling away, hoping to clip each other to chin, but having better luck swinging hateful leather into one another's flanks. Slinging brutality as girls take turns bending into rubber-hose right hands - slinging the mitt around; bouncing it viciously off side-rib, then covering up quickly to absorb the answer. It's Helfer strong off the knockdown, whipping her foe's ribcage pink this round as Yvonne's mouth is open/eyes wincing at bell.

R6: Yvonne recommits to the jab, sprucing Tricia up chest and chin. With air-superiority, Straho steps in, bending into the slinging right to Tricia's left flank, then looking for scraping left uppercuts off the lead (left) plant-leg. Helfer cringing, drawing elbows in, showing face-in-gloves in the face of Straho's body lash...by the middle minute, it's just Trish tottering forward on trembling legs, trying to make her body tight against the hateful stroke of Vonnie's fists. By the final minute, it's just Yvonne beating at Tricia without mercy - Aussie girl bending in and down to either side, dragging whiplash lefts and rights onto Tricia's flanks - the slender limbs bouncing as hard fists bounce off toned Tricia-meat. Straho scraping uppercuts along Tricia's defences, just to keep her covered up...Aussie girl knows the bread-and-butter damage is being done on the flanks, and she puts her back into it through 6. Bell: Tricia's eyes shiny with "how could you" tears; Yvonne's eyes flashing "because you did" in non-verbal rebuttal.

A giddy Odette Yustman tweets: "Tricia's quitting...I can feel her giving in from here!"

R7: Yvonne's jab a spiteful stick, kicking back Tricia's face, forcing her into tight earmuff. That puts the flanks and tummy on sale: Yvonne steps in on left plant leg, cutting Tricia palm-up left/rights across the waist, then lashing her lanky behind the elbows. Helfer groaning, backing into ropes for the first time...sleek blonde legs holding her up, but she's unable to answer Yvonne's ferocity here. Straho hard-eyed, squaring away to work: digging left uppercuts gouge at Tricia's body underneath - Vonnie bending her back, popping hips-right to fit 'em in snug. Hateful whippy rights to Tricia's left flank - Straho bending in and to her left, dragging the fist into tender lats PAK! Helfer crippled - bobbing at the waist, but unable to leg out of there...Vonnie able to set her feet and hips; extend hands to push on Tricia a bit, just to sort her, then OH the vicious lash applied. Helfer sobbing out at times, slumping butt-first into ropes...she doesn't go down, but she's bullwhipped by a determined Yvonne Strahovski this round.

R8: Helfer loping to her right, eyes tired, wincing: she's hating Straho's work. Yvonne fresher in aspect, energetic in pursuit...she's walking Tricia briskly down; locating her via the jab; lashing her body great sinewy cuts, then giving chase as Tricia slides away. Helfer feinting, showing a check-jab in retreat, but it's all Yvonne through two minutes, just rolling Tricia up. STRAHOVSKI GOES DOWN! Third minute - Yvonne advancing...Tricia slide-stepping back, dragging her lead (left) foot...she walks Vonnie into the mother off all short left check-hooks to chin - Tricia keeping her elbow in, fitting the shot short to jaw, sending Straho stumbling to knees-and-forearms off Helfer's starboard side. Yvonne beats the count glassy-eyed: Tricia turns the round around with one punch, advances to salt away the points with a vicious lashing of helpless Vonnie at ropes to bell.

R9: Yvonne not the same fighter...she's sluggish, legs looking ready to go...she's combative, looking to trade from set positions, but Helfer's regained initiative. Tricia stalking hurt prey - stooping to reach nuisance jabs to tummy, testing Vonnie's reflexes. Straho slopping side to side left/rights with her elbows in close to her hips...Tricia bobbing and weaving the work, making Vonnie miss, then straightening up to stroke her a hook ear-to-chin on the right side, or bending forward to loop an overhand right upside the head. Limber wallop has Straho staggering around in blinking confusion...she's taking a terrific shot here, but Helfer getting her back into slinging power, putting Yvonne tragically wobbly-butt by the bell.

R10: Helfer ups tempo, seals the deal on a fading Yvonne Strahovski. Trish doubling up the jab to body just to get Vonnie stooping forward in earmuff; wide, palm-down right curls in behind Vonnie's left tricep, digging into lats PAK! Scouring left uppercuts off the left plant leg bite at Yvonne's body as she's bunching forward; Tricia doubling off the uppercuts to flare the hook out wide, slapping Yvonne behind right elbow. Comprehensive, sinuous stuff - Tricia looming over wilting Yvonne, long arms reaching to flanks and hips, or tightening up stroke to dig uppercuts home. Yvonne too proud to go down, but she takes a savage whipping - face in gloves, tottering around in stupor as Helfer applies heartless lash. Bell: Yvonne blubbering, hugging her ribs; pitiless last look from Tricia tells everyone who's just won the fight. Comes back UD10 Tricia Helfer.

After: Heartbreak for Yvonne: ahead after 7, she folds down the stretch against a determined Helfer onslaught. Tricia resurgent after some tough outings, coming back Swanepoel/Strahovski to reassert elite status at lightweight. "Huge win for me," Helfer acknowledges in postfight. "Swanepoel was important to me personally, but from a professional sense, I can't advance if Yvonne's having success, and vice versa - we're just too close in the minds of fans and matchmakers. KILLED her to the body tonight - that was a conscious decision. It was expensive - she got to me plenty as you can see from my own radioactive ribcage, but I couldn't touch her up top the way I wanted to, so I knew I had to break her down first. Once she was hurting and her legs were shot, then I started to pick away at her. I feel like I'm back where I need to be as a contender. Taking the air out of Yvonne is sort of providing wind for my sails, you know?"

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