Posted by Simguy on 8/4/2006, 6:32 am

Before:  Looks like a sequel to “RepliKate” when these two take the scales: similar ballistic bodies, hulking racks, tempestuous brunette curls tumbling down tanned backs already sending pundits in search of comparisons. “Ali’s the girl I’ve always felt destined to meet and beat in the ring,” Nadia tells reporters, “I’ve sized her up in public and just looking at her gets my competitive juices flowing—I can’t wait to fight her. With my punch and her chin—I know I can make a HUGE statement in this bout!” Landry besieged on all sides—press hounding for recent subpar performances; cloud of Jenny O’Dell overhanging every move Landry makes; BLONDE! Magazine crowing over the downfall of the one-time 800 pound gorilla of the welterweight division; hungry young fighters like Nadia stepping forward with bold challenges, “This is a tough time,” Ali acknowledges in prefight, “but I’m, determined to change things around, I’m not Kristanna Loken—I’m not going to get all hinky and chin-shy: I’m going to continue to face the big punchers and good boxers and beat them down. I haven’t fought well in my last two outings—no question about that. But I also haven’t forgotten everything I ever knew about boxing—it’s all about boxing—it’s all still there folks. Start8ing with Nadia, I’m going to start reminding folks that Ali Landry’s still the cream of the crop at 130,” Nadia in gold underwire bikini, Ali in royal blue bikini, gold belly chain. White gloves, both vixens.

During R1: Ali boxing early, stepping right around a probing jab—she’s able to squirt a short right cross over Nadia’s left hand to rattle Bjorlin at the minute mark. Ali wants in, trudging to the Bjorlin breadbasket with thumping lefts and rights, but Nadia won’t have it. Bjorlin stabilizing, punching-with and banging Ali hard to her chest and ribs—Nadia’s heartfelt, compact slugging inside repulses Landry’s first finishing run.

R2: Ali more circumspect now, eyes narrowed in concentration: she’s felt Nadia’s strength, showing some respect for it by working behind the jab, using the ring a little. Ali stepping right for the most part, trying to turn Nadia into another short right hand—but Landry also pivoting left around the stick, just keeping Nadia at the end of poke. Bjorlin turning, not cutting off the ring, but very aggressive—she’s often out of position, but stills winging hard enough to make Ali back off in spots.

R3: Clanging exchange of rights and lefts midring goes Nadia’s way—Ali faltering back on trembling thighs, chin dented by a tidy Bjorlin hook. Nadia over to offense, happily hopping forward and digging to form Landry paunch, backing pageant princess to ropes: fist serious jug-mugging as Nadia goes to the Landry rack with short, shrugging lefts and rights tight inside. Ali grimacing, but firming at the ropes—she answers with similar rubbing, bumping short punches—girls mugging each other heartlessly, foreheads grazing as they smudge and cram away. Bell: happy, chirping Nadia chests up and lets Ali hear all about it—Landry shoving the girl off, prompting referee intervention as tempers flare.

R4: Nadia gets to Ali with right hands—short, chopping blasts as the girls fall in. Landry going sullen--very reminiscent of the way she shut down against Mariah Carey—Ali just stooping forward behind her mitts, no head movement, very sluggish as she guzzles a consistent, clouting Bjorlin right, Nadia’s eyes wife as she makes headway—nudging Ali’s chest or right bicep with a measuring left, then turning into those clapping rights to available Landry jaw. Ali absorbing shock, then falling in to clinch—stop and go action as girls stagger around in mutual embrace until ref breaks ‘em up. Shutout Bjorlin—she sends Ali back to her stool shabby.

R5: Ali responds like a champ for the first time in three fights Strong, authoritative, pageant-winning jabs sorts Nadia out midring, forces her to cover up, dictates terms. Landry choosing spots, coming in off the stick with shirt right hands to Nadia’s chin, tucking tidy hooks to Nadia’s waistline, doubling hooks up to the ear, Landry sidestepping, anticipating Bjorlin’s big-swinging receipts—Nadia looking a little amateurish as she gets tagged/flustered. Return-of-serve shutout for Landry: she makes haughty eye contact at the bell, underlining her dominance in the fifth.

R6: Sharp two-way boxing—girls banging out jabs, then falling in to work big-girl to one another’s firm bodies. Both very mindful of keeping respective backs off ropes—lots of turning and sidestepping in the clinches keeps the women midring. Ali a little cuter defensively, riding her left forearm across her body, keeping the right at her cheek—she’s rolling shots, blocking punches at her midsection, then nipping back at Nadia clean. Landry tidying up Bjorlin’s flanks and tummy, punishing the breasts, and going to chin via shirt-clipping uppercuts for the first time.  Bjorlin taking a very good shot, refuses to break off despite some firm Landry touches.

R7: Bjorlin thrusting out her jab—not as educated as Ali’s—but very heavy: Landry momentarily disrupted, backs straight up and eats a CRASHING right hand on the button. LANDRY GOES DOWN! Crowd roaring to its feet—Ali jerked a quarter turn to her right and dropped on her back: gutwrenching sight of Ali parallel to the ropes, very still—it’s all so déjà vu as Landry tries desperately tries to rally off her back. Nadia jogging to neutral corner, grinning ear to ear—what a moment for a rookie, laying Ali Landry down. Ali rolls to her right, clambers shakily up to the ropes: she beats the count, swaying in the wind and HERE COMES NADIA! Poor Ali—breasts are forfeit as Bjorlin SAILS into rack—big, romping thump-thump as Nadia forces herself on Landry at the ropes. By the bell, it’s just Nadia riding her left arm across Landry’s upper back, slumping the beauty forward for pumping right hands to jug., Stuffing rampage brings tears to Ali’s eyes, parts her lips in blubbering stupor as ref jumps in.

R8: Ali badly shaken, unable to hold her canvas: crowd tense, sensing everything slipping away from Landry AGAIN! Ali crowded to the ropes—she covers up peekaboo, face-in-gloves—letting Nadia have her hamhanded way., Bjorlin applying herself to the problem of Landry’s chassis with thick, swinging lefts and rights—her arms shuddering off Ali’s flanks with meaty spank. Landry sagging into ropes, or edging forward to nudge Bjorlin back with the shoulder—subtle distance-changes saving Ali from Nadia’s head punches at least. Ali answering back straight counters from her peek-a-boo guard—just pushing her hand to Nadia’s mouth or breasts, then covering up tight again—absorbing a constant splash to her arms and flanks. Down the stretch, Nadia brushes Ali back with a pair of lusty right uppercuts, then CLOUTS her a swinging hook on the chops, Landry stunned—deep torso roll around and down allows her to slip hasty Bjorlin follow-up haymakers, then Ali reaches for Nadia’s hips, snuggling her up tight to run the clock at the bell.

R9: Hurt, ramshackle, Ali rallies, shows some poise and form as Nadia surges out to finish this thing. Bjorlin still swinging with KO force, but wide, sloppy—Landry able to suck inside the arc of punches, touch the body a bit, then snuggle up for ref’s breaks. Catch-and-release boxing from Landry—Nadia frustrated at the constant holding lets the ref hear it. Great survival round for Ali gets her legs back, pulls her even with Nadia on the cards going into the 10^th.

R10: Shutout Ali Landry—bell to bell smarts just completely bamboozles the overzealous Bjorlin. Landry pumping her stick like never before—stamping the Bjorlin rack; busting the Bjorlin chops—Ali sidestepping around poke, keeping Nadia off balance. Stepping right, Ali looks for short, chopping right hands to chin; stepping left, Ali looks for hooks body and head—dazzling variety clearly confusing her young opponent. Landry running a nifty step-in left uppercut/clinch routine—she’s tarting Nadia up, then smothering the response until ref’s break. Masterful stuff—Ali just controlling her girl to the bell takes a one point duke to halt the worst slide of her career.

After: Relief rather than joy from Landry corner: Ali outclasses her healthy young foe, but more importantly, rallies off the canvas after catching yet another ringing right hand on the chin. “I told you my chin was fine,” Ali gloats in postfight, “Nadia’s the biggest young puncher to come around since Gena Lee Nolin and I took her best shot—I don’t know what else needs to said. I feel I’ve stopped the bleeding with this fight--now it’s just a matter of rolling up the competition and getting my title back.” Kris Loken on a similar comeback trail makes for a neutral contest—GLN looking for a gaudy name to get her back into title contention--and there’s always that BSE vixen Carpenter for when Ali wants to get personal.

Reposted by Archer 7/11/13.