Posted by Simguy 3/4/14, 12:02 pm

Before: Carpenter trying to keep pace with Richards, invites dangerous Deborah Unger to dance in a move that has Carpenter aides slapping her foreheads. Unger not a big puncher, but she’s a meanspirited, spiteful fighter, best known for hospitalizing the likes of Gina Gershon and Madeleine Stowe—blonde unimpressed with Carpenter’s rep coming in. “Not many ranked fighters would give me a shot, so I have to respect Charisma for taking me on—but overall she’s a joke, She was a decent casino fighter from what I hear, but ever since the WB started handling her, she’s been a pampered hot house flower. She just doesn’t have the heart to stand in with me.” Both girls make bantamweight at 118, but fight around 121-123, Deborah in messy ponytail, red bar (re: “The Game”), black boycut trunks, black shoes, Charisma in new short do, black push up, gold bikini bottoms, black shoes and gloves.

During R1: Carpenter dutifully opens with wide left/rights to the body, coming upstairs with a slinging Trinidad style hook, but Unger sharper, repeatedly counters off the block to put Carpenter wobbly butt with a series of chopping shots to the head in the first minute. Deb with her right stacked on top of her left at the chest, bobbing side to side, snapping off sharp punches to the breasts and face of her foe, then bringing the fists back ti her chest for rapid redeployment, Carpenter recovers well the rest of the way, banging hard to the waist, working shoulder to shoulder with Unger mid ring to the bell. Unger more accurate, more effective, sends Carpenter back to her corner bleeding from the nostril.

R2: Unger now leading, digging  her own hook to Charisma’s taut midriff, doubling up to cuff ear, then chopping face with the short right hand from her chest. Carpenter going glassy eyed, right hand at her temple, left across her belly—she’s reacting late and getting tagged, Midway through, swiping left across the jugs freezes Carpenter, hard right hand on the eye sends her reeling into the ropes—CC hurt and hanging on—Unger with tough shove and slug to the bell, hammers away at the body and head with consistent, sharp punching in combination.

R3: Carpenter shakes it off and has a good hard working round herself. Shoulder to shoulder, she starts to wear away at Deborah—first 2 minutes are gritty give and take, girls taking turns, mixing up the body and head attack well, rotating mid ring. Down the stretch, Carpenter takes over—her chugging lefts and rights to the body seem to have Deborah cringing, covering up—round ends with Charisma slugging Deb to the ropes, working her over with meaty strokes to the side of the blonde dips side to side, rolling her shoulder to minimize the damage.

R4: Carpenter showing that underrated jab this round, jars Deb repeatedly early asd the girls fence outside, then Carpenter drops the hard right cross on the haw to buckle Unger’s knees, Follow up right hands, reset and launched from the shoulder pound a woozy blonde to the ropes, Deborah bending deep at the waist, looks a little shocked as Carpenter puts it to her. Charisma staying workmanlike, always building a sound base in Unger’s stomach with both fists, softening the blonde up, making her drowsy, then cashing in upstairs with slinging left hooks. Deb’s Siamese cat eyes and cheekbones starting to swell—Carpenter’s getting there plenty, and at the bell, flush left hook spanks face to drop Unger to a knee! Deb up, staggering00she looks hurt en route to her corner.

R5: Charisma uptempos, jabs Deborah ti the ropes, has the blond leaning back with her arms crossed high--brunette dives into a splash straight ring hand ti the belly to drop Unger groaning to all fours in the opening moments! Deb up, eyes brimming—she’s hurting—Carpenter turns bully and treats Unger to a good old fashioned beat down along the ropes, bends forward over her legs--Carpenter pacing herself, digging lanky lefts and right hands in behind the blonde’s elbows, putting slicing combinations upstairs for another bruising shutout with power. Unger badly swelling facially through 5 as Carpenter starts to roll.

R6: Charisma with more of that sweet jab, poking and prodding Unger to the ropes, then it’s heavy, slinging left/right to the obliques, left hook on the cheek—Unger soaking up heavy shots, getting broken down, reacting way late as Charisma beats her dizzy this round. Carpenter really setting down on her body shots—she’s crippling Unger with almost every hook—Deb sagging sideways into the ropes as she soaks it up, just looking to survive, Another  savage workmanlike beating for all three minutes--Carpenter able to sustain pressure out her punches together, shove and body up to reset—Unger stupefied, just groggily accepting the damage.

R7: Deborah looking to counter, hands at her chest as she sinks to the ropes—she catches Carpenter with little wiping lefts and rights in between the brunette’s wider punches, but Charisma’s got the momentum. Carpenter stoving in the blonde’s gut with vicious, loaded lefts and rights, using her left elbow and shoulder to buck Unger back into the ropes—smash mouth boxing.

R8: Last gasp for Deborah—she sets up on the ropes, turning her shoulders ala Emanuel Burton, shimmying, giving Charisma angles, then countering with slicing lefts and rights from her thighs as Carpenter is wide open. Midway through, Deborah beats Charisma to a right hand, then beats her to the hook and Carpenter’s legs give way, spilling the brunette back to midring with wide doe eyes. Still, Carpenter won’t give in--last minute savage give and take—girls hunkering in mouth on shoulder, lifting bricks up into one another’s bodies, landing anvil right hands on glossy cheeks at the bell.

R9: More grueling toe to toe stuff midring—Unger with her fists at her stomach, just trying to bite short punches into Carpenter’s face and bra—Carpenter wider and slingier with her shots, but shaking Deborah’s legs—those body shots are sucking the fight out of Unger. Bruising bashfest leaves both women humming at the bell, but in the corner, Deborah Unger’s had enough. She wearily gives it up on her stool, shaking her head sadly as her cornermen try to motivate her to go on. TKO9 Charisma Carpenter.

After: Delicious result for Carpenter one of her best in years—forcing a tough, veteran blonde who, nobody wants to fight, to QUIT on her stool late. Charisma badly banged up herself, but she refuses to lose, soaking up early beatings to wear Deborah down and ultimately out with a vintage full court press from the hips to the head.  Charisma calling out fellow resurgent brunette Denise Richards—winner of that fight virtually guaranteed some sort of title shot.

Reposted by Archer 5/26/14.