Unified Bantamweight Title

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Posted by simguy on 3/30/2007, 7:55 pm

Before: "I don't want people to take this the wrong way," Mack says at the podium, reacting to the constant stream of pro-Lilly press these days, "but I'm the unified celebrity bantamweight champion of the world - not Evangeline Lilly. Do you guys ever seriously read what you're writing about her? 'Jessica Biel's body and Jennifer Garner's head'?? 'Eliza Dushku with muscle'?? This is exactly why I'm fighting this girl: to prove that the top of the food chain starts with me, not her." Lilly usually one to let her mitts do the barking, but she won't mince words about her chances against the champ. "I'll never lose a fight to someone built like Allison," Lilly shrugs - not boasting, just confident. "Look at the fight Jessica Alba gave me - she hammered me and people forget she hammered Rachel Mac as well - I was pushed to the limit to beat her because of her body type and angles. A come-forward blonde like Allison? I'm going to eat her up. I'm sorry, that's just the way I see it." Allison in forest green bikini top, sporty yellow bottoms for the hard working blonde. Evangeline in green jogging bikini with dark spatter-print design throughout; hair in messy ponytail with scruffy bangs. Small yellow gloves, both vixens.

During R1: Lilly beating Mack to punches, backing Mack up, punishing Mack along the ropes. Systematic, crisp execution: brunette bright eyed, pounding away a stiff jab to set Mack up; cashing in a variety of tidy right hands, left hooks, short-shrugging left-and-right uppercuts up into Mack's guard as she tilts forward behind gloves. Lilly brawny on the apron, stepping with Allison, propping her the extended left elbow against Mack, then snapping off brisk hooks, clouting a well protected Alli about her head and shoulders. Mack covered up well - suffering a few withering body shots in open swatches of rib or tummy, but otherwise riding it out well. Shutout Lilly however - Evangeline jogging back to her corner all brawny goodness and swinging ponytail.

R2: Tasty give and take - girls very calm, fighting shoulder to shoulder midring, keeping their dukes up and banging away in orderly turns. Mack refusing to shy away from her foe's much ballyhooed abdominals and sturdy ribcage: champ banging away both dukes in bright, bouncing salvos. Lilly flat footed, elbows in, answering back with short, sharp repraisals: nasty little uppercuts skidding off Mack's guard; biting little hooks tucked in behind Mack's right elbow; cruel chopping rights hacked in above Mack's left hip. Neither girl backing up - fight rotating gently counterclockwise with the natural rhythm of the slugging. Lilly throws more, lands more, outworks Mack in a workmanlike second.

R3: Mack showing off her stubby, stiff jab, forcing Lilly to crouch down behind her gloves: suddenly champ's got initiative. Ali working snappy, vicious round punches in behind 'Vangie's elbows, beating that sturdy waist, stepping around Lilly to keep her turning. Evangeline sopping it up without a backward step, answering straight rights and lefts with palm-down delivery to Mack's chest and face. Allison's lateral footwork/jab the difference in another tight round.

R4: Crowd settling in with happy grins, mouthing mock winces and nodding appreciatively: wonderful, ripping action in the ring, fought out midring as bullheaded girls work hard for the money tonight. Lilly coming out of her guard with vicious, banging hooks - batting at Mack's rigid guard, shoulder, flank. Mack erupting out of HER guard, punishing the waist hooks, beating the flank right hands. Both women with subtle little dip-n'-jerk uppercuts in close: mostly picked up on opposing guards, but both lasses committed to that punch, hoping it'll land clean later. Mack throws more, lands more: harder working girl wins the round - it's that kind of fight.

R5: Midring - Lilly using her left elbow to prop and nudge: she quick-swipes her hook to Ali's midsection, hurting her, then doubles up the hook to chin - DROPPING MACK TO ONE KNEE! Crowd roaring to it's feet as Ali reels hurt on the spot, then drops down, shaking her tousled head: Lilly jogging sporty to neutral corner, loosening her neck as she awaits the 8. Ali up, focusing, breathing through pursed lips: she covers up, digs in to receive Lilly's charge. Cue thudding, muscular beatdown: Lilly cranking up the workrate to Jen Garner levels - systematically reducing Mack hip to head. Subtle shift in tactics - Lilly smashing tight, flat-knuckle lefts and rights against Mack's full biceps - deliberately taking the fight to Ali's guard. Pulverizing work up top punctuated by ripping body shots - Lilly so good with her left elbow, nudging and propping her stooping foe, then clouting her vicious combos off the bump. Uppercuts complete the package - Lilly jerkin' 'em tidy, picking up Mack's drowsy face: Allison's eyebrows high, eyes closed, mouth parted in shock as she weathers a vigorous scrubbing in the fifth.

R6: Mack giving in, giving way - Lilly slowly imposing her will in a bruising sixth. Fight moving to the ropes under a constant, bludgeoning shelling of Mack: Allison still blocking the majority of blows, but her arms are starting to loosen. Lilly tireless, humming along with a smooth miler's pace - just belting at Mack, walking her down, bumping her, denying her. Allison banging back in spots, but paying the price: when she opens up - Lilly punches with and smashes at Mack's face in combination.

R7: Fans of the body punch kissing their fingertips "MMMWAH!" at the spanking ferocity dished to opposing torsos in the sixth. Both women possessed of ripping, tightly leveraged hooks, both featuring it to the other's proud abs, robust ribcages. Both possess a short, stubby right hand, banging it in straight from close range, parting the opponent's gloves. Both love to scrape tidy uppercuts, often complimenting the uppies with withering hooks to paunch. But punch for punch, it's Lilly. Evangeline's thoughtful persistence to Mack's biceps starting to take heartbreaking effect, breaking down Mack's stubborn guard, leaving her more and more vulnerable as minutes go by. Fight drifting to ropes with Mack's back to strands: she's having trouble holding canvas against muscular brunette advances.

R8: Mack's not champ for nothing: spirited denial of Lilly this round, sees Evangeline backing up under pressure. Mack's jab a nice jolting cattle-prod of a punch, forcing Lilly to cover up: Ali can pile up the round punches downstairs whenever Evangeline folds forward. Just a little sidestep from Mack - nothing dramatic - is enough to keep Lilly from answering immediately: Mack staying on 'Vangie and banging, but also showing a little savvy in taking away from Lilly's brute force potential.

R9: Lilly on Mack, all round long. Really wince-making for Ali's fans to see her backed up and bludgeoned: Lilly working Allison over with pace, with weight of shot, with volume. Mack's back hits ropes early, stays there as Lilly stays in command with that left shoulder/elbow bump, pinning Mack down, centering her, then bashing away in combination. Cruel inventory of Ali Mack's chassis being taken here: arms; flanks; waist; ribs; chest; face and skull. Ali covering up and letting Lilly get off at will - corner hollering at her to clinch more, but easier said than done against brawny Evangeline. Mack's guard around her head holding more or less firm - penetrated only after determined hard work from Lilly - but this action is too one sided. Bell: Lilly bright eyed, starting to smile confidently en route to her corner; Mack grimacing, limping back to port. Champ's being taken apart through 9.

R10: Tough to watch. Nobody tougher or braver than Ali Mack, but her pride's starting to get her badly, badly beaten. Ali jabbed and bumped to ropes, then systematically brutalized: Lilly pouring it on vigorously, snatching and batting hard punches against Mack, snapping off combinations. Middle minute, Mack shaken up a clean, crunching left uppercut - blonde head rocks back, blonde legs quake, but blonde heart just won't allow her to take a knee. Lilly's eyes narrow - that's a KO against a lot of girls - she just has to redouble her efforts and stay on her foe. Lilly on Mack to the finish line, punishing, punishing, punishing with both hands, both muscular arms working in non-stop sheets. Bell: Allison trembling, tears welling up even as Lilly leans in to hug her. Comes back UD10 for the NEW bantamweight champ, Evangeline Lilly!

After: Brutal. Allison stepping gingerly to corner, looking fragile and achy, she lowers herself to her stool, has a quiet little cry as her belts are handed over to the victrix. Evangeline all smiles and dimples, living up to all the press and her own self-assurance: she stepped to Allison Mack and broke down the hard blonde like few ever have. "She's tougher than prison beef," Lilly grins in postfight, shrugging a heavy gold belt into position on her shoulder. "Once I'd taken control of the fight away from her, I assumed I'd beat her down, but Allison Mack just wouldn't give all the way in. Yes, I battered her, but there was no way I could get her out of there. I've got nothing but respect for Allison - she can hold her head up high after this."


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