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31 October 2014 Rachel Nichols vs Bridget Regan

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Posted by Lookout! Boxing on October 31, 2014, 10:08 am.

RACHEL NICHOLS (FOXFIRE BOXING) VS BRIDGET REGAN (BAZZ FIGHT CLUB)
Results: Lookout Writing: Archer

Before: Tall (5’10), lanky Rachel Nichols looks down confidently on the smaller (5’8), more full bodied Bridget Regan as they meet the press in pre-fight.

“I’m really excited to fighting someone new again this PPV,” Rachel says cheerfully. “I like the way Bridget beat down Abbie Cornish, it will make a nice style contrast, but she needs to realize I am much better fighter than Cornish. She’s not going to have a happy result this time, but at least she can say she fought Rachel Nichols.”
Bridget gives Rachel a sickly sweet smile on her way to the podium: “I am so delighted to have Rachel Nichols excited about fighting me. I’m not one of those skinny models she usually fights, I’m much more on the ‘womanly curves’ side of it. Rachel, you can’t take me for granted, I’m not just jobber you can use to fatten your record. I’m the woman who is going to CUT YOU DOWN!” She says these last words in a challenging tone looking right at Rachel. Nichols coolly looks back and whispers:

“It’s been tried, ‘Dough Girl’, it won’t happen,” Rachel says in a stage whisper heard in the back of the press room.

“Smile when you call me that ‘Skinny Girl’,” Bridget retorts.

Rachel gives her a nasty wicked smile: “This smile enough, Dough Girl?”

“And here I thought you Foxfire girls were all so nice and polite,” Bridget responds.

“Don’t mess us—and especially don’t mess with me,” Rachel retorted.

The ill-will still evident on fight night. Rachel in a blood red one piece with black trim, cut high in the hips to show off her legs. Red gloves and boots complete the look. Rachel’s dark hair pulled back in a simple tight bun. She tries to get close to Bridget and intimidate her using her height. Bridget in white bikini with black boots and gloves, hair in a battle braid with white woven in. She stands her ground, hands on hips and stares back at the taller fighter. Referee ends to the staredown and gets the fight going on time.

R1: Rachel glides out on those long legs and starts firing long range shots at Bridget’s head. Bridget keeps her head moving but still gets several Nichols punches bounced off her head, making her recoil. Rachel circling her prey and sending out stabbing shots, still mostly aimed at Bridget’s head. Then Bridget ducks down and unexpectedly moves forward, pumping strong fire into Rachel’s long body. Nichols belly absorbs this heavy leather and Rachel forced to step back. Rachel quickly recovers and moves back with some good feinting moves that she used to get openings to bounce more leather off Bridget’s head. Bridget tries to circle around and get some punches on Rachel’s sides. Rachel keeps up with her and blunts most of these attacks. Late in the round, Rachel shifts fire to go after Bridget’s meaty body. Finds much to feast on there, though a strong Regan jab finally forces her to back off just before the bell. Round goes to Rachel Nichols by a close margin.

R2: Finds Rachel resuming her circle-and-punch tactic at the outset. She is striking more and more often at Bridget’s body, as the Bazz fighter is doing a better job of protecting her head, with special attention to her breasts. Bridget looks uncomfortable with having her melons mauled by the Foxfire fighter’s continued punching, but she stays focused and keeps her head away from those ravaging red gloves, while using her jab to make Rachel’s body ring with her counters. Rachel seems to ignore Bridget’s defenses keeps up her own pressure and wins the round by a wide margin.

R3: Rachel again on the hunt at the start of this round, but now Bridget is trying to mount her own offensive, pounding Rachel’s taut tummy and sternum. (With some nice straight rights and lefts to Nichols’ breasts to make the Foxfire girl scowl with displeasure at having her own rack under fire). The round proceeds, the fighters are now standing toe to toe and this seems to suit Bridget Regan much better as she hooks Rachel’s midsection. Rachel trying to get uppercuts at Bridget’s chin, but can’t seem to get under Bridget’s defensive guard. Finally, Rachel goes to Bridget’s body and lands some solid hits, but Bridget able to get enough points to a get a narrow victory on the cards and take her first round of the fight.

R4: Rachel looking irked between rounds. She goes charging at Bridget Regan with swinging blockbuster punches designed to blast Bridget’s head before she can get set. However Bridget can see the punches coming and ducks under them, while driving rising hooks into Rachel’s wide-open belly. Rachel doubled up by the impacts and instinctively lowers her arms to wrap up her pounded middle. This, of course, leaves her head vulnerable and Bridget grasps the opportunity with a mixture of uppercuts to the chin and lefts and rights to the jaw. Rachel staggered and stumbles back, her long legs suddenly turned to rubber. Bridget drives Rachel back to the ropes for more punishment, but the Foxfire boxer rallies once her butt feels the strands. Desperate jabbing from Rachel bangs up Bridget’s breasts and belly. Bridget hanging in, taking Rachel’s leather in return for roasting her sides and hunched over head. Long, long round for Rachel Nichols as she remains against the ropes, but stays up. despite the constant bombardment. Rachel shaky returning to her stool, Bridget smiling with satisfaction.

R5: Rachel slow coming off her stool to begin the round as Bridget comes smoothly across the ring to pick up where she left off. Rachel sluggish as Bridget starts chugging away to Rachel’s chest and belly. Rachel finds herself backed up towards the ropes and that prospect seems to get going. The Nichols jab finds Bridget’s face, driving a punch between her eyes to knock Bridget’s head back and bring her charge to an abrupt halt. Two fighters now circle and reorganize, firing punches to try to find openings. Rachel’s longer reach helping in this exchange, but Bridget adjusts by hunching down and going back to her hooking into Rachel’s body. Rachel really feeling those body punches and has to step back to buy herself some recovery time. Bridget dogged in pursuit, but has to battle Rachel’s jabs to get at her quarry. Very active round for both fighters, but Bridget landing better to eke out another round on the cards.

R6: Rachel not backing down. She meets Bridget in midring with determined punching using feints and quick moves to land her punches with clear effective. Bridget takes several swinging rights and lefts to the head that shake her up. Bridget not backing down either and goes back in, aiming her fire at Rachel’s waistline. Rachel ignoring this as she is now getting more and more punches on Bridget’s head and face. Bridget finally forced to raise her guard to protect her face and Rachel goes after that meaty midsection. Bridget twisting and hunching up defensively. Rachel keeps the pressure on to the bell, though Bridget is glaring at her defiantly as they are pushed apart by the referee,

R7: Rachel keeps the pressure on all this round. Back to circling, but her punches seem more accurate now and she making Bridget’s head bounce with the impacts, Bridget defensive, but not disorganized under the attack. Rachel tries to force Bridget back to the ropes, but Bridget keeps circling to avoid this. Rachel determined though, and finally manages to move fast enough to block Bridget and drive her back to the strands. However it is late in the round and Bridget goes face-in-gloves to let her body take the punishment to the bell, Rachel looking pleased herself as Bridget looks sullen.
R8: Rachel eager to get sat Bridget this round and she goes to the midsection trying to get Bridget’s guard down. Bridget jabbing back, then does a swift sidestep that causes Rachel to miss with one of her hooks to the body, and Bridget loops a blockbuster right into Rachel’s jaw. Rachel’s head snaps around and she reels away. Bridget swiftly pursues and smashes another right into Rachel’s temple. Rachel stumbles a few feet and crashes onto her face. Rachel lies there, long legs moving uselessly as she tries to get her arms to push her up off the canvas. The referee is counting steadily and Rachel’s arms falter. As she lies there sucking canvas, the count reaches 10 and she is OUT!
The Winner: Bridget Regan KO8

After: Bridget gleefully waits for Rachel to be awakened on her stool and then escorts the taller girl on a Walk of Shame. Bridget has a firm grip on Rachel’s wrist as she holds the defeated Foxfire beauty’s right arm behind her back. Rachel stunned at the sudden reversal of fortune can’t hold back the tears. Bridget rubs it in by stopping every now and then on the walk to make sure photographers get lots of shots of Rachel’s tear-streaked, bruised face.

“That should be a lesson to everyone—you don’t underestimate Bridget Regan<” the winner happily tells the press. “I wanted to make sure Rachel got my point by taking her on that walk. Now every time she thinks of Bridget Regan she’ll see those photos of her blubbering in defeat.”

Rachel looks pale when she later talks to press: “I had her, I really did, but one missed punch and that was all it took. She can brag about it while she can, but I promise you, she will pay for humiliating me.”

When Bridget hears about Rachel’s words she looks annoyed: “If she thinks I only won because of one lucky punch she better get a tape of that fight and she’ll see it was that punch that finished her, but I laid the groundwork long before that. There was no way she was going to win that fight.”

Solid win for Bridget against a first-rate opponent. Will this make the Bazz organization start pushing her as a title contender at light or welterweight? It’s a fact that Bridget held the welter title in 2012 with wins over Amanda Righetti and Ali Landry. Could she compete at lightweight or take another crack at welter. This win definitely has the pundits chattering. As for Rachel Nichols, will this loss make her look vulnerable and bring hungry opponents after her Ice Queen title? Rumor has it Adriana Lima sent Bridget a dozen roses with a card that read “Good job!” So other Ice Hotel fighters are clearly taking notice of the Nichols setback.