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26 June 2015 Title Ch Mary Elizabeth Winstead vs Yvonne Strahovski

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead 21.jpgYvonne Strahovski 19.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

Posted by Lookout! Boxing on June 26, 2015, 5:02 pm,

 

 


Unified Lightweight Title Fight
(Words: Archer / Results: Lookout!)
Mary:  Foxfire Boxing ,30 YO, 5’8, 33-31-0 (28 KO) since 2007.
Yvonne: Lookout Boxing, 32 YO, 5’9, 34-18-0 (21 KO) since 2008.


Before: “I’m fighting Yvonne, because I think she is the best lightweight out there—other than myself of course,” Mary Elizabeth Winstead says with a smile. She then adds: “I don’t think it is a secret that Vonnie has been one of my most persistent rivals. 8 times we’ve fought. I have won 4 times, she’s won 4 times. This is a tie--breaker, but I know we’ll be fighting as long as we are both in the federation, so no matter what happens this time, we’ll be fighting again, but this time is special. It’s for the Unified Lightweight Title. Vonnie has held it twice, but this is my first time. I wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t defend it against her. It just has to be that way and so here we are. I don’t think anyone will be disappointed with this fight.”

Yvonne Strrahovski says: “I appreciate Mary giving ,me this title shot. No one knows better than I do how much holding those belts means to Mary, but no one knows better than I how competitive Mary can be. If she says she;s fighting me because I am, the best—well, I certainly won’t argue the point. We’ve never held back in our fights and I don’t expect this one to be any different and that’s why I already know this is going to be a great fight for the fans.”

Although the air of professionalism and good sportswomanship is maintained on fight night. Mary and Yvonne look tense and nervous. Mary is in a teal blue bikini, hair pulled back with a teal blue ribbon. Black shoes and gloves complete her attire. Yvonne in tan bikini, with black boots, hair loose. At the very last minute, during the route glove touch, Mary gives Yvonne a little too much push. Yvonne forced to step back and she doesn’t like it one bit. Uh-oh. Referee moves quickly to steer them away from each other and to their respective corners.

R1: Mary moving strongly to assert control of the fight early. She moves in on Yvonne and starts hitting the Australian blonde hard to the body forcing her back. Yvonne trying to side around he champion, but Mary moving more quickly blocking Yvonne’s movement and now finding her chin and jaw with quick shots over and under Yvonne’s gloves. Yvonne getting leather on her face and she’s not liking it. Looking frustrated at having the ring cut off on her, but Yvonne tries to fight her way clear. Mary stubbornly standing her ground and punching Yvonne right back until the blonde has to give way. Mary really looking good this round which she wins by a wide margin. Yvonne not looking pleased when Mary smiles at her.

R2: Yvonne goes right for Mary as the second stanza gets under way. Mary moving, ducking, blocking the incoming fire. Yvonne lunges forward trying to force an opening, but it’s a mistake. Mary cracks a solid left hook against Yvonne’s jaw and a follow-up right cross to the chin. YVONNE GOES DOWN. Yvonne falls to her knees and sits on her hells with a dazed look on her face. Mary goes to neutral corner as the referee begins to count. Yvonne shaking her head, the moves to kneeling on one knee and finally rises to break count. Fight resumes with Yvonne now on the defensive and Mary on a steady attack. Yvonne sliding along ropes manages to stay out of Mary’s grasp, but she takes a pounding to the body in the process. Yvonne takes care to keep her head out of Mary’s fire. The champion wins another round wide.

R3: Yvonne comes out fighting hard in this round, striking hard at Mary’s flanks to kae her ribs burn and keep her distracted. Mary trying to keep focused and uses her jab to slowly push Yvonne back. Yvonne trying to force her way in by sheer body strength, but Mary resisting with all the power she can manage. These punches and crunching into bellies and breasts, but then Mary able to get an uppercut into the blonde’s chin to stun her. Mary swift to follow with a straight left smash to the mouth and a right to the cheekbone. Yvonne now steps back with her gloves up around her face which allows Mary free access to pounding that strong Australian midsection. Yvonne stepping back further does have her jab going and lands a good one to Mary’s mouth that splits the brunette’s lower lip so there is trickle of blood down her chin. Mary not really discouraged and does some work on Vonnie’s jugs to wind up the round making Yvonne back up again. Closely fought round, but Mary gets it by a narrow margin.

R4: Mary’s showing confidence as goes on the attack once more. Yvonne showing more movement this round making herself a harder target to hit. Mary takes to making lunging thrust trying to get at Yvonne;s head. MARY GOES DOWN! She made one lunge too many, Yvonne able to duck under the incoming right which whistles by her head and pop up with a hammering right uppercut to the chin. Mary knocked backwards, arms pinwheeling and lands with THUD on her teal blue bikini bottoms. Shocking reversal of fortune has Yvonne strutting to neutral corner as her supporters cheer loudly. Mary just sitting there looking unable to believe this just happened to her. However referee starting his count brings the champion out of her haze and she is back on her feet by 8.  When Vonnie comes roaring back in, Mary is ready and they have a fierce exchange of body punch. Yvonne must not have appreciated Mary’s earlier breast punching because she goes after Mary’s bikini top cuts with a full power. Mary gasping for breath and tries to escape, but Yvonne won’t give up. Late in the round, Mary’s guard finally drops down to protect her battered breasts, and Yvonne gets some solid knocks to the champ’s jaws. Mary’s legs trembling from these impacts, but round ends before another knockdown can occur. Mary teetering as she returns to her stool.

R5: Mary sluggish as this round gets going and Yvonne more than happy to keep the champ on the defensive. Yvonne begins with a return to Mary’s jugs, but soon shifts her attention back to those ribs. Mary’s sides already discolored and bruised now giving her more agony as Yvonne grinds in her lefts and rights. Mary trying to put distance between herself and the challenger, but Yvonne too quick for her. Mary does have her jab going over the later half of the round to score some points on Yvonne;s head to avert a shutout round, but the round clearly goes to the blonde.
R6: Yvonne marching on Mary hoping to add to the damage she’s already inflicted on the champ, but Mary’s been able to regroup and sets off  hot exchange that rages around the ring. First Mary drives Yvonne back with smacking hooks to the belly and breasts, but Yvonne shows good footwork in getting away from Mary and then striking back with some head shots from surprise angles. Mary then gets her body banged, but she digs in and uses her jab to hurt Yvonne to the body. Pause while the two fighters circle and try to recover. Yvonne breaks the lull and strikes first with shots into Mary’s burning ribs. Mary trying to counter with jab,. But punches aren’t discouraging Vonnie as the round ends. It’s close, but Yvonne wins it to tie up the fight in rounds 3-3.

R7: Yvonne goes right back to hammering at Mary, but the champion rallies and duels with the challenger is a swirling battle that rages around the ring. Very exciting to watch as both fighters are landing well, mainly to the body, but then Mary stuns Yvonne with an unexpected side step and looping overhead right that catches the blonde on the temple. Yvonne stumbling away as Mary tries to get in front of her, but then Yvonne sprawls flat on her face. Mary  has to jump over her to avoid being tripped, but then withdraws to neutral corner. Yvonne slow to rise, but she does beat count and insists she is ready to continue. Mary swooping back in, but Vonnie’s not enthusiastic about close-in punching now. Yvonne covering up and using some jabs to counter, but Mary swarming around like an angry swarm of bees stinging the challenger wherever she can. Yvonne looks relieved at the bell. Mary’s  have snagged her 4th round and second knockdown of the bout.

R8: Yvonne wastes no time showing she still wants those title belts. She is at Mary right from the start of the stanza and showing special attention to Mary;’s now deeply bruised sides and she can see every punch she drives into those ribs makes make Mary shudder. Mary trying to keep Yvonne away from those hurt ribs, but Yvonne just keeps getting to them. Mary finally goes after Yvonne’s head with some driving punches, trying to get under her guard to reach the blonde’s chin. Then Yvonne finds Mary’s solar plexus with powerful hook. Mary frozen in shock and Yvonne sends twin uppercuts into the champion’s chin. Mary’s knees buckle and she drops to her butt. Mary panting hard, arms around her aching sides, beats the count, but she has a discouraged looked as once again Yvonne has answered Mary’s knockdown with onme of her own. Still Mary pulls herself together by the time Yvonne comes back in and uses her jab well in keeping the blonde back, but that knockdown ensures the round goes to Yvonne and it’s 4 rounds (and 2 knockdowns apiece).

R9: Both fighters sense this is a crucial round and go at each other with renewed vigor. Mary getting to Yvonne’s head after working her body with heavy punching. Yvonne forced to take evasive footwork and then strikes back to Mary’s ribs once more. Mary distracted and gets her head banged up when her upper guard falters. Mary then shows some nice footwork of her own and bangs Yvonne’s head with repeated quick hooks and crosses. Yvonne’s face getting lumped up now, but she doesn’t back off for long. Heavy slugging continues, but Mary standing solidly to Yvonne’s belly to hunch the blonde up and keep control of the round. It’s close on the cards, but it’s Mary’s round and she’s now up 5-4.

R10: Yvonne’s back to the wall now, but she keeps calm and goes on the attack. She is just roasting Mary’s sides with her punching and Mary’s face shows the agony she is feeling. Mary not about to just cover up and take this torment, she strikes back to Yvonne’s belly and then starts working hooks up the blonde’s torso trying to shake loose a shot at the chin. Yvonne gritting her teeth and not down, she does do a sudden swing step away, forcing Mary to swing around in pursuit. Yvonne then sends yet another right crashing into Mary’s ribs and Mary recoils away with a greenish look of agony on her face. Yvonne drive in with a straight right that catches Mary between the eyes to stun her, then a left hook cracks off Mary’s jaw. Mary makes a wild answering swing that Yvonne coolly evades and then nails Mary with a right uppercut. Mary stops dead in her tracks. Yvonne uses lefts and rights as fast as she can to Mary’s head trying to get the champ to go down. Referee is moving in when Mary suddenly collapses forward into Yvonne’s startled arms. Yvonne stepping back, arms spread out as Mary slides down Yvonne’s sweaty torso and ends up in a puddle at Yvonne’s feet.  Yvonne goes to neural corner with an anxious look as referee starts his count. Mary stuns crowd by reacting to the count by making a heroic effort to rise. She is on her knees, her face contorted with effort as she tries to make her legs obey her commands, but when she tries to get higher, her numbed stems won’t obey and she bursts into tears as she realizes she’;s going to lose this fight and her title belts. As indeed she does as the count reaches  “…TEN!”

The winner and NEW UNIFIED LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION: YVONNE STRAHOVSKI!

After: Now it’s Yvonne’s turn to burst into tears, hers are the happy kind as she is presented with the title belts. Yvonne goes over to Foxfire corner to give Mary a supportive hug and tell her what a good champion she was.

“With some fighter’s I might have worried they’d just run out the clock in R10, but I knew Mary wasn’t too much of a fighter to do that,” Yvonne tells the press. “No, that wasn’t any kind of mistake. Mary a fighter who FIGHTS, she’s not going to be content to just run and hide. I still had to knock her out though and I knew if I could make those ribs hurt enough, she would try something in return and that would give me my chance. Mary was a good champion, but I will be even better.”

Mary recovering enough to talk to press (her ribs are, it may be noted, now heavily taped) and says: “I went down fighting. It hurts more than these ribs to have lost the title, but I always knew that could happen when I picked Yvonne to fight. She fought hard and she came back from my knockdowns, I came back from two of hers, but I just couldn’t do it the third time. I am very sad, but I know I fought as hard as I could tonight, and I will recover, then I’ll resume the title hunt. Once you win those belts, you never quit trying to get them back and that’s going to be me, too. I’ll you all at my next title fight. There will be one, I assure you.”

Great back and forth title bout made both fighters look good, but Yvonne Strahovski proved to be the stronger fighter. Some observers think Mary Winstead would have been better served being more defensive in the 10th so she could have retained the titles either by winning on points or in a draw. Yvonne was shrewd in realizing her old foe wouldn’t do that and it was likely a key to her ultimate success. Still, Mary seems to find consolation at having "gone out on her shield” and one should not criticize her too much for being willing to fight to end. The fans certainly got their money’s worth with this one!

 

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