Posted by simguy on 7/15/2002, 12:26 pm

(Thanmks to FightFan for this repost)


Before: Dushku smarting from a KO loss to Dani Fishel, HISC reeling from the bookend defeats suffered by it's bread and butter fighters - sense is that Eliza needs to come back and put the hammer down to set an example. Regarding Kirsten's brazen attitude in the wake of her Claire dismantling, Eliza notes, "Usually Claire sows what she reaps - she gets on girls' nerves, they kick her ass, it's just business. But Dunst took a good thing too far the second time around and she really got crazy dropping my name into the mix. Maybe she's forgotten our sparring sessions - I've dropped her with 'B' body shots, 'C' hooks. With money on the line - I bring my 'A' game and that doesn't leave her a whole lot of options." Dunst swelling with breezy confidence during prefight, swaying a lot of boxing insiders who think maybe she knows something they don't. "I'm glad Eliza remembers our sessions together during 'Bring It On'," coos Kirsten, "I hung back, sussed her out, saw what all the fuss was about. I know Dushku better than just about anybody else out there and I know she's vulnerable to my right hand. I'm exposing Eliza just the way I exposed Claire, and I'm about to bring a corporation down around their KO'd ears!" Red leather bikini for Eliza, low ponytail - dark green bikini Kirsten.

During R1: Kirsten intent, right hand cocked - she's reaching and extending that left, trying to rock onto her back foot and drive in with the slicing cross. First minute, Dushku unusually leggy, hands up high, she's just fading, batting Kirsten's lefts and rights out of the air with casual parries. Second minute, Eliza starts to step in and out, timing Kirsten's right hand, victimizing the blonde with sharp counter hooks in the ribs. Final minute, Dushku putting it all together, flowing smoothly off single countershots to full fledged combinations, snacking on Dunst belly and breasts, then sidestepping with a shove on either Kirsten shoulder to guide the blonde past.

R2: Boxing lesson continues. Eliza using the ring in the first minute, getting Kirsten to reach with punches - Dunst overextending as she tries to harm Dushku with every shot. Middle minute, more body work - Dushku methodically softening Dunst up in the midsection, tapping her hard, stepping off to the left. Down the stretch, Eliza coming in off the jab, putting her punches together, bending at the waist, pivoting off to the side. Kirsten unravelling, baring her teeth, swinging wildly and Dushku makes her pay. Dushku slipping the long right hand, comes out of the crouch with a crushing hook on the chops, staggering Dunst on the spot. Eliza backhands the jab across Kirsten's open mouth, clips her a vicious right uppercut, taps the side of her right mitt against Kirsten's forehead and finishes with a slashing hook - Dunst rolling to her back in shock at the flurry of hard touches and it's OVER! KO2 Eliza Dushku.

After: Sherriff is back with a vengence - hard hitting Dunst never got her long body behind anything meaningful and meanwhile, Dushku just chewed her up. Eliza towelling off, nonchalant following one of the most technically perfect stoppages recorded this year, "that fight was more of a duty than a pleasure," Dushku explains, "We're so quick in this business to build a girl up then tear her down - people just wrote me off for no better reason that to sell a few magazines. The bottom line is, sooner or later, I'm going to beat you all." Dunst unconsolable in defeat - handled and dismissed like a punk tonight and it doesn't sit well.



sim guy