BOXING AFTER DARK

Posted by simguy on 4/15/2002, 6:25 pm

(Thanks to FightFan for this repost)


Before: All about redemption for Mish Williams - blonde still vividly recalls the first round hatchet job Kim did on her in the last bout, "She enjoyed herself at my expense, she took liberties," says Mish, "I hope she had fun because tonight - I'm giving Kim the bill." Grudge match gets a little extra adrenaline boost from status as a flyweight qualifier - winner assured of a seat at the table as one half of a title contest. Mish in black bikini, white lace trim - Kim in yellow thong bikini.

During R1: Girls storm to midring - Williams looking to drop down and work to Kim's belly but the rapper's beating Michelle to the punch and doing terrific damage early. Kim with gloves at her lips, bobbing side to side, then launching savage right hands to Mish's face - concussive blasts have William's head jamming back as the crowd roars in approval. By the midway point, Mish has just taken too much leather - she starts to wander, looking stunned as Kim continues to pound away. A full bodied right cross catches Williams flush on the chin - blonde takes a quarter turn to her right - butt shoots back and she sprawls to the canvas insensate. Mish struggles to her feet for 8, but she's wrecked - Kim on with clubbing lefts and rights to the head, back foot coming off the canvas as she torques in the blows. A shattering right,left,right on the head has Williams stupified - she crashes stiffly backwards to the canvas at the ropes, spasming to get off her back and climb the strands to beat the count. Kim bulling in during a hellish final minute - Williams seated ropeside, groaning as a wildly exuberant Li'l Kim helps herself to the ribs on either side - big bashing swings behind the elbows at the bell. Mish Williams gushing from the nose, eyes glassy - she is helped to her corner and feverishly worked on during the break.

R2: Startling shutout Mish Williams. Badly busted up, Mish gets wonkily off her stool, gloves at her eyebrows as she closes with Kim. Li'l Kim winded from a crazy first round - to arm weary to punch - Williams able to work stiffly out of her guard, jamming in a left to the body, covering up, leaning on Kim - jamming in the right to the stomach, shouldering Kim back. Li'l Kim taking a good shot, just trying to get to Mish's chest and rest a little - blonde simply working for points as she herself tries to recuperate.

R3: Two way slugging as both girls start to open up. Kim dipping side to side, heaving up out of her crouch with hooks and jamming right hands - giving Mish enough head movement to prove problematic. Williams landing thick in the shorter woman's belly, trying to back Kim up, then double up the hook to the chin. Even trade until late - girls trade shattering rights and lefts and MISH GOES DOWN! Williams catching both punches on her face goes out for just a second, sinks in slow mo to her knees as Kim roars - struts the ring with hands held high.

R4: Mish stubbornly forward - OH her aching face! Williams with the guard at her eyebrows, getting close to Kim with a curling little hook to the ear, then right up the middle with the right uppercut. Kim catching hard for the first time in the fight, backing up and midway through, Mish lands a bang-bang hook, uppercut combination to finally put Kim wobbly butt. Kim reaching around Mish's waist to clinch - sloppy stop and go waltzing the rest of the way as girls smother each other to the bell.

R5: Mish fighting hurt, getting things done. Uppercut a crucial punch and it's landing, backing Kim up with a boozy expression. Williams jabbing for the first time in the fight - Mish able to steer and position Kim with the stick, then get her back into the short right uppercut to once again stagger Kim at the halfway point. Shutout Mish Williams, finally gets to see what Kim looks like hurt.

R6: More bashing, clanging exchanges - Mish indulging even as her corner screams at her to move to the side, use the jab, pick her spots. Artless hammer and tongs - Mish holds her own and down the stretch - she bangs away with abrupt lefts and rights side to side to back a woozy Kim to the ropes.

R7: Kim rifling the overhand right straight into Michelle's chest - blonde rocked onto her heels and shaken up as the blockbuster power of her opponent takes over the round. Kim able to reach the left in, shift her hip and get unGodly leverage on bashing right hands - Mish getting clocked clean and staggered, Williams busting up again and giving ground. Midway through - Kim with a soul sucking series of wrenching hooks to the body has Williams gurgling, collapsing back to the ropes. Kim hungrily wades in, dips into her crouch and LAUNCHES into the hardest punch of the fight - a disasterous right between the eyes that rocks Mish back, then sits her dreamily into the ropes all but out. Heartless follow up from Kim as she squares away, bashing at Mish's available face as the helpless blonde presses her forearms uselessly against the little dynamo's bare belly. Mish beaten unrecognizable - ref pulls the jiggling, gyrating singer off her girl at the bell.

R8: Williams refuses to surrender as the ref asks her about it - Kim piles on for a brutal shutout consolidation round. Mish crammed into the ropes and worked over - Li'l Kim loving the blonde's weakness and not sparing the lash. Kim rough with her head between Mish's gloves, really sinking in punches to the waist and ribs, then coming up the middle with gobsmacking uppercuts off the body. Mish dazed, riding her hands on Kim's shoulders, just cupping the girl's ears, trying to position Kim's head, keep her close. Cameras pan to a wildly cheering Rachel Stevens in the audience - not a lot of sympathy for Mish Williams tonight.

R9: Somehow - Mish Williams sucks it up, buckling kimmie's knees early with digging rights to the body, then walking the black girl back with hands on Kim's shoulders to the ropes. Kim banging back - heartstopping exchanges as the girls tag each other routinely in the mouth, taking turns staggering each other, but Williams won't back off. Down the stretch, Williams jams a hook hard to the ear and bends into that kissing right uppercut off Kimmie's face - rapstar takes a seat in the ropes, legs suddenly liquified and MISH gets the satisfaction of punching her foes drowsy face at the bell.

R10: Battered contestants wander to mid ring and start licking it up. Williams unpacking that rare jab and it's very useful against Kim - pre-empting the girl, stopping her advances, making her back out and regroup. Williams able to punch with Kim this round, landing a chopping overhand right on the ear as well as the right uppercut to slowly beat Kim into sullen compliance. All Williams in the final minute - getting her hands on Kim's shoulders, walking her back, punching her in the stomach, picking her face up the uppercut. At the bell - both girls are swaying, hurt and wanting more. Comes back UD10 LIL KIM!

AFter: Either side of the ref - the heartache on Mish's battered face - the bellowing celebration of Kim as she leaps around the ring. Ugly moment as Kim gets into Mish's face and starts rubbing in the victory - TE people hurriedly escorting their charge out of range as Williams angers up. Mish unable to keep her feet, hurt so often in this fight - reckless trading with Kim leads to a very close, but losing verdict for the devastated blonde. For Kim - she fades down the stretch, losing in terms of rounds 6-4, but winning the decision based on 3 knockdowns of the former champ. "Ain't no big thing," says LK, "I tore her ass up just like last time only worse. BELTS! I WANT BELTS! GIVE 'EM TO ME!"




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