(Thanks to FightFan for this repost)

Posted by simguy on 6/25/2004, 6:00 pm

Before: Tiffany sees it, doesn't believe it. "I don't know who Michelle thinks she is," Thiessen says in prefight, "but she's making a huge mistake here. Mish was a great flyweight - no doubt about it - a great champion - but she's just too damn small to seriously threaten girls up here. I'm sure she'll hit me and I'm just as sure I'll shrug her shots off - what's she gonna do when she sees that? Then, when I start swinging the soup-bowls, she's gonna realize - 'uh oh, I'm in WAY over my head'. This is gonna be FUN!" Mish pointing to her recent demolition of Dani Fishel as evidence that she carries enough beef to compete at 120. "Bantams are just flabby flyweights," Michelle contends. "I'm not too worried about Tiffany's punch, or her mouth for that matter." Mish in black push up, white lace trim, black and white zebra print bikini bottoms - Tiffany in white push up, navy bikini bottoms.

During R1: Bump and slug, both girls, Tiff steadily driving Mish back to the ropes. Shoulder to shoulder, tousles grinding, forearms pushing and propping - sweaty muscular work at a methodical pace - Thiessen just comprehensively working Mishy over. Right hands bash hip, nip round the back, hooks dig amidships, spank flank, finish up on the ear/jaw. Williams bullied bell to bell, landing her only serious punch late - cheap right hand as Tiff lowers her hands and half turns away. Fight delayed as ref bodies a seething Tiff Thiessen back under a stream of Mish epithets.

R2: Mish with the initial shoulder bump, then bat-bat right left to the waist, but stepping round Tiff's right flank rather than wait for the receipt - subtle adjustment makes all the difference. Blonde able to beat her girl to punches, get off to the body, then change the conditions, making Tiff move her feet. Thiessen not releasing as consistently - Mish able to turn her girl midring and outwork her.

R3: Tiff doubling up on her hook, putting one in the waist, one curling to the chin to get Michelle's attention. Mish bending into a carving right hand alongside Tiffany's jaw - pleasing clout but Tiff's not moving - brunette keeps stepping her girl back. Round ends with Mishy butt in the ropes, torso tilted forward - Tiffany picks her up pretty with a tidy right/left uppercut off the forehead, leaving Williams staring, scuffed.

R4: Mish winging a bit - Tiff staying in the pocket, bending down to slip, or raising her mitt position to block punches at her temples or ear. Williams connect percentage dropping, but she's throwing more - sheer activity preventing Thiessen from doing her thing. Tiff trying to sort Mish out with the jab, but eating those looping right hands on the left side of the face - Tiff still taking 'em well, but the connects are adding up.

R5: Slugging near the ropes - Mish angry, trying to take Tiff's head off - Thiessen composed, bobbing, punching out of the crouch. Minute mark - Tiff slips a sweeping Mish right, comes up with a batting hook in the waist, doubles it up to a ripping left uppercut on the chin and MICHELLE GOES DOWN! Williams spilled to her knees - Tiffany crowing, lifting her mitts and looming large - ref has to body gloating brunette back as Williams stiffly clambers up ropes. Achy 8 Mish - Tiff sailing in with thick, uncontested rights and lefts to the midsection - Mish getting hammered as she covers up to shake off the wallop. Williams combative once head clears - slugging hard off the ropes - still can't move Thiessen back, but blonde clipping her shots, punching with her body and shoulders - she's dipping and digging to Tiffany's cuddly belly, finding the chin with short rising lefts and rights, more than a little forearm on follow through.

R6: Mish bobbing and weaving, attacking up into Tiff out of the crouch - Thiessen takes her first backwards steps of the night under blonde's biting body work. Williams getting to the bra with heft - pulling the wide hook into Thiessen's mouthwatering rack, edging in close with her shoulder and shrugging left/rights in. Tiff hits ropes, covered up - Mish bumping up with her guard, trying to smudge Thiessen sideways then slam away on her - raucous stuff from Williams. Mish tucking her fists into tender Tiffany tummy, flank and jug, but getting her head in there rough, using her shoulders and forearms liberally - Thiessen getting a real scrubbing. Looping Mish right hand lands with pleasing pop this round, stunning Thiessen, but natural bantam legs hold firm - blonde having trouble getting brunette off her feet despite dropping thunder right on target.

R7: Grinding mouth on shoulder war of attrition midring. Tiff looking a little worn down, but still the bigger, stronger vixen - Mish offsetting Tiff's beef with volume, ferocity, and a little billy-goat action inside. Both girls working hard to find room, either off the bump, or leaning in on the opponent to ease her back, then hook her midriff or tits before falling in again. Hard to score round, but after the bell - Mish lands a clear, clouting left hook across Tiff's mouth - rattling the brunette and enraging her once again. Mish all grins as she scampers behind the ref - letting Tiffany rage against the man's arms.

R8: More trench warfare, both girls using the head for position inside, getting low and levering each other up with shoulders, reaching under one another's arms to expose throbbing torsos to more punishment. Tiffany getting walked back, legs don't look all that fresh - fatigue showing - Thiessen not punching as hard or as often as she was. Not so Mish - blonde getting a better cringe out of Tiff than in the first half as body shots dig in, seemingly stiffening and draining Thiessen a little more than they were. Mish leaning in with her head and pulling walloping rights over the top, clanging away on the left side of Tiff's head and discouraging her - Thiessen clinching, mouth open, after these blows rather than answering immediately. Round ends up with Mish working Tiff over at the ropes - systematically thumping Tiffany's upperchest with little headbutts while digging up the belly - Thiessen cramped and wincing, trying to wrap up around Michelle's triceps at the bell.

R9: Mish backing Tiffany up pretty consistently now - Thiessen able to step back, stay low to get Williams missing, but brunette not hitting the gaps, so blonde keeps coming forward. Midway through, Mish with a sweeping hook brushes Tiff's lips as brunette leans back, hands at her stomach - looping Williams right hand over top bounces off face with soccer-ball impact to scatter a rung-up Thiessen to the ropes. Michelle's best round as she hops on and cleans up - Tiff hurt, covered up, giving away flanks and back to Williams' pounding mercies and Mish helps herself. Williams loving it as she gets low and heaves Tiff's torso up and back, just to get at that bulging rack and trembling tummy. Mish shoulder-bumping and punching, grinding away - poor Tiffany fluttery-eyed, not answering back - she takes an honest shellacking to the bell as Williams gaps up on the cards.

R10: Mish closes out the show, scouring Tiff along the ropes like a dominant former champ should. Thiessen cowering, covering up, slouching along the strands - she's a helpless vixen, but still too stubborn to think about going down. Mish bumping her guard up on Tiff's guard or either shoulder, smearing her sideways, then walloping away - crowdpleasing if barbaric stuff as Williams sets her feet and jiggles it up. Bell to bell Mish on Tiff - Thiessen showing either flank as she slumps dejected in the ropes, just wishing it were over. At the bell, Thiessen disgusted with herself, shaking her head - Mish strutting hands high, face beaming. UD10 the hard way - Michelle Williams.

After: Mish chatty in postfight - eager to answer questions on how the weight felt, how she handled Tiffany's strength, but impertinent suggestion that she couldn't hurt Thiessen draws Michelle's ire: "You can knock a girl out on her feet you know," scolds Williams. "Tiffany went out to my right hands in the ninth, but my follow-up punches kind of propped her up. I was putting so much pressure on her she couldn't really find space to puddle." Thiessen dejected, puffy and looking the loser, but blaming herself in postfight. "I just didn't have it tonight," Thiessen laments. "I ran out of gas late and had to suck it up, but Michelle never seriously hurt me. She's not strong enough, that's why I'm so frustrated because when I was working, she couldn't handle it. Michelle Williams is going to get hurt - mark my words. She's not ready to compete up here."

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