BEFORE: Jade Thirlwall has plans to hit the American market soon - along with her Little Mix bandmates - but first she'd like to beat Emma Bunton up. The former Spice Girl veteran hasn't had much luck in the ring lately and if the new wave of girlsband members openly talks about sending her into retirement, those prospects don't actually seem so delusional. Emma turned 40 years old this year and she might not have much left in the tank anymore.

Thirlwall's stable manager Frankie Cocozza is seated next to the ring with Jesy Nelson serving as his assistant but it's rather obvious Frankie's more interested in Jesy's cleavage than in the pre-fight introductions.

Emma Bunton wears a navy blue bikini set and white gloves. Blonde hair tied in a long ponytail. Jade Thirlwall wears a black bikini set and red gloves. Dyed light brown hair in loose waves. The fight is scheduled for ten rounds in the flyweight division.

Round 1:
Emma realizes she needs to make something happen fast but Jade is simply quicker in execution and shows plenty of youthful confidence; she jabs at the blonde's midsection before ripping more hooks over the top and staggers the veteran in the center of the ring. Emma works single hand approach from behind the guard but lacks precision and the smaller singer avoids all the sluggish efforts to pounce on more exposed tummy. Bunton wobbles back on her heels and tries to leap to the side in avoidance but she underestimates Thirlwall's speed & agility which enables the Geordie girl to whip more jabbing menace on the ribcage and pound a hapless looking Spice Girl back to the ropes. Only the bell saves Emma from more punishment and she looks quite overmatched here at the end of one already!

Round 2:
More problems for Bunton who skims off Thirlwall's high guard and fails to embrace the looming response; the Little Mix singer blasts her across the mouth for a head hunting switch and camps at Emma's face thereafter ripping brutal hooks from point-blank range. Bunton can only clinch her before she gets mauled into a bloody mess but Jade has other ideas and whacks her on the liver area which gains her the desired separation and slumps the blonde veteran on visibly soft knees. Emma tries to swing one back at the youngster but then gets beaten for pace again AND TAKES A MASSIVE HIT ON THE JAW which immediately wraps her down on the canvas!!! Ugh! Jade can't keep herself down anymore and shouts at the fallen blonde before getting wrestled back to her corner. Meanwhile Bunton is clearly shaken up by that punch and needs a full eight count to get up on her feet. "She's all yours, Jade! F### her up now!", Frankie Cocozza applauds his protegee's heroics and briefly removes his hand from Jesy Nelson's crotch as he leads the Dublin crowd ovation. Emma looks shell shocked and circles back immediately after the command obviously trying to hang on until the bell rather than actually respond to her opponent's ruthless demeanour; she stumbles back in all this hectic retreat and gets caught by a flurry of late punches however she avoids another knockdown and Jade simply runs out of time to finish her off before the bell.

Round 3:
There's just no way back for Emma it seems as Jade squares up to her seconds into the third and blasts more jabbing menace up the middle to split the blonde's mitts and snap her head back & forth. Bunton slumps on her heels but her arms keep dropping lower and lower as Jade turns her into a cougar punchbag more than anything else. She pounds the hapless veteran back to the ropes at the minute mark and scythes her across the mouth to shut Emma's eyes before adding a nasty hook on the solar plexus that takes all the air out of the battered singer... BUNTON TAKES A KNEE and that's as meaningless as possible at this stage... Kate Abdo doesn't think Emma will last much longer here anyway and another eight count is just a waste of time... Thirlwall bunny hops in her corner while the ref gives the ex-Spice Girl a really long look into those hollow eyes... well, the Dublin crowd wants some blood here and Emma's allowed to continue but she just stands in there and awaits the coup de grace... she can't even keep her arms high enough to prevent Jade from thumping more jabs upstairs and when the knees buckle one more time amid all this onslaught - the last battle cry comes out of Emma's mouth just after the two minute mark... Thirlwall bulldozes the cleavage for a good measure but the blonde's chin has long slumped and Emma doesn't even notice the brutal left uppercut on the jaw that puts her down on her face for the third time... and this time she remains spread eagle at Jade's feet so the ref doesn't even have to bother with the count! KO3 Jade Thirlwall!!!

AFTER: The glory days of Emma Bunton's BBU career are definitely over but it's a real shame to see the once so cheerful & attractive singer getting roughed up so badly in the ring. Jade Thirlwall was always destined to show her no mercy but even Kate Abdo is impressed by the level of brutality from the Little Mix singer. Jade simply doesn't look like she can hurt a fly but she can hurt a former Spice Girl pin-up girl alright!

"Just take out the trash here! The old slapper got what she deserved! I need some REAL challenge now, whether here in UK or in the States!", Jade is extremely pumped up and doesn't deny her efforts to secure an American breakthrough contract. "Spice Girls are like gone. Viva Forever gone! Little Mix is the frickin' future and if only Jesy didn't suck on Frankie's cock so often we'd be winning all the fights!"

Because Lioness Club head trainer Melanie Brown has joined Yasmin Verheijen on a trip to Australia there's nobody to stop Jade's tirade and Frankie Cocozza climbs into the ring to actually help the battered Emma off to the locker room. "She's still quite hot, isn't she?", Jade laughs back at Jesy Nelson who looks a little jealous that Frankie is so quick to wrap his hands around another woman. "You beat her up and he still wants a piece of her ass! Man, I suck his cock for fun but I still have no idea what he's up to!", Jesy sums up her manager's antics and Kate Abdo in the BBU TV booth pretends that conversation didn't make it onto live air.

Final result: Jade Thirlwall def. Emma Bunton KO3.