BEFORE: Both these free agents are delighted to make an appearance on the high-profle MGM Grand card and promise to make the most out of this opportunity. Meghan Markle has enjoyed respectable journeywoman career thus far but she'd like to become a solid gatekeeper in her own right while Roselyn Sanchez is still a new face to the boxing scene having only made her debut back in May when she was knocked out by fellow Latin veteran Eva Mendes in five rounds. Meanwhile Markle has also fought only once this year; that was in January when Candice Patton knocked her out in six.

Markle is the betting favorite thanks to her supreme experience but one should never underestimate the raw Latin power coming from the opposite corner. Sanchez is Puerto Rican by birth and she wins the pre-fight mind games refusing to touch gloves with Meghan who looks genuinely surprised at the snub.

Meghan Markle wears a red bikini set and black gloves. Dark brown hair tied in a thick ponytail. Roselyn Sanchez wears a white bikini top with golden trim, blue knickers and red gloves. Raven-black hair tied in a sleek ponytail. The fight is scheduled for ten rounds in the bantamweight division.

Round 1:
Meghan's much quicker on her feet in the early stages and dominates the initial close range exchange drilling Roselyn to the body and staggering her in the center of the ring in the proccess. The younger of the two brunettes makes those efforts count down the stretch and Sanchez remains lethargic in execution which enables Markle to pound her back into the ropes come the second minute. Roselyn needs to find a way out of the jabbing rush but only clinches her fast moving opponent and briefly halts Markle in her tracks before a belting hook on the liver area slumps her into spasms allowing the younger brunette to romp clear in the gut thereafter.

Round 2:
Markle stays on top of another close range battle and splits Sanchez's mitts to snap her head back and reel her on the heels with a heavy jabbing series up the middle. Roselyn's too slow to make an impact thus far and gets pounded around the ring afterwards with Meghan breathing down her neck and keeping her foot on the gas pedal. This is the correct tactics against an opponent north side of 40 but Sanchez must be so frustrated she's unable to do anything about the fellow brunette's high-tempo offense. Meghan's too confident in her efforts to let Roselyn off the hook anytime soon and she pounds her butt-in-ropes come the final minute again; she harpoons the ribcage to drop the high cover and blasts an uppercut drive to bend the Puerto Rican sideways before adding another belting hook to the body. Roselyn slumps badly against the ropes at the bell and looks all lost at sea here after just six minutes of action.

Round 3:
Sanchez gets really desperate here and swings a hectic hooking series over the top; she NAILS Markle with a left hand on the brow ridge and wobbles her backwards on the spot to finally bring some joy into the Puerto Rican camp in the MGM Grand stands. That was a lucky shot but Roselyn makes the most of it thereafter as she tackles Markle's guts and bumps her into the corner where she lands a vicious uppercut on the jaw to slump the fellow brunette amid aching groans. Terrible defense from Meghan leaves her suddenly exposed and serves as a blueprint of her journeyowman career to date; Sanchez buries her under a leather frenzy and allthough she lacks the precision and bounces off the forearms way too often to land that potential knockout punch, she still shuts the American off completely and adds a late flurry of jabs to the body which takes the sting right out of Markle's lungs. Ref has to pull the Latin woman off her rival at the bell and Roselyn screams out in delight with Meghan giving her a proper death stare before turning back to her corner.

Round 4:
Roselyn builds on her new found confidence and takes advantage of Meghan hanging back too much in the opening minute; she drills the American's midsection before clipping the chin in close range and outworks the younger brunette in another close range battle. Markle misfires over the top in her efforts to tame the Latin rally and gets belted on the liver area thereafter as Sanchez thrives on her aggressive stance and pummels Meghan back to the ropes. A brief clinch halts the action but Roselyn gains the separation with another drilling series on the guts which slumps Markle badly and shuts her off one more time. She swings back from behind the guard to land a solid hook on the nose just as Sanchez threatened to bulldoze her wholesale and another hook on the mouth reels the older actress backwards so Meghan escapes the trap right at the death and even blows past the high guard in the dying seconds again however Erin Andrews doubts that was enough to save the scorecards anymore.

Round 5:
War of attrition headlines the opening minute of the fifth, Meghan's early advantage was erased during the previous couple of rounds and now she seeks renewed success through very aggressive jabbing drive. Roselyn's punching resistance remains questionable but she tries to maintain her solid performance and responds in similar fashion, swinging upstairs and looking to smack Markle with a proper haymaker. It's sudden death stuff as the next big punch could spell instant trouble for the defensive strugglers and it's Meghan who finds it first - she NAILS the older woman on the brow ridge and cuts her up before she adds a follow up from the right and blasts the aching Puerto Rican on the nose! Oi, Rosie! Sanchez drops her gloves amid a painful shriek and wobbles forward, she fails to lock a fight-saving clinch though and eats another right hook on the mouth which RAGDOLLS HER DOWN ON HER BACK moments later. Three heavy strikes from Markle made that happen and the American leaps in the air with the Vegas audience chanting her name in a emotional burst of support. Roselyn aches and groans down on the board but beats the count at seven, she looks a little misty in the eyes though AND MARKLE ROMPS WITH HOOKING MENACE after the command. She bulldozes the cumbersome Latin woman back to the ropes and aims for the head, Sanchez's gloves can't stay high enough and Meghan just pounds away in fury, trying to take her head off. She rocks Roselyn into spasms of defeat and nothing comes back from the embattled Latin vixen anymore so when Meghan tears the skin under the left eye and causes a blood spillage the ref needs to take action... and he does... HE STEPS IN TO SAVE SANCHEZ from getting her face rearranged and embraces the sobbing veteran. TKO5 Meghan Markle!!!

AFTER: Most of these free agents struggle to take a punch on a regular basis and usually crumble under repeated pressure. This was a see-saw bout in the first four rounds but when Meghan landed unanswered attack half-way through the fifth, Roselyn simply fell apart. Still, Meghan looked awfully hittable in the third & fourth and she'll need to improve a lot to warrant more exposure against higher-ranked opponents. That's if she wants to be promoted from the journeywoman corps that seem to dominate the otherwise crowded bantamweight division. Erin Andrews reports that she's seen Meghan talking to Neve Campbell back in the locker room before the event and one might second guess what was that conversation all about. The Asylum Arena is a renowed fortress in the FCBA but perhaps Meghan is ready to make the next step after all. She's 35 so time is running out quickly for her to make an impact.

On the other hand Roselyn Sanchez might become the divisional "go-to-girl" really soon. That's two defeats in a row for the Puerto Rican sexpot and quite frankly she needed to blow away both Mendes & Markle in order to justify her FCBA bow. Erin Andrews thinks that Jewel Kilcher & co. would love to see Sanchez in the Asylum but the veteran actress dismisses those claims in her post-fight interview: "I'm not a suicidal maniac, you fool! If I can't beat such creampuff like Markle, then what's the point of going to Philly in first place? Screw this ####. I need a win and need it now! I'm not going to find it fighting Allison Mack or Leven Rambin, period."

Based on tonight's evidence, she's probably right!

Final result: Meghan Markle def. Roselyn Sanchez TKO5.