LEAH PIPES VS KATIE CASSIDY
Results: Lookout  Writing; Archer
Leah:  28 YO, 5’6 ½ (1.69 m), 1-4-0 since 2014, Pretty Little Punchers
Katie: 29 YO. 5’1 (1.70 m), 10-12-0. Empire Boxing

Before: Leah and Katie unexpectedly find themselves on the same boat: their respective characters were killed off their CW shows. (“The Originals” for Leah. “Arrow” for Katie). CW bigwigs assure angry “ARROW” fans that Katie will (somehow or other) continue to turn up on their DC Comics line-up of shows. No such assurances for the pink-slipped Leah. So the fight is on for fan attention and, in this case, it literally is a fight—the FCBA’s upcoming Boxing on the Beach PPV.

“The ring, a beach, the parking lot of the local Hooters, I don’t care where I fight Cassidy just so long as I get to fight her,” says a very determined sounding Leah Pipes. “I’m lucky I have the PLP to back me, but I know they won’t stay interested in me unless I start winning. I simply cannot afford to lose and I won’t.”

“My, my,” mocks Katie C. “doesn’t the sound of desperation sound pathetic? Sure I want to win especially a troublemaker like Cassidy? She ever tell you about the time she ambushed me, Eliza Taylor and some other CW girls in Las Vegas. For what? For the publicity! I am so glad I’m going be able to publicize the fact that she’s a two-bit jobber. Who you paying off to keep the PLP managing you, Leah? Why else would they keep a loser like you on the roster?”

Leah jumps up angrily: “You lying tramp! I’m going beat you into the sand so deep they’ll have to dig you out with a steam shovel!”

“You see,” Katie tells the press, “sheer desperation and that’s not the way to win fights.”

Leah has heard quite enough and lunges for Katie. Katie grabs her in a bearhug and they both fall to the floor. They kick, pull hair and shriek dire threats before Security drags them apart.

The raging fury is clearly still present at the two fighters take to the sand at a Southern California beach. Ring is posts driven into the stand and three strands of ropes connecting them. Katie in a black bikini with white trim, white gloves with black laces, hair pulled back in a tight battle braid. Leah is in an orange bikini with matching gloves, hair pulled back in a simple pony tail. Two glare at each other and referee has to halt instructions several times to keep some semblance of order. Finally they are back in their corners, banging gloves together and jogging in place. Finally, the bell rings.

R1: Leah first to across the sand and start pounding at Katie’s body. Katie digging her feet in and jabbing back. Fighting on sand seems to matter little as they are going at it bare toes to bare toes. Initial body banging gives way to some head shots and hear Leah rattles Katie with some quick uppies to the chin. Katie shifting around, trying to protect her head and counter with some shots aimed at Leah’s head. Leah able to move her upper body and make head harder to hit squarely, Katie shifting to Leah’s belly late with some hard shots that make the PLP fighter gasp. However Leah won’t back down and battles Katie to the bell. Judges give this close round to Leah Pipes.

R2: Katie goes right to Leah’s belly with the start of this round. Leah doubling up and now retreating as she gasps for air. Katie  maintains a close pursuit and does her best to steer Leah into the ropes. Leah seems to be finding quick movement on the sands not easy and she has to use her jab to try to keep Katie off her. Katie strikes at Leah’s head late in the round giving her opponent more to worry about. Leah manages to stay off the ropes, but she can’t seem to keep Katie Cassidy from taking this round wide.

R3: Leah scrambling to get back in this fight and shakes Katie early with shot quick rights and lefts off the Empire fighter’s jaw. Katie pulling back (and showing some ability to do this well on sand) while using her jab to counter the aggressive Leah. Leah now able to circle around Katie and pummel her, but then Katie unexpectedly counterattacks. Fierce exchange on the hot sun as sweating bodies are smacked again and again by wet leather. Leah surprised by the attack, claws her way back and finally succeeds to making Katie retreat with a series of pounding hooks to the belly and breasts late in the round. Good enough to allow Leah to win the round by a narrow margin.

R4: Katie fighting back this round, but Leah’s not about to lose control and it sets off a raging battle that roams all around the sandy ring. Katie and Leah both ducking, circling and then striking, trying to find an opening through which they can drive their punches. Katie tries to muscle Leah back, but gets met with a fierce jabbing flurry that knocks her head around. Leah then tries to drive Leah back, but Katie uses her own jab to hammer Leah’s heaving bikini top. Leah not liking this goes right back at Katie’s bikini top. Nice juggy exchange has the sweat flying off those swaying breasts and then Leah uses the distraction to paste Katie squarely in the mouth. Katie stumbles back, lower lip bleeding, as Leah tries to pursue. Time runs out before Leah can corner her quarry and she has to settle for winning another close round.

R5: Katie seems aroused by that bloody lip last round. She comes charging across the sand and pounds her gloves into Leah’s face before Leah can get her guard up. Now Leah’s turn to go stumbling back with her lips cut and her nose reddened from Katie’s vengeful blows. Leah trying to protect her head then gets her belly pounded by Katie’s attack as she moves her arms like pistons hooking Leah’s midsection again and again. Leah has hunch up and try to fight Katie off with her jab. Katie moving confidently on the sand now and using this mobility to strike hard at Leah, pounding head and body as well as keeping her off balance. Leah growing increasingly desperate as the round wears on. It’s all she can do to keep  Katie from landing a knockdown punch, but she’s lost the round wide by the time the bell rings.

R6: Leah still has that look of desperation as she comes off her stool to begin this round. Katie lets Leah try to come charging in, clearly an effort to reverse the course of the fight, but the offensive come to a halt as Leah drives a straight right into the bridge of Leah’s nose, catching her between the eyes. Leah goes floundering back, looking for something to grab onto, but Katie strikes with a lunging right uppercut under the chin. Leah lifted off her feet and THROWN ONTO THE SAND. Leah on her back, starfished, as the referee moves in. Leah tries to rise, but only succeeds in rolling over onto her face as the count reaches: “…TEN! YER OUT!”

Bell rings as the referee raises Katie Cassidy’s. THE WINNER KO6.

After: Leah struggling to pull herself up. She is now coated with sand, even her face, and she tries to push herself up. However Katie comes over and plants a foot on Leah’s butt to push her back down. She grinds her foot into Leah and then raises her arms to pose for the photogs. Then she grabs Leah’s ponytail to pull her erect. With that coating of sand poor Leah is a rather comical sight.

“I’d walk you, but you are just too dirty for me,” Katie sneers and pushes Leah so that she does down on her butt. “See ya around—loser,”

Leah bursts into angry tears and tries to get up to leave the ring, but she is still shaky and falls to her knees. Teammates Danielle Campbell and Autumn Reeser rush out to assist her.

Great triumph for Katie Cassidy, but a crushing loss for Leah Pipes. It was a close fight until Katie gained control in R5 and then finished the job in the 6th. Encouraging win for Katie’s Empire Boxing management, but another one in the loss column for Leah’s Pretty Little Puncher managers. That can’t be good for the struggling Ms. Pipes.