Before: Rita looking to make the third heat the championship bout, vaulting herself well out of the bantam crab bucket where she can start playing with the big girls. Hayley smarting after her first loss, knows she’s under scrutiny to see if and how she shakes it off.

Purple bandeau for Hayley, white gloves, shoulder-length hair in disciplined curls. Rita in black bikini, white gloves, blonde hair up in a topknot


R1: Hayley rifling leads right hands short and straight through the middle—Rita’s head rocketed back, hands up and outstretched, tagged early and often, falling apart. Walking barrage of crisp, straight punches puts Ora ropeside—then it’s Orrantia putting on a clinic in body breakdown techniques. Shouldering up, propping with extended elbow, just rips off hook after hook, shoving and jostling her girl upright to prep Rita for the next blow. Ora a shambles, hands up, but limp—punches bashing into her side or bouncing spitefully off her face as she leans forward AND FALLS TO CANVAS! Ref gives a long look, after Rita gets to her feet, but not eager to stop this thing in the first minute, waves Hayley back in. Orrantia loving it so much to her foe’s body—reefing up in under the elbow with a series of gutting hooks. Ora sagging, out on her feet, finally buckles and sits on her haunches at the ropes, hugging her ruined midsection as the tears flow. Hayley bodied back—she’s all smiles with a heartless two-minute beatdown KO1.

After: Stupendous, full-bodied punching performance leaves Rita in a stupor: Hayley beside herself - jumping around the ring, hugging everyone in sight. With only what remains of Debby Ryan to go through in the final heat, does the possibility of a rematch with Flanagan seem to be in the cards?