(Thanks to FightFan for this repost

Posted by simguy on 8/10/2002, 8:41 am 

Before: Liu with a brazen appearance on Regis and Kelly to hype the fight - girls on their best behaviour, tongue-in-cheek polite - Kelly asking things like, "how did it feel to lose the belt to Mish Williams in such devastating fashion?" Liu responding with "Ask her when I win the rematch" so on and so forth. Harsh smiles all around - Regis out of his depth. Kelly likes to pour it on in fights - patient, counterpunching style that's worked against Liu not really part of Ripa's repetoire - remains to be seen if Liu can be run out of the ring by a strong little blonde. Liu in low ponytail, black push up, leopard print boy cut trunks, Kelly in SWO blue push up and bikini bottoms, pig tails - lawsuit with Jockey in discovery.

During R1: Liu's matador against Kelly's bull - Lucy with her hands down, running Kelly into the right or left then sidestepping with flair - Ripa storming forward, shaking off punches to bash away at Asian torso. Lucy's timing nice, feet sure - she gets scuffed, but controls the action, channels Ripa effectively this round.

R2: Ripa stomping forward, gloves at her cheeks, trying to set up on Lucy's chest - Liu rocks her in the first minute with a gorgeous lead right uppercut, neatly pivoting to the left as Ripa nearly folds to her knees. Midway through, Lucy gliding around the ring, playful grin as she backhand taps her jab, jumps away from Ripa aggression, then lights the blonde up with a swatting counter hook on the ear that sends Kelly reeling. Ripa won't be discouraged - she keeps charging back - relentless pressure finally forces Liu to the ropes so blonde can work. Kelly Palming Lucy's biceps, jamming in rights around the elbow - Liu hunched over, rolling with it to the bell. Glares as girls chest up after the break - ref breaks 'em up.

R3: Kelly shakes off those Liu blockbusters, takes the fight right to ex-champ. Ripa jumping in the stubby lead right off her hip, buckling Lucy's knees, getting leaning back. Sweeping hooks and right hands bang Liu to the ropes - Lucy covering up, bending at the waist. Ripa getting happy - helping herself - jerking, vicious digs in around either elbow, shaking the little brunette. Kelly pushing Liu's torso up, thumbs digging into upperchest, then PUMPING away to belly. Liu anguished, can't get her butt off the ropes, feeling Kelly Ripa heat and melting under it.

R4: Ripa up tempo - charging the ring, risks exchanging right hands, beats Lucy to the punch, wobbles Liu again. Straight lefts and rights, Liu taking stupid, backing straight up - Ripa stepping with and nailing her. Liu seated ropeside, dug in, lumping up, slugging back, Kelly getting rocked, stubbornly taking it, shouldering up and moving her hands back and forth - this is Kelly's fight. Ripa slowly imposing her will, fists beating down the resistance, Liu becoming docile, covering up, defensive. Kelly at the bell, bodying up close, just working little right uppercuts to tits and teeth, leaving Liu shabby as the ref steps in.

R5: Kelly gleeful on the attack, walking Liu down, zesty rights and lefts from the waist - Lucy bending on her hips, hands down, torso flailing back and away as she pivots. Ripa missing too much - Liu finally synchopates her torso gyrations, times a sweeping right from her knees into Kelly's mouth - magic in Ripa's knees as she stumbles forward shocked. Liu turning her shoulders side to side, stepping back, walking Ripa into clubbing left/right chin music - laughing as a spoiled Kelly R tumbles to all fours. Ripa takes 8, steps forward shabby - Liu on the hunt. Lucy swatting the left off her thigh, slapping Ripa's face into position for a clouting right hand - Ripa wandering, staring. Liu behind Kelly, just off the left shoulder - steers Ripa with the left cupping belly, another plowing right across the face - Kelly's hands at her sides, eyes vacant - she crumples to canvas again, sprawling on her belly. Somehow, blonde guts it out - plenty of time on the clock - awful, leering onslaught from a grinning Liu. Lucy walking, Kelly shambling away - Liu punching her fists off her thighs, right to the back of the head, left caroming off that left eye - Ripa clattering to her right, hits ropes in a fog. Liu chesting up with her hands down, pressing her cheek to Kelly's, levering her over with head nuzzle, pulling away to slap home the left, swaying in to clap home the right - Ripa tilting, crashing to her side for a third knockdown. Liu strutting, beaming, hands high and RIPA BEATS THE COUNT! Liu agog - Ripa swaying - FEVERISH repair work being done during the break.

R6: SHUTOUT KELLY RIPA. Liu arm weary, legs the first minute as a grim, hurting Kelly Ripa hunts her down. Middle minute on, Ripa hounds Lucy at the ropes - Liu smarter now, knows she can't just let Kelly beat away on her - much more clinching, tieing up as blonde bears down. Liu taking a thumping to her ribs, but she's slowing the attack, nudging Kelly back a shoulder in the chest, leaning back into the ropes, leaning forward to clinch again. Liu escapes without major hurt, Ripa fiercely determined to keep at her.

R7: More trudging work at the ropes - Liu soft and supple, tieing up, lolling in the strands, then getting off with quick mitts to belly and breasts in tight. Ripa straining, pushing on Lucy's arms, plugging gut and rib, holding Liu's right arm and MASHING that black bra with right uppercuts in tight. Lucy wearing down - Ripa so tenacious, getting her legs back, slowly putting that disasterous fifth behind her as she gouges out another tough round.

R8: Liu using the ring, catching a second wind - more of Ripa getting clouted and not being able to catch up - Lucy pivoting and darting away. Liu bending low, feinting like she's going to rocket up, walking away relaxed as Ripa over-reacts. Vintage potshotting from circus angles from Liu - Kelly sullen, taking.

R9: Lucy with hands down, bends left to slip Kelly's jab, bends right to roll the right hand and comes back with a drifting right on the mouth - Ripa wobbly butt, tipping forward in stupor. Liu with a quick sidestep, dragging her left across Kelly's belly to turn her and a SMASHING RIGHT HAND wreaks havoc. Ripa spun to the canvas for a fourth time, flopping and writhing to get off her stomach - she beats the count AGAIN but is ragdolled with hurt. All Liu the rest of the way - running shamelessly from a ruined blonde, stopping to walk Kelly into cruel right hands, bending and slipping away to either side, loving the sight of Ripa trying so hard to compete.

R10: Badly battered Kelly comes out punching - nailing Liu the stubby lead right hand on the face, exchanging hooks, exchanging short right hands in the belly - exhausted warriors fall in close, hunched over cheek to cheek. Ripa jerking up with insistent right uppercuts, digging at Liu's extended ribcage and breasts. Liu rolling her shoulders, bouncing her fists off Kelly's tummy, keeping her chin on the blonde's shoulder for leverage. Heartless give and take - Liu forced to stand and slug in the trenches and she's gobbled up. All Kelly Ripa down the stretch as Liu goes back to smothering and holding - girls snarling, reeling with fatigue at the bell. Comes back UD10 Lucy Liu.

After: One bad inning. Ripa taking it to Lucy and on the verge of rolling her up early, gets floored 3 times in the 5th and never recovers. "That's the hardest head in boxing!" admits Liu in post fight, left eye swollen shut, "I've dropped bantam weights with the punches I was nailing Kelly with." Kelly despondent with the loss, beaten beyond recognition and nothing to show for her unbelievably gutty effort. Hurts her even more afterwards when it's revealed this thing was even in rounds - she takes Lucy's punches, maybe puts her down once, it's a Ripa victory.

Sim Guy

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