1. Lily Collins versus Ariana Grande

Lily:
(27, 5’6, 5:1 FCBA, VIXENs)

Ariana:
(23, 5’0, 5:8 FCBA, Free Agent)

Before: Lily Collins already focusing her verbal tirade against the legendary Vanessa Hudgens and their match at the end of the month, ignoring her current opponent for the majority of the pre-fight interview. “Who gives a f*ck about Grande?” she throws up her hands in mock deference. “This got personal when Hudgens decided to get insecure about her own body image. Why don’t you bugger off and die Nessa? Who cares about your flabby tummy?” Lily smiles as she muses to the reporters gathered.

“Lily thinks she can just come over here and set things ablaze. Well, she’s dead wrong,” Ariana muses right back, swinging a finger in circles in her typical-diva manner. “She got spanked by Watson and many of my fellow comrades. Before she gets spanked by Vanessa, she’s gonna get it from me too,” Ariana concludes, shoving the mic away in frustration at being ignored by her opponent.

Well, at least she got an eye-roll out of Collins from that last statement. Girls prepare themselves by removing outer robes, facing-off in the center in nothing but their skivvies. Lily dressed in a dark green, Irish-inspired bikini, black gloves. Ariana in full red, hair tied back in messy ponytail and black gloves - Ariana raises hers to touch opponents’, but Lily merely laughs in her face and shrugs her gesture off. Never the little miss nice-girl, it seems.

Soon: both girls are in the ring and ready to go. Referee waves for the bell and ten rounds of Flyweight action to kick off VIX: Fools’ for Fighting!

Round 1: Condescension reaches boiling point for Grande when she charges forward at and proves to the Brit that she can hang with her. Quick strikes to the head irritate Lily as the smaller girl pesters her with jabs but gets quickly out of the way when Lily tries and retaliate. For the first time in a long while, Collins the one having to catch up to the faster and leaner Ariana, and she doesn’t like that one bit, scowling when the referee rings the bell to end the round and realising that she has her work cut out for her this time. Perhaps Vanessa Hudgens should really be far from her mind as Ariana edges out her opponent in terms of points in a shocker of an opening round.

Round 2: Lily shows her distaste in the second, coming at Ariana more aggressively and negating much of the smaller brunette’s speed with her own fancy footwork, bobbing and weaving to the right, then left, cutting Grande off with strong jabs of her own that slam into mitt and graze a cheek or two. Grande being suddenly outplayed and can’t seem to do anything to stop it, showing off her inexperience in dealing with an overly-aggressive woman like Collins. Grande firing off more jabs than ever, but majority thrown in desperation and barely score on Lily’s skin. Lily comes back with a vengeance in this round and scores a majority win.

Round 3: Repeat of round 2 sees both girls gnashing away at each other’s guard, then fists land on body and cheeks, the wild punches now beginning to hurt. Grande not switching strategy, side-steps left, jab-jab, sweeps right, jab-jab-jab, scoring on Lily’s sides, then on her face, but is slapped by wild return hook from Collins as the Brit growls and unleashes a flurry of counters, the last hook almost taking Ariana’s head off. Grande however panics and can’t take the pressure, decides to retreat in straight line, offering Lily a direct advance on her - Collins bangs away multiple underhooks to her undercarriage, drawing a few grunts before Ariana can back away completely. Definitely a more even round, but Collins still coming out on top by a small margin.

Round 4: Lily deciding to go after the singer’s body in the early minute, getting in close and hooking uppercut after uppercut into Ariana’s body, smashing a nasty left-right into that folds her over. Ariana however anticipates and recovers quickly, flits her left and right hands into Lily’s face in close-quarters, submerging the Brit’s features and nose completely in leather and drawing squeals. Lily looks hurt from that exchange - her turn to back away, head wobbly! Ariana capitalises with more jamming of her gloves into Lily’s chest, then works on her tummy with a flurry of punches in wicked payback. Lily is left blubbering on ropes as she covers up best she can, finally saved by the bell. Ariana beaming widely, but pundits wondering why she didn’t take the chance to put Collins away in that last vulnerable position?

Round 5: Ariana certainly gets the memo on her blunder last round and targets Lily’s head early this time, and it seems to have desired effect: Lily returns to groggy and confused state as Ariana jams a left-right hand combination into her nose early on, forcing her backwards again. Ariana like a little killer bee, fluttering to the left and right of Lily’s retaliatory crosses - the Brit can’t seem to score any punches in her disoriented state! Ariana slams an uppercut into base of Lily’s chin and the Brit flies back to the ropes! ON COMES THE AMERICAN with lefts and rights to the tummy. Collins merely absorbing, fighting back the tears, but clear she’s not about to give up by clinching forward with Ariana, using her bigger size to simply swamp Grande all the way to the bell. Ariana almost bellows in disbelief at being denied a second chance to put her foe away, but learns that an injured animal can resort to anything to avoid being downed. A big round for Ariana and certainly an ominous one for Lily - VIX officials certainly sweating at this opening match going sour already.

Round 6: Lily breathing heavily in corner as she listens to trainer Corey Saucier berating her in one ear. Collins nodding, but eyes show contempt more than submission. She’s gonna do things her own way, by golly. Certainly a devious look in Lily’s eyes as she stands up slowly at the bell, and sees Ariana Grande charging towards her, hell bent on ending the match in the sixth round. Lily DUCKS under a looming left cross aimed at her head, relishes the brief flash of shock in Ariana’s eyes as she PUNTS her head back with one-two, AND three uppercuts to Ariana’s chin! Ariana forced backwards by the force of each blow to her jaw, arms desperately re calibrating back to defensive position. She absorbs more blows to her stomach as Lily goes to work, licking her lips as she keeps the American in close contact with a left hand looped around her waist, right hand drilling and spanking tummy flesh and occasionally going upwards to the rake the chest and shock the singer’s head once again. A beating back into the fight by Lily Collins as she completely dominates Grande from start to end, but still doesn’t manage to put her away when Grande stubbornly clings onto to her opponent with both arms, her chin and open mouth breathing hot air on Lily’s chest at the sound of the bell. Collins shoves her off with a “Get the f*ck off me!” at the bell, strides back to corner, gesturing rudely at Corey Saucier, as though making a point to both opponents that she can win on her own terms.

Round 7: Ariana seems as drained as Lily from that previous round’s beating - the American slow to rise from the bench, but so is Lily, as they approach each other steadily. No more floating like a butterfly or stinging like a bee - both girls trade leather in the center as they exchange blows. Bad move for Grande here - she’s abandoning the one advantage she had over Lily through this fight - Lily grunting some, but delivering more powerful and painful punches, soon pushing Grande back with chopping uppercuts to her chin once again. Ariana registers shock in her eyes as she lets Lily whack her over and over again, her mouth open for a second before jaw sent skyward and backward. Ariana’s body follows, and crowd roars as Grande is lifted off her feet and crashes back down onto her back! It’s a KNOCKDOWN for Lily Collins!

Lily huffing and puffing, hunched over Ariana’s sprawled and defeated form. The referee checks on the American singer and concludes that she’s knocked out cold! It’s over!


Official Decision: Lily Collins defeats Ariana Grande via KO7!


After: AND HERE COMES NESSA! What the hell - where did she come from?? The Disney star, clad in a cut-off tee and jeans, rushes under the ropes from behind Lily and tackles her with both hands, spearing her body back into the turnbuckles! Lily lets out a GASP as her body’s sandwiched between two foreign objects, manages to spin around from the impact and gets SMACKED across the face by Hudgens’s open palm. Suddenly though, all tiredness seems to melt away from Collins’ eyes as she realises who her attacker is - the Brit lunges back, both hands grabbing at Vanessa’s dark tresses and pulling, tugging violently, returning slaps of her own to Vanessa’s face. But Lily’s the one who just finished a match, is no (match) for someone as determined (and pissed off) as Vanessa Hudgens, who sends a sharp kneecap into the Brit’s midsection, drawing a loud GASP from Collin and sagging her body in the Disney star’s waiting arms. Quickly, Vanessa mounts the turnbuckle, pulling a moaning Collins up by the hair. “Get used to this, Lily. You’re gonna be tasting this *very* often!” Nessa hisses, before plunging the Brit’s face straight into the curve of her abs, and rubbing her face back-and-forth in a totally unforeseen pre-fight tummy scrub! Lily slapping at Vanessa’s thighs but otherwise lacking the strength to fight back. It’s up to intervening VIX members and officials to come to her defense, but Vanessa hops down and scoots out of the ring before a pissed off Emily Ratajkowski can get her hands on her. Vanessa plants an air kiss on Lily’s tummy-shocked face as she makes her back up the ramp. Certainly nothing like a pre-fight brawl to set the stage for their eventual clash at the end of this month?