Posted April 30, 2017, 3:15 AM
2. Tatiana Dieteman vs Melissa Satta
Tatiana:
(25, 5’8, BBU Debut, Free Agent)
Melissa:
(31, 5’9, 2:0 BBU, SIRENs)
Before: Melissa dismissing her new opponent (before they even meet) as a complete stranger and someone whom she has never heard of before. “Tatiana who?? Is she an American?” she laughs. “Everyone knows Melissa Satta,” she proudly proclaims instead, in that thick Italian accent of hers. “This American girl? Not so much.”
Tatiana, who is in indeed American and a successful fashion model, is casually lounging in her seat at other end of the table. “Funny,” she begins. “I didn't know who you were *either* until they picked you as my opponent. You must be some soccer hag who got famous only because of her husband, no”
Melissa visibly steaming red after hearing that, starts spouting curses in Italian at her opponent, whilst the rest of the auditorium look on in amusement. At the podium, Tatiana undresses by removing her white cotton shirt, revealing seductive black lace-bra and panties, donning red gloves. Melissa opting for a sunflower yellow bikini, orange gloves tinged blue. Referee rings the bell for ten rounds of Lightweight action:
Round 1: Contrast of styles as Melissa charges but Tatiana dodges out of the way in the opening seconds. Satta perhaps eager to get into her next bout after having fought a long two months ago - considered a lifetime in the boxing arena. Tatiana not built for powerful strokes, however, obvious from her lean and mean body, scooting away on fast footwork instead and jabbing religiously at the charging Melissa. Strikes to the face stop Satta’s reckless charges in the middle of the round and instead, Melissa tries her hand at strong crosses straight into Tatiana’s guard. The result overall is that both girls land very little effective shots and spend equal amount of time verbally taunting the other.
Round 2: Aaaand the result is: Melissa gassed good and early. Some audience members rolling their eyes at her over-eagerness: she has power, yes, but that’s not gonna work against a more technical and speedy fighter like Tatiana, who takes the opportunity to rush in more often now, snapping jabs after jab into the side of the Italian’s face and even gets some body blows in. Melissa swinging back, definitely, but gloves either hit at forearms or smash imaginary targets in the air instead. Satta needs to do more work and she knows it, gritting her teeth and letting out a loud and frustrated growl at the end of the round. Tatiana seems like she’s getting the hang of this boxing thing, starts to rely on her right hand in steady stream of hard jabs that land quite often this round, gives herself a pat on the back.
Round 3: Tatiana cautioned however not to get overly confident - advice that doesn’t seem to register immediately when she gets bolder with her attacks, tries to crowd out her opponent with more aggressive jabbing but doesn’t realise TOO CLOSE for comfort when Satta RATTLES her entire body with a powerful right hook to her guard. Force of which throws her to the left and she stumbles - more than enough time for Melissa to catch her with a follow-up left uppercut to the gut, spearing midsection on the spot and lifting her off her toes for a split second. American model lets out a deep grunt and feet seem rooted to the spot as Satta goes to work with more painful blows to her midsection, jerking her lithe body around. Final straight hand to the jaw blows Tatiana backwards, finally creating enough separation between both beauties. Melissa tries to rush in again at her foe, but Tatiana still has sense to avoid her opponent like the plague for the remainder of the round, sacrificing points for fear of losing the match entirely.
Round 4: Another bad round for the challenger as she gets caught along the ropes early in the round with a straight cross to her guard. Dieteman grunts with her back hitting leather forcefully, then her front gets a taste as well when Satta simply starts jamming leather into her paunch and chest. Tatiana not even punching back at this point, simply trying to survive, makes rookie mistake of travelling fists downwards to protect her body, allowing Satta to HOOK a clean right hand straight to the jaw. Tatiana’s cheek disappears in the glove as the blow sends her sprawling to one side, twisting in the air and falling to the canvas in a THUD. KNOCKDOWN for SATTA! Melissa all smiles as she steps confidently over body to celebrate early - that’s extent of the Italian’s confidence in her abilities.
Tatiana Dieteman not having the best of debuts, for all her tough rhetoric. Perhaps her management really screwed her over with a debut match against someone like Satta. Still, the American slowly claws her way back up to her knees along the ropes, mouth agape and drawing deep, ragged breaths the entire way. To the rookie’s credit, she does manage to get back up at the count of 8, but clinging on to top rope for dear life, as though she would collapse back down if she were to let go.
Melissa definitely keen on testing this theory, doesn’t show an ounce of mercy when the referee waves for her to come on again and she looks more than happy to. No resistance from Dieteman as her body chopped in half again and again by thunder-hooks to the body, Satta enjoying target practice when she finishes Dieteman off with another one-two blow to the chin! Immediately Tatiana crumples on her feet, collapsing back down where she came from into a heap at Satta’s feet! This time, referee takes one look at her and waves it off! It’s over!
Official Decision: Melissa Satta defeats Tatiana Dieterman via KO4.
After: Melissa Satta doesn’t look like she even broke a sweat here, confidently striding and strutting about the ring, showing off her lean and still-mean fighting body. She would of course claim that she’s still in the best shape and prime of her career, even though her age must be slowly catching up to her by this point of turning 30. Pundits, however, far from surprised at her performance tonight: it was textbook Satta, and against unproven commodity like Tatiana, one could only expect someone like Satta to dominate the rookie. If she hadn’t, perhaps that would have been more newsworthy headline.
Poor Dieteman though: rough start for her. Still, you have to take every experience and hopefully learn from it. If you do, you still have a shot in this game. For tonight though, Ms Dieteman finding out the hard way that sometimes, you’re used as someone else’s cannon fodder and there’s nothing much you can do about it.
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