(Written by Girls Friday/Results BBU)
(Kear's Kat's vs Free Agent)
Intro: This bout of sees Abbey Crouch (Clancy) take on Jessie J, both fighters needing to get their careers going in the right direction once again. Coming into this fight, Abbeys record stands at 4 wins, 3 by knockout and 10 defeats for the 30 year old model. While Singer Jessie holds a record of 2 wins, both by knockout and 5 losses with 1 draw, she is 29 years old. Both girls spoke to the press before the fight, Abbey confident as she tells journalists "I am sick of people thinking I'm an easy victory, Jessie is going to be laying at my feet after tomorrow's fight to show you I am not" Adding "all these new welterweights coming into the BBU have to go through me and once I've dealt with them, it's on to getting the title" Jessie excited to be fighting in Paris but also at getting to fight Abbey "I've heard Abbey calling me easy pickings for her, I didn't know she had it in her to be a pain in my ass" Asked about a possible fight with Delta Goodrem over their fabled rivalry in the Australian version of the Voice, both were judges on the show and rumoured to be rivals, leading to arguments between them. But Jessie answers "you guys play that up too much, me and Delta are passionate women and it did lead to a few heated debates between us, but I view her with the utmost respect" Some pundits may look at that as not being totally truthful, but it's the focus is on Abbey vs Jessie and which of these girls can get out of this rut they are in win wise. Fight night, out comes Abbey first with Gail Kim by her side, she is wearing a red sports bra, matching trunks with a small Liverpool badge on the waistband to go with her red gloves and shoes. The proud Scouser strutting down to the ring with a smile on her face, this is a big chance for her and she is confident of victory. Climbing into the ring, she gets a loud cheer, the French seem to love a beautiful model and Abbey certainly fits that criteria, strutting around the ring with a pout and a smouldering look for the crowd to enjoy. But now it's time for Jessie to come out, the brunette bouncing on her toes as she heads out towards the ring with her coach behind her. She's wearing a black mesh bra with a few rose design patterns on, black trunks, gloves and shoes complete her look as she marches to the ring. Climbing into the ring, she smiles as she jogs to her corner; nodding to the crowd as she also has a good fan base here, clearly lovers of her music. Brought to the ring centre by the referee, the fighters go nose to nose, neither blinking as they give each other the snake eyes, hoping to psyche the other out. After the referee finishes his instructions, he asks for a touch of gloves, leading to the fighters swiping their gloves before jogging to their corners, the referee signaling for the bell soon after to begin 10 rounds of welterweight boxing action.
Round 1: Out come the fighters, neither with much confidence if they are being honest with themselves, starting with probing jabs. Both are somewhat up on their toes, moving around each other and slipping those jabs through the others guards. As they start to feel more comfortable, it is Abbey with her more experience who starts to take somewhat of an aggressive stance, moving side to side and catching Jessie to her cheeks. The crowd slowly starting to grow louder as the pace picks up and both fighters show some nerve to get stuck in more. Jessie trying to slip a right around the guard of Abbey, instead misses and Abbey lands two punches to her cheeks in reply. The blonde starting to free her hands as she works Jessie onto the back foot, keeping her range long though as she still seems to have doubt about getting caught by her opponent. Jessie shows some fight as the round heads to it's conclusion with a left feint and lands a right cross, before stepping in closer, leading to both girls exchanging some quick strikes, no real venom behind them yet. The bell rings to end a quiet first round, some of the crowd don't look pleased and neither is either fighters coach, both telling them to up the tempo, this is the fight that could get the chip on their shoulders to disappear. Round 2: Coming out with more focus to fight this round, the girls start off with some long range strikes, till Jessie slips under a right from Abbey and lands a right to her cheek. The girls start fighting in tight, head to head they go as they look into each others eyes and see the pain they are inflicting with their body shots. Abbey though retreats first, maybe Jessie showing she has more power or that Mrs Crouch has a plan as she lands a double jab to keep the singer from getting in to close. Both show good footwork as they dance around each other, striking each other to the face, but it's Abbey who surprising to some shows some skills. Leaning out the way of a straight, before slipping to her opponent's left and cracking a right to the ribs of Jessie. But the Cockney lass isn't going to take that without reply, still coming forwards as she seeks to hurt Abbey. The problem is that Abbey starts looking more elusive and as the round is coming to an end, Crouch is the one landing the cleaner punches with right cross, followed quickly by a left to put Jessie on the back foot. The crowd applauding her loudly as the bell rings and Abbey winks at Jessie, showing her confidence levels are up now before she jogs to her corner. Jessie looking frustrated, not believing that Abbey is picking her apart up to now with not just her punches but her movement. Her coach telling her she needs to hurt Abbey before this fight gets away from her and it's too late to change things, clearly showing his own lack of confidence in Jessie. Round 3: Out comes Abbey strongly, seeking to continue impressing like she did in the last round, she lands a right hook to the ribs of Jessie once more and looks like she's going to put her back under pressure. Jessie grits her gumshield and fights back, again as the two go in tight, the brunette looks to be getting the better of the action. So Abbey once more moves back, seeming to confirm pundits suspicions that the Scouser hasn't the power her opponent has. This time though Jessie doesn't let Abbey get far, the fight really coming to life as they start banging away around each others guards. But as Jessie looks to plug the jab between the girls, she gets caught with an uppercut and her legs turn to jelly, falling to her knees as she gumshield falls out her mouth. The crowd roaring as Abbey heads to a neutral corner and smirks as she looks out around her, then back at the referee who begins his count. Jessie shaking her head as she tries to shake the cobwebs from her mind, she stares at Abbey, who waves her right at her to come get some more. Which Jessie seems to say yes too, getting up at 8 and having to be stopped going straight for Abbey, the referee ordering her to get a new gumshield in and then allowing the fight to continue. Jessie tries to get back at Abbey, but as the first few punches connect with her lips to knock her head back, she finds herself forced to cover up as Abbey turns the pressure up on her. Pressing her back towards the ropes with a flurry of punches, Jessie clinches up with her opponent to give herself a chance to clear her head, still clearly feeling some effects of the knockdown. Separated by the ref, Jessie fights on the back foot for what is left of the round, Abbey looking like the hunter now as she moves to forwards. The bell ringing and Abbey looking ecstatic by her success up to now, especially when she sits on her stool and notices that she's cut the bottom lip of Jessie. Whose dabbing her lip with her glove till her coach tells her to stop doing that and begins cleaning it up, he's annoyed that Jessie doesn't seem to learn from her mistakes, but she tells him that she's going to win. Round 4: At the moment, Jessie is the only one who seems to believe she can win this contest, Abbey looking to end this now as she comes out with a rifle like jab her main weapon to set up her uppercut. This time though as she fires it, she misses as her coach shakes his head, her discipline seems to have gone and Jessie makes her pay with a right cross. Lucky for Abbey that Jessie is still not fully recovered, a right to the bloody lips looks to start the charge from the singer in it's tracks before it can gain traction. Once more Abbey looks as if she is going to drive Jessie to the ropes, but Jessie parries a right cross and lands her own left plum onto the nose of the blonde. Slowly as the round goes on, it's Jessie growing into the fight, Abbey landing a good two punch combo up top, forcing Jessie back a step. Abbey misses with a follow up left hook though and Jessie slams a straight to her abs to drive some air from her body. Then as the blonde looks to land a right cross, again Jessie slips under and lands an overhand right to turn Abbey's head around. Jessie has her opening as she lands a left cross and another right cross to knock Abbey to her heels, the brunette really driving her blonde opponent backwards. But it's too late to make much inroads this round, ending with Abbey's back just touching the ropes and Jessie giving her a hard stare as if to tell her "I am far from done" Abbey heads back to her corner annoyed at herself, though her coach isn't exactly happy herself, Gail pointing at Jessie and telling her "you had her hurt, put the leash back on your bytch and end this!" Jessie's lip still stinging but she looks happier then she did 3 minutes ago, her coach keeping her feet planted, telling her that one decent round doesn't make a difference unless she builds on it. Round 5: Abbey still trying to move around Jessie, but the singer is starting to really get at her, both fighters trading up top as they try to force each other around the ring. Jessie parries a straight towards her lips and steps to the right of Abbey to land a hard right cross, then adds two more straight punches of her own to crack her on the lips. Now Abbey's lips are bleeding and Jessie's eyes light up as she continues to move forwards, firing her punches at the head of the blonde. Abbey doing her best to cover up and she lands a stinging jab to the bloody lips of Jessie to slow her attack down, before both fighters reset themselves. As they start fighting again, Jessie is the one growing stronger now, landing a right cross as she leans out the way of a straight from her opponent. Then finds herself in tight with Abbey, banging away to the body, causing her to gasp with each punch as Jessie powers on. Abbey lands a left cross to try and keep her opponent back, but Jessie won't be stopped as she lands a straight punch to the nose of Crouch. Both girls fight in close, the fight becoming scruffy as they try to land a punch that will turn the tide fully in their favour. Ending up clinching, the referee gets involved to pull the girls apart, both fighters glaring as they line each other up. Back at it, the girls fight hard with seconds of the round left to go, Jessie looks the better after she steps back out the way of a right hook and steps in to land two punches to the cheeks of Abbey. Who is left fuming again as the bell rings to end the round, Abbey feeling the fight slipping away after such a good start. Jessie looking up for this as she sits on her stool, almost smiling as she talks to her coach as he cleans her cut lip up again. Round 6: The fighters meet near the ring centre, Abbey keeping her range early on, but Jessie parries a left and steps inside, landing a right hook that turns her opponent's head around. Jessie keeps powering forwards and slams another right that turns Abbey's legs to jelly, stumbling back as the singer comes on the attack. A follow up left cross puts Abbey down to her side! Jessie raising her arms above her head as she swaggers to a neutral corner. The referee beginning the count, Abbey stirring and shaking her head as she begins to push herself up, using the ropes to pull herself up and beat the count at 8. After being checked on, the referee let's the fight continue as Jessie comes on the attack, both girls fighting in tight. But it's clear that Abbey is still hurting as Jessie starts to work her back to the ropes with a barrage of punches slamming into her face. A cut forms above the left eyebrow of Abbey to make things even worse for her as her back touches the ropes and soon she isn't defending herself. The referee forced to step in and put a stop to the fight, nudging Jessie back to stop her hitting Abbey and giving her the victory.
Winner: Jessie J TKO Round 6
After: A big personal win for Jessie, her first win since 2013, you can see how much it means for her as she rushes over to the ropes, climbing them as she lifts her arms up and smiles widely with her bruised face. Abbey can't believe she lost, holding herself up with the ropes with blood on her face shows that she wasn't far from going down again. Gail Kim helps her to her stool, but isn't happy and let's Abbey know it, waving her hands at her fighter and telling her "you had her beat!" Jessie being brought to the ring centre for the result to be announced, Abbey expected to come to the ring centre as well, but Gail orders her out the ring and up to the aisle to the locker rooms. Shrugging her shoulders, Jessie doesn't care about Abbey as this is her moment and she smiles at the cheering crowd. Leaving the ring with her coach, Jessie strutting down the aisle with her coach by her side. Later that night she tells the press "this is where I hope my career starts on a right note now, I'm still only 29 so I have enough time to rebuild myself" Abbey meanwhile wasn't happy as she told the press "she was just lucky, now I have Gail upset at me, so you'll understand if I don't say much" before storming off to the bar for a drink to console herself with. Rumours are Jessie even brought her one to stop any real bad feelings between the girls, Gail Kim rumoured to have went home upset, so it will be interesting to see how Monday at the Kear's Kat's gym goes.
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