(Written by Girls Friday/Results by BBU)

(Free Agent vs Free Agent)

Intro:
Two of the worlds top models step into the ring to create history as the BBU hits China's Cotai Arena in Macau, Ming Xi fights Rachel "Rocky" Barnes.
Ming is 28 years old, stands 5'10 and is from Shanghai, she has modeled for Victoria Secret and her record is 0 wins and 1 defeat.
Rachel meanwhile is 31 years old, stands at 5'7, from Manhattan Beach, California and has modeled for Sports Illustrated, her own record is 0 wins and 1 defeat.
Both women have something other then being stunning models, that one defeat on both their records is to the same fighter, Danielle Robertson.
So both are desperate to get that first win to get off the mark and maybe get another bout with Danielle to get revenge.
In the build up to the fight, both girls holding open workouts for the cameras, both proud to be ambassadors for the BBU the two weeks before the fight, trying to work harder to impress the Chinese fans.
Though of course Ming is the one everyone wants to see, the crowds flocking to the gym she is working at to try and catch a glimpse of their hero.
The day before the fight, she gives the press a quick statement, telling them "I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life to make you guys proud of me"
Rachel tells the press when she gets a chance "I know how big this fight is, Ming is here to make everyone proud of her, unlucky for her that I'm desperate to win"
Adding "I've worked my ass off to make this body into what it is, Ming is going to have to bring her all to beat me"
Fight night, Rachel is out first to loud boos, a sold out arena surrounding her as she walks towards the ring with a smile on her face.
She is wearing a black bikini with matching gloves, her hair is tied into a fighting braid as she bounces on her toes just before jogging up the steps.
Climbing into the ring, she jogs over to her corner and gives the top turnbuckle in her corner a quick punch, maybe thinking of the crowd or her opponent.
Now the atmosphere in the arena has changed, Ming comes out with her coach carrying the flag of China, a loud roar filling the arena as it is seems like the crowd is trying to blow the roof off the arena.
She marched down to the ring wearing a red bikini with white gloves, her hair is tied into a ponytail, her eyes focused purely on the ring as this fight means so much to her.
Climbing into the ring, giving the crowd a bow before she jogs to her corner to warm up as her eyes meets Rachel's, a hard kook being exchanged.
Being asked to come to the ring centre, the fighters look deep into the others eyes, hoping to see a sign of weakness in the other, seeing none.
After the referee finishes his instructions, he asks for a touch of gloves, which the girls do respectfully, even going as far to wish each other luck.
Before each fighter jogs back to their corners, once they return; the referee signals for the bell to begin 10 rounds of lightweight action.

Round 1:
"Ding" out come the fighters with a quick touch of a glove, they begin to circle each other and test their opponent out with probing punches.
Ming looking the better in the early going, her extra height allowing her to fight at range, Rachel covering up as her guard is getting hit.
Timing her attack, Rachel slips to the inside as a jab comes towards her head and lands two body shots to start to working her way forwards.
Ming shoves her back as the chants start for her, but it seems to be making her nervous, her arms look tight as she throws long range punches.
Rachel looking the more confident as she knew she was going into hostile territory, she's more focused and relaxed as she slips inside again to dig away at the body.
Ming forced to fight back leading to the fighters trading punches to try to land something meaningful to hurt each other.
It shows the power difference as Rachel starts shoving Ming back onto her heels, the Chinese fighter grunting as she is getting worked to the body and an overhand right just misses her cheek.
Ming covering up as Rachel goes on the front foot, pressing her back towards the ropes till she gets clinched up by the taller girl, who leans on her to try and drain some energy as Rocky tries to shove her back.
The girls are separated and Ming stings the face of her opponent with a double jab, before moving out the way of a counter right to a loud cheer as the crowd tries to get behind their girl.
The seconds ticking away in the round and Ming finishing strongly with her long range punches getting through the gaps left behind by Rachel in her guard as she tries to get to the inside again.
The bell rings with both fighters looking at each other, it's a tense moment as they stand silently, till they give each other a quick nod and jog back to their corners to be cleaned up.
Round 2:
Ming looks focused again as she fights off the backfoot, long range punches slamming into the guard of Rocky.
The American trying to find that opening, each time she tries to get to the inside; she's opening herself up and getting clipped with shots coming in.
Ming slamming two cross punches around the guard of her opponent to push her back a step, the crowd trying to help fuel her on as she starts letting her hands go.
Rachel moves back, then as Ming looks to land a straight, she misses and the American slips to the side and lunges in to land a left hook to turn her opponent's head.
Driving forwards, Ming is being pressed back towards the ropes, Rachel smiling as she's enjoying knocking her back.
Till an uppercut flashes in front of her, glancing off her chin, not enough to do much damage, but it stops the charge from Barnes.
Ming happy to have her space again and digs a jab followed by a quick straight punch through the guard to knock Rocky's head back.
As the round heads into it's final stages, Rachel finds herself being pressed back around the ring with several punches being thrown in bunches to keep her back.
The bell rings with Rachel looking annoyed, staring at the crowd who chant Ming's name, the Chinese fighter waving to her fans on her way back to the corner.
Round 3:
Once again Ming is on the attack with straight punches keeping Rachel pinned behind her guard, like a turret; when Rachel is trying to move around her, she is turning to keep her in front of her.
Ming starting to add shots around the guards of Rachel, pushing her back onto her heels, grunting with effort as she knocks her opponent's head side to side.
Rachel though charges up the center, landing several punches to the face of Ming, till she takes a right hook to knock her back to the side.
The Chinese fighter pressing her onto the ropes, Rachel though won't be kept pinned for long, fighting her way off the ropes as the girls grunt and groan.
Rachel manages to get off the ropes, Ming looking annoyed as she tries to pin this live wire down, but the American keeps coming forwards.
She forces the fight in tight by ducking under a right and digging two body shots to each side of Ming, who groans and quickly steps back to dig a straight in return to stop Rachel coming forwards.
The fighters circling and trading single punches as the action slows down, Ming quickly adds a double jab to the cheek of Rachel to try and knock her back as the round is heading to it's end.
Rachel though steps back and as Ming is overextended, she steps back in quickly to land a right hook and a left to the ribs to shove the crowd favourite back.
Ming covering up with seconds to go in the round, having to quickly step back to try and create space, but Rachel keeps in tight and lands three unanswered body shots to force her to groan.
The bell rings with Rachel looking relaxed again, both girls seem warmed up to the idea of what they need to do before they jog back to their corners.
Rachel's coach nodding as she tells him "I know I need to keep my head, I can beat her" smiling after she says it.
Ming looks around herself and smiles, knowing these fans are desperate to see her win, she bangs her gloves together as she's ready to go back out.
Round 4:
Rachel coming our quickly, forcing Ming to step up her movements or get caught by the power punches of the American.
Ming landing several straight shots to keep Rachel back, just getting her body out of the way of a right hook as she controls the pace of the fight again.
Trying to get close sees Rachel keeping getting caught by pinpoint punches and soon she's stuck behind her guard again, growling with frustration as blood starts to trickle from her nostrils.
The Chinese girl continues to pressure Rachel backwards, the older fighter forced towards a corner, but she misses with a straight and Rachel steps to the inside.
Landing an overhand right, suddenly it's Ming on the retreat as her head snaps around and Rocky is on the attack.
The crowd trying to cheer Ming to strike back, she's stuck behind her own guard though as Rachel lowers her head and works the body ripping some mean body shots in.
Ming shoves Rachel back and lands a left hook to hurt Rocky judging by her reaction, she's back on the defensive and Xi is keeping her going in reverse.
Though she's struggling to break that guard, so changes tactic, going to the body of her opponent with rights and lefts quickly landing.
The round is in it's finally stages as Rachel lands a right hook, followed by a left cross to knock Ming back again, back and forth go the fighters as they slug it out with seconds to go.
The bell rings and both girls just hold back, both fighters marked up; though Rachel looks the worse of the two with blood trickling from her nose.
Her corner team working on stopping that and giving her advice as that was a terrible round for her, she looks up at her coach and nods at him as she knows she can do better.
Ming starting to enjoy the fight, looking around the crowd who are still chanting her name, she wants to just get out for the next round.
Round 5:
Rachel bolts out of the corner, Ming trying to keep her back but the American is like a woman processed the way she's stalking after her.
Ming is catching her with some good punches, but Rachel ducks under a right straight and is on the inside, wearing Ming down further.
Each time Ming creates some separation, Rocky finds her way back to the inside and it looks to be finally taking effect on the bigger girl as she's wincing as her body takes a beating.
So she decides to stand and trade to a rousing cheer from the crowd, both are landing some good punches as they turn each others heads around.
But Rachel ducks a left hook and comes back up with an uppercut that rattles her opponent, the younger Ming's head snapping back and soon she finds herself on the ropes.
Ming covering up as Rachel hammers away at anything she can hit, working the body with thudding shots that make some in the front row grimace for their girl.
Clinching up, Ming tries to wrestle Rachel around and onto the ropes, both girls grappling hard and Rachel's lower centre of gravity allows her to keep Xi pinned onto the ropes.
That's till the referee steps in, pulling the girls apart and allowing Ming off the ropes to get a quick breather.
Rachel comes straight back on the attack, forcing Ming to box off the back foot, the American getting caught coming in to the top of her head, finally slowing the assault down.
Late in the round though, Rachel this time parries a straight and steps forwards, Ming not wanting to get caught too easily let's her hands go, the fighters exchange hard punches with seconds to go.
The bell rings to end the round with blood now flowing from a cut lip on Ming, who looks annoyed as she returns to her corner, a little worry creeping back in as she thought she had Rachel.
In the other corner, Rachel bumps fists with her coach, both happier as they see the improvement they needed and Rachel thinks she's finally put created a chance to win this outright.
Round 6:
Rachel is dictating the tempo now, keeping on the front foot and forcing Ming to work hard to keep her back with her long ranged punches.
But it's not long till Rocky parries a right from her opponent and steps in with a hard straight to the abs of Ming, who gasps and is being pressed backwards.
Ming is trying to cover up but she is looking hurt as Rachel powers on with her head down and hammering shots to the body.
Soon Ming takes a knee as she can be heard breathing harder, that clean body shot before seemed to do more damage then first thought!
The crowd are all shouting for her to get up as you can barely hear the count as the referee gets up to 8 before Ming pops back up to her feet.
Banging her gloves together and waving Rachel back in, the American nods and comes forwards, wisely not rushing as Ming flicks out her jab.
The fight becomes a little cat and mouse affair as Ming is being chased around the ring by Rachel, both firing jabs.
A right cross from the Chinese fighter shows she still has soon fight in her, she looks to follow up as she moves forwards.
Instead she fines herself in a tight exchange as Rachel moves in to force the action, Ming getting the worse of the action as she takes more punches to that sore looking body.
Barnes powering her onto the ropes as the crowd look upset, Ming doing her best to try and fight off the ropes but cannot find a way to get Rocky off of her.
The bell rings and Rachel looks at Ming with a smile on her face, enjoying the sight of her opponent leaning on the ropes sucking in air.
Ming looking defiant as she shoves her way off the ropes, both girls returning to their corners but only one looks in any real shape to fight as the sit on their stools.
Round 7:
Both fighters starting to look tired, but it's Ming whose punches don't look to have the sting in them they did in the earlier rounds.
Rachel parrying Ming's punches away easily, she steps to the inside and lights her opponent up with an uppercut that snaps her head and knocks Ming onto the ropes.
The referee watching closely to see if he should step in, but as Rachel lands two hard shots to the solar plexus of Ming, down goes Xi!
Onto her knees she goes, then all fours as she spits her gumshield out to breath more easily, the count from the referee getting closer to 10.
She looks up as the crowd try to get her up once more, this time though she doesn't have the energy to get back up and the count does reach 10, ending the fight.

Winner: Rachel "Rocky" Barnes KO Round 7

After:
The crowd are of course not happy with the result, but Rachel just too strong for Ming tonight to finally get a win on her boxing C.V.
Rachel surprising some by helping Ming up, that seems to placate the crowd a little, Rachel not doing it for them, she tells Ming "you're tougher then you look"
Ming looking annoyed but replies "and you have some power, guess I need to hit your gym" both fighters laughing as the tension starts to disappear.
Both girls give each other credit as Rachel helps Ming back to her corner, before jogging back to her own corner, their coaches cleaning them up and taking their gloves off.
The fighters are led back to the ring centre for the final announcement, now the sting of their girl is gone, the crowd gives the winner a round of applause.
Both women give each other a hug, before Rachel waves for Ming to have a moment in front of her fans, Rocky leaving the ring with her coach by her side.
Ming sheds a tear as she feels guilty she lost in front of this amazing crowd, bowing to each side of the ring as they chant her name.
As she leaves the ring, Ming is hoping she can repay these fans with a win in her next fight, blowing kisses to the fans at the top of the ramp.
In the back, Rachel spoke to the press after she'd showered and changed into a red figure hugging dress, she told them "I know the fans weren't on my side, which I certainly don't blame them for, I have to say they were amazing to fight in front of, so thank you China"
Smiling she adds "Ming is a good fighter, she had the weigh of a nation on her shoulders and she should be proud of what she did against me, though it wasn't good enough of course and no offence to her but I plan on keeping her below me if she ever decides she wants a rematch"
Changing the subject to an old rival "I hope Danielle Robertson was watching, someday I am going to get my rematch and smash your smug face in" smirking as she heads off to celebrate with her coach on a big personal win.