Ch Cat Bell vs Catherine Zeta Jones title bout

(Unified Lightweight Title)

Posted by simguy on 6/15/2002, 8:59 am

(Thanks to FightFan for this repost)

Before: All brunette superfight comes together in a thunderclap as Bell names Zeta Jones job number one. "She's proven herself," says Cat, "I think Theron looked a little sluggish against her, but the Jenny O'Dell fight really made me look at Catherine as a legitimate threat for the first time." Jones less than charitable when it comes to the champ: "I'm going to expose Bell the same way I did Charlize. They're taller than most lightweights - that's it. Frankly, I don't expect the level of competition to be as high. I think Bell is more durable than Charlize at this stage of her career, but she's not got the class it takes to share a ring with me." Rumours abound that the two arch nemeses Theron and Bell have shared several telephone conversations in the weeks leading up to this fight - rumours denied by TE spokespeople if not Bell herself. Zeta J in red bikini, Cat Bell in electric blue.

During R1,2: Tactical, high quality rounds with very similar results. Jones pressing early, right hand at her cheek, left crooked at her side - she's parrying the jab, trying to roll with Bell's right hand and slip inside to hook stomach. Cat with right at her cheek, left hand shooting hard up the middle takes over after the first minute, establishes control of the center of the ring. Bell boxing beautifully, using her length, keeping Jones outside just the way they drew it up in the gym.

R3: Jones issuing her own jab, thumping it between Bell's breasts, then jumping in to clip her hook to the chin. Cat getting caught, backed up - Jones able to snap off combinations in close, step around Bell's left shoulder and keep the big brunette from setting her feet. Midway through - Jones fitting tight punches onto Bell's jaw, fighting off Cat's chest - a clanging hook buckles Bell's knees and puts her back to the ropes. Final minute - Jones dives in behind a scorching right, blasting Bell's head back and the champ goes wobbly butt! Cat Bell swooning on locked legs, reaching to clinch but Jones won't have it. Catherine Zeta Jones POUNDS away with chopping strokes, working inside Bell's broad shoulders, swabbing those bulging jugs, tagging that chin, squirming and ducking under the taller girl's grasping limbs. At the bell, Jones nails Cat with a series of sweet little hooks on the teeth in close - Zeta J just twisting her torso, laying in with Bell after each slamming connect as the big girl sags limp against the ropes.

R4: Bell guts up - gets back to working the jab, fading back whenever Jones coils to load up a hook, stepping to the left to force adjustments on the shorter woman. Middle minute - Jones able to jab her way in close, fighting off Bell's chest, working with scrubbing action to the belly, but Cat's not discouraged. Bell laying in, tightening up her strokes, getting beefy spank out of Jones' waist as the brunettes lick it up mouth on shoulder.

R5: Bell got some respect last round - Zeta Jones hesitant on the outside, ranging more than usual from side to side, looking to dart inside the jab. Cat using distance exquisitely, content to stand off and pick away, and she's fade-stepping a little as Jones commits in, looking to pick the shorter woman up with the counter right uppercut. Shutout Bell as Jones can't find her range this round.

R6: Shoe's on the other foot. Jones able to get inside the jab, hook the tits or chin, then cuddle up before Bell can get off. Cat walked back, Jones holding her for breaks - it's effective punch n' clutch from a crafty veteran. Jones palming the hips, pushing off Bell's stomach, getting low to shoulder the taller girl around - slick, patient stuff from the challenger this round - Bell not active enough and hears it in her corner.

R7: Zeta Jones with some nice slip-moves inside, sudden jerking hooks to the solar plexus - has Bell stepping out to take deep breaths and regroup early. Midway through, Jones slips, dips inside and EATS a brilliant counter right uppercut - punch Bell's been sitting on all night and it has Jones toppling forward in trouble! Bell stepping back to clout and clang away with wide lefts and rights under the chin of her stumbling foe - Jones stomping forward wobbly butt as her mouthpiece gets swatted clear of teeth. Catherine finally clinching and tackling her girl to the ropes - messy holding and hitting gives way to a nice recovery for Jones as she works off her jab, punishing that left tit of Bell's as Cat reaches with her own stick in response.

R8: Bell the boss with three crashing right hands in the first minute - nailing Jones flush on the side of the head and finally forcing her to back away all tingly. Cat stalking, getting her jab on the retreating woman - the shoulder, the top of the head, anything available as Jones shies away around the ring. Demonstrative round for Bell - Zeta Jones on the run, just looking to avoid serious exchanges.

R9: Banging shutout Cat Bell - Zeta Jones looking harried, beaten down for the first time in the fight. Jones legs starting to fail - she can't keep turning Bell and when she tries to punch Cat off her, Bell's hammering her with crashing right crosses and that vicious, curling uppercut. Zeta Jones pulling all her tricks - block and roll, bump and shoot - Bell's straight hard punching and fine footwork just too good. Down the stretch, Jones sits in the ropes, bending at the waist - Bell palming the girl's sweaty forehead with the right hand and REEFING at the waist with monster left hooks! Big, booming swings - Cat getting her long lean body in behind withering cranks - Jones screaming as she struggles to keep her feet. At the bell - Catherine Zeta Jones with tears streaming down her cheek, crippled in the strands as a smoldering Cat Bell takes a moment to drink in the sight.

R10: Jones with some desultory jabs early, retreating, finally hemmed into a corner and it's all Cat Bell the rest of the way. Cat punishing Jones with piledriver jabs - sickeningly loud blasts off Jones skull and chest have her frozen, right hands starting to plow past her weak left mitt have her tilting forward in stupor. Bell landing hard, then palming the shoulders, propping her girl, lifting in that heartless hook up underneath, but never letting Jones fall. Bad beating has Catherine Zeta J all dressed up and ready to go - but she makes it to the bell - eyes half closed, legs unsteady as Cat presses her flat against the strands. Comes back UD10 Cat Bell.

After: Even fight through 6 - bigger, stronger Bell able to assert herself in closing out the last four rounds and by the end - she's well on her way to beating Jones to a pulp. Zeta Jones with swollen, downcast eyes, punished midsection, uncertain legs - she hasn't taken a sustained beating like this in a long time. "Absolutely not," says Cat Bell when asked if she carried a devastated Zeta Jones to the finish line, "She hung in and took her beating - I'll give her that. But I don't want to hear any more nonsense out of Catherine Zeta Jones. That last four rounds clearly separates us in my mind. I'm better than she is - end of story." Ashen faced BSE executives ringside getting used to seeing Cat Bell pounding her way past expensive corporate assets - champ's been a one-woman wrecking crew against BSE lightweights.

Sim Guy
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