Before: Scott camp initially delighted with the Ryan offer, "afterall," as one BLONDE! staffer says, "given their last fight, Ashley really can't progress in the FCBA until she's beaten Jeri. No matter what else she accomplishes - people will throw that Ryan beating in her face until she deals with it." Delight quickly sours as Jeri is merciless in negotiation, forcing Scott to accept a miserable 80-20 split, micro-managing every aspect of the fight down to dressing rooms, ring entrances and so on - Ashley forced to accept every stinging condition. "She's been a heartless witch," Ashley says of board-room Jeri, "but I'm going to take it out of her in trade. She can have the money - I just want the flesh. Somehow, someway, I'm going to make Jeri Ryan suffer." Ryan in red bikini, Ashley in black push up, black velvet boy cut trunks, brunette tousle. Girls nose to nose during tense ring instructions.

During R1: Girls bend into right hands, comeback licking hooks and JERI'S HURT! Ryan stroked along her jaw, put wobbly butt - Scotty pounces forward, bouncing her right hand off Ryan's forehead, toppling statuesque blonde to ropes. Jeri hitting strands in disarray, guard low - Scotty pours over the top rubber-armed rights, using the left as a stabilizer, stepping-with as Ryan wilts to the nearby corner. Scott ravenous, saucer-eyed as she tears away - she lifts Jeri's head up with a shattering right uppercut, puts the hook on top, puts a sweeping right hand back across the brow - Jeri tilts crazily to the turnbuckles all but out! Ashley staying on her - now shoving Jeri square, hunkering down and going body with sexy shoulder-shrug action - digging Jeri out, beating her numb between the hips. Ryan eyelashes fluttering, reaches for a mindless clinch, tying up wet around Ashley's head as brunette pushes against torn-up blonde tummy to disengage. Rest of the round like that - ref issuing the break, pushing on sweaty Ashley chest to get her back - Ryan reeling, swaying hurt, covering up weak as Scott strides back in. Ash lathering away until wounded Ryan can cuddle up around the hips or head-and-arm lock up, then ref starts it all over again. At the bell - an unblemished Ashley Scott squeals with glee at the sight of a shellshocked Ryan - Jeri staggering to her stool for emergency repairs after a disasterous first.

R2: Scott loops the right hand, clouting ear - Ryan staggering to her right, legs clearly still buzzed by that horrific first round. Scott getting limber, bending in, pulling that right hand slinging over the top, crashing home to Jeri's chin around the suspect guard - poor Ryan ramshackle as she's clobbered in a hurtin' semicircle midring. Jeri pushing back punches on instinct, gets off a right cross - Scotty slips it, eases her right shoulder into Jeri's tummy to nudge her off balance, then torques out of the crouch with a GORGEOUS swinging hook. DOWN GOES JERI! Ryan laid out with a thunderous crash - textbook head-swivel as Scotty catches all of the Ryan chin - Ash skips to neutral corner as somehow - zombie Jeri makes it to her feet. ON COMES SCOTTY! Ashley pouring herself at Jeri now, holding nothing back - looping rights and whip-armed lefts wallop away temple and jaw, leaving Ryan destitue, upright. Torrid body punching - tall brunette getting close, galloping to midriff with rising, licking action, stupifying long blonde. Scott with a leering grin helps herself to jug - rub-scrubbing away on those mouthwatering melons as poor Ryan sags against the ropes, helpless, out on her feet and RYAN TAKES A KNEE! Jeri all busted up, right arm in the ropes for support - she relieves the pressure, takes another ramshackle 8 and digs in for another minute of relentless Scooter aggression. Stop and go rhythm as Ryan clinches, resting her battered face on Ashley's shoulder - Scott anxious to put more ordinance on target - ref working hard to break up the grapples.

R3: Jeri showing incredible resilience - she's soaked up the best punches Ashley can offer - brunette a little arm weary, starting to get tagged as stubborn blonde won't go away. More orthodox action, girls touching each other jabs, bending into right hands, back with stroking hooks on wide-spread feet. Ryan getting the better of it as both land, but Ashley's backing up from the exchanges.

R4: Scotty showing tactical acumen - Ryan still a hard target, but badly damaged, very flat footed and staggery - Ashley up on her toes to use the ring. Scott tarting Ryan up a flirty jab - stomach, tits, face - Ash bringing it off the hip or slapping it down off the temple, alternately pestering then stinging her blonde. Scott able to set up a few choice right crosses clean across Ryan's chin - Jeri holding up remarkably well, but shutout and systematically punished this round.

R5: Ryan trying to establish her right hand, but she's so hurt - Ashley able to read, slip underneath and come back with that slinging counter hook on the tip of Jeri's chin, putting blonde head on a swivel. Scott scorching Jeri in the first minute, drawing groans of sympathy from the crowd - Ryan's knees buckle, but she just won't go down - Jeri continues to come forward, trying to find Ash with the jab. Round gets more and more competitive as robo-Jeri trudges through the hurt, starts to land that short, shaving right up top, turn into her hook to Ashley's chest. Scott takes the round with dramatic power punches, but she's a little dismayed that Jeri's still coming.

R6,7: Scott's been trying to tear Jeri's head off most of the night - brunette takes a little off the fastball, shows a lot of lateral movement, turning Jeri, never letting blonde set her feet. Scott picking spots to come in and work the body - Ashley getting good lanky gallop amidships - often stiffening Ryan, forcing her to clinch. Jeri's lips clenched tight, face pale, eyes strained - Scott with a nice up tempo lather, keeping work on Jeri, just keeping the blonde submerged, racking up the points.

R8: Comeback Ryan? If she's going to do it - better start now - Jeri grim as she sets down on short right, bending forward with them to move her head, then twisting as she pulls back to get the hook in. Ashley joining her in the dangerous rhythm, stroking in and out, rights and hooks - each trying to find the other's chin to end this thing. Good two way classy slugging, reminiscent of the first fight. Both women trembling at the bell, touched hard chins and torsos this round, hard-hearted glares all around.

R9: All Ashley Scott. Ryan's just shipped too much punishment tonight, legs just aren't right - Scotty stays disciplined, doesn't take any chances. Job 1: keep Jeri moving her feet - Scotty side to side, touching up the jab, circling. Job 2: work the midsection - Ashley's got Jeri hurt, bodywork keeps blonde from rallying, good licking strokes on the waist sucking the life from Ryan's tasty legs and power-punches. Job 3: make it personal - Scott stepping right, clawing hooks across Jeri's bulging jugs - Ryan's face a picture of exhausted outrage, can't stop the brunette from looting the goodies. Big smile Ashley Scott as she struts back to her corner at the bell - she's in control through 9.

R10: Scotty throws caution to the wind, figures she's got Jeri all tuned up and broke down - Ryan lumped up, sluggish, but mustering will and courage, makes a bitter fight of the tenth. Mostly lanky toe to toe - girls bending forward with right hands, leaning back to pull the hooks across - when they fall in together, they lean forward, licking and lashing up underneath to work firm belly. Plenty of shoulder bumping, stepping each other back - both showing a Bronco McKart look late as they strap on lanky at the bell. Ref shoves 'em apart - Scott shouts triumphantly in a tired Jeri Ryan's face. Comes back UD10 Ashley Scott.

After: Sweet vindication and a new rivalry is born as Ashley Scott tortures Jeri Ryan over 10 withering rounds to pull even head-to-head. "This is the best," gloats Scott in postfight, practically glowing with the one-sided smackdown of Ryan. "Jeri Ryan had a beating coming, and brother, did it come! She wants to do it again, it'll be my pleasure...at 10 cents on the dollar like she did me! b###h!" Ryan stoic as gloves are removed - if there's a silver lining it's that heroic warrior's heart Jeri showed early, ambushed and ruined for all intents and purposes after a 10-8 and 10-7 round against. No quit in Jeri as she kept trying to claw her way out of the hole all night long. And give credit to Scott for acting like a veteran - she knew she'd given Ryan her best shot and with the blonde still competing, brunette stayed safe, made the fight very difficult for Ryan to come back in - good smart effort for a developing young talent.