Posted by simguy on 2/14/2003, 6:46 am

(Thanks to FightFan for this repost)

Before: Cat Bell sizes up the comp: "Anna's a terrific physical challenge, I mean, she's got it all - youth, fitness, strength at light. But let's face it - the kid isn't seasoned. We've all seen her fold under pressure, but I've also heard about her whining during photoshoots - PHOTOSHOOTS! Really - I seriously question this girl's heart and I mean to test her resolve early and often in this fight." Anna more concerned with her glorious blonde locks during prefight, constantly asks, "Who is Cat Bell?" Cat in electric blue bikini, Anna in white crotchet sport top to a high neck, bare midriff, teal high waist aerobics trunks with fringe skirt to her thighs, white shoes, hair in long battle braid.

During R1: Girls business like to midring and CAT GETS HURT! Anna with a quick shift of her hips, wide stroking left and a jolting straight right on the chin sends Bell reeling back on her heels across the canvas to the ropes. Bell gloves at mouth, eyes wide in shock - Anna marching on her like a heartless cossack. Anna's offensive form superb, right hand tight at her cheek as she digs merciless hooks to Bell's hip and rightside ribs - she dips right to get leverage on snap-scooping right hands hard against the breadbasket, then hammers around the guard up top with biting short left/rights. Bell's strong legs keeping her upright, but she's getting battered - not much head movement as she covers up and lets Anna get off. Bell to bell Kournakova - blonde tireless as she works up and down her sexy brunette, nice crisp punching keeping that braid a-bouncing.

R2: Bell recuperating nicely, chastising herself for getting caught - she changes fight plans midstream. Bell jabbing with Kournakova, then jumping in to clinch - holding and hitting, roughing up on the inside, working out of the wrap - veteran gets after her blonde with meanspirited determination this round. Kournakova bocked to the ropes, struggling with bared teeth against Cat's roughouse tactics in close. Bell keeping her left arm around Anna's shoulders, stuffing hard right hands to tummy in tight, then easing Anna into a headlock, pressing her into the ropes for breaks. Smart punch n' clutch from the savvy vet - Anna flustered and complaining to ref during the break.

R3: Cat getting her body on Anna, constantly drapping one arm or the other around the girl's neck, jamming her ropeside, rubbing a cruel forearm against the mouth or throat in rough clinches. Kornakova straining against the grappling tactics of her foe, but not punching - she's waiting to get distance and Cat's not letting it happen. Bell scrounging for hard-to-score points, landing with cramming rights to the body, slamming short rights to the jaw and carrying through with mean elbows, constantly tying up Anna under her arms or headlocking her. Kournakova burdened with Cat's bodyweight as Bell presses her girl into the ropes - brunette smothering when she's not punishing her foe.

R4: Cat on the attack - Anna trying to create distance, stepping back behind a snapping jab. Bell with the right hand up around her left cheek, left across her body, crouching low and slipping the stick = she's working her way inside, getting her cheek on Anna's shoulder and going to work. Sensational body punching done by Bell - she's hacking right hands down knife-edge onto Anna's left hip and kidney, she's getting thick hooks into Anna's midriff, coming off the abs with a jagged left uppercut. Anna shipping leather, wilting to the ropes - hands up around her face, palms out - she's shutting down. Cat pours it on, giving it to Anna relentlessly in the waist, coming up with either hand with clipping uppercut action to the chin. Anna standing stiff at the ropes, tilting upon impact, not answering back. Ref waits until Kournakova's head starts to loll and roll rather than snap back sharply from punches, then he jumps in to cradle the blonde. Bell turning on her heel with a fierce shout of triumph - TKO4 Cat Bell.

AFter: Anna trembling in defeat, badly used by a harder, older brunette. Bell survives a disasterous opening, caught clean by Anna's short right hand - she'll file that away for future reference. "Anna can definitely punch if you let her," breezes Cat in post fight, "she wants to be an athlete in there, she wants her space, wants her rhythm to be just right. Once I saw that, I just crowded her, roughed her up, made her deal with my body and she just didn't have any answers. Her body's hard, but she doesn't like it in the stomach - I knew I could check her chin after shaking her up downstairs. She's a great Krusher addition: looks good on the scales, sells a lot of posters - when can I have a rematch?" Anna blubbering protestations in post fight, "Look at my back! (lifting left arm, turning to show her flank) Bruises! She was chopping at me with the side of her hand and that is a foul! I have heard that TE fighters are cheats, but I never would have believed it until tonight! Cat Bell is nothing more than a gangster."

Sim Guy
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