SASHA PIETERSE VS EMILY BETT RICKARDS

Results: Lookout Writing: Archer

Sasha: 23 YO, 5’6 (1.67 m), 13-12-0, 12 KO since 2014 Pretty Little Punchers

Emily: 28 YO, 5’5 (1.65 m), 11-6-0, 10 KO since 2013 Medallion Boxing

Before: “I’ve had back to back wins over Caity Lotz and Erica Marrone. I am really feeling like I am rolling now,” an excited Sasha Pieterse tells assembled press at the pre-fight meeting. “Now I get to take on Emily. She’ll be tough, but I am tougher.”

Emily smiles at this: “I don’t doubt for a minute that Sasha THINKS she is tougher than me, but she will forgive me if I don’t agree. I have been a bit rusty I my recent fights, but I have been training hard at Medallion. I am ready to start winning regularly and Sasha is just the opponent to start. I am really looking forward to this.”

“So am I,” Sasha said with a challenging tone in her voice.

The night of the PPV finds Sasha coming to the ring in company with trainer Nia Peeples and Communications Director Autumn Reeser. Once in the ring she removes her robe. She is wearing a black one piece swimsuit with black boots and gloves, white laces.

Emily Bett Rickards comes to the ring with trainer Charisma Carpenter. She removes her robe to reveal a blue one-piece swimsuit with white boots and gloves (blue laces).

The two meet at mid-ring with the referee. The instructions are gone over. The two fighters tap gloves and go to their corners. The bell rings.

R1: Sasha out quickly and goes right after Emily’s abs with a sustained series of hooks. Emily grimacing, but stabbing back with jabs to Sasha’s head. Sasha moving her head well is managing to evade Emily’s counters. Then Sasha smoothly shifts gears and goes after Emily to the chin, jaw and head. Emily smacked hard by these blows and falls back with her gloves up around her face. Sasha goes back to smiting the stomach and ribcage with pounding hooks. Emily all hunched up and not hitting back much as the round draws to a close. Bell sounds. Sasha wins the round wide.

R2: Emily comes out much quicker this round and now she is the one driving hooks into Sasha’s torso. Sasha trying to circle away from this attack, but Emily keeping up and maintaining punching pressure to Sasha’s midsection. Sasha tries counterattacking with head shots, but Emily shakes them off and snaps Sasha’s head back with a solid right uppercut to the chin. Sasha stumbling back with her guard up high and Emily pounds away to the torso until she’s got Sasha doubled up and is banging rights and lefts off her head. Bell sounds and Emily strides to her corner with confidence. Sasha looks shell shocked and rubbery legged getting back to her corner.

R3: Emily resumes her aggressive attack as the new round gets started, but this time she is working Sasha to the head. Opening minute sees Sasha smacked hard to the jaw by fast rights and lefts, then her chin with bruising uppercuts. Sasha was retreating, throwing up a defensive screen of jabs, as Emily coolly tried to circle her quarry. Emily was able to cut off the ring and then work Sasha towards the ropes. Sasha tried to fight her way clear as they fought along the strands, but Emily finally backed her into the ropes and slammed punch after punch into Sasha’s quivering body. Sasha huddled against the ropes protecting her head and trying to hunch up to make her body less of a target. Emily works Sasha over to the bell. Sasha slowly peeling herself off the strands to get back to her stool. Emily looking quietly pleased. She knows she’s won another round by a wide margin.

R4: Emily comes bounding out of her corner looking eager to get at Sasha once again. Perhaps too eager as grimly determined Sasha comes at her and suddenly slams a lightning right into Emily’s jaw. Emily’s head swivels and she spins away. Sasha launches a barrage of punches to head and body trying to disrupt a dazed Emily’s efforts to recover. Emily finds herself driven into the ropes. Emily trying to fight Sasha off, but then takes a left to the jaw and a right uppercut to the chin. Emily thrown back into the ropes where she takes a seat to remain standing, then tries to clinch to break up Sasha’s attack. Sasha forced back by the referee but keeps coming and Emily can’t get clear of the ropes. Finally, Emily is just covering her face and head and letting Sasha work her over to the body. Bell ends the round. Emily now the one slowly peeling herself off the ropes and Sasha’s the one with the look of satisfaction as she comes back to win the round wide.

R5: Sasha and Emily both out quickly this round and start firing punches as soon as they can get within range. Its head shots to the begin with and both are sent lurching away from solid impacts landed. However, they both quickly come back at each other and suddenly there is a flurry of breast punching. The jugg mugging then gives way to a sustained exchange of belly busting blows with rib roasting punches worked in. Action is now toe to toe and they ae slamming home the body punches as fast as they gave lift their gloved fists. Then Sasha slips in an uppercut to the chin that catches Emily by surprise. Emily knocked back on her heels and Sasha adds left and right swats to the jaw. Emily pushes back with the jab and catches Sasha in the face to stall her attack. Two are circling and exchanging punches as the bell sounds. Close round, but the judges give it to Sasha Pieterse.

R6: Sasha trying to charge in against Emily, but Emily striking her from a distance to keep her back. Sasha keeps coming forward, but has to work her way through good defensive work from Emily. Emily’s striking at the body, using hooks to bend Sasha forward and keep her from effectively launching her punches. Then Emily suddenly drops down and comes shooting up with her right from down around her ankles. She’s spotted an opening and drives that right home under Sasha’s chin. Sasha caught flush, her head jerks back admit a spray of sweat and Sasha is HURLED onto her back. Sasha crashes on her back with ring shaking force and lies there starfished. Emily trots off to the neutral corner. The referee is counting as Sasha moves her head and looks around with a glassy-eyed expression as though wondering where she is and what happened.

“NINE!...TEN!...YER OUT!” cries the referee.

THE WINNER: EMILY BETT RICKARDS DEFEATS SASHA PIETERSE KO6!

After:

“That felt amazing!” Emily declares in the ring as she slapped on the back on teammates Caity Lotz and Shelley Hennig. “Sasha’s not that easy to take down, but I knew if I could just get enough power into her chin I could take her down! I feel I am finally on the right road!”

Sasha Pieterse is revived and helped from the ring, she later comments: “I was really disappointed in myself. I think I was doing a good job against Emily, but I got careless and she drove that blockbuster through it and suddenly it was over! I shouldn’t have let that happen, but you can’t dwell on your losses too long. I need to focus on winning my next fight.”

Pretty even contest with Emily Bett Rickards and Sasha Pieterse both having some good rounds. Unfortunately for Sasha, it was Emily who had the good round that won her the fight with an impressive KO in R6. It has taken a while but Emily looks to turned things around and hopefully this victory will lead to more in the new year. It was a painful loss for Sasha, but she has a way of bouncing back after a reverse and her fans are hopeful this will happen again as 2020 progresses.