(Written by Girls Friday/Results BBU)

(Lioness Club vs Free Agent)

Intro:
A classic Germany vs England clash, as Mandy Capristo looks to take down the gypsy warrior Cher Lloyd here in the Copper Box arena in London.
Mandy is 28 years old; stands 5'4 and holds a record of 7 wins, all by knockout and 6 defeats.
Cher is 24 years old; stands 5'2 and holds a record of 5 wins, all by knockout and 3 defeats.

Both fighters were interviewed at their gyms, Mandy finishes sparring with the BBU flyweight champion Cheryl Cole with both women touching gloves after a hard session, before Mandy steps out the ring and sits on the apron.
"Who else can say they get to spar the best flyweight in the world?" Asks Mandy as she has a cheeky grin on her face and winks to the press.
"Management tells me I am fighting Cher Lloyd; I remember the rumours that were flying around here that she was surely signing for us, I don't know whose place she was taking? Especially on the run she has had" says Mandy with a chuckle.
She finishes by saying "well we know how that rumour turned out and let's be frank; we know how this fight will turn out, it's just what round do you think she will beg to quit?" A big smile on her face as she hops off the apron and heads to the showers.
Cher isn't in as good a mood, telling the journalists outside her gym "look Vanessa robbed me at the PPV! You all saw how I had that c*** on the ropes and she got lucky with that punch!"
The irate youngster continues "I also hear that sour pussy c*** Mandy has been acting tough and claiming I am easy pickings! Let's see how she likes having her big f***ing mouth wired shut then!" With Cher storming into the gym; clearly happy she has made her point.

Fight night; out comes Mandy with coach Mel B behind her, a big smile on both women's face as they jog to the ring, you can feel the confidence off them as they go.
Her attire tonight is a yellow bikini with red gloves, her hair is pulled into a simple ponytail for this fight as she steps into the ring.
Where she gives the crowd a wave on her way to her corner, once she gets there; it is all business as she limbers up and her expression turns cold.
Out comes Cher now; her coach following behind her as she marches down to the ring, wearing a black bikini with red gloves, while her own hair is in a ponytail like her opponent's.
Stepping into the ring; Cher glares at Mandy, banging her gloves together on her way to her corner, as if a drumbeat to the demise of Mandy is being played.

Soon the fighters come to the ring centre; where Cher threatens a heap of people "after I am done beating your arse, (pointing at Mel B) I might take the gloves off and beat you up, then I want your s*** of a champion, my old pal Cheryl (Cole) in here"
All through this rant by Cher; Mandy just calmly stares at her, then turns to the referee and tells him "you heard the w****, ring the bell and let's get started.
Mandy jogging back to her corner; with the referee needing to hold Cher back, he gives Lloyd a stern warning to get to her corner, which with an angry glare at the referee she does, allowing him to ring the bell to start 10 rounds of flyweight action.

Round 1:
As expected; Cher flies out her corner to come at Mandy, who shows off her defensive skills early to dance out the way of trouble and counter punch Cher on her face.
Mandy showing off her smarts as she keeps taunting Cher verbally to bring it, all the while she jabs her opponent onto her nose and face with pinpoint punches to further rile up the charging fighter.
Cher does manage to catch Mandy with a straight, but misses with the follow up right hook and ends up taking a hard right to her body to make her groan and cover up.
A big smile on Mandy's face tells you how much she is enjoying this dominance, banging her punches off the gloves of Cher, she can be heard saying " I expected more"
That nearly leads to her getting caught with a wild right across her face, with Mandy managing to counter with a double jab to keep Cher on the outside.
Cher seems to take the hint to slow down and box her way into the fight, she manages to land several clean punches to the body of Mandy as she dips down under the German's punches.
But Mandy stings her to the face with a left, then follows with a right across the side of the head that forces her behind her gloves as the seconds tick away in the round.
With the round ending; Mandy winks at Cher before she heads to her corner, barely a scratch on her compared to the marked up face of Cher.
Who tells her coach "I know that was f***ing dumb of me!" With Cher's coach deciding to just keep quiet and try to clean her up.

Round 2:
This time Cher looks to start off more controlled; with her head moving more and trading jabs with Mandy at midrange.
The German fighter still looks comfortable as she steps back and lands the cleaner punches, her extra reach and her more accurate punches continues to redden up the face of her opponent.
Till Cher slips under a right and lands a left across the face of Mandy; as if a switch goes on, Cher keeps in close, working the body of Mandy.
Capristo finding herself needing to step back and cover up, with Lloyd keeping in close and forcing the action now.
The English fighter starting to finally get some rhythm going; working on the inside as she bullies Mandy around the outside of the ring.
Mandy manages to shove Cher back with her left, catching her trying to come forwards with a right hook that turns the face of the smaller woman.
The Lioness star seems to survive the onslaught as she manages to get the fight back to midrange, both women land stiff shots though as they try to look for an opening to land something meaningful.
Cher slips under a right and bangs her left into the side of Mandy's body, before forcing Mandy to retreat as she throws two uppercuts that just miss, the younger woman looks like she wants to hurt Mandy badly.
The bell rings to end the round with both women exchanging nasty looks on their way to their corners, Cher's coach looking happier with her after that round.
But he looks a little worried by how marked up her face is, working on cleaning her face up and telling her to keep her guard tighter.

Round 3:
Both fighters start off the range landing more punches in bunches, up on their toes as they fight around the ring, Cher still being her aggressive self as she seems to be stalking Mandy around the ring.
When Cher tries to slip to the inside; Mandy catches her on top of her head with a straight right as she dances backwards.
It looks like Mandy is reading Cher better after Lloyd settled down after round 1, with Mandy mostly catching the gloves of her opponent as she comes forwards, with several punches striking Cher through her mitts.
Cher feints with a left and comes in with a right and left around the gloves of Mandy, catching her on the side of her head.
As Cher steps in tight; it leads to a classic flyweight exchange, both women grunting as they work each others bodies as they nearly bump heads.
Mandy surprises Cher though by using her left shoulder to bump her back a step, landing an uppercut that knocks her onto her heels, leading to Mandy taking control of the action late in the round.
As Cher has to cover up; but finds herself being driven onto the ropes, with Mandy smacking the guard of her opponent with a flurry of punches.
The round ends with Mandy jogging back to her corner and getting a nod from Mel, who washes her fighter down and tells her to keep this up.
While Cher looks frustrated; banging her gloves together as her coach works in her, both know that again they are behind on the scorecards.

Round 4:
Cher looks to come out faster this time, forcing Mandy to trade more in closer as Cher pushes the tempo, the crowd roaring both women on as they land with more stunning punches to the others face.
A right slams across the face of Cher to knock her back a step; with a quick follow up two punches smacking Cher's head back.
Driven back onto her heels; Cher looks frustrated as she can't seem to get anything going for a long period, instead finding herself getting caught with a straight onto her nose, blood trickling from her nostrils now to worsen her mood.
As Cher tries to swing a right cross out of her guard; Mandy steps back and drills two more punches into that bloody nose, causing Cher to cry out and try to recover her guard.
Mandy looks to have Cher under her thumb as she steps in and works the ribs of her opponent, hoping to open her up top to land on that nose again.
Cher tries to fight back, her fighting spirit still burning strong it seems, but Mandy keeps hitting her bloody nose, making the blood flow even quicker and tears forming on Lloyd's eyes as she has to cover back up.
It becomes a beating for Cher as he body gets thudding punches to her sides and when she looks to clinch, Mandy steps back and counters with a punch straight onto her face to knock her back.
The round ends with Mandy jogging back to her corner with a beaming smile on her face, compared to the grumpy look on her opponent's face.
The Lioness corner is calm as expected, mostly keeping Mandy fresh is the focus as they talk about not doing anything stupid to let Cher back in.
With Cher staring right at Mandy, her face looks a mess with the blood covering her lips and chin from her nose, her coach doing a good job cleaning it up but she still looks to be hurting as she winces at his touch.

Round 5:
This time Mandy comes forwards the quicker to engage her opponent; Cher looks to use that aggression against Mandy as she tries to slip inside the work the body.
But after Cher gets in a good shot to the body that makes Mandy hiss, the German fighter nudging Cher back outside as the fighters trade hard shots.
As Cher tries to come inside; Mandy stings her to the face with a jab and catches Cher to the temple with a right hook that wobbles the English fighter.
Mandy steps in closer to land a thudding right and left across the face of Cher, who looks to step back and get a moment to recover.
The Lioness fighter doesn't let Cher off the hook though; nudging Cher onto the ropes and banging in several body shots that make Lloyd cry out.
The guard of Cher opening up enough that Mandy starts slinging uppercuts through to her chin, WITH ONE LANDING FLUSH AND CHER FALLS TO ALL FOURS!
1...2...3 the count begins as Cher shakes her head to try and clear it, 4...5...6 Mandy watching intently as Cher pushes herself up to her haunches and scowls at her 7.....8... Cher beats the count, wobbling slightly though, the referee allows her to continue as he waves them at each other.
Mandy comes straight at her; it's clear as soon as they start exchanging punches, Cher is clearly still in trouble, her head is getting rocked back by Capristo.
Leading to Cher missing with a left cross, Mandy knocks her back onto the ropes with two straight punches, BEFORE LANDING A RIGHT ACROSS HER BLOODY NOSE; CHER CRIES OUT AND GETS CAUGHT WITH THREE MORE CLEAN SHOTS THAT MAKES HER LEAN ON THE ROPES WITH HER HANDS DOWN, THE REFEREE STEPS IN TO WAVE THE FIGHT OFF!

Winner Mandy Capristo TKO Round 5

After:
Turning to the fans behind her; Mandy bows to them as her fans who've flown in roar for her, Mandy smiling and blowing kisses to them after this impressive victory, stopping Cher isn't easy to do.
Though as the camera turns to Cher; blood drips onto her jugs and she looks she wants to complain, but knows that she hasn't a leg to stand on as she leans on the ropes.
Cher's coach helps her back to her stool; cleaning her face up, which is still badly marked up to show how hard and cleanly Mandy was connecting throughout the fight.
The Lioness corner laughs as they remember Cher's proclamation that she'd take on Mel afterwards, the former Spice Girl shouts at Cher "sure you can go another 5 rounds?!"
As Cher can be seen trying to get off her stool to go after Mel; her coach wisely holding her back and getting her back onto her stool.
Till Cher in a huff leaves the ring; pundits at ringside wondering when she can get back on to the winners circle after such a bad run, she has too much potential to let this continue.
While Mandy looks in high spirits as she leaves the ring, while she can't get the flyweight title as long as her stablemate has it, she can certainly still dent other fighters chances at getting a shot.
It helps that stablemates Heidi Range and Emma Burton are looking like gatekeepers for the stable, allowing her to be the stables best pure BBU fighter at this present time.
So as Mel and Mandy head up the ramp; they talk about girls they would love to take down, big smiles on both their faces as it is a great time to be a Lioness fighter.