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Priyanka Chopra vs. Kyra Santoro
(Hawkeye International vs Vixens)
Priyanka: 40 yo, 5’6 1/2”, 37-22-0 with 36 KOs; vs Kyra: 30 yo, 5’7”, 44-17-0 with 44 KOs
Results: Lookout. Story: Hawkeye
BEFORE: Big Choppy knows this one’s a biggie at bantam. Any tilt between Top Tens is, but the Consortium’s been stocking young talent behind her alpha spot and that puts the fear of God into a fighter. After a beautiful bounce back from losing her Ice Princess title with the win over hard-punching Sydney Sweeney, the Indian pugilist isn’t slowing down. Priyanka punches up toward number four in the rankings, dipping her toe into the model-end of the bantam pool with long, lean Kyla. Chopra’s building the makings of another banner year after the breakout 2022 and this is another opportunity to close in on an elusive run at the top of the weight class.
“Santoro’s flown under a lot of people’s radar. Not mine. And it’s not lost on me, she’s gone 2-1 against my recently acquired stablemates. I can show her and them Big Choppy’s still got it. It’s obvious from her results this year, Kyra’s stepping squarely into her prime, but she’s still not prime Choppy. A win here puts me right behind Selena as a title challenger and when she inevitably slips on her Ice, I’ll be there to grab a shot and get that gold from Kosarin.”
Priyanka’s working her own version of the Consortium colors, the bantam big-swinger in black sports bra and trunks with yellow-gold gloves, boots and pads. Her shoulder-length, ebony locks are free-flowing tonight.
The Badass from Calabasas is humming with only a loss ‘at the death’ to Demi Rose in the 10th marring an otherwise spotless 2023 that includes a win over Natalie Alyn Lind. Kyra’s turned her rangy, supple frame into a show-stopping, match-stopping weapon and she’s gone from model/fighter to mainstream. Already firmly in the Top Five, a win here may put Santoro directly behind Gomez on the ladder, Selena also holding a past win over Kyra, blocking the most obvious path to bantam gold as the Texan does for Chopra.
“Priyanka would be an incredible notch in the belt to have and we both know I can do it. People try to overlook the model corps in the lower weight divisions. We’re down here too and we’re just as dangerous. I’m on the cusp of forcing Kira’s hand and, after I put Chopra on her back, I’ll be impossible to ignore.”
Once in the ring, Kyra reveals from under a black and white robe, a script Santoro emblazoned across the back, she’s also in a black sports bra and trunks, though white trim adorns her gear while it does not with Choppy. Black boots and pads complete Kyra’s attire for the bantam battle. Santoro’s dirty blonde locks are in dual loose pigtails.
R1: Kyra takes the lead off Jump Street as the combatants meet in the middle. Her reach is causing Chopra problems immediately as Kyra pops jabs into Priyanka’s nose and chin, snapping them through Choppy’s leaky guard. Priyanka’s trying to load up on Santoro, but she’s having trouble maneuvering close enough before Kyra THWAPS another reminder of her reach into Chopra’s features. When Choppy can pay the toll and get close, she’s churning leather to taut tummy, but the fire from Kyra is making it a losing proposition early. Kyra’s fast with her hands and when Priyanka’s defense is raised, Santoro’s not above sending combos to Chopra’s rack, drawing winces and huffs from the bruising she’s taking. Santoro connects with a left hook to the liver and a follow right to the chin, drawing an excited ‘oooh’ from the crowd, but it’s late enough in the game for the sturdy Chopra to D up and ride out the first, Kyra securing the points wide out of the blocks.
R2: Frisky Santoro ready to double down on her electric start. She’s relying less on the jab early, going toe to toe with the woman ten years her senior. That reach is continuing to give Priyanka trouble, having leather stuffed in her nose on more than one occasion, but she’s ducking and dodging, going Smokin’ Joe on Kira to get close and unloading gut-busting body shots with short, stubby uppercuts and hooks to abs and flanks. The model is sucking air, dark eyes wide, from Chopra taking her to the Body Shop. Choppy buries the crown of her head into Kyra’s cleavage, wraps her left around Santoro’s back and POUNDS away with her right. Santoro is cringing, taut frame collapsing around chugging impacts to her gut and ribs. Kyra is trying to retreat and re-establish, but the power-packed Priyanka is keeping close, negating the length of her sinewy foe. The official steps in to break up the chugging piston-like blows from Big Choppy when Priyanka gets too grabby, but she’s taking model body in bulk, helping herself to a couple uppercuts to modest bosom as part of the pain train. A bent and groaning Kyra breaks loose of the prodigious pattern late but significant points have been gained and damage done, Choppy evening things up with a wide win in the second.
R3: Now it’s Priyanka who’s looking confident and Santoro wary as the women step away from their corners. The model takes a new tactic, allowing Chopra to come to her, motioning Priyanka forward. A smirking Choppy doesn’t have to be invited twice and she wades into the waiting Kyra, pounding heavy artillery into her foe’s tummy. But these shots are from a distance and Santoro survives them more readily. Priyanka brings an overhand right to headhunt and…BOOOM! Kyra snaps Chopra’s head back with an uppercut to the chin that unhinges the coppery-skinned legs of Big Choppy. Chopra’s right glances meekly off a shoulder and Kyra follows with a right hook to the kidney that has Priyanka looking weepy, then ROCKS PRIYANKA with a nasty left to the jaw. It’s a violent head-turner and CHOPRA’S DOWN. The rugged Indian collapses to hip and shoulder, then flops to her back, arms at her sides, legs spread and extended. Priyanka’s tousled ebony locks cover one eye, the other stares blankly at Kyra above, then the lights above after the official shuffles Santoro to a neutral corner. The man picks up the count at FOUR. Priyanka’s trying to blink her senses back into place as she robotically rolls to hands and knees, sweeping the dampened raven strands off her bruised face. Chopra struggles to vertical in time for ‘EIGHT’. The official grabs her gloves and asks if she can go. Chopra nods and KYRA UNLEASHES! Whipping combinations lash the windblown Choppy. She’s battered into a corner where the overwhelmed Chopra covers as best she can, while Santoro releases the hounds! Kyra’s relentless, taking rack and sneaking potshots around a raised guard, banging fists into temples. Kyra lays waste but a wobbling Priyanka makes it to the bell, the ref slipping between to end Kyra’s onslaught. Santoro takes it wide with a knockdown to stake her claim.
R4: On her stool between rounds, Chopra brushes aside hurried advice from recently added bantam teammate Natalie Alyn Lind, apparently unimpressed with education from someone fifteen years her junior. At the bell, Priyanka’s barely off said stool when Kyra’s across the ring, ready to finish the job. Big Choppy tries to fight her way to open canvas, but Santoro’s cutting off the angles with sweeping sidearm lobs, THWACKING leather into ribs and biceps. The model keeps her target contained then breaks down the defenses from range. Kyra slices through defenses clinically, peppering Priyanka’s increasingly mottled features. Chopra’s trying to grab, but Santoro’ shifty and spiteful in response, taking rack with brutal blasts that have Chopra bleating in pain. Choppy’s backing away Priyanka’s desperate to find a band-aid when she needs a tourniquet to stop a second straight stanza of personal destruction. Kyra’s getting a little sloppy in pushing her advantage, allowing Chopra to find taut abdomen, but Santoro’s free-flowing adrenaline is pushing her through. Kyra’s giving up points to put extra hurt on Priyanka…and it’s working, a left hook carves through the Indian’s defenses, CRASHING into Choppy’s jaw. Priyanka’s sitting on the middle rope after another head snap and Santoro lets fly to the bell. The official breaks the fighters at the tolling, pulling a half-folded Chopra from between the top and middle ropes, Kyra accumulating another wide win.
R5: The fighters meet centerstage and its apparent Santoro’s arms show some heaviness from the barrage she’s laid upon Priyanka over the last couple. Kyra’s legs are carrying her, keeping her out of the firing line from the bombs that give Big Choppy her moniker. Santoro stays busy enough to keep Chopra off-balance early, jabs from distance keeping Priyanka at bay. But Choppy seems to have a second wind behind her. It’s enough to force the action. She’s reaching for an occasional moneymaker to the braincase, but Chopra’s cashing in more to the body, sweeping aside and breaking through defenses enough to get Santoro doubled and groaning from ab abuse. Chopra’s not exactly bouncy, but she’s throwing off a solid base down the stretch and finding tanned torso. It’s enough to convince the judges she’s taken this one tight, digging marginally into Santoro’s lead.
R6: Priyanka’s looking more buoyant. She’s survived Kyra’s best effort and she’s ready to…BOOOM! Chopra walks into a meat cleaver of a right after blocking the left jab preceding it. Priyanka’s jellied legs maintain verticality, if barely, a mambo-like recovery keeping her feet beneath her. But Santoro’s ready to finish a dominating performance, pushing her chips in. The model poleaxes Choppy with another combo, then loads another when a heavy left to the cleft of Kyra’s bosom freezes her and the follow-up right cross from Chopra CRASHES into Kyra’s chin. Now, it’s Santoro’s flailing like a marionette, reaching out for Priyanka like a life preserver only to have Big Choppy BLAST a right uppercut, the model’s chin again the bull’s eye. SANTORO’S SHOOK. She staggers to the ropes behind her, an energized Chopra in pursuit. A determined Kyra returns fire instead of covering up and PRIYANKA CONNECTS with a brutal combination, the crowd groaning in sympathy. There’s none from Big Choppy. With Kyra’s arms leaden at her sides and only half-aware of her surroundings, Chopra jumps into a right hook. It’s fist flush to jaw.
A shellshocked Kyra bounces bonelessly off the cables behind her, Chopra sweeping her by with an arm, letting KYRA FALL FACE DOWN to the canvas.
A sweat-soaked Priyanka shouts predatorily at the downed model before the official jumps between and directs Choppy toward a neutral corner. Chopra shakes her head, letting the crowd know this one’s over.
The referee takes up his count over a stirring Santoro. The game Kyra pushes to hands and knees by ‘FIVE’ and reaches her haunches by ‘SEVEN’ but her vacant eyes prove telling, as she’s unable to ascend further, tumbling to her derriere when she tries, the count reaching ‘TEN’, resulting in a KO6 triumph for PRIYANKA CHOPRA!
AFTER: Big Choppy’s after her Vixen when Kyra reaches her stool. Priyanka pushes past Santoro’s seconds, pulls Kyra up and, moving shoulder to shoulder, shame-walks the pliant victim. Chopra gives Santoro a full lap of indignity before stuffing the loser into the Vixen corner. Priyanka’s gall is palpable as she climbs to the middle ropes and pushes bronzed tummy into Kyra’s face in her foe’s home. Chopra smears Santoro’s features with golden-brown midriff until Alyssa Lynch shoves Choppy off. Priyanka waggles an index finger in Alyssa’s direction but thinks better of taking on the fresh cavalry. She strides back to her smiling Consortium counterparts, ready to enjoy the remainder of the evening. |
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