Posted by simguy on 3/16/2002, 6:10 pm

Before: Face off during weigh-in says it all - girls nose to nose in their underwear - two well put together brunettes humming like tuning forks at the sight of each other. Rhetoric has been sharp and hurtful - Debbe fighting just as much for Cat's respect as she is in defence of the title - Bell unable to accept Dunning, consistently relegating the champ to 'One dimensional slugger' status. Cat in bra style dark leopard print two piece, Debbe in purple bra style bikini, sporty scoop bottoms.

During R1: Debbe opening up with wide side to side strokes early, walking straight in - Bell keeping her guard high, answers by crowding, taking away Dunning's extension. Cat pressing up with her guard, snatching and chopping at Debbe with compact lefts and rights, keeping her head on either of the champ's shoulders and forcing Dunning to the ropes. Bell better at shortening her punches - Touching Debbe's chin with a little 6 inch right uppercut, smuggling in a hook to Debbe's luscious jugs. Final moments see Cat opening up with a batting hook to Dunning's right side that has the champ sagging in hurt. Catherine stepping back at the bell - Dunning's grimacing, keeping that right elbow low - strong round for the challenger.

R2: Cat's decision to work inside on Debbe paying off brilliantly. Dunning still shaky legged from the first - she swipes wide as Cat slips in close, sets up on the champ's chest and puts her mitts to clubbing use. Cat tearing up Debbe's flat belly with pumping lefts and rights - Dunning's hips shunt back, chin comes forward on cue for the little right uppercut and champ stumbles awkwardly to the ropes as Bell walks her down. Bang/bang right-lefts to the waist buckle Debbe forward - Bell arching her back and stuffing the right uppercut square to the breasts or clipping that chin, rocking the champ back in stupor. Dunning sliding to her right, getting shellacked - Bell stepping with her, ladling on the hurt to body, breasts and head with short, hacking, chopping strokes. Down the stretch, a merciless barrage to the pit of the stomach has Debbe leaning forward, left arm weak on Cat's shoulder - Bell able to drop the right hand over the top, swivel Debbe's head and DUNNING GOES DOWN! Debbe on her face, lying still as the bell sounds and all but carried to her corner for feverish resurrection during the break.

R3: Busted up Debbe D sucks it up, comes out slugging with hamfisted fury - Bell rejected from her first attempt to get inside elects to trade. Girls miss right hands, Debbe wins the race to the clanging left hook and CAT GOES WOBBLY BUTT! Bell suddenly shabby, reaching in to clinch, taking a blockbuster digging right to the belly that nearly shows her the canvas. Bell reeling away on soggy stilts - Debbe marauding forward, bouncing mitts off Cat's skull, shoulders and tits to chase challenger to the ropes. Bell seated on the strands, hands at her temples - she slumps forward and takes one of the worst beatings of her career as Double D loads 'em up! Batting lefts and rights up and down both sides - Debbe palming up on Cat's shoulders to prop the challenger up, then pounding away again with stupid fury. Mouthpiece clocked off Cat's teeth as she starts taking clean, out on her feet. Round ends to the beefy sound of leather on bra as Debbe pumps left/right to Cat's overhanging juggage - champ just squared away to slug. Bell wandering to the wrong corner - Dunning arm-shot but awarded a 10-8 without the knockdown for the punishing dominance shown.

R4: Both girls crippled, mustering reserves early in a blistering battle of wills. Debbe keeping her elbows in, gloves up - she looks shot as Bell bodies up, gets her gloves and head on Dunning, pushing and levering the champ off balance. Girls push at each other's biceps in a loose clinch, trying to create space to punch - Cat owning Debbe in these exchanges. Bell devastating to the gut of the champ - sucking wound type hooks and slashing right hands across the midriff have Dunning gasping, vulnerable to uppercuts through the middle. Bell turning her shoulders into tight rights and lefts to the jugs - punching sack like a woman possessed as Dunning slumps on the ropes at the bell. Ref pulls Cat off the struggling champ - Dunning's eyelids starting to droop sleepily as Bell takes it out of the champ's body this round.

R5: Cat working punch and clutch to perfection this round - when Dunning can't be first, she's ineffective. Bell force feeding Debbe the short right hand on the chin then clinching, walking the champ back, holding her for breaks. Debbe standing too erect, taking right hands on her jaw, then letting Cat fall in without repraisal - Challenger slowly taking it from the champion through 5.

R6: Cat keeping the right on her cheek, doubles up on her hooks, batting at Debbe's head as the champ starts to wade in, pitch from her hips in perfect mimicry of Arturo Gatti at his most desperate. Bell chopping Dunning up - but Debbe unfazed - meanwhile champ's licking her fists hard across the body and belly of her foe and BELL GOES DOWN! Cat turning away, face stretched in pain as she hugs her rib cage and sinks to her haunches - she barely beats the count and looks trashed as the ref asks her if she's okay. Bell badly hurt, but keeping her composure - she cannily starts to clinch and block, tying Debbe up at every opportunity, getting her body back on top and walking Dunning to the ropes slowing the action down. Down the stretch, Cat using her head in close to rub and lever under Debbe's chin, opens that gut up to a pumping barrage, then pulls the overhand right into Dunning's available jaw with a sickening clock. Debbe swooning, staring blankly at the bell - Cat swaying on the spot, eyes drifting from the punishment and exertion - these girls are ruining each other.

R7: Girls with right hands at their cheeks, step into banging hooks, miss right crosses, trade hooks again and CAT GOES DOWN! Big head swivel - Bell's lights flicker out as she sits down with legs out straight and struggles to roll over, get to her feet at the ropes before 10. Dunning's chest straining at the ref's hand, then she stomps in, laying on the leather with heartpounding fury. Bell beaten savagely around her shoulders and ribs - defence starts to wilt and Cat's head starts to loll as Dunning chugs her punches in. Crowd screaming as Debbe stands, curling left/right, left/right, chest and chin, shoulders shrugging sexily as she gets her body and hips into the licking. Bell swooning forward, eyes closing, punches pancaking her tits, lifting her drowsy head up and BELL GOES DOWN! Cat sprawling on her stomach, and it's OVER! Debbe D uses up Cat Bell AGAIN! KO7 for the winner and STILL lightweight champ - Debbe Dunning!

After: Dunning hoisted high - beautiful face puffy and swollen, but she can't stop the smile or the tears. Bell helpless on her stool for many moments as physicians check her out - HER face battered unrecognizable - what a slugfest. Dunning struts over to gloat, reaching under Cat's arms to pull her to her feet and crosses the Rubicon by giving Bell a disastrous walk of shame. Debbe making her point, left arm around Cat's waist, pulling the groggy challenger from corner to corner in display - Bell's legs still awfully unsteady. "I don't care if she never said it," Debbe says in postfight, "I know I've got Bell's respect now. Start rewriting your pound for pound lists boys - just put me ahead of wherever you have Cat right now."