Posted by simguy on 7-25-08

Thanks to Ginny for this repost.

"Carla's definitely better than her record indicates," a calm Jewel Kilcher acknowledges in prefight. "When she's hitting you, you think you're in there with a top 10 fighter. That said, I felt I pretty much handled her ass last time we tangled - so I was a little disappointed to hear her dismissing that outcome and not giving me my respect - but whatever. Janet says it's always good to beat a girl twice before moving on. She says, 'don't think of them as girls - think of them as territory you need to take," so that's how I'm approaching Carla. I beat her once, but she's still rebellious - so now i'm moving in to conquer." Jewel in tan western motif bikini with fringes and string-tied betwixt jug; soft, straight blonde hair loose; black gloves. Carla in black lace push up and panties; black gloves; black hair up with ringlets framing face.

Rd 1: Jewel out in her frame stance: right hand cupping her temple - left hand near her mouth, thrusting jabs from the shoulder as she steps in. Carla similar: right hand up near her left eye, stance slightly more closed than Jewel's as a result - left a little lower, but also jabbing from the shoulder. Girls step in strong and get to shelling: crowd-pleasing pop banging out as each other ranges in with poke vs sturdy guards. Steady bashing back and forth via stiff jabs - both girls working opposition jug; trying to poke on through up top. Gentle clockwise rotation as girls shuffle to get off. Punching graduates to short, pulverizing right hands as range decreases; thick, heartfelt hooks thumped to willing paunches. Seems even trade, but Carla blocking a higher percentage of incoming, and scoring a much higher percentage against Jewel's D: Kilcher steadily backing up, frowning with concentration. Final minute - Carla has Jewel at the apron: big, slamming straight right down into the body puts Jewel ropeside, winning a grunt of disbelief from Kilcher. Carla squares up brawny - pressing her left shoulder/left forearm against Jewel to set her, then blazing away short, clubbing hooks and crosses to the bell. Gugino spicing up the proudest rack in Nashville at the bell: Jewel humming from the drumming as ref moves in.

Rd 2: Girls step-to: neither one looking to avoid a fight tonight. Gugino with the early edge - jabbing Jewel's breasts and defences with a steady, popping delivery: great to see Carla getting off so forcefully. Jewel joins in after a minute - thrusting her own jab to Carla's bra, then hooking neatly off the poke to clout Carla's mouth. Midway through, short, blunt, abrupt right hand, Jewel Kilcher: Carla taking on the chin, immediately earmuffs up as her knees give way. Carla stooped forward, hurt: Jewel hooks her paunch, then places her left hand gently against Carla's guard, stabilizing her for a baseball batting right hand against the waist. Carla sobbing out into her palms, cringing under the blasts: Jewel's eyes fierce and hard, knowing how much she's hurting Carla here. Jewel steps in with her shoulder, bumps Carla backward: blonde takes canvas from brunette in orderly fashion, muscling Carla to ropes. Mop up beatdown, Jewel to Carla: blonde bouncing her mitts in tight-arc, clubbing swings against head and shoulders as Gugino sits and soaks. Jewel back to her corner: Janet just nodding, says, "Better."

Rd 3: Jewel having trouble landing her jab - Carla's right hand parrying it neatly, keeping it off that left eye. Carla's own jab systematically stamping at Jewel's jugs - fine, aggressive stick administered, visibly discouraging Jewel. Gugino dropping short right hands in up top - and as Jewel loosens - hooks and uppercuts as well begin to ring blonde chin. Halfway point, Jewel in steady, sullen retreat - Carla just at her constantly, rhythmically - always bouncing a mitt off Kilcher. Suddenly, Carla leans in, lands a jolting right to Kilcher's chin, changing the fight in a heartbeat. Kilcher's back leg gives way - then slides forward; she stomps it down to keep from falling backward, but she's awkward and rocked. Carla in close, hooks mouth tidy, hooks breasts, hooks the mouth again, chops a short right to face as Jewel's toppling and KILCHER'S ON HER BACK! Jewel sprawled, blinking, mouth open in astonishment: Gugino puffs a ringlet out of her eyes as she stalks past, arms humming. Jewel up at 8, swaying with damage: she covers up shabby, digging in to receive Carla. Gugino's final minute a thudding gutcheck for Kilcher - Jewel just sitting in the ropes, gloves at her temples, face stricken as a hardhearted brunette squares away for a workmanlike go at the waist. Bell: Jewel cramped up, wheezing through clenched teeth, hands still up. Carla gives her a cold-eyed once-over, checking for quit.

Rd 4: Jewel making adjustments: crouching a little more in her stance; working the jab to Gugino's jugs and body rather than head. Blonde making steady progression - shelling Carla, stepping her back, walking her down, shelling her again. Gugino grunting as Jewel focuses on body: Kilcher shooting straight lefts and rights in stamping delivery into breasts, ribs, stomach. All Jewel Kilcher late, when she EATS A HOOK! Carla backing up in good order, turns into a tight, tight left hand, clouting Jewel's chin as Kilcher's walking in and JEWEL'S ROCKED! Kilcher on her heels, eyes blinking: she covers face-in-gloves, huddling forward as Carla goes over to offence. OH THAT WHACKING RIGHT HAND! Carla baring her teeth, leaning in and pulling a monster right in behind Jewel's left elbow. Kilcher screams into her gloves, legs buckling...but she's too proud to go down. Carla shifts stance - touches her left against Jewel's guard, then WELTS JEWEL ANOTHER RIGHT IN THE BODY! Huge, muscular whack - Gugino putting her hips into it, twisting torso-left to sling it in. Another tapping left against Jewel's guard locates the blonde, then a GORGEOUS, full-blooded right uppercut takes her in the belly. Jewel sobbing aloud, keeps her guard together, but she's paralyzed at the bell. Carla steals the round, sends Jewel to her stool in tatters.

Rd 5: Grim faced beauties step to midring, dig in, get to work. They start by jabbing each other, pounding at the defences, then digging up jug. Then they're in with short, plugging right hands carried into paunch, or clubbing, tidy hooks bounced off skull or body. They'll punch straight-stampers into each other's tits and ribs, then turn the hands over and work up underneath, leaning in mouth-on-shoulder. It's panting, hardhearted fare - girls on autopilot, each oblivious to her own suffering so long as she can get off and harm the other. Everything short, professional, compact and thumping: girls are setting their feet to hurt, not to score points. Down the stretch, the constant pounding takes it's toll: Carla's output suddenly drops, her legs shaking - she covers up in tears, no longer able to sustain the trade. Exhausted Jewel wills herself forward, bumping Carla shoulders while hooking her tummy - forcing her ropeside. Kilcher twitching side to side, clubbing away at Carla's head and shoulders as brunette sits in the ropes, covering up and absorbing. Bell: Jewel just mindlessly dishing it out - ref has to pull her off as Carla slumps and shudders for a moment.

R6: OH! Carla brings that right roundhouse into Jewel's belly. OH! Jewel digs a firm, pumping right/left off the tummy - bouncing the mitts off Carla's thickness. Punching rate slows from the near constant output of previous rounds - but they're loading up more, swinging for the fences. Even though fatigued, girls are still showing good form - sticking the jab into each other's guards before leaning in to clean up. Brutal, spanking trade - gloves bouncing off taut flanks as one girl huddles up to recieve. Down the stretch, one girl's coming forward, being the boss in there, banging out the extra punch and taking away canvas. It's Jewel: Carla's wilting through 6.
Rd 7: CARLA RALLIES! Brunette catches second wind, goes right at blonde - completely and thoroughly dictating the round. Jewel grimacing behind her gloves, backing up as Carla pounds away upstairs and down. Gugino baring her teeth whenever she's setting herself to deliver that whacking sidearm right to Jewel's body: glorious site to see the level of committment on that punch. Kilcher stumbling - never routed - but badly and systematically bludgeoned all around the ring. Fight ends up in the Krusher Korner with Jewel butt-in-turnbuckles, stooped forward behind her mitts. Carla grunting as she goes at Jewel, lifting hup-hup lefts and rights up into Kilcher's heaving rack. Bell: Carla banks insurance in Jewel's jugs - bringing a howling Janet Jones in off the apron.

Rd 8: JEWEL RALLIES! Carla drained, can't hold her canvas: now Jewel walks HER down behind a thrusting, hardhearted poke. Carla's back hits ropes: she covers up, rolls her torso, shuddering as Jewel beats her flanks. Grim progression of the round is all one way: Jewel bashing at Carla, backing her up, walking her down, trapping her on the ropes, then pursuing when Gugino slips out to the side. Jewel walking everywhere in her stance - very disciplined: right hand never leaves her temple, even when she's well out of range. Carla's eyes forlorn; she thought she had Jewel on the verge - now she's taking a terrible beating from the blonde. Late the round, Jewel has Carla butt-in-ropes - Blonde pushing brunette in her shoulders to bounce her gently off ropes, then unloading to the waist with either hand. It's all too much: Gugino finally dropped to all fours by withering, non-stop body blows. Jewel throws her head back, howls at the moon as she finally gets Carla's legs to give.

Rd 9: Jewel steps in, generating terrific thrust with her jab: stiff face-punch sends Gugino reeling backward with a look of shock. Kilcher walks Carla down, jabs at the guard, crowds in close, then twists torso-right to drag a hellish left hook into Carla's ribs. Shout of pain, Carla G - she backs away with her gloves up, face stricken; she goes to a knee. Jewel lifts her mitts, walks heavily to neutral corner, calmly awaits the 8 count. Gugino's up, but crippled: she's shabby now, no longer able to keep her hands up where she wants them. Jewel marches on the dregs, jabs Carla systematically to ropes, then starts working methodically, dipping side to side. Punches ring off Carla's flanks or upside the head: Jewel just dippin'-n'-pitchin' here, smashing away to victory. Poor Carla: badly battered at this point, reacting slowly, dipping and rolling halfheartedly. Gugino absorbs another dreadful beating, staggering wobbly butt to her corner and getting a visit from the ref in between rounds.

Rd 10: Carla trudges into Jewel, pounds away short-scrubbing side to side lefts and rights to rack, backing Kilcher up early. Jewel firms, answering in kind: soon both women are pushing in, trying to swab the other's goods. Stumbling results - girls spinning around as fatigue increases: Jewel slowly re-imposing order, getting her formal guard together, and re-energizing her jab. Carla punched dizzy by face-poke - she backs away in swoon, no longer able to take the fight to Jewel. Kilcher wobbly butt, but resolute: she walks Carla down, jabs her to ropes, hammers her body, palms her shoulder to shover her upright, then starts it all over again. Jewel Kilcher finishes up at her best: steadily, methodically slamming away on helpless brunette rubble. Comes back UD10 Jewel Kilcher.

After: Gugino heartbroken again - fighting just well enough to lose. She takes a terrible toll on Jewel tonight, but once again sees Kilcher's hand raised in triumph. Jewel showing a tender side: she, more than most, knows what Carla's going through. Kilcher has a hug and some words of encouragement for her badly beaten foe in the aftermath. "I just told her that if she keeps fighting like that, the wins will come," a battered, war-weary Jewel relates in postfight. "The woman is stubborn as Cat Bell. I mean, I'm hitting her with Neve-busting right hands to the body, and she's screaming from them...but she's not quitting. Not only isn't she quitting, but she's finding the wherewithal to slug back at me and get ME hurt. I feel like I put in a good base with this fight - I retested against Carla - proved I'm better - and hopefully I can start making some big fights. Janet wants a championship by Christmas, so I better get crackin'!"