Posted by simguy on 9/18/2010, 10:16 am

BEFORE: "Blake's one of the reasons I came back," Theron admits before SRO press room. "With me gone, there was a real push for Blake to be annointed with Great Blonde status... but you need to earn that status - you need to fight for it. People look at my record and focus on the glory, but it's the losses that made me the greatest fighting celebrity on the planet. Blake's good, but without me, she'll never be great. I'm gonna bar the door to this kid - deny her everything, until she's prepared to take it!" Lively stern at podium - looking every inch the blonde-on-a-mission. "People compare our records and say she's just got too much experience for me," Lively says, eyes glittering. "But I see mileage... we're talking interstates here - potholes, beat up old roads, I mean: that golden body has been put through the wringer - made wet again - then wrung out all over. I know Charlize is the greatest, and that I have to take from her specifically to be the fighter I want to be. What you guys don't know is that I'm more than willing to do that. Just watch." Blake in black bikini with gold string connection between jugs/black string tie sides; black gloves - coming to stare-down in black round-lens sunglasses with gold rims. Charlize in green bikini; hair in smooth french braid; black gloves.

During R1: Char lights up Blake at the open... Theron bending in and down with a sweeping right hand over the top - kissing Blake ear-to-chin on the left side. Lively staring, stepping back: CT steps-to, leans in and down, strokes her upside the head, driving her to ropes. Blake: face in gloves/elbows in... Theron's on her with hate. Thick bombardment to the waist - Theron pursing lips, whacking away straight-arm left/rights - limbs shivering as mitts bounce off meat. Blake distressed - opening up to chip a right uppercut: Theron with suppressive wallop up top forces ingenue to cover up. Theron on the flanks strong - pushing at Blake's guard before stroking in the baseball-bat right to ribs: Lively sobbing into her palms, trying to keep herself together. Like that - two minutes - Theron atop Blake, beating her like leading ladies have been beating understudies for decades. Final minute, Blake snarling, showing heart: she chops a right to CT's chin, then trades left-for-left as girls slug toe to toe. Crowd rising to it's feet as tall blonde beauties settle in hammer and tongs: BEDLAM! Theron getting stroked to jaw - Blake shipping wallop, going wobbly butt - rangy beauties just leaning forward, dippin' and twistin' to sling in the hurt. Bell: Theron's final hook claws across Blake's sumptuous rack, humbling it late and drawing ref's warning as official pushes seething beauties apart. Hot eye contact from Charlize returned by brazen Blake in a smokin' first.

R2: Blake lights CT up: same, stroking right upside the head that had Lively backing up in the first. Theron's torso swaying on her hips, she's staring, lips parted: Blake steps into her right, driving through to chin this time, turning CT's face to the right, sending her stumbling away. Seething Blake walking staggering CT down: Charlize shaking her head, turning to regroup... Blake reaches in/chests up/stampedes CT to ropes. Blake slides left arm in under CT's right, wrapping it about the back: that's a Garner techique and Blake's putting it into play. Lively snarling, baring teeth as she shoves right hand to CT-tummy: Theron's chest lurching forward, head up, face stricken as she's punched onto her toes. Blake pumpin' 'em in - elbow drawing back, then thrusting forward: she gets into CT thick, half a dozen times before bodying up to press her flat-to-ropes. More of an Apartment fist fight than boxing match at this point - Blake bracing CT via left in the chest, then pasting her short righty to chin: CT's head flopping to the side and back, her long lean frame loose on ropes. Theron's head lolling, but proud golden legs won't give: she's forming ragged earmuffs, swaying on the spot as Blake pours it on. Lively all grabby - pulling Theron's guard apart, then plowing her: she's getting into CT's rack with shots curled so short let's call 'em forearms; she's drifting in left or right to chin. Theron sopping it up, slugging back late - she's catching Blake wide, slinging lefts or rights ear-to-chin either side of the head - PUTTING BLAKE WOBBLY BUTT! Lively distressed, lips parted as legs go numb... but she's still pitchin'! Theron clapped a looping right upside the head, dimming the lights... it's a pier-six slobberknocker. At the bell, they're just swappin' shellack - two tall, proud blondes on their last legs, leaning in, dishing righty, then facing into their own medicine. Bell... girls pushing at each other's biceps in awkward arms-length lock up: ref pushes groggy beauties apart to deafening standing ovation.

R3: Battered beauties reeling up off stools, stumbling out half-asleep... anything they once knew about boxing all but forgotten in the haze. Char steps into Blake righty - tossing ingenue head to the side, jerking her a quarter turn to the right - Blake stumbling away all eyes closed/brows arched high, lips parted in wonder. Theron wades in, takes a right in return: her turn to stumble away in gobsmacked confusion. Girls fall into desperate embraces - tumble into ropes: they roll one atop the other, pushing/pulling/shoulder/headbutting/elbowing for punching room. Theron buckles Blake's knee with a hold-and-hit right uppercut that has Garner up on her feet seething: Blake secures left-arm wrap, plowing right hand so deep to CT gut that Theron throws her arms around the kid's head and sobs into her shoulder. Back and forth - sputtering vixens batter each other senseless until a torrid right cross two minutes in turns Theron around, drops her to her knees, with her arms propped on ropes, battered face staring into crowd. Busted up Blake looming above and behind - seething: "GET UP!" as ref's pushing her back: CT grimaces, pulls herself up ropes for swaying 8. ON COMES BLAKE! Lively wading in, kissing CT a glorious right to chin: Theron's head swivels loose to the right/lolls back forward all eyelashes fluttering. Blake on Theron - hands controlling CT inside the shoulders, pushing her upright: one hand braces shoulder while the other drifts across face - stacking CT up and BLASTING her. Blake mindless, crying as she pushes and pounds... Theron out on her feet, eyes closed, lips pursed in swoon as she sags against ropes, taking, taking, taking until THE REF STEPS IN! Good Lord - TKO3 Blake Freaking Lively!

After: Lively continues to paste leather to flesh, her body on autopilot: ref physically pulling her away as Theron lolls out-but-standing at ropes. Devastating stuff - Charlize electing 'brawl' from the opening bell and making the fight all about youth and vigour: pride costs her as Lively pours it on for the win. "I crushed her..." Battered Blake sobs in postfight, eyes punched to slits. "I crushed her... she tried to ruin me, but I wouldn't have it... I crushed her... crushed..." Incoherent exultation from there.

Interesting post-fight throng: much of young-hollywood gathering in the ring - Meester/McCord/Michalka/Dobrev/Kristen Stewart/Seyfried and so on, all paying respects and listening to Lively urging them all to uproot the established women in their own divisions. Even girls like Serinda Swan and Erica Durance have been given apron-only passes. Surprisingly, Jennifer Garner is NOT issued a ring-pass for post fight, nor is she mentioned in any of Lively's interviews... bit of a slap in the face for the likely architect of CT's demise tonight