Posted by Simguy on 6/1/2002, 12:03 pm.

Before: Stone feeling picked on by the House of Technetium after Dina Meyer and now Fox look to use Sharon’s name ton the way up. “The kid gloves are off for this fight,” proclaims a serious blonde. “No way this stable goes through me easy--I’m roughing Jorja up, outclassing her, beating her every which way.” Fox with the lean athletic build looks to be the harder woman going in, but pundits never count out Stone’s wealth of experience and boxing smarts. Pink bras and panties for Fox, blac bra and panties for Stone.

During R1: Jorja very relaxed considering the name she’s in with. When she’s outside, Jorja holds her hands low, hopping to the side then stopping flat footed, keeping her limbs loose. She closes smart behind the jab, bending to sling the right hands off her hip, then bending back the other way to get some whip on the hook,. Stone purely defensive this round, giving ground as she extends her arms to block, just taking a look at what the brunette’s bringing.

R2: Stone’s seen enough. Sharon with her gloves up, stoops to touch Jorja in the belly with a reaching jab, stepping to the left, touching it in, lulling the brunette with B material. Midway through, women lean into simultaneous right hands, Jorja’s legs give way as Stone wins the race. Sharon following up sharp with biting hook on the eye, then leaning into chasing right hand to driven a shaken fox hard to the ropes. Punishing beat down to the bell as Stone jabs Jorja up against the topes, then goes to work with cramming right hands to the breadbasket or scorching right crosses up top. Gut check for Jorja, she’s out on her feet, taking brutal abuse, long legs and stout heart refuse to let her fall as she is battered senseless by a heartless blonde. Scored 10-8 without the knockdown.

R3: Jorja’s not all the way back--she’s glassy-eyed, lock-legging it out behind a pawing jab while carrying that right at her waist. Stone taking advantage, batting Jorja’s jab out of the air with a parrying right, then counter-hooking the available jaw with a wide hook. Stone content to pick Fox apart from outside--women circling in a slow, clockwise shuffle, set piece, upright boxing which favours Sharon.

R4: Jorja gets a second wind, showing good resiliency--she wins the early fencing match of jabs to get Stone into retreat. End of the first minute, Stone relaxed as she thinks she’s out of range--long limbed brunette strides in and hurls a vicious right hand over a lazy Stone jab and SHARON GOES DOWN! Stone just DROPPED at the ropes, hurt badly as she staggers to her feet--blockbuster punch from Fox taken very well from the supposedly shot older woman. Stone getting savvy while she’s hurt--goes immediately to a series of clinches to clear her head, getting in cheap shots while tugging on Jorja’s right arm. Murky action to the bell can’t erase the knockdown, but Stone succeeds in scuffing the brunette up and ruining any hope of piling on after the booming power strokes.

R5: Stone has Jorja standing up straight, working off the jab, stepping slowly left--it’s the perfect range and pace for the blonde. End f the first minute--Sharon brushes a decoy jab and leans in behind a blasting right cross, swiveling Jorja’s head and putting Fox wobbly butt, Tough, tough body shots crumple Fox into the ropes--Stone getting close, using her right hand and shoulder to prop the girl up then torquing in the hook to the breadbasket to buckle young legs. Fox slugging desperately in the last minute to avoid the shutout, Stone turning southpaw, leaning away to her left as punches sail away just short.

R6: Stone masterful as she tricks the younger girl into fighting an old woman’s fight. Girls upright, pawing then stinging with jabs, trying into lean in behind hard intermittent rights--Stone can keep this pace up all night. Jorja not doing enough to press the aging veteran--corner wants her to give Sharon more movement, double up the jab, work the body more.

R7: Stone still dictating, jabbing the belly and eyebrow, turning her girls, stepping in off the stick to land the hook, then smothering the receipt for a break. Sop and go action, seems harmless, but midway through, Stone jumps a surprise lead right, bends at the waist to sling in the hook and bounces a shocked Jorja Fox to her butt. Harder punches in the second couldn’t get Fox off her feet, but the sudden quicks do the trick. Harsh body work from Stone in the final  minute, palming her crippled opponent’s forehead with the right, then laying in the heart underneath as Jorja screams behind her mouthpiece.

R8: Jorja shocks Stone! Another whistling right cross catches Sharon leaning away, but unable to dodge--Sharon sent  stomping to her right as Fox tracks her down. Brunette shaking off tremendous punishment almost miraculously between rounds--she hounds Sharon around the ring behind a seeking jab, bending right crosses--Stone turning her shoulders as she retreats, trying to bat the punches away, Fox completes the shutout with a workmanlike drubbing of the tall blonde’s waist--Sharon stooped forward. Grunting as Jorja finally takes it out of that 40-something midsection.

R9: Sharon now visibly fatigued--Jorja upping the tempo taking the fight to the blonde behind a piston jab, Fox still likes to jab while holding the right at her waist--she’s giving up unnecessary counter hooks tags Stone melts away in retreat. Jorja carries the round with rangy aggression--Sharon continues to break down.

R10: Shutout Jorja Fox. Fox just too fresh, too strong in the late going--Stone fading to the ropes, covering up, letting Jorja blister her flanks and torso with a few tanning wide strokes, the clinching up tight for the breaks. Waltzing, frustrating round for fox, but she keeps Stone pinned against the ropes, gets some heartfelt slugging done to the body as Sharon survives the round. Comes back a one point duke for the veteran Sharon Stone.

After: Fox palming her forehead, chiding herself for letting the blonde steal so many early rounds. Stone all grins, put in one of her finest efforts of recent years in turning back the up-and-coming lightweight. “I figured if I hurt her  early, I’d go for it,” says Stone, white towel around her shoulders, “and I got the opportunity, but damn! Jorja can take a shot, folks! I was murdering her in the second, I mean, Cat Bell doesn’t take those shots, Charlize Theron doesn’t take’em, but this kid just sort of soaked it up. After that, I had to pace it out, step her around, potshot her a little. She’ll learn to win these tactical bouts down the road, I’m just glad I got to school her tonight!” Fox also complimentary of her foe, “Sharon’ still got a lot left. I was surprised--people were telling me her legs were shot, she couldn’t take a punch anymore. Well, she got off the canvas, and, oh God, those body shots! I don’t care how old she is, she almost made me quit with those hooks to the stomach!”

Reposted by Archer 10/18/10.