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(Result:simguy; Writing: simgrrl)
Before: Elle, no longer a spring chicken; she's 47, but looks at least 10 years younger in a bikini. She's one of a few former models who still does swimsuit modeling and she can keep her weight down to something like 'working model' level. The 6'0" former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and current Australian businesswoman arrives at the ring wearing one of her own creations - from her 'Elle MacPherson Intimates' collection. Her appearance, even at the 'advanced' age of 47, proves she still deserves the sobriquet "The Body" she earned so many years ago! While Elle carries her weight well, she'll nevertheless be the 'big woman' in the ring in every sense of the term!
Candice a bit in awe facing a woman who has to be considered one of her idols; someone every young model can only aspire to emulate. Whether on the catwalk, on the silver screen or in the board room, Elle MacPherson has set the standard for the young women who follow in her high-heeled footsteps.
Elle is definitely "a step up in class" for Candice, although secretly the brain trust behind 'Team Swanepoel' admit (but not for attribution) they're eager for the youngster to take aging Elle into later rounds where Candice's youth and vigor may become a telling factor in her favor.
Elle: something from her own line of signature lingerie, a white demi-cup bra and baby blue boy-cut panties. Her hair is tawny, long, and straight. Candice: a VS lingerie spokesangel is contractually bound to wear something from the VS line for this fight. And given Elle's choice of provocative lingerie, Candice has no problem 'showing the flag' for her sponsor's competing line; opting for a hot lace underwire bra/thong panty combo. Like many women these days, Candice opts to go barefooted for better traction. Her shimmering blond hair is loose in a curly tangle and her smile is bright as sunshine. Both women in black gloves for this 10 round lightweight contest. Guest referee: model legend Linda Evangelista.
R1: Elle confident, cocky; she's been in more of these fights than she can count and she's way past being nervous - unlike Swanepoel who looks a bit intimidated by the thought she's facing a woman who was already a legend when she was born! Elle silky smooth, gliding the ring like she's strutting a catwalk. Dominant performance by the old brunette; her heavy piston-like left hand just jabbing Candice to ribbons. Once she has Swannie stabilized, Elle stepping in behind the jab with pumping right hands to that smooth, flat, tanned and toned blonde gut. Elle showing her veteran wiles: looping light left-arm headlocks around Candice and then scrubbing her face with the right glove laces while turning her away from Evangelista to hide her mischief. Swanepoel back to her stool all scuffed up; teary eyed from the lacing. Stone berating Linda who just smiles and shrugs helplessly while Bell goes to work. Ringside: Theron shown simmering; looking eager to lace 'em up with Elle Mac herself, she's so hot.
R2; Candice settled down by Stone/Bell; comes back to Earth and slows herself down; slipping wide sweeping lefts to the head, neck, torso inside of Elle's straight jabbing left; or dropping wide slinging rights over her left shoulder from outside. Elle getting hit this round and when she's chin-toggled, it puts her wobbly butt a minute or so into the round. Sloppy follow up from an overly excited Candice lets the wounded Elle tie her up for breaks; laying her weight on the slender blonde to bog things down and lets her escape the round. Still, a show of some good random ferocity from Candi which speaks well for her training and improved discipline as well as showing spunk and spirit. While Evangelista leans on the ropes, Stone keeps working her; chiding her for letting Elle "lay all over my girl." Linda shrugs off the protest with, "Well, your girl should make her stop it then."
R3: Candice closes her stance this round, dangling her left at her side while keeping right cocked at her chin which is protectively tucked into her left shoulder. Standoff at long range with Elle repeatedly suprised and being spanked by Swanepoel's snappy up-jab off her left hip. Swanepoel opening up more this round; unleashing slinging rights from a closed stance...her back (right) foot coming forward when she does this (sloppy) - tilting her forward off balance into Elle where they engage in some for long-limbed mauling and/or embracing. Whatever it is, MacPheson's getting the worst of it as the young blonde energetically pumps both fists into the brunette's lush body with 'wild child' abandon.
R4: Swannie still in the closed stance; circling nimbly to her right; forcing ElleMac to turn with her, dukes up. Girls fence at long range with their jabs (up-jabs for Swannie/straight jab off the shoulder for Elle). Swanepoel's young legs dictating the pace; bouncing in and out; jogging/turning quickly out around Elle's left shoulder to drop that slinging right. MacPherson's long legs serve her well on defense, back-stepping out of range or quick-stepping in to close the distance whenever Candice's discipline wanders. Midway through - Elle reaches the left in and double-taps the jab, leans in behind it to drop a clapping right that sends Candice Swanepoel skidding across the canvas on her cute butt. Blonde up quickly, but she's been scolded by her better and she's a bit gunshy; letting Elle stalk the remainder of the round; stepping in hard pokes to scuff up her youthful rival's cherubic countenance.
R5: Back to the same rangy, patient boxing at distance...then slowly grows sloppier and the punches get wilder as Swanepoel starts looping and slinging her blows. Still, the kid's work rate is outstanding and MacPherson can never get settled or comfortable before she's under assault. Midway, Elle caught backing up with another right hand and SHE'S HURT! Mac stumbling, reeling back in disarray to the ropes. Candi falls in with her; head on Elle's shoulder; fists pumping which just lets Elle tie her up in clinches for breaks as she runs out the clock again while Swanepoel beats her around the flanks. Bell: Stone out barking, but this time at Swanepoel - chastising her for 'not fighting smart' and 'letting her off the hook'! Cat Bell has to pull Candice back toward her stool as the fighter wants to go nose-to-nose with Stone!! At ringside, Charlize shaking her head; snapping at Bell, "Grab those two and bang their heads together!"
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R6: Swanepoel, with Bell's help, calms herself and goes back to her more disciplined boxing out of the closed stance; her up jab pounding Elle's face and the big brunette seemingly has no counter for it. She tries the overhand right to discourage the jab, but Swanepoel leans back, lets it sail harmlessly past, then hops in to bang Elle with that sweeping right! Elle disorganized by the continued up-jabs; backing up and Candice turns stalker - sometimes bending in to jab tawny brunette belly; sometimes stepping in on her left foot to swivel left hooks in off her jab. Swanepoel's newly unveiled left hand technique keeps Swannie in her stance, prevents her from falling in and getting sloppy; keeps Elle on the defensive where she's not nearly as effective as coming forward.
R7: Stone greenlights Swanepoel's body attack at last and she gets after Elle's aging torso with grandly sweeping, bendy-backed, right hand buggywhipping punches coming in wide to the breadbasket, both flank and hips. Swannie using a diagonally planed, slap-chop, right coming down across Elle's left shoulder to her right hip; sweeping all before it (mainly Elle's heaving breasts), punching her back onto her heels and driving her steadily backward. Elle showing her deep discouragement; starting to breath hard and heavy this round as Swanepoel starts to put miles on Elle's chassis. Swannie putting all her long, limber, lethal, lines into determined body shots that really ages Mac here. Bell: Elle, back arched, chest panting, sucking air as she shambles back to her corner. For the first time, Evangelista goes to check on her contemporary, asking her how much she's got left in the tank. Elle just shakes her head and mutters, "Ain't quittin'."
R8: Elle's not a legend for nothing and she shows how she earned the title of SUPERmodel. She finds her second wind, firms, then works off her rejuvenated jab as she outboxes the eager young Swanepoel this round. Elle stepping in with her left leg; unwinding a long, high-angle, left hook that slams palm-down onto Candice's chin often enough to discourage her from getting too frisky to her old body. It's not a punch Swanepoel wants to be gorging on and as Candice gets tentative, Elle becomes more brazen; even throwing in a vintage 'Ali shuffle' at one point that earns a surprised, wildly standing 'O' from the crowd who had begun to think Elle was all done.
R9: Reality Bytes! Elle's shot her bolt and she's still mouth breathing, obviously laboring, when she comes out after an all too brief break. But she's sucking it up like a champion; determined not to give the 'kid' an inch. Swanepoel wanting to step it up, getting bolder as she sees MacPherson slowing down, leaves herself exposed in her eagerness to end it. Elle countering off a Swanepoel miss, landing her sweeping, palm-down/high-angle left hook flush on Candice's chin at the midway point. CANDICE IS HURT! Swanepoel wobbly butt from the clean connect; knees give a dip; her butt going back; falling in to clinch. Elle tries desperately to finish the blonde off but she simply can't summon up the KO energy and Swannie is able to clinch; wrapping her arms around Elle who is too exhausted to throw her off. Elle, woozy; forced to let Candice walk, push, shove and basically bully her around to the break. Elle disconsolately trudging back to her stool, knowing she let a golden opportunity pass her by. Swanepoel meanders to her corner, not much better off than MacPherson - but her years younger body recoups far faster.
R10: Two exhausted supermodels stumble around, walloping each other lanky - falling into clinches, staggering around in lovely, long-limbed, embraces; running out the clock. Candice has more in the tank - and while it's often ugly, she's mauling Elle on the inside; walking her back in the clinches; hammering her overhanging bra with tight, inside, uppies; beating her with looping power shots from outside when she extends the range. Elle's world class legs stand her in good stead, holding her upright but that's about all. MacPherson's one ragged vixen by the final bell as Candice Swanepoel pounds out a convincing UD10 as she makes some real strides as a fighter in this daunting test against a supermodel icon.
After: Candice clearly wants to walk the legend - and from her corner Theron is shouting, "Take her, dammit!" But in the end, the cute youngster just can't bring herself to do that to a living legend and instead, settles for an arm-in-arm joint stroll around the ring, both waving at (mostly by far Elle's) their fans and acknowledging the applause. It's not "THE walk" but there's no mistaking it's "A walk" and it can't sit too well with the other models above whom upstart Swanepoel has firmly placed herself; stepping into the pantheon of supermodel fighters - women who not only look great in under, but can also fight more than a lick!
"I looked up to Elle since I was in nappies," Candice blushes afterward. "I wanted to walk her; I think I deserved to walk her; but somewhere deep inside I just couldn't find it in me to take her there. Huh? Wha..." Candice is interrupted by a shouted question from a Brazilian reporter seated far in the back. "Oh, right. Yes, this is the second fight in a row I've beaten a legendary supermodel and haven't walked her. The question was why do it to 'lesser' models and not the 'greats'? I guess it's a matter of establishing the pecking order. I could walk Gisele and Elle every day for a week and nobody is going to think I'm a better model than them...not yet, anyway. Those other girls, they needed to be put in their place and made to understand that while these ladies are 'yesterday' I'm the future, not those other upstarts." Then turning to someone off stage, Candice asks, "How was that Charlize?" Whatever the answer, it made Swanepoel grin.
For her part, Elle has the distinction of being the second fabulously famous brunette taken for a "stroll" by Swanepoel and it clearly does NOT sit well with the lingerie legend. "Would I have done that to Tyra or Naomi?" she asked rhetorically. "Yeah, maybe. They're my contemporaries and that's how it's done. But Lauren Hutton, Cheryl Tiegs or Wilhelmina when I was her age? I hope not; but to be fair, I'm answering the question at... um ...just say forty-something... not twenty-two! If you'd asked me when I was 22 years old, maybe I'd answered as she did; hard to say. Still, I don't have a big problem with the girl; she won the fight fair and square. Whatever goes around, comes around. I've walked more than my share in my career and I'm pretty sure no matter how good she is...or thinks she is...she's gonna get taken for more trips than she'll like. It's a fact of life in this business that you never walk as many as you want to and always get walked more than you would like. Welcome to the major leagues, Candice." |
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