BEFORE: "I definitely feel Jennifer should step aside," Yvonne says in prefight. "She was the best of the first-generation fighters, I mean, when you look at her collected attributes, she made Cat Bell and Charlize Theron seem like quaint relics in comparison...but now that same observation could be made when you compare Jen to today's front line women. We're faster, fitter, more athletic...what the first-gen women accomplished through brute force, we do with ease and precision. I'm sorry - I know Jennifer has her fans, and I'm one of them - but the day of the plodding celebrity-thug is over. I respect that she has the pride to make us take from her, but I wish she had the class to bow gracefully before superior fighting-power." Garner smiling ruefully throughout: Straho enunciating a common refrain amongst the new crop of fighting lightweights in the sport.

"'Fighting-power'," Jen murmurs speculatively at podium. "You hear a lot about that these days - the combination of all performance elements into one quantifiable number...gives the analysts and talking heads something to talk about, I guess. And if fights were decided by fighting-power, I guess Yvonne would be right...girls who were fighting ten years ago probably can't compete with someone like Yvonne in terms of skills and drills. But here's the thing: I haven't seen any of these kids - not Yvonne, not Serinda, none of 'em - fight and win a war like the kind I've had with Theron, or Theron's brawls with Cat, or Cat's battles with Jeri. This new crop of girls has never fought on that bitter and savage a level, and until they do, then no - I WON'T be stepping aside. Because Yvonne can out-speed and out-hit me all she wants, but when we get on the five yard line and nothing fancy's going to work? That's when I'll start to push her back. To use today's fancy lingo, HEART is a force-multiplier, and I don't see any of Yvonne's peers grading out high in that category!"

Yvonne in black bra/boy cut panties; small black gloves; hair in ponytail with wispy strands down the cheeks. Jen in tiger-print twist-tie bikini top and boy-leg bottoms; small black gloves; hair in ponytail/ringlets framing face. Girls touch gloves, but there's no love in frosty eyes.

R1: Jen hard-eyed, jabbing her way to Yvonne's chest, then checking her waist via swinging, thick right hand CHUP! Straho legging away, spritzing jabs: Garner in hot pursuit - looking to establish the right in the body before cleaning up lefts and rights in concert, at closer quarters. Straho legging the perimeter, conducting recon...she's not offering back, just feeling Jen out, getting a feel for Garner's power.

R2: Jen with another good minute of pursuit before encountering Yvonne's swift counter-attacks. Strahovski in forward aspect, weight on front (left) leg while pumping out stiff stick - her right hand coiled at her chest, ready to slash at Jen's face off the jab. Crisp, wheeling clockwise pivots, Yvonne: Jen eyes narrow, dukes up, turning to meet her fleet-footed blonde head on. Straho extending on shots - small mitts nickle-and-diming Jen: blonde girl touches up brunette for points...both fighters brisky back to corners with scowling, intense faces.

R3: Jen encroaching, wanting to fight inside Yvonne's jab-reach: blonde girl legging clockwise, looking to establish distance. Minute mark - Jen employing a wiping guard - blocking 'Vonnie's right hand and 'wiping' it to Jen's right...Garner able to jam stubby right counters over Yvonne's right shoulder before Straho can regroup. Yvonne's legs give a shimmy after one such jolt on the jaw...blonde girl blinking, loping to her right on escape trajectory...lunging Jen sweeps a hook from outside Straho's left shoulder, catching Vonnie awkwardly on the face...BLONDE GIRL DOWN! Yvonne startled, stumbling to all fours: Jen glaring down in hard-hearted satisfaction of all that blonde fighting-power sputtering on its knees. Rest of the way a vintage Jen Garner clean up; brunette beats blonde at ropes as Vonnie covers up peek-a-boo, takes it thick and thumping to her ribcage/waist.

R4: Yvonne's conditioning no joke: she shakes off the knockdown, comes back at Jen with renewed vigor. Spitting, stiff left jabs pound prepared defences, knocking at Jen's brows as she's trying to encroach. Blonde girl pivoting around left foot - so light and springy in her stance, but always weight-forward and set to punch. Sudden right hands flash off Yvonne's shoulder, strafing Jen, forcing her to duck-and-cover: blonde girl able to bank triumphant, rangy left hooks in behind Jen's right elbow as brunette's crouching forward. Bell: athletes exchange frosty glances...Yvonne sending the message that she won't be bullied tonight.

R5: When Jen can't get past Yvonne's jab, it's a tough fight for Garner. Jen bobbing and weaving, keeping dukes up: Straho circling, pinpointing Jen with jabs, leaning in to catch her sudden, streaking right crosses - occasionally lighting Jen up hooks-to-body whenever Garner's crouching and waiting. Garner trying to box-with in spots - landing the odd right hand in Yvonne's upperchest, but blonde girl simply too swift and accurate: Garner's face punched shiny by sizzling Straho receipts in the exchanges. Moment of cheapness late...Yvonne slipping under Jen's hook to emerge behind Jen. Straho's left hand grips at Jen's waistband, holding her secure...blonde girl reaching her right up underneath Jen's right arm to punch/slap at her face! Ref moves in - tempers flare: Yvonne just trying to get Jen hot and bothered with insolent play.

R6: Jen steps in, counters a right hand over Yvonne's jab: good jaw-check unhinges blonde's back (right) knee, sending her sputtering sideways. Yvonne chased to ropes: she forms tight peek-a-boo, keeping elbows in against her body, dippin' and twistin' in the pocket as Jen squares away. Garner: dukes at mouth as she leans in close...hands deployed in swift, vicious snatches to either side of Vonnie's protective elbows, pounding waist/ribs. Coming off the body, Jen will rake left uppercuts against Vonnie's front - trying to split the mitts. When that doesn't work, Jen swats hooks to Vonnie's right ear - spilling her along ropes, where a fresh body attack helps to pin blonde girl down for the next sequence. Straho grimacing, keeping it together: she offers back token resistance - little chippy uppercuts out of her guard, or the odd dip-and-rip left uppercut to body...but this is Jen's fight. Bell: Garner bodies up/pushes off big girl - making Vonnie take weight.

R7: Yvonne's been hurt a couple of times in this fight: she shows a lot of leg, roaming the ring, changing directions - anything to keep Garner from setting-strong and throwing hard. Jen in hot pursuit - occasionally hounding Vonnie to ropes and landing tasty right/left whacks to blonde ribs until Straho can spin-out from under. Blonde girl minimizes the hurt, but she's running: judges won't reward her for this approach.

R8: Yvonne settles down, shows wide stance/forward aspect: she's working behind the jab, looking for jagged left uppercuts off that planted front (left) leg and; short right hands clean to Jen's face. Garner electing to charge into the teeth of Yvonne's offence - blocking and rolling on the approach, then hooking at slender blonde ribs in reprisal. Glorious, bruising stuff - Yvonne's pinpoint, ratatat combos shredding Jen's defences, small mitts tattooing Garner's face: Jen walking through it, answering back strong to Vonnie's pink ribs. Bell: both girls breathing hard, showing hurt...but Yvonne's outworked Jen in the murderous exchanges.

R9: Same again: Jen electing to push up the middle, trying to break down Yvonne's drilling offence through sheer pressure. Straho punishing Jennifer for it, but suffering hard right hands upside the head this time...blonde girl forced out of that organized stance/chased into ropes. Jen at ropes a whole different beast: she bodies up to secure Yvonne; pushes Yvonne down; beats Yvonne both hands in her flanks and midsection, then roams up top via scouring close-in uppercuts. Vonnie wilting in the heat: supple blonde girl showing face-in-gloves, rolling-torso/leaning back into ropes as Jen breaks down blonde body...Garner just bumpin' and a-grindin' on her girl, making Vonnie hurt. Bell: Jen bodies up/pushes off, making Straho take big-girl weight as Yvonne pants in frustration.

R10: Strahovski won't be punked! Jen met with a brace of spearing left jabs as Yvonne rotates clockwise in wide stance, her back (right) heel up off canvas. Straho narrow-eyed, lips curling off teeth as she executes: off the jab, she's dipping in close, picking Jen up that jagged left uppercut to tits or chin; pivoting clockwise for the angle of Jen's right flank; fitting right side of Jen's mouth for stabbing straight rights. Garner caught in turning duel midring...brunette just can't impose her body/will this round. Strahovski manages to cut Jen under her left eye through consistent, long-armed pounding this round: both girls chests heaving/eyes blazing at bell. Comes back one point duke - Jennifer Garner!

AFTER: Strahovski looking gut-kicked, blinking and staring at canvas as Jen's hand is raised...5 rounds a-piece, but Garner's knockdown holds up at the slender difference-maker. Garner grudgingly respectful, but not willing to cuddle up in postfight. "Yvonne talks a good game about pushing my generation aside," Jen tells the world, "but here's the thing - for Yvonne, and Missy, and Erica, and all the rest of 'em: you have to PUSH! We're not gonna lay down for you tramps; we're not gonna bow our heads or bend our knees. You need to step-to us and take what we've built, and so far, I'm not seeing that kind of commitment from any of you!" Strong words from a respected champ: gauntlet definitely thrown down by the be-dimpled one tonight.