Posted by Simguy on 7/3/2004, 8:28 am.

Before: Lori with a little payback in mind--quick dismissal at the fists of Cuoco still smarts--working Britney over would be sweet justice. Spears anxious to put an end to the whisper campaign that says Lori put Britney on crutches in some sort of all-in tussle--also not appreciative of Loughlin’s coy attitude and lack of denial when asked about the incident. “Oh, she’s playing this rumour for all it’s worth,” Spears assures reporters, “I wouldn’t put it past her if she STARTED it. Kaley set the bar pretty high, but I’m accepting the challenge--Lori has yet to finish a fight with a BSE superstar, and she’s not about to finish this one.” Lori in pink bikini top, navy bottoms, Britney in beach-run mode--white bikini with multi colored dots.

During R1: Crisp, quality trade midring--girls not committing 100%, but it’s a hair more spirited than a feeling out round. Spears: closed stance, flat footed but supple upper body moves, left hand low, right at her chin ready to jerk screened uppercuts or straight counters. Loughlin: hands relaxed, right near her chin, left stomach height, Lori peppering Britney with jabs--Spears weaving them, then Loughlin edges in to work left/right beneath the breasts, cleaning up a hook in Britney’s tanned liver area, Britney sliding back and finding Lori with catspaw cheek-hooks, bending and rolling with Loughlin’s punches, turning on spitting right hands. 10 second earning banged out--Lori steps in a sudden shoe shining squall against Britney’s breasts--Spears blushing, Lori grinning as Loughlin takes the round with a late, cheeky burst.

R2: Spears jumps in, Lori fades her and turns on a tidy little hook, clipping Britney’s chin just so--SPEARS IS HURT! Spears staggering away wobbly butt, shaking her head--Lori helps her to the ropes with a series of vicious overhand rights to the ear/back of the skull. Lori in her glory--jabbing Britney upright, then going to her jugs with torrid flurries, always getting torched--it’s all about her curvy legs and proud heart as Britney tilts forward virtually defenseless.

And Lori digs in.

Vicious hooks up underneath, sagging Britney forward, gutting her. Digging rights up into the ribs, round behind the elbow. Carving tight uppercuts skidding off Britney’s lowered forehead or smashing off her overhanging face. Lori savage, but disciplined, systematically helping herself, working both sides of her girl, palming to reset, never smothering herself. Bell to bell--Britney refusing to go down, but OH, the damage done. Lori’s eyes bright, smile blinding as she takes in the sight of Britney’s groggy anguish at the ropes. 10-8 without a knockdown--Lori jumping out to her typical fast start tonight.

R3,4: Britney digs down, proves a battler. In the third, Spears still in the closed stance, weight on the right foot--she’s slide-stepping backward, inviting Lori’s right hand and countering it--Britney looking to use Loughlin’s aggression against her. In the fourth, Spears takes over lead--hustle punching Loughlin’s body and engaging Lori more often shoulder to shoulder. Lori working hard, not shutout, but she’s off her rhythm as Britney shows a variety of looks, tempo changes and caginess beyond her years in stealing both rounds and preventing a Loughlin runaway on the cards.

R5: Girls dip in with lead shoulders, jerking hooks--Lori wins the race, setting Britney on her heels,. Loughlin with those quick mitts--fit’s a poking right onto Spears’ mouth before she can set, slap-hooks the right ear, then DIGS that gancha hook I thick beneath the elbow--poor Britney’s startled and shook again, tilting forward behind a plaintive guard. LORI’S HOOKING GUT! Loughlin just baring her teeth, twisting on her hips to get those lefts in--tidying Britney up with vicious repeat business and prompting a desperate clinch. Britney pale, clammy with body-punishment, but struggling to right the ship--she’s holding and hitting, bodying Lori to the ropes, making a sloppier slugfest of proceedings. Britney having her way when she can smudge Lori on the ropes, but down the stretch, Loughlin fit’s a fishhook uppercut to chin inside, slides ‘round to the right and guides Britney face first into the ropes. TASTY flurry beats Spears into a ramshackle clamshell--she’s covering up in disarray as Lori lets her hands go. Round ends to the sight of Loughlin biting down on those hooks in under Britney’s elbow, wilting Spears forward with a tortured groan at the bell, Lori strutting hands held high to her corner--Britney hugging herself as she slouches to her stool.

R6: Britney showing her experience again, gets a rolling start before the bell, pancakes Lori into her corner as Loughlin’s getting off her stool--Spears Pearl Harbours her girl to answer the strong Loughlin 5th. Britney muscular, getting her head and shoulders in there with tight n’ tasty thumping. Loughlin on her heels, just trying to cover up, but Britney doing a good job of bullying, pulling at the guard, bumping nasty with her shoulder and digging at the meat beneath. Spears sets a more methodical pace at the half, keeping her left shoulder in Lori’s chest, pushing in concert with her open right palm to smear Loughlin on the ropes, staying on the Loughlin gut and flanks with tidy swats, Down the stretch, Britney goes jug with hardhearted determination, belting away with tight, curling lefts and rights to force a breathless Loughlin clinch at the bell.

R7: Shoulder to shoulder, cheek to cheek--both girls think they’re the boss body to body and both intend to prove it. Loughlin lifting up Britney’s chin a juicy little right uppercut early, putting Spears wobbly butt, but Britney hangs in there, refusing to give ground Mouthwatering in-fighting being done, girls tightening up the stroke, tucking in punches behind the elbows, picking each other up short-arm uppies, laying in with shoulders and heads. Loughlin a little smarter this round, getting off, then stepping around Britney with a nudge behind the elbow, turning Spears, keeping her off balance. Loughlin outworking the younger beauty in the trenches--taking a lead late into the fight.

R8: Loughlin so compact and crisp with her combinations, jabbing to set the table, putting’em together one/two up top, then cleaning up waistline like a pro that solid, thumping hook. Spears pained, wincing on occasion, bending her frame to accept those hooks ion her lover--Loughlin’s done good consistent work down there. All lori till late--Britney rolling a sharp Loughlin cross, then answering back with a sudden, short right hand on the teeth--LORI’S SHOOK! Britney suddenly coming alive, snapping at Lori’s ear a hook, then burying her left hand in behind Loughlin’s elbow--Loughlin crumpled slightly, presenting her right side to Britney as the older beauty folds forward and Spears HOOKS THOSE KIDNEYS! Britney getting there once, twice, three times with merciless chop-hooks--Lori all stiff and arching her back after the bell, as her corner raises hell with the ref.

R9: Those body blows took something out of Lori--she’s slow off her stool, still achy-faced and shying away from close contact. Britney hopping forward, lifting the jab off her hip--she leans into a sizzling right hand that Lori sways back from, but Loughlin can’t evade the follow-on hook. LOUGHLIN DROPPED at  the ropes--crowd roaring to its feet--Britney batting her gloves together as she steps to the neutral corner, eyes never leaving her shellshocked foe. Loughlin up at 8, ragged, but determined--she digs in and ON COMES BRITNEY! Spears hopping in her hardest overhand right--Lori blocks it her high guard while riding to her right, but Britney won’t be denied! Spears tidying up upstairs, cuffing Lori’s ears, then tearing up the waist with both hands--evil body paying back every hook Lori tortured Britney with tonight. LORI’S GOING OUT! Loughlin drooping forward, hands knee-high, but she just wont go down--Spears shuffles a little left and REEFS home a freebie hook in underneath! Gorgeous, devastating shot finishes it--poor Lori crumpling to the canvas with a throttled cry. Loughlin on her haunches, hugging at a ruined midsection, forehead on the canvas as her whole body shudders with sobs--KO9 in savage fashion, Britney Spears.

After: Brutal contest, but youth is served--Britney turns back a stern Lori Loughlin challenge and leaves the elder beauty cringing in gut-shot agony. “I’ve swapped body shots with the best of them,“ says Britney. “When I saw Lori was determined to hurt me to the midsection, I just said ‘no way--it’s not happening,’ Did she hurt me? Yes, yes, she really did, but she’s just not big enough puncher to fight me the way she did.” Another crushing result for BSE for the WB--what’s Britney’s take on that? “I think it’s important, The WB girls have a certain look and style that puts then in direct competition with is, and when you get that, you gotta take care of business. Nobody has more imitators than me, so Ai know how important it is to separate yourself.”

Reposted by Archer 9/19/11.