Posted by simguy on 4/2/2005

Before: You know it's a big fight when BLONDE! magazine devotes an entire article to dismissing the event, referring to Ali as a "Washed up B-movie beauty queen," and Charisma as a "No-name repellent hack". Most significant brunette bout of the year - winner to be considered by most pundits as the supreme brunette in the sport - both have paid their dues to get here. "I'm still in awe over what Ali did against Natasha Henstridge," says always gracious Charisma. "I admit - I was one of those people who always thought Landry was soft, pageant-pampered, that sort of thing, but she opened my eyes WIDE with that fight. She's so competitive - that more than her physique or her skills is the thing I worry about most. You wonder just what you have to do to make her quit." Landry oozing confidence - she's got big-girl credentials, she's the reigning welter champion and a perennial contestant for brunette supremacy. "Charisma's bubble is about to burst," boasts Ali in prefight. "To be honest - this is an easy fight for me. I was embarrassed for Charlize when she fell for Carpenter's amateur crap and I don't see why people are having so much trouble with her style. I'll break her down early, stop her late, because that's what I do - that's not going to change just because it's Charisma Carpenter." Ali in gold bikini, Charisma in purple velvet bikini (basically the Charmed gaurd without the skirt).

During R1: Carpenter cute at the ropes, Ali probing, attacking. CC hands stacked, right at chest, left at tummy, rolling to either side with Ali's shots, dipping, coming up with sassy swatting counters to Landry's golden body. Ali trying to find CC with the jab/right hand - missing over top. Carpenter tearing it up downstairs: belly, ribs, flanks, tits. Ali wincing at the hard touches, crowds in with her shoulder and tests CC inside - girls swatting it up short licks, tidy bump-n'-shoot in close. Carpenter deliberately pounding Ali's breasts with swiping lefts, rights and uppercuts - she gets the better of Landry toe to toe, sends welter champ back to her corner frowning.

R2: Ali adjusting - attacking Carpenter at the ropes with a more prudent belly jab - stepping out after scoring, just nibbling at the lightweight queen's tummy. Charisma coaxed off the ropes as she did against Warren, looking to lead - Ali backpedaling smartly, greasing CC jabs, luring Carpenter to midring. Conventional boxing: dukes up, clockwise shuffling rotation, girls pounding out hard single jabs, setting down on opportunistic rights. It's classic pageant - Landry scoring to Carpenter's brows, grazing a few scary right crosses to even up the cards.

R3: CC lands a pounding one-two off Ali's firm body early, retreats to ropes knowing Landry's got to press to get those punches back. Ali smart - keeping her jab on Charisma, then stepping right to fight off Carpenter's left shoulder - Landry keeping it short, crisp, putting punches together as CC bobs and weaves. End of first minute, Ali just busy, moving her hands - hook caroms off Charisma's forehead, startling her - she's already buzzed when Landry bends into a smooth right cross on the temple, rips the jagged left uppercut to sit Carpenter stunned in the strands! Ali's eyes alight: Carpenter momentarily frazzled, dazed - Landry squares away to POUND that body. Big, beefy rights and lefts fit in snug just above CC's hips, bending her frame, wilting her forward. Shrugging uppercuts hammer Carpenter's halter - Ali just jerking away to bosom, grin slowly spreading across her beautiful face as she humbles Carpenter's world class melons. Late the round, Ali swats a left to the ear and DIGS that Mickey Ward left hook liver shot home - CC gasping aloud, knees bending - she reaches to clinch, desperately hanging on as Landry eases her back into the ropes, making Charisma feel the weight. Thudding beat down third earns Ali a 10-8 without a knockdown, put a brazen smile on her face en route to corner.

R4: Carpenter harmed last round, knows she's behind - she can't afford to hang back and get outworked. Spirited boxing midring - Charisma getting routinely pounded by Ali's hardhearted jab - Landry just dropping it from the elbow, banging away to left eye, mouth, stepping off to either side with a contemplative expression. CC bending low, weaving past the stick to hook Ali's tits, mouth - Landry showing the ability to fight in reverse as she steps back in good order, waxing CC's chin scrubbing lefts and rights as Carpenter falls forward. Top it all off - Ali's getting good, good hooks across Carpenter's stout gut: mitt spanking meaty off muscle, often forcing CC to crouch, wince, doubleclutch. Landry's round - she's eager, taking on water during the break. CC concerned, but calm, listening intently to instructions on her stool.

R5: Charisma left hand at gut, right beneath her chin - she's closing up the stance, trying to edge her left shoulder into Ali and engage her at close range. Landry with a nifty rock-step backwards as she pumps her jab, makes CC pay the price to come forward, then LANDRY sets up cute at the ropes. Role reversal: Carpenter slugging beefy out of the crossed arm, almost Frazier-like as she bumps a shoulder, rips hooks to waist, fights off Ali's chest. Landry Charisma-like as she slips side to side, rolls punches, answers back short, sharp chops to head, breasts and flanks, fitting in fists on flesh between Carpenter's punches. Down the stretch, Ali changes tack once again, going mouth on shoulder, walking Charisma off the ropes and shrugging it up on the inside. TORRID two way, both girls clubbing jug, carving tight uppercuts, bumping shoulders. Landry pounding out the difference toe-to-toe - she sends Carpenter back to her corner in a fog through 5.

R6: CC lounging on the ropes, pointing her left shoulder at Ali - CC baits the trap, rolls a Landry right and rockets off the apron a looping right upside the head to ring Ali up! Landry hurt for the first time tonight - CC immediately muscles woozy welter to ropes, rips her a thudding left/right on the waist, rocks her back the left uppercut between the mitts. Landry wide-eyed, wobbly-butt, dukes up at temples - she's grunting, stooping as Carpenter pours it to pageant winning ribs and tummy, muscular lefts and rights. Ali butt-back, folding forward - CC turns her left shoulder into greedy little shrugs, swiping across the bulging ledge of Landry's glorious rack, pouting Ali's mouth open in pain. CC brawny, shouldering Ali into the ropes to stack, back on the waist thick rights and lefts - this is just classic brunette beatdown, tracing a lineage from Cat Bell on down to Jane Russel. Hooks and uppercuts, Charisma steadily thumping away when down the stretch ALI STARTS SLUGGING BACK! No science - all heart - Ali elbows in, dukes up just wades off the ropes with short clubbing lefts and rights, bringing brunette donnybrook to Charisma's doorstep. CC shipping short chin-music, backing up and trying to walk Landry into harm but it's Carpenter getting caught. Hook, right hand stuns Carpenter - she's leaning back, hands low - follow up hook PUTS CHARISMA DOWN! CC bludgeoned to her back - staggering Landry trampling thighs, outstretched left bicep en-route to the far ropes. Ali panting, hanging on ropes for support - CC groggy, rolling to her right side and gingerly getting to her feet: both girls ragged. Charisma takes a hollow eyed 8: Ali's just stolen Carpenter's best round of the fight.

R7: Ali imposing her will, icing the cake, bringing Charisma to heel. CC hangs back on the ropes to counter? Ali knows she can work behind the belly jab, run the clock, step in off CC's left shoulder and bang away short combinations. Pesky stuff, but time on Ali's side - CC can't afford to wait for the perfect counter. Carpenter moves out to engage midring? Ali's jab resplendent, majestic, brutal - pounding away to Charisma's brows, patiently closing that left eye, and once closed, opening the way for those smooth right hands to follow. Shoulder to shoulder? Ali's beating it out of Charisma there too - out-hooking her to midsection, drumming CC's lungs, scoring outside-in right uppercuts short and crisp to chin, banging back Carpenter's drowsy face. Charisma's breasts like warm loaves of freshly baked bread - Landry helping herself to jug with short side-to-side scrubs, just twitching her shoulders, muscling Carpenter's mouthwatering mounds back and forth. Charisma never shutout, never completely dominated, but she's getting worn down, looking ragged after 8 long rounds of Ali.

R8: Ali cleaning up: Carpenter sluggish, starting to take hard shots clean, losing her elusiveness, gutting out tough minutes. Landry working outside with her jab, shelling CC's guard, tapping at her forehead - sets up howitzer rights on the chin, robust hooks square to jug that have CC staring. Landry wise - scoring with crowd-pleasing pop, but never greedy - she takes what she wants, steps to the side, works the jab, patiently punishing her foe. CC glum, but resolute, crossing her arms or earmuffing up, bending at the waist - heartbreaking to see her determined to come forward, only to get beaten back down by Ali's sharpshooting fists. Final minute, Ali walks Charisma into a BOOMING right uppercut to the belly - Landry bouncing mitt off meat and stepping back with a deeply satisfied look - CC cringing, face betraying agony - all she can do to stay standing. Bell: Landry shaking out her gorgeous curls, smiling, lifting her fists with that sexy hyperextended elbow look en route to her corner. CC? Gets ice, enswell and encouragement on her stool.

R9: Ali pounding the one-two up top - blocked, but she comes back a thudding left to paunch, once again shaking Carpenter's thighs, buckling her knees. CC grimacing, shying away - Landry marching in big girl, squaring away to wail wide to waist. Charisma rolling, taking wallop on either flank - midway through, she beats Ali to a right, beats her to a left clip-clap on the chin and LANDRY'S WOBBLY BUTT! Sheer shock on Ali's face as legs start stamping, locking up - Carpenter pitching vicious rights and lefts from her thighs spins off the ropes and belts Landry into them. CARPENTER ROMPS TO JUG! CC getting up in there Brittany Daniel style, shoulders dipping, fists ripping upwards, pounding into the cushy, beefy resistance of Landry's hooters. Ali demoralized as intended - Carpenter migrates from jug to chin and ribs, working Landry up and down like a pro. Ali suffering, covers up dukes at temples, leaning forward and eating short uppercuts betwixt the mitts. Bell - Charisma's chest heaving with effort, there's life in the ol' mongoose yet - Landry sent to her corner in astonishment after nearly letting it slip away in the 9th.

R10: Ali cautious, working behind her jab, keeping the fight midring. CC unable to lure Landry forward with another possum act - dips and slips, trying to get inside with mixed results. Landry's right uppercut keeping Carpenter honest - more than once Charisma's warned off by threat of that punch. Ali collecting singles - big, beefy left hands in the ribs, muscular curling rights up into Carpenter's pooch, one-twos constantly threatening CC up top. Charisma moving her head and rolling with most of it, but she just can't get her range. Round, and the fight goes to Ali Landry - UD10.

After: Landry beaming, thrilled - you can take the girl out of the pageant, but you can't take the pageant out of the girl - Ali lives for prizes. Unique trophy presented to Ali in recognition as her status as "Queen of the Brunettes" - she earned it tonight. "I dominated Charisma in all phases tonight," Ali says charitably. "Inside, outside, finesse, power - you name it, I took it to her. You know, it's been a tough period for me up until regaining my title - lots of doubters and haters bringing me down - but this win puts me right back where I belong." Carpenter punished, left eye swollen shut - been a while since another woman's put her hands on Charisma this much. "She's very well schooled," admits Carpenter, classy enough to offer some words in defeat. "Very disciplined - I thought I could anger her with some jug mugging the way I got to Theron, but she never really took the bait. Ali had a great right hand tonight - a GREAT right hand, I just wasn't seeing it as well I wanted. I probably abandoned the pocket sooner than I should have - I could have been more patient, but I can't take anything away from Ali - she pretty much did what she wanted with me tonight."