Before: "Short stuff's got nerve - I'll give her that," Prohibitive favourite Jenny McCarthy admits in prefight. "Didn't think she'd go through with this. Plenty of girls mouth off at me, but you don't see them carrying through. Sophia's showing up to take her beating - gotta respect that."

Bush adamant that she's got a shot - especially in the wake of perceived failure of Eliza D in a recent set back. "I'm power-packed," Sophia says of her compact curves, "Jenny's not seeing that. I can punch - ask Hayden - and I'll be swinging for McCarthy's chin all night long. Anyone who thinks I'm going to lie down and take it from Jenny obviously has no idea what I'm all about."

Sophia in deep indigo bikini with bright teal battle-sash about her hips, trailing down left thigh; bright teal mitts. Jenny in scarlet bikini with ring connections; black gloves.

During R1: HUGE right hand swing from Sophia - up and over the top fastball style...Jenny leaning back, pivoting to her left, lips pursed in surprise at Bush's aggression. Jenny jabbing for range - Sophia wheeling, crouching low, hurling herself at Mac with more power. McCarthy showing consummate skill in wheeling away, staying tall and out of range as Sophia hurtles past. Round progresses - Jenny depositing single hooks in Sophia's breasts and tummy - single because she's immediately answered by furious, swinging receipts. Bush none too accurate, but baring her fangs - Jenny pasted for every hook she digs home.

R2: Jenny digs hook to paunch early: that's gentled Sophia down. Bush grimacing, bunching up: McCarthy digs follow-up hooks in behind Sophia's right elbow - blonde finally settling in to work. Left uppercut stuffs into Bush's breasts; another digs home cushy. Jenny pushes off on Sophia's shoulders, steps in a short straight right: Bush's head rocks back, eyelashes fluttering. "C'mon baby," Jenny taunts, grinning big, "That it? You hurt?" Straight right hand smashes into Sophia's breasts, sending her back groaning on her heels as Mac strides forward. Ropes: Jenny lights up Sophia's flanks - batting away all shivering baseball-bat arms: Bush crouching low, shuddering under the assault. MAC WANTS RACK! Jenny pushing Sophia upright, smirking as she gets into jug with side-to-side swishing: Jenny in her element, stacking a brunette up and going at her robusto. Sophia proves sturdy: she soaks up a greedy beatdown, refusing to bend the knee as Jenny works body.

R3: Jenny midring in forward aspect: right heel up off canvas; weight on left leg - she's going at Sophia very, very systematically. Jenny rotating slowly left as she leans in, jerking short left uppercuts against Sophia's guard - patiently punching it apart to get back at that rack. Left uppercuts also hunting for chin; right hands slicing in straight, pounding off guard, or occasionally splitting mitts to knock back Sophia's face. Bush stricken, but holding herself together: gloves up, dipping forward at the waist. Jenny just masterful, keeping shorter girl on the end of her punches - tapping the odd jab against Sophia's hairline just to line her up.

R4: Jenny jabbing...Sophia reads it, slips it, rockets over the top a sweeping right hand and JENNY'S SHOOK! Mac's head tossed aside - deep knee bend as she struggles to keep her feet, stooping forward behind a bewildered earmuff. STUFFING right uppercut, Sophia Bush - brunette arching her back, PLOWING into the overhanging shelf of Jenny's breasts. Follow up swinging hook takes Jenny in behind right elbow: Sophia wading forward, teeth bared. Mac beaten backwards, but firming: she catches Bush a short little left uppie, then oovers up tight as right/lefts bat her ears. Short right uppie from Jenny, picking Bush up in the tits: Jenny covers up tight again to ride out the wailing receipts. Back and forth from there: Jenny picking her spots, fitting Sophia for short uppercuts at medium-close range: Bush swinging huge, hitting Jenny in her flanks or missing over the top as blonde bobs on the spot.

R5: More crazed, desperate power punching from Sophia - she's leaving her feet trying for Jenny's head. Mac showing composure - leaning out of range, pivoting outside the arc of brunette punches - then leaning in with stiff left jabs to face. As Bush's fury abates, Jenny's discipline takes over: that forward lean, the right heel off canvas, stiff punches coming off the planted left leg. Straight rights and lefts strafe at Sophia, punching her into compliance: Sophia crouching, covering up, bobbing, but unable to make much headway against Jenny's textbook attack.

R6: Jenny trying to get her way midring...Sophia hurtling into blonde, shooting for the waist, driving her back with stocky legs stamping. Fight stumbles into ropes, devolves into brawl: Bush fighting off Jenny's chest, engaging her at close range. Mac baring her teeth, loving the heat: she's fetching Sophia glorious uppercuts via either hand, then putting a shoulder on Bush for control. Sophia belting back: wide, whacking blows taking Jenny in her hips/upside her head. Soph pumping short left/rights up into Jenny's breasts: playmate gasping under the furious assault on her moneymakers as Bush won't give up top position at ropes. Wicked trading continues - Jenny fighting coyly off the ropes, trying to bounce and catch Sophia in between Bush's haymakers: Sophia just swinging on emotion, pushing in and brawling from the crouch. Down the stretch, Jenny's right uppercut starts late: Bush crashes in over the top a right hand flush to chin - SITTING JENNY INTO ROPES! Head-swivelling wallop stuns McCarthy - she's momentarily helpless, facing into rapid repeat right hands as Sophia pours on for the finish! Bell: McCarthy staring in confusion - ref pulling Sophia off as she's trying to bank insurance.

R7: Spate of jabs meets Bush midring...Sophia repulsed, unable to penetrate. Jenny hops forward...slight crouch...she PUMPS a right to the body, another, doubling Sophia up. More pumping rights - Jenny stepping forward as Sophia's backing away - hips jumping back from the thumping impacts even as Sophia's leaning forward. More right hands slam home - Sophia's legs scoot back, pitching her to hands and knees all panting and blubbering. McCarthy glaring down, strutting to neutral corner: Sophia trembling as she beats the count. Wobbly 8, Bush: ON COMES JENNY! Mac baring her teeth, eyes hard: she squares away and shovels it on - strong, walloping lefts and rights beating across Sophia's head and shoulders. Bush drooping into ropes, eyes dimming - it's too much Mac - furious blonde punching simply hammering Sophia senseless. Bush slumping in ropes, hands dropping - she's OUT ref STOP THE FIGHT! Jenny adjusting her feet - she wants more right hands...left hand propping Sophia in her chest, stabilizing her for the drilling rights. Ref FINALLY moves in, pulling Jenny away as Sophia pools to the mat, deep in KO'd slumber. KO7, Jenny Mac.

After; Mac rubbing her jaw - nice little shiner growing on her left eye: former champ given all she could handle by an outgunned, but furious-hearted Sophia Bush tonight. "You guys know me - I calls it like I sees it," Jenny says. "This kid threw the kitchen sink at me tonight - hit me hard. I was hurt in the sixth - tell her that when she wakes up. A few more seconds and she'd have had mef - no joke. She pushed me to unleash hell on her, and I respect that. Didn't think I'd have to dig down to get her out of there."