BEFORE: "It's a huge, huge fight for me," Alana says in prefight, dark eye sparkling. "I'm already ranked ahead of Tricia, I'm backed by great new management, and now I'm fighting for a championship: I feel like I'm leaving her in the dust at this point. Ali's so tough - so strong in her upperbody: but I'm better - I'm just better in every facet of the game. Larter's going to learn the oldest lesson in boxing: class beats brawn." Ali still reeling from defeat at the hands of hall-of-famer Jen Garner: Larter quickly regrouping to meet the threat of Alana. "People take one look at Alana's face and dismiss her as a fighter," Larter says at podium. 'I won't be making that mistake. Some people see 'soft' - but I see great cruelty in Alana, and you never take that lightly in a woman. She's not built to take my kind of pressure however. If I let her, she'll box me helpless, so I can't let her breathe in this fight. As long as i'm fighting off her chest, I'll be just fine with this one."

Ali in black bikini; black gloves; blonde hair loose about her shoulders. Alana in purple bikini with ring connections hip and jug; black gloves.

During R1: Larter connecting on her first right hand: Alana buckling, falling in to clinch...she's hurt! Ali pushing free, clubbing ADLG a series of right hands upside the head: De La Garza reeling in a semi circle, covered up tight. Alana staggering sideways to ropes - Ali in hot pursuit: blonde piles in head-and-shoulders, roughing Alana up. Larter mauling - hands pulling down Alana's wrists, scrubbing at her jugs, clubbing at her jaws: blonde bullying her beautiful brunette along aprons. Down the stretch, Alana (weight on right foot) able to slam right uppercut to Ali's chin: while blonde's stunned - De La Garza curls across the hook, turning Ali's head. BLONDE GIRL ROCKED! Larter thunderstruck, eyes bewildered: Alana grim-faced, hard-hearted wades forward. Alana leading right hands up from her hip, shaving across Larter's lips, then clanging back via the hook, shifting weight to right foot in the process. Larter stumbling off a curb, eyes shellshocked: she's hooked to ropes, catching clout to jaw. Down the stretch, Alana working on Ali: long brunette leaning in, palming Larter upright, swinging freely at her body (both hands). As Larter wilts forward - curvy legs holding her up: Alana cruelly goes to exposed back - carving meanspirited right hands across the kidneys. Bell: Alana pounding insurance into Ali - ref pulls seething Latina off her reeling blonde foe.

R2: Alana patient, feeling good: she's in forward aspect, pivoting methodically left, right heel high up off canvas. PUMPING jabs finding Ali's face, knocking it back: just a few stiff pokes enough to jab the mouthpiece off Ali's teeth. Alana sliding in the oily right hand, just a smooth set up punch for her licking, vicious, rising left hook. Alana parcelling out hooks to Ali'a flank or chin, really stroking the blonde woozy: Larter's sturdiness and conditioning saving her from knockdowns. Bad minutes for Ali: she's repeatedly hurt, walked down, touched up...champion keeps herself on the move, trying to cover up and get out of the round.

R3: Ali busting up: she's got to gamble and both girls know it. De La Garza in forward aspect - punishing Ali jabs; victimizing her left hooks, jagged little left uppercuts off the planted left (lead) leg. Larter's attacks repulsed, but she gamely keeps at it - every so often fighting her way through to club at Alana's ears and ribs. De La Garza classy under pressure: she legs away, circling to fresh canvas, re-organizing behind that jab. De La G extending on shots, dictating terms: Ali cut at the hairline, looking frustrated and punished through 3.

R4: De La Garza concentrating on short, dip-n'-rip left uppercuts, punching Ali up out of her crouch; hooks follow, turning Ali's head. As Larter staggers back, De La Garza walks her down - brunette very systematic, precise, getting her hips and legs into shots. Larter's mouthpiece punched clear again; Larter staggered as she's sliding to her right along ropes...champ getting battered as stalking brunette has her way. Final moments, De La Garza challenging Larter's toned legs with a frightful batting body attack: groaning Larter cringes forward, giving up her back to that savage, illegal right hand scrubbing along her kidneys. Ref pushes Alana back, warning her to stay off Ali's back: De la Garza glaring, almost sneering in cold-blooded response.

R5: FURIOUS exchange midring to open the fifth. Both girls ducking, then slugging savage: tightly turned lefts and rights sweep side to side in the horizontal plane. Both women tagged along lovely jawlines - both women rocked: it's Ali's curling right hand slowly getting the better of it. Minute mark, De La Garza's trying to disengage: Ali jabbing jug, stepping-with, then hopping in her hook, catching Alana to chin, swivelling her head. De La Garza staggers to ropes, covers up earmuff: Larter steps-to, starts fitting in snug hooks-to-gut as her left cheek pushes against Alana's guard. Ali managing De La Garza with left shoulder bumps against the guard - working Alana with stiff hooks in the waist; robust, scraping little right uppercuts off the right foot. Savage stuff: Alana attempting to pull Ali into clinches or spin around her; Larter bodying Alana to ropes, then muscling her way out of the grasp, bullying Alana into covering up again. Steady beat of blonde gloves on brunette chassis: De La Garza wilting, wilting - just stooped forward hurt behind her gloves as Ali works her over. Right uppercut finally shocks Alana to chin, picking her pretty face up all drowsy; brutal hook tugs her tummy, cramping her up, sitting her hurt in ropes. Clubbing follow up beats Alana's head and shoulders, punching her guard apart: she's helpless, slackjawed as ref moves in to save her. TKO5 in bashing fashion, Ali Larter.

After: Larter seething, pounding her chest and strutting the ring all fierce-eyed: blonde champion sorely tested, losing every round off this fight before finally breaking her foe down. Cameras lingering on Alana crying prettily, looking around and snivelling: De La Garza paying the price for beauty as broadcast focuses overly long on her long-lashed distress. "I was too strong for her," Ali explains in postfight. "She was boxing, moving well, but I knew it was only a matter of time. She was crippled to the body: if the ref hadn't stopped it, she would have quit on her stool. No way a girl goes on after taking my thunder for a round like she did