Posted by simguy on 9/17/2004, 10:52 pm

Before: More than stable supremacy at stake in this one - Ryan/Landry acknowledged as one of the premier big woman bouts, blonde/brunette bouts, and jug bouts that can be made - and to top it off, it's a rubber match. "Jeri and I do agree on one thing," says Ali in prefight. "We'll both be taking chances to get the other out of there - I can't be satisfied simply outclassing her. I've got to put her on her back." Ryan echoing the KO talk. "Ali's slipped this year," Jeri asserts. "I see it in the gym, in her workouts - she's lost that extra half step she needs to compete with me. We'll see it in this fight - every round she's going to be falling just a bit more short until I end it. Ali's right: I need to flatten her to change things around here, and the truth is, the whole gym is behind me. When I'm finished with her, Ali Landry won't be the same fighter." Nose to nose stare down during instructions - ladies refusing to touch gloves. Jeri in red bikini, Ali in gold.

During R1: Jeri right hand at her cheek, left at her chest and she's PUMPING that jab early. Ali outside, leaning onto her back foot, crossing her arms to lean forward and down, trying to weave stick but blonde lateral movement and stinging lefts setting the pace. Midway through, Landry pawing her way in - Jeri sitting in the pocket bends into a short Hello right hand on the chin - THERE GO ALI'S LEGS! Landry rejected, sent staggering sideways, face forlorn - Ryan hard eyed as she walks rattled Ali down. Jeri thrusting straight rights to the left hip/flank of Landry, driving Ali ropeside, then catching her a lanky swinging hook CLAP on the jaw. Landry leaning back, staring groggy and JERI GOES JUG! Crowd roaring to it's feet and saluting - Ryan leaning into the straight right, dipping right to pull the hook across Ali's bulging cleavage, jabbing brunette forehead to brush her back then ramming rack again the right! Thick, strong, side to side shellack has Landry's mouth open in shock - Ryan laying down the law. Bell: seething Ryan chests up and forces eye contact - Ali a-swoon, petulant as she tries to push her way past - ref moves to separate.

R2: Jeri standing with 10 seconds to go in the break - storms across the ring and starts patting Ali down the stinging jab. Landry frowning, hands up, blocking and parrying as she slides to her right along the ropes, Ryan stepping with her - right cocked at her shoulder. Landry cute off the ropes, slipping Ryan's jab, walking her in and poking a short stab-and-retract right to the mouth - Ryan giving up the touches as she tries to get into perfect position to land her own right. Midway through - Ryan unleashes the cross, Ali reads it, slips under, back with a clanging hook: Landry turning her shoulder into a meaty clock on the chin that locks up Ryan's legs. Jeri hurt, reaching to clinch - Ali wraps up ribcage and hip-tosses Jeri into the ropes, reversing position. Landry working thick out of the wrap - Jeri riding her right hand over Ali's shoulder, blonde face blank, dazed - Ali stuffing right hands to breadbasket, right hands to rack as work gets done in close. Ryan tested in this middle minute, beaten mercilessly as Landry holds and hits, now plugging home rights, then shifting to heave home lefts as Jeri wilts and takes. Final minute - JERI BRAWLS BACK! Ryan groggy, open-mouthed, picks Ali up a workmanlike right uppercut, rakes the ribs a slashing hook, punching and walking Landry back to midring. Slobberknocker down the stretch as disbelieving Landry faces into short right crosses, hooks and strafing bodyshots, finishing up on her heels, arms crossed, just twisting her torso side to side to ride out the storm.

R3: Ali taking the jab away from Jeri with her own, keeping it in Ryan's face then bodying up - blonde swamped, walked to the ropes as Ali gets beefy. Landry tieing up around Jeri's elbows, smearing her along the ropes, grinding face with her forehead - Ryan's weight on her heels, pressed hard to the strands can't get off her back. Bell to bell Ali Landry, not pretty, but pretty effective - she's tucking in body shots while holding, making Ryan feel the weight. Ali warned for 'heeling' whenever Jeri reaches around brunette waist to clinch - Ali working around the blonde's hips and kidneys with the heels of her hands to nasty effect.

R4: Shutout Ali. Landry waving the jab to make Jeri blink, then she's back inside, leaving her scent on Jeri and driving her to the ropes. Tortuous action - Ryan grimacing, struggling to push Ali off her or wrestle brunette back to the ropes - Ali swamping Jeri's arms, plugging away rights or lefts while holding Ryan around the body with the other hand. Jeri sullen, taking, riding her right arm around Ali's shoulders while she soaks, then riding her left - Landry getting good long looks at tummy, ribs and rack in sweaty confines. Ryan just not punching back, hanging off Ali, taking beefy body blows - Landry the stronger vixen through 4 bruising heats.

R5: Shutout Ali. Similar stuff - Ryan unable to keep Ali off her and unable to compete on the inside - Landry walking Jeri to ropes and systematically mauling her. Ali with her head under Jeri's chin, arms crossed, hands free as Ryan rides an arm pathetically around the upperback - Landry able to rip and snatch out of her crouch, tearing up that Ryan belly, bouncing mitt off rib. Landry POUNDING the offending rack with single curling lefts or rights, plenty of leverage on short, smudging blows, then back to that creamy midsection. Ryan's eyes often closed in a tight grimace, mouth parted - she's just standing there soaking it up like she's got no say in the matter. Ali cracks her first smile at the bell, raising her right mitt - she sends Jeri achy to her corner again and seems to be using Ryan up through 5.

R6: Jeri closing up her stance, taking a half step back as Ali moves in and Ryan lights Landry up the counter-right uppercut. Landry rejected, forced back outside - Jeri immediately rings her up between the eyes the jab and suddenly it's Ryan's fight. Jeri spreading Ali out with good streaming stick, snapping it out there and she's not stingy with the rights: Ali forced to twist and lean away or get creamed as Ryan bends into short, violent crosses. Midway through, Ali's arms crossed, body tilted to her right but it's not enough - Ryan able to club home an overhand right behind the ear to stagger her foe to the ropes. Ali a-swoon, right hand at her left cheek, left across the abs - Jeri swat-hooks the exposed right cheek, hooks jug, hooks jug, then muscles Ali upright for more. Big blonde beat down - crowd in a frenzy as Landry looks mesmerized by punishment - Jeri just shellacking away, beating down the defences then SAVAGING THAT RACK! Ali helpless to prevent it - Jeri dipping her shoulders and getting all up in there with rising lefts and rights, galloping away to the bell. Ref jumps in as Jeri takes extra jug - Ali cursing, Jeri taunting as girls square up for extra-curriculars.

R7: Jeri finding more room, getting the jab on track, fighting more often midring. Ali busting up around the eyes, pointing the left shoulder at Ryan, keeping the right hand up to parry - brunette trying to stoop, jab to the body, then slide in to clinch. Tactical 7th as Ryan tries to keep distance, Ali tries to close, but down the stretch, Jeri able to find Landry leaning in with a blunt right hand on the temple. Blonde sidestepping - brunette clatters forward on numbed legs, crashing face-first to the ropes. Jeri getting big: left palm flat against Ali's shoulder to stabilize, right hands lugging up and in underneath, then the right palm stabilizes so the left can tear it up. Landry suffering to her body, just sitting in the ropes and taking - she's finally able to wrap up around Jeri's hips and buttocks, exposing her lower back to Ryan's tender hammer blows. Jeri draws a warning for the kidney work, Landry arching her back after the bell, face clammy from the beating.

R8: Jeri jabbing, jabbing, leaning into the right hand, recovering with her hook: she wants to end this thing. Ali getting spanked, sliding back, she's rolling punches with her shoulder, moving her head, trying to coax Ryan forward into something. Something's gotta give and minute mark: Ali slides under a searing Ryan right, answers back the hook and THERE GO JERI'S LEGS! Ryan's eyes suddenly glassy, staring - she's reeling away to her left - deep breath Ali as she marches in. Middle minute beat down - Ali going HEARTLESSLY to the body, thick, strapping rights and lefts, then palm-shoving Ryan upright - both girls know someone's going down this round. Jeri on numb legs, getting chewed up - she can't afford to soak - starts slugging back! Jeri with long uppercuts off the ropes - Ali hooking-with and RYAN'S HURT AGAIN! Jeri getting beat to punches, limp but stubborn at the ropes - she's trying to fight her way out of trouble, but she's just waving at Ali. Landry sensing it, goes all in - hard, smashing lefts and rights, much tighter, more compact than Ryan's throwing. Jeri's head on a swivel as Ali lands again and again up top - Jeri double-clutching as Ali pulls in cudgelling body blows downstairs. Jeri a-swoon, legs locked, hands low and out wide, stooping forward and ALI'S EATING HER UP! Landry beaming hungrily, now just picking Jeri up rights and lefts jugs and chin, jugs and chin, stepping back as Ryan tilts and GOES DOWN! Ryan sprawling on her face - Ali stepping back, chest heaving and it's OVER! KO8 Ali Landry!

After: Ryan on her stool, getting salts, all busted up and numb with despair. Landry getting her gloves cut away, looking up at the big monitor as slow-mo replays show her devastating body shots, brutal finishing run in aching detail. Landry tugs herself clear, then it's "wheeeee!" jiggling jog over to Ryan to take tribute. HBO nervously cuts to 'Swan Lake' - we'll have to rely upon Samdog's report of the aftermath.