|
Before: Beckinsale beat Charlize down, Casta beat Beckinsale down - Laetitia positively muscular with confidence in prefight.
"Kate - limited as she is - exposed Charlize and I'm going to further exploit her vulnerabilities. I've always criticized management for not turning me loose on Charlize - I know I can be the woman Cat Bell tried and failed to be - namely the girl who shoves Theron to the sidelines for good and all. I should constantly be hounding Theron into defeat, breaking her spirit, and rolling her up."
Bold prognostication - what does Charlize think? "Look - I agree with Kim - Laetitia's not an A level fighter, but I'll give her this: she's got an A+ derriere! That's all the reason I need to knock this hobo out once in a while - just the chance to get happy off that backside. Mmmmm, I can hardly wait!"
Casta - royal blue bikini, white fleurs de lis print, tidy battle-braid - cream bikini Charlize.
During R1: Charlize in attack posture - left slightly low, right at the chin, right foot back, pushing off that big toe. Casta elbows in, hands up high - tight defensive posture: girls meet mid ring. Theron jabbing at the guard, swinging a hard right to the waist, setting down on a strapping left to the waist, skidding the uppercut off the rigid guard - Casta partially blocking body shots with her elbows, then dropping her left down onto Charlize' exposed face or popping her a short right. Back and forth like this - Theron storming the defenses, busier, but not landing clean on meat - Laetitia hanging back, not getting off as much, but chopping away flush, landing brisk to the face and chest of her foe with quick, tidy thrusts, always retracting the hand back fast to resume the guard.
R2: Casta encouraged, feels she won the first - opens up swinging this round and it's a mistake. Charlize able to lean in and out, get the timing of it and early on, she smokes Casta a slinging right over French jab, curls the right uppercut in underneath, then clouts Casta back-of-the-head as Laetitia stumbles past, AND SCATTERS TO ALL FOURS! Casta shaking her head groggy, disappointed at herself - momentary lapse of concentration costs her an 8 count. Casta off the ropes tightens up - elbows in, hands up, chin tucked - Theron striding forward and attacking the waist, skidding uppercuts when she's done. Back to that brisk two way rhythm of the first - Laetitia calmly blocking in the pocket, letting Charlize get off, then tapping back with dropping shots - startling Theron on the face, chopping at the breasts, always reforming the tight guard to leave no openings. Theron bright at the bell, raising her right hand to exhort the crowd - but face is pinking up nicely - Casta really chopping effectively when she's not swabbing the deck with her knees.
R3: Casta sticks with block-and-counter - Charlize plays right into the plan. Theron attacking rangy - jabbing into the guard, swinging hard right to the flank, digging in the left to the waist, batting away downstairs then jerking Oscar de la Hoya uppercuts that skid against Laetitia's disciplined defence. Looks good but nothing's getting through - meanwhile Laetitia's chopping away. Casta just dropping the punches out of the guard, no backswing but plenty of shoulder and body behind the blows, keeping her elbow in even as she hammers away. Cuffing hooks, a hammer-drop jab, chopping rights - it all adds up on Theron's gorgeous face and proud chest as blonde is wide open after belting to the body. Midway through, constant tapping attack has Theron wobbling - Casta scoots forward after a chopping left/right, bumps Theron a tuff shoulder in the chest and clips blondie a sweet left hook on the chin as Charlize staggers back. THERON SCOOTS TO HER BACKSIDE! Theron landing and skidding to a halt at the ropes - groggy "what th'?" expression as she shakes her pretty head - achy 8 for Charlize as it dawns on her she's taking a ton of punches from Casta tonight. Tish transitions to lead with Charlize covering up on the ropes - French woman's turn to bat the flanks, lathering up robust as Charlize wilts forward, soaking it up sullen at the bell.
R4: Charlize leggy, spearing the jab, finally giving Laetitia lanky lateral movement - Casta having to move her feet can't just sit and block in the pocket. Theron circling, laying in the odd slinging right, but doing most of the business with the come back hook - laying it in thick across the belly as Casta avoids the cross but gets caught the left. Rangy shutout Charlize - sunny expression back despite the lumps - Theron controlling matters with her incomparable legs.
R5: Close competitive round. Charlize having real problems penetrating the Casta clamshell - Laetitia blocking the body shots and tapping away to face and chest when Theron attacks strong up the middle. Flipside - Casta having trouble when Theron backs off, works behind her jab and uses the ring, forcing Laetitia to make the fight. Net result - Theron busier, but landing a lower percentage - Casta outworked, but collecting a constant bushel of chopping strikes - effects clearly visible on Charlize rapidly swelling eyes, mouth and bleeding nose.
Casta/Theron conc.
Posted by simguy on 6/19/2004, 7:38 am, in reply to "Charlize Theron vs Laetitia Casta part 1"
|
R6: Theron stubborn, attacking the waist with batting fury - Casta tilts and blocks, picking up most of it on her elbows, then pinging away. Chop-right on the face startles Charlize - cuffing hook on the ear and a thrusting jab on the mouth. Quick-drop right/left down onto the chest - Casta bringing the hands back quick, blocking retaliatory body shots, then scoring again to Theron's busted up mug. Charlize getting pelted backing up and it must be said: breaking down. Midway through, Casta blocking, stepping and dropping sudden rights onto the chin of her foe, each one stronger than the last and THERON GOES DOWN! Gorgeous sequence puts Charlize on her butt once again, stupified with punishment, staring and groggy as a haughty French girl struts to the neutral corner. Theron up at 8, nodding strong to the ref to let it go - but it's Casta charging in, ducking down to pull a banging left-right against Theron's waist, freezing the tall blonde, stooping her forward. Casta opening up - rolling her shoulders, keeping her elbows in and just digging out Theron's tummy - blonde draping arms up high, all breathless and shabby as she clinches out the round. Charlize busting up just like the good old days, reeling slightly after the bell - cheeky Casta helps herself to a generous slab of Oscar winning glute - sending Charlize back to her corner all slouching and grumpy. Breezy, St. Tropez smile Casta - everything's working according to plan through 6.
R7: Charlize changing tactics - leggy boxing too risky in a fight she might be losing, and the head on attacks are exposing her to too much punishment - lanky veteran goes to punch n' clutch to help her control uppity brunette. Theron starting with a hand-clasp back of Casta's neck - blonde able to gently pull her girl forward, ease her back, turn her around while tugging the head forward - she's keeping Casta under wraps at the ropes. Theron liberally holding and hitting - left hand pulling down on Casta's neck while the right straps thick and ropey to the body - then it's right hand hold, left hands in the waist. Casta struggling, snapping off pleasing combinations against Theron's belly and tits, but Theron fighting big and getting away with it as Ref allows latitude this round.
R8: More Charlize holding, hitting, tugging, mauling. Theron just pulling and turning her girl around, easing her into the ropes, holding her and belting her in the body, then bodying Casta with ruff forearm pushes to the throat and face. Casta pushed and wrapped, bogging down - sloppy slugging the boxing equivalent of mud wrestling and it's favouring the bigger woman. Final minute, Charlize with Laetitia's back to the ropes, hands behind brunette neck - Theron just tugging and positioning, then belting away - thick right hands in the breadbasket over and over and over finally pay dividends as French girl wilts to one knee with a pinched expression. Gleeful satisfaction on Theron's face as she struts away hands held high to a chorus of boos - Charlize' tactics not endearing her to the knowledgeable crowd in attendance.
R9: Casta adjusts - opens with a lead jab to discourage Theron's hand-clasp - Theron can't get her body-on. Charlize spends a minute trying to close and clinch - keeps running onto the stick, then the right hand as Casta gets back to tight, crisp punching. Jab, pinging right hand, jerking left uppercut puts Theron on her heels - she's getting rung up, finally stepping out to regroup outside. Casta switches back to the tight defensive look as Charlize strides in to get the points back - blonde coaxed into slamming away on the rigid guard, leaving herself open to Laetitia's heartless, accurate little chops. Breasts and face targetted without mercy - Laetitia's eyes hard and glittering as she rides out the strapping attack, then hacks away with precision cruelty. At the bell, Charlize' face terribly worked over - lower lip split, nose trickling, eyes swollen - Casta doing ruinous work when she gets the chance.
R10: Theron jabbing long, then closing to clinch - she's able to establish the hand-clasp and muscle Casta to the ropes. Laetitia pulled and pushed, off balance and not getting off with authority - Theron holding and hitting, very brawny, even sliding Casta into sweaty headlocks and leaning her into the ropes for grinding moments at a time. Ain't pretty, but it's smudgingly effective - Theron always pulling Casta forward, either tugging behind her neck, or even holding her in a loose front choke under one arm while swinging away with the free mitt - poor Laetitia all tremble-bodied as the ref lets the girls settle matters on their own terms. Bell sounds - both women raise their mitts - tough fight to score. Comes back UD10...Charlize Theron!
After: Theron-Ref-Laetitia at midring - ref lifting Theron's left arm at the announcement - Laetitia with a blank look of shock as Charlize goes limp with relief at the decision. Casta shaking her head as she walks back to her corner - all she saw was the knockdowns, the constant pounding that reduced Charlize face to raw prime rib - Laetitia angrily removing tape from hands sore from landing so often to Charlize' available skull.
"Did you see that body work?" Charlize says through cracked lips in postfight, "I have never pounded a woman so thoroughly to the midsection - Casta can barely walk." But what about Charlize' battered face and stomped titties? "Never mind my face," Theron snaps at an impertinent Tractorpull freelancer, "you just focus on Laetitia's ripped up gut and crippled legs. I took it out of that woman tonight - I doubt she'll ever be the same. If you watch the tape, you'll see how one-sided this fight really was."
|
|
Comments (0)
You don't have permission to comment on this page.