Before: Matchmakers drooling over the prospect of long, sinewy vixens engaged in the perfect blonde/brunette match up. Angie the long-toiling, well traveled veteran charged with testing so many young up and comers like Laura - but rarely ever being selected for a debut: Harmon can taste the disrespect. "Laura's like a weaker, smaller version of Tricia Helfer," Harmon declares, "and I think we all know how I handled the real Trish. I'm giving this kid a beating: she thinks she can debut against me? I'm putting my foot up her scrawny butt and sending her home to her momma in tears." Vandervoort camp aware of the bold statement, but confidence running high based on Laura's sparring sessions. "This girl's the hottest lanky-bodied prospect SINCE Helfer," crows Vandervoort's trainer. "We're gonna fight Angie around 120, but we don't know if Laura's going to stay there. We just want to see how she handles Harmon's punch - see if she can push with Angie - no need to rush Laura into a firm weightclass just yet." Laura in crimson Smallville bikini; small black workout gloves (rabbit-fur, dyed black); tan UGG boxing boots. Angie in midnight blue bra-top two piece (she comes to ring instructions wearing a long midnight blue blouse over top, open up the middle); white fur-lined boxing moccasins; small white rabbit-pelt boxing gloves.

During R1: Laura calling to mind early Carmella Decesare: right hand dangling as she pushes out the left to locate Angie; pretty scowl/pout on blonde face - Vandervoort walking to Angie. Harmon dukes up, face stern - she's stepping right, getting outside Laura's jab, jabbing back into Vandervoort's ribs under Laura's extended left hand; bouncing jabs off blonde left cheekbone. Methodical circling and stiff poking from Angie for 2 minutes: down the stretch, she starts leaning in firm right hands over Laura's left. Vandervoort's head tossing right, long legs trembling: Angie mining gold in Laura's chin via lanky right hand blasts - rabbit-fur mitt landing with dry, thudding puffs. Laura shook - high, tight little buttocks wobbling early as she totters around on heels at bell.

R2: Angie continues to step right, getting outside Laura's pushy left jab: Vandervoort hanging the left out there, bringing it back low to her hip - Harmon taking advantage. Angie placing stiff poke to Laura's left cheek, left breasts, and leftside ribs - turning over the odd lusty right cross to clout Vandervoort's head hard right or stamp her hard in left armpit. Laura a stubborn young lass - taking punches and walking through, 'em - not a lot of head movement. Laura lands her first good punches late this round: looping right hand buffetts off Angie's jaw - followed by a sleek, lanky left. Laura keeps her off-hand low when slugging, twisting into her motion, then bringing the punching hand back low as well: she's there for counters, but she's getting the same kind of wiry, lanky leverage on her shots that Decesare does.

R3: Angie keeps pecking away: footwork more educated; jab more constructive; right hands straighter. Angie working that angle off Laura's left shoulder - scoring at will from outside. Harmon occasionally staying in over her left (lead) foot to lift rigid left hooks up into Laura's flat tummy and solar-plexus underneath - just gouging at slender blonde. Fur lined mitt thumping, skidding along Laura's ribcage as Vandervoort grunts, scowls, comes forward.

R4,5: More Angie just having her methodical way with Laura. Vandervoort lumping up nicely: Angie's fur mitts won't cut, but they're bruising Laura's face, pinking up her tummy. Angie's punches tend to be straight, ratchetting, chugging affairs - scrubbing at Laura's features. Harmon able to lean into firm right hands, or dig upwards with hooks to body: she's very comfortable, extending on shots, really pasting Laura. But Vandervoort stubborn - generally coming forward when she's not buffetted off balance - and Laura's generating good torque on free-swinging lefts and rights. Angie's footwork keeping her safe for the most part - but occasional licks from Laura have Harmon covering up and grimacing as she deals with the hurt.

R6: Angie doubling the pinging jabs, edging in, getting after Laura's ribcage with hardworking rights and lefts: Laura gutted, groaning, staggers back under withering fire. Good, rangy work - Angie squared up and going at Laura methodical - Harmon's slender arms rigid with effort as she tans the flanks, claws at the breastline or digs up and under with vicious thumping uppercuts: it's all too much. Laura sinks to her right knee half way through, panting, looking distraught: Angie nodding savagely, dark eyes flashing at the sight of hobbled blonde. Give her credit - Vandervoort rallies off the canvas, digs in at ropes, brawls her little heart out when Harmon wades in: lanky blonde denying lanky brunette her finishing run as girls whip and lash away toe-to-toe at bell.

R7: Laura catches Angie a looping, 3/4 right overhand off left cheek - startling Harmon with mink-pelt thump. Rising jab bumps Angie in the mouth; wide, slapping hook clouts her jaw - Laura loose n' lanky here, extending on shots and pasting Harmon at range. Angie staggering slightly - Laura baring her teeth, so sinewy and long as she twists and licks away pretty from her hips. Harmon punching back in spots, but often off her heels: Laura bangs away for points in the seventh.

R8: Angie wades in, ratchetting away straight, criss-crossing lefts and rights, palms down as she stamps into blonde chest and face. Laura driven backward, but firming at the apron - she lugs a gorgeous, swinging right hand into Angie's ribs underneath, then clouts her a lanky left to mouth to stem the Harmon advance. Harmon on her heels, fraying - hands stacked right atop left at her tummy as she tilts forward to slug. Laura's hands in a similar loose stack - elbows out wide: OH, THEY BELT AWAY LANKY! Gobsmacking clout dished out - lean lasses twisting side to side, sloshing home the harm - slender limbs shivering as fists meet skull or wiry body. DOWN GOES ANGIE! Happens in stages - girls just trading licks, carrying hands low, both connecting on every wide, slinging punch - Harmon's legs give way, pitching her forward past Laura to deposit Angie on all fours, panting in stupor. Harmon bravely up, but rickety at ropes: Laura wades in with the prettiest "I'm going to finish you" pout since Jenny O'Dell. POOR ANGIE! Harmon's legs in wide A-frame support, butt in ropes, hands stacked at tummy: Laura squaring away wide, arms akimbo as she lashes away lanky. Stroking clout catching Angie on either jaw line, shivering off her ribcage - Laura strapping on the shellack - knuckling prettily at Angie's chest every once in a while to push her upright. Laura turning over her punches - elbow coming up on follow through: Harmon drooping, sagging, but refusing to give in to blonde slugging.

R9: Crazy, limber-limbed slugging action: crowd eating it up with a happy roar as lanky lasses wallop and reel about ring. Angie drained, mouth wide open, eyelashes fluttering - but look at her belt away - catching Laura wide, licking hooks and sidearm rights upside the head; withering, lanky right/left slashes to midsection. Vandervoort wading in and getting the better of it though - both girls slugging from their hips, hands stacked low, elbows out wide - they're just turning side to side, wailing each other senseless. Angie finishes up groggy at ropes, getting her face pasted: Laura panting as she twists into shots, knuckles at her girl to stabilize. Vandervoort displays a snappy, rising hook - left fist snatching at quivering brunette stomach, then brought rapidly back to Laura's chest: vicious dig takes Harmon's breath away. Angie dazed, ruined - wandering back to her corner in a haze as Laura's the fresher vixen through 9.

R10: Laura hounding Angie now - blonde anxiously seeking out the exchanges, hungry to trade punches, knowing Angie can't go blow for blow. Harmon shying away, eyes with a saddened, groggy look - but she's digging in at spots, slugging back to deny Laura supremacy. Gorgeous, hurting back and forth - girls so negligent and loose with hand position - long legs rubbery with attrition - taut backsides jumping as chins are toggled, bodies shellacked. Vandervoort forcing the action, pushing the pace on Angie, backing Harmon up - but brunette facing into the beating, determined to finish on her feet. Goes to cards - comes back UD10 narrow, Angie Harmon.

After: Harmon giving an exhausted wave to fans amidst a mixed reaction of cheers and boos. Good debut for Vandervoort - pasted early and controlled by Angie, Laura trudged through it, got lanky, and owned her brunette over the second half. Laura defensively suspect, but like Decesare, Vandervoort's got a natural sense of how to harness her willowy length for leverage - really showing bandy-limbed snap on that left uppercut to Angie's body at times. Harmon clearly the worse for wear, looking cranky and disheveled in her corner as the loser struts the ring hands-high. AHW promoters scrambling to sign these two for lanky carpet action: Harmon could be seeing more than she wants to of this fresh face over the next few months.