Mini PPV: Sarah Carter vs Sienna Miller (partial)
Posted by simguy on 8/21/2006, 6:52 pm


Miller in black bikini, belted bottoms (black with gold buckle), small black gloves
Sarah wearing Rachel Leigh Cook's tawdry baby-blue cashmere crochet crop top and bottoms (Carter camp mum on the subject, but anytime a fighting vixen sports the known fighting duds of another girl, speculation tends to run rampant), small white gloves, long ponytail with bangs framing either side of face.
UD10 competitive, Sarah Carter

It was billed in Britain as "The Counterattack" - Sienna Miller taking the fight back to US flyweights in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Mish. But Miller met stubborn resistance in the form of shapely Sarah C - a fighter virtually unknown to the Miller camp and handpicked to take a showcase-beating from the favoured Brit. Carter sent notice to her division and the showbiz world at large that her time may finally be at hand with this solid, very professional win.

Sarah - a former dancer with the Royal Ballet of Canada - proved the classier, more athletic and better schooled of the two as she boxed Sienna flawlessly over the first half of the fight. For her part, Miller showed the vigour and ferocity that had been sadly lacking against Mish, but she was being badly outclassed early and picked apart by her foe's exquisite timing, sharp punching and bewitching footwork. In the fifth, having properly reduced her foe, Sarah went in for the kill, unleashing a savage bell-to-bell lather that busted Miller up, dropped her for an 8 count and left her tingling/swaying at the break.

It was exactly what Miller had been waiting for.

Sienna's one of those hard-headed girls who needs to catch a clout or two to really find her fight, and when Sarah sliced in to finish matters in the 6th, she quickly found herself overwhelmed by staunch British resistance. Miller's reckless fury was rewarded with a knockdown of Carter, and with BOTH women now reeling and mouthbreathing, the latter half of the fight would be a different sort of competition all together. The two would split the final 4 heats two rounds a piece - fighting bitterly contested, often groggy exchanges toe-to-toe and body-to-body, beating each other into splendid, staggering stupors by the end. Carter had done enough early: her lead held up, and Miller found herself sternly rebuked once again.

Carter talked about Kristen Bell at length in post fight, proving very astute about the boxing business and her position in the celestial firmament these days. "I have a big showdown with Bell coming and it's really going to decide the direction of my career for the next little while. We both had movies coming out this summer and that puts us in direct competition right there. In the ring, we both want to take a seat at the table with the Hannigans, the Gellars, the Portmans, Daneses and Williamses of the world, but we both know there's not that much room for an independent at that table. Basically, we both want to shove Kristen Kreuk aside and take HER seat, but we need to sort each other out first, so it's pretty intense. I know Krissy's thinking about me every day too, and we just need to settle this so one of us can move forward."