Before: Eliza covering a lot of ground in prefight. On her rumoured trip to flyweight: "Hey - I've always said that fly's on my radar screen. Win or win against Jen, I see a lot of girls at 110 have licked the wounds I gave them and seem to have recovered their pride. It'd be great to pop back down and correct that." On the new improved Connelly: "Jenny's taken what she has and made the most of it - you have to give her credit. I do see improvement, but I don't think it's made her a top 5 bantam. Can you imagine the training camp she had for this fight? After Fishel tore up her body for 5 rounds - Jen had to go right back into camp and get ready for MY body attack? She's got to be just sick thinking about having to go through that again." Connelly shaking off the Fishel fight - she's every inch a champion for this dance. "Eliza shouldn't talk about other girl's bodies - I'll trade hooks with her all night if that's what she wants, but don't get your hopes up. People have been asking me if I'm going all out to stop Eliza and the answer is no. I'd love to put her out, but my plan is just to be the better woman every minute, every round - if she quits, she quits. I know what's happened between us in the past, but I'm not letting it color my judgement. I'm just going to take Eliza Dushku apart - one punch at a time." Eliza in red leather bikini, Jennifer in black bikini.

During R1: Eliza systematically attacking her quarry. First minute - Dushku circling left behind a banging jab, spicy Jenny up body and head from outside. Rest of the way, Dushku chopping right hands up top, swinging JC Chavez hooks to the liver - good crisp two beat delivery, shaking Connelly on contact. Jennifer using her legs, just taking a look in the first, hands up as she skirts the ring.

R2: Dushku jabbing to close, gets a blunt right hand on Jen's jaw, doubles her up downstairs the hook, then curls a tight left across the chops to unhinge the champ at the knees. Connelly recovers well though - rest of the round sees her jab Eliza very effectively, keeping her well outside. Connelly on springy legs, bouncing to her left, showing the straight right hand often enough to keep Dushku honest and turning over whistling hooks while sliding back, anytime Eliza tries to press.

R3: Break out the baseball bats. Both girls elect to move into power punching range and get off hard - good banging two way trade in a series of collisions all around the ring. Professional stuff - girls will make one defensive move with their head or counter off the block, then throw rights and lefts in crisp, harmful succession. Every punch answered in kind, bodies tanned, chins checked, girls only moving to the side to reset their angles: both want to stay in range to chuck. Down the stretch, Eliza with a tight overhand right on the temple, jacks the right hand up and underneath into a tight uppercut - unorthodox combo stands Jen up blinking. Dushku puts the hook on top, then gets another blunt right on the teeth as Connelly totters backwards - champ shabby at the ropes as Eliza sails in. Dushku mopping up like a thug, helping herself to waistline with big, digging left hooks at the bell.

R4: Dushku with ANOTHER clean right hand on the chin has Jen stepping woozy in the first minute - Eliza methodical, stepping right, working outside Connelly's left shoulder to hook her belly and tits from an angle. Jennifer finally looking shopworn - she's taken a lot of clean punching, eyes a little shiny, face puffy and Eliza's starting to pay serious attention to that ribcage. Hooks, hooks, and more hooks stream off Dushku's jab and stubby straight rights - Connelly forward behind her guard, starting to take it thick in her midsection, not answering back. Eliza D finishes up strong at the ropes, just roasting Connelly's flanks with consistent leather, pushing up on her with shoulders and extended elbows, snatching and snapping downstairs. Knowing smile from Dushku as she pushes up off her girl at the bell - Connelly giving up whimper this round, face betraying the hurt.

R5: Jenny showing heart - standing her ground, jabbing with Eliza, sliding back and walking the challenger into a keen counter right uppercut, shouldering her back outside to set the tone. Dushku attacking, trying to break the champ down - Connelly standing in the pocket, timing the rushes, touching Dushku on the way in the jab, and fitting a right hand in on jaw to win the exchanges. Eliza unhurt, still banking the odd hook around the liver/hip area on Jen - Dushku just sustaining a high pace, making Connelly work, but challenger drops her first round as Jen rights the ship.

R6: Back to that vicious, hard-hearted two-way action of the third. Girls slicing right hands over top, then slinging back underneath hard hooks loud off belly or breasts. Both bending into punches, moving their heads, pivoting sharply left and looking to surprise the opponent with quick responses. Crowd roaring at the spicy contact - both girls getting their bells rung, getting body-spanked as strong leather lands. Final minute: Eliza hooks Jennifer's middle, crowds in, hooks her again and again same spot - Connelly stops punching. Dushku goes to uppercuts, elbows in, fists tight to her chest, just powering compact blows up between Jen's mitts with a tight torso/back arch - Connelly giving ground as her chin's picked up. Dushku punching straight now, thrusting mitt into the chest and sternum, backs Connelly to ropes and Eliza hops in a pay-off hook to chin, finishing up with her body on Jen as the champ goes limp. ELIZA UNLEASHES! Dushku getting underneath and propping Jen, then hunkering down to pile in lefts and rights underneath. Connelly clinches, time running out. Eliza shrugs free, props, dips, chugs to body, heaping on the 6th, 7th, 8th, unanswered punch - Jen gasping breathy, head lolling, trying to wrap up. Eliza shrugs her off, ragdolling Jen with brawn, then back on the midriff, PACKING IN the punishment, SHOVELLING it in and JENNIFER GOES DOWN! Pain-wracked sobs from the champ as she trembles on all fours, sinking back to her haunches to cuddle her battered midsection, long black hair streaming over her sweaty left shoulder and it's OVER! KO6 Eliza Dushku!

After: Eliza strutting insufferably, hands high, nodding in self-satisfaction - she leaves Jen Connelly distraught, wallowing in a little puddle of defeat by the ropes. "I guess I should thank Dani Fishel," smirks Eliza in post fight, "You didn't leave me much." Ouch. Connelly helped to her stool and consoled - it's a bitter pill to swallow: badly beaten, hurt in almost every round and finally stopped after absorbing a tremendous licking from hated Eliza Dushku - nightmare just won't end. "Jennifer's like a Britney Spears," continues Dushku. "It doesn't matter how hard they train, how good they look - they get in with me and they freeze. Lambs and wolves baby, lambs and wolves."