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Charlize Theron (w/Pam Grier training her) vs. Cat Bell (IX) by simguy 2-23-02

Charlize as calm and confident as she's been all year in prefight: "I've said all along this is my fight to win or lose. I'm going to discourage Cat with class. It's a fact that when fighters sense your superiority, they just shut down and at some point in this fight, I'm going to see the hopelessness in Bell's eyes and know it's over. She's too proud to go down easily, but she'll take a punk's beating the whole way."

Bell with her own, radically different take on events, "Yes I'm going to be working her body, taking away her legs - those things never change in this match up, but I'm not shying away from her chin. Charlize is quitting in fights for the first time in her career - you saw it against Jeri. I think Ryan nailed her early and Charlize saw how hard it was going to be, how long a night it was going to be, thought about all the money she had in the bank and how everybody loves her win or lose, and she just gave it up. I want to make sure Theron is thinking the same way in our fight, hurt her badly enough to make her talk herself out of competing. Charlize isn't just fighting me tonight - she's got to fight that growing sense of satisfaction inside herself and I don't think she can do it anymore."

Cat in dark tinted leopard print bra style bikini; Theron in cream bikini.

Round 1: Theron starting fast, gliding to her left behind a snake's-tongue jab. Bell jabbing with Theron, not allowing the blonde to get comfortable and also dropping in a surprise: curling short right hands, all shoulder and legs behind hatchet chopping blows to the heart, PANCAKING THAT LEFT BREAST, putting Charlize awkwardly back on her heels. Bell driving Charlize back with that heart punch, getting close enough by the third minute to add the hook up top and THERON IS HURT! Right hand/left hook rocks Charlize, sends her sputtering wide eyed into the ropes and Bell squares away for a PUNISHING FLURRY TO THE BREASTS, pumping lefts and rights leave Theron trembling at the bell.

Round 2: Bell keeps jabbing Charlize, disrupting the blonde's timing, and CONTINUES TO DROP THE HATCHET ON THERON'S CHEST WITH DEVASTATING RESULTS. Charlize sobbing out loud from the firm connects, rattled backwards in disarray - Bell able to step with Charlize and clock her chin with hooks to beat blonde to the ropes. Midway through, Charlize looking windblown, seated ropeside, bending forward with arms outstretched - Cat rocks her back with a beautiful short clipping right uppercut inside, again putting the hook on top as Theron catches flush on her dazed face. Bell spends the final minute breaking Charlize down to the body - big and beefy - Cat planting her right hand on Charlize' shoulder to crank LEFTS TO THE RIGHT BREAST, THEN PALMS LEFT TO WORK THE LEFT BREAST. Theron wobbly butt at the bell, still straightens woozily trying to chest up against Bell - Cat maintaining eye contact, refusing to back down as the ref gets involved.

Round 3: Charlize wants to box, but Cat's not letting her. Brunette jab keeps Charlize in range - she leans inside to chop the heart punch again then snaps the hook across Charlize' face with sickening force. Theron's face pale and clammy - she stands flat footed and fights for respect through a hammer and tongs middle minute. Bell's got Theron fighting the wrong fight - brunette covering up well, riding out the flurries, then answering back with HEART-STOPPING RIGHT HANDS TO THE CHEST, left hooks to the gut. Theron busier, but Bell's placing her shots with exquisite force, GUTTING CHARLIZE. Down the stretch, a tight left hook inside BOUNCES OFF HER CHEST AND FOLDS THE BLONDE FORWARD to clinch. Theron draped off Cat's neck at the bell as CAT CHUGS UP INTO THOSE INVITING LITTLE BREASTS. Blonde weak in the knees, looking shabby through three.

Round 4: Charlize responds with championship heart, having taken a beating thus far but refusing to get despondent. Theron doubles up on the jab, keeping Cat from stepping in with the hatchet right hand and starts banging out right hands of her own over Cat's left mitt. Down the stretch, Bell turns it around as she bobs and slips, catching Theron punches on her shoulders and gloves, answers with a single biting hook to the teeth that gets Charlize wobbly butt. Charlize reaching, desperately trying to clinch as Cat hammers away with rising lefts and right to those aching jugs - THERON'S TOP CAN'T TAKE IT!!! Cream string snaps under Cat's two-fisted bombardment! Charlize sags in a stupor to the ropes, dumbly cradling her top, trying to hold everything in as CAT POUNDS AWAY, stealing what had been Charlize' best round. Theron glassy eyed, barely holding her bra together, staggers to her corner where Grier, preoccupied with duct taping her top back together, offers no advice.

Round 5: Charlize slugging freely to open, getting good snap off lashing punches - but Cat's icy calm; covering up, staying low, blunting, blocking and slipping until she gets the opening she needs, then Cat answers back with perfectly placed licks to the belly, solar plexus and THOSE ACHING BREASTS AND - WHEN THERON'S HANDS DROP - THE CHIN! Theron wearing down badly, takes cleaner and cleaner until, midway through, a jamming Cat right hand on the ear wobbles her sideways into the ropes. Charlize slow to recover - Cat steps to the right almost behind the stooping blonde and bounces a hard left hook off the left eye, DROPS CHARLIZE TO HER KNEES. Theron up, cut over the left eye, staring sleepily as she takes eight. CAT JABBING, BENDING CHARLIZE BACK OVER THE TOP ROPE THEN BANGING THAT RIGHT FIST DOWN INTO HER LEFT BREAST - Charlize moaning awfully as she cringes forward - Bell dipping under her shoulders to lick up into that softening belly underneath. All Cat, punishing, bludgeoning her girl - looming over Charlize to slam repeated lefts into the right flank, then shifting, resetting her hips and pounding away with right hands to the left flank until THERON GOES DOWN! Charlize on all fours, gasping, sobbing for breath - she climbs the ropes in TERRIBLE shape to beat the count. Cat taking a deep breath, eyes boring into the target - she wades on in and STUNS CHARLIZE with a looping overhand right, draping the blonde helpless on the ropes. Cat bends right, pulling a clanging hook across Charlize' face, then bends left to slam home a blasting cap right to the forehead and CHARLIZE GOES OUT! Theron slumping forward off the ropes, crashes to her face as Cat sidesteps and it's OVER! KO5 Cat Bell!

Monster superiority brings out the bully in Cat - she hoists a shattered Charlize Theron off her stool for a giddy walk of shame - Theron staggering, head lolling, cheeks glistening with groggy tears as Bell punctuates her most decisive victory ever over the hated blonde.

"That wasn't me tonight," a badly battered Charlize mutters in post-fight, face purple with abuse, "I don't know what happened."

Party in the ring as Cat's entourage swells with unexpected well-wishers, including Britney Daniel and Janet Jones - both suspected of colluding with the champ in hopes of bringing about Theron ruin.

"Oh GOD that was great!," exclaims Cat in the ring, towel around broad shoulders, face gleaming with victory sweat, "I feel like I need a cigarette! We knew we could get the heart punch inside Charlize' jab and she wasn't ready for it - I could see in her face, she was like, 'Whoa! What's that?' I punished her early, broke her down, started coming off the body and you know what? She gave it up to me just like I said she would. The old Charlize, the hungry Charlize would have found a way to extend it, but this girl just doesn't have the heart. I walked her because she deserved it tonight - she didn't belong in the same ring with me."

Charlize hurt almost continually in this fight, rallied often to undermine Cat's questioning of her heart - but clearly the blonde's approach to this fight was flawed.

"I don't hide behind my fighters," says a grim Pam Grier, "I accept full responsibility and I'm willing to work on this result if Charlize is. Cat Bell was the better woman tonight and I didn't have my girl ready - simple as that. You want to pick on someone - step to me, leave Charlize out of it."