Originally posted by Simguy on Saturday, 23-Oct 1999 11:11:47

Before: : “Tia Time” breaks out during the pre-fight and ring entrances as Carrere has little trouble out-shining Paula in terms of star power. As fighters—both girls appear to be well matched, both can box, or slug as the occasion calls. Marshall used to being undervalued by bettors, enters a 3-1 dog, but insiders recall Tia’s stumbles in previous big PPV events.

Paula in black bra and panties, Tia in powder blue bra and panties.

During R1-2: Tia starts each round with stick and move, but Paula calmly cuts off the ring, goes to the Asian’s body with draining lefts and rights, and drills opportunistic right hands to the jaw whenever Tia drops her mitts. Midway through the second, Paula pounds her way into Tia’s midsection with several left hooks, then bends down into a chopping right off the face that has Carreere glassy eyed and hanging on. Paul taking both rounds, sets a punishing tone early.

R3: Shutout Carrere as she steps inside to fight off Paula’s chest. Fight gets easier as Carrere bodies up, able to use her strength to push Paula around and dig into the brunette’s sturdy body. Cheek to cheek action, Tia insistently swiping and chopping at Marshall’s pale torso with both fists, while covering up effectively to block the receipts.

R4: Paula a decent inside fighter herself, continues to lay in this round, trading hooks to the waist line, as both girls use their lead shoulders to lever up punching room in close

quarters, Carriere’s heavier beef starts to tell as Marshall gets banged up and down the stretch it’s Tia, working over Paula’s arms and midsection as the brunette sits and bobs on the ropes.

R5: Paula reestablishes the firm left jab, jamming it hard into Tia’s face and hooking off it to regain the initiative. Carrere countering, potshots at Paula’s breasts or chin with wide lefts and rights, but in the final minute, a banging series of left hooks to the side of the head have Tia floundering. Looking to clinch, a pouty Tia C stumbles into a pounding blur of rights and lefts as Paula smashes away. Tia crumbling to all fours, is saved by the bell from further carnage. Wobbling back to her corner, Carrere is badly bruising about the face, puffy eyed, and looking concerned.

R6: Paula continues to hurt Tia Carrere with left hooks. Pounding away upstairs, Paula staggers Tia early, then feasts on the Asian’s tummy with withering wide lefts and rights. Carrere resisting down the stretch, dipping and dropping left hoks of her own, but she’s looking shellshocked by Marshall’s accurate power shots.

R7: Tia tines Paula’s left and scorches the brunette with a short right hand on the teeth to put Marshall wobbly butt seconds into the round. Carrere with hurting brunette in front of her, pushes and bangs away with haymakers, but Marshall adept at moving her head, escapes serious damage. All Carrere to the bell as she traps Paula along the ropes, content to beat the brunette between the hips with spanking lefts and rights.

R8: Both girls bending into their shots, bobbing and coming back with murderous intentions, each narrowly missing with KO blows early, when a shattering exchange of left hooks goes Paula’s way. Tia immediately crashes to her back as Paula grins—Carrere out cold, twitching helplessly as the ringside physician makes a routine visit. Stunning KO8 Paula Marshall.

After: Paula leaves no doubt with a picture perfect hook on the chin to end Tia’s night. “I knew she was out as soon as I connected,” said Paula in post-fight, “I felt that punch in my toes!” Tia’s defense was absent on one of the biggest nights of her career as Paula took advantage of openings to land heavy shots from the second round on. Too much Marshall leather too often had Carrere broken down by the later rounds, and the stoppage was as much a result of Tia’s desperate form as Paula’s power at that point.

Reposted by Archer 4/28/09.