Posted by simguy on 6/26/2008

Before: "We both always got paid more to fight Charlize than we ever got to fight each other," Bell explains. "That's business - that's boxing - but I know I always measured myself against Jeri and knew she was a threat to me. I'm so glad I'm getting the chance to make a definitive statement against her at last. It's important to me; I don't want to retire and leave the Jeri Ryan question unanswered."

"I always felt that Cat got more attention than she deserved, and was a little over-rated, even at the peak of her career," Ryan says at the podium. "Now's my chance to expose her for good and all. She had a great promotional team behind her, and she did have some fighting ability, but I've said before, and I'm saying right now - she's never been on a Jeri Ryan level."

Ryan in crimson bikini; white gloves. Bell in electric blue bikini; white gloves; hair in messy ponytail with bangs.

During R1: Bell locates Jeri with a pair of jabs in the chest, then hooks her to mouth: Ryan's startled. Right hand, Cat - clipping Jeri to chin; wide, slapping hook pasting Jeri's face as blonde's backing up wide eyed. Cat hops in, leans lanky, claps a wide right upside Jeri's head; Cat pops hips-right, claps a fat left hook wide to jaw, driving Ryan to ropes. Jeri staring, lips parted - she's stunned, hands shoulder-height as Cat moves in big girl. Brutal, thudding beatdown issued: Bell squares away, battering Jeri with strapping lefts and rights - brunette twisting in shots, arching her back, just a-slopping it to Ryan. Jeri taking the pasting of a lifetime - hands up, but loose, not protecting her as she soaks up tremendous lashing clouts to her face. Ryan slumping into ropes, curvy legs holding her up: Bell spends the last minute cleaning up on the body and jugs, getting in there thick and methodical. Round ends to the sight of Bell bouncing whiplash hooks off Ryan's waist, then doubling up to defenceless jugs. Ref moves in to enforce the break as drooping Ryan appears out on her feet. 10-8 first without the knockdown sends Cat smouldering to her corner, pumping her fist.

R2: Jeri all busted up, flat footed, but rallying - she steps to midring, looking to pump her jab. Cat cautious, also setting up flat footed - chin is tucked, right hand's tight to cheek as she too pumps stick. Minute mark, Jeri jabs jug, turns over a short, sharp right hand, clipping Cat to chin: delayed effect as Ms. Bell's legs give a shimmy - she stumbles to her right, suddenly wobbly butt. Ryan forward with a wide, slapping left hook, clouting Bell to mouth: follow up right cross pastes Cat to chin, chasing her back. Bell hits ropes in disarray, stooping forward in peek-a-boo as Ryan stomps-to. Dreadful pay-back beatdown issued to Cat's flanks: big, whacking thump sending tremors down Cat's legs. Gasping Bell reaches round Jeri's hip to hug her close, getting ref's break: Ryan immediately stepping back in, bouncing a thick right hand off Cat's belly to fold her forward again. Back and forth like that: Ryan shellacking a rocked and badly shaken Cat; Bell clinching, mouth open on Jeri's shoulder until ref pries 'em apart.

R3: Cat comes back. Bell flat footed, haggard, but firm: she spruces Ryan up a brace of jabs to take initiative. Methodical boxing - Cat pumping stick, stepping to the left, looking Ryan over. Jeri turning, face kicking back from regular poke: she's got right hand near her chin, left at her hip. Ryan pawing the jab, smudging at Cat's breasts: Bell's poke much stiffer and more mean-spirited, punching Jeri's face or pounding her jugs. Ryan pulling the trigger on right hands, but coming up short: Bell doing a nice job pivoting around blonde bombs, then cleaning up on the counter. Shutout Bell sends Ryan to her stool with visibly swelling around the eyes.

R4: Jeri crouching slightly, doubling the up-jab to close: Cat clinching, walking Ryan around before blonde can trigger her right hand. Cagey stuff: Ryan vexing Cat with poke, scoring stiff; Bell walking Jeri in, tying her up, walking her around as long-legged beauties show a little glute-strength in walking clinches. Bell warned for holding and hitting inside: brunette looking to scrape a right uppercut while holding Jeri behind the head. Patient, stop and go stuff- very methodical action: down the stretch, Jeri flicks out the jab, twitches a short, pulverizing right off her shoulder as Cat's sliding in to clinch. Women fall in together, then Jeri steps back as CAT WILTS TO CANVAS! Bell sliding down Jeri's long body - brunette pooling at blonde's feet, face-down. IT'S OVER! One punch KO4 - Jeri Ryan.

After: Bell fast asleep - as though simply switched off. Ryan glowing - strutting the ring, pumping that diamond-cutting right hand: bread-and-butter punch puts Jeri up 1-0 in this historic best of 7. "I felt it in my back and shoulder," Jeri grins in postfight. "I knew she was out when she fell in to me. That's the big difference between us: Cat can't take my punch. She hit me with everything in her arsenal in the first round - I was hurt, I'll admit that - but I wasn't even close to going down. After that, she was done - she knew it, I knew it. I walked her down and finished her, and that's exactly the statement I wanted to make to open this series. 3 more, and I think we'll be seeing the last of Cat Bell in a boxing ring!"

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