Before: HBO promoting both Jennifer Connelly and Halle Berry as "Oscar Champs", featuring the statuette as often as possible in prefight sessions, photo shoots, etc. McCarthy chafing under the comparison, being made to look even more the bimbo than usual, and Connelly not afraid to fan the flames: "Jenny Mac's everything I hate in an actress, not to mention a woman. She's a lowest common denominator blonde who keeps trying to get over with her chest and nothing else. I broke down doors with my figure when I started, but I grew - Jenny's a prime example of everything that's wrong with the Hollywood system." McCarthy coming off the longest layoff of her career, but bitter, brawling sparring sessions with Jlo have the blonde hard and hungry at weigh in, "If I can dish out beat downs to Jennifer Lopez," cracks a smirking McCarthy, "Connelly's going to get hurt." Jenny Mac in black bikini top, black boy cut trunks, hair up - Connelly in navy sports bra, ponytail, red boy cut trunks. McCarthy hamming it up during ring instructions, gloved thumbs in her waistband, weight on one hip, looking like she'd be blowing bubbles if she had any gum.

During R1: Mac raw and wild early, swinging high, timing's off. Connelly with her right hand tight to her cheek, stands in the pocket, gets low, comes up underneath with batting hooks to blonde flank and ribs just beneath the breast line. Jenny Mac responds with flagrant clinching, bodying Connelly with a rush to the ropes, trapping Jenny's right under her left, and pumping Connelly's packed bra with crude right hands. Messy holding and hitting along the ropes as the girls take turns reaching in under each other's arms and twisting each other's back to the strands. Struggling carries past the bell as Mac claps a late right hand across Connelly's surprised lips to gain a stern finger waggle from the ref.

R2: Connelly in that tight stance, committed to hooking her blonde. Girls meet mid ring, JC dips her shoulder, hooks the belly, hooks the chin, steps right, hooks the belly, hooks the chin and MCCARTHY GOES DOWN! Jmac on all fours, completely torn apart, barely beats the count on hinky legs. McCarthy reaches to clinch - Connelly gets low, rips at the line of Jmac's breasts to force the blonde to the ropes. Patient shove and slug from a dominant Connelly - Jennifer taking it out of McCarthy's waist with thumping hooks, using the left elbow to prop the blonde back, hooking McCarthy's jaw as the blonde stoops forward with a useless guard at her mouth. Connelly just standing McCarthy up, pushing and jostling her, thumping away with that beefy hook - Blonde goes sullen, grunting as her ribs and chest are taken at will by Connelly. Hard body shots have McCarthy paralyzed - Connelly starts to cash in on chin in the final minute. Jennifer C using the right uppercut to lift up McCarthy's head, then turning on vicious hooks to the jaw to put the blonde's skull on a swivel - then always finishing back downstairs to keep McCarthy hurting. Seconds left in the round and REF STEPS IN! Jenny Mac out on her feet - staring, swooning as Connelly struts it up the TKO2 Victor!

After: Shattering performance for Jennifer Connelly - Oscar winner is golden tonight as she tears into her brassy foe without restraint, railroading McCarthy into a very early stoppage. Blistering punishment dished out in a heartless second - Connelly never better as McCarthy seemed stunned by the brunette's heavy hands and bitter accuracy. Connelly helps herself to the dregs - taking a wobbly butt Jmac for a devastating walk of shame - JC all smiles and waves as she guides JM with the right arm around the waist.