Before: "Any way you slice it, it's an Angelina Jolie win," boasts Jolie in prefight. "If we box, it's no contest - I'll touch her up for ten. We get to slammin' - we already know my right hand beats her hook. I'm looking forward to it." Connelly not rising to the bait, quietly confident in her abilities. "Let her do the talking," says Jennifer, "We still have to actually fight." Jen in navy sports top, red boy cut stretch cotton trunks, messy ponytail, Jolie in cream single strap bandeau top, high waist baby blue aerobics bottoms, blonde battle braid.

During R1: Rapid one-twos exchanged midring - Connelly follows up with a blistering hook on the chops to get her girl stomping back on her heels. Double jab approach, Jen gets close, slams a short right hand upstairs then torques the hook to the liver off her front foot. Jolie sinking to the ropes with a groan, agony stretching her face - Connelly sets up strong. Bitter phonebooth exchanges the rest of the way - Jolie dug in, gritting her teeth, slugging back with lanky left uppercuts and wide right hands. Connelly with dukes up at her eyebrows, pressing in on Jolie, snapping off combos high to occupy the guard, then looking to bury more left hands down below the elbow. Great pressure round for Jen.

R2: Connelly jabbing Jolie in the chest early, stepping left - Angelina looking disgrunted, getting outboxed. End of the first minute, Connelly bangs in that hard right hand upstairs - blocked - but she mops up with a spanking hook in the stomach that hunches Jolie over in pain. Jen crowding, using a stubby jab to good effect - it's setting up short, crunching rights from the shoulder and the hook is bouncing hard off Jolie's ribs. Angelina stubborn, she's lashing back at Connelly, not really getting her distance, but showing the ref she's not breaking down by trading at close range.

R3,4: Better rounds for Jolie as she moves to the left, uses her jab to stay away from Connelly's bruising hook. Tactical minutes, Jolie long with the stick as she steps, touching up Connelly's face as promised. Angelina also with a nice slinging right hand, almost gouging it off Jennifer's sportsbra, then pivoting away as Jen can't pull the trigger. After four - Connelly's corner reminding her to keep jabbing with Jolie, stop following her around the ring.

R5: Jen making her adjustments. Her jab just as fresh and stinging as Jolie's - Angelina backing off with a spanked expression as she can't get the better of the fencing. Connelly using that punishing right hand straight off her shoulder - not always landing, but as Jolie covers up, she exposes that right side for exquisitely placed hooks. Angeline crying out, staggering as Jen bangs the waist - blonde looking ramshackle as brunette hunts her down.

R6: Jen looking sporty behind the jab! Jolie with hands habitually at chest, just can't get out of the way, constantly shocked to be getting her face spanked. Connelly putting punches together, working up and down Jolie's flanks with shelling 3 punch bursts. Angelina starting to wander, covering up, giving away sore ribs as she doesn't know what else to do. Punishing shutout Connelly has Jolie's eyes brimming from consistent work.

R7: Connelly hooking off the jab, stepping right - she has marvellous moments early as she swipes and cuffs at those prize Jolie jugs. Angelina steps out, re-asserts her jab, and starts slinging meanspirited right crosses for the first time. Jen blocking some, but getting clocked clean on the jaw with others - she goes wobbly butt midway through and has to regroup. Angelina pounding back the face as she steps in the jab, really loading up on whistling rights - she's getting good lanky leverage on crosses at the bell.

R8: Connelly recovering nicely, using good lateral movement to expose Jolie a little bit: blonde needs to be set to punch too. Jenny keeping the jab between Jolie's jugs, spotting her right hand, never standing in one place too long - Jolie turned into a one dimensional stalker as she tries to walk Connelly down.

R9: Role reversal continues as Jolie starts to bang-bang up top, occupying Jen's forward guard, then licking a lanky hook off the floating rib to get Connelly in trouble. Jenny wearing down from the sticking hook in her body, gloves start to droop and by the midway point, Jolie's POUNDING home those slinging right crosses. Brutal stalking pursuit as Jolie mauls Jen, hooks her body, then bends into booming right hands that land popping flat against the jaw. Connelly reeling, tilting forward and it's all too much. Final moments see a woozy Jen Connelly splattered to all fours as Jolie hacks away right hands - Angelina drawing her forearm across her open mouth, breathing hard from the effort.

R10: Jolie spearing the jab, getting Connelly moving backwards - blonde able to extend on searing right crosses to drive brunette ropeside. Connelly hurt, goes defensive - she's seated in the ropes, drooping forward, hands up around her temples. Jolie knows what to do: cudgelling beat down delivered with lanky limbed goodness. Nice lathering strokes from either hand whallop Jenny's flanks. Jolie leaning her chin out over Jenny's upperback, just lugging lefts and rights up underneath in chugging arcs. Jolie crowding in, jerking the right uppercut to the jugs and Jolie clobbering the lower back with illegal kidney shots whenever Connelly gives it up. Jenny showing tremendous courage - she stands in, takes her beating, and she's reeling, but defiant at the bell. Comes back a heartbreaker: UD10 by a single point, Angelina Jolie!

After: Connelly crying exhausted tears of disappointment as Jolie is hoisted high - knockdown the only difference in a bitterly fought battle. Jolie surprised by Connelly's emerging skills - the movement, the jab - Jenny actually won the boxing minutes. Connelly surprised in turn by Jolie's whip armed pop - Jen doing all the damage with power shots early, but the fateful knockdown came on the heels of sustained right hand bombing runs by Jolie.