Before: Biel mired in boxing's most baffling slump - classy athlete/actress once thought to be immune to extended losing streaks really struggling to get the better of stingy FCBA comp these days.

"I think it's confidence," says Jennifer O'Dell in BLONDE! magazine. "Biel's still a terrific package from the neck down, but losing can make a girl tentative. I felt, against me last time out, she was missing a half second on her timing - just not pulling the trigger the way she does at her best. She's not a big girl, so she's got to be razor sharp to compete at light - she's got to start fighting without fear, and that's hard when you're getting hammered by other women." Cox hopeful that this WB reunion bout can produce another devastation for Biel.

"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't trying to kick Jessica when she's down," admits the curvy redhead in prefight. "That's the FCBA for you: weakness gets exposed and punished, and for whatever reason, Jessica's not a strong fighter right now."

Biel changing her look for luck: long blonde hair, navy bandeau top, powder blue bikini bottoms - Nikki in white STUFF mag bikini (or Maxim - recent in any event.)

During R1: Biel crisp, angular, circling on widespread legs, darting in with her jab. Cox dukes up, squared away - basically a target for stick in the tummy, betwixt jug, between gloves as Biel's speed, feet dictate terms.

R2: More Biel, more class. Jess very, very quick from outside - shooting in on Cox with a lunging jab, landing it thick and sticky to gut, jamming it against Nikki's high guard. Nikki blocking, but late on all receipts - she's still getting used to tempo. Late the round - Biel darts in and scores stick to tummy, darts out to lure Cox forward. Flailing barrage from Nikki as she trudges forward - Biel leaning onto her right foot, juuust out of range, turns on a sudden cuffing counter-hook and pivots sharply off to the side - SENDING JESS TO HANDS AND KNEES! Cox up blurry eyed, shaking her head - she never even saw that sneaky-quick chin check.

R3: Biel lunging in with stabbing thrusts via the jab - spanking loud against pale Cox tummy and starting to lump up Cox's pretty face despite her resolute high guard. Nikki mesmerized by the quickness - freezing and posing for the shot, then late with her receipts. Cox having the odd moment just on sheer guts and determination - wading in and banging away short clubbing lefts and rights to Jessica's shoulders as Biel tilts onto her back foot, parrying blows with her shoulders and right hand.

R4: Biel opening up the playbook - Jab's already there, now she she starts showing crisp hooks, lead right hands, all accompanied by slick, bouncy lateral sidesteps. Midway through, Cox pawing out a rangefinding left - Jessica lithe, cobra-sudden as she drops a cunning right hand pull-counter over Nikki's stick, chopping Cox firmly on the jaw. Another shutout Biel - touching Nikki up with surgical precision through 4.

R5: Cox with some clubbing blows to the shoulders and ribs - all in spots, no flow or momentum allowed by her classy opponent. Biel moving in to work Nikki on the inside - raising the left elbow to push off with, using that left shoulder bump, putting short right uppercuts, straight hands and cutting hooks to good use at close range. Cox getting swiped and drilled - Biel not a huge puncher, but stinging, quick and so accurate - she's getting the better of Nikki at Coxie's own game.

R6: Biel with a series of rifling right hands - not many girls can fire and reload from the shoulder - brace of hard head-shots drives Coxie wobbly butt to the ropes. Nikki's curvy legs doing her proud - she won't go down, but she's badly hurt, leaning foreward behind her dukes, rooted to one spot as Biel CARVES away. Jessica having her way - pesky jabs up top just to blind, then punishing jabs chest and body - Biel careful to step out after landing to avoid the receipt. Right hands chop in sharp, lashing hooks rip up tummy, cash in chin. Cox upright throughout, but badly busted up and wearing down - she's a forlorn beauty at the bell.

R7: Biel racks up her 7th straight - eyes hard, pitiless: she's suffered too much herself over the last few months to waste any sympathy on Nikki. Cox beaten round the ring on ramshackle legs - gloves taped to her temples as she reels and staggers, just trying to keep her feet. Jessica a pleasure to watch as she steps-with, lets her hands go in tidy, short-arc swatting power shots - clipping away at Nikki's temples, tits and tummy. Bell: Jessica chests up and grins huge at the hurt on Nikki's face - Cox out on her feet, tangled hair in her eyes - she's a mess.

R8: Biel playful now, stepping into Nick to nudge her back, putting those tight curling lefts and rights to work breaking Cox down. AND JESSICA GOES DOWN! Nikki getting pounded, steps back as she crouches, then uncorks a whistling hook as brazen Biel steps in: Jessica put flat on her back, hands at her head, face grimaced in pain. Biel shakes off the KO but she's damaged goods as the ref gives her a standing 8 at the bell: ON COMES NIKKI! Cox with pent up rage unleashes - big, brawny wallop pounds down on Biel who's stationary and hurt for the first time. Nikki able to slug, and lean in, slug and lean in - smearing and stacking Jessica against the ropes while pounding away. Biel hammered into a glassy-eyed stupor - punches slamming into her arms, body and skull as Cox rampages to the bell.

R9: Cox sees it; crowd sees it; Jessica's caving in! Biel trying to be cute, sliding to her right, pointing her left shoulder - but the crisp mobility and razor sharp punching that enabled the style early on isn't there. Nikki able to bulldoze in and walk Jessica to ropes - now they're banging away toe to toe with Cox on top! Nikki leaning forward, keeping her head on Jess, arms in constant bashing rhythm to Biel's tender midsection, pulsing ribs and tired arms. Biel much less active - covering up to block, answering in spots, trying to slip and lean away from the worst of it. Late the round, clubbing right to the pit of the stomach doubles Jessica up - a slamming brace of hooks sends her stumbling sideways into the corner - Cox all set to mop up when the bell sounds to save the former champ.

R10: Nikki barrels across the ring - Jessica sidesteps her, clips Nikki's left eye a rising hook. Cox turns to square up - Jess fades behind a pesky jab off the hip, left shoulder pointed, right hand at her chin, weight on her right leg. Nik misses a left as Jess leans away: Biel pulls the trigger on that searing right hand counter and DOWN GOES COX! Nikki chopped clean on the chin and dropped to her face - she rolls to her back, rolls to either side - she's SO hurt, but manages to beat the count. Ref checks over the ruined dregs in the white bikini - decides she's still competitive and waves a hungry Jessica Biel on in. Heinous stuff - poor Coxie dug in on stubborn legs, but out on her feet - Biel able to go to work with those merciless fists - combinations to the head, thrusting jabs to the body, and tasty chugging jug muggage that has the crowd standing up and saluting at the bell. Nikki goes the route, soundly thrashed: UD10 wide, Jessica Biel.

After: Jessica showing signs of resurgence, but alarming let down in the 8th and 9th shows she's still got some fine tuning to do. "I'm mad at myself," a chagrined Jessica says in post fight. "I had the beating of the year locked up after 7, I was practically polishing my trophy, when I let her catch me. It's just a matter of focus - I was obviously way too much for Nikki, but I got bored with her and she dropped me. That's always the danger - I can so completely outclass a lot of these girls that my attention starts to wander and BAM: ham and eggers treat themselves to my chin or something whacky happens." Cox showing tremendous fortitude in soaking up horrific shellack early on - she startled a lot of folks with that gutty late rounds rally.