By simguy 10/4/02

Before: Hurley gets the fight she wanted, albeit not for a title. "Obviously I would have loved to have taken the belt from Charlize," says Liz, "but this fight is every bit as important to both of us. We've been eyeing one another very uneasily over the last few months and it's time we settled matters."

Charlize taking the same line, "Hurley's as talented a fighter as I've ever faced. Most girls wouldn't take Liz coming off a loss, but I'm not most girls. I'm going to do what Jeri Ryan couldn't in 20 rounds of boxing: lay Liz Hurley out cold."

Charlize in black clingy cotton camisole and panties from her recent movie, Liz in tight clingy pale blue turtleneck and white panties from hers.

Round 1: Charlize with a wide decoy hook, drops in a shooting right hand to Liz' right ear and has the British beauty staggering moments into the round. Hurley using her legs to gain time, gathers her wits - rest of the round a tactical chess match. Liz getting low, coming up under Theron's jab to clinch the blonde for breaks - Hurley trying to disrupt the ex-champ's rhythm. Theron looking for more slinging right hands up the middle, rotating to her left, keeping her lead foot outside Hurley's.

Round 2: Hurley getting the better of the boxing this round. Liz flicking a pesky jab at Theron's face, then slinging in the hard left hand belly and chin, bending low on follow through - Charlize missing a lot of receipts.

Round 3: Theron edging Hurley in another tactical stanza. Blonde placing that right hand firm between British jugs, backing Liz up, getting her out of her crouch. Charlize firing the jab even though it's not connecting flush, keeping Liz defensive, doing the scoring with heavy rights chest and body.

Round 4: Hurley's turn to eke out points. Southpaw calm, touching Charlize with the jab, occasionally leaning in with the right shoulder-bump, leaning out to clip Theron the fall-away righty hook. Hurley also having good luck slipping Charlize' straight right and answering back with the straight left hand on the mouth - Theron taking several smashing shots and stumbling back on her heels.

Round 5: Charlize on top. Blonde now timing brunette's straight left, giving Hurley a dose of her own medicine. Theron very cute with feints, then slipping Liz' left, answering back with a drilling right from the shoulder to the tits or teeth. Hurley's butt touching ropes for the first time in this fight - Theron sailing into the midsection with juicy sidearm licks, prompting brunette clinches.

Round 6: Hurley noses back into the lead. Brunette working in that swiping right hook under Charlize' left elbow - blonde hesitant with her jab as ribs get tender. Midway through, Theron pushing out lead right hands - beautiful little slip to the side, thundering left hand counter up the middle and THERON IS HURT! Charlize staggered, wide-eyed as she is DRILLED - Hurley stalking forward. Charlize' butt touches ropes, she droops forward and Liz licks away - supple lashing strokes - that vicious right hook across the belly, the slinging left hand clout on the ear. Charlize soaking up bombs, swaying hurt, but answering back - blonde backs brunette up at the bell with a volley of pumping lefts and rights to the gut.

Round 7: All Liz Hurley. Liz consolidating her lead, embarrassing Charlize midring. Liz dabbing, swatting then stinging her jabs and hooks - Theron upright, tentative as she's cuffed and buffeted by right hands. Liz moving in and out beautifully, nudging Charlize the right shoulder, pivoting out, luring Theron into clipping right hooks, or walloping her slinging left hands across the mouth. Down the stretch, Hurley leans forward with a gorgeous left cross, clocking the mouthpiece off a startled blonde's teeth, leans out to clout Theron the check-hook and THERON GOES DOWN! Disastrous knockdown late in a close fight - dazed Theron slapping the canvas in woozy disappointment - Hurley bouncing away all grins. Brit bubbly at the sight of a badly shaken Charlize on her knees.

Round 8: Charlize slapped and told to 'wake up!' in her corner - Jones practically pushing battered blonde back out there. Theron responds with heartfelt slugging - wading into Hurley's right hook to plug away belly with both hands. Raw brawling to the ropes, Hurley drilling hard left hands up the middle as she retreats - Theron wading through it, pulling haymakers into ribcage. Walloping trade along the perimeter, Hurley grimacing, bending side to side to clap Theron's face with wide counters - blonde shoving up with shoulders and elbows, jostling Liz out of her crouch, rampaging away with licking left/right uppercuts. Theron punching after the bell - she's pulled off a shell-shocked Liz Hurley - Theron shaking off hurt to send a message.

Round 9: Hurley NAILING Charlize a blistering left cross - brunette amazed as she pivots away, blonde just wading through it. Hurley slide-stepping back, fitting Charlize for crisp right-hook strokes along the jaw, under the elbow - Theron measuring her girl the jab, walking Liz down, putting right hands hard onto the chest and mouth. Liz banged up against the ropes, goes defensive - Theron squaring up and letting her hands go with plunging work on the waistline. LIZ GOES DOWN! Hurley folded up in pain, takes a weary knee, breathless from the beating - Theron pacing hungry in the neutral corner. After 8, Liz legging to her right, looking to run out the clock - Theron leaping after her, lunging with wide lefts and darting straight rights from the shoulder to cut off the ring. Charlize finally hemming Hurley at the ropes late, unleashes a dreadful barrage of lefts and rights - leather caroming off Hurley's body and shoulders as covers and rolls with the incoming. HURLEY'S DOWN AGAIN! Serious bludgeoning proves too much - Liz sinks to her knees, on the verge of tears as Charlize is bodied back at the bell. Theron snarling, anxious to pile on - Hurley badly rattled, staggering to her stool.

Round 10: Charlize charges the ring, tackles a dazed Liz Hurley into her corner - IT'S A BEATING! Theron shoving Liz heartlessly, dipping her shoulders and ripping up into British beauty with uppercuts - fists bashing away at luscious jug, smashing off Liz' overhanging face. Theron just a-PUMPING it in - Hurley swooning out on her feet, tilting forward. Charlize lifting leather in, stepping back, lets her used up foe crash face first to the canvas - Theron howling in triumph as Hurley slumbers. KO10 Charlize Theron.

After: One of the best in a long line of late Charlize Theron surges - she roars back after being outclassed, dropped in a horrendous seventh to batter Hurley nearly unrecognizable.

Woozy, weepy Liz gathered up under her arms, hauled off her stool, and trotted out for her second consecutive walk of shame - American blondes taking a terrible toll on curvy brunette import - Hurley choking back groggy tears as she's put on display.

"As promised!" Beams a delighted Charlize Theron postfight. "The KO Jeri Ryan couldn't give you, I hammered out of the best defensive fighter in the business. Garner was a blip - I can't wait to erase that little deficit, but first, where, oh where is that chubby little Catherine Zeta Jones? I have a notion that this so called lock-out at BSE is just an elaborate ruse designed to protect her from my rampage. Make no mistake kids: I want that girl's butt in the ring. Don't make me ask twice."