Boxing After Dark

Posted by simguy on 3/5/2002, 6:28 pm

Before: Common pattern in the FCBA - one woman obsessed with hatred for another who barely thinks of the first in turn. Paula Trickey, one of the best Amateurs ever produced by the pageant system, came up short in the finals of the Miss Teen America tournament against the ultra talented Halle B - it's been 2 separate paths ever since. Trickey's struggled on B networks and C programs, watching her youth slip away while Berry's reaped the rewards of coming in first when it mattered. Pre-fight sessions show Halle at her cruel best, ignoring or dismissing Paula at every turn as Trickey smolders - old time fight insiders want ringside seats for this one. Navy athletic bikini for Trickey, spaghetti strap, sports bra style top - Halle in gold bikini, actually wearing her Teen USA sash for ring instructions, grinning as Paula trembles with rage.

During R1: Trickey charging the mound, backs Halle into her corner under a fusillade of bashing lefts and rights - brunette hunching forward and hammering away, fists bouncing loud off her carmel coloured rival. Berry calm, gloves up, giving Trickey her waist, but clever on defense. Halle's bouncing nicely between the adjacent ropes in her corner, turning her shoulders, blunting the main force of Trickey's assault, and by the second minute - brunette's slowing down. Final minute - Halle starts to fit her counters in between Paula's belting punches - short, hurtful licks to the face catch Trickey clean, start to shake her up and a lightning bolt right hand counter SITS TRICKEY DOWN! Paula stammering in denial as Halle steps over the brunette's outstretched legs to wild cheers from her fans - Berry steals the round with sensational placement and timing.

R2: Trickey not getting discouraged - she revs up in her corner and hurtles into Berry once again, tackling and muscling her foe to the ropes, burying her face in Berry's chest and pumping away to belly and trunk with both mitts. Halle forced to lean into the strands once again, trying to use supple upperbody moves to create openings for her counters - it's Paula swarming and smothering - Halle twisting and bobbing, bending at the waist, giving Trickey a shoulder in the hips, fitting her punches into Paula, then covering up tight. Down the stretch, Trickey's non-stop hammering of the breadbasket seems to be wearing Halle out - Berry reaching around Paula's neck with her left, exposes her left side to a barrage of slamming rights. At the bell - ref bodies Paula away and Halle is shaken up, put tremble-bodied by the awful beat of Trickey's fists.

R3: Halle's in a fight and she comes back like a champ. Jabbing, hands high, patting at the top of Paula's head and guard with either hand, then snapping in something sharp, Berry douses Trickey's fire with some uptempo class. Trickey trying to get low and welt the midsection - Berry defencing it with her legs, rambling to either side, leaning Ali-esque to slip punches and replying with murderous quicks from fists held at waist level. Even give and take with Paula doing a nice job of pursuit, but down the stretch, Trickey guilty of reaching in a left - Berry on her backfoot suddenly snaps off the counter right over the top - grazing Trickey's chin and putting the brunette instantly wobbly butt. Paula swaying over her feet - Halle bathes her in a flash flood of slashing punches - cascading leather beating Paula about her head and shoulders at the bell. Trickey stunned, busted up - she hears it from Halle as things get personal in a hurry.

R4: Another strong first minute from Paula Trickey. Trickey paying the price to get to Halle's chest, but when she's there, she's working. Berry forced to slip and roll at the ropes - Paula crowding her, bombarding that luscious body with hamhanded disrespect. Trickey buckling Halle forward with the odd sinking hook - Berry's done a good job of keeping her face off the scoresheet, but Trickey's work downstairs is starting to pile up. Down the stretch, Paula's feeling it - Halle's grimacing, not punching back, folding forward and mewling as Paula sets her hips and REEFS at the rightside ribs and HALLE GOES DOWN! Berry on all fours, face stretched in pain as Trickey lets out a yelp of pleasure.

R5: Blistering hammer and tongs - Berry snarling, letting her hands go - savage combinations tear up Paula's defences and batter her swollen features moreso. Trickey weathering it and getting to Halle's chest, pulling her punches into Halle's straining midriff - Berry screaming as she crumples forward with these blows, then sucking it up to rock Paula with the cutey-pie right uppercut in tight. Paula coming forward, bobbing, fighting out of her crouch - Halle going to the brunette's fabulous breasts with pancaking brutality - what a war! Final minute - both beauties trading recklessly - exchange of hooks goes Paula's way as Berry's legs give a shimmy. Trickey shouldering Halle to the ropes, keeps her pinned and lugs away downstairs, heaving loose-limbed haymakers up into Berry's stomach and sides and BERRY SITS DOWN! Halle trembling, sits with her back to the ropes, knees bent to her chest, sobbing as she hugs herself in agony and IT'S OVER! KO5 Paula Trickey leaves Halle Berry in rags!

AFter: Scorching fight - power punches landed in every round, both girls rocked, down, hurt - sensational action. Trickey weeping in vindication - beating Berry is her version of a title win. Halle forced to deal with the reality of Trickey in the aftermath - this is a girl who can and should be outboxed, who has come into Halle's life and ruined everything. "Know my name NOW?" screeches Paula in postfight, victory doing little to relieve the bitterness.

Thanks to Apollo for this repost.

Archer 10/19/09.