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5 Oct 2007 Rachel Nichols vs Katie Holmes

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Part 1

Posted by simguy on 10/5/2007, 6:56 am, in reply to "Weekend PPV: Partials"

Before: Katie standoffish - uncharacteristically cool to Rachel if not outright mean - what gives? "I'm tired of the whole 'Katie did it, so I can do it too' mentality that Rachel and others have," Holmes explains. "I worked hard to get respect, yes - but I'm also good. I'm a talented fighter and I'm still growing in this sport. The idea that if Rachel works hard, she can overtake me bothers me, because the fact is, I'm better than she is, and I haven't heard a lot of acknowledgment from her on that." Nichols irritated, blushing prettily at Katie's comments - Rachel takes the mic with resolve. "Katie's been a complete witch to me throughout this whole promotion," Nichols reports. "Now I see why - now it comes out: she's jealous. Well, you know what? It's not my job to make Katie feel good about herself. If she's feeling pushed by me, I guess that's too bad. I'm a good fighter too, and I've paid dues: Katie's in my crosshairs and that's all there is to it!" Katie in royal blue bikini; small black work out gloves; long brown hair, tanned skin. Rachel paler - donning crimson bikini; small black work out gloves. Stare down pretty intense - Katie refuses to touch gloves with Rachel!

During: Girls edge in close off jabs, trade digging hooks to sternums - then they're in shoulder to shoulder, cleaning up! Long limbed lather - cracking noise of multiple small mitt impacts - girls separate panting after furious first encounter. Rachel jabs Katie's lip, crosses her a right hand to chin: both girls reach for hooks and KATIE GETS STROKED! Holmes clattering back on her heels - Rachel hardhearted, pouncing forward: she's back to Katie's midsection with galloping, lanky lefts and rights. Holmes clinching, face pinched, mouth open - ref issues break as Rachel's bouncing up and down in the grasp. From there, hard pursuit from Nichols - she's stepping-with, jabbing into Katie's chest to keep her pinned down, launching festive sorties featuring clubbing lefts and rights before stepping back out to regroup. Katie at apron, regaining her wits: ambitious first goes to a very aggressive Rachel.

R2: Rachel gambling early - looping savage overhand rights to Katie's head, backing Holmes up in disarray. Holmes ropebound - Nichols into Katie's breadbasket with thick-licking lefts and rights plunged home with vigour: Katie groaning, tieing up, looks to be in trouble again. Ref's break - Nichols steps back in with jab to Katie's chest - pinning her down - then looking to pound right roundhouses/left hooks as Katie covers up. Holmes clinching breaks Rachel's momentum - final minute sees the girls boxing midring, each operating out of a conventional stance. Katie stabilizes - but she drops her second straight round to a fired-up Rachel Nichols.

R3: Katie's first with the jab, spearing Rachel midring, pre-empting blonde right hands. Katie stepping in off the jab, cracking Rachel's chin a rangy right cross; back into Rachel's ribs a tidy, cracking hook. Right uppercut splits Rachel's mitts - Katie doubles the jab as she pivots 90 degrees left: Holmes dictating early with classy fundamentals. Hard right cross shakes Rachel, has her covering up: she spends the second minute in earmuff, turning and crouching midring as Katie steps around, strafing away one twos. Down the stretch, Katie smells weakness - she edges her left shoulder into Rachel's chest, walks her to ropes and gets after the Nichols breadbasket. Katie leaning her chin out over Rachel's left shoulder, lapping away at Nichols' flat midsection with lanky, licking strokes and RACHEL TAKES A KNEE! Nichols breathless, aghast - Katie glaring down as she steps away, clearly savouring the moment.

R4: Katie wants back in - chin out over Rachel's left shoulder, long arms lapping away underneath, lifting heavy/gangly lefts and rights into firm blonde flesh. Katie warned early for using heels of her hands to jam at Rachel's ribs - wonder where she learned that (I'm looking at you, Charisma Carpenter). Trouble is, Rachel's leaning HER chin out over Katie's left shoulder and joining in the fun. Rachel's hoisting HER mitts up into Katie's lungs and tummy, lathering away thick and lanky down there as girls rotate gently counterclockwise. Supple, withering stuff - girls leaning forward - occasionally palming each other's hips to set, then lugging the leather up underneath. Rachel getting the better of it - particularly with an evil little curling left, tucking the knuckles flat to Katie's sternum. During the break, BSE corner advising Katie to get range "You're too classy outside Katie - get to knocking this kid some jabs. Don't lounge around inside with her - she needs that."

R5: Katie willful - ignores her corner, leaning chin-on-shoulder to trade strapping licks underneath. Crowd pleasing, supple stuff - girls using the left shoulder in each other's chest to steer - hands are low, loose - punches being lifted up into offending torsos. Both girls grunting softly, gasping, working hard as they step around ear-to-ear - each just looking out into space over the other's shoulder as fists dig and lick on instinct. Midway through, Katie blanches and TAKES A KNEE! Holmes panting, face pinched - Rachel lifting her mitts and crowing, her own tummy a sizzling shade of pink from all the leather. Upon resumption - Nichols jabs Katie to ropes and straps her waistline thick, painting rights and lefts: Holmes shudders, but firms, answering back in kind as once again, chins lean on familiar shoulders. STERN rebuke for Holmes during the break: corner wants her to box, then take Rachel out. TU corner couldn't be happier: Nichols is winning this fight.

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R6: Katie back in chin-on-shoulder - but finally using a little craftiness. She's licking away downstairs, then easing out, luring Rachel forward and catching her the right uppercut off the right foot as Nichols falls in. Katie turning Rache - palming blonde's biceps and walking her around - brunette scoring, then doing this stuff to spoil the receipts. Midway through - Holmes walking to her right dives in and catches Rachel a sneaky lead right to chops. Nichols sputtering, arms outstretched and disorganized: Katie's able to set her feet, lick the right uppercut clean to chin, then lean in to pull a sweeping right upside Rachel's head. NICHOLS GOES DOWN! Clubbed sideways then down to all fours - Katie hands on hips, breathing hard as she strides past.

R7: Katie feels she's proved her point inside - NOW she bops it outside, pumps the jab in earnest. Rachel mouthbreathing, facing into poke - Katie really knocking knuckles against Rachel's pretty face with swift, snappy cracks. Right hands starting to flow - Holmes leaning in and fetching 'em to chin, leaning back out and swivelling to her left as Nichols recovers. Rachel late on receipts - nose bleeding - she's looking antagonized, dishevelled as Katie starts to showcase Final minute - Nichols pinned down at the ropes - Katie jabbing to the body, then to the face, then triggering vicious right crosses that belt Rachel's head back over top rope: crowd squealing as Nichols starts to ship serious, serious abuse. Ref taking a close look when Katie buries a pair of sinewy left uppercuts to Rachel's solar plexus, pitching Nichols forward. Katie grabbing her foe roughly by each bicep, pushing Rachel back against ropes: Nichols' head lolling, mouth open. KATIE'S DRIFTING RACHEL! Holmes left hand stabilizing Rache with the hold on the right bicep while Katie's right hand smokes Nichols' mouth. Blonde head tossing aside, windblown - long legs holding her up as she slumps in stupor against ropes. Katie holds bicep with her right hand, drifts Rache the left, then holds left, smokes right. Ref looking like he might jump in - SHOULD have jumped in - but bell sounds so he tackles Katie off instead. Rachel battered unrecognizable - stumbling along ropes to her corner: heinous beating something we've never seen from Katie before. BSE corner having trouble focusing Holmes - trainer touching her face, making big eye contact: "Get on her this round and finish her Katie, OK? She's ready to go - just end it."

R8: Rachel firms. First minute, she stymies Katie as girls box upright, rotating clockwise around stiff jabs - Nichols arguably getting the better of it. Katie tries to push the pace second minute, coming in off her jab with right/left snik-snak attacks to Rachel's waist. Nichols stepping back in good order, spitting out the jab to frustrate Katie, then nailing her right hands up the middle. Wide ranging action to the bell as girls circle, jab upstairs and down, each releasing right hands with gusto, then hoping to win the race to hooks.

R9: Agonizing, round of the year type stanza - girls jab to close, then lay in chins-on-shoulders to lap it up downstairs. Withering, hoisting blows - lanky, strapping clouts as the girls nudge in with chests and left shoulders, then pop hips to get lugging leverage on rising body shots. Gorgeous stuff - both girls gasping and whimpering as ribs and tummies are walloped raw. Pushing, palming hands on hips as girls lean in, shuffle each other around. Holy grail is a curled, sweetly tucked in punch to the solar plexus - both girls trying for it and getting it - both unhinging the other's knees whenever it cracks in there snug. Punching pace slowing as punishment adds up - girls almost using each other for support even as they're trying to finish each other. Surprisingly - no clinching - just the left shoulder in the hated chest of the other, steering her around and nudging her into position for the next lick. Bell: both women weeping exhausted tears as ref shoves 'em apart. Katie belts out the points, sending Nichols to her corner just a smidge more used up than is Holmes.

R10: Same again, but without the fight-winning intensity: neither girl can stop the other now; both just hoping for the other to collapse. Eyelashes flutter as mouths gulp for air. Hands dangle loose at sides - gloves are lifted up into tortured torsos - often only pushing or bumping into the flesh: neither girl can sustain hard, true punching. They lay in chin-on-shoulders, walking each other about - pushing each other to ropes. Katie's warned for pushing Nichols head back over the ropes with a forearm to face. Rachel's warned when she gets her forearm up, pressing it against Katie's neck to push her back. Fight staggers and reels to bell - both girls slapping at each other's ribs until ref pulls 'em apart. Comes back UD10 close - Katie Holmes.

After: Hard feelings in the aftermath - Katie taking this challenge very personally - we're not used to seeing her be petty or mean to opponents, but she's already chirping at Rachel, pulling away from Jenny O'Dell's gently guiding grip. Nichols badly busted up - bitterly resentful of Katie's hardhearted holding and hitting in the seventh: she's letting Katie hear about it when the two drift chest to chest in the post-fight mill. Intense: Katie might not like hearing it, but Rachel brought out the warrior in Holmes tonight - certainly one of Katie's most entertaining, if not most shrewdly-fought contests.