Before: Cook heir-apparent to Charisma - same body type, dense curves, same heavy hands. "I'm honoured to be following in Charisma's footsteps," Cook reiterates, "she's been such a great mentor and role model to me. She's the reason I want to fight at lightweight instead of big-bantam. To me, girls like Neve, Holly Valance and them lack confidence - they always need to be the big girl in the fight. But I want to measure myself against Biel, and Cuoco and Carpenter - smaller, sportier women who regularly take down bigger foes - that's how I want to be remembered. I may not have the height, but I've got the punch, and I'm gonna prove it on Mary come fight night."

MEW coming off a fight of the year type brawl against young phenom Adrianne Pallicki: she's fielding a lot of questions about her condition for this fight. "I'm ready," Winstead assures. "I was bed ridden for about a week after Adrianne, but one of the things about me is that I bounce back quickly after fights. I was right back in the gym and anxious to build on the momentum I gained from Pallicki. I know AJ's a blockbuster puncher, but I think I've gone to another level at this point - a level AJ can't reach. She's tough and strong, but I don't think that's going to be enough anymore against me."

Cook in baby blue lace bra, sporty navy bottoms; white gloves; long, straight blonde hair. MEW in lemon yellow bikini with ring connections; black gloves; long straight brunette hair with bangs.

During R1: Mary knuckling her brows as she comes forward: she wants to chop down a short right, then swish away side to side with elbows in. Cook crouching, weaving into Mary: AJ wants to dig a right hand to Mary's firm paunch; hook her breasts; finish with blunt right hands to chin. Splendid toe to toe brawling as both girls work their plans - AJ pelted about her head and shoulders; MEW pounded the length of her torso. Through it all, sturdy AJ's stepping forward, punching Mary off-stance: by the final minute, Winstead's breathing hard, starting to struggle. AJ puts all three punches together late: right in the gut; left to jug; clubbing, short right to chin...DOWN GOES MARY! Winny jerked a quarter turn to her right, dashed to all fours as a panting blonde straightens, takes deep breath, glares down at her handiwork.

R2: AJ emboldened - pouring in up the middle at Mary, but doing it smart: Cook moving her head, staying low and compact as Mary's hacking down upon her. Body blows drive Mary to ropes early: Cook sets up on Winny's chest, gets to work on her. Nothing fancy: Cook bashing thick, muscular lefts and rights against Mary's toned paunch; bashing ribs and breasts; clobbering chin with the odd clubbing, close-in right or left. Winstead snarling, hurling uppercuts off the ropes; trying to shoulder AJ off her, but it's no go. Cook stays in position, piles on the leather, beating Mary breathless in a workmanlike second.

R3: Similar stuff - AJ muscling Mary to ropes, then working her over. MEW baring teeth, slugging ferociously, but she's not getting her weight forward - constantly leaning back into ropes while trying to fit AJ for uppercuts. Cook pouring it to Mary hamhanded - cudgelling hips, waist, ribs, breasts in a lengthy series of suppression barrages, then looking for chin as Winny wilts.

R4: Mary's where AJ goes to work: Cook punching in early, putting her nose to the grindstone, getting it done on stubborn brunette. Winny with back to ropes, soaking it up: AJ not wild downstairs - she's twisting into her shots, making each one count, then looking for next. Cook fighting off Mary's chest, but moving head, bobbing on the spot: Winstead hardly connecting. Mary open-mouthed, frowning...by the later stages she's tying up behind AJ's elbows as Cook pushes and bumps for punching room.

R5: When AJ's on top, digging into Mary's body? Winny's often gazing sadly overtop AJ's head - hands dangling or reaching lightly round AJ's shoulders or back - lips parted, face pinched. Cook roasting Mary downstairs - forehead grinding into Winny's upperchest, fists pumping. When she's clinched, AJ stays active - wriggling her brawny arms out of the grasp, pushing Mary down, then getting back at her. Bell: Mary visibly distressed...eyes shiny, mouth wide open, legs trembling. She's being systematically broken down to the body and she's starting to panic.

R6: More blunt blonde work amidships as AJ stacks Mary up at ropes, goes right at her. Drumming thump-down all thick and systematic - no shoe-shining or finesse here: AJ's just on top, smashing tightly-turned lefts and rights into the problem. Winstead shuddering, slugged into ropes, bullied and bodied: she's ragdolling looking spent. Down the stretch: LEFT UPPERCUT MARY! Winstead FINALLY connects with a beaut, picking AJ up out of her crouch, setting her eyes to blinking. Sweeping right off the hip, sweeping left - Mary's wading forward all bared teeth and blazing eyes - PUNCHING AJ STUPID! Cook stumbling back on her heels, facing into stroke: she's smitten length of the ring, slugged into far ropes and lathered senseless. Bell: Mary frothing away - lavishing Cook lefts and rights in side to side swabbing arcs: AJ butt-in-ropes, face-in-gloves, sponging it up in shock as Winny steals the round.

R7: Geometry a little more to Mary's liking: fight's at midring - AJ a little more tentative, groping her way forward instead of surging. Minute mark, Mary arches her back, fits AJ for a glorious right uppercut: blonde picked up out of her stance - feet scooting forward - eyes astonished. Mary forward again with that free-swinging lather from the hips sweeping AJ to ropes. Cook firms down the stretch, punch-with and engaging Winstead in engaging toe-to-toe. Winstead's round, but AJ proves sturdy, coming back to punch hard by round's end.

R8: RIGHT UPPERCUT, MARY WINSTEAD! Brunette's found a home for that punch - picking AJ up out of her stance and getting her tottering backward. Cook astonished, eyes wide and blinking: in her mind, Mary was one or two good hits away from giving in, and now Winny's on the attack! Winstead brawls AJ to ropes, then squares up on her: brunette lathering away - keeping her butt back - using forearms in AJ's shoulders to deny clinches. Cook suffering - hands stacked right atop left at her body as she's bending and rolling on the spot. Mary romps bell to bell, pasting AJ puffy with raw, heartfelt slugging.

R9: AJ finally fits that short right hand into Mary's gut early - crouching low, getting close and tucking it in firm. Winny grunting on receipt, then clawing back both fists...but AJ's got low-inside position again. Cook bobbing on the spot, making Mary miss, then twisting on hips to fit thudding leather into Winstead's ribcage. Mary gasping, giving ground, but fighting hard: Cook pays for every forward step. AJ willing to take what she has to - sustaining pressure on Mary's torso, eventually driving her to ropes. Cook salting away the round, fighting off Mary's chest and keeping her ropebound. Winstead disheveled, open-mouthed and rickety at bell.

R10: Cook steps to Mary, hammering at her body and head: Winstead wilts. Mary's spent - slugged onto her heels and driven backward - she's got nothing left as AJ pushes forward. Ropes: AJ on top, grinding and bumping on Mary to set up blunt, bludgeoning shots. Winstead suffering, groaning as her body's shocked; sitting into ropes as her chin is turned aside by clubbing Cook shots inside. AJ too strong, in there too snug: Mary can't clinch, bump or spin her way out, nor is she punching back. Winstead sponges bell to bell - proud legs refusing to give AJ satisfaction as blonde puts the work in for points. Comes back UD10, AJ Cook.

After: Warm hug of congrats from gracious Winny...then she limps to her stool hugging a throbbing body, eyes starting to swell shut from the constant attention of Cook's heavy fists. AJ glowing: she's scuffed up, but energetic - bouncing round the ring to dole out hugs and receive same. "I knew I could pressure Mary and damage her up the middle," Cook confides in postfight.

"Mary loves to slug, but it was the wrong approach with me: I knew I wouldn't have to find her or track her down - she was always going to be right there in front of me. I'm too strong for Mary inside - I was just loving it on her body all night long. I'm just so thrilled to have worked her over, because Mary's a good benchmark for young fighters. If you're beating her, you must be doing something right!"