Before: "I made AJ Cook quit last time out," Mary reminds reporters, eyes dancing at the memory, "and now that I've had a taste of throat, I'm not ashamed to admit that I love it. When a girl quits rather than coming out for more of what you've been giving her? That's the best feeling in the world. I want that from Rachel - and I'll be pounding her body to get it." Nichols hungry as she is pretty at the podium, sings a similar tune. "I've watched Mary hog a bit of the rookie spotlight this summer, and I'm not having it any more," vows the lissome TU starlet. "I'm tuffer than Mary, and I've won more fights. The line starts behind me, not in front." Girls very edgy in prefight - stealing awkward little glances at each other, fidgetting on the spot as ref drones on: all tell tale signs of a life-long rivalry in its first flowering. Rachel in crimson bikini, white gloves - hair soft, straight (recently voted "most pullable" hair by an AHW publication). Mary in cerulean blue bikini, white gloves - soft brown hair also straight and looking very pullable. At the signal to touch gloves, girls stare instead at each other for an uncomfortably long time - then turn away without touching.
During R1: Strangely intense stalking - girls in wide boxing stances, each poised on the ball of her right (back) foot; right hand at cheek; left hand lower, looser, ready to poke. Gentle clockwise rotation - eyes alert, staring into each other's gaze. With a stomp of the left foot planting hard, the girls pound in jabs - well schooled stampings of offending tummy, tits, mouth. Orderly turns taken, punches placed - then orderly circling as nostrils flare and brains process. Whenever they fall in - there's a moment's struggling, then each pulls away as though the touch of the other's flesh is repugnant. Fierce tactical first too close to call.
R2: Similar stances and textbook approaches: Rachel starts to get the better of it. Nichols getting off first, scoring, then stepping out: Winny's either rushing the receipt or getting parried as Rachel keeps the right hand ready on defense. Rache sprucing Mary up tummy and tits - nice fluid doubling action on the jab - leather spanking tart off taut starlet torso-flesh. Rachel the first to deploy the right hand - pumping jabs to get Winny covering up, then stroking home the cross. Early rights are blocked - but as Rachel works the round - circling and getting off consistently: Mary's starting to break down. Final minute - Winny's eating right hands she had been blocking - brunette stumbling to her right, looking confused, disheveled. Final moments - bright-eyed Rachel doubles her jab, steps in and DRIFTS Mary a clean right hand bingo onna chin: WINSTEAD SITS DOWN! Nichols hops away giddy with satisfaction - blue eyes dancing: Mary sitting up pretty, lower lip huffing in and out as she fights back panicky tears - toes tingling from Rachel's clean clout.
R3: Mary still a little woozy off her stool - dukes're up, but loose, form's a little ragged. Rachel: eyes fierce as she pumps her jabs, pivots to her left around that left foot. Rachel's tongue pink between her lips when she leans into right crosses - threading them in between Mary's mitts, pounding back brunette's face with bright spank. Winstead snivelling, dukes at temples as she tries to ride it out: Nichols jabs lustily at tummy, neatly sidestepping and prying at her foe's resistance. Minute mark - Rachel doubles the jab, leans in and cleans up chin via the right hand: MARY SCOOTS TO HER REAR-END! Winstead distraught - sitting up all pretty - "NO!" she shouts, half in tears as Rachel trots all grins to neutral corner. After Winny's 8 - girls resume at midring: Nichols alert, hungrilly jab-jab-jabbing, then drilling in her right hands. Predictable stuff, but well-schooled, and Rachel's starting to pound away at Mary's beautiful face with impunity. More rough moments for Winny late as she's caught repeated right crosses to her chin: brunette finishes up wobbly butt, stumbling forward hurt as Nichols' eyes dance at the sight.
R4: Simple stuff from Rachel, but very effective: she completely dominates an increasingly forlorn Mary midring. Rache stepping, pivoting, exhaling "HAH! HAH!" as she pumps her jab, eyes intent upon her foe. Winny hurt by early right hands - baby-stepping to her right, stumbling forward or back - she's regaining balance and rallying, but finding it hard to answer back. Mary not getting off - Rachel not going to the body: blonde getting a lot of shots blocked as one-twos bounce off Mary's defences - but enough of it's getting through to deeply discourage brunette. Bell: Rachel slashing Mary with a triumphant glance; Winstead almost blurting into tears at the eye contact, feeling her foe's bullish confidence.
R5: Mary finally delivers on her promise of body punching, wading into Rachel with trudging steps/heavy fists midring. Nichols bunching up hurt for the first time - Winny lowering her head, swinging roundhouse lefts and rights against sinuous blonde ribcage - dull thud of brunette mitts beats the breath from blonde early. Minute mark - Nichols cringing, stooped forward as Mary works on her; suddenly Rachel backs away teary eyed, turns to her left and TAKES A KNEE! Nichols sobbing for breath - Mary shouting with delight: brunette starts to yank the momentum back as blonde takes a panting 8. BUT RACHEL WON'T HAVE IT! Mary wades in to finish, but wounded Nichols greets her with lead rights and swinging left hooks - HAMMER AND TONGS as Rache wades off the ropes. Winny getting buffetted, but lashing back - sensational toe-to-toe slugging erupts as feisty ingenues give crowd way more than expected. Furious two-way buffetting punctuated by moments when the girls separate all breathless and seething - then they wade in again, taking turns with ill-advised overhand rights and wide-sweeping lefts. Bell - girls still sailing into each other - ref has to take a stern hand to enforce the break.
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R6: It's back to the early textbook stalking of the first round, but now both are following up the jab with heavy right hands, and even looking to tack on the mop-up hook. Mary spanking away on Rachel's ribcage and waist - brunette with a pleasing, loose-limbed way of sloshing lefts and rights heavily against Nichols. Rachel a little straighter with her punches - working off her jab and continuing to pound at Mary's pretty face. Close round, but down the stretch, Mary's thudding work to the body has Rachel covering up, grimacing, unable to
punch as Winny takes tight points.
R7: Signs of shabbiness - girls getting a little wild, a little sloppy - falling in more and wrestling each other as legs start to weaken. Crowd pleasing two-way - Rachel pecking away and landing right hands; Mary slamming back at breadbasket and ribs, looking to clean up the chin with rangy clout from either side. Midway through - girls brawling recklessly, both scoring - Mary slapping a right/left off Rachel's body as Rachel's hooking off her jab; Winny eats it, comes off the body with tightest hook she's ever thrown, swivelling Nichols' pretty head. DOWN GOES RACHEL! Nichols clipped clean - body relaxing as she implodes down, then sprawls on her back: blonde twitching and writhing, head lolling side to side before she's able to roll over and fight her way up. Winstead's eyes blazing during the 8 count - her corner screaming "BODY! MARY - TAKE OUT HER BODY!" Upon resumption, Winstead wades in to comply. Rachel besieged at ropes: blonde whimpering, dukes at temples as she tilts forward - brunette whaling away lefts and rights with a crude, arms-akimbo delivery, really getting her hips into methodical strokes.
R8: Rachel fierce - lips curling back off her teeth as she jabs heartlessly at Mary's left eye and mouth, busting pretty brunette up. Winny bravely trudging through it - falling behind early, but making it up when she's close enough to slam away to Rachel's ribcage. By the third minute, Mary's taking the fight away from Nichols: blonde backing away gutshot, moaning in pain, elbows in tight to protect throbbing ribcage. Winstead steaming forward - chin very available as she wades in, but she's got Rachel cringing, suffering badly on ropes at bell.
R9: Rachel remembers to sidestep now: she's turning Mary midring, not just backing up in front of that body-shelling. Jabs piercing Winstead's defences - brunette head jolting, kicking back from hot blonde poke. Nichols punching straight, extending on blows, pushing off the back (right) big toe: she's slanting jabs and right hands down into the body every so often - taking Mary apart a little. Winstead flustered - crossing her arms, leaning back onto her right foot to look things over: brunette unable to close and do the damage she needs to do to discourage blonde offense.
R10: Rachel's jab closes Mary's eye at long last: grim smile of satisfaction on blonde's face as Winny cries from the pain of it. Winstead marching through Rachel's stiff, straight pokes - banging heavily at the ribcage with sloshing roundhouses: Nichol's legs starting to tremble, knees buckling as she can't hold canvas. Midway through, Mary dipping side to side, pulling heavy hamhands into Rachel's badly belted midsection, then dips left to heave a booming right hand over the top. HEAD-SWIVEL, RACHEL NICHOLS! Rachel's hands drop - she staggers back on her heels in amazement - blonde somehow keeps her feet, reeling backwards to ropes for support. WINNY WADES IN! Rachel's in tatters - Mary sucking it up for one last finishing run: OH THE PASTING! Nichols sobbing out behind her gloves, buttocks resting on ropes as she sags forward into the beating of a lifetime. Mary sobbing as she pours her heart and soul into it - splashing rights and lefts onto the head and shoulders of her foe - but RACHEL WON'T GO! Blonde makes it to the bell - brunette falls in with her - both girls laying against each other weeping with exhaustion as ref pushes 'em apart. Comes back one point duke, Mary Elizabeth Winstead!
After: Nichols swaying with punishment, blubbering out "NO!" when decision is announced. Right away she staggers into Mary, groggily demanding: "Rematch Mary - you're giving me a rematch. I want..." Winstead pushing groggily back - all but spent herself, left eye closed and aching terribly. "Back off, Rachel," Mary's mumbling back, even as Rachel's speaking, "back up, I mean it - get off me..." on and on. Unexpected great tilt a real crowd pleaser and not much truly settled here as fight comes down to the last minute or two of action to be decided. HBO willing to broadcast best 2 of 3 if all parties will have it, but ball's definitely in Winstead's court with the win. In days to follow, Rachel's quoted in BLONDE! Magazine: "I should have been given the first round - and that makes the fight a draw. Mary needs to fight me again - the sooner the better. She can't squeak past me on a technicality and start boasting how she's better. Real fighters don't do that." Mary responding with: "I'm not opposed to fighting Rachel again, if that's what it's going to take to shut her up. But I've got a lot of offers and we're going to do whatever makes the most sense. Jenny McCarthy's out there for me, Denise Richards, Navi's always mouthing off. Rachel's not the only girl who needs a good sorting out."
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