Before: "My body's exactly where I want it to be," says a rejuvenated, sleek Britney in prefight. "I'm smooth, I'm fit - I know I can go rounds and I know I'm strong. Lilly's muscles look great, but I'm telling you: I take a better punch than that girl, and I hit harder. I know you guys don't believe me now, but I'm going to take the bantam belts away from Evangeline in this fight. It's a done deal." Lilly enjoying her highest payday to date, has other motivations for dealing with Spears. "I owe Britney a beating," Lilly shrugs, blue eyes hard. "She's not going to bamboozle me with that rope a dope again: this time, when I get on her, she's not going to be able to breath. It's all about punishment: I'm just going to work her to death in this fight. I'm talking about setting a pace that'll see her absorb hundreds of punches - she's not going to last against that. No way." Evangeline in green jogging bikini with random patterns of darker green, long slick battle braid; black gloves. Britney in black bikini; black gloves.

During R1: HARD-chopping right caroms off Britney's temple at the open - Spears stumble-bumming sideways to ropes, goes face-in-gloves to receive Evangeline's plugging body attack! Lilly in there hupping - chugging muscular rights and lefts to bunch-up Britney's paunch. Spears grunting, soaking, then leaning back into ropes to swat Lilly a cutey-pie hook to cheek. Spears tilting to her left, dropping a choppy right onto Lilly's face - Britney hurt, but starting to manage the pocket all relaxed and supple. Spears dipping side to side - hands stacked right atop left at her tummy: Lilly dukes at cheeks, stubby-punching into Spears little jabs and straight rights, then clawing hooks at Britney's flank. Spears doing a wonderful job rolling the blows - reaching for Lilly's head, pulling her forward - holding and hitting to draw warnings. Evangeline's splashy opening wins her the round, but Britney controls matters from the minute mark on.

R2: Spears off her stool aggressively, setting up midring in a VERY exaggerated wide stance - she's backhanding her left jab snappy - leaning in and out on Evangeline - dipping at the waist to change levels. Lilly dukes up - spitting jabs, but misjudging distance - champ coming up short and eating VICIOUS counter rights and left uppercuts from supple-slinging Britney. Spears bending at the waist, rotating torso-left, then lunging up into the Lilly chin via left uppercut - quickly following up a stubby right to chin as Brit's momentum carries her into Lilly and VANGIE GOES DOWN! Crowd roaring in shock - Britney's buxom, leaping circus punching has Lilly on her back and HURT! 'Vange beats the count groggy, shaking her head during the 8 count: ON COMES BRITNEY. Spears walking in hands at her sides - long stepping in as she gets close, then lifting a sweeping right uppercut from her thigh up in between Lilly's mitts. Evangeline's head rockets back - she skids hurt to her right along ropes: Spears hops, pops hips-right to pull a wide hook fat to Lilly's face - DOWN GOES LILLY! Evangeline dropped to her back again: Spears lifting her mitts and STRUTTING past as Lilly fights off the KO. Rocky 8, Evangline Lilly: Britney wades in hands at her sides, stomp-feints to get Lilly cringing; HUGE right uppercut splits Lilly's mitts - rocks her back into ropes. Spears crouching very low as Lilly reels above her, then Brit lunges up out of a bat-catcher's stance, crunching into the Lilly chin via Dani-Busting left uppercut. DOWN GOES LILLY! Champ dropped to her back parallel to ropes - arms out to either side, elbows planted on canvas, hands up - face pinched in shellshock. Big smile Britney as she's strutting away - she draws her thumb across her throat, beaming into her own corner and LILLY CAN'T GET OFF HER BACK! Thunderclap KO2 sees Britney RIP the belts off Evangeline Lilly's muscular little waist!

After: Reigning and defending JMD champ - reigning and NEW bantamweight champ: Spears roaring back from personal difficulties, rediscovering the explosive power of her legs to devastate the greatly favoured Evangeline Lilly tonight. "She caught me early, and that's when I knew I'd win the fight," Spears says cryptically in postfight, still shining with glee. "She pounced, and I still had it together - I just managed her, you know? At the break, I knew I had this thing because I'd taken her best shot. Plus, I've really worked on generating power because of JMD and that was huge tonight - those were JMD power punches I was cracking Lilly with, and she couldn't take it. Her plan was always to take me deep and exhaust me in the late rounds - but my plan was to deny her deep water altogether. I knew I'd stop her inside 3 - I just didn't want to say anything to motivate her, you know?"