Part1:

Posted by Simguy on 12/28/2002, 8:23 am.

Before: Eliza in recent interview: “Youth and beauty are weapons in this game—there’s no doubt about that. Take Claire—she’s usually pretty level headed, but she lost a fight to Kristin Kreuk because she got rattled by a beautiful brunette face. Girls can punk each other out in ways you can’t even imagine. I mean in that fight, Kreuk had Danes beat at the press conference. “ WB sparring no expense to promote Kris as the flyweight of the future, capitalizing on her ethereal close-up prints shots to steal a lot of the available spotlight. Is it getting to Danes? “You’re pretty,” says Danes contemplatively at the mic. “I can change that.” Claire in two-toned black and white bikini, Kristin in red bra and panties with a slight boy cut—small work out gloves by mutual agreement.

During R1: Claire looking to get into her rhythm, Kris throws a wrench into the scheme, Kreuk with arms rigid, fists tightly balled, wades in a-walloping, surprising Danes with brazen brawling pressure. Claire’s pride engaged—she starts swinging back—wildly crowd pleasing slugfest erupts—trim bodies lurching and tense, slashing fists, sharp cracking contact to face and bony ribcages. Kreuk with a nice, slightly looping action on her blows, clouting Claire the left, bringing the left elbow back high, clocking the right, drawing the extended right hand backhand across Claire’s lips—blonde caught swinging outside these rubberband combination and landing less effectively. Down the stretch, Kreuk backing Claire up and scrubbing face---Claire taking 5.6 punches flush, hitting the ropes, pinwheeling her blows back in ragged arcs, Kreuk getting on board with 9, 10 blows, really spanking Claire’s face, bloodying her nose—brunette just standing up and lathering to the upperchest and head of her opponent to the bell. Claire trembling, scuffed up—Kreuk prancing away the successful gambler.

R2: Corner ordering Claire to box—but she can’t forget Kris’ clean punching. Danes standing up in the stirrups, shoving right hands into Kreuk’s breadbasket—Kris tackling up top and spinning her girl to the ropes—scrabbling melee breaks out as girls slap and maul as much as punch at close quarters. Both have moments when they can sit the other in the strands, stands up tall and lug away to the body with shivering lefts and rights. Both land with clouting force to the jawline, shaking the opponent but hot discouraging her—it’s cavewoman stuff from two girls who know so much better. Down the stretch, Kreuk again finds a rhythm—wide stroking lefts and rights on Claire’s jaw as the blonde takes more clean punching in two rounds than she usually does in 10.

R3: Claire meeting Kris midring, feints and brings a looping right hand to the jaw that has Kreuk stagger-stepping. Danes bracing with her left palm, straightening the brunette, then clocking that face hard to starboard with a smashing right—blonde just walloping away, beating Kreuk ragged to the ropes and KRIS GOES DOWN! Kreuk awkward to her knees. Danes looming over her hardheartedly—Double KK takes a woozy 8. Claire calming down, icing up—she feathers Kris with jabs to get her ropeside, then systematically attacks the body. Elbows in, crouched forward, Claire snatches at the back and side with quick licking double hooks, sweeps right hands to the midsection, gets a warning for throwing a hard left elbow smash repeatedly to Kristin’s bruised right shoulder. Kreuk suffers in the ropes to the bell—her turn to blink back tears, take a deep breath—Danes surveying the damage with satisfaction.

R4: Slugging. Slender limbed girls, flashing eyes, sneering lips—and wide, slinging power punches interspersed with interruptive straight pokes. Seconds into the fray, Danes walks into a clobbering right on her chin—Kreuk shaken by the impact herself stares as Claire staggers to the right, holds her head defensively and drops to her knees. Hurting 8 for Claire. Kreuk wades in—no pretense of defense—she pushes her left into Claire’s chest to drape her on the ropes, pulls in a lashing right to the ribs, twists to pull in the left and cranks it up from there. Danes covered up but giving no head movement—she’s hurt, trying to punch back and she’s NAILED over and over by Kreuk’s lather. Claire coming undone, head lolling—she’s limp, taking punches and DOWN GOES CLAIRE! Danes wilting to all fours, vibrating with punishment—Kreuk open mouthed, rasping for breath and covered in the sweat of her labour—she’s got another minute on the clock. Kristin Kreuk comes for Claire Danes, Danes up against the ropes, sets her chin on “stone”, covers up lame and lets Kreuk take what she can. Vicious clubbing-down of battered blonde—Kreuk’s hard, small fists ricocheting off Danes’ exposed back, thrumming against the kidneys, digging up underneath to get at anything soft and Danes goes down again! Claire sobbing at the bell, battered senseless, but escaping the round—Kreuk shrieking in frustration as Danes straggles into port.

R5,6: Ramshackle Claire comes out hurt, determined. She digs in, She does face to face, shoulder to shoulder, There’s no boxing from either girl, they’re just taking turns backing each other up with walking, stiff barrages to the beltline and ribs, digging each other backwards, holding the line then taking the ground back. Identical rounds—Claire outworking Kris and beating her up for the first two minutes, but getting caught clean on the chin with a late Kreuk counter, getting hurt and allowing the brunette to steal the rounds with sustained, fluid left/right crosses. After 6 Kreuk’s eyes are sealing shut—Claire’s face a swollen, sore purple and both girls are hanging on at the bell.

Claire Danes vs Kristin Kreuk conc.

Posted by Simguy on 12/28/2002, 8:24 am.

R7: Claire’s been tagged, hurt, taken out of her game—but no sign of quit. She gets after Kris, solving the brunette’s slinging side to side slugging with threading straight right hands and jabs as she steps back. Kreuk caught walking forward and winging—Danes able to pick her off, step back, pick her off, landing and escaping damage for one of the few times in the fight. Kreuk bloodied in the nostril as aggression lets her down—she’s shutout, slapped up as Danes ring-generalship finally makes its appearance.

R8: Kreuk catching a second wind, stands up into a risky right hand to the belly that buckles Claire early, curls the right off the body to Claire’s chin, curls a tight left to the chin—Danes is hurt, backing down and destitute. Kris banging away like a blacksmith, bludgeoning the blonde to the ropes. Claire trying to block—Kris punching through it, taking the ribcage, taking the face with a horrendously high connect percentage. Danes stupid with punishment, sagging into the ropes, facing into punches but Kreuk can’t get her out of there. Kris able to numb Claire, keep her dazed, but blonde legs won’t go and blonde heart won’t give. Tragic beating goes all 3 minutes for Danes as she wilting and lolls—Kreuk staggering back arms down at the bell, eyes hollow with effort of draining Danes’ tank.

R9: Comeback Claire! Kreuk shot—pushing out meaningless leather—Claire lands a few smart, short right hands on the point of the chin to put the brunette wobbly butt. Danes wading in, chugging left/right to the ribs beneath the breast line to back Kreuk to the ropes, then it’s the grim business beat-down. Kreuk covering up, sullen, light dimming—Claire snatching at the waist, getting around the elbows, licking the kidneys to hobble her girl for work upstairs. Final minute the most savage assault Danes has ever launched on another human being—Kreuk buckled forward, covering her head—she poses for rigid left/right uppercuts as Claire hammers away at that hated, beautiful face. Kreuk undone, frozen in place as Claire beats her way past the guard and hammers perfect skin into ruin—Danes s short and tight that she’s following through with bicep and shoulder scrub on these shots. Bell sounds—Kristin out on her feet—Claire’s heart jackhammering in her chest—boith girls shaky to their stools as this one staggers to the 10^th.

R10: Claire with a monster right hand wallop to the ear has Kris spilling spiraling in a semi circle midring—Kreuk somehow keeping her feet as she reels sideways to the ropes. All Claire Danes—mounting up on her girl, pushing Kris upright then working with chugging arms, shrugging shoulders and cruel elbows. Claire beating the body rhythmically, then coming up top with unpredictable little clouts, catching plenty of elbow on follow through as the ref just lets it go. Kreuk hanging on, battered senseless, not answering back—she shows the guts Claire did earlier in accepting numbing punishment with the fight on the line. Fight finishes up with Danes near exhaustion, stroking and falling in with her gamine foe—girls wind up in one another’s arms, beaten unrecognizable, lolling against the ropes, Comes back UD10 Kristin Kreuk!

After: Danes in shock—upset, badly beaten—Kreuk one of the lightest punchers in boxing, but hitting Claire savagely flush much more often than the blonde would ever have dreamed possible—Claire tempted into trading to the face, fighting an uncharacteristic, though WILDLY crowd pleasing effort—it’s a flyweight classic. Kreuk coming cover to Danes corner in the aftermath—she takes a left hand full of Claire’s bikini top—blonde windblown, staring—and steals a long, hateful kiss from the blonde’s battered lips. Kreuk pulling her head back when she’s had enough, wiping her mouth with her hand while maintaining glaring eye contact, then shoving Claire away like so much trash. “you know what’s really hurting Claire right now?” Asks Kris in postfight. “The fact that I’m up here (points to her head). I’ve gotten to her. I’[m beating Claire’s mind before I take her body and that’s something she can’t handle.”

Reposted by Archer 12/6