Posted  by simguy 5/24/2002  (Thanks to Ginny for this repost)

Before: Special commentator Cat Bell sizes up the competitors, "Zeta-Jones is a very precise fighter, but she doesn't handle pressure all that well. Jenny's all about pressure and I think we're going to see O'Dell get on top, stay on top and break Catherine down. If Jones isn't very, very careful, I could see O'Dell getting on a roll and really mauling Zeta-Jones. After my fight with Jenny, I was surprised to see Jones go through with this bout - it's going to be a real scrap and Zeta J's not known for making great fights." Great blonde/brunette match up - Jenny O'Dell BLONDE! magazine's version of Micky Ward, gritty, hard working, hard hitting - Zeta-Jones a cold, calculating brunette with a mean streak and superiority complex to match - total natural animosity between these two. "I've trained like hell for this fight," says Jenny, "I'm too strong for THIS Catherine, too much competitor. I'm bringing it for 30 minutes and I don't think Jones has the stomach for it." Jones bringing 2 body guards with her to the weigh in - Jenny smirking as she is barred from getting too close to the Welsh Wonder - early psychological points scored for the brazen blonde. Jenny in black string bikini, Catherine in red.

During R1: O'Dell out fast, getting her head and both gloves on Zeta J, pushing the brunette to the ropes, making her feel the weight. Jenny fighting off Catherine's chest, scrounging in the belly, cuffing and clubbing up top, then pressing in head and guard to keep Jones off balance. Catherine misjudging her foe's aggression, tries to shuck and skip to her right along the ropes - Jenny stepping with, pushing Jones to the strands with a palm in the face and BLISTERING her chest with a crude right, sinking in the left to creamy belly as Zeta-Jones slumps forward. CZJ forced to brawl from that point on - Jenny huddled in close, then pumping, flexing her legs into rising lefts and rights to belly and breast --Jones trying to fit in the odd counter to her foe's ribs or chin but clearly getting outworked. O'Dell fresh faced and grinning at the bell, slaps a stunned Zeta J on the butt en route to her corner.

R2: Jenny with a big, gambling lead right on the ear, then a swatting series of lefts drives Zeta-Jones ropeside - blonde piles on with her head and guard pushing the brunette deep into the ropes. Zeta J grimacing from the sweaty weight of her foe, the painful dig of Jenny's punches, and sheer effort of struggling to keep pace with the exuberant blonde. End of the first minute - crowd roars as O'Dell shakes Jones' legs with a stuffing left in the solar plexus, Catherine momentarily gutshot, bending forward as Jenny claps either ear, then doubles down to dig in behind either elbow. Jones fighting for her life, right hand at her cheek, left hand low, digs in and slugs back, using her left shoulder to bump, then fitting in short licks to the paunch, tit and chin of her girl. Jenny outworked, out-punched for a minute, but she doesn't back off - just standing in with gloves at her temples, taking Catherine's best leather. Final minute all O'Dell as she starts to rev up again - bludgeoning series of brutal wide lefts and rights hammers Jones into a covered up turtle-shell. Catherine battered senseless as hard blonde fists crash down on the back of her head, bite deep to her belly and dig heartlessly into her ribs at the bell. Ref intervenes as O'Dell can't hear the bell - crowd LOVING the beat down Zeta-Jones is getting through 2.

R3: Zeta J hard eyed, deliberately goes to the ropes, setting up with the right hand at her mouth, left across her gut, giving Jenny that lead shoulder to shoot at. O'Dell wading straight in, loading up wide shots and she's caught a PERFECT left hook lick as Zeta-J leans into the ropes and counters with veteran precision. Delayed reaction as Jenny falters - Jones picks her up with a clipping right uppercut, spins off the ropes as Jenny stumbles to her knees at the ropes. O'Dell takes 8, looks clear-eyed, and she HOUNDS Catherine to the ropes again, cudgeling and banging away with wide lefts and rights to the arms and ribcage of her foe. Jones calm, rolling with punches better now, blocking more of the belly blows, clipping and swatting Jenny's face as she dips to either side, neatly getting the better of the inside trade to the bell. Zeta-J evens up the cards just like that and has O'Dell frustrated during the break.

R4: Zeta-Jones meeting Jenny midring, touching her with the jab, closing up with her left shoulder in O'Dell's chest, bumping her off and cuffing her a cute left hook forget-me-not. Jenny loading up and looping right hands high and left hooks to the body, but Jones is seeing it very well. Catherine rolling and blocking superbly, standing in the pocket, then countering with short, sharp chops to the delicious jugs, tanned belly and open mouth of her foe. Both girls very active this round, but Jones connect percentage practically double Jenny's - blonde getting picked apart by brunette's precise combinations, frustrated by Catherine's sweet defence. Jenny wobbly-butt as she wanders to her corner at the break.

R5: Catherine punishing Jenny with the jab now, picking O'Dell up midring, slide stepping back, walking O'Dell into the counter hook on the chin, turning her at the ropes, walking her into the short right hand on the jaw. Jenny coming forward but unable to get on top of Jones - Catherine just chopping the blonde up with heartless precision and timing. Zeta J using Jenny's forward momentum against her brilliantly - brunette will shoulder up, then step out, letting Jenny fall into the jerking little right uppercut, then falling off to the right to leave O'Dell swaying. Bell to bell shutout from Jones breaks O'Dell down badly this round - Jenny cut in the mouth, looking dazed, shiny from too much leather.

R6: O'Dell coming forward, leaning in to get her face on Jones - Catherine leans onto the back foot, draws a groan from the crowd as she lifts Jenny's head up with a sweet right uppercut. O'Dell shattered by the punch, lolling forward - Jones reaches down the right side and jams in that shivering hook to the liver. Jenny sobbing aloud, stumbling forward - Catherine stacks her up with the left shoulder, then DIGS at that liver with the cruel left hook. O'Dell backing out, hands dropping to her sides as she takes a deep, wincing breath - Zeta-Jones pouncing forward, chops the right hand across Jenny's face to get the blonde toppling to the ropes. Jenny hurt, stooping forward off the ropes and GROANING as Jones steps in close and hooks the solar plexus - blonde's hands weak outside either Jones shoulder. Catherine able to shoulder up and jerk her fists into Jenny's tanned belly - devastating shots with plenty of leg and back behind them. Jones pressing up, then stepping back, letting Jenny fall forward and she GUTS the blonde a cruel right hand in the sternum, sidestepping as Jenny falls to all fours. And it's OVER! KO6 Catherine Zeta-Jones.

After: Heartless walk of shame - CZJ guides a ransacked blonde around the ring with a hand about Jenny's waist as legions of converted O'Dell fans roar in approval. Vintage hard-hearted effort for the brunette who took a beating early, diagnosed her foe's attack and went about dismantling Jenny - placement and timing defeating power and heart this evening. "Elite fighters dispose of ham and egg in short order," sneers Jones in post fight, neatly dismissing O'Dell's good early work in this fight. “Once Jenny got a taste of my class, she was finished." Jenny taking the loss hard - neither girl had much respect for the other coming in - KO loss hard to accept. Cat Bell non-plussed at ringside, "Look, that was impressive, no question about it, Catherine exposed O'Dell's rawness, took her apart. I think Jenny might have been a little star struck tonight - I mean - she HAD Jones hurting and let her off the hook. That can happen to unheralded girls - you get in with a gigantic celebrity and you freeze. Jenny's got to get past that and see Jones for what she is: just another piece of meat in a red bikini."