Posted by Simguy on 2/21/2004, 8:43 am.

Before: BLONDE! Magazine trumpeting this bout as an early Fight of the Year entrant--both vixens with a penchant for the early whack--fight not expected to go long. “I’m excited about it,” says a grinning Jenny O’Dell in preflight. “Jeri Ryan’s a dangerous fighter, but I’ve got some ideas about that chin of hers. This fight is all about durability, and I don’t think Ryan can last when we both start landing.” Ryan calm on her side--she enters a slight bettors favourite--she’s been in this position before. “I’ll break Jenny the way I broke Ashley Scott and Krista Allen. She’s another up and comer who hasn’t looked good against top flight lights and I think this is just another jump up in class for her. She’s confident, but you look at our records--I’ve done much better against tougher comp. I mean, I had Cat Bell ready to go; Cat gave Jenny the Beating of the Year last year. Pretty much sums it up.” Jeri in red bikini, Jenny in neon blue.

During R1: Ryan with the more classical approach, flat-footed stalking, sliding forward behind a piston jab, right hand cocked at her chest and poised to drop into openings. O’Dell guard up, marching forward, dipping side to side to negotiate the jab as well as power on her side to side clubbing lefts and rights. Spirited stuff as girls take turns midring--Jeri working up the middle, Jenny getting sock to the side. Down the stretch, both lean into short rights, twist into come-back hooks but JERI GETS HURT! O’Dell’s glove detonating off Ryan’s jaw, sending the tall beauty clattering back to the ropes. Ryan does well to keep her feet as she swoons. Lifting weak mitts to her eyebrows. Jenny steps-to puts a HIDING on Ryan’s pale flanks, nuzzling and pushing inside the guard to dig to the gut. With Ryan broken down and reeling on the spot--Jenny helps herself to jug with brazen womping action, pounding away as groggy Ryan soaks it up glum.

R2: Ryan not all the way back--she hangs a jab and Jenny chops a murderous right hand over it, swiveling Ryan’s head, bending her knees. O’Dell hopping forward, loading up rights, bashing down on the ear, back of the head region as Ryan staggers away--Jeri hits ropes ashambles, reaches to accept a charging O’Dell onto her chest. Ryan bogging the action down, tieing her girl up, wrestling O’Dell to the ropes--veteran gets ugly to guy time. Down the stretch, Jeri doing some nice boxing midring, pounding the jab to chest, stacking jenny up and backing the aggressive blonde up.

R3: Ryan able to maintain order in the first minute, rejecting a series of murderous O’Dell rushes, running Jenny onto the jab, forcing her back outside. Range established, Jeri starts to come forward again, spends the second minute methodically advancing, getting the right hand dialed in--O’Dell backing up, lifting her arms to block, but this isn’t a good posture for her. Down the stretch Ryan puts it all together--slamming jabs, slicing footwork to get position, and body lean into a short, crashing right to the chin and THERE GIES JENNY! O’Dell sprawled against the ropes, face pale, eyes dreamy--Ryan extending the left to measure, then driving it off her back foot, plowing rights home to chin and chest. O’Dell’s turn to show some heart--she soaks up some bombs, legs atremble, but holding firm--Ryan denied a KO at the bell.

R4: Jenny’s legs still don’t look right--she’s very flat footed, weight on her heels even when she comes forward, but she’s bending into swinging lefts and rights, bringing the fight to Ryan. Jeri cautious early, bringing her jab back quick, covering up to block sweeping punches at her temples and ears, trying to stay in the pocket and hit the openings. Final minute--Ryan’s got the timing of it--she bends inside a wide O’Dell right, kisses that short, straight right off the chin and O’DELL’S HURT AGAIN! Jenny stumbling, righting herself, guarding up woozy--Ryan jabs up top into Jenny’s gloves then slings a gut wrenching right, pit of the belly--crowd moaning in sympathy as O’Dell freezes up in shock. Ryan palming up, walking her girl to ropes, then laying it on thick--beefy, stroking lefts and rights in above the hip, crippling body work bending Jenny forward, Ryan just bodying her girl back, bashing away strong to the body, occasionally sprucing Jenny up with short, straight lefts and rights between the mitts. O’Dell out on her feet, but refusing to go down again, blonde takes a shellacking to the bell, swaying windblown on the spot, but sticking her chin out defiantly as Ryan stalks away.

R5: Finally a round where neither girl is put I serious trouble--just good solid back and forth, with a little more defense from each. O’Dell making smart adjustments, moving her head side to side, still pulling punches around as she bends, but tightening up the motion, making it harder to counter. Ryan still in control with her jab, steering Jenny around the ring--tall blonde able to create a distance or collapse at will: it’s the difference in the fight so far. Hook the best punch for Jenny--Ryan relying on jab/right hand and superior overall ring generalship. Round to Jeri as she edges into lead.

R6: O’Dell catches a second wind, really takes it to Jeri bell to bell. Ryan unable to come forward, can’t extend--she’s pressed ropeside, leaning back, gloves up, trying to block the incoming, Jenny crouching forward, dipping side to side, pulling in compact wallop from either mitt, driving into Ryan with her shoulder to stack the blonde up, then digging furiously amidships when in tight. Ref issuing breaks--Jenny wading back in to keep the pressure on--not pretty, but it’s good, effective mauling. O’Dell blocked upstairs for the most part, but she’s savaging Ryan to the hips, waist and ribs--good, good body work done by hungry O’Dell this round.

R7: O’Dell marching on Ryan--Jenny’s coming forward, Ryan’s backing up. Disturbing trend: Ryan taking clubbing lefts and rights on her jaw line in retreat--Jenny ablr to step-with and put leather on Jeri--Ryan unable to really get clear of danger. Jenny going to the midruff with spearing overhand rights, staying on her front foot to joist left hooks into the waist, then easing onto her back foot to clip chin the hook. In and out, pressing the pace--O’Dell hounds Jeri around the ring, outworking the taller blonde. Ryan able to avoid the biggest punches aimed at her chin, but Jenny is just chewing away downstairs, really tearing it up. Jeri looking pasty, shook as she wanders to her corner at the break.

R8: O’Dell pressure rewarded as Jeri’s form breaks at the halfway point. Jenny finally getting her chopping right hand in--Jeri turning her head to the right, pushing out her left hand--Jenny just stays on her with hacking right hands down on the skull, driving Ryan to the ropes. Jenny pushes up brawny, hobbling Jeri with pumping two-gun gut action then JENNY ROMPS TO JUG! O’Dell standing up in the stirrups, teeth bared with effort, just a-shrugging in the punishment as Ryan sits dazed in the strands. Jeri in shock, bends, reaches around Jenny’s slick waist--O’Dell standing strong POUNDS down onto glistening back, reefs at the sides around Ryan’s quivering arms. Ref issuing breaks--Jenny wiping an arm across her mouth, anxious to get back in and WORK! O’Dell hurting Ryan, piling up points through 8.

R9: O’DELL LANDS THE RIGHT HAND! More of those chopping, blunt tomahawk blows--Ryan shook, foot squared up, pushing back punches and Jenny gets ALL of a swinging left hook in the chin! Jenny’s hips and feet twisting around as she lands the hardest punch of the fight--Ryan sent skidding backwards, once again ragdolled at the ropes and miraculously keeping her feet, Jenny presses forward, palming Jeri’s biceps to open the torso and ROMPS to ribs and jug--Jenny O’Dell going for knockout in the first minutes of the 9^th! Ryan somehow grabs, clutches, wrestles and gloms her way out of it, righting good-ship groggy by the second minute, getting the jab back on target and luring jenny midring. Ryan using ceteran wiles--legs are shot, eyes unfocused, but Jeri’s whittling away, landing short right hands and immediately tieing up--good job to get out of the round.

R10: O’Dell’s got nothing left--Ryan has a little, Jeri open mouthed, badly busted up face and body, but coming forward now, just dabbing out the jab, looking to turn on the fight winning right hand to end this thing. Jenny backing up, even turning away from rights when they come--she’s exhausted, just doesn’t want to be caught. Staggering pursuit, girls on ramshackle legs--Ryan bending in again and again, just grazing Jenny’s chin as O’Dell turns away to her left. Gasping clinches, upper body wrestling predominate late as this thing stumbles to the finish line. Comes back UD10--Jenny O’Dell!

After: O’Dell going where Allen, Scott, and many others could not, upsetting big Jeri Ryan and the odds makers who felt this thing couldn’t go past 3. Both women landed bombs, both proved steely-chinned in a fine back and forth slugfest. “I could have been way more dominant,” boasts a beat up but happy O’Dell. “I worked SO hard on my jab in the gym and I just didn’t use it--I could have done a better job controlling Jeri. I thought her chin would let her down, but it held up fine--it was her body that quit in this fight. When I saw how she wasn’t liking it at all down there, I just stayed on her and cleaned up. I just got stronger as the fight went on--Jeri really had some trouble competing with me to night.”

Reposted by Archer 8/8/12.