Match up: PENELOPE CRUZ VS KELLY CARLSON

In particular Kelly in white bikini vs Pene in yellow at the beach boxing/wrestling/pouncing.

***

AMY JO JOHNSON...BEATEN.

Scene: large group-shower in a big locker room.

Shower is running.

Sitting under the stream of water with back against the shower wall is Amy Jo Johnson - still wearing pink wrestling booties and dark green wrestling trunks while topless. Her knees are drawn up, elbows on her knees, hands on her head as the water pounds down. She's obviously devastated, shuddering every now and again with sobs - just sitting there soaking in defeat. She's dwelling on the beating...we don't know the details. Was it a topless stomp-and-slug thing in a dingy gym somewhere? Did Amy J get old in the ring against a Duff or a Panny...or was it a grinder's delight against someone seasoned - an Alison Mack maybe?

Small basement gym - undisclosed location. Probably cash-strapped school renting space.

Ring set up. A/C not working: probably 90 degrees down here. A stale, dusty 90.

Amy Jo in green wrestling trunks with the word "RAUNCH" in white block capitals across the buns; pink wrestling booties; hair started the match in ponytail - now all damp and loose.

Mack in baby blue wrestling trunks with white stripes down the hips; grey wrestling booties; short blonde tousle damp as a mop.

          AMY JO JOHNSON                                                    ALLISON MACK

Both girls topless; too damn hot to even bother with sports bras. The exquisite pudginess of stocky, compact brawlers; trunks cutting into hip and belly; thighs full. Flesh pink and sweaty. Smell of over-heated girl-beef contends with the faint odor of 30 years of activity.

RANDOM IMAGES
Mack hurting, face distressed, on her back, propped on elbows, shimmying herself back into a corner - stacking herself on the lower rung with arms on bottom rope. Amy walking stiffly over like her back is sore - taking the top rope in left hand, putting the right boot to good use on Mack's fleshy chest. Blonde girl just grimacing, baring teeth: brunette stomping a mud-hole, chest and tummy. Mack stunned, unresponsive...Amy J moves to blonde ankles, stooping to grab 'em both, backing out to pull Alison out of the corner. Blonde girl in boot-shock - eyes shut tight, hands dragging on canvas up above her head.

Amy J drops the left leg, keeping the right leg upright: she sets, drops the right elbow into Mack's right-leg inner thigh. Alison sobs, sits up, her left arm draping over Amy's left shoulder as brunette's getting up - Johnson ignoring Alison's hand, keeping control of the right leg as she stands, pulls the ankle up, keeping that right leg extended. Alison shaking her head "No" - hands in her hair as Amy Jo drops another elbow into the meat.

Girls frequently spending minutes at a time in clinches, groggy-walking each other around. Left shoulders pressed into warm, bready tits; left arms roped in under opposing rights; chins or left cheeks resting on opponent's left shoulder. Sleepy, pain-wracked expressions - girls trading desultory right hands into beefy bellies; kneeing each other's thighs with cranky resignation. Sweat-tacky nude torsos in constant, grinding contact.

Amy J's stubby-fingered hand forming fist in Alison's soaking blonde hair...Mack groggy, facing into it...Amy J cocks the right fist at her shoulder, then pounds it to Mack's hairline. Alison staggering back into ropes; Alison taking such blows while planted on her left knee...she loses track, there's so many. Same for Amy J: neither girl skimping on the methodical right hand to head routine.

Mack on her back in stupor...Amy J straightens blonde right arm out to the side, laying it flat on canvas: booming knee drop into the shoulder-joint. Mack sobbing in pain, kicking heels against canvas. Amy: up on her knees - that right knee grinding shoulder as she flicks hair behind her ear, smiling at Mack's pain-cramped face.

Mack's relentless leg drop assaults on a sleepy Amy J. Johnson lying spellbound on her back, helpless to prevent thunderous thigh and backside impacts to her chest. Mack rolling wearily off devastated brunette again and again, willing herself to stand and keep working.

North-south pin attempts, too many to count. Amy covering Mack over the blonde's head and shoulders - brunette's right cheek down on tummy - her fists curled into the waistband of Mack's trunks on either side, tugging up. Side of Amy J's mouth pressed against tummy as she's shouting:
"One!"
"TWO!"
Then Mack kicks and turns onto her right side, looking half asleep.
Amy J scoots around so she's belly-side on Mack. Johnson on her knees, leaning over blonde left flank - bracing on the backside with both elbows on canvas. Determined look on Amy's flushed face as she looks out through the ropes, barking: "Give!"
Alison: "No!"
Amy convulses in her crouch, drawing the right knee into Mack's belly, then settling down atop her thick and beefy.
Amy: "Give!"
Alison: "uhhh -NO!"
Amy with the convulsive knee. The definition of insanity personified.

Amy Jo sitting upright in stupor, hair dangling down past both breasts. Mack upright, limping around Amy J, planting on left leg - shaking the right leg out Rock-style, then STOMPING Amy: in the back; on either thigh; on the back of the head. Methodical brutality from mindless blonde: stunned defiance from seated brunette...Amy just sort of lolling on the spot - sometimes supporting herself on one hand or the other, taking boots.

Amy trapped in corner - right leg propped in ropes. Alison pushes brunette chin back with left palm; crowds in close with right forearm, bracing Amy's tits a beefy "PAK!" Exhausted blonde girl laying on brunette with the right shoulder on follow through...Johnson sobbing, draping her left arm around blonde's shoulders as girls rest a moment. Mack pushing Amy's torso back flat to turnbuckles - getting that left arm looped over the top rope again, then it's into the midsection with a short right hand. Left hand on Amy's propped-up knee: right hand into the inner thigh. Mack pushing on Amy to straighten her up when she's wilting. Mack delivering axe-handle two-handers onto that propped up right quad; getting up into the propped up hammies with knee lifts. Otherwise silent gym ringing with the breathy grunts of Mack giving; the shouts and blurted sobs of Johnson taking.

Amy heartlessly working Mack's back as blonde girl cringes along ropes, trying to walk away. Brunette's left hand reaches into the back of blonde waistband, securing Alison: slamming right forearm into kidney lands "PEK!" Dropping Mack to her right knee with a sob - her right arm in the ropes - left hand up, wrist bent back as she deals with back-shock. Amy J reaches down with both hands for waistband, sloowly reefing Ali to her feet: another back-blow drops Mack to both knees, her right arm still in ropes, draping her there.

Mack's pudgy tummy: Amy J's tanned left thigh plowing into beef.

Mack compressing Amy in the corner, holding her in clinch with blonde hips well back. Mack's backside shuddering side to side with the effort of keeping Amy pinned down.

Amy Jo belly-down, maybe even out...she lies there stocky brunette deadweight as Mack sustains a ponderous effort of elbow drops; leg drops; Rock-style stomps to hammies, buns and back. On and on, Amy Jo not moving, just absorbing shock. Eventually, Mack kneels down, bulling Amy onto her back - sprawling Johnson with arms out to either side.

Mack doesn't even count, just cringes her way out of the ring, into the showers.

***

APARTMENT NEWS-HOUNDS
HLN'S SUSAN HENDRICKS (black bra/panties with white lace decolletage) VS CNN ASHLEIGH BANFIELD (leopard print bikini with ring connections)

         SUSAN HENDRICKS                                 ASHLEIGH BANFIELD

STILL-SHOT FROM THE FIGHT
Ashleigh in the foreground, on wide-spread knees; back arched/chest high; fists at her shoulders, bent back at the wrists; head thrown back and to her right, face pinched in agony, eyes shut tight, lips curled off teeth. IN BACK OF HURTIN' ASHLEIGH: Sue bending into her right hand follow-through, her head to the right of the picture while Ashleigh's would be off to the left. Sue on her feet, but bending down into her punch - we see the right fist clenched. Sue's blonde hair a mess of wrestling-tangles - her face showing excitement, cruelty, and hope at the prospect of victory of tough-as-nails Banfield.

All for not: Ashleigh recovers to hand Sue a heartbreaking defeat on the night.

               SOLEDAD O'BRIEN                                                  ROBIN MEADE 

Soledad O'Brien launches a sneak in-studio/on-camera attack against Robin Meade next morning - beating the HLN strongwoman into stupor on national TV (ripped blouses; exposed bras; seething expressions; heaving chests)...HLN beauties agree to non-aggression pact and tribute terms, ratifying their status as CNN client-station.