PARTIAL REPORT

Posted by Simguy on 2/16/2007, 5:49 am.
Cole in bright cobalt blue bikini, white gloves
Richards in scarlet bikini, beach ponytail, black gloves.
KO7 Cole
Too big, too strong, too much: Taylor takes the fight to Denise and ends all the talk of an upset fairly early as Richards is quickly hammered into docile compliance over the first three heats. Taylor used her jab to punish and often up her foe, but once Denise was sullen, Cole wasted no time going to the ribcage and being the bigger woman in a ring that suddenly looked way too small for an outgunned Ms. Richards.
Denise is justifiably proud of her post-Charlie abs, and those abs are actually allowing her to sop up more punishment than she should be taking at this stage of her career. Grimly pushing into Taylor and trying to crowd Cole—Denise laid inside and soaked up one of the worst thumpings of her career tonight, beaten like a drum by a tireless, heavy handed brunette ingenue intent on winning in spectacular fashion.
We’ve seen Denise like this before: ragged, busted yup, but grimly determined to keep competing, With Cole leaning her chin out over Denise’s shoulder and hoisting thick shellack into tummy and ribs—Denise groggily took the abuse and refused to succumbs to sheets of Cole leather. No one punch would rob Denise of her senses, but midway through the seventh, her toned, taut chassis had had enough. Dropping to all fours, Denise Richards simply couldn’t rally off her knees, giving up the KO in cringing fashion, her body awash with punishment and no longer responding to her wishes.
It’s hard to say where Denise can go from here. She’s got a recent, stunning KO win over Katherine Heigl to suggest that she’s still to suggest that she’s still a top caliber lightweight, but overall, she seems too small to compete with the best in the division. Heigl may have been the exception to an otherwise uncompromising rule: the beating D took from Taylor tonight seems more like the norm than not. If Richards maintains her tight, toned form, she can probably be a Jennifer Connelly type bantamweight—and there’s money to be made with fan-friendly fights such as Beckinsale, Connelly, Aniston, Mendes, Berry, Moore (Demi) and the like. She wouldn’t be the first fighter to breathe new life into her career by recommitting to a lower weight class and being the bigger lass more often in her contests.
Reposted by Archer 12/15/09.
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