LIly James versus Kara Del Toro (Lightweight Title)
Dec 30, 2022 21:05:36 GMT -6
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Lily James vs Kara Del Toro
(Writing: LMW / Results: Lookout!)
Lightweight Title
Lily James (Champion)
(33, 5’7, 16-0 FCBA, League of Mighty Women)
Kara Del Toro
(29, 5’8, 20-0 FCBA, Front Street Boxing)
Pre-Fight: League of Mighty Women’s Lily James will be making her second defense of the Lightweight Title against Front Street Boxing’s Kara ‘The Body’ Del Toro. Of course the biggest prize of this fight is the title belt, but also on the line is the ‘undefeated’ title that both fighters currently have. It is rare to have two undefeated fighters in a title fight, which surely will add to the intensity of this crucial battle. Lily will be looking to cap off this amazing year with another win and hold on to both of her titles. Kara will be looking to make her successful year more meaningful by adding a title belt to her ‘undefeated’ title.
Kara, the challenger, addresses the audience first during the pre-fight press conference. “This will be the most important fight of my career so far and I can assure you that I’m ready for it! Earlier this year, I defeated past champions and showed that I belong to the elite level and now I can show that I deserve to be the champion. I respect Lily and I know that it will be hard to face her in her current form. I also know that she likes going for her opponent’s body, but I am “The Body! I can take what she throws at me and dish it out better!” She concludes her statement with a confident and determined look on her face.
Lily looks calmer after her first successful title defense as she begins her statement. “I have been in many tough battles throughout this year and I expect this to be no different. The respect is mutual. Kara is a skilled boxer and she seems nice enough outside the ring, so I expect a good and clean fight. She might be ‘The Body’ but I’ll find a way to break her down and keep my titles!” She chuckles as she finishes her address, but then gets serious as both undefeated fighters stare each other down at the end of the press conference.
As the fight night arrives, the challenger, Kara enters the arena first as she is accompanied by her coaches Jewel Kilcher and Neve Campbell. She waves and blows kisses to the fans cheering wildly for her. Once she enters the ring, she starts listening to the final instructions of her coaches before the bout and she looks confident.
She is wearing a neon green bikini set with white gloves and boots, while her hair is tied into a ponytail.
Lily comes out next with the title belt around her waist and her coach Ali Landry accompanying her. She taps her title belt and waves to the crowd cheering for her as she makes her way to the ring. She looks focused as she goes through her warming up routine inside the ring.
She is wearing a black sports bra with gold trim, matching trunks, gloves and boots. Her hair is also tied into a ponytail.
Both fighters meet at the center of the ring to listen to the final instructions of the referee and then they touch gloves with a nod as a sign of respect. However, the atmosphere gets tense as they step back to their respective corners. We are now ready for 10 rounds of lightweight action for the title!
Fight: Round 1: Kara closes down the distance quickly and goes on the attack right away, hoping to put the champ on the back foot from the start. Lily doesn’t look concerned with this development as she assumes a defensive position and looks for the counter. Kara blasts the champ’s guard with short combinations, but nothing goes through yet. Lily tries to counter with single punches, but she is not finding much success either. Kara finally lands a clean hit after the minute mark as she slips a straight through Lily’s guard and things open up a bit more after that. They start to engage in longer exchanges and the number of punches cleanly landed increases in the second half of the round. It ends up being a close opening round, but Kara was the more active fighter, so she goes up ahead on the scorecards.
Round 2: The roles remain the same as Kara is the one who initiates the exchanges from the beginning of the round, while Lily stays on defense and looks for counterpunching opportunities. As they get more comfortable with implementing their game plans, they also increase their work rates, so we are getting more action in this round. Kara is again throwing more combinations in the way of the champ, but Lily is more effective with her counters this round as she checks the challenger’s chin with uppercuts and hooks. As the round progresses Lily seems to gain more control with her power punches, but Kara is not backing down either as she alternates her attacks between the body and the head. After the first two rounds, it is clear that these two fighters are evenly matched, which is reflected on the scorecards as well since Lily wins this time and ties the score.
Round 3: Kara makes a more controlled start to this round as she doesn’t want to give as many counter opportunities to her opponent as the previous round. The pace is a bit slower as a result of that, but since Kara is not putting as much pressure with her attacks, Lily starts to tag her with short combinations outside of counters as well. Kara is returning the favor with one-two combinations of her own, so they go back-and-forth, taking turns in throwing short combinations with varying success from mid-range and then stepping out. There isn’t much to separate the two again in this round as neither of them are willing to take big risks just yet. However, Lily edges the challenger slightly again to go ahead on the scorecards for the first time in this fight.
Round 4: After losing ground to her opponent in the previous two rounds, Kara decides to take more risks, hoping to turn things around. She raises her guard higher up as she closes the distance to her opponent as if to challenge her to go for her body, which is a favored tactic for Lily anyway, but it looks like ‘The Body’ trusts her very fit body and resilience. Lily doesn’t let this opportunity go to waste, so she lands a few shovel hooks to the midsection, but she doesn’t want to overcommit either, so she steps away afterwards. For her part, Kara flexes her muscles in anticipation of impact and establishes a defensive jab. The second exchange goes similarly with Kara landing a few jabs and leaving her body open, so the champ punishes the challenger with a few hooks to the ribs without overstaying her welcome. It is the third exchange around the halfway point of the round that Kara’s trap finally pays off. When Lily goes to the body again, what looks like an ineffective jab turns out to be only a setup as Kara instead lands a big uppercut as soon as Lily dips her head. Before the champ can react, Kara follows it up with a couple of hooks to the chin that rocks Lily. The Brit finally reacts, stepping back and putting her guard up to stop further damage.
Kara controls the action in the round after that exchange as she chases her opponent and lands a few more good-looking punches, but Lily is able to avoid getting in serious trouble and makes it to the bell. Kara wins the round wide to tie the score again, but more importantly, she hurt the champ.
Round 5: Lily is on the defense as she still seems to be in recovery mode, while Kara is back on attack. Kara tests the champ’s guard with one-two combinations from range, but it is holding up so far and the American is not willing to risk it too much knowing that Lily can set something up like she did to her in the previous round. The challenger controls the action and starts to find the target with some of her combinations as she starts going after her opponent’s body to open things up, but Lily seems to have recovered and starts returning fire with occasional body shots as well. The pace is not as high as the previous round, but as they go past the halfway point of this title fight, the damage they are doing to each other continues to add up and it starts showing with the marks they are leaving on each other. Kara wins the round narrowly and leads the champ on the scorecards.
Round 6: Both fighters make a more aggressive start to the sixth round as it looks like the exchange of body shots in the previous round escalated into a battle to whose body will survive it. They engage in the middle of the ring in a close quarters exchange as some of the punches get blocked, but still a significant number of hooks, straights, uppercuts and shovel hooks punish each other’s abs and ribs. After going at each other relentlessly for a while, they end up clinching, but they still hit each other with body shots from the clinch. Once they are separated, they go back at it again. Sweaty bodies grind and struggle for position as they continue to exchange leather up close, while both fighters use shoulder bumps and forearm shoves to create some space to add a bit more power to their body shots.
After getting stuck in this body punching battle for the majority of the round, Lily changes things up in the final minute as she goes for an uppercut to the chin after a shoulder bump, which catches Kara completely off guard. The American model stumbles and Lily drives her back with a double jab-straight combo. Kara avoids the follow up hook, but she ends up backing into the ropes. Lily uses this opportunity to launch a barrage of hooks to the body and the face as Kara tightens her guard to block some of them. As the champ’s attack continues, the challenger finally pushes her away, stumbles away from the ropes and keeps her feet moving to make it to the bell. The champ comes back with a big win after that impressive conclusion to the sixth round and the score is all tied in this close title fight.
Round 7: Lily is on the attack as she wants to build up on her success in the previous round, but Kara is not backing down either. The champ opens things up with a one-two combo to the face, while Kara answers with a hook to the ribs. They are engaging in shorter exchanges in this round, but the pace is still high. Slowly but surely, Kara turns it back into a body shot battle by going for the champ’s body repeatedly. Lily is more than happy to engage in this battle again after using it to her advantage last round. However, Kara starts to take control of the body superiority battle in this round as she lives up to her nickname and stays strong despite all the punishment to her body, while Lily starts to fade, not returning as much fire as she receives.
As we move past the halfway point of the round, Lily starts backing away, but Kara is not letting the champ get away. ‘The Body’ is wearing down the Brit with more body shots until she cannot take it anymore. Lily is doubled over after a big uppercut to the abs and Kara palms her up to land another uppercut to the chin. Lily stumbles and then Kara drops her with a hook to the jaw! The champ is down! Kara walks over to the neutral corner as she tries to remain calm, but she is beaming with anticipation as the referee begins the count! 1…2…3… Lily is lying on her back with one hand over her battered abs and one covering her face 4…5…6… she sits up and takes a moment to recover, still clutching her midsection and trying to muster up her strength 7…8… she gets up to her feet and raises her guard to show that she is ready to continue. After a quick check, the referee restarts the action!
Lily is in survival mode as she is on the defense, trying to make it to the end of the round, while Kara tries to finish off her opponent. Fortunately for Lily, Kara cannot find enough openings to do any further damage to force a stoppage until the bell and the champ survives to fight another round. Still, it was a big swing in momentum of the fight and Kara won the round wide to take the lead on the scorecards once again.
Round 8: Lily is on the defense and she tries to avoid getting involved in exchanges as she clearly feels the effects of the knockdown in the previous round still. Meanwhile, Kara wants to capitalize on the champ’s current status, so she is trying to put more pressure on Lily with some short combinations. However, while she lands some clean hits, she is not able to put as much pressure as she wants. She expended lots of energy up to this point, especially in the previous round, so her punches do not have as much power behind them. The pace decreases further as Lily utilizes clinches to slow down her opponent. The champ rarely throws any punches back and most of them are easily blocked by Kara, so the challenger controls the action and wins the round easily to get a commanding lead on the scorecards, but she clearly wanted more out of this round.
Round 9: Active resting in the last round must have worked for Lily as she seems to have got a second wind in the ninth round. She needed it too, because she has to get active if she wants to keep her title. So she does, initiating the first exchange of the round. Kara is willing to trade, but she is not as aggressive as she starts preserving energy to make sure that she has enough in reserve to go the distance. That being said, neither fighter is willing to go down without a fight, so we are seeing some fireworks. Lily lands one hook to the body and another to the chin that makes Kara wobble, but she recovers in time to avoid an overhand and then comes back with a one-two combo landing up top. After a few more exchanges, Lily starts driving her opponent back, but Kara keeps fighting from the back foot. It ends up being a close one, but Lily does enough to edge her opponent and close the gap on the scorecards to set up an electric final round!
Round 10: They made it to the last round in this title fight and both women look like they have been through a fierce battle with marks to show for it all over their bodies and faces. They are clearly tired at this point, but they are still going at it with what they have left in the tank. They meet in the center to start another exchange. The speed and precision of their punches are getting lower and lower, so there aren’t many punches in this exchange that land cleanly, but even partial hits hurt at this stage with the accumulated damage that both fighters suffered. After a few body shots on both sides, Kara gets a glancing blow to the top of Lily’s head with a straight, but the champ answers with an overhand that lands cleanly and hurts the challenger, forcing her to back away.
Lily catches the challenger again at the halfway point of this final round. Kara tightens her guard as the Brit blasts it with a one-two combination. Seeing that Kara’s guard is still holding up, Lily changes tactics and goes to the body with a couple of shovel hooks that makes the American model wince. The champ follows it with an uppercut to the abs, which causes Kara to drop her guard involuntarily. Lily lifts her opponent’s chin up with an uppercut and then lands two big hooks. Kara is still on her feet, but she is stunned, not defending herself properly. Her resilience is finally pushed over its limit as Lily hits her with two more hooks, knocking Kara down on her back! Lily walks over to the neutral corner, hoping that it will be enough to keep this resilient challenger down as the referee begins the count! 1…2… Kara is still on her back, moaning as she slowly starts moving 3…4…5… she rolls over and starts to push herself off the canvas 6…7…8… she is on all fours now, getting herself ready to get up 9…10! Kara can’t get up in time and rolls over to her back again as the count passes her by! It is all over in dramatic comeback fashion in the final round!
Official Result: Winner via KO in round 10 and STILL the unified Lightweight Champion, Lily James!
Post-Fight: Lily looks relieved as she can barely lift her fists to celebrate. Ali quickly comes in, hugs her fighter to congratulate her and then helps her to the corner, so she can rest for a bit before the final announcement. On the other side, Kara needs a moment to recover, but she eventually gets up to her feet and gets the thumbs up from the medical team. She is helped to her corner stool by her coaches and she rests there for a bit. Lily comes over to check up on her and they shake hands as a show of mutual respect, while the fans applaud both of them. Kara then leaves the ring with her coaches Jewel and Neve, while the fans try to cheer her up with another round of applause.
After getting her hand raised by the referee and getting her championship belt back around her waist, she takes the mic. “I don’t think anyone is doubting her after this fight, but if they do, I can tell them that Kara is legit! It was a hard-fought, but clean title fight and Kara took me to the limit, so I applaud her for that. I’m happy that I was able to keep my title after this ‘battle of the undefeated’ and to end the year with the title belt around my waist! Thank you all for your support!” With that she leaves the ring alongside her coach as the crowd cheers one more time for her.
It was an amazing battle that lived up to its billing. Of course, Lily leaves this fight the happier side as she holds on to her Lightweight Title as well as staying undefeated. However, while Kara failed to capture the title belt this time and lost her undefeated streak in the meantime, she proved that she is ready for this level and that she will be a champion one day.
(Writing: LMW / Results: Lookout!)
Lightweight Title
Lily James (Champion)
(33, 5’7, 16-0 FCBA, League of Mighty Women)
Kara Del Toro
(29, 5’8, 20-0 FCBA, Front Street Boxing)
Pre-Fight: League of Mighty Women’s Lily James will be making her second defense of the Lightweight Title against Front Street Boxing’s Kara ‘The Body’ Del Toro. Of course the biggest prize of this fight is the title belt, but also on the line is the ‘undefeated’ title that both fighters currently have. It is rare to have two undefeated fighters in a title fight, which surely will add to the intensity of this crucial battle. Lily will be looking to cap off this amazing year with another win and hold on to both of her titles. Kara will be looking to make her successful year more meaningful by adding a title belt to her ‘undefeated’ title.
Kara, the challenger, addresses the audience first during the pre-fight press conference. “This will be the most important fight of my career so far and I can assure you that I’m ready for it! Earlier this year, I defeated past champions and showed that I belong to the elite level and now I can show that I deserve to be the champion. I respect Lily and I know that it will be hard to face her in her current form. I also know that she likes going for her opponent’s body, but I am “The Body! I can take what she throws at me and dish it out better!” She concludes her statement with a confident and determined look on her face.
Lily looks calmer after her first successful title defense as she begins her statement. “I have been in many tough battles throughout this year and I expect this to be no different. The respect is mutual. Kara is a skilled boxer and she seems nice enough outside the ring, so I expect a good and clean fight. She might be ‘The Body’ but I’ll find a way to break her down and keep my titles!” She chuckles as she finishes her address, but then gets serious as both undefeated fighters stare each other down at the end of the press conference.
As the fight night arrives, the challenger, Kara enters the arena first as she is accompanied by her coaches Jewel Kilcher and Neve Campbell. She waves and blows kisses to the fans cheering wildly for her. Once she enters the ring, she starts listening to the final instructions of her coaches before the bout and she looks confident.
She is wearing a neon green bikini set with white gloves and boots, while her hair is tied into a ponytail.
Lily comes out next with the title belt around her waist and her coach Ali Landry accompanying her. She taps her title belt and waves to the crowd cheering for her as she makes her way to the ring. She looks focused as she goes through her warming up routine inside the ring.
She is wearing a black sports bra with gold trim, matching trunks, gloves and boots. Her hair is also tied into a ponytail.
Both fighters meet at the center of the ring to listen to the final instructions of the referee and then they touch gloves with a nod as a sign of respect. However, the atmosphere gets tense as they step back to their respective corners. We are now ready for 10 rounds of lightweight action for the title!
Fight: Round 1: Kara closes down the distance quickly and goes on the attack right away, hoping to put the champ on the back foot from the start. Lily doesn’t look concerned with this development as she assumes a defensive position and looks for the counter. Kara blasts the champ’s guard with short combinations, but nothing goes through yet. Lily tries to counter with single punches, but she is not finding much success either. Kara finally lands a clean hit after the minute mark as she slips a straight through Lily’s guard and things open up a bit more after that. They start to engage in longer exchanges and the number of punches cleanly landed increases in the second half of the round. It ends up being a close opening round, but Kara was the more active fighter, so she goes up ahead on the scorecards.
Round 2: The roles remain the same as Kara is the one who initiates the exchanges from the beginning of the round, while Lily stays on defense and looks for counterpunching opportunities. As they get more comfortable with implementing their game plans, they also increase their work rates, so we are getting more action in this round. Kara is again throwing more combinations in the way of the champ, but Lily is more effective with her counters this round as she checks the challenger’s chin with uppercuts and hooks. As the round progresses Lily seems to gain more control with her power punches, but Kara is not backing down either as she alternates her attacks between the body and the head. After the first two rounds, it is clear that these two fighters are evenly matched, which is reflected on the scorecards as well since Lily wins this time and ties the score.
Round 3: Kara makes a more controlled start to this round as she doesn’t want to give as many counter opportunities to her opponent as the previous round. The pace is a bit slower as a result of that, but since Kara is not putting as much pressure with her attacks, Lily starts to tag her with short combinations outside of counters as well. Kara is returning the favor with one-two combinations of her own, so they go back-and-forth, taking turns in throwing short combinations with varying success from mid-range and then stepping out. There isn’t much to separate the two again in this round as neither of them are willing to take big risks just yet. However, Lily edges the challenger slightly again to go ahead on the scorecards for the first time in this fight.
Round 4: After losing ground to her opponent in the previous two rounds, Kara decides to take more risks, hoping to turn things around. She raises her guard higher up as she closes the distance to her opponent as if to challenge her to go for her body, which is a favored tactic for Lily anyway, but it looks like ‘The Body’ trusts her very fit body and resilience. Lily doesn’t let this opportunity go to waste, so she lands a few shovel hooks to the midsection, but she doesn’t want to overcommit either, so she steps away afterwards. For her part, Kara flexes her muscles in anticipation of impact and establishes a defensive jab. The second exchange goes similarly with Kara landing a few jabs and leaving her body open, so the champ punishes the challenger with a few hooks to the ribs without overstaying her welcome. It is the third exchange around the halfway point of the round that Kara’s trap finally pays off. When Lily goes to the body again, what looks like an ineffective jab turns out to be only a setup as Kara instead lands a big uppercut as soon as Lily dips her head. Before the champ can react, Kara follows it up with a couple of hooks to the chin that rocks Lily. The Brit finally reacts, stepping back and putting her guard up to stop further damage.
Kara controls the action in the round after that exchange as she chases her opponent and lands a few more good-looking punches, but Lily is able to avoid getting in serious trouble and makes it to the bell. Kara wins the round wide to tie the score again, but more importantly, she hurt the champ.
Round 5: Lily is on the defense as she still seems to be in recovery mode, while Kara is back on attack. Kara tests the champ’s guard with one-two combinations from range, but it is holding up so far and the American is not willing to risk it too much knowing that Lily can set something up like she did to her in the previous round. The challenger controls the action and starts to find the target with some of her combinations as she starts going after her opponent’s body to open things up, but Lily seems to have recovered and starts returning fire with occasional body shots as well. The pace is not as high as the previous round, but as they go past the halfway point of this title fight, the damage they are doing to each other continues to add up and it starts showing with the marks they are leaving on each other. Kara wins the round narrowly and leads the champ on the scorecards.
Round 6: Both fighters make a more aggressive start to the sixth round as it looks like the exchange of body shots in the previous round escalated into a battle to whose body will survive it. They engage in the middle of the ring in a close quarters exchange as some of the punches get blocked, but still a significant number of hooks, straights, uppercuts and shovel hooks punish each other’s abs and ribs. After going at each other relentlessly for a while, they end up clinching, but they still hit each other with body shots from the clinch. Once they are separated, they go back at it again. Sweaty bodies grind and struggle for position as they continue to exchange leather up close, while both fighters use shoulder bumps and forearm shoves to create some space to add a bit more power to their body shots.
After getting stuck in this body punching battle for the majority of the round, Lily changes things up in the final minute as she goes for an uppercut to the chin after a shoulder bump, which catches Kara completely off guard. The American model stumbles and Lily drives her back with a double jab-straight combo. Kara avoids the follow up hook, but she ends up backing into the ropes. Lily uses this opportunity to launch a barrage of hooks to the body and the face as Kara tightens her guard to block some of them. As the champ’s attack continues, the challenger finally pushes her away, stumbles away from the ropes and keeps her feet moving to make it to the bell. The champ comes back with a big win after that impressive conclusion to the sixth round and the score is all tied in this close title fight.
Round 7: Lily is on the attack as she wants to build up on her success in the previous round, but Kara is not backing down either. The champ opens things up with a one-two combo to the face, while Kara answers with a hook to the ribs. They are engaging in shorter exchanges in this round, but the pace is still high. Slowly but surely, Kara turns it back into a body shot battle by going for the champ’s body repeatedly. Lily is more than happy to engage in this battle again after using it to her advantage last round. However, Kara starts to take control of the body superiority battle in this round as she lives up to her nickname and stays strong despite all the punishment to her body, while Lily starts to fade, not returning as much fire as she receives.
As we move past the halfway point of the round, Lily starts backing away, but Kara is not letting the champ get away. ‘The Body’ is wearing down the Brit with more body shots until she cannot take it anymore. Lily is doubled over after a big uppercut to the abs and Kara palms her up to land another uppercut to the chin. Lily stumbles and then Kara drops her with a hook to the jaw! The champ is down! Kara walks over to the neutral corner as she tries to remain calm, but she is beaming with anticipation as the referee begins the count! 1…2…3… Lily is lying on her back with one hand over her battered abs and one covering her face 4…5…6… she sits up and takes a moment to recover, still clutching her midsection and trying to muster up her strength 7…8… she gets up to her feet and raises her guard to show that she is ready to continue. After a quick check, the referee restarts the action!
Lily is in survival mode as she is on the defense, trying to make it to the end of the round, while Kara tries to finish off her opponent. Fortunately for Lily, Kara cannot find enough openings to do any further damage to force a stoppage until the bell and the champ survives to fight another round. Still, it was a big swing in momentum of the fight and Kara won the round wide to take the lead on the scorecards once again.
Round 8: Lily is on the defense and she tries to avoid getting involved in exchanges as she clearly feels the effects of the knockdown in the previous round still. Meanwhile, Kara wants to capitalize on the champ’s current status, so she is trying to put more pressure on Lily with some short combinations. However, while she lands some clean hits, she is not able to put as much pressure as she wants. She expended lots of energy up to this point, especially in the previous round, so her punches do not have as much power behind them. The pace decreases further as Lily utilizes clinches to slow down her opponent. The champ rarely throws any punches back and most of them are easily blocked by Kara, so the challenger controls the action and wins the round easily to get a commanding lead on the scorecards, but she clearly wanted more out of this round.
Round 9: Active resting in the last round must have worked for Lily as she seems to have got a second wind in the ninth round. She needed it too, because she has to get active if she wants to keep her title. So she does, initiating the first exchange of the round. Kara is willing to trade, but she is not as aggressive as she starts preserving energy to make sure that she has enough in reserve to go the distance. That being said, neither fighter is willing to go down without a fight, so we are seeing some fireworks. Lily lands one hook to the body and another to the chin that makes Kara wobble, but she recovers in time to avoid an overhand and then comes back with a one-two combo landing up top. After a few more exchanges, Lily starts driving her opponent back, but Kara keeps fighting from the back foot. It ends up being a close one, but Lily does enough to edge her opponent and close the gap on the scorecards to set up an electric final round!
Round 10: They made it to the last round in this title fight and both women look like they have been through a fierce battle with marks to show for it all over their bodies and faces. They are clearly tired at this point, but they are still going at it with what they have left in the tank. They meet in the center to start another exchange. The speed and precision of their punches are getting lower and lower, so there aren’t many punches in this exchange that land cleanly, but even partial hits hurt at this stage with the accumulated damage that both fighters suffered. After a few body shots on both sides, Kara gets a glancing blow to the top of Lily’s head with a straight, but the champ answers with an overhand that lands cleanly and hurts the challenger, forcing her to back away.
Lily catches the challenger again at the halfway point of this final round. Kara tightens her guard as the Brit blasts it with a one-two combination. Seeing that Kara’s guard is still holding up, Lily changes tactics and goes to the body with a couple of shovel hooks that makes the American model wince. The champ follows it with an uppercut to the abs, which causes Kara to drop her guard involuntarily. Lily lifts her opponent’s chin up with an uppercut and then lands two big hooks. Kara is still on her feet, but she is stunned, not defending herself properly. Her resilience is finally pushed over its limit as Lily hits her with two more hooks, knocking Kara down on her back! Lily walks over to the neutral corner, hoping that it will be enough to keep this resilient challenger down as the referee begins the count! 1…2… Kara is still on her back, moaning as she slowly starts moving 3…4…5… she rolls over and starts to push herself off the canvas 6…7…8… she is on all fours now, getting herself ready to get up 9…10! Kara can’t get up in time and rolls over to her back again as the count passes her by! It is all over in dramatic comeback fashion in the final round!
Official Result: Winner via KO in round 10 and STILL the unified Lightweight Champion, Lily James!
Post-Fight: Lily looks relieved as she can barely lift her fists to celebrate. Ali quickly comes in, hugs her fighter to congratulate her and then helps her to the corner, so she can rest for a bit before the final announcement. On the other side, Kara needs a moment to recover, but she eventually gets up to her feet and gets the thumbs up from the medical team. She is helped to her corner stool by her coaches and she rests there for a bit. Lily comes over to check up on her and they shake hands as a show of mutual respect, while the fans applaud both of them. Kara then leaves the ring with her coaches Jewel and Neve, while the fans try to cheer her up with another round of applause.
After getting her hand raised by the referee and getting her championship belt back around her waist, she takes the mic. “I don’t think anyone is doubting her after this fight, but if they do, I can tell them that Kara is legit! It was a hard-fought, but clean title fight and Kara took me to the limit, so I applaud her for that. I’m happy that I was able to keep my title after this ‘battle of the undefeated’ and to end the year with the title belt around my waist! Thank you all for your support!” With that she leaves the ring alongside her coach as the crowd cheers one more time for her.
It was an amazing battle that lived up to its billing. Of course, Lily leaves this fight the happier side as she holds on to her Lightweight Title as well as staying undefeated. However, while Kara failed to capture the title belt this time and lost her undefeated streak in the meantime, she proved that she is ready for this level and that she will be a champion one day.