Post by Lookout! Boxing on May 29, 2021 2:14:53 GMT -6
May 2021 FCBA Lightweight Fight
Anllela Sagra, Holloway (BW #21) vs Samantha Hoopes, Chimera (BW #73)
Sagra: 28yo, 5'9", 128#, measurements 32C-24-34, FCBA, 21-10-0 (all wins by KO!)
Hoopes: 30yo, 5'8", 127#, measurements 34D-25-35, FCBA, 4-10-0 (all losses by KO!)
Samantha Hoopes joined the FCBA as a JMDD specialist and 13 of her 14 fights have been JMDD rules. It wasn't until her most recent fight (Odette Yustman) that she fought a "legit" fight. Since she won that one, perhaps she's reconsidering specializing in JMDD?
Hoopes' shortest fight was a loss to Kelly Brook (KO3) but Nina Agdal and Kate Upton took only slightly longer (KO4). Samantha lost four times in the 5th rd (to welters Upton, Atwell and Lawrence and to lightweight Claire Sinclair). Anllela Sagra's early losses weren't until the 5th round - and all four were back in 2020 (DiDonato, Peregrym, Ren and Ambrosio).
While Sagra avoided JMD bouts, she fought other "gimmick" fights, doing Body Paint, Ice Hotel, Beach Boxing and Body Saddle bouts. She won the 'Queen of the Ice Hotel' title and defended it successfully twice. And she proudly boast, "I beat the G.O.A.T., Charlize Theron, on the 'Generation Clash Mini-Card' back in 2018. It was my greatest victory."
All ten of Hoopes' losses were by KO and lasted an average of under 5 rounds. Sagra's twenty-one wins also were all by KO - they averaged about 7 rounds.
When Hoopes' wins, her fights end quickly (less than 5 rounds) but even in Sagra's defeats she stubbornly stuck around into the 8th round in most of them. So Anllela's proud of her nickname, "Abs of Steel" and says she's not going fall victim to "...a lucky punch. That's not going to happen," she stated with no doubt.
Samantha boasts, "I'm on a hot steak and while they were under JMDD rules, most of my wins didn't weren't won because of jug mugging. I can hurt a girl with either hand and I'm not 'just' a bra buster; Chimera trained me to be a real boxer."
Hoopes rolled her eyes when a reporter pointed out Sagra's sturdy body was and asked why she thought she could beat her. "I'm going to break down those abs she's so proud of and wreck her body until she caves," Hoopes said, surprising the media. "She's talking trash about me being 'just another JMDD fighter', well, she's going to discover how wrong she is!"
Hoopes is definitely improving. She's won 3 of 5 (her losses were to JMDD Champ Upton and JMD vet Ratajkowski). But after six straight losses, Anllela has gone undefeated in her last 5! Still, when asked about Hoopes, Anllela just flipped her hair and scoffed, "Think about her? Why would I waste time thinking about some ditzy big boobed JMDD fighter who's had no success as a real fighter. I can't imagine why she wants to face me, but I'm certainly looking forward to facing her! As for my abs? I'll make sure to give her good up-close look at them after I beat her."
Before: Anllela, wearing a white thong bikini with matching shoes and gloves is accompanied to the ring by stablemates Amanda Cerny and Zendaya Coleman who'll act as her seconds.
Hoopes in one of her modeling bikini's, one with a small top of diamond shaped cups that leave the sides of her breasts bare, and a string bottom that exposes both of her gorgeous bottom cheeks as she struts to the ring - to the delight of the male fans in the aisle seats. Like most of the Chimera stable, Samantha's fighting bare footed. She's accompanied by her trainer, the legendary Charlize Theron and two corner women, Sofia Vergara and Christina Hendricks.
The referee for the contest is Jeri Ryan, trainer for Global Boxing Syndicate and a former trainer for Chimera. Ryan left Chimera under somewhat mysterious circumstances which resulted in both Holloway and Chimera's CEO, Stephanie McMahon, lodging protests with the FCBA over Ryan's assignment. Theron and McMahon felt Ryan could be biased against Chimera for her firing, while Holloway thought Ryan's former close ties to Chimera made it possible she'd favor them.
The judges at ringside are Rebecca Romijn (Girls Friday welter coach), Gena Lee Nolin (Sceej's assistant trainer) and Catherine Bell (a Theron arch-rival and current Wannabees Hd Trainer). There was another problem when the judges were announced. Holloway wanted Bell - who'd once trained for Chimera - removed for 'a possible pro-Chimera favoritism'. At the same time, Theron - claiming to speak for Chimera - accused all three judges, Romijn, Nolin and Bell, of anti-Chimera bias "due to their well-known and obvious hatred of Hoopes' trainer" (i.e., Charlize Theron).
All protests fell on deaf ears and the FCBA did what it always does - refused to "bow to pressure" - and didn't make any changes. The result was that Chimera (probably) only earned greater enmity from officials they'd accused of "bias" (against Chimera) or "favoritism" (toward Holloway).
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During Rd1: Sagra quickly off her stool, met Hoopes on the Chimera side of the ring, drilling the busty blond with a series of left hooks. Anllela drove Samantha back against the ropes where she stuffed the blondes butt in the strands and bodied up to her. Anllela dug right-left combos into the smooth swell of Samantha's lower belly, hammering on the plush paunch until referee Ryan stepped in to part them.
Jeri walked Anllela back several paces, giving Samantha a chance to catch her breath leaning on the ropes.
As soon as Ryan stepped away, Sagra sprang back in with an overhand right that buckled Hoopes' knees. The blonde was forced to clinch, wrapping Sagra up around the shoulders and head. Anllela pumped away at Hoopes' flanks as the blonde hung on with her arms high exposing her ribs. Hoopes grunted from the impact of Anllela's fists until, once more, Jeri Ryan had to separate the two women with Hoopes butt pinned in the Holloway corner. Sagra backed off grinning at the sight of the panting blondes pink belly and bright red ribs.
The crowd was screaming "SAGRA! SAGRA! SAGRA!" as Anllela rushed forward to finish, but Hoopes grabbed her in a bearhug and they went waltzing around and around, each digging her fists in the others flanks and hips as they struggled for control. Ryan declined to interfere and let the two fighters sort themselves out despite cries from the crowd demanding action. She was finally moving in to break them up when the bell rang to end the round. Sagra earned the points (wide).
Rd2: After a heated exchange in the Chimera corner, Samantha Hoopes came out looking like a different fighter than in the first. Moving forward behind a straight jab, she mixed in a crisp right cross. 'Slammin' Samantha's fast-paced offense dominated the early action until Anllela, after being roughed up, finally got her defense in order. But Samantha still got the best of most of the exchanges. They each threw power shots with both hands, but Hoopes body shots took their toll on Sagra whose head-hunting never appeared to land solidly. Hoopes kept her head moving while Sagra's body was always right there in front of Samantha for the taking. At the bell, it was Hoopes raising her hands and pumping her fists while Sagra turned away and stomped angrily back to her corner. Hoopes took the 2nd round (wide).
Rd3: After two rounds the score is even, each woman had felt the others strength and tested her for vulnerabilities. Neither should be pleased since each had lost a round by a wide margin despite winning one by the same margin. It's not how Anllela and Samantha visualized their evening and both set out this round to change things. Anllela began in a low crouch after standing more upright the first two rounds. Her lower carriage allowed her to better use her legs as she sent power punches straight to Hoopes' lower torso, targeting her smooth, round, belly. The tactic paid immediate dividends as Sagra drove Samantha back onto the ropes in the first minute and kept her trapped on the strands for much of the next two minutes with a two-fisted body attack.
Hoopes, unable to fight her way off the ropes, forced to suffer under the steady drumbeat of Anllela's fists smashing her body, though Samantha was able to land hard blows to Sagra's head after the muscular brunette set up shop squarely in front of her. The judges had little doubt about whom to favor with their scores as Anllela won the points, wide, to take a 2-1 lead.
Rd4: Samantha had figured out one thing - not to give Anllela her body. This round Hoopes started moving to her left, using her jab to hold Anllela at bay...mostly. Sagra still landed body shots that hurt Hoopes, but Sam kept her distance enough that Anllela couldn't put together enough combinations to break down her defenses or slow her. Hoopes steadily snapped her left into Anllela's face, forcing the brunette to fight at long range, making it difficult for her to get to Hoopes' body.
Halfway thru the round, Samantha landed a straight left, followed by a right cross that buckled Sagra's powerful legs. Anllela had to clinch up high, which left her midsection exposed and Samantha took advantage, hammering several hard rights in under Anllela's belly button, shunting her hips back as the buxom blonde pumped both fists in as fast as she could. With Anllela reeling back under the barrage, Hoopes threw an overhand right that caught Sagra flush on the jaw! As Anllela went down on her butt, she rolled onto her back, her feet lifting as she drew her knees up, Hoopes glanced down at her as the referee moved in to count, then turned away grinning.
Sagra, clearly hurt by the blow, took her time struggling to one knee, milking the count for as long as she could before rising at "NINE" and holding her gloves up. Ryan quickly wiped them on her chest, then stepped aside and the two warriors went back at it, both throwing haymakers! Each woman was staggered by the other at least twice in the final minute, but in the end, it was Hoopes who strutted away with the hard-earned points (wide) leveling the rounds at two apiece.
Rd5: Frantic work by both corners during the break has them ready and they stood before the bell for the fifth, both showed the after-effects of hard in-fighting. Hoopes again moving left behind a jab which has lost some of its sting; Sagra cautious - having felt Sam's power - respecting it.
Unlike early rounds where Anllela concentrated her attack on Hoopes' midsection, Sagra shifted her point of attack to the same body part many of Samantha Hoopes' earlier opponents found to be the key to success, her bosom! After several pancaking rights and left to her breasts, Hoopes stopped jabbing Sagra's face and began to respond in kind and rushed forward behind criss-crossing rights and lefts to shoeshine Anllela's firm breasts.
With Samantha focused on hurting Anllela's "pride and joys" she forgot Theron's warning of Sagra's skill as a counter-puncher. Hoopes walked into a left-right combination that stopped her in her tracks. Rocked back on her heels, her hands dropped just enough that Anllela took advantage, coming over Hoopes' left with a hard right that sent Samantha over onto her butt; big breasts bouncing wildly, barely restrained by the tiny cups as her glutes absorbed much of the impact as she fell back onto the bottom rope in the Chimera corner!
As Ryan began to count, Charlize and Sofia screamed in Sam's ears while she struggled trying to pull herself up the ropes. She managed to beat Jeri Ryan's count, then flung herself at Sagra and bear hugged her when she came in to finish her off to the body! Samantha hugged Anllela to her; bosom bulging between their sweaty chests as she held on tight as they whirled and spun around, almost knocking referee Ryan down when they crashed into her in a belly-to-belly tangle. At last, Ryan was able to separate them, but then Sagra only landed one or two ineffectual punches before the bell saved Hoopes from further harm. As in each of the first four rounds, the winner of the fifth (Sagra) took the points wide in what had become a crowd-pleasing, back-and-forth, pier six brawl, between two determined women!
Rd6: Hoopes went back to Sagra's body early this round, trying to win back a few points while giving her head time to clear. But Anllela refused to give Hoopes time to catch her breath and they each had to throw leather simply to defend themselves. Sagra, coming off a dominating performance in the 5th round, had the edge in the early going, but she couldn't build on her advantage and by the middle of the round, Hoopes was trading blows with her punch-for-punch.
Clearly, both corners advice was being ignored as the two young fighters became caught up in the excitement of the crowd who, as soon as the bell rang, rose to their feet screaming at the top of their lungs for one or the other. First Sagra, then Hoopes, mounted an attack - only to have her opponent wrest back the momentum from her. Anllela continued the bosom punishing attack she'd found made Hoopes expose her chin in the previous (5th) round leading to the knockdown. For her part, Samantha went head-hunting, trying to repeat her success from the 4th round. Each rattled the other with punches, but neither came close to duplicating their earlier feat. By the end of the round, however, both fighters were clearly hurting and growing arm weary from throwing so many hard punches. At the bell, when Jeri Ryan wedged her arms between them and pushed them apart, they didn't resist.
After brief hesitation, the judges filled out their scorecards giving Hoopes 10 points to Sagra's 9 - the closest round of the fight to this point!
Rd7: After what must have seemed to the fighters like a very short break both women rose for the bell. As one, the fans stood with them, screaming and cheering their gutty, entertaining, effort. They stepped out of their corners and crashed together at center ring with an eruption of body punching that visibly shuddered each woman's body with every impact. Anllela Sagra grimly targeting Hoopes' rack in the opening minute and obviously making a statement as Samantha's heavy breasts are sent jumping and sloshing back-and-forth, then up-and-down.
Every bra-bustin' punch from Sagra earns an "OOOW!" or "OHHH" from the crowd on her side of the ring and happy hand clapping from her seconds.
Across the ring, Theron, Vergara and Hendricks look worried at the sudden turn of momentum. A few calls of "Throw in the towel! are heard from Sam's worried fans seated behind Theron when Hoopes' back hit the ropes above Charlize. Samantha crouches behind raised gloves, her elbows tucked into her chest in a vain attempt to protect her rack from further hurt.
Sagra's punching slowed as she grew arm weary after non-stop punching for a full minute. That's when Hoopes pushed herself off the ropes and unleashed a flurry of left-right combinations, forcing Anllela to retreat as the momentum swung to Samantha!
Hoopes' few victories have all been set up by her uppercut (and even in defeat she's hurt several opponents with that punch.) It's the one weapon she has confidence in and she uses it several times in this attack, mixing it in with left hooks below Sagra's right elbow as she holds her gloves high to protect her face. The second uppercut slips through Anllela's peek-a-boo defense and hurts her, but she shakes it off, moving back behind her jab.
Samantha lowered her head and bowed her back as she bent to Anllela's body with her next barrage; ripping a left into Sagra's flank and a hard right to the brunette's belly button. Grunting, Anllela is pushed back onto the side ropes and trapped by Hoopes who leans on her as she rat-a-tat-tats Sagra's 'Abs of Steel' with three, four, five consecutive punches...perhaps the hardest body punches of the fight by Hoopes. Sagra bent over forward gut-shot and falls right into a blockbuster right uppercut diamond cutter by Samantha Hoopes that nearly takes Sagra's head off! Anllela's knees buckle and she drops straight down, landing on her butt with her legs folded under her, then tilts back with her shoulders resting on the middle strand of the ring ropes! Referee Ryan jumped in, pushing Hoopes away, then waving her arms overhead, stopping the fight.
Sagra's seconds scramble into the ring to tend to their fighter while Hoopes spins around with her hands raised, then jumps up and down excitedly as Theron and the rest come to greet her. Samantha Hoopes scores a stunning knockout late in the round for a KO7 victory.
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After: Hoopes quickly shed her gloves, then she and Theron, Vergara and Hendricks move to the Holloway corner where Anllela Sagra sat slumped on her stool with Cerny and Coleman holding ice packs to her head. Hoopes knelt and grabbed Anllela's hands to pull the still dazed fighter to her feet for a walk of shame. But Holloway's seconds grabbed her trying to pull Sagra back down.
Anllela, groggy, her eyes unfocused, looked around helplessly as she was pulled up and slowly wobbled around the ring, Samantha gripping her with one arm tightly around her waist held by a handful of her suit. After one circuit, Hoopes stopped in the middle of the ring and dropped Anllela on her back, then knelt at her head to pull her arms back over her head.
Samantha bends over to cover Anllela's face with her sweaty rack as she pinned Sagra's arms with her knees. Anllela struggled weakly, one foot rising, then falling as Samantha reached down to scratch her initials (SH) in the smooth, red flesh of Anllela's battered abs!
This was too much for the Holloway crew and they rushed past the smirking Chimera women into the ring. Theron and Vergara tried to stop them but it quickly devolved into a wrestling-rugby scrum with Theron against Coleman and Vergara facing off with Cerny while Hendricks got down to pin Sagra's frantically bicycling feet to the mat.
At this moment, things went from bad to totally out of control. Offended by the unfairness of those pairings, Dua Lipa climbed up into the ring to help her friends from her years at Holloway. Dua grabbed two handfuls of Hendricks' hair and dragged her off of Sagra! The referee, Jeri Ryan, who'd appeared to be trying to talk sense to the combatants, threw up her hands and just leaned back on the corner turnbuckles to enjoy the melee.
No sooner had Lipa involved herself, than Blake Lively came running back from the Chimera locker room to attack Lipa. Others arrived on Lively's heels with agendas of their own. Kelly Gale, Josephine Skriver and Hilary Rhoda from Girls Friday arrived to help defend their newest member, Dua Lipa. Gale tackled Theron who was on top of Zendaya while welters Skriver and Rhoda each took down one of the Chimera welters; Vergara by Skriver and Hendricks by Rhoda.
Taryn Terrell, Girls Friday head trainer, was close behind to support her girls, looking around to see if Stephanie McMahon was close enough at hand to justify her attention. No seeing McMahon, Terrell settled for getting in Jeri Ryan's face, screaming at the referee tom "DO YOUR JOB!"
Terrell left Ryan when Chimera's Jennifer Lawrence and Margot Robbie climbed over several rows of seats to get in on the action too. Terrell grabbed Robbie by the hair as she ducked between the ropes and dragged her screaming into the ring, scooped her up and body slammed her to the mat in front of Ryan. Lawrence gave Rhoda a forearm across the back sending her flying face-first onto Sagra's abused belly, then turned around and headed over to help Theron who was being belted around by Kelly Gale and Zendaya while Amanda Cerny was holding the G.O.A.T. in a full nelson, exposing her torso to the "tender mercies" of the two angry fighters' fists.
Briana Evigan hair-hauled Margot Robbie to her feet and slugged her several times in the belly, then with the Chimera bantam doubled over and out of breath, Brianna shoved her butt-first out through the ropes and down onto the concrete arena floor where she lay writhing and trying to catch her breath while Brianna turned to look for another victim.
It took several minutes for FCBA's famously "late arriving security" to restore order and sort out the women while the commissioner took the mic to apologize to the fans...who booed him lustily and chanted, "NO! NO! WE WANT MORE!" after he promised to deal "harshly" with those responsible.
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Much Later:
Hoopes and Sagra each addressed the media - separately. Hoopes, upset and angry at the reports of HER being the one responsible for "the ugly postfight brawl", denied any responsibility and pointed out (with some small justification) "it was them that started it" referring to Holloway Boxing's
staff. "They left their corner when I was giving Sagra a perfectly ordinary Walk of Shame." She refused to answer any questions about why she appeared to be carving something on Sagra's stomach.
The big news came when Hoopes, full of herself after her surprising win over the highly favored Anllela Sagra, issued challenges to several fighters. "I want you next...
... Ela Kawalec...
... Petra Nemcova...
... and the JMDD Champion, whoever it is who won the DiDonato-Tailor match on this card!
"And finally, I'd like to get Kate Upton in a "4th of July Picnic Punchout" we can fight in a patch of mud, barefoot, in booty shorts and halter tops. I'm sure the fans will eat it up." Then she walked off with a toss of her golden hair.
Asked for her comments in reaction to Samantha's remarks, Sagra waved off the press with the curt comment, "That bimbo just got lucky; you all saw with your own eyes that I was the better woman in the ring tonight. I've moved on, I'm leaving that blonde bimbo in my rear view mirror. I've got a huge fight next month with Courtney Tailor for the Ice Hotel title and that's A LOT more important to me than anything Hoopes had to say. She'll be seeing me again - and the next time Hoopie won't be able to talk afterward...at all."
END
Anllela Sagra, Holloway (BW #21) vs Samantha Hoopes, Chimera (BW #73)
Sagra: 28yo, 5'9", 128#, measurements 32C-24-34, FCBA, 21-10-0 (all wins by KO!)
Hoopes: 30yo, 5'8", 127#, measurements 34D-25-35, FCBA, 4-10-0 (all losses by KO!)
Samantha Hoopes joined the FCBA as a JMDD specialist and 13 of her 14 fights have been JMDD rules. It wasn't until her most recent fight (Odette Yustman) that she fought a "legit" fight. Since she won that one, perhaps she's reconsidering specializing in JMDD?
Hoopes' shortest fight was a loss to Kelly Brook (KO3) but Nina Agdal and Kate Upton took only slightly longer (KO4). Samantha lost four times in the 5th rd (to welters Upton, Atwell and Lawrence and to lightweight Claire Sinclair). Anllela Sagra's early losses weren't until the 5th round - and all four were back in 2020 (DiDonato, Peregrym, Ren and Ambrosio).
While Sagra avoided JMD bouts, she fought other "gimmick" fights, doing Body Paint, Ice Hotel, Beach Boxing and Body Saddle bouts. She won the 'Queen of the Ice Hotel' title and defended it successfully twice. And she proudly boast, "I beat the G.O.A.T., Charlize Theron, on the 'Generation Clash Mini-Card' back in 2018. It was my greatest victory."
All ten of Hoopes' losses were by KO and lasted an average of under 5 rounds. Sagra's twenty-one wins also were all by KO - they averaged about 7 rounds.
When Hoopes' wins, her fights end quickly (less than 5 rounds) but even in Sagra's defeats she stubbornly stuck around into the 8th round in most of them. So Anllela's proud of her nickname, "Abs of Steel" and says she's not going fall victim to "...a lucky punch. That's not going to happen," she stated with no doubt.
Samantha boasts, "I'm on a hot steak and while they were under JMDD rules, most of my wins didn't weren't won because of jug mugging. I can hurt a girl with either hand and I'm not 'just' a bra buster; Chimera trained me to be a real boxer."
Hoopes rolled her eyes when a reporter pointed out Sagra's sturdy body was and asked why she thought she could beat her. "I'm going to break down those abs she's so proud of and wreck her body until she caves," Hoopes said, surprising the media. "She's talking trash about me being 'just another JMDD fighter', well, she's going to discover how wrong she is!"
Hoopes is definitely improving. She's won 3 of 5 (her losses were to JMDD Champ Upton and JMD vet Ratajkowski). But after six straight losses, Anllela has gone undefeated in her last 5! Still, when asked about Hoopes, Anllela just flipped her hair and scoffed, "Think about her? Why would I waste time thinking about some ditzy big boobed JMDD fighter who's had no success as a real fighter. I can't imagine why she wants to face me, but I'm certainly looking forward to facing her! As for my abs? I'll make sure to give her good up-close look at them after I beat her."
Before: Anllela, wearing a white thong bikini with matching shoes and gloves is accompanied to the ring by stablemates Amanda Cerny and Zendaya Coleman who'll act as her seconds.
Hoopes in one of her modeling bikini's, one with a small top of diamond shaped cups that leave the sides of her breasts bare, and a string bottom that exposes both of her gorgeous bottom cheeks as she struts to the ring - to the delight of the male fans in the aisle seats. Like most of the Chimera stable, Samantha's fighting bare footed. She's accompanied by her trainer, the legendary Charlize Theron and two corner women, Sofia Vergara and Christina Hendricks.
The referee for the contest is Jeri Ryan, trainer for Global Boxing Syndicate and a former trainer for Chimera. Ryan left Chimera under somewhat mysterious circumstances which resulted in both Holloway and Chimera's CEO, Stephanie McMahon, lodging protests with the FCBA over Ryan's assignment. Theron and McMahon felt Ryan could be biased against Chimera for her firing, while Holloway thought Ryan's former close ties to Chimera made it possible she'd favor them.
The judges at ringside are Rebecca Romijn (Girls Friday welter coach), Gena Lee Nolin (Sceej's assistant trainer) and Catherine Bell (a Theron arch-rival and current Wannabees Hd Trainer). There was another problem when the judges were announced. Holloway wanted Bell - who'd once trained for Chimera - removed for 'a possible pro-Chimera favoritism'. At the same time, Theron - claiming to speak for Chimera - accused all three judges, Romijn, Nolin and Bell, of anti-Chimera bias "due to their well-known and obvious hatred of Hoopes' trainer" (i.e., Charlize Theron).
All protests fell on deaf ears and the FCBA did what it always does - refused to "bow to pressure" - and didn't make any changes. The result was that Chimera (probably) only earned greater enmity from officials they'd accused of "bias" (against Chimera) or "favoritism" (toward Holloway).
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During Rd1: Sagra quickly off her stool, met Hoopes on the Chimera side of the ring, drilling the busty blond with a series of left hooks. Anllela drove Samantha back against the ropes where she stuffed the blondes butt in the strands and bodied up to her. Anllela dug right-left combos into the smooth swell of Samantha's lower belly, hammering on the plush paunch until referee Ryan stepped in to part them.
Jeri walked Anllela back several paces, giving Samantha a chance to catch her breath leaning on the ropes.
As soon as Ryan stepped away, Sagra sprang back in with an overhand right that buckled Hoopes' knees. The blonde was forced to clinch, wrapping Sagra up around the shoulders and head. Anllela pumped away at Hoopes' flanks as the blonde hung on with her arms high exposing her ribs. Hoopes grunted from the impact of Anllela's fists until, once more, Jeri Ryan had to separate the two women with Hoopes butt pinned in the Holloway corner. Sagra backed off grinning at the sight of the panting blondes pink belly and bright red ribs.
The crowd was screaming "SAGRA! SAGRA! SAGRA!" as Anllela rushed forward to finish, but Hoopes grabbed her in a bearhug and they went waltzing around and around, each digging her fists in the others flanks and hips as they struggled for control. Ryan declined to interfere and let the two fighters sort themselves out despite cries from the crowd demanding action. She was finally moving in to break them up when the bell rang to end the round. Sagra earned the points (wide).
Rd2: After a heated exchange in the Chimera corner, Samantha Hoopes came out looking like a different fighter than in the first. Moving forward behind a straight jab, she mixed in a crisp right cross. 'Slammin' Samantha's fast-paced offense dominated the early action until Anllela, after being roughed up, finally got her defense in order. But Samantha still got the best of most of the exchanges. They each threw power shots with both hands, but Hoopes body shots took their toll on Sagra whose head-hunting never appeared to land solidly. Hoopes kept her head moving while Sagra's body was always right there in front of Samantha for the taking. At the bell, it was Hoopes raising her hands and pumping her fists while Sagra turned away and stomped angrily back to her corner. Hoopes took the 2nd round (wide).
Rd3: After two rounds the score is even, each woman had felt the others strength and tested her for vulnerabilities. Neither should be pleased since each had lost a round by a wide margin despite winning one by the same margin. It's not how Anllela and Samantha visualized their evening and both set out this round to change things. Anllela began in a low crouch after standing more upright the first two rounds. Her lower carriage allowed her to better use her legs as she sent power punches straight to Hoopes' lower torso, targeting her smooth, round, belly. The tactic paid immediate dividends as Sagra drove Samantha back onto the ropes in the first minute and kept her trapped on the strands for much of the next two minutes with a two-fisted body attack.
Hoopes, unable to fight her way off the ropes, forced to suffer under the steady drumbeat of Anllela's fists smashing her body, though Samantha was able to land hard blows to Sagra's head after the muscular brunette set up shop squarely in front of her. The judges had little doubt about whom to favor with their scores as Anllela won the points, wide, to take a 2-1 lead.
Rd4: Samantha had figured out one thing - not to give Anllela her body. This round Hoopes started moving to her left, using her jab to hold Anllela at bay...mostly. Sagra still landed body shots that hurt Hoopes, but Sam kept her distance enough that Anllela couldn't put together enough combinations to break down her defenses or slow her. Hoopes steadily snapped her left into Anllela's face, forcing the brunette to fight at long range, making it difficult for her to get to Hoopes' body.
Halfway thru the round, Samantha landed a straight left, followed by a right cross that buckled Sagra's powerful legs. Anllela had to clinch up high, which left her midsection exposed and Samantha took advantage, hammering several hard rights in under Anllela's belly button, shunting her hips back as the buxom blonde pumped both fists in as fast as she could. With Anllela reeling back under the barrage, Hoopes threw an overhand right that caught Sagra flush on the jaw! As Anllela went down on her butt, she rolled onto her back, her feet lifting as she drew her knees up, Hoopes glanced down at her as the referee moved in to count, then turned away grinning.
Sagra, clearly hurt by the blow, took her time struggling to one knee, milking the count for as long as she could before rising at "NINE" and holding her gloves up. Ryan quickly wiped them on her chest, then stepped aside and the two warriors went back at it, both throwing haymakers! Each woman was staggered by the other at least twice in the final minute, but in the end, it was Hoopes who strutted away with the hard-earned points (wide) leveling the rounds at two apiece.
Rd5: Frantic work by both corners during the break has them ready and they stood before the bell for the fifth, both showed the after-effects of hard in-fighting. Hoopes again moving left behind a jab which has lost some of its sting; Sagra cautious - having felt Sam's power - respecting it.
Unlike early rounds where Anllela concentrated her attack on Hoopes' midsection, Sagra shifted her point of attack to the same body part many of Samantha Hoopes' earlier opponents found to be the key to success, her bosom! After several pancaking rights and left to her breasts, Hoopes stopped jabbing Sagra's face and began to respond in kind and rushed forward behind criss-crossing rights and lefts to shoeshine Anllela's firm breasts.
With Samantha focused on hurting Anllela's "pride and joys" she forgot Theron's warning of Sagra's skill as a counter-puncher. Hoopes walked into a left-right combination that stopped her in her tracks. Rocked back on her heels, her hands dropped just enough that Anllela took advantage, coming over Hoopes' left with a hard right that sent Samantha over onto her butt; big breasts bouncing wildly, barely restrained by the tiny cups as her glutes absorbed much of the impact as she fell back onto the bottom rope in the Chimera corner!
As Ryan began to count, Charlize and Sofia screamed in Sam's ears while she struggled trying to pull herself up the ropes. She managed to beat Jeri Ryan's count, then flung herself at Sagra and bear hugged her when she came in to finish her off to the body! Samantha hugged Anllela to her; bosom bulging between their sweaty chests as she held on tight as they whirled and spun around, almost knocking referee Ryan down when they crashed into her in a belly-to-belly tangle. At last, Ryan was able to separate them, but then Sagra only landed one or two ineffectual punches before the bell saved Hoopes from further harm. As in each of the first four rounds, the winner of the fifth (Sagra) took the points wide in what had become a crowd-pleasing, back-and-forth, pier six brawl, between two determined women!
Rd6: Hoopes went back to Sagra's body early this round, trying to win back a few points while giving her head time to clear. But Anllela refused to give Hoopes time to catch her breath and they each had to throw leather simply to defend themselves. Sagra, coming off a dominating performance in the 5th round, had the edge in the early going, but she couldn't build on her advantage and by the middle of the round, Hoopes was trading blows with her punch-for-punch.
Clearly, both corners advice was being ignored as the two young fighters became caught up in the excitement of the crowd who, as soon as the bell rang, rose to their feet screaming at the top of their lungs for one or the other. First Sagra, then Hoopes, mounted an attack - only to have her opponent wrest back the momentum from her. Anllela continued the bosom punishing attack she'd found made Hoopes expose her chin in the previous (5th) round leading to the knockdown. For her part, Samantha went head-hunting, trying to repeat her success from the 4th round. Each rattled the other with punches, but neither came close to duplicating their earlier feat. By the end of the round, however, both fighters were clearly hurting and growing arm weary from throwing so many hard punches. At the bell, when Jeri Ryan wedged her arms between them and pushed them apart, they didn't resist.
After brief hesitation, the judges filled out their scorecards giving Hoopes 10 points to Sagra's 9 - the closest round of the fight to this point!
Rd7: After what must have seemed to the fighters like a very short break both women rose for the bell. As one, the fans stood with them, screaming and cheering their gutty, entertaining, effort. They stepped out of their corners and crashed together at center ring with an eruption of body punching that visibly shuddered each woman's body with every impact. Anllela Sagra grimly targeting Hoopes' rack in the opening minute and obviously making a statement as Samantha's heavy breasts are sent jumping and sloshing back-and-forth, then up-and-down.
Every bra-bustin' punch from Sagra earns an "OOOW!" or "OHHH" from the crowd on her side of the ring and happy hand clapping from her seconds.
Across the ring, Theron, Vergara and Hendricks look worried at the sudden turn of momentum. A few calls of "Throw in the towel! are heard from Sam's worried fans seated behind Theron when Hoopes' back hit the ropes above Charlize. Samantha crouches behind raised gloves, her elbows tucked into her chest in a vain attempt to protect her rack from further hurt.
Sagra's punching slowed as she grew arm weary after non-stop punching for a full minute. That's when Hoopes pushed herself off the ropes and unleashed a flurry of left-right combinations, forcing Anllela to retreat as the momentum swung to Samantha!
Hoopes' few victories have all been set up by her uppercut (and even in defeat she's hurt several opponents with that punch.) It's the one weapon she has confidence in and she uses it several times in this attack, mixing it in with left hooks below Sagra's right elbow as she holds her gloves high to protect her face. The second uppercut slips through Anllela's peek-a-boo defense and hurts her, but she shakes it off, moving back behind her jab.
Samantha lowered her head and bowed her back as she bent to Anllela's body with her next barrage; ripping a left into Sagra's flank and a hard right to the brunette's belly button. Grunting, Anllela is pushed back onto the side ropes and trapped by Hoopes who leans on her as she rat-a-tat-tats Sagra's 'Abs of Steel' with three, four, five consecutive punches...perhaps the hardest body punches of the fight by Hoopes. Sagra bent over forward gut-shot and falls right into a blockbuster right uppercut diamond cutter by Samantha Hoopes that nearly takes Sagra's head off! Anllela's knees buckle and she drops straight down, landing on her butt with her legs folded under her, then tilts back with her shoulders resting on the middle strand of the ring ropes! Referee Ryan jumped in, pushing Hoopes away, then waving her arms overhead, stopping the fight.
Sagra's seconds scramble into the ring to tend to their fighter while Hoopes spins around with her hands raised, then jumps up and down excitedly as Theron and the rest come to greet her. Samantha Hoopes scores a stunning knockout late in the round for a KO7 victory.
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After: Hoopes quickly shed her gloves, then she and Theron, Vergara and Hendricks move to the Holloway corner where Anllela Sagra sat slumped on her stool with Cerny and Coleman holding ice packs to her head. Hoopes knelt and grabbed Anllela's hands to pull the still dazed fighter to her feet for a walk of shame. But Holloway's seconds grabbed her trying to pull Sagra back down.
Anllela, groggy, her eyes unfocused, looked around helplessly as she was pulled up and slowly wobbled around the ring, Samantha gripping her with one arm tightly around her waist held by a handful of her suit. After one circuit, Hoopes stopped in the middle of the ring and dropped Anllela on her back, then knelt at her head to pull her arms back over her head.
Samantha bends over to cover Anllela's face with her sweaty rack as she pinned Sagra's arms with her knees. Anllela struggled weakly, one foot rising, then falling as Samantha reached down to scratch her initials (SH) in the smooth, red flesh of Anllela's battered abs!
This was too much for the Holloway crew and they rushed past the smirking Chimera women into the ring. Theron and Vergara tried to stop them but it quickly devolved into a wrestling-rugby scrum with Theron against Coleman and Vergara facing off with Cerny while Hendricks got down to pin Sagra's frantically bicycling feet to the mat.
At this moment, things went from bad to totally out of control. Offended by the unfairness of those pairings, Dua Lipa climbed up into the ring to help her friends from her years at Holloway. Dua grabbed two handfuls of Hendricks' hair and dragged her off of Sagra! The referee, Jeri Ryan, who'd appeared to be trying to talk sense to the combatants, threw up her hands and just leaned back on the corner turnbuckles to enjoy the melee.
No sooner had Lipa involved herself, than Blake Lively came running back from the Chimera locker room to attack Lipa. Others arrived on Lively's heels with agendas of their own. Kelly Gale, Josephine Skriver and Hilary Rhoda from Girls Friday arrived to help defend their newest member, Dua Lipa. Gale tackled Theron who was on top of Zendaya while welters Skriver and Rhoda each took down one of the Chimera welters; Vergara by Skriver and Hendricks by Rhoda.
Taryn Terrell, Girls Friday head trainer, was close behind to support her girls, looking around to see if Stephanie McMahon was close enough at hand to justify her attention. No seeing McMahon, Terrell settled for getting in Jeri Ryan's face, screaming at the referee tom "DO YOUR JOB!"
Terrell left Ryan when Chimera's Jennifer Lawrence and Margot Robbie climbed over several rows of seats to get in on the action too. Terrell grabbed Robbie by the hair as she ducked between the ropes and dragged her screaming into the ring, scooped her up and body slammed her to the mat in front of Ryan. Lawrence gave Rhoda a forearm across the back sending her flying face-first onto Sagra's abused belly, then turned around and headed over to help Theron who was being belted around by Kelly Gale and Zendaya while Amanda Cerny was holding the G.O.A.T. in a full nelson, exposing her torso to the "tender mercies" of the two angry fighters' fists.
Briana Evigan hair-hauled Margot Robbie to her feet and slugged her several times in the belly, then with the Chimera bantam doubled over and out of breath, Brianna shoved her butt-first out through the ropes and down onto the concrete arena floor where she lay writhing and trying to catch her breath while Brianna turned to look for another victim.
It took several minutes for FCBA's famously "late arriving security" to restore order and sort out the women while the commissioner took the mic to apologize to the fans...who booed him lustily and chanted, "NO! NO! WE WANT MORE!" after he promised to deal "harshly" with those responsible.
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Much Later:
Hoopes and Sagra each addressed the media - separately. Hoopes, upset and angry at the reports of HER being the one responsible for "the ugly postfight brawl", denied any responsibility and pointed out (with some small justification) "it was them that started it" referring to Holloway Boxing's
staff. "They left their corner when I was giving Sagra a perfectly ordinary Walk of Shame." She refused to answer any questions about why she appeared to be carving something on Sagra's stomach.
The big news came when Hoopes, full of herself after her surprising win over the highly favored Anllela Sagra, issued challenges to several fighters. "I want you next...
... Ela Kawalec...
... Petra Nemcova...
... and the JMDD Champion, whoever it is who won the DiDonato-Tailor match on this card!
"And finally, I'd like to get Kate Upton in a "4th of July Picnic Punchout" we can fight in a patch of mud, barefoot, in booty shorts and halter tops. I'm sure the fans will eat it up." Then she walked off with a toss of her golden hair.
Asked for her comments in reaction to Samantha's remarks, Sagra waved off the press with the curt comment, "That bimbo just got lucky; you all saw with your own eyes that I was the better woman in the ring tonight. I've moved on, I'm leaving that blonde bimbo in my rear view mirror. I've got a huge fight next month with Courtney Tailor for the Ice Hotel title and that's A LOT more important to me than anything Hoopes had to say. She'll be seeing me again - and the next time Hoopie won't be able to talk afterward...at all."
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