There's something about Mindy
by esterinarose@aol.com



Note from author: This is a first hand account of a fight I witnessed last
summer.

The names have been changed to protect the identities of the combatants.

I guess I've known Maria for the better part of my 27 years. I wouldn't say
that we were best friends or anything like that, but we became very friendly
once I joined a gym that she frequented. Maria was always very athletic and
participated in various sports during high school and college. She took an
interest in bodybuilding and before long she was entering contests and winning
with some degree of regularity. She is a tall girl, standing about 5'-10" tall
and weighing 165 muscle packed pounds. Most of the people in the gym are
intimidated by her and kind of stay away from her. I was one of a few people
she allowed to work out alongside her. During our workouts she would often
talk about various fights she had with both men and women alike. She worked as
a bouncer at a local club on the weekends and that provided a good deal of her
fighting stories. Barely a Monday went by without some story about her beating
some poor girl to tears. I never actually saw her fight, but her stories were
often backed up by others at the gym who witnessed them first hand at the
club. She actually boasted that she had 38 victories and no defeats after two
years of bouncing. From time to time I would kid her about her fighting and
she always insisted that I come to the club on the weekend and see for myself.
Not that I am above that sort of thing, but lets just say that Shooters isn't
the type of place I would normally hang around.

Last July Maria came into the gym with a bounce in her step. It seemed that
she had taken apart three women at once with her fistic abilities. I told her
she had better watch herself, sometimes people look for revenge and she could
end up on the wrong side of a fight someday. When she questioned me about who
could beat her, I honestly didn't have an answer for her. It was a hot
Saturday morning and Maria asked me if I would join her for a swim at her
house. I gladly accepted her invitation and told her I would come over around
1pm.

We spent the better part of the afternoon swimming and laying in the sun.
Around 3pm we were sunning ourselves and the rear gate to the backyard opened.
We both squinted from the sun to see a rather attractive and very fit young
woman making her way thru Maria's backyard. She didn't need to ask which one
of us was Maria, she seemed to know that when we stood up to greet her. She
introduced herself as Mindy Hill and told Maria that one of the three girls
she beat up at the club happened to be a cousin she was very close to. Maria
looked at the 5'-4" tall Mindy and laughed "Because that's my job honey ...
..your cousin was acting like a punk and she got what was coming to her."
Mindy stood her ground and said she asked around and it seemed it was Maria
that started the confrontation. Maria got very angry and I began to backup a
bit. She told Mindy if she didn't get off her property she would get the same
treatment her cousin got at the club. I was surprised that Mindy did not move
toward the gate, but rather toward Maria. She told Maria that she didn't think
fighting in her backyard with all the neighbors watching was a good idea.
Maria just smiled, thinking Mindy was backing down from a fight with her. Then
Mindy said "I am not from around here, but if you know of a place we could
meet later on, I would be glad to take you on". Maria couldn't believe the
nerve the smaller woman had and stammered "There is an abandon playground
about three blocks from here. Meet me there about 9 o'clock tonight and we
will settle this issue we seem to have." Mindy just smiled and it was like I
was looking at her for the first time. Like I said, she was only 5'-4" tall,
but she didn't have an ounce of fat on her. Her shoulders and biceps were
quite firm and defined, not muscular mind you ... .but she was put together
rather well. She had short blonde hair and a very pretty face. She turned to
walk away and Maria just stared in amazement. The whole next hour I had to
listed to Maria rant about the nerve Mindy had to show up at her house and how
she should have just punched her out then and there. She didn't start work
until 10pm so she figured a 9pm fight that would probably last two minutes
wouldn't be a bother, plus she said it was a good opportunity for me to see
her fight firsthand.

Maria suggested that I place myself out of sight in a small clump of bushes.
She didn't want to scare away Mindy by making her think I was going to jump in
the fight. I have to admit, that a small part of me was very excited about
seeing this fight. I was quite certain that Mindy was out of her mind, but her
confidence in Maria's backyard told me that she wasn't a stranger to physical
confrontation. I arrived at the playground at 8:45pm and found a nice large
bush on the perimeter of the playground to sit behind. Maria showed up about
8:55pm and sat on a wooden merry-go-round to await her opponent. She barely
had time to sit down and in walked Mindy wearing a tight pink sports bra and
white tennis shorts, ankle length white socks and sneakers. Maria had on a
black muscle t-shirt that showed off her massive upper body development. She
also had on cutoff jeans and sneakers with no socks. Maria was just so much
bigger than Mindy and I was sure I would be calling an ambulance on her behalf
in no time flat. They began to argue with one another and soon the fists
started flying. Maria did most of the swinging while Mindy covered up and went
into a retreat. From my vantage point I was certain Maria was landing
everything she threw at Mindy. This went on for about three minutes or so ...
.and then Mindy began to fight back. She hit Maria with a couple of stiff jabs
that cracked off her chin. It occurred to me that Mindy knew what she was
doing and that the two landed jabs were hardly lucky punches. She followed up
with hard punches to Maria's midsection and an uppercut to her chin that sent
her backward for the first time in the fight. Maria became enraged and began
taking wild swings at Mindy. Mindy blocked most of the punches with her upper
arms and occasionally landed hard punches to Maria's head and shoulders. It
was kind of strange actually. Mindy concentrated the next five minutes of the
fight just punching away at Maria's upper arms and shoulders. I could tell
Maria was tiring and both girls were sweating pretty good. Maria charged at
Mindy and threw a long looping right that Mindy ducked under. Mindy followed
with a left to Maria's stomach and a hard right to her jaw that caused the
sweat to fly from Maria's head. That punch hurt Maria and soon Mindy was all
over her. Mindy hit Maria about five or six times in a row and Maria slumped
to her knees. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Mindy showed true
sportsmanship by stepping back and allowing Maria time to rise up and resume
fighting. Maria jumped to her feet and let out a primal scream. She lunged at
Mindy and tackled her to the ground. The two began to wrestle on the ground
and soon Maria used her weight advantage to get on top of Mindy. Maria
straddled Mindy's tight athletic body and tried to get her thighs over both of
Mindy's arms. She succeeded in getting one of Mindy's arms pinned and she
began punching away at Mindy's face with hard rights and lefts.

I figured this would be the end of a hard fight for Mindy and then I noticed
she had her right arm free and was punching away at Maria, hard and fast from
her prone position. Mindy was hitting Maria twice as much as she was getting
hit. Maria's head started to sag a bit and Mindy was really wailing away at
her. Finally Mindy freed up both arms and fisted Maria off of her. Maria fell
off Mindy and began trying to get up from an all fours position. Mindy jumped
to her feet looking awful fresh for someone who was fighting for a good ten
minutes. She reached down and grabbed Maria by her shirt and pulled her to a
standing position. Maria tried to take a swing, but Mindy beat her to the
punch. Over and over again Mindy punched my friend. When Maria did swing back,
she missed badly and paid the price for it when Mindy countered. Mindy now had
total control of the fight and began to beat Maria all over the playground.
She began to taunt Maria by saying thing likes "Not so tough now, huh", and
"This ones for my cousin". After making each comment she would get off about
four or five punches most of which knocked Maria down. Mindy must have knocked
Maria down eight or nine times, pausing only to pick her up and begin her
assault anew. Maria started to cry from the beating and at one point I heard
her ask Mindy to stop and that she had enough. Mindy answered only by saying
"My cousin had enough and you beat her some more, now its your turn". Mindy
was intent on punishing the much larger Maria. I fully suspect that she had
the ability to knock out Maria at any time, but she just kept on punching away
at my sobbing friend. Having seen enough and not wanting to witness a
homicide, I emerged from the bushes and ran to the battle. Maria's crying was
more like the screams of a small child when they are being spanked hard. I
yelled for Mindy to stop hitting Maria. Mindy held Maria upright with her left
arm and had her right arm cocked when she turned to look at me. "Look, she has
had enough ... .you proved your point well, now please stop hitting her, you
don't want to kill her do you?" Mindy answered no, she didn't want to hurt her
any further and allowed Maria to fall to her knees a beaten mess.

Mindy sat on the wooden merry-go-round for about five minutes allowing her
sweat soaked body to dry a bit, while I tended to my beaten friend. She never
asked why I was there or threatened me in any way. She even helped me carry
Maria to her car so I could drive her to the local hospital for treatment.
Mindy asked me to remind Maria to keep her hands to herself next time or she
would be back to teach her another lesson. Looking at Maria's badly beaten
face I assured Mindy that she would have no more trouble with her. As she
walked away, I couldn't help but wonder how a girl of her size could totally
humiliate a girl with Maria's size and fighting ability. I saw it with my own
eyes, so I should not question why. Maria does not want to have much to do
with me anymore. She was embarrassed that I saw her suffer her first loss and
said I was bad luck for her. I understand these many months later that she
will try to gain revenge against Mindy someday, if she ever regains the
courage she had before the fight. I might suggest that confronting Mindy again
may be the biggest mistake Maria makes in her life.