There's Something About Mindy
by renarose1114@yahoo.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" 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'd had with both men and women alike.

She worked as a bouncer at a local club on the weekends, and that provided a
goodly number 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 others at the gym who witnessed them first hand often backed up her
stories 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. While I'm not above that sort of thing, let's 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 when 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. "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 abandoned playground about
three blocks from here. Meet me there at 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, 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 jabs that landed 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 stand 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 things like: "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 it's 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 knee, 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.