Hammerings in Hamburg by NRG A brutal international topless boxing tournament Update: 23/09/1997 to nrg "Any post?" called Paula, as I went to fetch the milk off the doorstep. "Only the usual, phone bill, gas bill, threats from the bank, Readers Digest prize draw numbers," I replied as I flicked quickly through the pile of envelopes. "Ah! There's one addressed to you with a German postmark on it. Who do you know in Germany?" "No one. Give it here and I'll open it," said Paula reaching out to take the letter from me. "Hey! It's from that girl Ingrid whom I fought with at John's house that time." "Oh yes and what does she want?" I probed somewhat suspiciously. "If she's looking for a place to stay on a visit she is out of luck. I'm still decorating the spare room." "It's the other way around you plonker, she is inviting me to Germany." "When, why and am I invited?" I asked, frowning. "In a couple of months time and it is to take part in an international boxing tournament that her club in Hamburg is organising and yes you are allowed to come as my trainer." "Do you want to go?" I said, looking at the letter from the bank and wondering how the hell we could finance such a trip. "Of course I do," she replied, "and if you are worried about the money for it, I still have the money John gave me for the fights I had at his place. Anyway, Ingrid says that her club will pay for our accommodation, all we have to find are our fares." "In that case I'll leave the arrangements to you." Paula trained hard in the time between Ingrid's letter arriving and our departure for Hamburg. She was determined to be in the best possible shape, as she would not know anything about her opponent until the night of her fight and she wasn't going to let herself down in front of a German crowd. By the time we were due to leave she had lost some weight and looked fitter, stronger and more radiant than she had ever done before. On our arrival at Hamburg we were met by Ingrid and she drove us to our hotel. "The tournament starts tomorrow afternoon, I will meet you here and take you to the sports hall at twelve o'clock. There are going to be six fights in three different weight categories, the winners of each bout will be invited to return in one month to box for the different championships. I will be fighting in the middleweight group and Paula will be fighting as a heavyweight so we won't be drawn against each other. A shame I was looking forward to a return match. Get some rest and I'll see you tomorrow," she said, leaving us to unpack and for Paula to get some much needed relaxation after a long day's travelling. By the time Ingrid came to collect us, Paula was a bag of nerves and I hoped that she would relax once she knew something of her opponent. We were shown to the changing rooms. All the girls that were going to fight were told to change as they would be parading in the ring for photographs before the tournament got underway. All the fights would be topless and Paula changed into the very brief white boxing shorts that she had been given to wear. "Might just as well be fighting naked?" she said, as she looked at herself in the mirror. "Well I think you look quite sexy," I replied giving her ample bottom a playful pat. It wasn't long before we were led into the hall. This would be the first time Paula would get to see her opponent as the girls had been separated into two groups, red and blue, and were coming to the ring from different directions. Paula was in the red group with Ingrid. All twelve girls climbed up into the ring and were lined up facing their opponents. Paula's opposite number was a big olive skinned woman with jet black hair, her red shorts stretched tightly over her wide hips and large bum, she looked as though she outweighed Paula by at least 20lbs. The girls waved to the large crowd who applauded loudly at the sight of so much exposed female flesh and then, apart from the first two lightweights, they all left the ring. As Paula's fight was going to be the second to last fight of the day, we went back to the dressing room and tried to relax. "Let me know when Ingrid is fighting I'd like to see her," Paula said, stretching out on a bench. "She's on two fights before you, so just try to relax," I answered, after consulting the programme that I had been given by one of the organisers. We had quite a long wait before we heard Ingrid being called to the ring as both the lightweight fights had lasted a full six rounds. Paula and I left the dressing room and took up a couple of seats at the ringside that had been set aside for competitors. Ingrid was first into the ring, she was just as impressive as we remembered her, dressed in a pair of black shorts with red trim, of the same abbreviated design as. She danced in her corner waiting for the fight to begin, her firm thirty-nine inch breasts bouncing slightly with each movement. Catching sight of Paula and me at the ringside she waved and smiled, her blue eyes wide with excitement and anticipation. We looked across at her opponent as she climbed through the ropes, as tall as Ingrid but not so well endowed, with her long brown hair tied in two bunches in contrast to Ingrid's close cut blonde hair. She was wearing a pair of pale blue shorts with a silver stripe down the side. The MC introduced the two young women. The dark-haired girl was called Sophia and she came from Hungary. With the preliminaries over with, we sat back to enjoy the contest. Sophia attacked from the bell, forcing Ingrid back with some solid shots to her ample breasts. Ingrid covered up, blocking blows with her gloves and forearms before stabbing a hard right into Sophia's face. The Hungarian backed off and Ingrid followed up with a crushing left which drove her nipple back to her rib cage. Sophia howled in pain and dropped to one knee, pawing ineffectually with her gloved hand at the source of her agony. The referee began to count, as Ingrid danced away to a neutral corner. The crowd urged the downed girl to get up and carry on. "I don't see this lasting long," I remarked to Paula. "Not if Ingrid lands another punch like that," she answered, awed by the power of Ingrid's punch. Sophia managed to get up by the time the count had reached seven and gamely agreed to fight on. Holding her gloves low to protect her chest, she stepped forward. Ingrid snapped her head back with a hard one-two to the face which immediately drew a stream of blood from her nose and made her half turn away to escape Ingrid's punches. The referee made no move to stop the fight and Ingrid put her down again as the bell ended the first round. Scorning the use of a stool Ingrid leaned over the top rope and her second gave her a brisk towel down and massaged her breasts which were slightly reddened by Sophia's initial attack. In the opposite corner Sophia's second had a tough job getting his stunned beauty ready to face the next bell. Gore from her nose had splashed down onto her breasts and she winced as he cleaned the mess off her bruised and already swollen left tit. The bell rang for the second round and Sophia stood up very flatfooted. She was caught straight away by Ingrid, the tall blonde picking her shots carefully. A sharp left to the nose renewed the flow of blood down her face followed by a series of hooks that landed just above the waistband of the pale blue shorts. Grunting in pain, she dropped to the canvas for the third time. "Why doesn't the ref stop it?" I asked another ring-sider, momentarily forgetting the language barrier. "He's not permitted to," he replied, before continuing in faultless English. "The fight will only stop if one girl gives up, is knocked out or suffers a severe facial injury. The referee will not stop the fight to save a fighter from taking punishment." "Did you know about this?" I asked, turning to Paula alarmed at this piece of information. "Of course I did. I didn't tell you because you would only have worried and tried to talk me out of taking part." Above us Sophia forced herself back to her feet, and Ingrid moved in again, sending out a spray of blood and sweat over the people in the front row seats as she slammed Sophia's head sideways. Trapped against the ropes the brunette had no escape from the big blonde's fists. Another wicked shot to her left breast felled her for the final time, sobbing in agony and bleeding heavily from the nose the brave Hungarian girl signalled that she had taken enough. Although I doubt, she would have beaten the count this time anyway. The referee raised Ingrid's hand in victory, with the crowd cheering the local girl wildly. As the two women left the ring Paula and I returned to the dressing room. I picked up the conversation from where we had left it before the end of the fight. "Why didn't Sophia give up sooner it was obvious she was outclassed?" "Because you don't get paid if you don't win and it is a long way to coke to return home empty handed. The organisers felt they would get more from the girls if it were winner take all." "And how much do you stand to get if you win?" "One thousand Deutsche marks, fifteen hundred when I knock her out," she answered smiling, The crowd were cheering madly at the fight going on in the hall. "I think I'm going to be on sooner than we thought judging by the noise of that crowd." Her intuition proved to be correct as we were summoned to the hall in time to see the loser of the previous fight, a beautiful Italian girl being helped from the ring still only semiconscious. The winner a powerful looking Dutch woman was parading round the ring. Once she had left, I helped Paula through the ropes. At the same time her opponent was also entering the ring. Now able to get a closer look I realised just how big the olive skinned amazon was. Only about two inches taller than Paula, she was much bigger everywhere else. Her chest must have at least been a 44d with hips to match and she had quite a bit of spare flesh above the waistband of her scarlet shorts. Hearing my gasp of amazement, Paula remarked. "All the more for me to hit." "Just make sure she don't get you first. She looks like she could hit you right out of the arena." "Your confidence in me, my dear husband is most underwhelming," she said sarcastically as the referee called her to the middle of the ring to give her his instructions. Returning to their corners to wait for the bell the MC introduced them both to the crowd. Ayesha her opponent from Turkey got slightly more applause than Paula, as there was a large group of immigrant Turkish workers in the hall. The bell rand and the two women moved out to the centre of the ring. Paula scored first with a sharp jab to the dark girl's face but was caught high on the head with Ayesha's right hand counter. Backing away out of reach of the heavier woman Paula blocked a hard left hook aimed at her breasts. Ayesha plodded forward and hit Paula again with her right hand, sending her staggering backwards, the crowd roared as the big Turkish girl followed up with a two fisted attack to the body. Trapped against the ropes Paula was forced to cover up, before grabbing the bigger woman in a clinch. The referee pulled them apart and warned Paula about holding. Aware now of her opponents surprising speed, Paula retreated around the ring, flicking out her jab and forcing Ayesha to come after her. Encouraged by her early success and confident of an easy win Ayesha charged forward throwing bombs. Ducking low Paula sank her right glove deep into Ayesha's un-tensed belly, drawing a gasp from the big girl and then threw her left crushing Ayesha's enormous breast. The momentum of her charge carried both fighters to the ropes and the bell ended the round with them entwined on the ropes nipple to nipple mouthing obscenities at each other. "I warned you to keep out of her reach," I admonished my wife as she sat on her stool. "I thought she had got you then and what the hell was all the swearing about?" "She started it." Paula replied childishly. "She called me something in Turkish, so I called her something in Anglo-Saxon. She is bloody quick though took me a bit by surprise. Won't happen again." In the other corner, an angry looking Ayesha was having an icepack applied to her bruised breast and was receiving a long lecture in Turkish from her second. With the minutes rest over, I left the ring and Paula stood up ready to resume battle. Up on her toes once more Paula picked up where she had left off, jabbing with her left and retreating round the ring. Trying to draw Ayesha into rushing forward and leaving herself open to a counter attack to her breasts and belly. Ayesha wise to this tactic was content to block and counter with her own jab. The crowd started to become restless, the fireworks of the first round much more to their liking than the game of cat and mouse that was developing in the second. Despite her slight advantage in reach Ayesha was definitely getting the worst of these long range exchanges. Paula's intensive training was certainly paying dividends as she snapped her left jab accurately into the middle of her opponent's face, whilst deftly parrying Ayesha's counter punches. By the end of the round Ayesha was visibly marked around her right eye but neither girl had taken as many heavy blows as they had in the opening two minutes. Paula was breathing quite heavily when she returned to her corner. "That's hard work keeping out of reach of her bombs," she panted, as I went to work on her during the break. "Just keep jabbing and moving." I advised, "She is tiring quicker than you, the longer you keep the fight at long range the more frustrated she'll become. She must already be regretting all that excess baggage she is carrying around her waist." The third started off much like the second with Paula content to jab and run. Ayesha continued to chase on increasingly tired legs was starting to throw ever more wild punches which Paula found easy to avoid. A right-hand haymaker whistled over Paula's head as she ducked low and fired a left-right combination into Ayesha's lower body making her gasp for breath and fling her arms round Paula to stop her landing any more punches. The confidence she had shown in the first round when she had taken Paula by surprise was now beginning to ebb away. Paula had taken her best punches and come back strongly. As they were pushed apart by the referee, Ayesha threw an uppercut which landed flush on Paula's nose. She staggered back and Ayesha's follow up punch went harmlessly by as she sat down with a resounding thud on the canvas. The referee started to count, his voice swamped by the noise from the Turkish girls fans. I looked across at Paula, her eyes seemed clear but her nose was streaming with blood. She pushed herself to her feet by the count of seven. Rubber legged she tried to avoid Ayesha's attack and stumbled back down to the canvas from a glancing left hook. Thinking that the fight was over Ayesha raised her hands above her head and did a little victory dance in the corner. A look of surprise flashed across her face as Paula regained her feet once more as the count reached nine. I had hoped Paula would call it a day but I knew her pride wouldn't let her. Ayesha sauntered forward to finish Paula off, her gloves held low but she was sent reeling back in pain as Paula rifled her left jab deep into her right breast. Sinking quickly to one knee the dark-skinned girl prevented Paula from landing another punch. Half frustrated at Ayesha's escape to the floor and half pleased to gain some extra recovery time herself Paula went to a neutral corner. At eight Ayesha rose to her feet still clutching her glove to her battered breast, but the bell rang before they could recommence the battle. "The bitch hit me on the break!"hissed Paula through blood-covered lips. "I think she has broken your nose." Paula nodded as I tried to staunch the flow of blood which was running in small streams between her heaving breasts. In the opposite corner the icepack was very much in evidence again, being applied to Ayesha's chest by her second, who was really laying into her about going to one knee when she had Paula at her mercy. Both women were slow leaving their corners for the fourth. Ayesha now holding her gloves noticeably lower to protect her breasts and flat footed, looked the more tired of the two. Paula her nose still bleeding heavily and struggling to breathe was forced to box open mouthed. Shortening the range Ayesha plodded forward, taking a stiff jab to the head as she hooked her left into Paula's rib cage, making her gasp and clinch. Pushed back to the ropes, Paula was made to release the Turkish girl and this time she was ready when Ayesha threw another uppercut on the break. Blocking it with her forearm Paula hooked her own left hard to the side of the black-haired girls head and sent her spinning into the ropes, taking advantage of the poor refereeing she hooked her right into Ayesha's body and as she turned her back to her, knees buckling Paula slammed another shot into her kidneys. Ayesha howled in pain clutching at her kidney area and dropped to the floor. Refusing to count the referee pushed Paula away and signalled to the judges that he was deducting a point for a deliberate foul blow and allowed Ayesha plenty of time to recover. When Ayesha was ready to carry on, Paula went on the offensive. She was clearly angry at the one-sided refereeing and now more determined than ever to knock out the bigger girl. Still holding her gloves low, Ayesha was forced back for the first time in the fight as Paula threw a cluster of left and rights at her face. A large part of the crowd was now getting behind Paula as she continued to press home her attack. Backing Ayesha into a corner she launched a two-fisted attack to the body, the spare flesh around the Turk's waist quivering with each impact. The whole crowd was on its feet as Ayesha desperately launched a fierce counter attack, driving my wife back to the middle of the ring. Scorning defence they stood toe to toe exchange punches to breasts and belly, both making squealing and grunting noises as their punches found the target. The bell sounds but neither of them heard it and they continued to punch each other until the referee jumped in between them and pushed them apart. Slumping down onto her stool Paula looked in a sorry state covered in blood and muck from her nose and her breasts and body badly reddened by Ayesha's punches. I got to work in silence knowing there was no point in trying to persuade her to give up. In the other corner Ayesha's second was cleaning away Paula's blood from his fighter's body and working on a cut that had appeared under her left eye. As she lay back with her arms, spread wide across the ropes I could see that she was also badly marked on her body and breasts. By the end of the minutes interval I had managed to stop Paula's nose bleeding and an ice pack down the front of her shorts had done wonders in reviving her. The crowd were chanting both girl's names as they met in the middle of the ring at the start of the fifth. Calling on some hidden reserve of strength, Paula was back up on her toes and sent Ayesha's head back with a jolting double jab. Paula swayed away from a swinging right and smashed her own into Ayesha's mouth splitting her top lip. Hurt and stunned she stumbled backwards, Paula nearly coming down on top of her as she hit the floor with a bump. Once again the referee was slow with the count giving the girl on the floor extra time to get up. She didn't rise until the count had reached seven. The referee asked if she wanted to continue, she nodded blood from her lip spilling down her chin. Paula stormed forward, flattening her dazed opponent's breasts with a left-right combo. In serious trouble Ayesha tried to fight back as she found herself trapped in her own corner. Her second was screaming at her to get away from the ropes but as she tried to duck away, Paula hammered her back into the corner with an uppercut to the middle of her face. With her gloves hanging limply by her side Ayesha was an open target and Paula mercilessly punished her with shots to the body and breasts before switching back to her head snapping it from side to side. Stepping away as Ayesha started to sag at the knees, Paula drove her right hard against her jaw. Ayesha's eyes seemed to roll up into her head and then she pitched forward onto the canvas. Paula looked down at her opponent before she went to the neutral corner. The referee began counting, Ayesha lay face down unmoving in a spreading pool of her own blood. At five she lifted her head slightly, glassy eyed she looked across at Paula who stood in the corner with her gloves raised ready to continue should she get up. At eight she made a feeble attempt to climb to one knee but slipped exhausted, back to the floor. As he counted ten the referee walked to Paula and raised her hand in victory whilst an ecstatic crowd lobbed coins into the ring. After Paula had been checked over by a doctor, we returned to our hotel room. "You were absolutely magnificent tonight." I said, as Paula flopped, completely exhausted onto the bed. "Are you going to befit enough to fight again in a month?" "Don't see why not," she replied yawning loudly, before falling into a deep and well- earned sleep. We left for home on the Wednesday after the fight, having made arrangements for our return. On the flight home I received a long lecture on wife battering from an old dear who had drawn totally the wrong conclusions after spotting Paula's brace of black eyes and a still very swollen nose. A misunderstanding which Paula made no attempt to correct as she was thoroughly enjoying my discomfort. The weeks leading up to our return passed very quickly. Just like our previous visit we arrived the day before the contest and were scheduled to go home the following Wednesday. The day of the finals we were met at our hotel by another old friend of ours, Hanna the tall and very beautiful blonde who had given me a boxing lesson the first time we met whilst she had been visiting England. Hanna had been forced to give up boxing, at least temporarily as she had recently got married and was heavily pregnant. "Ingrid asked me to collect you," she said in her heavily accented English. "She thought you would be surprised to see me." "We certainly are, we were both bitterly disappointed that you were not taking part in these championships, but at least we can see why now," I replied. "You must go straight to the sports hall so that Paula can be weighed in. Perhaps we could meet up later for a chat and I can show some of the sights?" Hanna ushered us down to her car and drove us quickly to the venue. Last of the combatants to arrive Paula was whisked away to be weighed and checked over by the event's doctor. The championship fights would be fought over twelve rounds and if the fight lasted the whole distance three judges at the ringside would decide the winner, although it was anticipated that their services would be required. Each winner would receive five thousand Deutsche marks and a handsome looking trophy. As before the girls were all changed and paraded in the ring for photographs before the first bout. Each of the pairs of fighters was also introduced to the crowd. The two lightweights were Aimee from Paris and Heidi from Munich, the middleweights were Monic from Rotterdam and Ingrid from Hamburg. An enormous cheer greeted the announcement of Ingrid's name as she was the only home town girl in the competition and 99 percent of the crowd must have been backing her to win. Finally the MC introduced the heavyweights Paula from London and Eva from Salzburg. I was glad to notice that the crowd seemed to be split evenly in their support for Paula and her Austrian opponent. Paula had obviously made a few friends when she knocked out the big Turkish girl Ayesha, whereas Eva had beaten a local favourite in her bout. Once the photographers had finished, I walked back to the dressing room with Paula. "I'll be all right here," she said, " go and watch the other fights, just fetch me when it is Ingrid's turn again. I'm going to try and relax." "If you are sure?" I asked. "Positive." So I left her in the dressing room and returned to the ringside in time to see the lightweights given their final instructions by the referee. Aimee was about five foot two with short curly blonde hair, she was wearing black shorts of the same abbreviated design as the girls wore for the elimination fights. Heidi, slightly taller had short dark hair and was wearing green shorts. Both girls had weighed in at around forty-nine kilos (seven and half stone or 105lbs) and looked very fit and well muscled. I settled back in my seat to watch two highly skilled and very pretty young ladies bash the living daylights out of each other. The fight began slowly, both girls boxing very cautiously. Exchanging left jabs and the occasional right cross but very few punches were being landed with any great force. In fact most were either parried, blocked or dodged. I was glad that I wasn't having to score this fight as there was little to choose between either fighter for the first three rounds. Aimee stepped up the pace in round four switching her attacks to the body of the taller German girl and forcing her to back up against the ropes. Ducking away along the ropes, Heidi landed the best punch of the fight so far, a hard right which landed flush on Aimee's left cheek and sent her curly blonde head sharply back. Counter attacking, Heidi drove a stiff left into the bare right breast of her momentarily stunned opponent. The crowd roared as the French girl staggered back wards across the ring. Off balance another right to the head knocked her onto her back, she almost completed a full backward roll as she came to rest against the bottom rope. Aimee sprang back to her feet straight away, but Heidi was forced to wait until the referee had completed a compulsory eight count. Heidi jigged up and down impatiently in the neutral corner, her breasts bouncing delightfully with her every move. As soon as the count was over Heidi moved out of the corner to resume her attack. Slipping under Heidi's jab, Aimee thudded home a hard left hook to the waistband of the green satin shorts. Winded by the blow, Heidi clinched drawing in big gulps of air deep into her lungs and held on tight until the referee pulled them apart. Breathing heavily she went onto the defensive, happy to block and keep out of range of the French girl's hurtful body punches. In the minute break, it was Heidi that looked to the most tired despite Aimee having had a trip to the canvas. Aimee's left cheek was red and swollen but apart from that she seemed to be okay and was not even breathing hard. The fifth round started well for Heidi, back up on her toes and coming forward she had almost immediate success, opening a cut on Aimee's swollen cheek with a couple of hard left jabs. Beneath the eye and with no danger of blood running into the eye, the cut would have to be made a lot worse before the referee would even think about stopping the fight. Under pressure Aimee retreated. Roared on by the crowd, Heidi pressed forward throwing punches at the French woman's head. Coming forward of the ropes, Aimee hammered a left and then a right hook deep into Heidi's belly. Gasping for air Heidi slumped to her knees. Aimee wiped some blood from her cheek with the back of her glove and retired to a neutral corner. The crowd had been momentarily silenced by the sight of their favourite hitting the floor, were now screaming at her to get up and continue. On her feet at five but still almost bent double in pain, Heidi looked through tear filled eyes at the curly haired blonde, who stood ready and waiting, gloves up, eager to continue as soon as the count reached eight. Still holding the top rope with one gloved hand Heidi was wide open when Aimee resumed her attack. Switching to the head she sent Heidi stumbling sideways along the ropes before administering the coup de grace, a left hook to her unprotected chin. Heidi's gumshield spun out of her mouth and flew out of the ring as she spun round and collapsed to the canvas. Despite having knocked her opponent unconscious Aimee went to a neutral corner to wait for the referee to count Heidi out. Unmoving and face down on the floor it was clear to everyone in the hall that the fight was over and Heidi's second leapt into the ring to help his stricken charge. I was glad to see the doctor climbing into the ring as well to check on the defeated girl. It was nearly two minutes before Heidi had recovered enough to be helped back to her corner. A now gloveless Aimee went across the ring to check on her beaten opponent before returning to the middle of the ring to have her arm raised in victory and receive her championship trophy. Although Aimee had beaten a German girl, the crowd were generous with their applause, but the biggest cheer was for Heidi. Refusing help from her second she climbed unaided from the ring and returned to the changing rooms. There was no doubt in my mind that these two would be rematched in the not too distant future. Leaving the ringside, I went to collect Paula from the dressing room. Ingrid was boxing next. The break between the fights was only about ten minutes and we didn't have to wait long before the two middleweights had limbed into the ring. Ingrid's introduction was met with a deafening roar from the crowd, as she came from Hamburg the whole crowd were behind her. The tall big breasted blonde in the black shorts, bounced up and down, waving at the crowd loving all the attention. Her opponent Monic, wearing a pair of orange shorts, looked unmoved by the noise from the crowd and stood in her corner going through a routine of stretching exercises. Shorter than Ingrid and nowhere near as good looking Monic's well- muscled body rippled with every movement. They moved into the middle of the ring as soon as the bell sounded for the first round. Ingrid opened with a jab to the head followed by a hook to the body. The Dutch girl countered with two good, hard hooks to Ingrid's tits but had to take another hard right to the body herself. At the pace they had started, the fight clearly could not last the full twelve rounds. Monic was quite prepared to trade punches with Ingrid, confident that she could handle anything the German girl could throw as she felt she had the heavier punch. Toe to toe they stood in the middle of the ring punches thudded into female flesh until the bell ended the round and the referee pushed the two women to their corners. Both were already clearly showing the marks of each other's punches, their ribs and breasts looking blotchy and red. Ingrid's second was telling her to use the ring more, to try and draw some of the sting from Monic's punches. In the opposite corner a similar one-way conversation was going on between Monic and her second. The second round started briskly, Ingrid jabbing at Monic's face and then dancing out of range of the bombs aimed at her own breasts and belly. Using the entire ring she began to dominate the Dutch bodybuilder and Monic's face was beginning to look badly marked. A roar from the crowd greeted every punch Ingrid threw. As the round neared its end Monic finally caught Ingrid with a powerful right, which flattened her left tit, followed by a left into the rib cage which served to remind how dangerous the Dutch girl still was. Visibly shaken by the punches, Ingrid retreated around the ring content to take a breather and stay out of range till the end of the round. Monic's second went to work on quickly trying to reduce the large swelling that had appeared around her right eye, as she sat impassively across the ring at her opponent. In her corner Ingrid sat breathing deeply, her second sponging down her breasts and applying an ice pack to try and reduce some of the bruising. On my personal scorecard I had Ingrid well ahead on points after the first two rounds although Monic was clearly the more aggressive fighter and if by some miracle the fight should last twelve rounds this might influence the judges. Monic storming forward at the bell for the third, hoped to take Ingrid by surprise. She was brought up short by two solid head punches which seemed to stiffen her legs and a further left to the body dropped her to her knees. The whole crowd was on its feet cheering as the referee began his count. Looking shocked, the Dutch bodybuilder was back on her feet by six and despite her nod, showing her willingness to carry on, she still looked decidedly wobbly at eight. Urged on by the crowd Ingrid attacked the stunned Dutch girl and drove her into a corner. Monic tried to cover up but her feeble defence was wept aside as Ingrid drove home left and rights to her head and body before stepping back to let her slide down the corner padding to form an untidy heap on the floor. Although not knocked cold Monic made no effort to rise but sat in the corner, her right leg tucked under her orange clad bottom and her left arm stretched out along the top of the bottom rope. She stared blankly up at the referee as he counted her out. As soon as he reached ten the referee crossed the ring and raised Ingrid's hand in victory. The crowd went wild, throwing money into the ring as Ingrid paraded her championship trophy, going to each side of the ring in turn and showing it off to her ecstatic fans. There was a slightly longer break before Paula's fight which gave us enough time to return to the dressing room to make final preparations for the match with Eva. Making our way back into the arena, Paula jigged nervously from one foot to the other. "Worried?" I asked. "Not really more excited," she replied as we reached the ring. As we climbed into the ring we could see that Eva was already there, disrobed and gloved up. She was obviously very keen to get on with the fight as danced around and shadow boxed in her corner. I slipped Paula's robe from her shoulders, revealing her 40-26-39 inch figure, clad once again in a pair of white satin shorts. I massage her shoulders as the referee checked her hand bindings before handing us her gloves. Eva, taller and slightly older than Paula at thirty-seven had a very impressive 37-2738 figure which wobbled and bounced in all the right places as she warmed up. Her long blonde hair framed a strikingly good looking face, high cheek bones and a long straight nose giving her an aristocratic air. Having been introduced to the crowd by the MC, Paula and Eva returned to their corners to await the opening bell. Placing her gumshield in her mouth I kissed my wife on the cheek and wished her good luck as I stepped out of the ring. Eva scored first with a stiff left jab that went straight through Paula's guard and jolted her head back. Slipping the follow up right she landed her own left with a satisfying splat, flush on Eva's right nipple. Stung by the punch, the Austrian danced away. Paula went after her and was caught in the face again by a left jab as her punch fell short of the target. Ducking low, Paula slipped another left from the taller woman and landed two solid hooks to her ribs. Grunting. Eva was forced to clinch but failing to trap Paula's arms was unable to avoid taking a couple more shots into the ribs and belly before the referee split them apart. Blowing a bit already Eva finished the round back pedalling away from Paula but still scoring with her accurate jabs. I had very little work to do on Paula during the break, although her face was already slightly reddened from the attention of Eva's left glove. "Try and make her come forward," I told her as I wiped the sweat from her face. "And move your head more she's picking you off too easily with her jab." "I know she's picking me off, don't you think I am trying to dodge?" she replied a tad angrily. In the other corner Eva was breathing heavily a testimony to the power in Paula's body punches. Paula attacked first, as the bell signalled the start of round two, thumping home a brace of left hooks to the body of the blonde. In a clinch again Eva managed to push Paula back to the ropes, where she landed a couple of cuffing rights to the side of the head, whilst Paula tried to pummel her about the ribs. The referee untangled them and warned them both about holding. Eva resumed hostilities with a quick one two to Paula's face, making her back away and cover up. Unable to get through to Paula's head she switched her attack to the body landing at least three good hooks to the ribs before being driven back herself by an uppercut to her chest. The Austrian seemed to be getting into her stride now and drew blood from Paula's nose with a cracking right cross, just before the bell ended the round. This time in the interval I had quite a lot to do. Paula's nose, which had been broken in her fight with Ayesha was clearly broken again and I had trouble stemming the flow of blood. Her left eye was also beginning to look very puffy and swollen. Across the ring a very confident looking Eva sat unmarked apart from a slight redness around her ribs. The third round started with Eva trying to trap Paula on the ropes. This suited Paula and she landed some heavy shots to the blondes body before they fell into another clinch. Breast crushed against breast as they struggled on the ropes until the referee parted them. Breathing heavily from her efforts, Eva appeared to be boxing more flatfooted as the end of the third approached. Sensing this Paula slipped under Eva's jab and banged in a right hook, flattening Eva's left breast and knocking her into the ropes. The Austrian's guard dropped and Paula scored her first decent head punch of the fight sending Eva staggering along the ropes. Thinking that Paula was about to finish the fight the crowd were out of their seats cheering, only to be disappointed by the sound of the bell halting Paula's attack. A much happier Paula returned to the corner, confident she could now beat the tall blonde. Eva's second was much busier this time, trying to freshen up his fighter and having to deal with a slight cut on her cheek caused by Paula's last punch of the round. Paula was on her feet well before the bell eager to get on with the fight, whereas Eva was very slow to get off her stool. Caught in her own corner Eva covered up and tried to block Paula's punches which seemed to be coming in from every angle. Paula missing with a vicious right was suddenly thrown backwards as Eva hit with a right to the chin and Paula was unable to avoid the following left which sent her crashing onto her back. I looked on in total dismay as Paula rolled onto her belly and pushed herself onto one knee. One moment she had seemed to be in complete control and the next she was sprawled on the floor. My wife looked shocked and bewildered as she regained her feet at eight. In terrible trouble a glancing left from Eva tumbled her to the canvas once again. This time she was back on one knee straight away but she took full advantage of the eight count before rising to carry on. Eva, over anxious to finish the fight, missed with a right uppercut and Paula managed to grab and hold on, gaining vital time to regain her scrambled wits. The referee forced them apart but Paula slipping another left from Eva clinched again and hung on until the bell ended the round. Paula surprisingly recovered quickly during the break, her stamina training paying dividends, and was happy to continue the fight. Her left eye was now almost completely closed and I concentrated my efforts on reducing the swelling. "Don't look so worried," shew said, winking with her good eye as she stood up. "One of us has to," answered glumly, half of me wishing she'd throw in the towel and the other half proud to be married to such a courageous woman. Despite her success of the previous round Eva was still slow getting off her stool. Paula's body shots were clearly taking their toll on her stamina. Up on her toes but still looking a bit wobbly to me, Paula advanced on Eva. Dodging inside Eva's left she planted her own flush on the Austrian's right tit. Hurt and very wary of Paula's punching power, Eva got on her bike once more and moved out of range. This suited, Paula, who still feeling the effects of being knocked down in the fourth, was happy to make only a token effort at giving chase. The large German crowd, which had got used to non stop action, was screaming at the girls to get stuck in again. Typical I though it is easy when you're not the one taking the punches. Towards the end of the round Paula launched another attack on Eva's body driving her across the ring, but was unable to put the blonde down. Right on the bell Paula was caught herself by a flurry of head punches which closed her left eye completely and renewed the flow of blood from her broken nose. Paula slumped onto her stool, her face looked a gory mess covered in blood from her nose and with her left eye looking so swollen it would burst. "I think it is time to chuck it in love. You look like Charles Laughton's Quasimodo," I told her as I attempted to clean her up. "No chance!" she said between deep breaths. "She is going to have to knock me out!" "Don't be stupid you could get badly hurt." "Don't be so bloody dramatic, I know what I'm doing." I wasn't so sure, I thought Paula was just too stubborn to admit defeat. I wondered if a similar conversation was going on across the ring, where Eva sat breathing heavily her eyes staring fixedly across at Paula as her second freshened her up. Shaking my head as Paula stood up for the sixth round, I replaced her gumshield and reluctantly left her in the ring. Paula banged her gloves together and stalked purposefully towards her opponent. My defeatist comments seemed to have, from my point of view, had totally the wrong effect on my wife and she was more determined than ever to see the fight through to the end. Eva feinted a left at Paula's head and then snapped a right into her already closed left eye. Paula threw a counter that missed by a country mile and Eva slammed another left-right combination into my wife's wide open face. Rocked onto her heels by the force of Eva's punches she was powerless to defend herself from another crushing right landed on the side of her jaw. Her gumshield tumbled from her open mouth and hit the canvas a fraction of a second before Paula's satin-clad backside. Eva her hands raised above her head in victory sauntered to the neutral corner confident that Paula would be unable or unwilling to beat the count. I screamed across the ring, telling her to stay down, but as the count reached five I could see her puling herself upright. The crowd cheered loudly and I groaned almost as loud as she made it back to her feet by seven. The referee asked if she wanted to go on. Glassy eyed she nodded and he shoved her gumshield back in place and stepped aside. A surprised Eva moved in for the kill. Blocking a wild swing from Paula she drove two hooks into her chest before slamming another right into her totally defenceless face. Blood spattered everywhere as the leather of Eva's glove tore open the thin tissue above Paula's closed left eye. Paula staggered forward and received a final left to the side of her head to send her crashing to the floor. Once more Eva performed a little victory dance as she walked away from Paula. "STAY DOWN!" I shrieked across the ring, knowing I couldn't be heard above the noise from the crowd as Paula tried to rise again. The count reached six and somehow Paula managed to push herself onto one knee but thankfully could get no further before the referee counted ten. Not waiting to be invited I dived through the ropes to help Paula who had now regained her feet. Eva whose arm had already been raised in victory came across to make sure Paula was going to be all right. Then to the delight of the crowd led her to the middle of the ring raised her hand as well to milk the applause from the crowd.