Der Kampfreport zu Mathis vs. Holm klingt wie eine weibliche Version von Luan vs. Brewster. :laugh2:
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Instead of a kangaroo style hit and move, Holm traded. And Mathis landed. Big rights tore through Holm’s guard and bloodied her nose – Mathis had not come to lose.
Round five was a series of exchanges, somewhat close at that, until a right from Mathis clearly stunned Holm. Warned for rabbit shots, Mathis nodded to the referee but mauled her way back to the champ, winning her second straight round.
Holm boxed a little in the sixth, but mainly brawled with the brawler – a mistake that was all too clear when Mathis landed a bomb of a right that dropped Holm to the canvas and onto her back. Shocking the crowd even more than the knockdown was ref Burke, who did not issue the count, waving off the tremendous flooring, even though Holm was barely able to stand up.
The fight was on and, somehow, Holm weathered the storm of Mathis, waiting for the bell, which soon clanged an end to the impending end.
Holm was clearly finished. She stumbled back to her corner where her cornermen desperately tried to revive her, then sent her back out to her doom. Holm tried to bounce on her feet but her legs nearly caved, yet she resumed the fight with Mathis, who was on the warpath for the finish.
It was not long in coming. Mathis tore into Holm, staggering her to the middle of the ropes near her corner. There, Holm became entangled in the top rope – just as Mathis ripped into her with a right, tearing open an old cut – ironically, the same gash that, many, many years ago, had Holm’s corner throwing in the towel for her one and only loss. Ref Burke was slow in stopping the action, but he made his way between the two fighters, finally, saving Holm from what could’ve been a career-ending punch. Burke held Holm up by the glove that had been entwined with the rope, the fallen fighter barely able to keep upright.
The fight was over.
At least that’s what everyone thought.
Instead, the ref signaled conqueror and fallen to resume.
Mathis did, one good right dropping Holm over backward against the bottom rope and nearly out of the ring onto Judge Dave Moretti’s lap. She was assisted to a kneeling position while her cornermen and physician rushed in and surrounded her. Kneeling in a dazed position, Holm, her eyes glazed, her cut and nose oozing blood, was just clear enough to do one thing; she lifted her left arm up and around one of the ropes to keep from heading back down to the canvas.
Mathis held off parading around the ring like the champion she had proven herself to be while she waited for the official announcement that the fight was, indeed, over, which was slow in coming.[...]
