This HURTS! It seems like she’s hitting me with everything she throws, and hitting harder than anyone her size should be able to. Of course, punches always hurt a lot more when you aren’t landing your own, and I’ve barely touched her—but she is very strong, and really knows how to get great leverage and extension on her punches.
Her cutoff punch added to the bruise starting around my ribs, but more important, stopped my escape. As I sift direction, she tries to tag me with another left hook. I manage to dodge this one, but only by moving back fast—and staggering a bit. But—this might be worse than taking the punch would have been; I’m moving right towards the ropes with little room to move.
Here, Melissa’s tactical skill shows—even though her punch didn’t land, it’s still setting me up to taste more leather—no wasted movements, and keeping her mind several punches ahead of mine.
I have a lot of resilience and can take a pounding, yet keep fighting. That’s won me some fights—but unless something changes, all that means today is that I’ll take a worse beating than otherwise. Letting her goad me into a fight was a mistake…
Fun time—for her.
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Her cutoff punch added to the bruise starting around my ribs, but more important, stopped my escape. As I sift direction, she tries to tag me with another left hook. I manage to dodge this one, but only by moving back fast—and staggering a bit. But—this might be worse than taking the punch would have been; I’m moving right towards the ropes with little room to move.
Here, Melissa’s tactical skill shows—even though her punch didn’t land, it’s still setting me up to taste more leather—no wasted movements, and keeping her mind several punches ahead of mine.
I have a lot of resilience and can take a pounding, yet keep fighting. That’s won me some fights—but unless something changes, all that means today is that I’ll take a worse beating than otherwise. Letting her goad me into a fight was a mistake…
Fun time—for her.
