Jill St. John vs Shirley Eaton by Simguy 21-May-2000

Before: 2 years before Jill would get her turn as a Bond girl, she faced then red hot Shirley Eaton who's 5 minutes of screen time in Goldfinger had made her the most sought after brawler in England. Similar styles and attitudes between the women made this a highly anticipated affair, each girl eager to put the other in her place. Eaton in her black push up and panties, St. John in tiger striped bra and hipster panties.

R1: Both girls came out swinging from the hips, often spinning off balance upon missing, and loading up outrageous punches in an effort to hurt one another early. It was Eaton landing the first serious punch of the fight, a crashing right hand on the face, catching the red head reaching back to throw her own right, and St. John was hurt. A raucous, slugging round would go to Eaton as she pulped St. John around the ring, fighting with blonde locks in her eyes and a wild smile on her lips as Jill seemed on the verge of collapse throughout a hard hitting first.

R2: Showing the durability that would distinguish her career, Jill St. John shrugged off Eaton's blows and punished the blonde in turn, answering the blonde's brawling shutout with one in kind. Eaton was often helpless on the ropes this round, turning her head away and holding her fists up as Jill smashed lefts and rights into her hapless opponent. St. John continued slugging after the bell, forcing the ref to get between the combatants as outraged epithets flowed back and forth.

R3: Jill got right back on top, beating Eaton to the punch with a walking series of lefts and rights and driving the blonde to the ropes. St. John was murderously effective, swaying side to side as she reefed her punches into Shirley's toned midsection, then pushed the blonde back by the shoulders to prop her up for more. Shirley's legs locked up this round as she grimaced, clearly not used to taking such excessive punishment and looking out of her depth. St. John would club and push her girl to the corner, working Eaton over with lusty punches, often throwing 3 and 4 right hands into Shirley's belly as the blonde crumpled forward to take.

R4: The fourth opened to the cheapest action of the fight, with Shirley deliberately throwing right hands to Jill's crotch, and lacing the groaning red head viciously as St. John folded forward into a clinch. With the momentum decisively shifted, Eaton began to batter St. John around the ring - the red head often turning her back and stumbling away as Eaton stalked, slugging around her foe to the breasts and jaw, knocking St. John off balance in the process. Towards the end of the round, with Jill cut over her right eye, Eaton clubbed heartless lefts and rights into Jill's sides and across her lower back as the red head sat on the ropes, folded over her legs to soak up the punishment. Shirley brawled mindlessly away as the bell rang, and the ref leapt in to protect a stunned St. John from further abuse.

R5: Hammer and tongs mid ring as both girls began to tire, push punches and catch each other flush with raw haymakers from either fist. The curvy legs of each girl quivered, and they would touch one another with the left before twisting into the right - jugs beaten mercilessly, chin's repeatedly tested as the girls slugged back and forth. The round ended with St. John bodying her girl to the ropes, laying on Shirley and plowing a succession of right hands into the blonde's belly and trunks at the bell.

R6: Eaton came out hurt, gloves at her stomach, and St. John had her best round of the fight. Pushing and punching Shirley to the ropes, St. John leaned into her prey, fighting off Eaton's chest to give the buxom blonde a stupefying beating this round. Jill would press her weight into Eaton, reach past the blonde to secure the ropes with her left and club right hands into the blonde's stomach as Eaton went groggy. Despite the referee issuing constant break instructions, Eaton could not get her back off the ropes, getting bludgeoned to one knee as Jill constantly walked in, bodied up, and pounded away.

R7: Thing about St. John - she was always hittable no matter how dominant and as she bore Ms. Eaton to the ropes again, Shirley stepped back and tagged a short right hand onto Jill's available chin. Both girls stumbled to the ropes as St. John fought to stay upright, and a scrambling brawl broke out as the girls tumbled along the ropes, holding and hitting one another without restraint. Smothering one another, and falling in together without punching, Jill escaped the round as the fight got sloppy this round.

R8: Fatigue an important factor as the two exhausted sluggers stepped wearily around one another, eyes dim, mouths open. Jill's hands rested lazily at her stomach, while Shirley shuffled to her left, left at her thigh, right at her chest. Falling in together, Eaton turned into that short right hand, kissing it adeptly off St. John's mouth and once again Jill clattered past the blonde to let the ropes stop her fall. This time, Eaton was able to capitalize, battering Jill along the ropes, reaching in with the left to hold St. John by the shoulder, then driving in with rights to the belly and breasts of the red head. By the final minute, St. John sat with her butt against a turnbuckle, leaning sleepily forward, taking clubbing lefts and rights along her jaw as Eaton palmed the redhead's shoulders and chopped away with tired, heavy strokes.

R9: Jill re-took the initiative, somehow fading in and back on trembling legs, causing Eaton to uncoil the right hand and overcommit. From an awkward angle at the blonde's side, St. John slapped rights to the face and lefts to the back of the neck, sending stingers down Eaton's body and putting her temporarily helpless. As Eaton staggered around the ring, desperately pushing her hands out to block, a ragged St. John hunted her down, slapping and chopping at the blonde's face with running lefts and rights. Getting her feet fouled up, Eaton spilled to her backside and Jill stumbled to the ropes - Shirley taking an 8 count and a disasterous knockdown in the bargain. Final minute was all St. John as she tackled Eaton into a waiting corner, held the blonde with a cradling left and plowed right after right into the stomach of her foe as Shirley folded helplessly into the redhead. Jill's mindless clubbing continued after the bell - neither girl apparently aware it had rung.

R10: Eaton beat Jill to the round's first punch as both fired tired right hands, and the blonde never gave up the initiative. Backing St. John to the ropes, Shirley spent a minute beating St. John into a stupor, laying on with slapping, but heavy handed lefts and rights to the shoulders and ribs of the red head and Jill began to wilt. Drifting in and out, eyelashes fluttering, St. John was battered against the ropes as a shot Eaton steadied, then threw with heartless determination. St. John was cruelly crotch-punched, then propped back for stunning lefts and rights across the face, the red head soaking up the punches with her hands at her stomach, blissfully unaware of the damage being done. Final minute was all Shirley Eaton as she hammered away, falling into the exhausted Redhead, gathering herself, propping Jill up, and plowing in another punch as Jill refused to go down. The bell sounded with the two warriors clinging sweatily to one another, Shirley bodying Jill against the turnbuckle and holding her until referee intervention. The decision came back a squeaker for Jill St. John.

After: Not much was heard from Shirley Eaton after this awful beating left her a shadow of her former self. Jill St. John would have a few good years before her reckless style began to take it's toll, but this classic brawl would stand as one of her best efforts. To the end of her career, Jill St. John would refer to herself as the girl who retired Shirley Eaton - needless to say the two were not friendly after this terrific bout.