Getting Even

 
The punch sent Adrienne across the canvas, landing her on her back.
"Damn!" exclaimed Paula, one of Adrienne's seconds. She knew exactly how much winning this match against Rex meant to her friend.
"Adrienne!" Henry shouted, leaping toward his unconscious girlfriend. Emma the Ref was already standing over the flattened girl, starting the ten count.
Adrienne's head, slack jawed, rested on her bare shoulder. The only movement was Adrienne's ample breasts rising and falling under her red sports bra and the twitching of her hands inside her boxing gloves.
A few paces away, Rex felt some tenderness for his ex, even if she wasn't as good a fighter as he was. He had spent the last two rounds of the bout steadily working Adrienne over. When Rex threw the right hook that ended things, Adrienne was already out on her feet.
"Winner by a complete knockout...Rex!!" Emma the Ref shouted after declaring Adrienne out.
Well, honey, Rex decided as his arm was raised over his head in victory, you just had to have this match!
Henry and Paula jumped between the ropes to examine Adrienne. With help from Emma, they checked her pulse and eyes.
Rex had liked Adrienne and what a great lover she was. But she never understood that I needed more than one woman. Rex shrugged his shoulders and went back to his corner, where Tish and Samantha, his current partners, were waiting to towel him off.

"She's okay." Emma said, as Henry and Paula placed the stretcher next to Adrienne. "But that dick head really beat her good!"
With one careful movement, Henry and Paula lifted Adrienne on to the stretcher and carried her to the recovery room.
Smelling salts ejected Adrienne from sleep. For a few minutes, she continued to tell Henry how cute he was and if they could go out sometime. Eventually, reality shifted into place and Adrienne, aching all over, wanted to know what happened.
"Rex put you out on the canvas, sweetheart." Henry answered. Adrienne pulled her face in anger and frustration and glared at the ceiling for a silent minute.
"I'm going to destroy that bastard!"

So Adrienne started back training, telling Henry right away: no sex for the duration.
"I have to focus all my energy!" she explained.
Aware of how horny his girlfriend was in normal circumstances, Henry knew Adrienne was committed to defeating Rex. A month into preparation for the rematch, Paula felt sorry for the stoically suffering Henry and gave him an all nighter. "It's our secret." she told him.
"Why did Adrienne pick this fight with Rex to start with?" Henry asked Paula as they lay in her bed. He knew Adrienne and Rex had been together before he came along, but she had never said what had gone wrong.
"Rex was Adrienne's first real guy and she fell for his romantic bullshit act," Paula said. "It crushed her when she found out he was fucking around like a jack rabbit. When that happens, most women dust themselves off and start again. Adrienne swore revenge."

"Do you think she will win?' There was doubt in Henry's question.
"She's not going to give up until she does."

Paula saw all the advantages Rex had over Adrienne. He was bigger, better trained and he didn't fight angry. Being obsessed with vengeance handicapped Adrienne, got her over excited and prone to making mistakes in the ring. Paula decided to correct that imbalance as best she could.
"These are loaded gloves!" Adrienne said, holding the pair of red boxing gloves that Paula had just given her. They were in the women's locker room of the Amazonia Boxing Club.
"Yeah, I know. The padding has sand in it. Put the right punch on Rex and he's out!"
"This is cheating!"
"It is gives you the edge, is all. And edge you need!"
"Does Henry know about this?"
"No, he doesn't." assured Paula.
"He'll never agree to this!"
"I know. That's why you need to keep Henry and knock Rex out!" Adrienne weighed the gloves in her hands again. "Just use them!" Paula insisted.

Short and sweet, Rex told himself. Just put her to sleep nice and clean.
Rex contemplated Adrienne from his corner while Tish and Samantha rubbed his shoulders. It occurred to him, as it did when he last saw Adrienne out cold, that boxing had really improved her figure. Wouldn't mind another time with her!
"Tish? Samantha? When I finish up here, I'm giving you two the best night of your lives!"
Both girls grinned and Samantha whispered in his ear,"I want you to fucking knock her out!"
At the bell, Adrienne was the first from the corner, her sand laden gloves raised. They ducked each others punches and swings. When a blow did connect, it was quickly followed by two more, sometimes in combination and then a retreat.
Both were waiting for the moment to finish matters between them. As the rounds went by, the fighting became rougher. Adrienne was on the defensive, never giving the opening Rex needed to put her away. Knowing that the gloves were loaded balanced out Rex's advantages, Adrienne only had to wait. In round four, Rex got tired of Adrienne holding him off and dropped his guard below his chin for a few moments. Adrienne hammered his face and Rex stumbled back to the ropes, surprised at the force of the punch, but prepared for the follow up.
Assuming her former boyfriend was dazed, Adrienne threw all her strength into a hay maker. A half second later, Rex launched an upper cut.
Adrienne only saw her right glove hammer into Rex's skull, closing his eyes as he went sideways. The unseen upper cut exploded on her chin and there was blackness. Her senses reformed in her brain, but the ring and the cheering fans barely registered with the dizzy fighter. Adrienne saw Rex laying on the canvas, spark out cold and then heard "SEVEN!" Slowly, she comprehended what happened.
I fucked Rex up! she told herself.
The ring began to get dark. Adrienne saw Henry and Paula running to her and she heard bells. She hoped they were wedding bells, but Adrienne never knew for certain. She landed next to Rex and slipped off to dreamland.
A sleepy smile was on Adrienne's lips as she was carried from the ring.