This was a well told interesting story with contrasting characters. It used the classic primal theme of two women meeting in private to determine which of them gets the man. He has aready made his choice, but the one not chosen disputes it with her rival who accepts the challenge. Usually in such stories, the beauty is in trouble. This story turned convention on its head..
I never thought of Christy as a defenseless out of shape underdog. The story indicated she had consistently did yoga several times a week for several years. She also did ZUMBA a couple times a week and she dabbled in Clubbercize (a weird semi aerobic routine). She wasn't ripped due to dieting BUT SHE WAS IN SHAPE. Just because she didn't enjoy classic aerobic classes doesn't mean she didn't get plenty of aerobic activity. Discounting her fitness level was like thinking a person who walks 10 milles a day without sweating isn't exercising as much as someone who runs 2 miles per day. Christy was strong but with a soft layer of attractive feminine bodyfat. Sylvia was ripped due as much to diet as exercise. Also, Christy's jealous strreak made me suspect she had tangled in catfights in the past.
By the end of the story, I realized the conclusion was forecasted when Sylvia went easy on the inexperienced blonde in the inital bout until the blonde.knocked Sylvia down, exposing Sylvia's glass jaw. Aside from concern about Christy's mental state, Sylvia was smugly over confident when Ed expressed concern over Christy's threat. Also, Ed's mentioning of Christy's shocking strength when wrestling with him and her demonstration of natural balance and speed in making him work hard to overcome her as they did wrestling foreplay. Lastly, Sylvia's, almost immediate, feeling of disconfort which progresssed to pain in her fist indicated either fragiity (different from toughness) or less than stellar technique in making a proper boxing fist. Eventually Sylvia's broken hand or fingers were her ultimate undoing.
Still, I expected Sylvia to finally triumph after being angered by Christy - just as she had become more aggressive against the blonde who knocked her down. I thoughtt it would be a good but vicious fight with skill, pure strength, or both coupled with anger determining the winner, even after the broken hand. When Christy took Sylvia to the ground with the shoulder to the chest, I thught maybe the story would change gears and become a thrashing bodies locked catfight. Being tough was a quality that had ben attributed to Sylvia sevral times early in the story, so I expected her to overcome pain as much as Christy was overcoming the barrage of body blows she endured.
This was an excellent story that is open to a sequel or two. The plots of the sequels are open and not predictable. Kudos to the author