Lilly's chest puffed out a bit as she saw the flick of blonde hair and the white gi with navy blue trim. Her smile widening with excited respect in a way that only a retired champ could share when seeing another legend.
"The home town hero! Fighting out of Los Angeles! Black Belt Magazine hall of famer, International Sports Hall of Fame inductee, and black belt in essentially every Asian Art style short of feng shui! Cynthia 'Queen of Karate' Rothrock!"
Cynthia ascended the ringside stairs gracefully, waving to the crowd before stepping through the ring ropes! Smiling as the surprised fans looked on cheering.
Danny, left in the dark about WHO was fighting tonight looked on a bit stunned! "Multi-time kickboxing champ versus Hollywood martial arts royalty! This is going to be quite the show!"
"Hollywood royalty, sure. But Cynthia has decades of fighting experience off stage and was very active in the tournament scene before her acting career took off. She isn't just a starlet with a studio backlot black belt!"
Delia sighed, leaning against her corner post. The overhead lights had briefly drifted off of her to alight Cynthia's entrance. She knew that Cynthia won a few title belts early on in her career. And she was a badass on camera! "But that glitz and glam bullshit didn't amount to a pile of shit on the sidewalk in the ring." As she so eloquently stated to Cynthia when their managements and agents first got them together to talk about this match.