FIGHTING FOR LOVE!!! WANNA SEE THE GIRL THAT NBA BALLER DERRICK ROSE WAS FIGHTING OVER . . . HE GOT HIS AZZ KICKED . . . BUT AT LEAST NOW HE HAS THIS LOVELY LADY!!!

Two years ago, sports writers got all in a tiff when the then top draft pick Derrick Rose got into a fight JUST BEFORE he was set to be drafted into the NBA. Here's how it was being reported then:

Multiple sources close to the Memphis basketball and football programs have told CBSSports.com that Rose was recently involved in an altercation over a girl with Tiger football player [NAME REDACTED], an altercation that - how to phrase this? - didn't go so well for Rose.

Put another way, the possible No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft spent the early part of this week looking like a person who had just been in a scrap.

Well MediaTakeOut.com learned that the chick in the center of it all is Derrick's current GF, photo'd above. According to a snitch, Derrick defended her HONOR . . . even though he lost the fight with the MUCH BIGGER football player.

In the end it worked out . . . cause Derrick and the girl are STILL TOGETHER!!!!