The Fighter

- You bringing Micky in? - Yeah, he's gonna come.

He should be here as well.

You think he'll answer questions?

They said it was gonna be both of us here.

- Am I looking right in the camera here? - Just look at me, right here.

All right. You don't want me to look in the camera with the...

- Right over here. - Interviews?

I started boxing when I was 12 years old,

and I'd lie and say I was 18, or whatever it was.

You know, I had a different name and everything.

I mean, I don't know how many fights...

I'd done a hundred, more than that, before I turned professional.

- Go ahead and sit right there. - Why we doing this?

- I don't wanna do this. - You want to start again?

This is my younger brother. I taught him everything he knows.

I'm still his trainer. You know, we got different styles.

I'm fuckin' squirrelly as fuck. I'm like... I'm not even there.

You know, that's what Sugar Ray said.

I was the most tricky fighter he'd ever come across.

In '78, I fought Sugar Ray Leonard.

I went toe-to-toe with him. He couldn't get to me.

He couldn't get to me.

They called me the pride... the pride of Lowell.

Everybody still talks about it, especially my brother.

His whole life he wanted to do what I did, you know?

But we're very different fighters.

Micky's, you know, he's a heavy hitter.

He's got... a thunderous,

I'm telling you, thunderous left punch.

Micky, he gets you and he takes a punishment,

I don't know why he does it, till you're right fuckin' in there.

He likes getting on the inside, I stay on the outside.

Come on.

Dicky.

Would you come on?

Will you stop...? You gotta help me finish this.

Come on!

- And predictable as ever. - All right.

- You don't need to be Columbo... - Here you go.

To see where this fight is headed.

Bam! Over right hand puts Micky Ward down!

HBO's making a movie on me and my comeback!

And my brother is gonna beat Saoul Mamby in Atlantic City next week!

The pride of Lowell is back!

Quacka! Who wants some?!

Who wants some?!

Hey! I want a cut.

Are you good? You guys having a good day?

How are ya?

Come on! What you got? What you got going on?

Lou! Hey, Lou!

- How are you guys? - Dicky.

Making my comeback.

Hey, naughty, naughty. What's going on here?

Hey, Dicky, Micky! Take my picture.

- Take a picture? - Yeah.

- Hey! - Hey, Louie!

HBO's making a movie on me!

What's going on? Hey, beautiful.

Did you tap that?

I can't remember. I got CRS. I Can't Remember Shit!

Hey, Jerry Garcia!

Are you nuts?

How'd you get here? You drive around?

Hey, Ray. Ray. I love you, Ray.

You're doing well.

You're walking. Get on it.

- We make a mistake? - Nah, I mean, he'll be here.

You know, like I said, sometimes he goes on his own schedule

but when he gets here, we work hard. You know, nobody pushes me harder.

He's supposed to be training you right now, right?

Why don't you just go talk to them, my sisters? They'll talk your ear off.

You gotta pay them to shut up.

He can tell you how Dicky was helping him.

Yeah, come on, Micky.

- O'Keefe! - Hey, we don't know where Dicky is.

You know where he is.

What's that Keystone Kop doing in there? Where's Dicky? Girls?

- I don't know. - Did you see him, your brother?

- Not this morning? - Look at Ma!

All dressed up for the movie, huh?

Get outta the ring, O'Keefe.

My Dicky should be doing that, huh?

Your Dicky ain't here, Alice.

Micky's got an important fight coming up and he's not training.

Don't. Just forget about him.

He's number two man. He's not part of this, all right?

- He's not being handled right. - You get me coming in all right?

You want me to do that again?

Get out of the ring, O'Keefe. Dicky's the trainer.

- I'm doing a favor, Alice. - I will show you over here

these scrapbooks I've been collecting for years.

Micky used to follow his big brother everywhere.

Taught ya everything, didn't he, honey?

In '78, we got the offer to fight Sugar Ray Leonard.

Oh, my God, it was... Have you seen that video?

Oh, you're from HBO. You gotta see it again. Come on.

Art, Art, where's the video at?

Tonight, my son is gonna surprise everybody and beat Sugar Ray Leonard.

Believe me, I know it.

Sugar Ray might have some trouble tonight.

That's a good possibility. He comes in here against a good boxer,

a young man who can punch, and I would like to say at this time

that physically they're just about equal.

Leonard is down. Let's see if that's a knockdown.

This is unbelievable.

Eklund just walked over him!

Nobody seems to know what's happening!

Dicky did it. Yeah. Tricky Dicky did it.

- Dicky did it. - Weren't you supposed to be

training Micky right now?

- No, it ain't till 9:00. - Dicky, it's fucking 11:45!

- It's 11:45, Dick. - What?!

Where'd you fuckin' park the car, Boo Boo?!

I didn't park it. You did.

- I didn't park it. - Check your pockets for the keys.

- You got the keys, yeah? - I didn't park it, man.

- Down there? I don't know. - Check your pockets, all right?

- You're fuckin' mental. - Fuck it!

I'll run. I need the fuckin' roadwork.

- Roadwork? Are you crazy? - He's a great runner.

Hey.

Hey!

Quacka!

- Hey, Dicky. - Better late than never.

Oh, look! Detective's on the scene.

Gonna get to the bottom of this.

- Figure this one out, huh? - Dick, you're an asshole.

Hold it, hold it. Let me get this straight.

You guys are working in the same corner as Micky, together, right?

Yeah. Yeah, they're both in my corner, and this is what goes on.

OK.

Don't you have a job to go to or something?

Really, O'Keefe has a job that he should be at.

Yeah, Sergeant O'Keefe's working overtime here.

So we got Saoul Mamby, Jewish, black, former world champ.

I think we got all the bases covered.

And my kid brother, he's lost three fights in a row.

You know, he can't get used to losing. It's a mental thing.

But we're gonna break that with Mamby, right?

Yeah, I hope, if we can train...

We can train, right. Enough of you wasting time, Mick. You know?

- Wasting time? - Half the fuckin' day's gone!

- We got work to do. - Yeah, half the day's gone.

- And I been waiting here for you. - You wanna win?

Jab, two, three, four. Left, right, punch right. Jab...

And again! One, two, three, four...

One, two, three, four, five... Jab, jab...

There you go! There you go!

Come on, move! Might as well drop the weight,

we're gonna out-box Mamby.

- Take it out on the mitts. - Head, body, head.

That's your fuckin' combo. Head, body, head.

Head, body, head, body. My Dicky taught him that.

You know, Sugar Ray's gonna be there,

calling the fight for ESPN.

I ain't seen him since I knocked him down.

Like 14 years ago or somethin'. Right?

Hook!

Let's get a real sparring going on here.

Don't wanna embarrass yourself.

Don't wanna embarrass yourself in front of Sugar Ray, do you, Mick?

- You got him... - Come on. Head, body, head!

Fuck.

- Fuckin' yeah. That's your punch, Mick. - Oh, my God.

That's your punch.

That's your liver punch. It shuts the whole fuckin' body down.

George's fingers are so fuckin' fat, he can't even dial the phone!

Hey, right there, Tar!

That's not helping, George!

- Hold on. Wait a minute. I'm confused. - What?

- Yeah, I'm confused too. - We're confused.

- George is whose father? - You're confused?

- Dick Eklund Sr. is Dicky's... - Donna's, Gail's and Phyliss father.

- Is Dick Eklund. - Yeah.

And even though Alice is an Eklund, so is Cindy and Cathy,

- George is really their... - And Micky...

- No. Micky and I are... - Sherri Ward.

- We're Wards. - The Wards.

It's not the way it sounds. Dick Eklund and I were separated, right?

And then there was George, just George. George is my man.

- Georgie's our poppa. - After Dick, it was just George.

Charlene! Charlene!

Hey, Charlene!

- We're doing shots with Charlene! - Yeah, you get over here.

- Come on! Come over here. - Come on, drink yours.

On the count of three... Three!

Good job, fellas. Oh, hey, one more time.

Why don't you just go talk to her? She's a nice girl.

I told her all about you.

I don't wanna ask her if she's gonna say no.

Can't beat that ass, can ya?

Get out of the booth. Come on. Come on.

Are you just gonna stand there and stare at my ass?

Your father stares at my ass, but he talks to me.

Thinks you're the greatest.

- He didn't tell me you were mute. - Keep the change, doll.

He told me you're Kenny Fleming's sister.

- This is a tip? - Yeah, that's my tip.

You know what the bell says about this tip?