Micky Ward Interview | THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas
THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas
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4.8 • 902 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout sit down with Micky Ward for a discussion on Micky's career, his battles and friendship with Arturo Gatti, where he gets his toughness, and more.
Episode was recorded at the International Boxing Hall of Fame on June 8, 2019.
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| 0:14.4 | Welcome to the fight with Teddy Atlas. I'm Ken Rideout joined as always by Legendary trainer and Hall of Fame broadcaster the great Teddy Atlas and today |
| 0:19.7 | we've got a very special guest Boston's own Boston's finest Irish Mickey Ward former |
| 0:26.5 | WBC super lightweight champion of the world. Which one? W B. W B. O. You. W B. You. |
| 0:34.0 | Champion of the world. |
| 0:36.0 | Close enough. |
| 0:37.0 | W B. C. W B. You, the ABC Light, Super Light, |
| 0:41.0 | Light, Super Light, Champion of the World. |
| 0:42.0 | What's a letter when you have a special fight? |
| 0:44.0 | The best, my favorite fighter of all time. |
| 0:47.0 | That gets to a point, really, it's funny because I remember one time I was calling a guy on ESPAN a champion and people were saying |
| 0:56.2 | but they you know he's no longer got the belts. They said you don't need them. The people know who the champion is, |
| 1:02.4 | the people know who the best fighters are. |
| 1:04.5 | And there were certain fighters that didn't need a belt because of the way they fought, because of the |
| 1:10.0 | excitement that they brought into the arena to the fence you know who they were there |
| 1:14.2 | a guy he knows real well or totally gaddy he didn't need a belt he it didn't |
| 1:18.4 | matter as long as he was in the ring people were gonna come come Mike Tyson again and proof is in a |
| 1:25.0 | pudding later in his career when he was way past himself he didn't have he |
| 1:28.8 | didn't need a belt he still drew people because of the way he fought in the ring |
| 1:32.4 | because of what the people at the |
| 1:34.1 | end of the day is the people that decide people know what they know people know what they |
| 1:39.4 | want they know what they like and there was another guy that was like that. We happen to be very fortunate to have him next to us. Mickey Ward, they didn't clear what alphabet letters were attached to the belt. They cared about him and what they were going to see because of him. |
| 1:55.8 | And they knew what they were going to see because of him. |
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