Season 2: #9 Micky Ward
Boxing Life Stories
Tris Dixon
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
'Irish' Micky Ward has become a boxing cult hero due to the wars he took part in during a ferocious career. Most celebrated for his part in one of boxing's great trilogies, with the late Arturo Gatti, Ward also became known to the wider public when the film of his life, The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg as Ward and Christian Bale as his brother, Dicky Eklund, had Oscar-winning success. Ward and interviewer Tris Dixon go back nearly two decades and they discuss Micky's storied career, the epic fights with the likes of Reggie Green, Shea Neary, Emanuel Augustus and Gatti, how he rejuvenated his career and much more. They also talk about Ward's CTE diagnosis, a neurodegenerative condition he has from fighting, and much more besides as they meet up in Ward's Lowell home.
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| 0:00.0 | Andrew was at an age where he was experimenting with cold water therapy. |
| 0:04.4 | And Andrew was also at an age where he was experimenting with manscaping. |
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| 0:30.0 | How much could they beat me or whatever and dad like tell them how good this guy really is or bad he is you know what I mean? |
| 0:36.3 | So I said the hell with this you know eff this I'm not gonna be used as like a stepping stone or whatever any of my or whatever so I left. |
| 0:44.8 | But you know it's all about it's all about the timing to it and where you place it you know I mean it's not about your power |
| 0:52.4 | you know me because obviously a lot of people have |
| 0:54.4 | more power than me but I knew when to throw it and where to throw it right in it |
| 0:59.2 | not under that elbow or liver you know you just went on to water no I remember you know bang on my chest I well |
| 1:07.4 | actually you give me the account now he let me fight so a total is like |
| 1:12.1 | lion rap he's banging me with everything right? |
| 1:14.0 | Then he, um, I'm stupid me, I bang my chest, Triss. |
| 1:17.0 | Like, come on, you ain't hurting me, which he was, right? |
| 1:20.0 | I bang my chest, right? |
| 1:22.0 | He lines, he goes two jobs, right? And I make my chest, right? He lines here, he goes two jabs, right? |
| 1:24.0 | And I'm right on my butt and Trist, right? |
| 1:28.0 | That woke me up. |
| 1:29.0 | Oh, you came back round. |
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