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Delivering combinations.

Use the jab. Nice, Vinny! Put it together!

Put it together!

Left hand landed by Pazienza.

Another left by Pazienza.

And a right by Pazienza.

I don't think any of us thought

we were gonna be here now.

A wild 11th round

with Pazienza making

what looks like an improbable

comeback in this fight.

It is a street fight

at this point.

Pazienza does not look good.

He's bleeding from everywhere.

If Vinny Pazienza came in with

one plan, he's got another now.

Last round.

All in, Vinny.

All f***ing in.

You hear me?

Now finish it.

That's what you do best.

You finish, all right?

Three minutes,

you're champion of the world.

Three minutes.

Three minutes.

Yeah. Let's go.

And here we go

with the final round.

Round 12.

- Come on, Vinny. You got this guy.

- Come on.

Beautiful combination

by Pazienza.

Move your feet.

Move your feet. There you go.

Pazienza stumbling following

that right hand by Durn.

Vin! Vin!

Come on!

This crowd that was booing

Vinny Pazienza

at some moments early in

the fight, on its feet.

Come on!

This is it! This is...

Come on!

I cannot believe

they're both still standing.

Come on, Vinny!

It is all over.

It goes the distance.

And it's in the hands

of the judges.

Ladies and gentlemen,

after 12 action-packed

championship rounds of boxing,

I give you the scoring

by the judges as follows.

Judge Chuck Giamba

scores the bout 114-114.

Judge Dave Moretti

and judge Jerry Roth

both score the bout

115-113 for the winner

and the IBC super middleweight

champion of the world,

Vinny "the pazmanian devil"...

Pazienza!

People are calling this one of the most

unlikely comebacks in sports history.

What do you attribute it to?

Um... yeah, I don't know.

I had a lot of help.

But you've also had

a lot of adversity.

You've had issues

with management,

conflicts of interest.

Yeah, well, the boxing world looks...

looks shiny from the outside.

It's filled with promises that...

most of 'em turn out to be lies.

You can't rely on anyone.

So what would you say

the biggest deception was?

What was the biggest lie

you were told?

It's not that simple.

Why not?

No, that's the biggest lie

I was ever told.

"It's not that simple."

And it's a lie they tell

you over and over again.

What's not simple?

Any of it.

All of it.

It's how they get you

to give up.

They say,

"it's not that simple, Vinny."

So what's the truth?

That it is.

That if you just do the thing that they

tell you you can't, then it's done.

And you realize

it is that simple.

And that it always was.

I feel like I should be

on a box of Wheaties tomorrow,

doing Gatorade commercials,

going to Disneyland.

I'm just so happy.

There's no one in the history

of sports, to my knowledge,

has ever come back

from this type of injury.

I didn't want him to box.

I wanted him to be a...

Anything but boxing.

He's a fighter.

And fighter...

You don't make fighters.

Vinny's a born fighter.

Lou Duva is looking

at a suspension.

That's not professional.

And Dr. cotter had a tear in his eye.

I could tell he felt for me.

Then he said, "son, I'm sorry to

say, you're not gonna box again."

And I looked at him, and I said, "no, Dr.

Cotter. You're wrong.

I am gonna box again.

See, you don't understand

what kind of man I am."

This halo portion goes around

the person's head...

And is placed...

Much like this.

It's held in place by these rather...

Medieval devices

called screws.

This fight was for the people of Rhode

Island and believers that believed in me.

I think you all came out. For the

believers, I wanna thank you.

I proved something to you. I

wanted to make you people proud.

And for the nonbelievers,

I just wanted to tell you,

it's time to realize that the pazmanian

devil is no fictitious character.

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