Million Dollar Baby Page #7

Well, she's got a title shot.

The Blue Bear.

Million dollars,

split right down the center.

That's good, Frankie. That's real good.

Well, I could use a good second.

Can't find one,

I thought I'd ask you.

Now, why the hell

would I wanna do that?

Well, because you're a half-blind old fool

who never got there himself.

I thought you might like to feel what

it's like to be in a ring on a title match.

Excuse me for feeling sorry for you.

No, you pick up somebody

there in Vegas.

Somebody with young hands.

You're not gonna cry now, are you?

I've already got one girl.

I leave this place for one day...

...got any idea what it would look like

when I come back?

Kind of like it looks right now.

Oh, go to hell.

You tell Maggie don't come back here

without a belt.

Will do.

Hey, Mr. Scrap.

I got a question,

but I feel real stupid asking it.

No such thing as

a stupid question there, Danger.

Okay.

How'd you get all the ice in here

through this little tiny hole?

I've been thinking on it.

Can't figure it out.

Why don't I show you, Danger.

- You could do that? You could show me?

- I think so. I think so.

Also, Mr. Scrap, I was kind of thinking

I might be ready for a fight.

Well, I got the tickets. You ready?

- We're flying?

- Would you rather drive?

You're asking me?

Would you rather fly,

or would you rather drive?

So I finally get to decide something?

That's what I'm saying.

Fine.

Fly there, drive back.

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

How the hell we gonna do that?

You said it was up to me.

Give them hell there, Danger.

Hey, old school,

the toilet's overflowing.

Hey, Flippy, come here for a minute.

Jesus.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Oh, God!

Dumb-ass.

Come on, Danger. Come on, Danger.

Come on. Defense!

Could be sitting up at the Mirage...

...drinking mai tais...

...Iooking at naked women.

Come on, Danger,

put up your hands and fight.

Danger, get out of there!

Fight back! Come on!

- There you go, Danger, there you go!

- Good job, man.

Jab him with the left.

Come on.

Come on.

Hey, come on now, Flip.

- What you doing? Let him go.

- All right. Okay.

I got you. Come on, come on.

It's all right.

We don't need no corner trainer.

How'd I do, Mr. Scrap?

You did good, Danger. You did real good.

You my man. You rock.

Come on, Flip, man, you ain't done.

You ain't even fight good yet.

Anybody can lose one fight.

Anybody can lose one, son.

You'll come back from this.

You'll be champion of the world.

No, I won't, Mr. Scrap.

I should have knowed.

- Come on. We don't need to be talking.

- Let me help you.

Oh, no, I can do her.

Just untie the Velcro for me.

All right.

Come on, don't take the gloves off, man.

You ain't even used them, Danger.

Mind if I borrow this, Danger?

Man, I thought your name was Danger.

Come on, now.

Oh, oh, I see. Now I get to fight

a retard and a old man.

Call ESPN, because you can't

write this sh*t.

Look out, Shawrelle. Easy, Shawrelle.

Keep going, man.

All right, man.

He ain't so tough.

One hundred and ten.

Get a job, punk.

Win this one, I'll tell you what it means.

I got you some pipers.

Mo cuishle! Mo cuishle! Mo cuishle!

Mo cuishle! Mo cuishle! Mo cuishle!

All right, now!

I want you to jab her right in the tits...

...until they turn blue and fall off.

Ladies and gentlemen,

this is the feature...

...presentation of the evening.

In this corner, the challenger,

Maggie Fitzgerald...

...in the red corner.

In the blue corner...

...the WBA welterweight champion

of the world...

...Billie "The Blue Bear."

Sweet Jesus.

Fitzgerald is pushing The Blue Bear

around the ring. She's coming on strong.

Challenger darts in, lands a combination

to the head and the body.

- And a right hook stuns the champ.

- All right.

Break it up!

Break it! Break it!

Do that one more time,

it'll cost you a point, do you hear me?

Go fight.

You motherf***er.

Come on. What the f***?

All right, that's it.

I'm gonna take away a point.

One point deduction

off the blue corner.

- comes back, hits Fitzgerald...

Ref, open your eyes, you...

Ladies and gentlemen, the first round

is in the books on this championship match.

- Hold onto that.

- There you go.

- Looking good.

- You pull that crap one more time...

...you're disqualified.

It's gonna be all right.

Got no doubt, boss.

Okay, just watch yourself.

Stay away from this dame.

Go to the neutral corner.

Neutral corner.

- Four, five, six...

- Stay down, you b*tch.

...seven, eight, nine.

Yeah, yeah!

Break it! Break it!

Fitzgerald continues to pummel

The Blue Bear. The East German champion...

Yes! Come on!

I got it! I got it.

Eyes are blurring, boss.

- How many eyes you need to finish this?

- One's enough.

- Good.

- Now...

...what do I do about the Bear?

Do you know that step into the outside

and hook into the liver?

- I been doing that. She's made of steel.

- I don't want you to go to the liver.

I want you to hit her right up

under her skinny ass, understand?

Right in the sciatic nerve.

Just keep digging it in there.

And just keep sticking her.

You hear that?

- What about the ref?

- Keep between the ref and the Bear...

...and everything will just be fine.

This is yours. You keep your guard up.

You keep it up.

Oh, yeah!

Break, break!

Mo cuishle! Mo cuishle! Mo cuishle!

Doctor.

Come on.

Breathe.

That's it. Breathe.

Good.

Look at me. Concentrate on me.

Breathe.

Good.

That's it.

Breathe.

How you feeling, darling?

Growing a beard, boss?

I thought it might help me

with the ladies.

Can't say it does.

Does it...? Does it hurt much?

Don't hurt at all.

Well, that's good.

Where's Frankie?

Well, he's...

He's out there talking to the doctors.

Probably telling them how to do their job.

They're telling him

I'm a C1 and C2 complete.

Means that my spinal cord's so broke

they'll never be able to fix it.

Gonna be frozen like this

the rest of my life.

I asked them to tell him.

I don't know how he's gonna take it.

Did you see the fight?

Of course I did.

You had her cold, Maggie.

I shouldn't have dropped my hands.

I shouldn't have turned.

Always protect myself.

How many times he tell me that?

Yeah...

...he does like to repeat himself.

Will you tell him I'm real sorry?

No.

I won't do no such thing, Maggie.

Damnedest thing.

So, what's the plan?

I know you got one,

so you might as well tell me what it is.

It's your fault.

Yeah, it's your fault

she's lying in there like that.

You kept after me until I trained her.

I knew I shouldn't have done it,

her being a girl and all.

Everything kept telling me not to.

Everything but you.

I'm gonna get you out of here.

These doctors around here

don't know squat.

Otherwise, why would they be

living out here in the desert?

As soon as you're able to be moved...

...we'll find some place where

they've actually studied medicine.

You just rest there, I'II...

I'm on it.

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