Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man Page #11

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- Head, body, head, body.

Get in your mind this is

f***ing yours. F***in' do it.

Stay off the f***in' ropes.

If I'm in Micky Ward's corner tonight,

I thinking if he doesn't pick things up

this round and get going,

he'll just get totally wiped out.

Off the ropes!

Get off the ropes, Mick!

Once again, Ward against

the ropes as Neary is free to attack.

What are you doing? Come on, Mick!

Sometimes if you wanna win,

you gotta be something that you're not.

Come on!

Off the f***in' ropes, Mick,

that ain't it!

Neary continues to pound away.

Don't take no abuse!

This is your time Micky! It's up to you!

- Two big misses by Neary!

- That's it! That's it!

Ward seemingly getting his legs back.

He backs Neary off.

- Ward trades his way back.

- That's it!

Ward nods as if to say,

"Come on!"

"Come on, let's fight!"

Just imagine if you bought a ticket.

Closer and closer to Neary's ribcage.

This is becoming Micky Ward's fight.

And a left hook to the body

and an uppercut lands

- and now he backs Neary off.

- Head, body, head f***in' body!

Ward hurt Neary with a body shot.

Ward hurts him again

with that left to the body.

Oh, and that one plants

Neary on his butt.

First time in 23 professional fights

- that Shea Neary has been down.

- This is it! This is it!

This is it, Micky!

Keep going! Don't look at me for it!

Take it to him!

- Come on, Micky, get in there!

- Ward lands a huge left hook!

As Micky Ward pounds away!

Goes to the body with the left hook!

Lands the uppercut again!

Neary down for the second time.

Mickey Vann's gonna stop it there.

"Irish" Micky Ward

with a big eight-round TKO!

He's done it again.

He's done it again.

The grinding, gutty Micky Ward

pulls out another big victory!

You're the champion of the world, Mick!

You're the f***in' champ of the world!

You f***in' did it!

Oh, you're the best!

- Oh, I love you!

- My boy's the champion of the world!

I love you!

This town always said,

you're a f***in' boxer, right?

He thought he was a piece of sh*t. He

put Lowell back on the map, you know?

- We.

- I tell ya...

- We.

- No, but hold on.

Who used to be the pride of Lowell?

Right here.

Who's the pride of Lowell now?

Right there.

That's how it's meant to be, you know?

Handin' it down to him.

Nothin' better than that.

Nothin' better than that.

He did it. I gotta go.

I gotta go.

Oh, look at cabbage head. Boo Boo!

Quacka!

- What's up buddy?

- Boo, where's your teeth?

Oh, I'm under arrest!

Let's go, move it out!

It's been real, ain't it?

It's been real, it's been unreal.

It's been a great experience.

Just glad it's done, finally,

and thanks to everyone so much,

from the bottom of my heart.

Thanks so much,

all you Hollywood people.

Now you know what I mean

when I say I can't get a word in.

I'm telling ya.

He'll never get a word in.

- All right, thank you.

- Thank you.

Thanks, everybody.

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