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Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward
Bob Halloran
Globe Pequot
October 2010
On Sale: October 19, 2010
347 pages
ISBN: 0762769866
EAN: 9780762769865
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Non-Fiction Biography
Welcome to Lowell, Massachusetts -- where anything can happen. Rocky Marciano fought at the Auditorium in 1947. Mike Tyson
fought there in his Golden Gloves days. Sugar Ray Leonard
won there, as did Marvin Hagler. Each of them prepared for
his battle downstairs in the boiler room, just like
thousands of other kids. ''Irish'' Micky Ward grew up in the 1970s and 80s as a tough
kid from Lowell, Massachusetts -- a town where boxers were
once bred as a means of survival. A hard worker who overcame
bad luck, bad management, and chronic pain in his hands, he
avoided the pitfall of poverty and dead-end work that
plagued Lowell to become a Golden Gloves junior welterweight. Ward participated in street fights from an early age and was
forever known by his opponents and spectators as the
underdog. But with his incredible ability to suddenly drop
an opponent late in a fight with his trademark left hook, he
kept proving everyone wrong. After fifteen years of boxing, a string of defeats, and
three years of retirement, Micky battled Arturo Gatti in
2002 in the battle that was later named ''Fight of the
Year'' by Ring magazine and dubbed ''Fight of the Century''
by boxing writers and fans across the country. Ten rounds of
brutal action ended with Micky winning by decision, and
reviving enthusiasm for a sport that had been weighted down
by years of showboating and corruption. ESPN and Boston
television reporter Bob Halloran recounts Micky's rise to
hero status, his rivalry with his imprisoned brother, and
the negotiations, betrayals, and drugs that ultimately
shaped a wild youth into a nationally respected boxer.
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