ref: Tommy Rawson 89-100 Joe Martin 89-99 Barbara Roach 90-100. The room is decorated in Bob's Discount Furniture. And then they would hear from the girls themselves -- especially Pork, who was on set nearly every day. "Alice is the rock in that family," says Mickey O'Keefe, the police sergeant who trained Ward, and in the movie version, clashes with Dicky over his drug use and mismanagement. He is careful to note what his recent efforts at pain relief have not included: crack, which he has smoked off and on for years. Ward signed the contract while preparing for his third fight against Arturo Gatti and, he said at the time, "I signed it to get Dicky out of my hair." The match ended with Sugar as a winner by unanimous decision. Known as "The Pride of Lowell", he held the USA New England welterweight title twice between 1979 and 1983. Once they learned that she'd survived and had been put on a ventilator, they piled into the car to say goodbye while they still had the chance. ("Christian is more Dicky than Dicky," Micky says.) Richard Eklund Jr., more popular as Dicky Eklund, is an American former professional boxer who competed in the welterweight division. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. But right now, Dicky needs something a little stronger than adulation. He also earned three Golden Glove titles to his name. He climbs into the ring with Sean and for the next hour or so gains a steady focus, putting his nephew through a series of speed-punching, ducking, and footwork drills so unrelenting it's easy to see how he pushed his brother to win a world championship and why he is considered by some boxing experts to be an intuitive trainer and an effective motivator. Ward settled the suit three months later, under confidential terms, and entered a new agreement with Paramount. She too went to the casting call on a lark --- I was going to turn around when I saw how many people were there, but my Mom had to pee and she made me go inside -- and was surprised that she was called back. Charge multiple devicesThe circular design of the power strip allows for the 15" to coil up inside the body of the productmaking it easy to wrap up and throw in a bag to take with you when traveling. part simulating oral sex on Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant.) And the actresses had plenty of real-life inspiration: the sisters are local legends, and a few hung around the set. When The Fighter premiered in Lowell in December, it seemed as if the entire town more than a handful of its residents make appearances in it filed into the Showcase Cinemas to see it. Jokingly, he provides his own voice-over: "'Yeah, yeah. At the restaurant, a Mexican-Irish mash-up called Garcia Brogan's, the bartender greets Dicky with a hearty handshake and a loud "Heineken?" Now I can put them on eBay, but I gotta get Micky. The pattern continued last summer. [2] The 2010 biopic The Fighter is based on the two brothers' fall and rise to the boxing title. "I can't do the surgery right now," Dicky tells her. Now I know."[2]. He also travels the United States with Micky Ward, giving motivational speeches to college students. His mother was his older half- brother's manager, Dicky Eklund, who was a recognized successful boxer in Massachusetts, having participated in 190 amateur fights. "Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti vs. Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy" [Rowman and Littlefield], (2016. (When I ask him about it, he says that Leslie had been chasing him out of the house and tripped while trying to prevent him from leaving. I come from a big Irish family, and you gotta get in there to get your words heard. However, he won the next ten fights straight, beating opponents such as Doug Romano, Mike Michaud and Carlos Garcia. Imagine her," he says to me, "when I'm speaking? Dicky has a great story to tell. He launched a comeback in 1997, and won his first nine fights. During his pro career between 1975 and 1985, Eklund had a total of nineteen wins out of twenty-nine fights. The video above includes some choice segments from the documentary, which follows Eklund and other drug users as they battle addiction. In 2011, Wahlberg confirmed to Spike TV that The Fighter 2 is in the works, which will focus on the legendary fight trilogy between Ward and Arturo Gatti.[10]. Richard Eklund Jr. (born May 3, 1957) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1975 to 1985. It's a way to capitalize on interest in the movie and to help Dicky make a little money. [5] According to the 1983 Ring Record Book, Eklund knocked out Canada's Allan Clarke in 9 rounds on August 25, 1981. At some point during the night, Alice Ward's heart stopped beating, and before the doctors somehow revived her, the family got word that she'd died. People of Lowell, Massachusetts. The official verdict by the referee Tommy Rawson was a slip. The casting director was going around the casting call saying, Youre too pretty, and Youre too pretty. So I got up in her face and said, You think Im too pretty? said McDermott. ", Outside the gym, Dicky lights a Newport and tells me a story: "Two weeks ago, I was helping this hooker," he says. During his boxing career, Dicky (Christian Bale) was a community hero in Lowell for facing Sugar Ray Leonard in 1978 and knocking down the then-undefeated fighter in a fight that went all ten rounds, even though the knockdown is generally disputed as Leonard tripping over his own feet. Everywhere Eklund goes these days, people stop him or else stare and whisper. After an amateur boxing career of 200 bouts, winning 194, Eklund turned professional on August 26, 1975. Tips are always welcome. In truth, though, it's not all good pub for Eklund. Was nominated for seven Academy Awards, with Bale and Leo winning for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Though no information is available about his parents, he has seven sisters, Cindy, Cathy, Alice, Donna, Phyllis, Sherri, and Gail Eklund. Movies Movie Titles. "I can go into a bar or into the drug house and get anything I want thousand dollars' worth of stuff. His parents areRichard Eklund Sr.andAlice Ward. Details about his early life and education are not known to the media. He became WBU Intercontinental Light Welterweight Champion, and made it to the Championship fight for the 1997 IBF Light Welterweight. The postscript about Dicky Eklund that comes at the end of The Fighter is strenuously vague: "Dicky maintains his status as a local legend. In the past four years alone, he has been arrested for cocaine possession and a string of assaults, including a charge of attempted murder. ), This page was last edited on 10 November 2022, at 00:09. However, several sites claim he earned $7,500 for that bout. the Oscars and more. Dicky grew up alongside his half-brother, Micky, and seven sisters, Donna Eklund-Jaynes, Gail Eklund-Carney, Phyllis Eklund, Cindy Eklund-Cooper, Catherine Eklund-Brady, Alice Eklund-Kelly, and Sherri Fells-Ward. Soon after, nearly 10,000 people went to Eklund's site and crashed it. She lays out his pajamas if they're staying in, which she tries to get him to do as much as she can. http://www.prphotos.com/p/BBC-028216/dicky-eklund-david-o-russell-and-micky-ward-at-17th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards--arrivals.html?&ps=3&x-start=0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3vdTeaCDqc, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicky_Eklund. He was questioned in other crimes as well. too pretty? Erica McDermott, who plays Tar, told Mr. Zeitchik, explaining that, in my acting class they said you have to take a risk.. Micky has been doing these talks for years, and now prompted, in part, by the agency that handles Micky's speaking gigs Dicky will join him. This is awful." I didn't do it. Someone named O'Brien, for one, who -- oh yes -- also happens to be Conan O'Briens real-life sister, Kate, as well as other fledgling actors as endearingly salt-of-the-earth as the people they portray. Ray Leonard. [6], Ward still lives in Lowell, where he is part owner of both a boxing gym as well as an outdoor hockey rink. Between his controlling mom Alice, who manages his career, his crack head trainer brother, and a Greek chorus of seven sisters, Micky doesn't have . [2] During Ward's time away from the sport, he used some of the funds from his day job on a road-paving crew to have surgery on his right hand, which had given him problems during several bouts. He is atwo-time 'USA New England Welterweight' titleholder. At the party after the premiere, Bale posed for dozens of photos with locals $20 a pop, with all proceeds, about $700, going to the Dicky Eklund fund. At the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards, Eklund made a surprise appearance on stage with Christian Bale as the latter accepted the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Eklund. "These are Micky's world-champ shoes. Eklund's most notable fight was on July 18, 1978, against Sugar Ray Leonard at the Hynes Memorial Auditorium in Boston, Massachusetts. His most notable moment in the ring came in 1978, when he knocked down Sugar Ray Leonard in a 10-round fight that he ultimately lost by unanimous decision. Gatti was able to come back and win the fight via a unanimous decision. The Lowell native competed in the Welterweight division and won over 190 fights as an amateur. In May 2006, Dicky was involved in a homicide that took place outside Captain John's, a bar just down the street from where his life story would be filmed months later. In an interview regarding the knockdown, Leonard said, "I slipped."[4]. Countries of the World. Congratulations to Tim Tebow , Reggie Bush , Mark Richt and the entire 2023 College Football Hall of Fame class. It tells on the lives of professional boxer Micky Ward and his older half-brother and former boxer Dicky Eklund. Dicky Eklund.jpg 1,530 1,869; 393 KB. The risk culminated, Mr. Zeithchik writes, in a four-hour improvised audition with Mr. Russell, who has a reputation as kind of a demanding guy. Eklund was also featured on the HBO documentary High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell which showed his fall from boxing grace because of his addiction to crack cocaine. READ MORE:Paulo Nagamura Biography - Former Soccer Player. The fastest win of his career came against C.J. Shortly before the punch, Emanuel Augustus said the fight should be stopped (which referee Mitch Halpern had threatened to do if Ward didn't "show [him] something"); afterwards Merchant called it one of the most extraordinary things he'd ever seen in boxing.[3]. Dicky has lived an impressive boxing career and is currently a full-time coach. "We're close now," Micky says. Dicky Eklund was born on 9th May 1957, in Lowell, Massachusetts to Alice Eklund-Ward and Richard Eklund Sr. And I do mean stay in character. With my record I could have got 25 to life. I'm just telling some stuff. (One of them, Bianca Hunter, had a small [1] He is the half-brother and former trainer of former WBU champion Micky Ward. "That's my brother! It could be a train wreck. Following a rematch victory over Lucas in 1985, Eklund never fought again. he says. 'Miss, you want to be a part of this?' "You watch that fight on YouTube," he crows, "and tell me I don't know how to do the job.". And he'll kick your ass into shape. Currently, Dicky Eklund is 65 years, 0 months and 15 days old. The same idea is suggested in David O. Russell's The Fighter, which tells the true story of boxer Mickey Ward's comeback from next-to-nothing welterweight to one of the most admired fighters in the ring.Micky, as portrayed by that yummy hunk of Irish soda bread Mark Wahlberg, is a softie who finds himself losing fight after fight under the coaching of his half brother Dicky Eklund, a . Manage Settings He claims Dicky told him the movie was about his life, not Micky's, and that he would play only a small role. Dicky Eklund's girlfriend,a former nurse, called the cops on him in 2009 after he strangled her. (She's on disability because of a hand injury.) Facing troubles on the street and problems with his home life, Dicky confronts his demons with crack addiction as a result of an HBO documentary dedicated to his poor decisions and substance abuse. "'Vanilla Thrillas': Modern Boxing and White-Ethnic Masculinity," Journal of Sport and Social Issues 34:4 (November, 2010), 418437. Known as the "Pride of Lowell (Massachusetts)", Dicky Eklund 's (Christian Bale) primary claim to fame is his 1978 boxing match with Sugar Ray Leonard, where Eklund knocked down Leonard, who eventually won the match. There he goes again!'". Three years earlier, at 9 a.m. on a June morning in 2007, cops responded to a report of a man beating a woman in a parking lot. "It's like shooting lightning bolts," he tells Stacey Gallagher, his nurse-practitioner, a green-eyed beauty Dicky calls his "girlfriend." Her fellow Fighter sister, Melissa McMeekin, wasnt much more experienced. 1978-07-18. She would come up to me and say, Why are you saying that? The Fighter adalah film biografi aksi tentang Micky Ward, seorang petinju dari Lowell, Massachusetts. IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. The last time I drop Dicky off at his house, a weak winter sun is setting over Lowell, and he is telling me he needs an agent. In his ten-year professional career, Eklundregistered 19 wins(4 of which were by knockout) and ten losses. They fled Ireland during the 1850s to escape from poverty and oppression and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts. Dicky was a scrappy Irish tough who danced and fidgeted his way through bouts and never suffered a single knockout. He's funny and clever and bloody sharp and full of charm. "The cops want me for that," he says. Eklund now works as a personal trainer and boxing coach in New England. His height is 5 ft 8 in (173 cm). Surgery will lessen the pain, but that would also put him out of commission. He started boxing at the age of 7 years he started boxing with the help of his brother, and he rose up by achieving excellent results. 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