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'Lights Out' Actor Inspired by Larry Holmes, Lennox Lewis

On Tuesday at 10 p.m. on FX, the world will be introduced to 40-year-old, former heavyweight champion, Patrick "Lights Out" Leary -- a married, father of three who is coping with life and financial difficulties five years after having retired from the ring. But for lead actor, Holt McCallany, the litmus test was last...

Surprised Micky Ward's 'Honesty And Integrity' Recognized

Retired former world champion boxer, Micky Ward, whose rough life growing up in a nine-member, dysfunctional family in Lowell, Mass., is portrayed by Mark Wahlberg in the hit movie, The Fighter, has been named the winner of the Boxing Writers Association of America's James A. Farley Award for "Honesty and Integrity in...

Trainer Buddy Mcgirt Talks of Late Vernon Forrest, Arturo Gatti

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos. Two time world champion and boxing trainer Buddy Mcgirt has worked the corner of the late Vernon Forrest, who was killed at the age of 38 on July 25, of 2009 after posting a record of 41-3,...

'Fighter' Q&A With 'Irish' Micky Ward

The similarities between retired boxer Micky Ward and actor Mark Wahlberg are seemingly as endless as they are astounding. Each grew up in Massachusetts as among the younger members of a nine-member, Irish family. Their initials are MW. They were rough-and-tumble youth. And, lately, it seems that the duo is sharing the...

'The Fighter' Movie Sells Where Real Boxing Has Not

NEW YORK (AP) -- Thousands of movie-goers filled theaters across the country last weekend to see Mark Wahlberg's stirring portrayal of Micky Ward in "The Fighter." The film about the hard-scrabble Boston-area boxer raked in more than $12 million its first full weekend, has been nominated for six Golden Globes and...

Micky Ward News From the Web

05/29/12 PM Roundup: Finneran Ends Radio Show; Boxer Ward... Source: WBUR - 90.9 - Boston MA Former House Speaker Tom Finneran is going to leave his radio show on WRKO-AM this week. â
05/17/12 Micky Ward, author answer bell for Andover Bookstore Source: Andover Townsman - Andover MA Andover Bookstore hosts many author visits, but rarely if ever has it hosted a boxer.
05/11/12 Tewksbury Reads launches with Micky Ward bio Source: The Stoneham Independent - Stoneham MA TEWKSBURYâTewksbury will soon have its own 'community reads' program, thanks to the efforts of Robert Hayes and his colleagues at the Tewksbury Memorial Library.
05/11/12 El-Amin Wins USBO Super Middleweight Crown Source: News Blaze Shujaa El-Amin - aka Dion Savage (12-3, 6 KOs) - spoiled tonight's "Homecoming" for popular brawler "Irish" Joey McCreedy(13-6-2, 6 KOs), who was fighting in front of his hometown fans for the first time as a professional boxer.
04/23/12 Gervais Lincoln to host test drive, Micky Ward Source: The Lowell Sun - Lowell MA Gervais Lincoln of Lowell says it's among a few select Ford dealerships to host an event that lets consumers test the new Lincoln Drive Control system for themselves.

Background on Micky Ward

Micky Ward (born October 4, 1965), nicknamed Irish, is a retired American junior welterweight professional boxer and a former WBU champion from Lowell, Massachusetts.

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