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          Micky Ward, born George Michael Ward Jr. on October 4, , in Lowell, Massachusetts, emerged from a modest and tumultuous background to become a symbol of.!

          From his first bout at the age of seven, Micky Ward was known first and foremost for giving as good as he got, and for leaving absolutely everything he had in.

        1. From his first bout at the age of seven, Micky Ward was known first and foremost for giving as good as he got, and for leaving absolutely everything he had in.
        2. From his first bout at the age of seven, Micky Ward was known first and foremost for giving as good as he got, and for leaving absolutely everything he had.
        3. Micky Ward, born George Michael Ward Jr. on October 4, , in Lowell, Massachusetts, emerged from a modest and tumultuous background to become a symbol of.
        4. "Irish" Micky Ward has his face worked on between rounds during his unforgettable first meeting with Arturo "Thunder" Gatti,
        5. Irish Micky Ward was a Golden Gloves junior welterweight from Lowell, Massachusetts, known as the underdog but with an uncanny ability to suddenly drop his.

          6. Micky Ward: Life Beyond 'The Fighter'

          "It was really good," Micky Ward told me when I caught up with him last week. "Obviously, they don't make things up, but they make things more dramatized in the movie.

          But I was happy with the way it came out."

          Ward, film critic, winner of 38 professional bouts and loser of 13, knows boxing was only part of what made his story attractive to Hollywood. His half-brother, Dicky Eklund, an ex-fighter himself and Micky's sometime-trainer, has struggled with drug addiction.

          He's been in and out of prison. Ward's mother managed much of his career, and his seven sisters by turns supported, distracted and embarrassed the boxer as he tried to concentrate on his trade.

          Micky Ward was born circa , in County Donegal, Ireland, to John Ward and Margt Ward.

          At one dramatic moment in the film, Micky, played by Wahlberg, steps between the feuding camps of his girlfriend and his family in an attempt to make peace. He tells his brother, his mother, his sister and his wife that he needs them all.

          The reconciliation achieved in the fi