Micky Ward
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Sep 11, 2026
Shannon SharpeHOST
No. Yeah.
Shannon SharpeHOST
There were too many wars with Mickey Ward.
Zab JudahGUEST
Too many wars.
Chad JohnsonHOST
Yeah.
Shannon SharpeHOST
For a long career.
Shannon SharpeHOST
You fight like that.
Zab JudahGUEST
I fought Mickey Ward in 98 and that body shot, sometimes I wake up and I still remember it.
Zab JudahGUEST
I still feel it.
Zab JudahGUEST
He, we always say that.
Shannon SharpeHOST
Did too many wars with Mickey Ward.
Zab JudahGUEST
Yeah, too many, too many wars.
Chad JohnsonHOST
Yeah.
Shannon SharpeHOST
... for sh- for, for, for a long career.
Shannon SharpeHOST
You fight like that-
Zab JudahGUEST
I fought Mickey Ward in '98, and that body shot, sometimes I wake up and I still remember it.
Zab JudahGUEST
[laughs]
Ken RideoutHOST
Thank God not while I was there.
Ken RideoutHOST
But Mickey Ward, who they made the movie The Fighter about, he was a guard there with me too.
Ken RideoutHOST
And his brother, Dick Yeklin, who was played by Christian Bale in the movie The Fighter, he was an inmate there while Mickey and I were guards.
Ken RideoutHOST
Are you serious? Yeah.
Ade OladipoHOST
But if it wasn't, then I've won this round.
Ade OladipoHOST
I am talking round nine between Mickey Ward and Arturo Gatti.
Ade OladipoHOST
Round nine, it was fight of the year.
Ade OladipoHOST
In fact, they fought three times and two of their fights were fight of the year.
Johnny NelsonGUEST
talking about the referee, Frank Cappuccino.
Ade OladipoHOST
This fight, it just delivered the round.
Ade OladipoHOST
Early in the round, Mickey Ward sent Arturo Gatti to the canvas with a body shot.
Ade OladipoHOST
It's over.
MasonHOST
Okay.
Chris HandHOST
Mickey Ward.
Chris HandHOST
It's unnatural.
Chris HandHOST
Mickey Ward guy.
Chris HandHOST
He was so tough.
Chris HandHOST
That was a good movie, too.
Ade OladipoHOST
I was...
Ade OladipoHOST
I was going to go Irish Mickey Ward.
Johnny NelsonGUEST
I was going to go there.
Johnny NelsonGUEST
I was going to go there.
Brian PetersGUEST
Like, even in them Serrano fights, you know, and like, what great fights, and it does take two to tango.
Brian PetersGUEST
You do need, you know, like, Ali, Frazier, we think of all these, Mickey Ward, but these great trilogies, you know, Ken Norton, Ali, like, there hasn't been too many yet.
Brian PetersGUEST
Here we are, we still haven't seen feckin' AJ and Fury.
Brian PetersGUEST
It's still on.
Mario LopezHOST
Everything was done right.
Mario LopezHOST
And talk about getting the most out of his abilities, and then he happened to take place in, uh, such a memorable trilogy with, with, with Micky Ward, and it didn't matter.
Mario LopezHOST
They almost had a UFC sort of approach to him.
Mario LopezHOST
It didn't even matter if he lost 'cause you knew-
Declan KrugerHOST
He never had a boring fight.
Declan KrugerHOST
You talked about the Micky Ward trilogy, and even fights he, like...
Declan KrugerHOST
I, I don't mean this to be rude to Arturo Gatti, but even fights he lost, like the Floyd Mayweather fight, the De La Hoya fight, it showed that, like, there were levels to boxing, and that in and of itself, you were like, you, you...
Declan KrugerHOST
Like, I still go back and watch the Mayweather-Gatti fight, where Mayweather just beat the piss out of him.
Andre Dubus IIISOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
okay.
Andre Dubus IIISOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Kerouac, country, Irish, Mickey Ward, you know, guys like that.
Andre Dubus IIISOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Where, by the way, my name wasn't Andre Dubuis, but Andre Doofus, or Dubis.
Brooke WarnerHOST
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