The Fighter

The incredible but true story of Mickey "Irish" Ward's rise to world champion status. Ward's rise was similar to that of the legendary Rocky. A future ordinary man, he worked as a road worker between fights. After a series of failures and defeats, Mickey was able to return to the ring, as his half-brother, former boxer Dickie Eklund, who had stopped his career due to drug addiction, became his trainer. With the help of his brother, the love of his waitress Charlene, the caring attitude of his mother and an unwavering will to win, Ward rose to the world stage.