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Describes the boxer's childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, his rivalry with his brother, his fifteen-year boxing career and its end in a string of defeats, and his return from retirement to win the world light welterweight title.
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The story behind the Major Motion Picture The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, Irish Thunder is about a boxer from a boxing family and a boxing town, but it is not a boxing book. It is about the human spirit, blind loyalty, self-preservation and self-destruction. Micky’s dramatic victories inside the ring are recounted in detail, but it is his victory outside the ring that will leave the reader inspired.
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