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Eklund served as Ward's trainer until his second retirement, after his third fight with Arturo Gatti on June 7, 2003. Ward's biography, written by Bob Halloran and titled Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward, discusses much of Eklund's life and career. Eklund now works as a personal trainer and boxing coach in New England. He ...
Ward still lives in Lowell, where he is part owner of both a boxing gym as well as an outdoor hockey rink. [7] Ward is married to Charlene Fleming, his longtime girlfriend, who is also a former athlete. He manages the boxing gym he owns with his half-brother and former trainer, Dicky Eklund, who trains new boxers entering its academy. [8]
The film centers on the lives of professional boxer Micky Ward (Wahlberg) and his older half-brother and former boxer Dicky Eklund (Bale). The film was inspired by the 1995 documentary featuring the Eklund-Ward family titled High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell. [4] The Fighter was released in theaters on December 17, 2010, by Paramount ...
With boxing, The Fighter is such a good film because of what incredible, unique characters Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund are—and because of their relationship to each other.
Eklund & Ward brothers. Dicky Eklund (1957–), welterweight; Micky Ward (1965–), WBU light welterweight champion; Flanagan brothers. Del Flanagan (1928–2003), welterweight; Glen Flanagan (1926–1979), featherweight; Folley family. Zora Folley (1931–1972), heavyweight; Robert Folley (Zora's son; 1959–), light heavyweight and ...
He is the author of Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward, a boxing biography on "Irish " Micky Ward, published in 2007 by Lyons Press. Paramount Pictures has retained Bob Halloran as a technical consultant for the producers of the film The Fighter starring Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward and Christian Bale as Micky's brother Dicky ...
Mar. 5—HANOVER TWP. — He may have been known as a relentless puncher who could give as good as he took, but former light welterweight pro boxer "Irish" Micky Ward included one message of non ...
Former reality-TV star Fredrik Eklund from Bravo's 'Million Dollar Listing' has moved with his children to Miami from California in summer of 2023.