Word: boxer
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Even Mickey Rourke’s guest appearance is restrained. This is a guy who briefly quit acting to become a professional boxer. (Perhaps demonstrating Scott’s need for a modicum of Top Gun pizzazz, he has Rourke’s character killed by a mysterious samurai sword late in the film...
...coterie of relatives, Pacquiao seems happy and at ease, joking with his brother-in-law and teasing another family member for losing a bet on the horse race they've been watching on TV. His advisers are worried that Pacquiao's generosity could be his undoing, but the boxer says it's just part of being a champion. "I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory...
...bought her. She leaves little doubt who her favorite child is: "He is like a Xerox copy of me," she says. The resemblance is as much mental as physical. "If I had been a man, I would have been a millionaire because I would have been a champion boxer," she adds...
...that he is - when not distracted - one of the most disciplined competitors in the sport. "When I am in training, all [other activities] will stop," Pacquiao vows. "It's like a tunnel when I'm training for a fight." Salud says Pacquiao has the chance to be the greatest boxer in Philippine history, and others see in the young fighter a new confidence and maturity since the victory over Barrera. "There's been a huge change in his personality," says journalist Trinidad. "He now has serenity. Before, it was very hard to talk to him. He was not that secure...
...Harvard’s version of The Quiet Man, and if being compared to John Wayne—in one of his funniest performances in which he plays a boxer returned to Ireland to win over a fiery country girl and beat up her bullying brother—isn’t a compliment I don’t know what is. It’s also a statement on how humble (and barely audible) junior center Tom Cavanagh is. But this weekend, and actually for the three weeks of the ECAC playoffs, Cavangh’s on-ice performance...