Micky Ward

Name: Micky Ward
Alias: Irish
Birth Name: George Michael Ward Jr
Hometown: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 173cm
Reach: 178cm
Pro Boxer: Record

Micky Ward Gallery

Notes

• Ward was a pressure fighter with a devastating left hook to the body.
• Trained by his older half-brother Dick Eklund.
• Best known for his trilogy with Arturo Gatti in 2002 and 2003. Ward won the first fight and Gatti won the next two.
• The Ring Magazine named three of Ward's bouts Fight of the Year:
  • Micky Ward vs. Emanuel Augustus (2001)
  • Micky Ward vs. Arturo Gatti I (2002)
  • Micky Ward vs. Arturo Gatti III (2003)
• The 2010 movie The Fighter was about Ward. It won two Academy Awards.

Titles Held

• WBU Light Welterweight Title (2000)
• WBU Intercontinenal Light Welterweight Title (1996)

Quotes

• "If Micky Ward wants to come to you, he will walk through a hailstorm of punishment to do it." - Jim Lampley during Ward's first fight with Arturo Gatti.