While in the hospital, Maggie looks forward to a visit from her family. Maggie lands hard on her corner stool, breaking her neck and leaving her a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic. Maggie begins to dominate the fight, but Billie knocks her out with an illegal sucker punch from behind after the bell rings to end the round.
He secures Maggie a $1 million match in Las Vegas against the WBA women's welterweight champion, Billie "The Blue Bear" Osterman, a German ex-prostitute who has a reputation as an unpunished dirty fighter.
The two travel to Europe as she continues to win Maggie eventually saves up enough of her winnings to buy her mother a house, but her mother berates Maggie for endangering her government aid, claiming that everyone back home is laughing at her.įrankie is finally willing to arrange a title fight. Frankie bestows Maggie a Gaelic nickname, embroidered on her boxing robe, Mo Chuisle (misspelled in the film as "mo cuishle"), but does not tell her its meaning. Scrap, concerned when Frankie rejects several offers for big fights, arranges a meeting for Maggie with Mickey Mack but, out of loyalty to Frankie, she declines. Since she has earned a reputation for quick KOs, Frankie must resort to bribery to get other managers to put their trainee fighters up against her. Maggie fights her way up in the women's amateur boxing division with Frankie's coaching. Frankie then reluctantly agrees to train Maggie. Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris, Frankie's friend and employee - the film's narrator - encourages and helps Maggie.įrankie's prize prospect, "Big Willie" Little, signs with successful manager Mickey Mack after becoming impatient with Frankie rejecting offers for a championship bout. Maggie asks Frankie to train her, but he refuses as he does not train women and she is too old to begin a boxing career. Dunn is a cantankerous Irish-American trainer, revealed to be estranged by his own daughter. Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a waitress from the Ozarks, shows up at the Hit Pit, a rundown Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn.
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