The Challenger Page #4

You got to train like that.

You can't get tired.

It's endurance,

technique, strategy.

Ain't no days off.

Keep working.

One, two! One, two!

One, two! One, two!

Hips! Hips! Harder!

Harder! Keep moving!

One, two! Come on!

50 more seconds.

Last round! Last round!

Last round! Last round!

One, two! Hips!

Hips! Let's go.

Come on! How do you

want to be remembered?

Champ or chump?

How do you

want to be remembered?

Huh?

What do you want out of life?

Switch it,

go around, go around!

Let's go, come on,

give me 10 more seconds.

Come on, five more!

Five more

for the championship.

Three! The champ is here!

Two, one. Time!

Show me something now.

Yeah, there you go.

Can't play hockey

till you know

how to skate, baby.

Whatever direction

you're going in,

that foot leads.

You need hips to throw a punch

and balance

to throw your hips.

-Damn!

-Hold on, let's try something.

Hear that?

Yeah. Okay?

Try no hands.

React to your opponent.

Dance.

Yeah. Yeah.

No hands.

There you go. Sway.

Back and forth.

He can't touch you.

Down, down, back and forth.

There you go.

What's the difference

between a fight and boxing?

Endurance!

Strategy.

Technique.

Yeah.

Come on, come on,

that's right.

Move. Move your hands,

move your hands.

There you go.

That's it, that's it.

Yeah.

Good work, fellas, good work.

Sway the hips though,

there you go.

Okay, that's good.

That's it for now.

Great fighters.

Yeah.

You wanted to see me?

I think you're ready

for your first fight.

What do you think?

Yeah, sure.

It's the only one in a frame.

It's the only one

worth framing.

That's Derrick Taylor.

Man trained me

since I was a kid.

Knew more about the sport

than anyone.

Never made it

as a boxer, but...

He was a great man.

A great father.

He used to say that great

boxing was more of a dance

than a fight.

-A dance?

-Yeah.

One leads.

The other one follows.

And then it switches.

You get two great

equally matched boxers

in the ring,

and it's choreography.

It's beautiful.

You ever see

something like that?

Hmm. Once...

Ali, Frazier.

They called it

"the fight of the century."

Pop got us tickets

for my seventh birthday.

I never knew what he meant

until I saw that fight.

Lasted a full 15.

Ali was quick and agile.

And Frazier was a powerhouse.

--It was 15 rounds of...

Dance.

That was real boxing.

Boxing ain't

what it used to be.

You can't have great fights

without great fighters,

and it takes more than

knowledge to be great.

It takes something special.

Pop and I never had it.

I think you just might.

Get some rest.

I'm on a stairway

to heaven right here.

Stairway to heaven, baby.

That's what we want.

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