Well, as per several sites, he is in a loving relationship with his partnerLeslie Stephens. The fastest win of his career came against C.J. "Cops said I threw the shot. [6], Ward still lives in Lowell, where he is part owner of both a boxing gym as well as an outdoor hockey rink. Former Professional Boxer, Boxing Training Coach, Dicky Eklund also trained his half-brother and WBU champion Micky Ward. Dicky had been training boxers at a Cambodian gym in downtown Lowell a gym that had been renovated to house his training business but lately he hasn't been showing up. "Our house before this was nice," Leslie tells me. "And it's all cleaning supplies." A stay-at-home mom who had been contemplating a return to a nursing career, McDermotts previous acting claim to fame, she says proudly, was a performance in a community theater production called Mommylogues, which she took on after a few weeks of acting classes. Also, it hasn't been disclosed who Dicky Eklund's baby mama is. He also performed stunts inBlack Mass. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. 1. One slip, you can be back there. And I looked at Bianca and said, Its just like my childhood. She adds, I was kidding. He was questioned in other crimes as well. "And he's having to see all of the lowest points of that life. "My boyfriend just beat the shit out of me," she told cops when they arrived. "Afterward, people in the theater were all excited; they stood up clapping," Dicky says. The legend of the sisters grew when the real-life Beaver Eklund (some of the sisters share a father with Ward, some with Eklund; they all are the offspring of Alice Ward, played by Melissa Leo) stormed out of a recent screening in protest because she didnt like how her mother was being portrayed. "You're too much, Dicky," she says. . And despite the searing pain in his back, he's determined to make the most of it. big-haired, loud-talking, punch-throwing Irish American siblings to Mark Wahlbergs Micky Ward and Christian Bales Dicky Eklund. His son, Dicky Jr., has seven other acting credits, includingHostiles, Patriots Day, Bleed For This, American Hustle,and more. The screenplay, by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, is based on the real-life pugilists who hail from Lowell, Mass., a once- robust textile center. 'Quacker! Since The Fighter's debut, Dicky has been offering training sessions through his website at $150 a pop, getting ready to sell custom T-shirts online, and lining up exhibition stunts, like going a few rounds with the former child-star train wreck at a Philadelphia community center, which he's hoping will net him $1,500. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. 297 Days 04 Hours 29 Minutes 29 Seconds Recent Birthday Highlights 55th birthday - Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Gatti pounded Ward with punch after punch early on, but Ward fought back and managed a sixth round knockdown of Gatti. In May 2006, Dicky was involved in a homicide that took place outside Captain John's, a bar just down the street from where his life story would be filmed months later. Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale) was a pretty good boxer once, just spend a little bit of time around him or his overbearing mother (Melissa Leo) and you'll hear all about it. ", The 53-year-old suffers from herniated disks in his lumbar spine that impinge on his nerves. The sad tale of boxer Dicky Eklund has been well-chronicled on screens both big and small. in mid-'90s Lowell, Mass. The former boxer leads a modest life away from media glamour. Steven Zeitchik is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper from 2009 to 2017, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. Both of them came in between 1979 to 1983. Leonard eventually won the fight by unanimous decision. A sucker-punch incident here, a bar fight there. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. Eklund down three times. He has an estimated net worth of $500 Thousand. He trains boxers at his brother's gym." Richard Eklund Jr. (born May 3, 1957) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1975 to 1985. Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. 12 0 0. "I wanted him to watch it without a bunch of people turning to him and saying, 'What did you think?'" Currently, Dicky Eklund is 65 years, 0 months and 15 days old. I got them out of the trash. Known as "The Pride of Lowell", he held the USA New England welterweight title twice between 1979 and 1983. "Russell had to cut filming until we calmed her down. According to the police report, she said Dicky had gone "crazy," pushing her onto the couch, climbing on top of her and choking her, alternately pinching her nose and covering her mouth with a free hand until she got dizzy. He served as his full-time trainer from 1985 to 1991. IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. Now I can put them on eBay, but I gotta get Micky. We would talk to each other between takes in Dickyese. LOWELL Lowell boxing legend Richard "Dicky" Eklund is being held without bail on attempted murder charges, after police say he strangled his longtime girlfriend during a fight e The last time I drop Dicky off at his house, a weak winter sun is setting over Lowell, and he is telling me he needs an agent. The contract promised Micky Ward between $75,000 and $200,000, plus a small percentage of net profits from the film if it was made. The film also earned critical acclaim. 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. His professional career, which lasted from 1975 to 1985, included 19 wins and ten losses. The postscript about Dicky Eklund that comes at the end of The Fighter is strenuously vague: "Dicky maintains his status as a local legend. Bale has jokingly said he had to keep Dicky from throwing a punch or two at director David O. Russell during filming. While several of the performers live in Los Angeles and have some acting experience, the majority are small-town Massachusetts locals who came through the front door -- literally, by answering a casting call that sought boxers, crack addicts and little Cambodian men, as Erica McDermott, who plays Tar, puts it. The casting director was going around the casting call saying, Youre too pretty, and Youre too pretty. So I got up in her face and said, You think Im That Eklund, as it turns out, isn't as far removed from his old life as Mark Wahlberg would like you to believe is jarring. Soon after, nearly 10,000 people went to Eklund's site and crashed it. His half-brother, Dicky Eklund, an ex-fighter himself and Micky's sometime-trainer, has struggled with drug addiction. He started boxing at the age of 7 years he started boxing with the help of his brother, and he rose up by achieving excellent results. They travel in pack. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all. Now Dicky is hoping the movie will bring him training gigs that will pay more than the $40 per session he gets from the local hopefuls and gym rats looking to spice up their workout routines. He is careful to note what his recent efforts at pain relief have not included: crack, which he has smoked off and on for years. His maternal great-grandmother Annie Greenhalge (Carroll) was born in Ireland, the daughter of Michael and Mary (Flood) Carroll. The surgery used some of the bone from Ward's pelvis to strengthen and fuse the bones in his hand. Dicky, as anyone who has sat through 'The Fighter''s grim crack-house scenes knows, has a well-documented penchant for narcotics. Is there an issue? We assure our audience that we will remove any contents that are not accurate or according to formal reports and queries if they are justified. "Wow, what a miracle." And Ive got a lot of irons in the fire, McDermott contributed. All of Dicky Eklund's children appeared in The Fighter alongside him. "But it's still hard to look at." The total running time of the movie is 1 hour and 56 minutes. Ward would eventually face off against Hammer in one of his first amateur bouts, winning by unanimous decision. The room is decorated in Bob's Discount Furniture. (She's on disability because of a hand injury.) Thus, he inspires people by being who he is, i.e., a man who had it all before losing everything and re-finding himself. so it wasnt that hard for me to look like I might have more siblings. Or that they were ornery (in a funny way, of course). "Push! Dicky was featured in the 1995 HBO documentary High on Crack Street and was later. [1] He is the half-brother and former trainer of former WBU champion Micky Ward. if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'biographyhost_com-box-4','ezslot_4',131,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-biographyhost_com-box-4-0');if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'biographyhost_com-box-4','ezslot_5',131,'0','1'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-biographyhost_com-box-4-0_1');.box-4-multi-131{border:none!important;display:block!important;float:none!important;line-height:0;margin-bottom:7px!important;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;margin-top:7px!important;max-width:100%!important;min-height:250px;padding:0;text-align:center!important}. In the film The Fighter, Eklund claims to have knocked down Leonard in their match. Eklund looks only slightly put off. He needs to find time to sign them for me.". She's joined by Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes in Los Angeles, Larry Rohter on foreign-language films They have nicknames as colorful as their hairstyles -- Tar, Pork, Beaver -- and, in the movie as in real life, are fiercely protective of their brothers while serving as a comedic Greek chorus. ", Dicky Eklund lives in a three-bedroom apartment on the first floor of a 19th-century Victorian that's seen better days. Micky gets the word at his hotel in New York and arranges to fly in on an 11 pm flight. "When push comes to shove, don't mess with . In the past four years alone, he has been arrested for cocaine possession and a string of assaults, including a charge of attempted murder. His hard work saw him getting better in the ring and soon landed him in matches against renowned boxers. "There's a 30 milligram pill," Dicky offers hopefully. Leslie adds, "He doesn't remember me." Dicky grew up alongside his half-brother, Micky, and seven sisters, Donna Eklund-Jaynes, Gail Eklund-Carney, Phyllis Eklund, Cindy Eklund-Cooper, Catherine Eklund-Brady, Alice Eklund-Kelly, and Sherri Fells-Ward. Moreover, the same fight was portrayed in the 2010 biopic of Dicky EklundThe Fighterportrayed by the English actorChristian Bale. And all the seven have been portrayed by various actresses in Eklund's biopicThe Fighter. On the other hand, Eklund was a newbie and was expected to lose by many. [8], In his 2012 autobiography, Ward revealed that he had been sexually abused as a child by a friend of Dicky's, another boxer referred to only by his nickname, "Hammer". More than a decade before, Hunter had a few bit parts in some independent movies -- she holds a bizarre distinction in the history of cinema as the girl who simulated oral sex on Harvey Keitels character in a famous scene from 1992s Bad Lieutenant -- but left behind acting in the late 1990s to raise her three children. Her son, Dicky Eklund, confirmed her death on Wednesday after she suffered a heart attack in January and described his mother as 'the leader of our family'. L-UD. . Now, let's take a look at some of Dicky Eklund's boxing results in the table below: For his match against Sugar Ray Leonard, Eklund's prize money was $4,500, as perBoxRec. That would be awesome. We are going out to dinner, and she's laid out Dicky's clothes, as she does every night. One of the more interesting plot devices in the recent Hollywood film The Fighter is that the HBO documentary High on Crack Street shapes part of the movie's storyline. He's excited about the "motivational" speaking engagements Ward has lined up for them, starting at some college in Florida. But loyalty is his essence. The next day Dicky calls me, crying. Show me who's boss! 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