How an adult's world suddenly collapses may be down to a subtle decision. The appearance is fierce and domineering, and there is an aura that no strangers can enter. It may only be your protective layer in the eyes of your loved ones. There is a good saying: when others care about how high you fly, only those who love you will care whether you are tired or not. As you get one honor after another, she'll tell you to stop and care about what you've been through and see through your vulnerable side.
After winning the gold belt championship for four years, Billy has gained all kinds of glory and has been sought after by many people. But because his wife who loves him silently supports and helps him behind his back, he can always be handy in life and on the field. Billy has suffered from hardships since he was a child to develop his strong character, but also made him particularly prone to anger. When he was provoked, only his wife was by his side to make him a little comfortable. While being sought after by people, he is also eager to help children who are suffering, practiced his speech for charity dinners with the help of his wife and daughter, and showed a tough guy tenderness to his wife at the press conference.
Billy's irritable and furious character is a time bomb he presses on himself, but the remote control of the bomb is detonated in the hands of others and hurts himself and the people around him. After being continuously provoked, Billy broke out despite his wife's dissuasion. The public brawl caused chaos and his wife was shot in the middle of the chaos. Seeing his wife trembling in a pool of blood, Billy's emotionally broken and fragile state of mind was almost paralyzed. When his wife was dying, she was still caring about her home and her children, and hoped that Billy would bring him home with his daughter to live their happy life together.
The person he loves passed away, and his emotional sustenance could not be found. He was buried alone with his wife. After losing the one he loved, he only pretended to be calm in front of his daughter, and howled like a beast in the room alone. Losing his mind, he wanted to seek revenge on the enemy, but when he found out that the only one who opened the door was an addict who was taking care of the child alone, he seemed to have lost his direction of action. After suffering a huge blow, he was unable to deal with them whether he was facing his deceased wife or waiting for his daughter at home. He also has a soft and kind place in his heart who has suffered since childhood, and he cannot cruelly and ruthlessly take the lives of others.
There was no outlet for his anger, and alcohol allowed him to temporarily escape from the real world. But what alcoholism brought him was not relief, but a darker abyss. Billy, who has always been his wife taking care of his life and taking care of his own arrangements, became like a doll after losing his wife. He was fooled by his agent to sign a contract for the game. He couldn't adjust his state on the field. . In the game, he did not know how to defend and counterattack, and he lost the game without a doubt. Losing his senses, he threw an iron fist at the referee. His wife's words of admonition to him were fulfilled, and the tree fell and the people who had been around him left him. Depressed, he can only use alcohol to numb himself, but the bottomless abyss will only lure you to keep falling and will never take the initiative to hold you away from suffering.
Bankruptcy and violence have cost Billy the custody of his daughter. Betrayal and relatives describe him very well and the only way he wants to stand up is boxing. In desperation, he accepted the job offered by his former rival's coach, and actively restrained his behavior to obtain his daughter's visitation rights. Slowly, after experiencing a major life baptism, he wanted to seek a change, hoping that his daughter could forgive him and hope that her daughter could return to him as soon as possible.
After being invited to a veteran boxing match, his former agent approached him and asked him to accept Raymond's challenge. He knew it was the only way he could do it for his daughter, but Coach Wells refused him and said he no longer trains professional fighters. Billy knows that only with the help of the coach can he defeat this strong opponent, but the coach has questioned his beliefs. The children of the boxing gym were shot by their fathers to protect their mothers. Billy had previously reminded the coach that the child's family might have suffered a change. The coach felt that his useless persistence had killed this young child. Billy affirmed to the coach that his purpose was to help those children, and he was one of the people he helped to make a complete change in his life.
The coach agreed to help Billy participate in the game, and the coach gave him all the money in training to make up for the holes in Billy's defense. Helping Billy change the way he moves to dodge the opponent's fist, and Billy works hard to change himself with gratitude to fight for his daughter and fight for his deceased wife. Facing his daughter's request to sit on the sidelines and watch his game, Billy felt at a loss. His wife didn't want her daughter to be there, and her daughter made concessions and hoped to be able to wait in the locker room for the victory. The estrangement between the father and daughter was lifted through conversation, and the game followed. This game is both a battle of redemption and a battle of proof.
The opponent had the upper hand in the first few rounds, and Billy, with his unwilling anger and rage, would never allow victory to slip away at his fingertips. Billy started to use the results of his training with the coach in the back, and constantly beat his opponents through counterattacks brought by dodging. By the end of the game, both sides were exhausted and the scale of victory tended to tilt only in favor of those who wanted to win, and the coach kept encouraging Billy to guide him on the way he played. At the end, Billy remembered his longing for his deceased wife and his ardent desire to give his daughter a good life, and hit his opponent with the iconic left hook between lightning and flint.
This game was not just a battle of proof for Billy, it was also a blow to his past life. He not only defeated the opponent but also the old self. He used his fist to show his ardent love for his daughter as a father. The death of his wife made him feel endless guilt for his daughter, who was his only life-saving straw when he was on the verge of collapse. He smashed the past self with his iconic left fist, fighting back for his daughter no longer going through the hardships he once suffered.
A man on the brink of collapse can do unexplainable things, and what a man can do for his daughter is unbelievable. A daughter will turn a tough guy of steel into a soft-spoken man, make a irritable person restrain his temper, and make a person living in hardship desperate to find the key to breaking the game.
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