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  Cadillac ATS Vs. The Wind

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The clip Scrap's boxing history from Million Dollar Baby (2004)

I met Frankie right after my 37th birthday.
He was picking up cut work.
He used to patch me up when I thought it was impossible.
Good man to have in your corner.
Yes, he is.
He stayed with me through my last fight in San Berdu.
My manager was off getting drunk somewhere, it was just Frankie and me.
I was taking a hellacious beating.
Everybody's got a particular number of fights in them.
Nobody tells you what that number is.
Mine was a 109.
I just didn't want to admit it.
Fourth round this cut opens up.
Blood starts pouring into my eye.
They should've stopped the fight, but I was a black man in San Berdu, blood was what I was there for.
Round after round, I kept getting Frankie to patch me up.
He's talking about throwing in the towel, but he ain't my manager, he can't throw in nothing.
Round after round, he's arguing with me.
I'm laughing because it's getting more to him than to me.
I go 15 rounds lose by decision.
Next morning I lose the eye.
In 23 years he's never said a thing about it.
Doesn't have to. I can see it in his face every time he looks at me.
Somehow Frankie thinks he should've stopped that fight, should've saved my eye.