Micky Ward

Micky Ward is my favorite kind of fighter: not the flashy phenom, but the blue-collar grinder who simply refuses to break. Coming out of Lowell, Massachusetts, he fought like the town raised him, all heart and forward pressure. His trilogy with Arturo Gatti is some of the most brutal, beautiful boxing I've ever watched, and the Ali-Frazier Award honoring those wars feels perfectly fitting. At 173 cm he was never the bigger man, yet he kept walking into the storm. Hollywood made a film about him, but honestly the real grit needed no embellishment whatsoever.

Name (English)

Micky Ward

Name (Japanese)

ミッキー・ウォード

Reading

みっきー・うぉーど

Born

October 4, 1965 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

Origin

Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Height

173 cm

Occupation

boxer

High school

Lowell High School

Awards & achievements

• 2002 Ali–Frazier Award

• Official sitehttps://www.officialmickyward.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micky%20Ward
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719786

Tags

• Massachusetts
• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.