[ So he's a little on the wiry side himself, compared to some of these guys. This is one of the ways he's made his way--parlaying fights into cash, cigarettes, respect, whatever he might've needed at the time--for decades now, and he's done all right here. Not that he's been up yet tonight, but he will be. ]

God, no. They'd run outta fighters.

[ The way he says it, like the letter R is a precious commodity, gives away his origins--Boston, not New Amsterdam. ]

You knock someone down, they don't get up before it's called, that's when it's over.