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The story of boxer Sean Mannion, born in the 1950s in Ros Muc in county Galway, Ireland, his boxing career, his emigrati | dG1fOS1Qam53VmZtbG8
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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - What's in your mind now?
00:05 What do you think?
00:06 - Just to win, to win the world title
00:08 and take it back home to Ireland
00:10 from Madison Square Garden.
00:11 - Sean Mannion was an Irish boxer fighting in Boston.
00:17 He had no profile.
00:19 And here was an Irish boxer looking to win
00:22 a world title fight for the first time since 1949.
00:25 (dramatic music)
00:28 (crowd cheering)
00:31 - There was always a defiant streak
00:37 that ran through South Boston
00:39 and it was wrapped up in its Irishness.
00:41 - To have these individuals in the neighborhood
00:47 who were the ultimate archetypal fighter,
00:50 they represented who we were.
00:52 (crowd cheering)
00:56 (dramatic music)
00:58 - Sean was so mentally tough, he was a natural.
01:02 - Sean didn't fear anybody.
01:06 Nobody could hurt him.
01:07 (speaking in foreign language)
01:13 - I was always striving to do better,
01:23 whether that be in boxing or in the mafia.
01:27 - I think we bought 60,000 rounds of AK ammunition
01:33 from Czechoslovakia, the good stuff.
01:36 (speaking in foreign language)
01:47 (speaking in foreign language)
01:51 - You only get one shot at it
01:59 and you're there to make the money.
02:01 Unfortunately, I don't think Sean saw it like that.
02:05 - When he fought for the world championship,
02:08 Sean Mannion was fighting for all of us.
02:10 - The number two contender in the world, Irish!
02:17 Sean Mannion!
02:18 (crowd cheering)
02:21 (dramatic music)
02:24 (dramatic music)
02:27 [MUSIC]
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