The Fire Inside

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Uppercut, go!

Left hook, go!

Uppercut, go!

-Right hand, go! -

And hook, go! That's it.

Jab, go!

Right hand, go!

Jab, go!

Jab, jab, go!

That's it. Jab, go!

Jab, jab, go!

Right hand, go!

Ain't no cheerleading practice up in here.

- Cheerleading. - Aye, aye, aye.

-Cool it with all that. - You tell her, Zay.

Claressa. How many times I gotta tell you, huh?

You wanna hang around the gym, that's fine.

You wanna do drills with Bean, that's fine.

But we don't train no girls here at Berston Field House.

You hear me?

Aight.

Aight.

Hey, arms up! What are we doin'?

Right hand, go!

Uppercut, go!

Uppercut, go!

Uppercut, go!

Right hand, go!

Jab, go!

Jab, jab, go!

Right hand, go.

Okay, hold on, hold on.

Okay.

Okay, you got the headgear on.

What you think you gonna do with that?

Oh. Okay.

Ain't no use, Coach.

She on that short bus.

Gotta use sign language talkin' to her.

Sign language, right?

You've been trainin' for two weeks.

You think you're Floyd Mayweather or somebody?

Dang!

You heard that, right? What you gonna do?

Aight. Aight, come on in here.

- -Aight, one round

and then we gettin' back to work, okay?

One round is all I need, Coach.

What you need is a ass whoopin', but that's okay.

That's okay. We gonna get there soon enough.

Aight. Here we go. Go!

Yeah, get her, Zay!

Come on, get in there, Claressa!

That's it, come on!

All right, hold up, hold up.

-Zay, get over there! - Dang, Coach.

-Get in that corner, man. -Zay undefeated!

Hey, come here. Come here. Look here, look here.

-All right. -

Hey, don't you hang your head, you hear?

You can lose a fight,

but you can't let nobody take your heart.

There's a difference, okay?

All right, stand right there.

Show me the jab.

Okay. Show me the cross.

What she doin'?

-Okay. Bean? Bean? - Mmm?

What you been teachin' this girl?

Don't put that on me.

You the only one here workin' with her.

You said ain't no girl fighters at Berston.

Shut up, Bean.

Come over here, all right?

All right, look at me.

Jab.

Cross.

Hey! Okay, come on, now.

Keep your front foot planted. This ain't ballet.

There. All right?

Jab.

Cross. There you go. There you go.

She don't want no more, Coach.

- Hey, look, look. -She don't want no more Zay.

Watch his shoulders, not his hands, okay?

When he come at you with all that mess,

you slip left, and you blast him.

Show me the slip.

Blast it. There we go! There we go. Aight!

-Round two. -

Let's go!

Get in there. She don't want no more.

- Come on. - Come on, Zay.

Claressa, remember what I told you, now.

-Yeah! There you go. -

That's it, that's good.

-Okay, all right. - She hit him!

-All right. Hey, hey, hey. - Let me go!

-Let me go! Come on, man. -Hey, hey, hey.

Hey.

That was good, girl.

Okay. Okay.

Okay, easy now.

Okay, easy now.

Come here. I'm just gonna...

take your headgear off for you, okay?

You can come here. All right.

You all right?

Hey.

You done real good.

Okay? Yeah.

All right. All right.

Hey, baby.

What?

You act like you ain't never seen me clean before.

Bri, Peanut.

Mmm-hmm.

Y'all think y'all know my tricks

but y'all don't know.

It's even the real kind.

Of course it's the real kind.

Only the best for my baby.

Shit.

I forgot the milk.

Water tastes like milk, anyway.

- Show me a roar. -

Oh, that's good, but you can do better than that.

Show me your growl!

I tell you what,

these kids better growl their way over to this table

and eat this food.

Oh, you heard Mama.

We gotta growl to the table.

Yeah!

Yeah! Bacon time.

-Yeah, it's bacon time. -

Baby, can I ask you a question?

Mmm-hmm.

What you think about girls boxin'?

Nuh-uh. You ain't finna have my baby up in no gym.

I can fight. See?

Watch my hands. Pow, pow, pow...

No, you can't!

All right. Corey, Keisha, shut.

Hey, look, I'm not talkin' about our kids.

I'm talkin' about this little girl named Claressa.

Yeah, she comin' out to the gym.

She from over there in Frogtown.

-Jackie's little girl? -Uh-huh.

What's she doin' all the way over at Berston?

She wanna fight, I guess.

She run all the way there most days.

Hmm. Probably tryin' to get away

from that messed up house.

Don't see no reason why she can't.

She got hands.

Yeah.

Yeah, she do. She do.

I don't know, I just...

I just never...

You ain't never what?

I just ain't never thought about no girls boxin'.

Mmm.

And why is that?

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There you go!

That's it! Jab on the outside!

Jab on the outside!

She ain't got no defense!

She ain't got no defense!

She ain't never seen nothin' like you!

She ain't never seen nothin' like you!

That's it! There you go! There you go!

Let her come to you! Let her come to you!

That's it! There you go!

-That's how we do! - Yeah!

-That's how we do! - Yeah!

- One! Two! -Yeah! Yeah!

- Three! Four! -Come on!

- Five! Six! -Let's go, Ressa!

Seven!

Eight!

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That's how we do!

That's how we do! That's how we do!

-Yeah, Coach! -That's right! That's right!

-They don't want none! -Yeah!

Come on, that's right!

T-Rex! T-Rex! T-Rex!

We got two months till nationals,

so I need you training every day.

All right, Coach.

You want me to walk you in?

Nah, I'm good.

-Thanks, Coach. -Mm-hmm.

Hey, Ressa.

I'm proud of you.

I'm damn proud of you.