Because the main vein in her brain was decimated. It was hard for him to reconcile the injury he was seeing with a boxing match. Stephanie Dallam: “He was very straight with me. PHOTO PROVIDED Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) manages Margaret Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) to a title shot in the Oscar-winning. A neurosurgeon rushed her into the operating room. Eastwood’s ‘Million Dollar Baby’ is a true classic. By the time Katie was brought to a local hospital, she was comatose, her brain compressed by massive bleeding in her head. And then she threw up and passed out in the dressing room, and if there was no one there she'd have died alone in that dressing room.”Īs a pediatric intensive care nurse, Stephanie recognized the gravity of the situation immediately. And then the next thing I hear she complained of a headache. And I'm thinking, you know, she's in shock. Her footwork is improving and she can take a punch. She has a punishing jab and good power in her right hand. The 27-year-old daughter of Muhammad Ali began boxing professionally in 1999, and she has racked up an impressive record of 19-0 with 16 knockouts. I say, ‘Katie, Katie,’ and I touch her, and her arm was pale and really cold and clammy. Laila Ali is boxings real-life million-dollar baby. But she's walking like a sleepwalker, you know. And she doesn't look at me… She's walking on her own.

Stephanie Dallam: “Katie looks wobbly to me, I go to the side of the ring and I meet her as she's coming down those stairs. The fight was over - but the real battle was about to begin. During that same period, 2.7 million related to the alleged smuggling operation flowed into Petersens bank account, according to Utah authorities.

Halfway through the fourth and final round, after Katie had taken well 100 blows to the head, the referee finally stepped in. Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran Los Angeles boxing trainer who keeps almost everyone at arms length, except his old friend and associate Eddie.

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