Southpaw Monologues

After a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction, a champion boxer fights to get custody of his daughter and revive his professional career.

When I was twelve years old there was this little girl, she was skinny, she had ratty hair, she had been through it. She stuck with me when I was incarcerated a couple of times, and I knew she was there. I wouldn't be here without my wife Maureen.

A fighter knows only one way to work

I can handle the rules, man, I'll handle the rules.

Yeah, fuck it, I'm in.

I took some Advil. You're gonna write that down?

"He took some Advil. He can't see his kid"?

No, seriously, what's up with your eye? What is that?

You know, the thing with you is that, like, Sometimes one eye is like, cloudy, right? And the other one is, like, sunny. Like, cloudy, sunny, cloudy, sunny. Close one eye, it's cloudy. Close the other eye is sunny.

I'm good man. I'm-I'm straight.

I can't lose my daughter. I'll give you my everything.