![]() ![]() Joey then urges Jake to go to a training camp to limit outside distractions. Joey’s wife Lenora interjects and defends Vickie: “She didn’t mean nothing.” Joey looks at his wife with a biting disdain, tells her that it’s none of her business, and, like Jake, commands her to leave the kitchen. When Vickie exits the kitchen, Jake asks Joey how Vickie knew Janiro was good-looking. What, who are you to say about good-looking or popular?.What, are you authority or what?” Jake then orders her out of the room with the baby. ![]() Vickie agrees with Joey and makes an innocuous comment about Janiro’s physical appearances she describes him as “an up-and-coming fighter, good-looking, popular.” Vickie’s comment enrages Jake, who suspiciously begins to interrogate her-“Excuse me, excuse, what do you mean, ‘good-looking?’. ![]() If you lose, you still win”) and urges Jake to lose weight. After a few moments, Jake condescends to Vickie, asking, “How long I gotta wait?” Meanwhile, Joey continues to assert his view on the Janiro fight, which he views as a win-win situation (“If you win, you win. Jake interrupts Joey to ask Vickie to bring him coffee, in a commanding tone. Are they gonna think you’re not as tough as you are-you’re not the same fighter? Good! They’ll match you with all those guys that were afraid of matching with you before. He’s a young kid, up and coming, he’ll fight anybody.” Jake rebuffs Joey’s argument and says he’s still worried about his weight, to which Joey replies, “Let’s say you lose because of your weight. Along comes this kid Janiro, he doesn’t know any better. ![]() Joey claims the Janiro fight is necessary for Jake’s to earn a chance at a title shot he reasons that “there’s nobody left for you to fight. On top of that, you sign me up for a fight at 155, and if I don’t make 155, I lose $15,000?”). Jake doubt he will able to shed 13 pounds off his 168 pound weight, which will result in him losing some of his fortune (“I don’t know if I’m gonna make it down to 155 I don’t know if I’ll make it down to 160. In the kitchen, he criticizes Joey for arranging a fight with Tony Janiro, an inexperienced boxer. Jake walks around his home in boxers and a muscle tee, looking slightly overweight. ![]()
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