Ken Stott as Ike Weir
I was reading how DDL was trained by the great Barry McGuigan, a former world champ in the featherweight class. I can never keep weight classes straight, so I look up featherweight on Wiki, which says the following:
A featherweight boxer weighs in at 9 stones (60 kilos) or under (at 126 pounds or under in the USA). The 1860 fight between Nobby Clark and Jim Elliott is sometimes called the first featherweight championship. However, the division only gained wide acceptance in 1889 after the Ike Weir-Frank Murphy fight.
So the character Ike Weir was named after a participant in (what is recognized by some as) the first featherweight champeenship of the woyld. I wonder if there are any other characters in this movie named after famous boxers.
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