What happened to Billie "The Blue Bear" after knocking out Maggie in Million Dollar Baby? [closed]

In the movie Million Dollar Baby (2004), after Billie "The Blue Bear" knocks out Maggie, what would have happened to her and her title? Would she be banned from Boxing?

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Best Answer

I'll go ahead and answer this for the heck of it...

Boxers sign waivers that indemnify them from any wrongdoing in the ring, so long as they're acting within the rules. In the case of The Blue Bear, the punch was thrown after the bell was rung and while Maggie had her back to her. This would be considered an illegal punch (possibly a rabbit punch but definitely illegal since it came after the bell), and therefore no waiver could protect her from criminal negligence.

As such, she would likely lose her belt as well as face criminal charges.

I took a cursory glance at this Wiki page and didn't see any specific cases where this occurred, all deaths I saw were due to legal blows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deaths_due_to_injuries_sustained_in_boxing

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What happened to the champion in Million Dollar Baby?

She takes a deadly shot at Maggie's blind side and sends her landing on her head on the corner stool, breaking her neck. Maggie suffers spinal neck injury that leaves her paralyzed for life. The last 1/4 of the movie is about euthanasia and human morals.

What happened to Katie Dallam?

Joseph, Missouri against Katie Dallam, a novice welterweight who had only gotten her pro boxing license the day before \u2014 a pairing described as "an obvious mismatch." In four rounds she landed 119 blows to Dallam's head. Dallam collapsed in her dressing room afterward and required brain surgery.

What happened between Frankie and his daughter?

His daughter refuses to contact him because he broke her mom's heart and drove the family apart. He goes to church every day to ask for forgiveness and the priest knows this much which is why he asked if he ever reached out to his daughter.

What happened to Frankie in Million Dollar Baby?

In the penultimate scene, after Frankie ends Maggie's life and disappears into the night, it's revealed that all of Scrap's narration throughout the entire movie has been the text of a letter he's writing to Katy, Frankie's estranged daughter.

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