Omar may be the best hope for Leary Gym of becoming a champion since Lights retired.
Lights struggles to help train his father's young fighter, Omar "The Armenian Avenger" Assarian ( Pedro Pascal) for the middleweight championship against Monte "The Hurricane" Harris (Corey Michael Lincoln). Meanwhile, his daughter Daniella (Ryann Shane) finds out about her father's diagnosis and confronts him. Lights is also being coy with his suspicious wife Theresa, and Mike Fumosa ( Ben Shenkman), a pesky reporter-both having heard rumors that he will return to the ring to fight Reynolds. When Leary is threatened with criminal charges, he must do the bidding of bookmaker Hal Brennan ( Bill Irwin) to make them go away. The Learys' once charmed life is on shaky ground the IRS is determined to take away their mansion, and Patrick's brother/manager Johnny ( Pablo Schreiber) wants him to make a comeback, despite him showing signs of pugilistic dementia. The series premiere begins five years after Leary's retirement following a controversial split-decision loss to Richard "Death Row" Reynolds ( Billy Brown). He also wonders how he is going to support his medical resident wife Theresa ( Catherine McCormack), and their three daughters.
Billy Brown as Richard "Death Row" Reynoldsįormer heavyweight boxing champion Patrick "Lights" Leary ( Holt McCallany) struggles to find his identity after retiring from the sport. Holt McCallany as Patrick "Lights" Leary. Running out of ways-and time-to earn enough money to re-secure his family's future, Leary must decide whether to either: accept the brutal and demeaning job of debt collector for a local racketeer or, launch a long shot, health-risking, comeback for the huge payday that would result from becoming "the champ" once again. Now, Lights is struggling to support his family (a wife and three daughters) and their comfortably secure lifestyle in Bayonne, New Jersey, after his amoral and incompetent brother/business manager squanders Lights' life savings. After years of wear and tear in the ring, he is diagnosed with pugilistic dementia (a neurological disorder that affects boxers who suffered too many hits to the head, gradually causing memory loss and constant headaches). Plot synopsis Īn aging, former world heavyweight champion, Patrick "Lights" Leary is an extremely proud, good-hearted Irish American who is struggling to find his identity after retiring from his beloved boxing. On March 24, 2011, FX announced the cancellation of the show. It stars Holt McCallany as Patrick "Lights" Leary, a New Jersey native, and former heavyweight champion boxer who is considering a comeback. Lights Out is an American television boxing drama series from the FX network in the United States.
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