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Gary B.I was pretty confused by what actually happened too. I had thought that Maggie knocked the other woman out, that she didn't stand up until they already counted till ten, and she got Maggie after that in pure spite. I kept expecting the police to rush in to the ring, and when they didn't, I kept expecting to hear about how she had gone to jail. After all, why would they have put the stool back in the ring if the round wasn't over? Later on the way they alluded to the fight didn't jibe with what I thought had happened. Admittedly, I saw the movie 3-4 weeks ago, so this is my best recreation of events from memory. To me it was a somewhat confusing and ambiguous thing that didn't get explained in a very satisfactory way. Anyway, still a great movie, but I would have probably preferred The Avaiator or Ray for best picture. It seems like it's been a LONG time since a best picture nominated movie really completely blew me away to where I thought, "now, THIS was one of the best movies I've ever seen" or where I felt genuinely completely moved and like I had seen a truly flawless work of art - I guess every year can't have movies like Field of Dreams, Chariots of Fire, Star Wars, Annie Hall, Gandhi, Goodfellas, The Sixth Sense, etc. I do remember being especially blown away by Gangs of New York, though, and that wasn't too long ago...