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Given her relative youth, we expect a story of ferocity and grit, of the unstoppable rise of a boxer who turns out to be piston-pounding dynamo. “The Fire Inside” gives us all that; it’s a real rouser. Yet it’s rooted in a galvanizing feeling for the trauma that can be the flip side of triumph.